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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.
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Art News from Elsewhere
Quiet Formalism
Via badatsports.com
Mar 14
Bad at Sports’ Eric Asboe’s visits to the Twin Cities included looks at two exhibitions that represent “spare, quiet returns to formalism,” the Walker’s Painter Painter and the Soap Factory’s group show R.U.R.
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Francis on Art
Via artlyst.com
Mar 14
Pope Francis’ stance on contemporary art? Not good, if his actions in 2004 are any indicator. As a cardinal in Argentina, Jorge Bergoglio dubbed an exhibition of works by León Ferrari “blasphemous” and successfully lobbied for its censorship.
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Form(s) and Content
Via artinamericamagazine.com
Mar 14
For its Ai Weiwei show, According to What?, the Hirshhorn presented its catalogue content two ways—as a $40 book or a $5 magazine. “The result was over 9,000 magazines sold, far more than the number of catalogues that usually sell for any given show.”
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Kyle Abraham: Basketball, Hip Hop, and on Being Real
The Green Room
Mar 14
Most of us can say that at one point in our lives, we didn’t fit in. But how did we know that we didn’t fit in? Kyle Abraham knew because people told him so: My dad, he was a big basketball coach, and he sent me one summer to a basketball camp – which was […]
Most of us can say that at one point in our lives, we didn’t fit in. But how did we know that we didn’t fit in? Kyle Abraham knew because people told…
