5.03.2010

Bits: 05.03.10

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Bread and Puppet's Cheap Art Manifesto , 1984, via This Is A Map • California-based art fabricator Carlson & Co. -- known for projec...
5.02.2010

Alÿs on poetics and the potential for social change

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"Poetic license functions like a hiatus in the atrophy of a social, political, military or economic crisis. Through the gratuity or the...

Francis Alÿs on walking as resistance

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In 2005, Francis Alÿs walked through Jerusalem , recreating the original Green Line drawn on a map as as part of the armistice after the 194...
4.30.2010

Bits: 04.30.10

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Brock Davis, Feb. 16: Horse , 2009 • Minneapolis exhibition: Brock Davis: Make Something Cool Every Day , opens May 1 at Creative Electric S...
4.29.2010

Berlin street gets Pollocked

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Photos by Loso , used with permission Last Sunday, Berlin's Rosenthaler Platz was hit by a guerrilla paint splatterer : Gallons of pink,...
4.26.2010

No place like Noam: Chomsky street-art in Brooklyn

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Via Mike Hill on Facebook, two examples of Chomskyan street art in Greenpoint, Brooklyn: A repurposed Snickers ad in a subway station and a...
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4.23.2010

Alec Soth on MN Original's premier episode

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MN Original , Twin Cities Public Television's new arts show (funded by the State Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund), debuted last night wi...
4.22.2010

Bits: 04.22.10

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Penelope Umbrico's Img Collection #6: Universal Remotes , via i heart photograph • Thanks to a program begun in 1957, artists in Mexico...
4.19.2010

Ru Paul for prez

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Not very timely, but... timeless. Via Urban Prankster.
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4.15.2010

Photo: Giant Warhol-head piñata

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And it's filled with tomato soup, right? Via the Brooklyn Museum of Art .

Walker's Peter Eleey heading to P.S. 1

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ArtInfo is reporting that Walker Art Center curator Peter Eleey is leaving the Minneapolis contemporary art museum to head back to New Yor...
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4.13.2010

Bits: 04.14.10

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Manga Farming , Koshi Kawachi via Pink Tentacles • Alec Soth gets his own baseball card . • "Electronic civil disobedience" arti...
4.07.2010

Stephen Colbert won't sign "Paul Schmelzer"

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My world's all topsy-turvy: Michele Bachmann, the conservative Congress member whose values are almost entirely divergent from my own, ...
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4.06.2010

Bits: 04.06.10

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Rudolf Stingel LIVE installed at Neue Nationalgalerie , Berlin • Photographer Noah Sheldon looks at the Arizona sustainability project Bi...

Sam3's subliminal billboards

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Unurth's got the full shot of Sam3 's project in Murcia, Spain, where unused billboards spell out a subliminal message . Here's...
4.05.2010

Bits: 04.05.10

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La Pantera by the Date Farmers • Hyperallergic surveys New York's sculptural street art . • Today's the first day you can buy CSA s...
3.30.2010

The smooth jazz stylings of Metallica

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"Enter Sandman," smooth jazz version, via @thanland .

The Yes Men on James O'Keefe: "Incredibly sad and pathetic"

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"For O'Keefe and Brietbart to be targeting ACORN is incredibly sad and pathetic," says Mike Bonanno, whose culturejamming gr...
3.29.2010

Vancouver is burning...

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Isabelle Hayeur's video installation Fire with Fire (2010) seemingly sets a Vancouver building ablaze -- even bringing firetrucks, as t...

Bits: 03.29.10

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Moss graffiti by Anna Garforth (more here ) • New Museum chief curator (and former Walker chief curator) Richard Flood, falling just short ...