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A Racist Camera?
Via guardian.co.uk
Jan 27
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin believe the Polaroid ID-2—a camera used by South Africa’s apartheid regime’s infamous passbooks—is inherently racist. For a new body of work, they’ve used the vintage film within the country to subvert its original intent.
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Bigelow’s Switch
Via vulture.com
Jan 25
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) tells Time that a chat with Andy Warhol influnced her move from art to film: “Andy was saying that there’s something way more populist about film than art— that art’s very elitist, so you’re excluding a large audience. ”
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Art of Diplomacy
Via vanityfair.com
Jan 24
Art “is a universal language in our search for common ground, an expression of our shared humanity,” writes Hillary Clinton in announcing winners of the new State Department Medal of Arts: Cai Guo-Qiang, Jeff Koons, Shahzia Sikander, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems.
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Beatbox Science
Via wired.co.uk
Jan 24
A team of USC researchers is analyzing the science of beatboxing: Using MRI technology, they aim to document the array of sounds produced by a bilingual LA rapper and, ultimately, compare noises with those produced in different global languages.
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Man of the People
Via architectmagazine.com
Jan 23
At his funeral last month, Oscar Niemeyer’s coffin was flanked by flowers from Raul and Fidel Castro. But how did the famed architect’s leftist values—he was a longtime Communist Party member—come through in his work for Brazil’s military and financial elites?
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Licking Lautrec
Via artinfo.com
Jan 23
In all-caps, stream-of-consciousness writing, Luther Price (whose experimental films screen at the Walker in February) tells ArtInfo about museum ladies, his cat (Mr. Grey), and the time he licked a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.
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Passings: Steve Kramer
Via citypages.com
Jan 23
Steve Kramer, accordionist and frontman for the ‘80s punk-polka group the Wallets, has died at age 59. Prior to the Wallets, he played with James Chance and the Contortions, including a gig at the legendary Walker-copresented M-80 Festival in 1979.
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Walker Controversy
Via thegrio.com
Jan 22
Agreeing that libraries shouldn’t hide controversial issues, Newark library officials have removed a shroud hiding a Kara Walker drawing that includes a depiction of a slave having sex with a white man. The library has invited the artist to speak about the piece.
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Conflictual Consensus
Via kaleidoscope-press.com
Jan 22
The Walker publication Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition (2012) has company on the bookshelf: Sterberg Press has published The Space of Agonism, which, like the Walker’s downloadable book, includes a conversation with Chantal Mouffe on “conflictual consensus.”