Going camping this Memorial Day weekend? Well, you’ll definitely need a map made of photocopies, dried holy basil, a boxed camp stove, a metal can opener in a plastic bag, dried red chili, and all the other items in Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Without Title (Rucksack Installation) from 1993.

(via Walker Art Center | Collections and Resources)

“Art excludes the unnecessary. Frank Stella has found it necessary to paint stripes. There is nothing else in his painting.” Carl Andre

(via Cosmic Comic: Frank Stella’s Fine Disregard)

“…Fundamental movements in Merce Cunningham’s choreography…Notice your own patterns of motion and preference as you walk through the gallery.”

(via Education & Community Programs — Walker Art Center)

Clockwise from top left: Susan Rothenberg, Night Ride; Rachel Harrison, Huffy Howler; Claes Oldenburg, Strawberry Skull Bike Seat; Arthur Tress, Bike Fantasy, New York City

It’s (still) National Bike Month, so clean up those bikes and get out and ride. The weather’s just fiiine. (The Twin Cites’ Bike Walk Week is June 2-10.)

Nice shot/s. 

abrandnewminneapolis:

A Walker Art Center Holgarama on Flickr.

Former Walker director Martin Friedman and Claes Oldenburg in 1972

(via The Yard Man: Meet Madison Square Park’s Secret Weapon | GalleristNY)

“In one hundred years, John Baldessari suspects he will be best remembered as ‘the guy who put dots over people’s faces.’”

Also: Venice BiennAAAle

laughingsquid:

A Brief History of John Baldessari, Narrated by Tom Waits

Happy birthday, Jasper Johns! He was born this day in 1930.

During the 60s, Johns was a set designer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and his first project was for the 1968 dance, Walkaround Time. He created seven inflatable plastic boxes painted with images taken from Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) (pictured).

tepidtapwater:

There’s the sensation of a lot of flesh when every single hair stands up. This happens when you are cold and naked aroused or simply terrified. 

-Jenny Holzer

The Living Series, 1989

Visitors exploring Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud City, installed on the rooftop garden of the Met. (via artnet’s Instagram)

hyperallergic:

The End of Performance Art as We Know It

Marina Abramović wearing the model for her eponymous Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art (all images courtesy OMA)

It’s Dali’s 108th birthday! And also Cat Break Friday. So these outtakes from Philippe Halsman’s Dali Atomicus are pretty perfect for today.

(via BBC News - Behind the contact sheet)

(via iteeth)

Claes Oldenburg’s Saw (Hard Version II), on view through May 28 at mumok, Vienna