March 2012
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Students Sue UC Davis Over Pepper-Spraying... →
After creating a visual riff on the incident, I’m happy to see UC Davis students file a federal lawsuit over the University’s treatment of protesters during a demonstration in which campus police doused seated protesters with pepper spray.
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“You are more awesome than a monkey wearing a tuxedo made out of bacon riding a...”
– 9 Yr. Old Child’s Thank you Letter to TV Weatherman
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Bjork, Modern Things & Art Forum Diary →
“BJÖRK GUÐMUNDSDÓTTIR, elfin pop savant and, with the recent release of her multimedia project Biophilia, Iceland’s leading iPad bore, may be a perky charmer, but her team is as chilly as their employer’s home. Asking this aloof trio whether photography was permitted at the singer-songwriter’s Thursday afternoon Armory Show Open Forum Panel with performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson (part of...
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Greg.Org On Olafur Eliasson →
“The thing is, everybody in Iceland has a monster truck. Or a big ol’ van with balloon tires and a four-foot lift kit. The country only got a paved road in like 1979 or whatever. But easily the coolest part of Jacob Jørgensen and Henrik Lundø’s 2010 documentary, Space is Process has to be the scenes where Olafur and his crew are traversing the Icelandic moonscape in a convoy of...
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Indy Museum of Art Becomes An Art Consultant →
“Should a non-profit art museum hire out its curatorial staff as art consultants to a collector or a corporation? That question has emerged in the wake of the Indianapolis Museum of Art ‘leasing out’ its contemporary art curators as art consultants to a museum trustee’s business, a construction and real-estate firm called Buckingham Companies, for a reported $350,000 fee. IMA senior curator...
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Gayborhoods: Intersections of Land Use Regulation,... →
“Article advocates the municipal encouragement and maintenance of diversity, specifically the inclusion of sexual minorities, through changes in the traditional application of the forms of land use regulation. Bringing together previously distinct conversations about the societal goals of land use planning and the social value placed on diversity by increasing numbers of consumer voters, the...
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The Speed Book By Aram Bartholl →
“Bartholl calls in question the idea of the artwork, mixing it with contemporary pop culture. Re-contextualizing digital markers into extraneous contexts and public spaces, he playfully destabilizes our confidences, surprising us with unusual, mind-blowing installations.”
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“The design instinct, above all, is about viewing the world around you as a place...”
– Sahil Lavingia, Pinterest’s founding designer shares his dead-simple design philosophy
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