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If You Don’t Catch It, It’s Gone: Zorn @ 60
The Green Room
Apr 10
To spark discussion, the Walker invites local artists and critics to write overnight reviews of our performances. The ongoing Re:View series shares a diverse array of independent voices and opinions; it doesn’t reflect the views or opinions of the Walker or its curators. Today, filmmaker and writer Justin Schell shares his perspective on Tuesday’s concert by John Zorn. Agree or disagree? […]
To spark…
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Art News from Elsewhere
Passings: Les Blank
Via blouinartinfo.com
Apr 9
Les Blank, dubbed the “King of the Folkie Filmmakers” by J. Hoberman, has passed away at 77. Celebrating folk communities, from polka lovers to Zydeco phenoms, his films include Burden of Dreams (1982), which chronicled the making of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo.
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Art News from Elsewhere
Messerschmidt’s Motifs
Via youtube.com
Apr 9
Diamonds, aliens, a Michael Jackson mask, the mirhab motif in Islamic architecture: In a new segment by The Playlist, Andy Messerschmidt discusses the visual influences in his art, including his new Walker installation, Graze Anatomy.
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Announcements
Something Out of Nothing: Cruzvillegas on Autoconstrucción
Apr 9
“I’m not an ecologist, but I like the idea of recycling in terms of specific needs,” says Abraham Cruzvillegas, whose series of found-object assemblages shares its name with a DIY building process in the Mexico City neighborhood of his youth. Autoconstrucción is “about scarcity and solutions, ingenuity, and how you can conceive a philosophy of life—that you can make things out of nothing.”
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Haacke and the PM
Via blouinartinfo.com
Apr 9
With the death of Margaret Thatcher, Rozalia Jovanovic looks at the flap over Hans Haacke’s 1984 Taking Stock (unfinished), a portrait of the PM that features plates bearing the faces of campaign ad men and artworld bigwigs, Charles and Maurice Saatchi.
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Blogs
LISTENING MIX // Julia Holter
The Green Room
Apr 9
LISTENING MIX provides a musical preview for artists visiting the Walker. Combining their work with sounds from a variety of contextual sources, LISTENING MIX can be experienced before or after a performance.
Bringing her ethereal vocal melodies, vintage electronic sounds, and imaginative soundscapes, Los Angeles musician Julia Holter performs at the Walker as a part of our in-gallery music series…
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Assayas on the ’70s
Via brooklynrail.org
Apr 8
Olivier Assayas (Carlos) on the ’70s: “You stepped out of the old world and into a parallel one where you could be yourself and do something no other generation has done since: experiment with your own life, your own fate. And there have been a lot of casualties.”
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“Be Free, Big Organs!”
Via bebopified.com
Apr 8
Recapping our Zorn @ 60 music marathon Saturday, Pamela Espeland writes on John Zorn’s solo midnight organ concert at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral: “It was dramatic, deeply spiritual and thrilling. Let’s start a movement. More improvised music in churches!”
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Articles
The Campification of the Divine: Andy Messerschmidt’s Graze Anatomy
Paul Schmelzer
Apr 8
“Culturally, I’m a cold-hearted colonialist,” says Andy Messerschmidt, whose work borrows ideas from world religions, from Buddhist mandalas to Indonesian shamanistic rituals to American holidays, in his art. The tendency is on display in his new Walker commission, which he says explores the “compression of loaded symbols of divinity and how they work in moire to create a meta-symbol of the divine.”