Architecture Review: Matching Architecture to the Art in a New Miami Museum
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The design for the Miami Art Museum is not a regurgitation of outmoded historical forms.
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New Work: ‘Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future’
New at Pentagram (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Michael Bierut designed the graphics for the Saarinen retrospective at MCNY.
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Timekeeper
today and tomorrow (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Here are 2 versions of Timekeeper by Pierre Huyghe. The first one is from 1999, Pierre sanded down a few layers of paint at Secession in Vienna (Austria), revealing the wall painting from previous exhibitions. The second one is from 2009 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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The Dia Comes Home to New York
Looking Around (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Dia Art Foundation is a unique thing, a non-profit that collects a limited roster of artists in depth, especially Minimalists and Conceptual artists, and gives them the kind of long term exhibition space their work requires. This can get tricky when you're talking about something like Walter de Maria's New York Earth Room, [...]
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Walker Art Center Opens Major Retrospective Surveying the Career of Dan Graham
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Dan Graham: Beyond, a major retrospective surveying the career of one of contemporary art’s most innovative figures, will be on view at the Walker Art Center October 31, 2009–January 24, 2010. The first exhibition in the United States to showcase Graham’s entire body of work, including his groundbreaking experiments with video and performance, architecture and public...
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Pumpkin soup and playing catch-up with the season
Daring to Thrive (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
As you can see, we are a bit behind on our raking duties. It seems like we have been a bit behind on the seasons all year, though. Is it October already? Indeed the leaves falling on our lawn won't let us forget. Oh wait, it's nearly November! This year has been flying by, dear readers. A pair of weekends ago weekend Ben and I traveled back to the town where I grew up for my 10 year high school reunion....
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What’s going on Thursday?
More Cowbell (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Tomorrow 7:30 PM Dan Deacon @ The Cave (Northfield, MN) 7:30 PM Mum with Sin Fang Bous presented by Vita.mn @ Walker Art Center (SOLD OUT) 7:30 PM Osso & Sufjan Stevens’ the BQE @ Southern Theater 8:00 PM BOUNCER FIGHTER @ THE NOMAD (MINNE-SERIES) 8:00 PM Monsters of Folk (M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Jim James, and Mike Mogis) @ The Orpheum 8:00 PM On the Road [...]
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Salon-Style Exhibition Benches & Binoculars Showcases Walker Art Center's Paintings Collection
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- A sweeping look at the Walker Art Center 's paintings collection, displayed floor to ceiling in a salon style inspired by the 1920s galleries of museum founder Thomas Barlow Walker, will be presented in Benches & Binoculars, on view November 21, 2009–August 15, 2010. In a large-scale and densely hung installation, organized by chief curator Darsie Alexander and curator Elizabeth...
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Kim Beck, Everything Must Go!
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
PICK Mixed Greens, Glow Room Project Space 531 West 26th Street, 212-331-8888 Chelsea October 15 - December 13, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 12, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Mixed Greens is pleased to announce a timely window installation by Kim Beck. The site-specific piece will involve a cacophony of hand-drawn for sale, for rent, clearance and similarly brazen signs in the ground floor and first floor...
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Flitting Species Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole
Off Center (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Who are the Walker’s avian neighbors? My father and I went “city birding” to see the surprising ways wildlife dovetails with the urban environment. In May and then in October, we wandered the grounds of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, then migrated to Loring Park, and concluded our observations perched atop the Walker’s green slope. Here [...]
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UNREALTIME: Mark Amerika
Professor VJ (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST Vas. Georgiou Β’ 17-19 and Rigillis street 11743 Athens Greece www.emst.gr UNREALTIME Curated by: Daphne Dragona The National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, presents UNREALTIME, a retrospective exhibition of pioneering American artist Mark Amerika. The exhibition runs from October 22nd, 2009 until January 3rd, 2010. Amerika's first...
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Low: Low to Score and Accompany the Modern Dance Piece Heaven
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Low might not make songs for shaking what your mama gave you, but the slowcore provocateurs are nonetheless lending their music to the art of dance: modern dance. Choreographer Morgan Thorson has commissioned Low to provide original, live musical accompaniment to Heaven , a piece that delves into such themes as ecstasy and religion. Shows span October of this year through March 2010. Here are the...
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Film: Feature:Know Your Coens: A serious quiz
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The Walker Art Center 's massive Coen Brothers retrospective is now raging like Walter Sobchak on an anti-nihilist bender, giving local fans of the accomplished moviemaking duo an all-they-can-quote buffet of Coen-y goodness. With upcoming screenings of Burn After Reading , Raising Arizona , Big Lebowski , and The Hudsucker Proxy at the Walker—and the new, locally shot A Serious Man screening...
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“..The Quotable Coen Brothers..”
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
“..Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen are not given to extensive introspection. Ask why they created The Dude character in The Big Lebowski, and they’ll reveal that it simply amused them to envision a detective whose “mind is so befogged by dope” that he can’t put basic clues together. Ask why they set Blood Simple in [...]
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Stuff and Things
bigYELLOWbowl (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
I haven't posted for a while and I have quite a few 'this and that, stuff and things' sort of info to share with you that are food related in some bizarre ways, so here goes: I was in Minnesota for a conference and had several wonderful food encounters, including this fantastic painting by Severin Roesen at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts . He is one of my favorite painters and I'm not sure why....