- A look at sculpture at the EXPO Chicago Fair. A lot of it looks like it came direct from a tomb. [Bad at Sports]
- Roberta Smith reviews the Pipilotti Rist show at the New Museum. She describes Rist as a “true natural” in the medium of video. [New Museum]
- The mayor of London is promising to provide artists with affordable studios. I’d call this a victory, but doesn’t this just set up a caste system of privilege? [Hyperallergic]
- Why does everything developer Two Trees manage end up looking like a soulless downtown revitalization project? Here’s a look at the new Sugar Domino Factory for start ups, complete with a skate park. [Curbed]
- Can artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s star get any higher? He’s making waves in DC at the Hirshhorn Museum for Woman in E, in which a woman wearing a gold dress strums an E minor chord for two and a half hours. [NPR]
- Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ at the Queens Museum gets some attention from Andrea K. Scott. The review begins with a discussion of Ukeles manifesto “maintenance art”, in which she points out that “repetition and systems were considered rigorous in the context of the avant-garde, but dismissed as drudgery when it came to maintenance workers or housewives”. (See Ragnar Kjartansson for example one). We learn that the manifesto frames the work in the show, though I’m a little unclear as to what Scott thinks of the show as a whole. She seems broadly positive. [The New Yorker]
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