This Saturday, April 14, Electronic Arts Intermix and Dia Art Foundation have jointly organized a 12-hour video tribute to artist Mike Kelley, who passed away on February 1 at his home in South Pasadena, California.
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A New Curatorial Intensive to Launch in Beijing
LOS ANGELES — Independent Curators International is setting up shop in Beijing. Working with the prestigious Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, ICI’s first curatorial intensive in China will be focused on the subject of The Museum of the Future?: Curating Institutions.
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ACT UP Returns to Wall Street With Occupy and Others on April 25
On April 25th, and in honor of its 25th anniversary, AIDS activist group ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), joined by organizations ranging from Occupy Wall Street to Visual AIDS to Housingworks as well as other AIDS activist and queer organizations, will be staging a large scale demonstration on Wall Street reminiscent of its original Wall Street protests of the late 1980s.
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BMW Guggenheim Lab Finds Safety in a More Gentrified Berlin Locale
Last month, we reported on the controversial location of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin’s punkrock/activist/multiculti/graff neighborhood, and now, Spiegel Online reports they’ve settled on Prenzlauer Berg,
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Google Art Project Bursting at the Seams with 100+ New Museums
Google Art Project launched last year with 17 institutions but today the number has ballooned to 100+.
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Williamsburg Gets an Art Fair in May
One art fair that up until now has so far been a Miami-only venture, Seven, will be coming to Williamsburg.
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Occupying Poetry With a People’s Anthology
The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology is over a thousand pages long. It includes poems by Adrienne Rich, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg, and by thousands of lesser- and unknown writers from around the world. The work is in multiple languages. And it’s coming to a library near you.
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Bronx Museum Is Free, Sets Goal to Raise Attendance by 50% in 2012
If the price of everything is going up, it’s nice to see when some things go down in cost, even if it’s only temporary. The Bronx Museum announced this week that they will be dropping their admission fee in an effort to increase their attendance and reach out to members of the community who haven’t stepped inside.
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MTV’s New Art Spots Have Potential to Reach 600M Viewers
MTV is trying to rekindle the “visual playground” of the 1980s and they hope the new art commercials by Rashaad Newsome, Mickalene Thomas, Tala Madani, Jani Ruscica and Mads Lynnerup will help them do it.
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Baltimore Museum of Art Gets a New Contemporary Wing
If most people think of contemporary Baltimore as the land of John Waters, then maybe the Baltimore Museum of Art’s growing presence on the contemporary art scene may help diversify people’s perceptions beyond the drag queen Divine and campy gay bars. The museum announced details yesterday about their renovation currently in progress on its contemporary wing.
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Finally, Nude Art Tours
Looking for a new way to get up close and personal with art? How about a museum tour … in the nude? Artist Stuart Ringholt is offering you the chance.
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Met Museum Gets $20M from Astor Estate but Childe Hassam Painting Still Missing
When 1%-ers die, their deaths take far longer than then the deaths of 99%-ers. If their memories don’t linger among their friends and family — or at least their family foundations — then at least their afterlives continue in the courts for years, if not longer.
