October 2009
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WatchI present to you, the trailer for Sam Taylor Wood’s debut film Nowhere Boy
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Is this a Michelangelo? →
I don’t know much about this stuff but it’s interesting to read about the arguments of whether it is or not.
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President Medvedev speaks up for endangered... →
At the end of September, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev took up the cause of the country’s endangered architectural heritage during a government meeting, paying attention to the illegal destruction of nearly 2,500 listed buildings over the past decade. This was the first time a Russian leader has addressed this issue.
“More than half of the monuments need urgent renovation or mothballing,”...
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“Recently a lot of things have come together. We finished the definitive design...”
– Terry Riley on Resigning from the Miami Art Museum
There is a lot of hoopla surrounding his decision. I don’t particularly care. He wants to go back to being an architect, let him be an architect. That’s probably the best for everyone right? So he won’t be sitting in meetings...
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Want to open your own pop-up gallery?
It’s so easy with this little how-to from theartnewspaper.com:
The minimum budget required to put on a show, according to curator and organiser Katie Guggenheim, is zero—provided you can beg, steal or borrow a space. Guggenheim—a former art student who changed her name by deed-poll as an on-going work of art—has two shows on during Frieze week, both in artist-run spaces she has for free:...
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“Ed (Ruscha) has said California hasn’t influenced him one little bit, but I...”
– David Lynch
Panorama from the peak of Mt. Everest →
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Zombies have feelings about healthcare... →
And on an unrelated note, so did my cab driver Alex from this weekend.
via theangrygene
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New York Artist Wants Your Clothes →
NEW YORK—With the seasons changing, you may find yourself looking through your closet and wondering what exactly you were thinking when you bought that grape-juice-purple jumper last year.
Well, you may not want it anymore, but multidisciplinary artist MK Guth, who was featured in last year’s Whitney Biennial, does. From Nov. 10 to Dec. 18, the Portland, Oregon–based artist will be...
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
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NASA's official FAQ guide to 2012 and the planet... →
via danhacker
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“Rap (nor anything else) needs not necessarily be viewed in terms of origins or...”
– Das Racist’s rebuttal to the SFJ claim about rap being dead.
And this is why Das Racist is my favorite.
via raptoravatar
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