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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.”
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Art Space
Via smithsonianmag.com
Mar 26
China-born Cai Guo-Qiang, who makes pyrotechnic artworks meant to be seen from space, says he moved to the US because NASA’s here: “I was attracted to anything that would bring me closer to the universe—and the universe closer to me.”
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Nobel Competition
Via archinect.com
Mar 26
Walker building designers Herzog & de Meuron are among 12 architecture firms—including SANAA and Rem Koolhaas’ OMA—competing to design the Nobel Center in Stockholm, home to the Nobel Prize.
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Open Air
Via bbc.co.uk
Mar 25
On Monday, Christian Marclay inaugurated Open Air, a weeklong series of audio interventions broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and commissioned by Artangel. His contribution: an audio collage of BBC radio figures remixed in unexpected ways.
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Asleep in the Museum
Via gothamist.com
Mar 25
Tilda Swinton is performing The Maybe—in which the actress sleeps in a glass box inside MoMA—intermittently throughout the year. The unannounced naps will happen a half dozen more times throughout the museum by year’s end.
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Painter Painter: Exhibition Identity
The Gradient
Mar 23
Painter Painter, co-curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, is the Walker’s latest contemporary painting show, bringing together artists from around the country and Europe. Comprised entirely of new works, it serves as a conversation on the medium of painting today, and how these thirteen artists deal with the role of the painter in a […]
Painter Painter, co-curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew…