January 2012
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Jacques Derrida Essay Collection (for download) →
Between aaaaarg.org and all the books and essays I can find on the internet, I may soon never leave my house again. From the father of differed signification (meaning that references (signifiers) always refer to (point to) a chain of meanings rather than a singular, definite one), here is a mighty collection of essays. I think too often we only read “the most important” essay(s),...
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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“An interview with curator Ruth Erickson on her recent project...”
– From Brooklin (1973) to Brooklyn (2011): An interview with curator Ruth Erickson, Temporary Art Review
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Falsified evidence, or "POSSIBLE ACTIONS TO... →
Another winning post from lettersofnote. This time about US plots in 1962 to defame the three c’s: Cuba, Castro, and Communism. Many of the plots included fabricating evidence. “Operation Good Times” consisted of creating a photographs of an obese Castro with “two beauties” in an opulent domestic scene with the phrase “My ration is different” and...
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March 2010
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Museum Guards--Dissertation Topic #2
After the Younger than Jesus show last summer at the New Museum (good installation photos here), I became interested in artists working with or performing as museum guards. Three works inspired the interest, and I even considered it as a dissertation topic—taking a longer viewer and institutional histories of museum guards. Maybe I should be in anthropology or sociology.
First, there was...
February 2010
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Perpetual Peace Project | Drafting the... →
Rad intellectual/activist/cultural/diplomatic effort about peace and institutional complicity spearheaded by friends of Slought Foundation, PA.
January 2010
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Unhappy Hipsters →
witty narration for contemporary design photographs.
December 2009
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November 2009
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Top Twenty Most Powerless People in the Art World →
thought it was a most powerful list until #5
August 2009
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Art and Fitness (or, How I am feeling these days)
Even beyond the references to “museum fatigue,” a condition that even the most diehard art historian has endured, what makes Karine Marenne’s photographs so humorous is the insurrection of base, physical exercise into the sphere of cerebral and sanctified culture. This occurs, however, with increased regularity as art museums turn their shiny wooden floors over to yoga...
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brklyn photographer (courtesy mt. sinai medicine)
I like this guy’s photography; very everyday in the way that makes you want to look closer at your surroundings, which is a new goal of mine.
(Noah Kalina)
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l'Atelier Populaire
In the process of finding my dissertation topic (and thus myself… ha ha) this summer, I have come across some amazing things. I am writing about art collectives in France in the decade following the massive 1968 protests (wikipedia is actually pretty good on this), but I will spare you more details now since you are going to be reading about this topic (along with me) for the next four...
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Weekend art agenda for NYC: graffiti and European...
I am looking forward to checking out this new mural by Brazillian street artist group Os Gêmeos on the corner of Bowery and Houston in NYC this coming weekend. Check out the NYT slide show here and Roberta Smith’s story.
(images by Justin Maxon of the NYT)
Also, on the art agenda will be the MOMA’s “In and Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art,” which...
Artists make wishes come true. →
In researching Gregory Sholette, whose work on collectivism I adore, I stumbled across this new project of his: Institute for Wishful Thinking, a collective that grants wishes to organizations. They write, “We offer our assistance in the form of three wishes and we ask you to formulate them as follows: one practical, one outrageous and one secret.” And promise to make one come true.
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