A Framed Picture of Toe Nail Polish Accidentally Spilled on a Carpet Next to a Picture Claiming That the Other Picture Isn’t Art, 2011
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Andrew B. Myers - Buyer’s remorse (2011).
Well. A trip to kobe is in order.
At the top of Mount Rokko (the mountain behind Kobe) for Rokko Meets Art, the highlight of which was the Himalayan-art-school-style cafe featuring the work of Patrick Tsai, Ume Kayo, and others.
Boris Raisin’s “Godzilla Does Right” (2011) via Hyperallergic and Rawfunction
The last 20 years have seen revolutions in technology that have transformed our lives. How have art and its institutions reacted?
In the Nostalgia District
Lauren Cornell is executive director of Rhizome and adjunct curator at the New Museum, New York, USA.
The 16 May 2011 issue of The New Yorker featured a cartoon titled ‘In the Nostalgia District’. It depicts a row of run-down buildings. Their facades read: ‘Joe’s FIX-IT shop’, ‘Photo Developing’, ‘Stationery Supplies’, ‘ACME Travel Agency’ and ‘Kwik Konnect Internet Cafe’, all businesses that have been replaced by online services. Yet their storefronts remain: whiplashed by a world that’s changed around them, sudden relics, out-of-sync but resolute. It struck me that there’s a connection between the ‘Nostalgia District’ and what we might call the ‘art district’, for both have experienced seismic technological change and have been reticent or slow to respond.
Essential reading! The follow-up piece by Kazys Varnelis, not so much.
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Morris Louis, Theta, 1961
I think I like this one better than the Aurel Schmidt one
Damn right you do.
Straight-up.
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»80:20«, 2011, mural on the facade of the Romanian Pavilion in Venice, by Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkácová.
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Boris Groys, Marx After Duchamp, or The Artist’s Two Bodies / Journal / e-flux
As masses of people have become well informed about advanced art production through biennials, triennials, Documentas, and related coverage, they have come to use media in the same way as artists. Contemporary means of communication and social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter offer global populations the ability to present their photos, videos, and texts in ways that cannot be distinguished from any post-Conceptualist artwork. And contemporary design offers the same populations a means of shaping and experiencing their apartments or workplaces as artistic installations …
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5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte (2011) - Manuel Palou
5 Million Dollars 1 Terrabyte (2011) is a sculpture consisting of a 1 TB Black External Hard Drive containing $5,000,000 worth of illegally downloaded files. A full list of the files with clickable download links can be found here.
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Movie - For The Damaged Right Eye (1969)1968 experimental film by Matsumoto Toshio
