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“Tough Cookie”
Via bluebottlecoffee.com
Apr 22
“It’s funny to think that our frozen banana based on a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph didn’t get censored, but that this cookie plate did.” That’s Leah at Oakland’s Blue Bottle Coffee recounting the time they tried to make a Richard Serra-inspired cookie plate.
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Passings: Storm Thorgerson
Via nytimes.com
Apr 22
British graphic designer Storm Thorgerson has passed away at age 69. Best known for his album covers for Pink Floyd, including The Dark Side of the Moon, his photos and collages also promoted bands from Phish to Led Zeppelin.
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Earth Day 1970
Via lacma.wordpress.com
Apr 22
Rauschenberg’s Earth Day (1970)—in the Walker collection—“was the first time the artist had used a mass-produced poster to express social concerns,” writes Sienna Brown, but it wasn’t the first time he used his art to address environmental issues.
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Building for Bush
Via latimes.com
Apr 22
“What do neo-classicism and neo-conservatism have in common?” So asks Christopher Hawthorne in reviewing the new AM Stern–designed George W. Bush presidential library. “The building, like the Bush presidency, aims to stay resolute even at the expense of some nuance.”
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Thanks to Guest Editors Mirza & Butler
Via walkerart.org
Apr 22
Special thanks to artists Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, who last week served as guest editors of Art News From Elsewhere. Their exhibition, The Museum of Non Participation: The New Deal, is on view until July 14.
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Listen to Avery
Via kcsb.org
Apr 19
Keep up to date with Avery Gordon on the radio when she co-hosts “No Alibis,” a weekly public affairs program that airs every Wednesday morning from 8 to 10 pm PST on KCSB 91.1 FM, the station at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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9 Scripts from a Nation at War
Via vimeo.com
Apr 19
During her Saturday Walker visit, Sharon Hayes will reflect on this project (made with David Thorne, Katya Sander, Andrea Geyer, and Ashley Hunt), which looks at the state of exception and questions language’s use politically.
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Beuys’ Blackboard
Via atisma.com
Apr 19
Ahead of the “blackboard conversations” we’re hosting this Saturday by Avery Gordon and Sharon Hayes, we recall Joseph Beuys, who used dramatic actions and lectures in an attempt to change consciousness.
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“Gitmo Is Killing Me”
Via emptywheel.net
Apr 18
“I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.” Is it any wonder that 35-year-old Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel would give up hope and choose to starve himself to death?