With Rob Pruitt’s sleek monument to Andy Warhol recently unveiled in Union Square and Sol Lewitt’s modular structures being installed in City Hall Park (both installations are presented by New York’s Public Art Fund), we’ve been contemplating innovative art that’s accessible outside the traditional context of museums and galleries. In the coming weeks as you take to city streets, benches, park lawns, (and garages!) keep an eye out for what’s going up around you. That skeletal advertising billboard may not be an actual advertising billboard but one of three works by artist Kim Beck. In celebration of Beck, Lewitt, Pruitt and other artists whose work is on public display this spring, take a virtual road trip with us from New York to Seattle to explore some of the most exciting works, both recently unveiled or well-renowned, in some Flavorpill cities.
1. Watch Thom Yorke perform three new solo songs during a benefit show for the UK’s Green Party last night. [via Pitchfork]
2. After he had been missing for over a week, actor Andrew Koenig (Richard “Boner” Stabone on Growing Pains) was found dead yesterday in a Vancouver park. [via CNN]
3. The ever-growing cast of the Farrelly Brothers’ upcoming comedy Hall Pass now includes Christina Applegate, Alyssa Milano, Owen Wilson, Jason Sudeikis, Jenna Fischer, Amanda Bynes, Stephen Merchant, J.B. Smoove, Nicky Whelan, Derek Waters, Larry Campbell, and Vanessa Angel. But will it be funnier than Valentine’s Day? [via Vulture]
4. Yesterday President Obama awarded the National Medal of Arts to 12 recipients including Bob Dylan, Clint Eastwood, Maya Lin, and Milton Glaser. [via LAT]
5. Is ABC’s Modern Family the new face of network-television family comedy? [via WSJ]
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“The shape is the object,” critic Michael Fried once wrote. “At any rate, what secures the wholeness of the object is the singleness of the shape.” This line evokes Maya Lin‘s stunning Vietnam Memorial (she won the commission when she was 21!), the work for which she is best known. There, residing firmly in the shadow of Daniel Chester French’s iconic Lincoln, Lin’s haunting granite work alters the landscape and, consequently, highlights visitors’ collective kinesthesia. Its singleness of shape is the anti-obelisk; it makes you want to drop to your knees in contrition rather than stand in solace. Read More »
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