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Rock Doc
Via thecurrent.org
Mar 28
In concert (ahem) with the March 31 broadcast of MN Original’s mini-documentary on Rock the Garden 2012, The Current shares a few web-only extras—footage of Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and Howler (covering Hüsker Dü’s “Don’t Wanna Know if You Are Lonely”).
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Art News from Elsewhere
“Analog Nostalgia”
Via rhizome.org
Mar 28
The next time Hito Steyerl sees a 16mm projector in a gallery she vows to “take the poor thing to a pensioners home.” “It made sense to use Bolexes in 1968 […] but today people use cellphones, Kinnect sensors and After Effects to deal with the present and shape it.”
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Video: Job Wouters at Home in the Museum
Walker Channel
Mar 28
Inspired by Asian calligraphy and cowboy lettering, as well as his own history in graffiti, Amsterdam-based artist Job Wouters recently created a hand-painted mural, Home, in the Walker lobby. “A museum can be so much more than a place where some well-lit pieces hang and you feel scared and not at ease,” he said, explaining the title. “It’s very important to feel safe and comfortable at a museum.”
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Art News from Elsewhere
Basquiat’s Ex
Via artinfo.com
Mar 27
By the time Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alexis Adler broke up in 1980, the then-budding artist had used the walls of Adler’s East Village home as a canvas. Now Adler is revealing these works, along with photos and ephemera, for the first time.
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A Faucet Dripping in the Room Next Door: An Interview with Tan Lin by Eric Lorberer
Field Guide
Mar 27
Tan Lin appears at the Walker Art Center on Thursday March 28 as part of the Free Verse series copresented by the Walker and Rain Taxi Review of Books. Q: You began publishing as a poet, but your work increasingly tends to refuse traditional classifications. How unimportant is genre for what you’re up to? It’s […]
Tan Lin appears at the Walker Art Center on Thursday March 28 as part of the Free Verse…
