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Veken has been pushing me to do this but I haven’t figured out what to do with it yet…can’t wait to see what Paddy does.
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English Kills has a new website & it’s definitely quirky.
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“Seeing coffin draped caskets may make us all feel uncomfortable. But sometimes that’s what good photography is supposed to do. It’s supposed to make you feel uncomfortable.”
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I think I’m the only person who actually likes Berkeley’s new dog run sculptures…guess so.
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Some interesting thoughts about some “lost opportunities” on Twitter.
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“In celebration of Black History Month, a Mississippi grade school was going to have a cotton picking day. And to make it worse…students…were going to actually dress as slaves.”
Btw…the school is predominantly black.
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A short video of this lovely little installation.
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A fraction of the Library of Congress’ collections are digitized and publicly available on the Internet and that amounts to 74 terabytes…but that’s just the tip of the iceberg…
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Clooney didn’t make the cut for Fairey’s iconic Obama poster…poor George. {via ArtFagCity}
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Since Foster became a Swiss resident to avoid British taxes, the Brits told the starchitect (isn’t that a dirty word now?) you are no longer a Lord! {via Archinect}
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The graff-er takes on the big G. {via Wooster Collective}
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Kienholz’s backroom abortion don’t need no explainin’…it’s nice when museums get it (yes, I’m looking disapprovingly at you SFMOMA)
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“Unbounded” showcases recent art acquisitions created over the past 15 years by 40 artists from Africa, America, Asia and Europe.
The Museum’s definition of “contemporary art” is broad and inclusive, encompassing painting, sculpture, ceramics, fashion, jewelry, textiles, photography and new media.
Artists represented include a healthy mix of established and emerging names…including: Sandy Benjamin-Hannibal, Dawoud Bey, Jim Campbell, Chunghie Lee, Willie Cole, Victor Ekpuk, Dahlia Elsayed, Arline Fisch, Samuel Fosso, Hong Zhu An, Pieter Hugo, William Kentridge, Sun Wuk Kim, Lu Jian Xing, Rossinah Maepa, Magdalene Odundo, Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah, Grayson Perry, Martin Puryear, Damien Repucci, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Lorna Simpson, Vivan Sundaram, Bill Viola, and Sue Williamson.
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One of my fav activist groups, Code Pink, has started posting news of the Gaza War on their blog. These links to very informative articles is definitely worth a gander…and I love the blog’s tagline: “The political is personal.”
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