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Haring’s Message

Via creative.arte.tv

Arte Creative and Dailymotion launch a new six-part documentary on Keith Haring. Directed by Maripol, The Message looks at the artist, from his activism—from AIDS to apartheid—to his work with kids (part six features footage shot during a 1984 Walker residency).

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AI & Ai

Via newstatesman.com

The just-announced shortlist for Amnesty International’s Media Awards includes three articles from the Ai Weiwei–edited issue of the New Statesman. Recognizing “excellence in human rights reporting,” AI highlighted news about free speech restrictions in China.

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Mini-Golf as Public Art (and Course Credit) at the University of Minnesota, Part III

mnartists.blog

For this year’s Artist-Designed Mini Golf course we invited the University of Minnesota Art Department to design and build two of the holes. The course, led by professor Chris Larson, was tasked with developing several designs to present to a panel of Walker curators. The class was asked to document their process leading up to the […] For this year’s Artist-Designed Mini Golf course we invited the…

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Action Alert: Stand up for the Sculpture Garden!

Centerpoints

Gov. Mark Dayton and the Minnesota House of Representatives have recommended that the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden receive $7 million for a much-needed renovation, and now we need to make certain that all legislators strongly support a bonding bill that includes these critical funds for the Garden. Please reach out to your state legislators and House […] Gov. Mark Dayton and the Minnesota House of…

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“Tough Cookie”

Via bluebottlecoffee.com

“It’s funny to think that our frozen banana based on a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph didn’t get censored, but that this cookie plate did.” That’s Leah at Oakland’s Blue Bottle Coffee recounting the time they tried to make a Richard Serra-inspired cookie plate.

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Passings: Storm Thorgerson

Via nytimes.com

British graphic designer Storm Thorgerson has passed away at age 69. Best known for his album covers for Pink Floyd, including The Dark Side of the Moon, his photos and collages also promoted bands from Phish to Led Zeppelin.

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Earth Day 1970

Via lacma.wordpress.com

Rauschenberg’s Earth Day (1970)—in the Walker collection—“was the first time the artist had used a mass-produced poster to express social concerns,” writes Sienna Brown, but it wasn’t the first time he used his art to address environmental issues.

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Building for Bush

Via latimes.com

“What do neo-classicism and neo-conservatism have in common?” So asks Christopher Hawthorne in reviewing the new AM Stern–designed George W. Bush presidential library. “The building, like the Bush presidency, aims to stay resolute even at the expense of some nuance.”

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Digression(s) and Entry Point(s): An Interview with Heman Chong

Latitudes

What “old rules” about art programming, production, and distribution has the Internet broken? Barcelona’s Latitudes is leading an investigation into such questions of culture and connectivity. Their new #OpenCurating dialogue features Singapore-based artist, curator, and writer Heman Chong, whose work examines “the philosophies, reasons, and methods of individuals and communities imagining the future.”