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links for 2008-02-13

• Cornelia Parker on her new film, Noam Chomsky, and how art might save the planet (guardian.co.uk Arts)
  “Cornelia Parker’s work has always drawn on a sense of disaster. In her new film, she talks to Noam Chomsky about how art might save the planet.”
  (tags: Noam.Chomsky Cornelia.Parker environment)
• Ship out of luck (National Post)
  “The Canadian Conservation Institute. . .announced the cancellation of [Exhibit Transportation Services] last April. . . After March 31, art galleries will be forced to switch to private companies to ship art.”
  (tags: Canada art.shipping cultural.heritage)
• Eager to Get Busy at the Phillips (washingtonpost.com)
  “Kosinski [incoming director of the Phillips Collection] is charged with reengaging the Phillips with work by living artists — much of which, today, is geared toward countering precisely the sleek, modernist aesthetic the museum’s founded on.”
  (tags: Blake.Gopnik Dorothy.Kosinski Phillips.Collection directors article)
• Trevor Paglen’s talk at Transmediale (we make money not art)
  Trevor “Paglen works at the border of art and research. [...] His artistic work deliberately blurs the lines between social science, contemporary art, and other more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to
  (tags: Trevor.Paglen geography political.art activism artist surveillance)
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Assistant (The Brooklyn Rail)
  “Behind every great artist there is an assistant. Or more accurately, behind the artists most often called “great” there are two, or twenty, or enough for a full-time accountant.” (via Art Fag City)
  (tags: artist.assistants art.market art.education article humor)

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