November 2011
16 posts
October 2011
14 posts
Occupy Museums returns to MoMA and is joined by...
This Thursday 10/27/11
Meet at 2:30 PM, Liberty Square, for an information-sharing assembly.
Or meet at 4:00 PM at MoMA.
We will be joined by the Art Handler’s Union, Teamsters Local 814, who have been locked out of their Sotheby’s union jobs for over three months now. Following Occupy Museums, we will march to the Teamsters’ picket line at the Sotheby’s evening auction, which starts at...
The Deal With Occupy Wall Street.
…Since then it’s been all clamor: MoMA’s always been a play thing for the rich, how’s this gonna change it? Have “voices of dissent” actually been silenced by BIG money? And my favorite: Why aren’t they targeting something else? (Libraries were tabled at Gothamist, Chelseagalleries and Sotheby’s everywhere else).
These are all reasonable questions, but they respond to a single artist’s...
Art Fag City's Reid Singer Interviews David...
GOTH, GLASGOW, AND GALLERIES
RS: A lot of my favorite drawings of yours have something to do with death, graveyards, etc. There’s got to be something virile and attractive and sexy about being really into death, maybe even doing things that might be perceived as goth, like Ian Curtis. Did you ever draw with the idea that people are going to be impressed by how dark you were?
DS: No. Well, it’s...
Occupy Museums! Speaking out in front of the...
The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite. For the...
2003 interview with the 2channel founder Nishimura with Japan Media Review Q: Why did you decide to use perfect anonymity, not even requiring a user name?A: Because delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only...
KYLE CHAYKA: Things I Learned About Ryder Ripps... →
kchayka:
A few things gleaned from Paddy Johnson’s profile of Internet art star Ryder Ripps for Print magazine:
The only way to succeed on the interwebs is “honesty.”
Ripps has “two Tumblr and three Twitter accounts,” which somehow doesn’t seem like nearly enough.
He feels the emotional pull of Monster Energy advertising (who can deny those claw marks?) and is obsessed with “pubescent...
September 2011
10 posts
The Definition of Context Collapse
“…an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time. The little glass lens becomes the gateway to a blackhole sucking all of time and space – virtually all possible contexts –...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new website. →
veken:
Not as sexy and dynamic as MOMA’s, but it’s simple, straightforward and worth checking out.
And since I can’t ever find what I need on MoMA, that’s a good thing.
