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• Tuesday is the traditional day of rest for New York’s Museum of Modern Art, but not for long. Beginning May 1, 2013, the museum will open to the public seven days per week. MoMA’s move to a seven-day schedule on a year-round basis comes after some testing of the Tuesday opening waters during summer months and holiday periods. Look for the expanded schedule to bring in even more visitors. Since the 2004 reopening in its renovated and expanded building, MoMA’s annual attendance has nearly doubled—from approximately 1.5 million visitors per year to nearly 3 million.

• A forthcoming volume that’s likely to land on the MoMA store shelves is Sebastian Smee‘s look at friendship and rivalry among artists. The Boston Globe art critic and winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for criticism will focus on four pairs whose rivalries propelled them to greater achievements: Edgar Degas vs. Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso vs. Henri Matisse (OK, you saw that one coming), Jackson Pollock vs. Willem de Kooning, and Lucian Freud vs. Francis Bacon. The title is slated for publication next year by Random House. Smee’s freshly inked book deal was announced by Publishers Lunch.

• VICE knows tattoos. The punk zine turned media juggernaut returns to the ink-slinging trenches for a new season of Tattoo Age. The hit web series scours the globe to profile the artists behind the most beautiful and interesting tattooing trends. The latest line-up consists of London-based Valerie Vargas and her eye-catching “lady head” tats, the versatile (and American-trained) Mutsuo of Osaka, Japan, and Thom deVita, who started tattooing in New York City in the 60s (when tattooing was illegal in all five boroughs), synthesizing his environment into his tattoos and creating quite possibly the most unique inking style of all time. Here’s a taste of the season two debut:

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Fubiz a le plaisir de vous présenter l’Issue 15 de son programme hebdomadaire Fubiz TV. Au sommaire cette semaine, nous avons sélectionné le meilleur de l’actualité créative et nous avons rencontré le réalisateur français Maxime Bruneel. Une interview à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.

(Courtesy of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

Artist Uta Barth and photographer An-My Lê (pictured) are among this year’s MacArthur fellows, the annual mix of thinkers, writers, artists, geochemists, and pediatric neurosurgeons that are awarded $500,000 in no-strings-attached “genius grants” over five years. “These extraordinary individuals demonstrate the power of creativity,” said MacArthur President Robert Gallucci, in a press release issued today. “The MacArthur Fellowship is not only a recognition of their impressive past accomplishments but also, more importantly, an investment in their potential for the future. We believe in their creative instincts and hope the freedom the Fellowship provides will enable them to pursue unfettered their insights and ideas for the benefit of the world.” Other 2012 fellows include documentary filmmakers Laura Poitras and Natalia Almada, writer Junot Díaz, International Contemporary Ensemble founder and CEO Claire Chase, and Benoît Rolland, a master bow maker who is experimenting with new designs and materials to create violin, viola, and cello bows for the twenty-first century. Meet all 23 MacArthur fellows here.
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French artists Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus have converted an old house in France into a visitor centre by giving it a ghostly cloak of polystyrene and paint.

The building, which was formerly used as a prison house, a school and a funeral home, is located in the grounds of the Synagogue de Delme contemporary art centre, a gallery inside a 19th century synagogue.

Blocks of polystyrene create the chunky shapes on the facade, and are covered with resin and a layer of white paint.

The artists imagine the building as a ”ghost-house” and have named it Gue(ho)st House, in reference to the phrase invented by Marcel Duchamp “A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST”.

Above: photograph is by Marie Le Fort

“Duchamp’s wordplay ended up being a trigger, a base line for drawing up the project,” said Berdaguer and Péjus. “Guest is the common denominator, the sharing space that we imagined. Ghost is a metaphor, a phantasmagoria.”

The completion of the Gue(ho)st House marks the 20th anniversary of the arts centre and provides new reception spaces for visitors, as well as studios for resident artists.

Above: photograph is by Marie Le Fort

Other projects inspired by ghosts include a collection of laser-cut chairs and a series of mesh screens around a Tokyo house.

Photographs are by Olivier-Henri Dancy, apart from where otherwise stated.

Here’s some more information from the Synagogue de Delme contemporary art centre:

The art project and the context of the commission

Christophe Berdaguer and Marie Péjus are creating a remarkable work of architecture-sculpture in the area surrounding the Synagogue de Delme contemporary art centre: by enhancing the art centre’s visibility, by creating new reception spaces for visitors and artists, this work makes it possible to use the public space for new purposes.

The heart of the project is the transformation of an existing building that was once a prison, then a school and then a funeral home. Keeping this context in mind, the artists used the memory of the place and transformed the building into a ghost house, a veritable architectural phantasmagoria, which the title echoes. Gue(ho)st House borrows Marcel Duchamp’s wordplay: a Guest + A Host = A Ghost. This served as a trigger for the project, which offers an interface between hosts (art centre, commune) and guests (visitors, artists).

Berdaguer and Péjus are covering the original house in a white veil that drips onto the surrounding area and creates a living body, a moving form that looks to the past as well as to the future. As the spatial projection of a collective psyche, the house becomes not only a place of emotions, perceptions and memories, but also a great mediation tool for the art centre.

This public commission constitutes a major milestone in the history of the Synagogue de Delme, which has always presented itself as a place where artists can work and research, open to all members of the public, in a spirit of dialogue and proximity. In 2013 the art centre will be celebrating it’s 20th year of operation and will then be able to offer everyone a very a high quality experience.

Future uses

The ground floor of the building will contain a reception centre (for groups and schoolchildren, and for the art centre’s educational events), an information office and a documentation centre. The upper floor will be transformed into a studio that will occasionally provide accommodation to artists, students, interns and other art world professionals.

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In designing the Urban Green Council’s EBIE Awards, designer Mark Pernice aimed for something beautifully simplistic, familiar but progressive, of the earth but ethereal, and organic in material but not in aesthetic. The result is this captivating cube. Though each award has the exact same shape and construction, they appear different depending on the viewer’s perception. The bioresin material was chosen for its affordability, soft smoky aesthetic and color variance which will change each year.

Designer: Mark Pernice

EBIE Award Design from Mark Pernice on Vimeo.

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