October 2011
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Oct 31st
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Oct 31st
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Oct 29th
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Oct 28th
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Oct 28th
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Oct 26th
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Matt Momchilov's 'Seriously Naughty NSFW' Painting... →
“Recent CCA graduate Matt Momchilov opens a show at Unspeakable Projects (735 Tehama St) here in SF on Thursday, Oct 27th (6-9pm)… Actually, we’ve yet to check out Unspeakable Projects which, according to Google St. view, is a work/ live space near 9th and Howard streets here in SF. Check out a small sample of Matt’s great paintings. Everyone loves Regan! Put your balls...
Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Oct 25th
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Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries... →
“When dealing with suffering and death, photography acts as a kind of testimony, and it may seem crucial that images remain unaltered if we are to believe what they tell us. However, as Morris contends in the essay ‘The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock,’ the ‘altered’ photographs that Walker Evans took of Depression-era sharecroppers’ houses are somehow...
Oct 25th
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Oct 23rd
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Oct 23rd
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Oct 23rd
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Oct 21st
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Occupy Wall Street Joins Art Handlers’ Protest at... →
Excellent, yesterdays protest at the Sotheby’s corporate offices on York Avenue was enlivened by dozens of people from Occupy Wall Street, as the protesters joined the Sotheby’s art handlers in their efforts to get a fair agreement with the auction giant who pulls down billions in profits. Love the Sotheby’s client and Carrie Donovan lookalike who is worried because she can’t take her...
Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 21st
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Oct 20th
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The Work of Art in the Age of Googled Reproduction →
“One question that might arise is: Who would be the owner, the artist, the author of these Pergoogles (or whatever they are)? They encompass original works, remix spinoffs, spoofs, maybe even unrelated keyword-driven imagery. Is it an involuntary collaboration among all of the above? Or is Google the artist, creating bricolage with its algorithm?”
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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John Updike’s Homophobic Book Review →
David Haglund (Slate) revisits the controversy over John Updike’s homophobic review of Alan Hollinghurst’s novel The Spell. “Updike didn’t just express discomfort at the Hollinghurst’s precise, physically detailed observations about gay sex,” Haglund notes, “he actually wrote a kind of brief against gay love as a compelling novelistic subject.”
Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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Oct 20th
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