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Informant in Utah Artifacts Case Kills Self
Ted Gardiner Commits Suicide in Holladay
Reports have emerged this month about the suicide of Ted Gardiner in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the federal informant in the case that has accused 20 Mormons of trafficking in archeology artifacts.
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Denver Post: Biennial in Good Hands
Denver Biennial is in good hands according to Kyle McMillan at the Denver Post. Those hands belong to Paola Santoscoy, a 35- year old curator and writer from Mexico.
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Colorado Bands At SxSW
The sheer scope of this music at SxSW is overwhelming on paper and deer-in-the-headlights making in person. It's like Daytona Spring Break at a mixer with NAMM.Read More >>
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Tino Sehgal Activates the Guggenheim
The Museum As Street
At 50 this year, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue continues to inspire art and acts. Read More >>
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The Whitney Biennial's Controversial Snapshot
Lorraine O'Grady and Michael Jackson
The room Francesco Bonami calls a "snapshot" of his Whitney Biennial is the new target for an appropriation kerfluffle in which a 1993 magazine portrait of Michael Jackson made it into Lorraine O'Grady's diptychs.Read More >>
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"O Rose - On Finding Harryette Mullen"
Voice Project by X
The artist X performs a song. ©X Baczewska.Read More >>
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Ansel Adams Mural Project
Epic landscapes at Interior
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar unveils completed Ansel Adams mural project begun in 1941 by former Interior secretary Harold Ickes.Read More >>film & tv
RIP Howard Zinn, Wake Up Progressives
"Think for yourself. Don't believe what the people up there tell you," Howard Zinn said. "Don't depend on saviors or the founding fathers or our leaders to do what must be done." Leanne Goebel contemplates Zinn's death and what his message means for American progressives today.Read More >>other links
