txt: Walter Benjamin – The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
“Fiat ars – pereat mundus”, says Fascism, and, as Marinetti admits, expects war to supply the artistic gratification of a sense perception that has been changed by technology. This is evidently the consummation of “l’art pour l’art.” Mankind, which in Homer’s time [...]
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Out There: Architecture Beyond Building 11th Venice International Architecture Exhibition
- Jacaranda blooms as Venice swoons – www.theaustralian.news.com.au a lot of very strong ideas here and the crossover between artists and architects
- Venice Biennale: The highlights – www.bdonline.co.uk: first you enter a room that describes personal loss, then on to the garden, which is about you [...]
[txt] Letter From Venice Off-Season: Art between the Biennials – brooklynrail.org
However, this also happens to be a summer season when there is no biennial—at least, no biennial of contemporary art. The architectural biennial and the film fest—both under the aegis of the Biennale di Venezia—will make their quixotic appearances in September, when the weather has [...]
[txt] Room 116 – Banksy
The thing I hate most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so [...]
txt: Venezia, aperto nella notte il ponte di Calatrava/Venice, opened in the night the Calatrava bridge
Una vera e propria opera d’arte contemporanea, la prima di una serie che in citta’ ha diversi cantieri aperti: quelli di Punta delle Dogana con il progetto di Tadao Ando, le Gallerie dell’Accademia con Tobia Scarpa, il nuovo Palazzo del [...]
txt: And then Peggy arrived – 1948-2008: 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice
To celebrate 60 years of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the museum offers a calendar of activities to supplement the temporary exhibitions. There will be lectures, free guided visits to exhibitions, a movie program during the summer, educational workshops. [...]
txt: An Interview with Maurizio Cattelan – www.sculpture.org
Maurizio Cattelan: It feels strange to talk about sculptures. It’s not so much a question of means as of images. I never even use my hands to create my work, just my ear glued to the phone. More than anything else, I listen to the murmur of images, [...]
txt: All the fun of the art fair – From The TimesOnLine
There is not much difference between an art fair and a fun fair. Behind the gaily painted façades and the smiles of the stallholders they are both, fundamentally, all about money. [...]
Frieze has become a phenomenon because it understands a basic principle. Art [...]
txt: OPEN XI – 11 Esposizione Internazionale di Sculture ed Installazioni
/ OPEN XI, International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations – from 27 August to 28 September 2008 at Venice Lido and on the Island of San Servolo.
Il percorso espositivo si snoda lungo i lavori di quarantaquattro artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo per [...]
txt: I precari dell’arte – VENEZIA Mostre ma anche progetti sul mondo del lavoro agli ex magazzini del Sale – www.ilmanifesto.it
Dobbiamo ricordare – dice a questo proposito Baravalle – che tutto quello che è produzione immateriale, produzione di linguaggi e quindi anche la produzione culturale e creatività non sono più accessori nell’economia metropolitana ma sono [...]
