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Art and Authenticity: Betting on Poetry
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Art, Architecture, Aesthetics. Friday, July 4, 2008. And I get six months! Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. Not only do I get to read an intriguing work of literature, I get a delicious treat for my efforts. Am I attempting what's never been done! A pioneer of poetics! The back of the cover doesn't even mention the book, but instead includes some advertisements for other offerings by Paris Review. Posted by Joel Kaj Jensen. I think Eve owes you a cake, even if you don't make the 6 month deadline! But back to ...
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Bits: Trickle-Down Art, Fast's Drones, Sekula
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Bits: Trickle-Down Art, Fast's Drones, Sekula. Still from Omer Fast's 5,000 Feet is the Best,. 8226; Trickle-down theory- aka "Reaganomics," once derided as "voodoo economics" by George H.W. Bush- is what's behind the notion of selling off part of the Detroit Institute of Art's collection, writes Christopher Knight:. The claim of such a plan goes like this: Privatize a great art collection owned by the public, and the benefits will trickle down to the people. Will we fall for it again in Detroit? The Get...
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Bits: Godspeed, Pussy Riot, and Me
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Bits: Godspeed, Pussy Riot, and Me. Black Emperor. Photo T om Øverlie,NRK P3. 8226; The amazing (and reclusive) Montreal collective Godspeed You! Was awarded the Polaris Music Prize. Monday night for their album Allelujah! Holding a gala during a time of austerity and normalized decline is a weird thing to do. Organizing a gala just so musicians can compete against each other for a novelty-sized cheque doesn’t serve the cause of righteous music at all. Protesting inhumane conditions in the prison where s...
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Does Capitalism Work for Steve? Lambert Vows to Give Away ArtPrize Winnings
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Does Capitalism Work for Steve? Lambert Vows to Give Away ArtPrize Winnings. Seems like an apt venue for artist Steve Lambert's Capitalism Works for Me. Project. Arguably the art world's most populist high-profile event, the annual Grand Rapids–based festival allows visitors to vote on their favorites works, with winners in both juried and public-vote categories taking home anywhere from $20,000 to $200,000. But today—the day before ArtPrize winners are revealed— Lambert took to Twitter. As recipient of ...
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Ficciones Typografika: Erik Brandt's Neighborhood, Global, Back-Alley Design Show
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Erik Brandt's Neighborhood, Global, Back-Alley Design Show. James Dolence, Bryce Wilner, Zach Collins, Ficciones Typografika 019-021. Installed 07.04.13. Graphic designer and design blogger. S work has been celebrated around the world. A design professor. At the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and a member. Of the prestigious AGI. Alliance Graphique Internationale), his work has been featured in publications from Maurizio Cattelan's Charley. Magazine (UK) to designboom. Installed 06.16.13. Detail o...
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Low starts a meme: #replacecongresswith
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Low starts a meme: #replacecongresswith. Duluth slowcore trio Low. Launched a pre-government-shutdown meme. On Twitter Monday, suggesting that Congress be replaced by a “nice grouping of cheese.” Since then, dozens of other ideas - equally as absurd, but appropriate, given the irrationality of congressional tea partiers - surfaced, from an ore boat. To a biodegradable fork. To “ a lazy Boston terrier. 8221; Hashtag: #replacecongresswith. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Creator of Signifier, signed.
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Bits: Bromides, Tasered for Graffiti, Herzog's PSA
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Bits: Bromides, Tasered for Graffiti, Herzog's PSA. 8226; Miami Beach police tasered to death. 18-year-old artist and graffiti writer Israel Hernández-Llach early Tuesday morning. His crime: writing an R. That's as far as he got in writing his tag, "Reefa" - on the side of a shuttered McDonalds. “The officers were forced to use the Taser to avoid a physical incident," said the chief of police. 8226; Werner Herzog. Takes the dreaded driver-safety PSA into new territory with From One Minute to the Next.
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Funding, Politics, and ArtPrize: Key Reactions
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Funding, Politics, and ArtPrize: Key Reactions. Just hours to go until ArtPrize reveals its winners for 2014, and there's been a flurry of response to news. That finalist Steve Lambert will be donating his winnings. To a Grand Rapids–based LGBT organization. The most noteworthy:. Hrag Vartanian, an ArtPrize judge in Lambert's category and Hyperallergic. S Paddy Johnson, who was part of an ArtPrize panel on Grand Rapids TV. He includes this fact:. Another reason we welcome this development is Lambert̵...
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: On Kawara tweets: I AM STILL ALIVE
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On Kawara tweets: I AM STILL ALIVE. On the day he started it, and if he fails, he must destroy it. Fascinated by time, On Kawara also has been known to send telegraphs. And postcards to friends with the reassuring words, "I am still alive.". And his art is the proof of it.". We learn that On Kawara has been using Twitter. Since January 2009 to reiterate his existence. Just about every day he tweets "I AM STILL ALIVE #art" (occasionally he breaks form, like he did on April 29, 2009. Update 8.28.13:.
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Eyeteeth: Incisive ideas: Bits: León Ferrari, Trayvon's Hoodie, Youssef Abdelke
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Bits: León Ferrari, Trayvon's Hoodie, Youssef Abdelke. David Hammons, In the Hood. 8226; The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Now under construction in Washington and expected to open in 2015, hopes to acquire and present the hoodie worn by Trayvon Martin. The night he was killed. Director Lonnie Bunch - who has gathered civil rights touchstones from handcuffs used to restrain. Pool- who with his organization The Other 99% started Occupy Wall Street's livestream.
