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A Curator on Turkey
Via theartnewspaper.com
Jun 4
“I wholeheartedly support the resistance where hundreds of protesters were seriously injured and condemn the violence exercise by the police,” says Fulya Erdemci, curator of Mom, Am I a Barbarian?, the next Istanbul Biennial. “Against the barbarians altogether!”
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Copyrights
Via artinfo.com
Jun 4
Blurred paintings on the Google Art Project—distorted to obscure copyrighted works—are the subject of Phil Johnson’s new series. He takes screengrabs of the Rothko-esque images to be reproduced at China’s Dafen Oil Painting Village and then exhibited.
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Lerman on Aging
Via washingtonpost.com
Jun 4
The choreographer who founded the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, a company mixing older and younger dancers, in 1976 is now 65 herself, which feels “very strange.” In a new interview, Lerman discusses aging with Laura Hambleton.
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Beatboxing at the Biennale
Via guardian.co.uk
Jun 3
Tino Sehgal has won the Golden Lion for best artist at Venice Biennale for “his performance piece in which a small number of people hum and beatbox while moving on the floor.” He was the subject of a Walker solo show in 2008.
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Cultural Shift
Via nytimes.com
Jun 3
Richard Serra’s Shift is safe. Threatened by a planned development near King City, Ontario, the work—a stretch of zigzagging concrete wall—has been designated a cultural heritage site by the township council. The 1970-72 work sits on private property.
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Reed Recovering
Via guardian.co.uk
Jun 3
Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed underwent a liver transplant in Cleveland last month, his wife, Laurie Anderson, revealed over the weekend. Reed, 71, “was dying,” she said, but after the life-saving procedure he’s back working.
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How Not to Be Seen
Via rhizome.org
May 31
In her work in the Venice Biennale, Hito Steyerl offers a how-to video on being invisible in an age of image proliferation, with tactics from facepaint that makes one disappear on green-screen to boxes worn on the head to appear “smaller than the size of a pixel.”
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Leading the Blind
Via kcet.org
May 31
In a performance in Santa Ana, Calif., this weekend, blind artist Carmen Papalia has enlisted an 18-member marching band to lead him through the city. One rule: Their only guidance can come in the form of sounds from their instruments.
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Encyclopedic Palace
Via blouinartinfo.com
May 30
“Embracing the multifarious forms that knowledge and creativity can take,” the Massimiliano Gioni–curated 55th Venice Biennale resists the feel of a wunderkammer, writes Coline Milliard, who dubs it the “most successful” biennale in recent years.