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This Is Not a Trojan Horse
Steve Dietz
Feb 27
Steve Dietz, founder, president, and artistic director of Northern Lights.mn, deconstructs Open Field 2010 artists-in-residence Futurefarmers’ process, practice, and motivations.
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Forecasting Change: A Meteorologist and an Artist on the Climate Crisis
Paul Schmelzer
Feb 27
Paul Douglas considers himself an “albino unicorn.” A moderate Republican, he’s also a meteorologist who believes climate change is real. Music-theater artist Cynthia Hopkins decided to make art about the crisis after a 2010 Arctic expedition. In a recent interview, the pair discusses global warming and ways that art, science, and spirituality can work together to change minds about a changing planet.
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Blogs
Walker Home & Garden Club Learns to Darn
Field Guide
Feb 27
The Walker Home & Garden has struck again. Struck the darning needle that is. You see, we have now learned the ins and outs of darning socks and hemming trouser legs. The most challenging moment of instruction proved to be knotting the needle: by threading the needle once, simply twisting the string around the needle, […]
The Walker Home & Garden has struck again. Struck the darning needle that is. You see, we…
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Art News from Elsewhere
Culture of Incarceration
Via creativetimereports.org
Feb 27
Photographing both Supermax prison complexes and suburban developments from the air, Christoph Gielen began noticing “striking” similarities in planning forms, which raise questions about the idea of “prisons as our new mass housing.”
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Gallagher in GIFs
Via art21.tumblr.com
Feb 26
“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my process—this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries,” says Ellen Gallagher, whose work is in our collection. A fitting way to look at her work? The repetitive GIF format!
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Art News from Elsewhere
Crowdsourcing Gold
Via wired.com
Feb 26
An Oscar first: Sunday’s awards show featured the first Academy Award for a crowdsourced film. Inocente, a short documentary about homeless 15-year-old artist Inocente Izucar, took home a prize. Its funding included $52K raised last summer on Kickstarter.