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Lethal Weapons
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Jan 4
Despite implicating violent media in the recent spate of mass killings, the NRA has for two years run an exhibition called Hollywood Guns, which features 125 guns from films including Machete, Dirty Harry, and Lethal Weapon.
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Kickstarting Film
Via kickstarter.com
Jan 3
Kickstarter reports that more than $100 million has been pledged to independent film projects through the crowdfunding site since its 2009 launch. Of that amount, around $85 million has been collected, more than half of which went to documentaries.
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Art Tweets
Via huffingtonpost.com
Jan 3
Plenty of Walker friends make HuffPo’s list of top art tweeters, from artists in our collection to critics, art bloggers, and institutions. Listed: MASS MOCA, Raymond Pettibon, Carolina Miranda, Museum Nerd, Tyler Green, and others.
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Duchamp Forever
Via mediabistro.com
Jan 3
Marking the 100th anniversary of the seminal 1913 Armory Show, the US Postal Service is issuing a set of 12 modern art “Forever” stamps. Available for preorder now, they feature Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O’Keeffe, and others.
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A Chair Was Present
Via hyperallergic.com
Jan 3
When the chairs were removed after Marina Abramović’s MoMA show The Artist Is Present closed, NYC artist Man Bartlett took home the tape on the floor indicating placement of the work’s chairs. One is now part of a collage for sale on eBay.
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Nothing Major
Via nothingmajor.com
Jan 2
With its new site, Nothing Major, Pitchfork is taking on visual culture: “We love the bedroom GIF-makers, the resurgent craftsmen, the by-hand-typographers, vintage album cover aficionados, upstart brands as well as unsung classics, and amazing underdog projects…”
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Best MAN
Via artinfo.com
Jan 2
Assessing the best of 2012, Modern Art Notes gives top-10 props to Zoe Strauss’ survey in Philadelphia, Richard Serra’s drawing retrospective at the Menil Collection, and our own “killer website,” to name a few. Thanks, MAN’s Tyler Green!
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Fast and the Feds
Via theartnewspaper.com
Jan 2
Interested in US drones, Israeli-born artist Omer Fast took out a Craigslist ad seeking a drone operator. Enter the FBI. He tells Eyal Weizman, “We were told to stop what we were doing and threatened in suggestive, spy-movie language.”
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Best Building
Via mediabistro.com
Jan 2
Unbeige gives building-of-the-year honors to Swiss architecture firm (and Walker expansion designers) Herzog & de Meuron for the Parrish Art Museum: It’s “a stealth beauty, an extruded artist’s studio that appears as a bleached, barn-like structure.”