txt: UBS Openings - The Long Weekend 2008
UBS Openings: The Long Weekend brings you three days and nights of extraordinary live events and performances at Tate Modern.
During the day, the gallery will be buzzing with performances to watch and opportunities to get involved, themed around the States of Flux Collection display, which [...]
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txt: Urban contemporary - INTOXICATED DEMONS GALLERY
Is “urban contemporary art” just another modern term for selling products to the suburban youth? Does it explain the different way of living in the city instead of growing up in the country? Nevertheless, we’re not an encyclopedia spending time on scientific explanations. We would like to show [...]
txt: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - By Clay Shirky
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing– there were gin pushcarts working their [...]
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Vanessa Beecroft
Marina Abramovic
Maureen Fleming
video: Vanessa Beecroft - “VB55″ (1 Of 2) - see also “VB55″ (2 Of 2)
video: Marina Abramovic
video: Maureen Fleming - Mother and Child excerpt
txt: The Smiling Professor - New York Times By CLAUDIA DREIFUS - Published: April 22, 2008
At Harvard, the social psychologist Daniel Gilbert is known as Professor Happiness.
Q. AS THE AUTHOR OF A BEST SELLER ABOUT HAPPINESS, DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE ON HOW PEOPLE CAN ACHIEVE IT?
A. I’m not Dr. Phil.
We know that the best [...]
txt: FUTURO PRESENTE - Art and new technologies
Art and creativity in relationship to the new technologies is the theme of the IV edition of Futuro Presente, the festival that transforms Rovereto and Trentino into a privileged stage from which to view the people and realities of special significance for contemporary culture. The last three [...]
txt: Walter Benjamin (1936) - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; - Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005.
The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize [...]
txt: Il museo veste Prada - Espresso on line
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Ms. Prada, have you bet on the future of Milan?
I’ll be honest: it was my husband who insisted about. I have thought a lot to New York and London, and Venice, because of synergies with the Biennale. In the end we [...]
txt: “Wooster’s How To..,.” #12 - Blek Le Rat’s How to Survive in the Graffiti World Without Selling Your Soul
First of all: Before starting a career as a graffiti artist you have to make sure to have another income than your art to live for over a long period of time and maybe even for [...]
txt: Biennale Art 52nd International Art Exhibition
The 52nd Exhibition also features another new initiative emblematic of the spirit with which the Biennale relates to the international art world. During the course of 2006, the Organisational Division of the Biennale di Venezia initiated a forward-looking dialogue with Art 38 Basel, documenta 12, skulptur projekte [...]
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txt: To the trained eye, museum pieces lurk everywhere - International Herald Tribune
Marc Schiller, co-founder of the Wooster Collective Web site, which exhibits photos of the best street art in the world, knows most people look straight past street art until they start looking for it. “Once you give them a doorway,” he said, [...]
txt: Who’s your city? by Richard Florida
How the Creative Economy is Making the Place Where You Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life.
It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where you live doesn’t matter: you can telecommute to your high-tech Silicon Valley job, a ski-slope in Idaho, a beach in Hawaii or [...]
