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Workbook: Spirit, Matter, Peace

by Sophie Dupont on May 23, 2013
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We invited Copenhagen-based artist Sophie Dupont to spend a month with us in NYC. As the final portion of her residency with AFC she produced an image essay on dance and spirituality.

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Morning Links: Resource Edition

by Paddy Johnson and Corinna Kirsch on March 13, 2013
  • A blog and potential resource for President and canine painter George Bush. [Dog Art Today]
  • Hilarious! The L.A. MOCA drama told in GIFs. [C-Monstah]
  • A new art(ish) blog based in Copenhagen launches with reviews of international shows and the odd interview and news item. Not a lot of critical perspective here, but a reasonable start. [Recent Future Archive]
  • MOCA is close to working out a five-year agreement with The National Gallery in DC, which will include collaborating on programming and research and exhibitions. This might help ward off the LACMA merger. [NYTimes]
  • Vine hack. Now you can make 20 second videos if you want to. [AnimalNY] Thank-you Jordan Smilovic [Brooklyn Web Developers]
  • If you’re in Europe, nobody’s going to stop you from watching porn on your computer. It’s porn IRL that’ll get you in trouble. [Mashable]
  • Guggenheim Museum Director Richard Armstrong writes a letter to Hyperallergic’s Senior Editors Kyle Chayka and Jillian Steinhauer in response to “When Artspeak Means Oppression” penned last week by contributor Mostafa Heddaya. In that piece, Heddaya calls out the Guggenheim for not paying much attention to human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates where they’re currently building Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. [Hyperallergic]
  • The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) announced last week that the museum will be laying off 21 people (11 percent of its staff). Why are they doing this? Tyler Green takes a look at their rationale and finds it inconsistent with museum management practices. Consider this your must-read article for the day. [Modern Art Notes]
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We Went to Copenhagen

by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball on September 20, 2012
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With a major art festival and the city’s largest art fair, September is the month to be in Copenhagen. We saw a ton of art and we noticed that at least half of the artists were American or non-Danes. Are there not that many Danish artists? Or do Danish collectors just need to get with the program? That being said, we brought back a surprising number of highlights and our travels hit on that one truism of gallery-going: you can find good and bad art no matter where you go.

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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: If You’re Visiting Copenhagen

by Paddy Johnson on September 14, 2011
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I don’t remember who told me 7-Elevens are very popular in Copenhagen, but I wish I hadn’t told my tour guide this was the only thing I knew about the city earlier this month. I doubt I’d be impressed with a Danish colleague who knew only of the ubiquity of Starbucks in Manhattan, given the wealth of culture here.

We all accidentally utter things that can’t be dismissed as mere jetlag (right?), but in an effort to curtail further diplomatic blunders, I offer art-loving travelers a few observations about Copenhagen.

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Reporting Live From Denmark! The Kopenhagen Contemporary Art Weekend Begins

by Paddy Johnson on September 1, 2011
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This weekend I report live from Copenhagen Denmark during the Kopenhagen Contemporary Art Weekend (September 1-4, an event organized by Wonderful Copenhagen and the Kopenhagen Art Institute in collaboration with the 50 of the city's galleries and museums. I knocked off two on that list today — the National Gallery of Denmark and Andersen’s Contemporary — which means I should reasonably be able to anticipating viewing the other 48 over the next two days. Just try to keep up with my updates on twitter!

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