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The Portrait Room. Portrait#1: Sylvie ZavattaMichela Alessandrini | Jul 10, 2013
Me and Sylvie Zavatta shared one hour, two coffees, and a lighter. Sylvie Zavatta became a curator while she was still studying modern literature and art history. Director of FRAC Basse Normandie when she …
Cucinare in Massima Sicurezza: An interview with author Matteo GuidiVincenzo Estremo | Jul 8, 2013
Cucinare in Massima Sicurezza (Cooking in Maximum Security) by Matteo Guidi is a recipe book developed with inmates from high security sections inside Italian prisons. Illustrated by Mario Trudu, it lists the methods used by prisoners to cook …
Puttering Around with ArtJoel Hagen | Jul 3, 2013
Minnesota spends a lot of time each year covered with snow. LOTS of time. Eight months to be exact. Once the snow finally leaves after the last insane-making storm in early May, the denizens of …
Film as Sculpture. WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, BrusselsVincenzo Estremo | Jun 28, 2013
It is quite common today to find cinematic approaches to the artistic practice – various kinds of approach which extend beyond the moving image to include performances, live works, and sculpture as well. Film as …
From Here to Eternity. Spotlights on the memory of Mike KelleyManu Buttiglione | Jun 27, 2013
Eternity is a Long Time. A sentence pronounced by the quivering voice of a man who is going to leave this world hand by hand with his beloved; a recurrent refrain, stuck in mind, that …
Death and Home at the Minneapolis Photo CenterJoel Hagen | Jun 11, 2013
Turning the first corner after entering the Minneapolis Photo Center is akin to what I believe it would feel like to get slapped in the face with the face of death. But in a good …
Third Internet Pavilion: An interview with curators Francesco Urbano RagazziVincenzo Estremo | May 21, 2013
How is it like working with Miltos Manetas, and how was the idea for the third Internet Pavilion born? Working with Miltos has something in common with gambling. The Internet Pavilion has no ministers, consuls …
The Images RepublicVincenzo Estremo | May 12, 2013
The Disobedience Archive (The Republic) curated by Marco Scotini is a work-in-progress project, started in 2005 in Berlin. The show was hosted by Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Nottingham Contemporary, Raven Row of London, Massachusetts Institute of …
More Real exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of ArtsJoel Hagen | May 12, 2013
Truthiness, if you don’t know, is a term coined by satirical television pundit Stephen Colbert, and it refers to the ambiguous realm between fact and belief and the places that belief wins. The Minneapolis Institute …
Art you can smell, or smelly art? Art in Bloom at the Minneapolis Institute of ArtsJoel Hagen | May 12, 2013
Art in Bloom events are held at galleries around the U.S. in the spring. The galleries challenge local florists to create arrangements that are inspired by specific paintings or sculptures found within the museum. Taking …
