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Conversations on the Contemporary
The Gradient
Mar 8
A flyer to promote 20 Artists on 16 Topics at the Walker. Each icon articulates and celebrates the institution’s multidisciplinary approach to the contemporary.
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Insights 2013: Geoff McFetridge
The Gradient
Mar 7
Here’s a peak at Geoff McFetridge’s fence design for the Walker Art Center. It’s only half installed right now, and as soon as we get the rest of it up (hopefully within a week or so), we will be presenting an in-depth interview with the artist about the project. Also Geoff’s recent Insights talk is […]
Here’s a peak at Geoff McFetridge’s fence design for the Walker Art Center. It’s only half installed…
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Art News from Elsewhere
Metamuseum
Via metamuseum.tumblr.com
Mar 7
Thirteen art/design institutions from the Walker and the MIA to MoMA and CooperHewitt are collaborating on a new Tumblr site that searches for an “American aesthetic.” Today’s entry: Wim Crouwel’s 1967 typeface New Alphabet.
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A Letter to Cynthia Hopkins
The Green Room
Mar 7
How are you doing? I’m really looking forward to seeing your performance this weekend. Did you know that the first show I saw in conjunction with the Walker was Accidental Nostalgia? It was part of Out There in 2005 and I was 14. I participated in theater at school, but Accidental Nostalgia broadened my sense of what theater could be. It was a bit different fromAnn of Green Gables or The Hobbit: a…
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Art News from Elsewhere
JODI AM/PM
Via whitney.org
Mar 5
The Whitney’s Sunrise/Sunset project switched to a new work by net-art pioneers JODI on March 5. For 30 seconds twice daily, goodmorning goodnight scrapes text from Livedash and imagery from Panoramio for a real-time exploration of Manhattan’s light cycles.
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Tom Hanks of China
Via artinfo.com
Mar 5
“Ai Weiwei is the Tom Hanks of Chinese cinema,” says cinematographer Christopher Doyle (Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love), who’s working with the artist on a new project. Ai is “so fucking beautiful on film because he’s so solid, he doesn’t give a shit.”