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Art Formula
Via latimes.com
May 2
Spite doesn’t seem to underpin art in William Powhida’s new LA show, which apes artworld “formulas” from Cattelan-style taxidermy to Richterian abstraction, writes Holly Myers. He sincerely asks, “How does the art world work and how should we feel about that?”
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On Being Curated
Via frieze.com
May 1
What’s it feel like being curated? Eight artists weigh in on the rise of the curator and what it means, including W.A.G.E., Slavs and Tatars, and Daniel Buren, who revisits his 1972 statement “Exhibiting Exhibitions.”
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Nanocinema
Via youtube.com
May 1
A promotion for IBM’s research on atomic memory, this is also the world’s smallest stop-action animation. A Boy and his Atom was made by photographing atoms stacked two high and magnifying the results 100 million times to create a story.
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How Artists Work
Via npr.org
May 1
For Louis Armstrong it was weed. For Tesla, an 8 pm dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria, and for Kierkegaard, caffeine. In his new book Daily Rituals, Mason Currey looks at how famed creators—including Richter, Tharp, and Picasso—get work done.
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Museum Finder
Via exploreminnesota.com
Apr 30
May is Minnesota Museums Month, highlighting more than 500 state aquariums, gardens, and museums. The 2013 edition includes a free Museum Finder app that helps you search out the top sites on your smartphone, from the Walker to the US Hockey Hall of Fame.
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The Plot Thickens
Julie Caniglia
Apr 30
You’d think that among theater people, the biggest control freaks would be an artistic director and a playwright—those responsible for the company’s aesthetic vision and the text used onstage. But when Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins and playwright Sibyl Kempson talk about Fondly, Collette Richland, it’s clear that instead of obsessing about control, both are exhilarated by the lack thereof.