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Faux Richter
Via vulture.com
Nov 2012
Irked by skyrocketing art prices—like last month’s sale of a Gerhard Richter for $34.2 million—critic Jerry Saltz put out an open call last winter: Make a fake Richter, Ryman, or Hirst, and he’d buy it for $155. Stanley Casselman delivered.
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Sahrawi S.O.S.
Via santiago-sierra.com
Nov 2012
Santiago Sierra says he created the “world’s largest graffiti” in Algeria last month. With Artifariti and Frente Polisario, he carved the letters S.O.S. —1.7 km high and 5 km long—into the earth near camps where Sahrawi refugees have struggled since the 1970s.
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Porno-Graphics
Via badatsports.com
Nov 2012
Bad at Sports digs up a copy of Dan Greenburg’s 1969 book Porno-Graphics: The Shame of Our Museums, an interactive book that covers up nudity in great artwork, allowing readers to pull a lever to expose flesh in art like Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase.
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Doomtree @ RTG
Via mnoriginal.org
Nov 2012
With temps dipping into the single digits here in Minnesota, MN Original reminds us of warmer times in its new episode, which features Twin Cities’ hip hop crew Doomtree as it played Rock the Garden 2012 last June.
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Oil-Can Pyramid
Via guardian.co.uk
Nov 2012
For his next work, Christo plans to create a flat-topped pyramid in Abu Dhabi out of 410,000 oil barrels. Taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, the $340M Mastaba will be the world’s largest and most expensive permanent sculpture.
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Saving Shift
Via thestar.com
Nov 2012
Richard Serra’s Shift (1970-72), built in a farmer’s field north of Toronto, likely won’t be protected under the Ontario Heritage Act, but its location on private property begs the question: how much can the public do to save it?
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Black Friday Hoax
Via latimes.com
Nov 2012
In advance of Black Friday strikes and protests at Walmart stores, an email hoax has targeted the Arkansas museum founded by Sam Walton’s heir. The email falsely said Crystal Bridges would be closed Friday in solidarity with striking workers.
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GIFability
Via rhizome.org
Nov 2012
Rhizome analyzes the importance of “GIFability” of various media, and looks at how GIFs recontextualize and help circulate the original media. This GIFability is important, “because in a sense, no work has been completed until it has been GIFed.”


