• Writers’ Rooms: The Guardian offers a fascinating glimpse of writers’ workspaces as described by the authors themselves in words and pictures: JG Ballard, Jonathan Safran Foer, Seamus Heaney, Hanif Kureishi, Picasso biographer John Richardson, and others. (Pictured: Geoff Dyer)
• Recycled Rose: Mircea Cantor, an artist in the forthcoming Walker show Brave New Worlds, has a simulated rose window called Rosace (made from crushed aluminum cans he found) in his solo show, now on view at Yvon Lambert New York.
• Other Brave New Worlders in the news: Lia and Dan Perjovschi have a retrospective up at the Nasher at Duke University (a cartoon by Dan, “Free,” above).
• Plethora of Piper: [Public] Curating points out the Adrian Piper Research Archives, a compendium of info on the artist’s work, life, philosophy, yoga practice, and letters to editors of books and periodicals, among other details. (Above, Piper photographed by Albert Landau.)
• Triangulating Need: The fascination of Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need, writes mnartists.org’s Ann Kleftstad is less in the “witty” stories the Walker film installation tells — ranging from Neanderthals to figure skating — “than in the loving and almost frenetic inventiveness of the movement and sound of the work.” MPR reports on how Sullivan uses out-of-synch subtitles and characters who speak a “strange primitive language” to “simultaneously try to draw viewers in, while also making them feel alienated.” The Star Tribune offers a third view, quoting Sullivan who calls the project an “imperfect apparatus” for interpreting the world.
• Happy Park(ing) Day: September 21 is PARK(ing) day, a day of reclaiming parking spots as… parks. Dubbed a global event but centered in San Francisco, the day will involve the temporary reclamation of parking spaces by sod- and lawnchair-toting artist/activists who take inspiration from Rebar’s project of the same name.