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Happy birthday to photographer Cindy Sherman, who turns 59 today!

Sherman began as a painter in college, but soon turned to photography when, as she puts it, “I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.”

Image: ArtScope snapshot of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled (Marilyn), 1982

For a veritable treasure trove of multimedia related to Sherman’s work, click here!

Posted on Saturday, January 19th 2013

Tags cindy sherman art photography

grupaok:

Richard Serra making Splash Piece in the atrium of the Kunsthalle Bern, 1969, for the exhibition Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form: Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information.

When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, curated by Jens Hoffmann as a modern version of the historical exhibition, opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit on February 1. And we hear that the catalogue, which features an essay by Julian alongside Jens, Christian Rattemeyer and Connie Lewallen, will finally appear in Detroit after some delays in production. We’re so looking forward to seeing it!

Posted on Friday, January 18th 2013

Reblogged from grupa o.k.

What is an iPad doing on a pedestal at a Chinese art museum?

newyorker:

Evan Osnos talks to Li Liao, a young performance artist, who

got an assembly-line job making iPads, and forty-five days later he used his wages to buy one. As an exhibit, he put the iPad on a pedestal, tacked up his uniform and badges, and framed his contract. The effect, on a white gallery wall, is a strangely addictive ready-made tableau about the intersection of money, aspiration, and technology.

Click-through to read the interview: http://nyr.kr/SetOqT

Posted on Friday, January 18th 2013

Reblogged from The New Yorker