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Artist Sophie Calle’s Here Lie The Secrets of the Visitors of the Green-Wood Cemetery, a 25 year long public artwork. The project debuted on April 29th and 30th, 2017.

From Creative Time’s website-

To inaugurate the project, the public was invited to Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to privately unburden and inter their most intimate confessions.

During the two-day opening, in a setting nestled among the mausoleums and monuments of Green-Wood’s verdant rolling hills, visitors transcribed their secrets onto paper, and deposited them into the earth below, through a slot on a marble obelisk of Calle’s design. The artist was on hand during the two-day event to receive some visitors’ secrets.

The two-day performance was free and open to the public. Guests were invited to spend the day exploring the sculptures and monuments throughout Green-Wood, a tradition that dates back to the early 1800s. Free maps of the cemetery, specially designed to accompany Calle’s installation, were be available. Guided walking tours emphasizing the cemetery’s symbols and iconography were offered at no cost.

Visitors to the Cemetery can now see Calle’s installation during regular cemetery hours and independently deposit secrets into the marble obelisk. Calle has also pledged to return periodically over the next 25 years, each time the grave is filled, to exhume and cremate them in a ceremonial bonfire service and moment of remembrance.

Everyone has a secret to tell, now there’s a place to put one of yours.

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THE LAST PICTURES - A SPACE-BOUND PORTRAIT OF HUMANITY Since NASA’s 1963 launch of “Syncom 2,” the first geosynchronous communications satellite, humans have been slowly constructing a ring around our home planet. Unlike the dust and ice around Saturn, our ring consists of machines. Of more than 800 geosynchronous satellites that have been launched, many have been neglected or powered down once their purpose was served. Because of their altitude of 36,000 km, they will remain locked in orbit around the Earth until the Sun reaches its red giant stage and engulfs our home planet some 4.5 billion years from now. Artist and geographer Trevor Paglen believes these dead spacecraft to be humanity’s most enduring artifact.

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With his Pledges of Allegiance flag raised right now dozen locations across the country, Pedro Reyes has a message for the members of his People's United Nations.

"Hands On With A Vision" is on view at: Creative Time HQ; 21c Museum Hotel Durham; California College of the Arts; USF Contemporary Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; RISD Museum; KMAC Museum; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Texas State Galleries; The Commons, in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; The Union for Contemporary Art; and Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.

🎥 by César Martinez, Creative Time’s Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow

#public art #flag #flags #pedro reyes #united nations

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Congrats to our board member Robert Stilin, who was just named in Architectural Digest's #AD100 for his "elegant earthy aesthetic.”

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Vaginal Davis gave the keynote of our "Queer and Now" section at least year's Creative Time Summit, and now she's part of one of the most comprehensive exhibits on gender and queerness the art world has seen! Here's the keynote, and stop by the New Museum soon to see her work in "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon."

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We're proud to bring the 2018 Creative Time Summit to Miami, co-presented with Art in Public Places of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and made possible by a generous grant from John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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As he prepares to launch a sculpture into low earth orbit, The Guardian visited Trevor Paglen at his home studio.

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“My first experience with Creative Time was inadvertent. September 11th was my first day of high school. My first fall home from college, I saw Tribute in Light, and I started crying, because it reminded me of the city that was changed so vastly on that day. I think what keeps me excited about Creative Time is the grand scale and wild imagination that accompany each one of the projects. But it's also the impacts. It's that moment on the hill at Sophie Calle when you get to see two strangers look at each other as they're writing some of their deepest darkest secrets down. And the fact that we produce projects that bring people together to have these kind of really special moments is beautiful.” - Ashley Artis, Programming and Engagement Manager at Creative Time

Join Ashley in supporting Creative Time. From gifting a membership, renewing your own, or making a tax deducible gift, there are many ways to give: http://creativetime.org/support/

Video by César Martinez, Creative Time’s Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow.

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Today we’re celebrating moments of cooperation big and small with "Fly Together" by Ann Hamilton, the latest flag for Pledges of Allegiance. "Fly Together" was raised this week at a dozen locations nationwide.

Flags on view at: Creative Time HQ, 21c Museum Hotel Durham, USF Contemporary Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - MOCAD; RISD Museum; KMAC Museum; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Ferrovia Studios; Texas State Galleries; The Commons, in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas; The Union for Contemporary Art; and Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.

🎥 by César Martinez, Creative Time’s Leonhardt Cassullo Video Fellow

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"The work is difficult because the history is hard. But don't you want to see it?" - Kara Walker speaking to Antwaun Sargent about A Subtlety, our 2014 project with Walker.

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Mel Chin, who spoke about his work in Flint at our last In Situ event, is turning the city's plastic bottles into high fashion. The Flint Fit line arrives next spring.

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Who misses the art exhibitions and parties we used to throw in the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge? This is Drunken Madness, Station House Opera's installation at the very first Art in the Anchorage exhibition, back in 1983.

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We’re proudly raising "IMAGINE PEACE" by Yoko Ono, the latest flag in our Pledges of Allegiance series. The flag is being hoisted in partnership with 10 cultural institutions & one city at 14 locations nationwide.

Flags on view at: Creative Time HQ, 21c Museum Hotels in Durham, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit - MOCAD, RISD Museum, KMAC Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ferrovia Studios, California College of the Arts, Texas State Galleries, the City of Bloomington, Indiana and The Commons, in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas.

🎥 by César Martinez

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Throwback Thursday: Anyone else been thinking a lot lately about Doomocracy, Pedro Reyes' house of political horrors? It was only last year that we brought Doomocracy to life at the Brooklyn Army Terminal.

Doom•oc•ra•cy (dü-ˈmä-krə-sē), n.1. A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in a tyrant by a terrified general electorate. 2. The esoteric arithmetic that makes the electoral process malleable. 3. A corporate coup d’état in slow motion. 4. Permanent global war waged in the name of freedom. 5. A house of political horrors at the Brooklyn Army Terminal from October 7 to November 6, 2016.

Photos by Will Star / Shooting Stars Pro

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The New Yorker gets to the heart of the unique collaboration between Sandra Gould Ford and LaToya Ruby Frazier, an upcoming Pledges of Allegiance artist.

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In 2004, we flew this banner over the Hudson as part of For New York City: Planes and Projections, our project with Jenny Holzer.

Holzer's truism is visible once again via Not Surprised. To the 5000+ signatories of Not Surprised, we stand with you, and admire your courage. Read their open letter here.

For New York City © 2004 Jenny Holzer, courtesy Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York. Photo by Charlie Samuels.

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