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by Paddy Johnson Corinna Kirsch Matthew Leifheit on December 3, 2013
- “Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz” will be the Chinese artist and former government detainee’s first exhibition to be held at a prison. [In the Air]
- Greg Allen (@gregorg) reports on Miami’s Perez Art Museum and why local collectors have yet to show much support to the museum. Opening day is tomorrow. When it was announced that the museum would be named for developer Jorge Perez in the wake of a $35 million gift of cash and art, four board members resigned. While Perez chalks it up to racism, critic Tyler Green points out that the institution needs to improve its relationship with local collectors in order to grow its own collection. [NPR]
- Laure Prouvost has been announced as this year’s Turner Prize winner, beating out David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for the £25,000 prize. She was the underdog. [BBC]
- I love Ed Halter. Here he is, conversing with Lauren Cornell, talking about pop culture and art. “It’s like Pop Art in reverse: Warhol took the content of mass culture and brought it into art, while [Abramović and Lady Gaga] are using ‘art’ as content and spreading it through contemporary forms of mass media—but really they’re only producing a new form of kitsch, complete with mawkish sentimentality.” [Mousse Magazine]
- Narcoleptic dogs are one reason why we know so much about the science of sleep. A breed of narcoleptic dogs was bred by Stanford scientists, and now there’s a range of poodles and dobermans who can fall asleep without more than the drop of a pin. [The New Yorker]
- Kanye West is crazier than we thought. He thinks he’s more relevant than the President—because nobody cares what Obama wears. Hrag Vartanian points out this is untrue. (Paddy) [Hyperallergic]
- Extravagant much? Matias Faldbakken, one of 24 artists chosen to display public art works at Miami Basel, is putting the Peterbilt big rig truck from Steven Spielberg’s hell-on-wheels film Duel (1971) in the sculpture park. [Channel 16 Florida]
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