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Indy Museum of Art Becomes An Art Consultant

“Should a non-profit art museum hire out its curatorial staff as art consultants to a collector or a corporation? That question has emerged in the wake of the Indianapolis Museum of Art ‘leasing out’ its contemporary art curators as art consultants to a museum trustee’s business, a construction and real-estate firm called Buckingham Companies, for a reported $350,000 fee. IMA senior curator and contemporary art department chair Lisa Freiman selected 20 artists whose work Buckingham will purchase or commission for a hotel development in downtown Indianapolis.”

New Graphic Novel Documents Trial of 'Forbidden Art' Curators

“’Forbidden Art’ (Zapretnoye Iskusstvo), a 158-page documentary graphic novel published by Boomkniga Publishers in St. Petersburg earlier this month, deals with a situation in which the state and church joined forces to suppress dissent in present-day Russia. With drawings by artist Viktoria Lomasko and text written mostly by artist and former political journalist Anton Nikolayev, both from Moscow, the book documents the legal trial of the organizers of the ‘Forbidden Art 2006’ exhibition held at the Andrei Sakharov museum and community center in Moscow in 2008. The trial was brought by the Orthodox Christian nationalist movement Narodny Sobor (People’s Council)”

Kraftwerk Guest Editors of This Months Wallpaper Magazine - “The pioneers of electronic, man-machine music, Kraftwerk exploded into the hippy haze of the early 1970s and filled the air with an insistent machine-made beat that spoke of the future. Ahead of their time both musically and artistically, they’ve paved the way for a current generation of musicians and artists and influenced everyone from Thomas Demand and Andreas Gursky to cyclist David Millar and art director Neville Brody. Their guest editor slot features a new and exclusive portfolio of literally dimension-altering Kraftwerk imagery in 3D. See Kraftwerk’s specially developed multi-channel 3D video installation in the Kunstbau at the Lenbachhaus, Munich, 15 October to 13 November (www.lenbachhaus.de) and accompanying book, Kraftwerk – 3D.”

Kraftwerk Guest Editors of This Months Wallpaper Magazine - “The pioneers of electronic, man-machine music, Kraftwerk exploded into the hippy haze of the early 1970s and filled the air with an insistent machine-made beat that spoke of the future. Ahead of their time both musically and artistically, they’ve paved the way for a current generation of musicians and artists and influenced everyone from Thomas Demand and Andreas Gursky to cyclist David Millar and art director Neville Brody. Their guest editor slot features a new and exclusive portfolio of literally dimension-altering Kraftwerk imagery in 3D. See Kraftwerk’s specially developed multi-channel 3D video installation in the Kunstbau at the Lenbachhaus, Munich, 15 October to 13 November (www.lenbachhaus.de) and accompanying book, Kraftwerk – 3D.”