Google Earth went all 8-bit for April Fool’s Day, including this representation of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Spoonbridge and Cherry at the Walker Art Center.- Choire Sicha takes on the Klaus Biesenbach Twitter feed (he’s the director of MoMA’s PS1 satellite cc: @BarackObama, @ladygaga, @JustinBieber) and that really odd Kraftwerk “exhibition” he’s doing.
- I don’t have any idea why The Art Newspaper thinks that the growing Rauschenberg Foundation and the Warhol Foundation are rivals, but this Cristina Ruiz story on the former is good news for artist grants.
- This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Crown Point Press founder Kathan Brown talking about Richard Diebenkorn’s print-making practice. During the show, Brown and I discuss Diebenkorn’s magnificent Green (1986). Here’s an old-school SFMOMA video of Diebenkorn working through versions and proofs of that print.
- The cleverest new Tumblr I’ve seen in a while: Jason Foumberg’s End Piece, which features the “last artwork of great artists.”
- The 2013 Carnegie International blog is quirky and fascinating. This week the show’s curators are asking for help in finding out more about an artist who worked with Rauschenberg and Fontana.
- Just wanted to point this out too: My other favorite-of-the-moment institutional blog is the ICP’s Fans in a Flashbulb.
- If you listened to The MAN Podcast featuring Richard Serra, you heard the remarkable story of an ex-prisoner’s experience walking through Serra’s Pulitzer torqued spiral, Joe, how the sculpture helped him reflect on his past and future. (You also heard Serra’s reaction to it. What you didn’t see was that Serra’s eyes became a bit misty.) The Pulitzer’s Lisa Harper Chang offers more on the program that mashed up a Pulitzer exhibition with an ex-cons program. Fascinating, inspirational stuff.
- The Walker’s Paul Schmelzer has a cool piece on Keith Haring, his 1984 visit to Minneapolis, and the now-long-gone mural he made for the Walker.
- As the Art Institute of Chicago designs its upcoming Roy Lichtenstein retrospective, it’s using the artist’s own paint chips.
- Considering one of Alexander Gardner’s photographs of Lincoln assassination conspirator Lewis Payne.
- The good news: The Tate’s new website is up. The bad news: Their digital publishing ‘landing page’ is even more confusing than MoMA’s.
April 4, 2012, 8:55 am
