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Gramsci Monument

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Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, to run July 1 thru Sept. 15, will host a range of activities—including a radio station—from a structure on the grounds of a Bronx housing development. The Dia-backed project is the last of his philosopher-based monuments.

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Free Forms: An #OpenCurating Interview with Lauren Cornell

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What challenges, expectations, and new possibilities does digital culture and social media present to contemporary art institutions? Barcelona-based curatorial office Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna) continues its ongoing #OpenCurating series with a conversation about culture and connectivity with former Rhizome director and current New Museum curator Lauren Cornell.

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Totally Uncool

Via hyperallergic.com

Usually silent on ripoffs of her art, Barbara Kruger comments on a suit by clothing brand Supreme (with its Krugeresque logo) against designer Leah McSweeney. Of the “uncool jokers” involved, she writes, “I’m waiting for them all to sue me for copyright infringement.”

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Meet the CSA 2013 Artists

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mnartists.org and Springboard for the Arts are pleased to co-present the new season of Community Supported Art, a popular initiative to bring a variety of Minnesota artworks to collectors and patrons. Throughout the summer, recipients of the CSA will receive shares filled with locally-designed and produced artwork. As the CSA launches today, we acquaint you with the […] mnartists.org and Springboard…

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Art Formula

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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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The Metamorphosis

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Lightsey Darst profiles mercurial dancer Nic Lincoln, soon to be on stage for YES, an evening of solos by five choreographers: Judith Howard, Megan Mayer, Penelope Freeh, Kristin Van Loon and Wynn Fricke.

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Morrissey and Marr: 30 Years Later, the World is Still Listening

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Stop right now if you haven’t heard of Marr and Morrissey before this, and pick up The Queen is Dead, Louder Than Bombs, Hatful of Hollow, The Singles… and more or less anything made by the Smiths. So, the story goes like this: Steven Patrick Morrissey and Johnny Marr, two handsome young music devotees in the formative years […] Stop right now if you haven’t heard of Marr and Morrissey before this, and pick…

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On Being Curated

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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

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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.