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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.”
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Soundings
Via nytimes.com
Apr 5
Sound is “getting recognized as a frontier,” says Barbara London, who’s curating MoMA’s upcoming Soundings: A Contemporary Score. The museum’s first big sound art show, it features recordings of, among other things, flying bats and Taiwanese factory.
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Nakedly Subversive
Via thestranger.com
Apr 5
In the “sweetly subversive” Untitled Feminist Show—a Walker commission now being performed at Seattle’s On the Boards—Young Jean Lee “grabs cliches, wrestles them into submission, then makes them tell jokes,” writes critic Brendan Kiley.
