January 2012
5 posts
TED Takes on SOPA: Why it Would Create a... →
TED has posted an “emergency” TED Talk called “Defend Our Freedom To Share (Or Why SOPA is a Bad Idea)” by Internet writer and NYU professor Clay Shirky. Shirky gave his address yesterday at the New York offices of TED, the company that produces a popular series of confere…
Into the Heart of Lightness →
Doug Wheeler, a founder of the so-called Light and Space movement, constructs his first Manhattan “infinity environment” at the David Zwirner gallery in Chelsea.
“Normally, the test of greatness in the arts is the ability to state deep feelings and perceptions simply, clearly, and well. Indeed, it may well be said that until a person can express a thought clearly and simply, he hasn’t yet fully understood it himself.”
— Swami Kriyananda, from the book Art as a Hidden Message
December 2011
7 posts
Poetry Daily Prose Feature - Dick Allen: On Zen... →
I think I finally *get* dance.
ArtCat - Williamsburg / Greenpoint / Bushwick -... →
This is so good. Every piece is so good.
Made in 1968, This ~10-minute film, Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames helps me get closer to understanding scale better than any verbal explanation.
This should probably be “required viewing” for any politician, journalist, financier, investor, etc. who tosses around huge numbers like “billion” or “trillion,” on a daily basis—for any reason at all.
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The Handbook of Visual Culture →
looks good
November 2011
20 posts
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES | Pink Saris →
The Stockholm Metro Amazing Artworks →
beautiful!
Einstein on the Beach →
Gorgeous landing page. Scintillating renewal of historical collaboration. I want to see this on a big screen.
Night swimming
80s weren’t so bad after all. REM and the rest of us—we had The Future. Unknown, harmless and full of hopes.
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys - Frist... →
see it!
"Jane Avril Has Left the Building" →
Rubberfish: Animation With A Twist
Event at Ferrin Gallery this Saturday: AUTHORS +... →
5 tags
ArtPlace →
What Dogs Want →
A Showpiece of Communal Living in Berlin →
Two architects and life partners create an elegant, six-story co-op with 10 apartment units in Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood.
Maria Duenas, The Time in Between. Gallery of... →
Most compelling media found on a website made to market a novel: black + white photos of the settings — like reading a novel: black words on white pages - it’s quiet — it doesn’t talk or make noise of moving pictures - perfect.
BBC - Free Thinking Festival, 2011, Words and... →
America needs a “BBC” (although the BBC has been stripped of funding, along with anything related to the Humanities. That discipline which at least half of America deems unworthy of funding: the Humanities, it’s what makes us human. Assuming our the wisest segment of our population is still alive after Congress strips Medicare and seniors head to Canadian border again in bus...
About Women, War & Peace | PBS →
ReImagine Rural: Rural Learning Center →
Herman Cain Controversy Underscores How Women Are... →
Ben Ripley: Photos of this Undescribed Opening... →
11/3/11 - Time: 5-7 p.m.
MCLA Gallery 51
Positions of Privilege
lareviewofbooks:
MATTHEW SPECKTOR on Joan Didion’s Blue Nights. Joan Didion © Ed Wexler The Los Angeles Review of Books gives its pages this week to discussions of Joan Didion on the occasion of her latest book, Blue Nights. Didion, an icon of literary L.A. despite living in New York much of her life, wrote in 1976 that “[t]o shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that...
October 2011
15 posts
The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World:... →
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The Printer's Error →
a poem about typographical errors by Aaron Fogel
Guernica / Chip Ward: Someone Got Rich, and... →
kitten_car_benefit | machine project →
Southern Exposure: FUTURE PLAN AND PROGRAM, Les... →
Words We Use | The Curb Center | Vanderbilt... →
in-ter-est-ing...
Capture the Flag - App... →
Great audio interview w/Marjane Satrapi on CBC... →
Marjane Satrapi is so appealing for her directness, openness, honesty and sense of humor. I admire her strong backbone; she sounds like she possesses courage at her core.
Rallies Across the Globe Protest Economic Policies →
Hundreds and in some cases thousands of people expressed discontent with the economy in Asia, the Americas and Europe.
Justice in Brooklyn [and Jami Attenberg's Schwinn... →
Darlingside - Billsville House Concert -... →
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 8:00 PM (ET)
thehandindreaming by jb →
Occupy Sesame Street Gets Violent | TAUNTR.COM →
"Smoke and Mirrors at the MFA," By Charles... →
September 2011
5 posts
9 tags
POV - StoryCorps Shorts: The Human Voice: Short... →
w/Studs Terkel