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Kudos to Kempson
Via pwcenter.org
May 16
Sibyl Kempson—who collaborated with Elevator Repair Service on this week’s preview performances of Fondly, Collette Richland—has been awarded the 2013–14 McKnight National Residency and Commission from Minneapolis’ Playwright Center.
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Temporary Museum
Via artforum.com
May 15
In curating the 2013 Venice Biennale, Massimiliano Gioni isn’t creating an “anti-Biennale,” as Francesco Bonami put it. With The Encyclopedic Palace, he’s aiming for “a temporary museum more than simply a show that captures the supposed zeitgeist.”
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Inflatable Joyride
Via good.is
May 15
For Friday’s National Bike to Work Day, may we suggest some artful garb? At the heart of Aeolian Rides, a nine-year project by artist Jessica Findlay, are inflatable outfits that billow in the wind, creating pedal-powered sculpture.
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Wojnarowicz Writes
Via galleristny.com
May 14
NYU’s Fales Library has digitized David Wojnarowicz’s journals. Dating from 1971 to 1991, the year before the artist died from AIDS-related complications, they chronicle everything from a 1971 Outward Bound trip to his time in New York.
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Roden Creator
Via latimes.com
May 13
Perhaps the greatest progress made over the last decade on James Turrell’s Roden Crater: The artist has finished detailed plans so the in-progress earthwork—already nearly 40 years in the making—can be finished without his involvement, if necessary.
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Edible Forest
Via popupcity.net
May 13
Taking urban ag to the next level, Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood is creating America’s first Food Forest. A 7-acre plot two miles from the city’s center will be planted entirely with foragable plants, from fruit and nut trees to berry bushes and herbs.
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Didactic No More
Via guardian.co.uk
May 13
Tate Britain’s new presentation of its permanent collection does away with the white didactic labels that have accompanied works since the museum opened under that name in 2000. It’s just one part of a “radical rethink” of the way the museum presents art.
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Why Call It Art?
Via queensmuseum.org
May 10
Why are some projects called art while others aren’t? Queens Museum director Tom Finkelpearl mulls the question in a new blog series, landing on an initial list of aesthetic values related to participatory art: Complexity, Relation to Tradition, and Transformation.