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The Venice Factory

May 11, 2008 – 14:47

Gondolas full of tourists. In the background the renovation works’ scaffolding of the Punta della Dogana de Mar (also known as Punta della Salute). Project: architect Tadao Ando, $$ François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi.
img: The Venice Factory - oddtag on flickr.com

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Creating a World Without Poverty

May 6, 2008 – 20:21

txt: Creating a World Without Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
Three themes are central to this book.
The first is poverty—its causes and cure. I will show that poverty is created by economic, social, and political systems, and by false ideas—not by the laziness, ignorance, or moral failings of the poor.
The second theme is the role of women [...]

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Where is art?

April 24, 2008 – 20:35

txt: Art 38 Basel - Public Art Projects - on www.kopenhagen.dk
On Messeplatz in front of the Art Basel fair, visitor’s can witness nine public art projects. The nine works are each very different and show a wide range of artistic techniques, interests and fabrics. From Wim Delvoye’s amazing and monumental reconstruction of a big trailer [...]

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Intolerable Beauty

April 23, 2008 – 16:08

txt: Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption - Chris Jordan on www.chrisjordan.com
Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, [...]

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