2.28.2009

Mapping the Muddle: "It's __________ to me."

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Strange Maps has a fascinating post about how different cultures fill in the blank of the expression we English speakers formulate as "...
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As US talks about boycotting racism conference, The Nuge calls Eric Holder a coward

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Conservative rocker Ted Nugent -- who once claimed to be a " bigger nigger " than Def Jam founder Russell Simmons -- is back, thi...

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel wiped out by Madoff

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Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel calls Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff "evil" and a "swindle...
2.27.2009

The Big Picture: Congo portraits

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Yet another remarkable edition of The Big Picture from the Boston Globe. Its Congo series includes the shot below of a war-displaced boy we...
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Bits: 02.27.09

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Work by Deuce Seven , who's showing at Minneapolis' SooVAC Mar. 13-Apr. 12 • Drawing inspiration from WWII conservation campaigns, t...
2.26.2009

Shuga: New record store coming to Northeast Minneapolis

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Amid the economic woes that are forcing retail stores and arts organizations alike to shut their doors, I'm excited to share some good n...
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Tom Fruin's drug-bag art

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Marveling at all the colors drug dealers used to package weed, heroin and crack, different from the clear baggies he noticed growing up in L...

The Coen Brothers spoof "clean coal"

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Twin Cities natives Joel and Ethan Coen have cut a commercial for The Reality Coalition lambasting the coal industry's dubious claims...

Bits: 02.26.09

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Pages from Artforum cut to the exact size of $100 bills and banded, by Scott Nedrelow • Artist Lawrence Swan : "Someone I know commen...

Art21: Where's all the rightwing street art?

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My latest at Art:21. Go... comment!
2.25.2009

Found: Princess Hijab's source material

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Reading more about guerrilla artist Princess Hijab , I recognized the source material for her "Hijab-Ad" series of wheat-pasted p...

@MnIndy: GOP state Rep. tells northside kids to "plug bullet holes" with wooden nickel

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One of the strangest stories I've reported , but with a glimmer of hope at the end.

Bits: 02.25.09

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Princess Hijab strikes! • Is culture jamming, the new Jihad ? Princess Hijab thinks so, " hijabizing " advertisements across Par...
2.24.2009

Art21: Chakkrit Chimnok's banana-leaf utopia

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Chakkrit Chimnok at a Chiang Mai Cafe. Photo: Paul Schmelzer My latest from Art21 : Chakkrit Chimnok dreams of a "banana world," ...

Bits: 02.24.09

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Modified MoMA ad showing an Andreas Gursky photo, via Artinfo . • Since Feb. 10, MoMA has been doing marketing blitzes in which they buy up ...
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2.23.2009

Seeds not revolution: My first Art21 post on art and social change

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Michael Rakowitz's paraSITE I'm guest blogging at PBS's Art21 blog this week on art and social change, and my first post lays ...

Bits: 02.23.09

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Yoram Wolberger 's Red Indian #4 (Spearman) via Artnet . • Antony Gormley, Jeremy Deller and others are protesting tightened visa rules...
2.22.2009

Bits: 02.22.09

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Photos from the Motherland: Mark Brautigam 's " On Wisconsin " series • Via Twitter , Glowlab contrasts Takashi Murakami'...

"On the side of the egg:" Haruki Murakami on Gaza

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Haruki Murakami via Wikipedia . Novelist Haruki Murakami accepted the Jerusalem Prize for literature last week, amid controversy over wheth...
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Atlantikwall: Paul Virilio and the experimental geography of war bunkers

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When he was 25, urbanist, art critic and political theorist Paul Virilio happened upon the Atlantikwall , a series of nearly 1,500 military...