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Channeling Bucky
Via galleristny.com
Apr 10
With Fritz Haeg’s geodesic dome going up in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden this summer, here’s a quick look at other artists—including Leo Villareal and Liz Glynn—using Buckminster Fuller’s visionary architectural structures.
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People’s Library
Via nymag.com
Apr 10
New York City and Zuccotti Park owner Brookfield Properties have settled a lawsuit over the Nov. 2011 raid of the Occupy Wall Street encampment that destroyed the People’s Library. They’ll pay $366,700 for damaged books and legal fees incurred by OWS.
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Future Minneapolis
Via minnesota.publicradio.org
Apr 10
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak chose the Walker for Wednesday’s State of the City address because he wants a “modern backdrop.” The speech—the mayor’s twelfth and last—will look to the future, presenting Rybak’s vision of the city in 2025.
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Blogs
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? […]
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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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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.”