December 2010
17 posts
PRESS PLAY. duh.
“Everybody dies but that is good because if they didn’t the world would be so cluttered. Art is here so that everything could become more beautiful and more subtle. So let’s enjoy this moment now; that’s what life is all about!” (Applause by drunk crowd.) “And that’s what art is all about.” (More applause by drunk crowd.) “Life is real. We are here now to make life more beautiful.”
— Jonas...
charels is in dubai
and i’m receiving emails for him while he is gone.
P·P·O·W and The Estate of David Wojnarowicz disagree with the Smithsonian’s decision to withdraw the artist’s 1987 video piece “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition entitled “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” P·P·O·W has represented Wojnarowicz’s work since 1988 and maintained a close working relationship with the artist until his death in...
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“Midway through the conversation, a Y representative handed Ms. Solomon a note asking her to talk more about Mr. Martin’s career and, implicitly, less about the art world…”
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As theWashington Post reports, Amazon has been charging Kindle users to download books, which are in the public domain, that could easily and legally be downloaded elsewhere free of charge and in almost identical formats.
“The titles in question aren’t just public-domain books that have long been freely available at such sites as Project Gutenberg,” writes the Washington...
Somalis in Twin Cities Shaken by Charges of Sex Trafficking
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“When they first mentioned prostitution, I thought I would go crazy,” Yumi told me. “I was thinking, ‘how can this happen to someone like me who is college-educated?’ ” Her voice trailed off, and she added: “I wanted to die.”
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New York is believed to be a major U.S. entry point for human smugglers, although...
4/10 of the worlds fastest growing cities are in...
Prepared by the Brookings Institution and the London School of Economics, the Global MetroMonitor ranked 150 world cities, according to growth in gross value added per person (a proxy for income) and employment. With income growth of 5.5 percent and employment growth of 7.3 percent over the past year, Istanbul topped the chart. But with four cities nestled firmly in the top ten, China is...
Art’s Survivors of Hitler’s War.
In January workers digging for a new subway station near City Hall (in Berlin) unearthed a bronze bust of a woman, rusted, filthy and almost unrecognizable. It tumbled off the shovel of their front-loader.
Researchers learned the bust was a portrait by Edwin Scharff, a nearly forgotten German modernist, from around 1920. It seemed anomalous until August, when more sculpture emerged nearby:...