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Giusepe Penone, Spazio di Luce, 2013. Courtesy the artist; Le château de Versailles; domus. Photo: Tadzio

â–  Vancouver artist Geoffrey Farmer has won the Gershon Iskowitz Prize, consisting in a sum of $50,000 as well as a solo exhibition in February 2014 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto [cbc.ca]

â–  “Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980” was awarded an accolade for Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions from the Canadian Museums Association. Shown in five major cities across Canada between September 2010 and January 2013, Traffic was collectively curated by Michèle Thériault and Vincent Bonin (Montreal), Barbara Fischer (Toronto, London, Guelph), Jayne Wark (Halifax), Catherine Crowston (the Pariries + the Arctic) and Grant Arnold (Vancouver). [museums.ca]

■ Richard Serra’s “Shift” (1972) was finally confirmed for an indefinite heritage protection after a long lobbying battle within the township council for King City in Ontario, which officially voted for (although via a 5-2 split decision) the designation of the sculpture to a cultural heritage site. [ArtsBeat]
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“Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art” at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver


Erica Baum. Examined, 2009. Archival pigment print from the Dog Ear series, 9 x 9 inches. Courtesy the artist and Bureau, New York.

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art
12 October 2012 – 3 February 2013
at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Artists: Mark Amerika & Chad Mossholder, Carl Andre, Fiona Banner, Erica Baum, Derek Beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Jen Bervin, Jimbo Blachly & Lytle Shaw, Christian Bök, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Büchler, Luis Camnitzer, Ricardo Cuevas, Tim Davis & Robert Fitterman, Monica de la Torre, Craig Dworkin, Tim Etchells, Ryan Gander, Michelle Gay, Kenneth Goldsmith, Dan Graham, Alexandra Grant, James Hoff, Seth Kim-Cohen, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Tan Lin, Gareth Long, Michael Maranda, Helen Mirra, Jonathan Monk, Simon Morris, João Onofre, Michalis Pichler, Paolo Piscitelli, Vanessa Place, Kristina Lee Podesva, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Joe Scanlan, Dexter Sinister, Frances Stark, Joel Swanson, Nick Thurston, Triple Canopy, Andy Warhol, Darren Wershler, Eric Zboya.
Curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, Andrea Andersson

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art features the work of over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. Presenting works from the 1960s to the present, the exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, installation, video and works on paper that raise questions about how we read, look at, hear, and process language today. A major current underlying the exhibition argues that the field of literature known as “conceptual writing” can be seen as engaging in a provocative dialogue with the field of contemporary art, producing new insights into the meaning of both literature and art. [read the full text here]
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Opportunities: Triple Canopy’s 2013 open call for the expanding publication


Image courtesy of Triple Canopy, New York

Triple Canopy in New York has for the past five years worked to present compelling work online in ways that make innovative use of the Web. For the 2013 open call, Triple Canopy invites artists and writers to submit proposals for projects that may not find their primary realization on the Web, but which may ultimately be published in some form in their online magazine such as Print poster, Book or e-book, Public lecture or seminar, Performance, Reading, Screening and Exhibition.
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