The city of Seville might be best known in art circles as the birthplace of famed Spanish painter Diego Velazquez, but now the city has another claim to fame — it is now the home of the world’s largest wooden structure, a 5,000 square meter canopy over the central Plaza de la Encarnacion.
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Required Reading
This week… the Rothko Chapel at 40, artists and their audiences, Ai Weiwei 25 yrs ago, ageism & photographers, honeybees & humans design together, the commerce of fan art, Tintoretto at the Venice Biennale, AIDS at 30, IBM & the Met collaborate to preserve art, Kickstarter is the 3rd largest comic book publisher in America.
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WI Gov Replaces Multi-Culti Painting With Civil War-era Work
There’s a lot of art news coming out of Milwaukee this week and all of it makes some of us wondering what the hell is happening in the city we normally associate with Laverne & Shirley and bratwurst. First, the director of Milwaukee Art Museum made silly comments that museums should not be political and now the union-busting Republican governor of the Wisconsin has removed a very multicultural painting by local artist David Lenz from a prominent place in the governor’s mansion.
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Social Media Art’s Social Revolution
This month’s ARTnews includes an extensive feature by veteran arts writer Barbara Pollack on social media art. This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in understanding the emergence of social media art and how artists are using the medium to create work.
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Apple Plans to Build Giant Glass Ring
This week, Steve Jobs presented Apple’s plans to create a four-story glass donut-shaped building on a 148-acre site to the Cupertino City Council. Jobs says that Apple plans to build an office building that will house up to 13,000 employees and something that “architecture students will come here to see.”
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A Peek at Swoon Installation in New Orleans Museum
World-renowned street artist Swoon is installing her newest work in the central hall of the New Orleans Museum of Art and photographer and art historian John D’Addario was there to capture a glimpse for Hyperallergic readers.
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Ryan Trecartin Makes a Movie Trailer
In advance of Ryan Trecartin’s upcoming exhibition at PS1, the artist has released a trailer teaser to get us all excited for a new batch of video works.
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Anti-Gaddafi Street Art Pops Up in Libya
In classic Chairman Mao fashion, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had his face plastered everywhere in the country as pro-government propaganda. In cities overtaken by Libyan rebels, artists are turning those same images against Gaddafi in works of street art.
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Required Reading
This week’s Required Reading features mashed-up video games, a lost e.e. cummings poem, an indie arcade review and a museum just for you.
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The Venice Biennale in Pencil Sketches
New York Times visual columnist and famed designer Christoph Niemann is at the 2011 Venice Biennale, documenting his experiencing with the contemporary art festival in a series of sketches.
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Is America Tanking in Venice? [UPDATE]
Love it or hate it, Allora & Calzadilla’s entry to the US Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale is a showstopper perfectly tuned for the art world’s version of the Olympics.
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Digging Up the Roses on Park Avenue
This week, Will Ryman’s “The Roses” installation along Park Avenue are saying bye bye. But when I spotted them yesterday all dug up with their “roots” exposed, I thought it somehow completed the work.
