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Gatz Hits LA
Via latimes.com
Nov 2012
Co-commissioned by the Walker, Elevator Repair Service’s 6-1/2 hour GATZ opens a nine-show run in LA Wednesday night. Dubbing the text indispensable, ERS decided to read every word of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby—aloud and on-stage.
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Guided by Gehr
Via creativetimereports.org
Nov 2012
The first film documentarian and 2012 MacArthur “genius” Laura Poitras saw in art school was avant-garde artist Ernie Gehr’s Serene Velocity (1970). Included in our Renegades exhibition, the experimental work “blew holes in my mind” and shaped her future work.
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Kitties Take TED
Via youtube.com
Nov 2012
Scott Stulen opened his TEDx Indianapolis talk last month with our Internet Cat Video Festival. It’s but one example of the programming from our three-summer experiment in “the commons,” he said, which sprang from the mantra “Open Field is what we make together.”
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Kubrick App
Via lacma.wordpress.com
Nov 2012
For its Stanley Kubrick show, LACMA has created a free app to share documentation from the director’s career. Included: a 2001-era letter from Kubrick to Roger Caras asking, “Does IBM know that one of the main themes of the story is a psychotic computer?”
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Beck’s Beer
Via gawker.com
Nov 2012
Glenn Beck—yes, he’s still around—has made his own Andres Serrano-style artwork by photographing an Obama toy in a jar of beer (initially he claimed it was urine). It’s his reaction to an artist who painted an image of the president crucified.
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Critiquing Johnson
Via artinfo.com
Nov 2012
Glenn Ligon and Coco Fusco are among the 800+ signers of a petition to the NY Times criticizing Ken Johnson’s writing: “Using irresponsible generalities, Johnson compares women and African-American artists to white male artists, only to find them lacking.”
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Design School Days
Via linedandunlined.com
Nov 2012
“[O]ur design schools now have undoubtedly produced the design culture we share today,” writes Rob Giampietro, a principal at New York’s Project Projects, in his essay—now published online—from our catalogue for Graphic Design: Now in Production.
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Independent Spirits
Via spiritawards.com
Nov 2012
Nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards have just been announced and one of the titles that keeps coming up is Beasts of the Southern Wild, which screened at the Walker in June and is up for four prizes, including best feature and best director.
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Berliner’s Cousin
Via fandor.com
Nov 2012
A Walker artist-in-residence in 2002, Alan Berliner won Best Feature-Length Documentary at the just-closed International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam for First Cousin Once Removed, a brutally frank look at the decline of Edwin Honig, a poet and translator.