January 2009
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Clandestine Construction Company International... →
“Clandestine Construction Company International (Clancco), a corporation founded in 1968 and based out of New York, is an interdisciplinary project which explores, investigates, and examines the relationship between art and law through architectural-sculptures, performances, writings, interviews, and an internet website/blog, all made available in different material and digital...
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SFMOMAWTF? →
SFMOMA offers a FAQ guide to Emily Jacir’s “Where We Come From.” Scandal ensues.
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Daily Routines: How writers, artists, and other... →
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An arts adviser for Barack & Co.?
Yes, says Tyler Green, in so many words: Federal engagement with the arts and the integration of national arts policy is not just a fuzzy, feel-good issue. Our government’s failure to understand the importance of the arts and the symbolism of cultural heritage has hurt America in the eyes of the world. For example, Muslims recoiled when the U.S. allowed Baghdad’s National Museum of...
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U. S. Department of Culture? →
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“Look, freelancers are “free” because they take risks—they don’t like being told...”
– Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek (via throwit)
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Quincy Jones Proposes Petition Begging Obama to...
Could have been more elegantly articulated, but nevertheless … To: President-Elect Barack Obama Congratulations and thank you for all you do. Your good friend Quincy Jones said: “…next conversation I have with President Obama is to beg for a Secretary of Arts.” [November 14th 2008 WNYC interview by John Schaefer on “Soundcheck.”] We the undersigned...
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Design Hates Hyperbole
Several days ago, Murray Moss shot off a couple of bottle rockets at New York Times critic Michael Cannell’s recent op-ed piece, “Design Loves a Depression.” In a rhetoric-heavy riposte posted on Design Observer, Moss characterizes Cannell’s (dis)missive as “regressive and mean-spirited,” contending that the design community suffers, not thrives, during times...
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Lebbeus, take three:
“how are architects going to respond to this new, unprecedented human condition? Who cares about the monuments — the monuments are meant to last forever. The every day doesn’t last forever.” On the Guggenheim: “It will always be restored … Will look the same in perpetuity.” Is cut off by Gugg staff due to time, refuses questions, asks to read...
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Lebbeus, take two:
“Architects designing museums is strange to me … it [museum design] should be in a minor key … Designing objects to hold objects …” + theanyspacewhatever (Guggenheim) + 24 Hours on the Concept of Time (Guggenheim)
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