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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
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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…
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Please Draw Freely
Via guggenheim.org
Mar 26
In conjunction with its current exhibition, Gutai: Splendid Playground, the Guggenheim has developed a participatory website, Please Draw Freely, which invites users to create drawings in collaboration with living Gutai artists.
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Curatorial Criminology
Via artforum.com
Mar 26
“The Curator’s Office, with its cigarette butts and coffee stains, is like a crime scene, motivating the viewer to uncover the identity left behind by this illusive figure,” says Mark Dion of his installation in the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s More Real show.
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Gunning for Change
Via standard.co.uk
Mar 26
“A weapon kills people and makes people in cities dominated by fear,” says Pedro Reyes of his Disarm project, in which he turns guns into music-makers. “But if you turn it into an instrument, it’s like social gold. It brings people together and you build trust.”