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Big Air Package
Via cbc.ca
Mar 18
Billed as the world’s largest indoor art installation, Christo’s first project since the 2009 death of wife Jeanne-Claude is Big Air Package, an inflated fabric dome measuring 70 meters high and 50 meters wide installed in Germany’s Gasometer Oberhausen.
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ZINE-TRADE-MEET-UP: Ryan Foerster and J Patrick Walsh at the Walker
The Gradient
Mar 17
Zzzine night was started by J Patrick Walsh 3. ZINE-TRADE-MEET-UP was started by Ryan Foerster. This is their first collaboration on a night to trade ‘zines’. Their zine Sump Pump will be available for trades. All welcome! Bring things to trade. NO $$$$$. Thursday, March 21, 5–8 pm, at the Walker. Read more here. “Also, we […]
Zzzine night was started by J Patrick Walsh 3. ZINE-TRADE-MEET-UP was started by Ryan Foerster…
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Art IRL > Non-Pedigrees > The Romantic > Istanbul > Adopted Landscapes
The Gradient
Mar 17
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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New Conservation
Via bloomberg.com
Mar 15
The work of the art conservator has changed since the heyday of frescoes and oils. Now the art fixer’s tools can range from specially sourced elephant dung (to repair an Ofili) to out-of-production fluorescent bulbs (to remedy a burnt-out Flavin).
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Haeg on Home
Via thelabmagazine.com
Mar 15
With Fritz Haeg’s “At Home in the City” residency launching May 11, The Lab films the artist in his geodesic dome as he discusses “home,” which he says “represents culture and society at the cellular level” and “the place where most people can effect immediate change.”
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Kyle Abraham: Sparkle and Plenty
The Green Room
Mar 15
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, Penelope Freeh shares her perspective on Thursday night’s Live! The Realest MC by Kyle […]
To spark discussion, the Walker…
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Dianna Molzan: Voguing its Structure
Untitled (Blog)
Mar 14
Los Angeles–based artist Dianna Molzan presents a visual diary of the making of her painting Untitled (2010-2013).
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Prime Matter: Abraham Cruzvillegas on “Autoconstrucción”
Abraham Cruzvillegas
Mar 14
“When an object is discarded by a person, it’s valueless,” says Abraham Cruzvillegas. “For autoconstrucción, it could be seen as prime matter.” The Mexico City-based artist gives such “dead” objects a new use by “revealing instead of hiding their nature.” Here Cruzvillegas discusses how this idea of “self-construction” underpins his artistic practice and offers a metaphor for the creation of his own identity.