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Walker Hires Curator of Public Practice
Sarah Schultz, of Minneapolis's Walker Art Center, has a new title: director of education and curator of public practice. Formerly the director of education, a position she has held since 2000, Schultz has recently helped run several initiatives designed to facilitate the museum's efforts to engage the city's public.
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Occupy Museums Targets MoMA Trustees
On Friday, The Museum of Modern Art was once again targeted by Occupy Museums, bringing their protest inside the building on a bitterly cold evening. Occupy Museums has staged a number of demonstrations since October; this was a homecoming of sorts, since the first protest took place at MoMA.
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Laura Raicovich Joins Creative Time
Laura Raicovich, deputy director of Dia Art Foundation for the last ten years, has been appointed Creative Time's director of global initiatives. A non-profit based in New York, Creative Time has branched out in recent years, taking its mission of commissioning, producing and presenting public art to cities across the United States and the world at large.
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Creative Time's Political Address
This past weekend Creative Time kicked off its third annual Summit, a gathering for artists and activists whose work addresses social and political issues. As in years past, the Summit, which kicked off Friday at NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts with 30 presenters, involved a few days of presentations and panel discussions. Each presentation is archived and will be available on Creative Time's "Living As Form" website. This year's Summit also includes a monthlong exhibition at the Historic Essex Street Market and eight projects commissioned throughout the Lower East Side [open through Oct. 16].
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Roving Eye: Art is Everywhere and Nowhere
The New Museum's "Museum as Hub" space, on its fifth floor, currently hosts a massive, vibrant overflow from "Ostalgia," the current exhibition of Eastern European art. One finds, in particular, an overwhelming timeline of the fall of the Soviet Union produced by the St. Petersburg collective Chto Delat. It includes enough information for hours of education.
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Roving Eye: Pennsylvania Workstyles
Last Sunday, I attended an event coordinated by my wife and her collaborators who go by the name Philly Stake at Bartram's Gardens, referring in part to America's oldest botanical garden. Philly Stake hosted one of something like 46 micro-granting dinners that happen annually in this city, where community artists and activists pitch ideas to attendees, each of whom pays $10 to $20 and votes for their favorite concept. The three artists or activists who get the most votes are awarded the proceeds from the door.
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Roving Eye: All the World's a Stage
Consider this quality day trip. Head over to MoMA and let the combination of the Harun Farocki and Francis Alÿs shows bowl you over. These are artists who, using completely different approaches, touch upon a condition of the 21st century—that "all the world's a stage."
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Roving Eye: Austerities
I just returned from my honeymoon in Barcelona to the sticky streets of my hometown, Philadelphia. My wife and I skipped the madcap opening of the Venice Biennale, instead looking for peace in the phenomenal Catalonian city-which, of course, is experiencing major political upheaval, and had simultaneously won a premiere league football championship over Manchester United. With 40% of citizens between 18–24 unemployed, Spain has erupted, like Greece, into a full-on brawl as the state considers austerity measures.
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Bruce High Quality Foundation Hits The Road
The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a semi-anonymous group of young artists, is taking its act on the road this month. For the past five years, the resourceful collective has held workshops, mounted exhibitions (including the “Brucennial”) and run a “university,” all with the aim of empowering artists.
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The Earth Sublime
The terms environmental, earth and land art still powerfully conjure Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels and other emblematic site-specific works from the ’60s and ’70s.
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