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LINK + INK:  FIRST DAY OF AUTUMNAL EQUINOX 2016 EDITION

9/22/2016

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Murals are now in progress at Emergency Arts for the Life is Beautiful Festival, Fafi images of French sass are beginning to appear on Fremont. Shepard Fairey takes over the wall one shared by a collaboration by Sush Machida and Tim Bavington along 6th Street. Knowing his preferred color scheme Fairey's piece will be framed well by Jerry Misko's black mural on the lower wall.  It all makes for an artistic way to note September 22, the first day of fall.

​Here are some links from the week.

​"If I get this [silent] film saved I've earned my wings," said Jeffery Crouse at a Nevada State College summer screening of his documentary on “Little Mickey Grogan."  The Review Journal has more on the project. 

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"How did you choose the title 'This Time Around'?" LV Weekly asks artist Mikayla Whitmore. "It’s kind of referencing nostalgia, in the sense that everything is always changing. Las Vegas is always building and tearing down these facades,"  Whitmore ​says.  "This Time Around" will be on display 20 through October 7 at UNLV’s Marjorie Barrick Museum I Las Vegas Weekly

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​An 18-year-old Baylor University freshman is set to open her first art exhibit at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in October, reports KWTX.  The artist is Carter Agassi,  of Las Vegas,  the niece of tennis legend Andre Agassi. "Agassi painted faces of celebrities, most of whom are musicians, on wooden pallets." says the report.

'Your first look at the public art for Life is Beautiful 2016' so says the headline at the R-J.

"Can a city known more for spectacle than cultural substance ever have a major museum of its own?" 
City of Las Vegas will set aside up to 1.5 acres for The Art Museum at Symphony Park I 
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"For every woman who’s ever been asked to smile by a complete stranger, the focal point of Jennifer Henry’s Fêted exhibit might feel strikingly familiar" I Las Vegas Weekly​​

​"And in this wonderful city we call home, there are so many galleries displaying art by our fabulous talented artists. Downtown in The Arts District there are quite a few and in several other areas also. Google your interests, and I think you will find plenty,"  writes Carolyn Muse Grant, founder  of the Architectural & Decorative Arts Society I RJ

Art writers Jörg Colberg (Massachusetts) and Carolina Miranda (California) poked at #askacurator I  Hyperallergic

The National Medal of Arts recipients are Mel Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Morgan Freeman,  Philip Glass, Berry Gordy, Santiago Jiménez, Jr. , Moises Kaufman,  Ralph Lemon, Audra McDonald,  Luis Valdez and Jack Whitten I  ArtsGov

​British architect Thomas Heatherwick unveiled “Vessel" Hyperallergic I NYTimes story on "Vessel" uses the headline: "A $150 Million Stairway to Nowhere on the Far West Side" I Artsy was also terse"  'New York’s $150 Million Staircase Misses the Point of Public Art'

One of Haring's lesser-known murals in New York is threatened I NPR  ​

"A second video installation by Bill Viola has gone on display at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, featuring a modern retelling of the life of the Virgin Mary" I ArtInfo 

"The heads are a perfect illustration of the dual mission Mr. Marshall has been pursuing with a kind of holy fervor for almost 40 years now: building a sturdy bridge for figurative painting from the 15th century to ours, over treacherous spans of recent history that declared both figuration and painting to be finished — and at the same time trying to rewrite history itself." That's Randy Kennedy on Kerry James Marshall, whose retrospective opened in Chicago, will soon be in New York, then land in Los Angeles I NYTImes  

​FOUND OBJECTS: Holland Cotter on “Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Maintenance Art."  "Ms. Ukeles is probably most familiar for her nearly four-decade stint as official, though unsalaried, artist-in-residence with New York’s Department of Sanitation. " NYTimes I More on "Maintenance Art" at Art in America I​ Even more from Randy Kennedy at NYTimes.

​'Public Art by Björk, JR, and Yoko Ono Comes to Moscow' I Creators Project

ABOUT TIME: "101-year-old artist Carmen Herrera is finally getting the show the art world should have given her 40 or 50 years ago: a solo exhibition at a major museum in New York."  NYTime

'MoMA Will Make Thousands of Exhibition Images Available Online' I NYTime

Street artists, from Turkey, use anonymity to accentuate the message I Index on Censorship

'Paris Is Getting Its First Museum Dedicated to Street Art' I Conde Nast Traveler

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Anyone covering murals has to note Judy Baca, who just celebrated her 70th birthday. Theater scholar Luis Alfaro shares his eloquence. In part he writes:  "Judy has a hilarious sense of humor. Her enthusiasm for community empowerment is unmatched. Her support of artists and community is inspiring. I will always be grateful for the many projects she has supported me with personally, from hosting fundraisers to lending space to sharing her wisdom. "
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