Newsletter #25 – September 2010 |
 Latitudes' temporary office, 'No Soul for Sale', Tate Modern. Photo: Latitudes |
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 Photo: New Museum / Dean Kaufman |
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Partner organisation in 'The Last Newspaper', 3rd, 4th and 5th gallery floors, New Museum, New York, 6 October 2010 – 9 January 2011
Exhibition co-curated by Richard Flood, Chief Curator of the New Museum, and Benjamin Godsill, Curatorial Associate
'The Last Newspaper' will be a hybrid exhibition
exploring how artists approach the news and how information is
produced, managed, recorded, re-ordered, and disseminated. Alongside the
exhibition, a number of partner organisations will use
on-site offices to present their research and stage public dialogues,
opening up the galleries as spaces of intellectual production as well as
display. (+ info...)
'THE LAST POST' / 'THE LAST GAZETTE' / 'THE LAST REGISTER'... will be an evolving-titled twelve-page free weekly newspaper and an incremental exhibition catalogue edited by Latitudes and produced and disseminated from the museum on a weekly basis for 10 weeks.
In part a programming and discussion space in itself, 'THE LAST POST'
/ 'THE LAST GAZETTE'... will be a document in formation companioning 'The Last Newspaper’s
exhibition and events, and a critical reflection on the wider agency of
art and artists with respect to the news. It is being conceived by a specially-assembled editorial team and contributors who are giving their time and skills pro bono. The published record of the enterprise will be bound at the conclusion to form a surrogate catalogue. (+ info...)
New Museum | 235 Bowery | New York, NY 10002 | United States | MAP |
 Some of the books selected for the library. Photo: Latitudes |
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Talk by Latitudes: Thursday 21st October, 7pm
In response to Midway Contemporary Art Library’s holdings of museum catalogues and books from publishing houses in Barcelona, Latitudes has assembled a counter-accession of around 50 self- and micro-published books and paper editions produced since 2005 by artists, designers, and curators based in Catalonia. (+ info...)
The publications will be displayed at Midway's Library throughout October–November 2010
before being absorbed into the library holdings. In addition to the
book acquisition, Latitudes invited Barcelona-based artists Mariona Moncunill, Gabriel Pericàs, Mireia C. Saladrigues and Oriol Vilanova to intervene in the library through a series of bookmarks which will be inserted into undisclosed publications throughout the library for unsuspecting readers to encounter.
Midway Contemporary Art | 527 Second Ave Southeast | 55414 Minneapolis, MN, United States | MAP |
 Film still from 'A Road Not Taken' (HD film, 66 min., 2010). Courtesy: the artists |
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