installator:

Richard Prince: Spiritual America at Walker Art Center. Installation photo by Cameron Wittig (2008)

 

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Minnesota is the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage! Gov. Mark Dayton signs the bill into law today, with it taking effect in August. Photo by Terry Gydesen for MinnPost.com.

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Such a fascinating project. Here’s what Paul Chan had to tell us about it recently.

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“Meet the Schoenherrs: This Woodbury, Minn., family has been selected as hosts for Fritz Haeg’s 15th and final Edible Estate, a project that transforms suburban front lawns into abundant organic vegetable gardens. Challenging the symbolism of the display yard, Edible Estates “questions the essence of what the American Dream is,” says Haeg. “Ultimately, the project is really way beyond lawn and way beyond food and gardens and the environment. It penetrates to the core of ‘How do you want to live?’”

Arthur Tress, Young Security Guard, Hoboken, 1971

new-aesthetic:

The halfcat, attracting newly revived interest on Twitter thanks to this blog post, appears to have first been spotted in this blog post in August 2009. But there are no attributions. The latest reports pin it to Street View - not mentioned in the original posting - and it certainly appears to be Street View image, but, lacking coordinates, the halfcat seems destined to be a mystery forever, one of any number of mythical beings, lost in the Clouds.

More interesting than the halfcat’s strangeness, perhaps, is its unknowability. Someone saw the halfcat, snapped it, but the route back is lost. The databases contain such multitudes of new myths.

metamuseum:

Buttons, 1990–1992

Three small buttons for visitors created by the Walker Art Center design department to coincide with special exhibitions

Left to right: John Baldessari (1991), featuring his famous dictate, “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art”; Claes Oldenburg: In the Studio (1992); and Art Into Life: Russian Constructivism 1924–1932 (1990)

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Gear up for barbecue season! George Maciunas’ Stomach Anatomy Apron (1967/1973)

A poster for Flux Vehicle Day, May 19, 1973, featuring George Maciunas’ design for the Multicycle, a “multi-tandem-bike.”

This month, Walker graphic designer Dante Carlos opens his first UK show. Art & Leisure and Art & Leisure, opening May 23 at the London Centre for Book Arts, centers on an editioned book, produced by LCBA, that will be displayed in the space:

Carlos uses the form and function of a calendar and creates a casual polemic and a reorganization of days. A calendar consisting only of Saturdays and Sundays, Art & Leisure… is a book that becomes an exhibition, a proposition, a utopia, and a joke. In a social climate where the simple act of taking time ‘off the clock’ and doing something without intrinsic market—but human—value becomes something unintentionally quixotic, Art & Leisure… re-imagines our relationship to time, labour and art practices.

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jennilee:

Lynn Hershman - Untitled 1978-94 (via Walker Art Center Collection Favorites)

momalibrary:

Claes Oldenburg’s invitation/business card for The Store (1961). 

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hragv:

Going meta

Online image culture started here: more than 20 years ago, this poorly photoshopped image—“a homemade promotional shot for Les Horribles Cernettes, a comedy band based at the CERN laboratory near Geneva”—became the first photo uploaded to the Internet. (Via Bruce Sterling).