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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…
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The Gradient
Mar 22
constitute art IRL. are those graphical, spatial, and medial forms that can still be found in . contrast to the self-reproducing that is called contemporary architecture, design, or art. contrast to those forms that not only represent the global cultural system, but also global capitalism (for example ). They have not sacrificed identity to modernity, […]
constitute art IRL. are those graphical, spatial, and…
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Artists Installing: Abraham Cruzvillegas
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Mar 22
A bit of deconstruction preceded the installation process for Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstrucción Suites: Prior to the Mexico City–based artist’s arrival, all the non-load-bearing walls in the Target and Friedman galleries–including the one separating the two spaces–have been removed. It’s the first time since the Walker expansion opened in 2005 that the galleries have been […]
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Passings: Chinua Achebe
Via nytimes.com
Mar 22
Famed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart) has died at age 82. He was hailed by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer as “a novelist who makes you laugh and then catch your breath in horror—a writer who has no illusions but is not disillusioned.”
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Habitable Art
Via independent.co.uk
Mar 22
A replica of Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth is being built in Munich, but unlike its London counterpart it won’t have art on it. Artist Alexander Laner is furnishing the hollow pedestal as a tiny apartment where one lucky resident can live rent-free.
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Sky-Pointed Incantations and Synesthetic Sounds: Nate Wooley at the Walker
The Green Room
Mar 22
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, Sean Donovan shares his perspective on Thursday night’s first Sound Horizon performance from trumpeter Nate Wooley. Agree…