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Eliason Ollies

October 7, 2009 – 4:05 pm

Luc Tuymans, Still Life, 2002, oil on canvas, 136 1/2×197”. Photo: Felix Tirry.Artwork by Jasper Johns and Susan Rothenberg has been selected by Michelle Obama to hang in the White House (via Washington Post). Olafur Eliasson has collaborated with Mekanism to create a skate deck. Rosanne Cash‘s new album The List has just been released. The Gagosian Gallery will hold the most comprehensive look at Roni Horn‘s work to date from Nov. 6 to Jan. 24. Francine Prose examines the literary genius of Anne Frank in her new book (review via NY Times). Michael Ondaatje is adapting his latest novel Divasadero for the stage, it will run Nov. 6 to Nov. 8 at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille. The Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus is holding the first US retrospective of the Belgian artist Luc Tuymans. Julia Wolfe will play le poisson rouge (Oct. 21) as part of CMJ.

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Odds & Extras

September 25, 2009 – 11:08 am

Miranda July poses as extras from classic movies for VICE. Miranda July poses as extras from classic movies for VICE. Brooklyn is musical this evening: Anthony Coleman performs at IBEAM in Gowanus, and Totopos plays a rare Julius Hemphill suite in Williamsburg. Saturday is cinematic, as BAM shows Juliette Binoche’s Michael Haneke films. Maya Lin‘s new Museum of Chinese in America opened this week. Kevin Spacey now stars in the Old Vic’s Inherit the Wind in London. Joyce Carol Oates and Haruki Murakami are both 9/1 to win the Nobel. Alternatively take Michael Ondaatje at 50/1, Peter Carey at 66/1, Salman Rushdie at 80/1, or Paul Auster at 100/1. Lily Allen is quitting music to star in Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty.

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