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Opening This Friday at Vox Populi
Opening This Friday, September 3 at Vox Populi. Paradise Curated by Roxana Pérez-Méndez As we address the impact of the global recession on our personal lives, and as a new air of frugality and domestic economy take form, Paradise looks into the reflexive process of the artist. This group show looks to contentment as a [...]
“White”
Showed up to the WPA offices to find them taken over by some film crew 4 channel 13
Queens Chronicle – Residents team up for a public project
A very specific article about the WPA 2010 in The Queens Chronicle “However, involving the DOE may turn out to work against the WPA, since the group does not have permission to put the benches on city property.” “It is a renegade project in the sense that we are doing what we wish the government [...]
IMG MGMT: Turbo Sculpture
“a dangerous joke in which history is being erased and replaced by Mickey Mouse.” “Although she does not say it, the development of Turbo-folk, a musical genre originating in Serbia and emerging from pop-folk, is emblematic of the 90’s crisis in ex-Yugoslavia. The term was coined by singer-songwriter Rambo Amadeus in the late 1980s, who [...]
Kitchen Fire! The 20 Hottest Cooking Show Hosts | Complex Blog
Look at Thu isn the midst of all those kitchen babes! via Kitchen Fire! The 20 Hottest Cooking Show Hosts | Complex Blog.
luca pozzi
Sort of a like a seesaw splint mechanical thingy, by Luca Pozzi.
spomeniks
Powerful photographs of mysterious monuments (Spomeniks) in former Yugoslavia. Obviously the photographer feels a little guilty at producing a purely aesthetic take on monuments of death, or else the publisher does: “Willem Jan Neutelings, quoted from this book: “The Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers undertook a laborious trek through the Balkans in order to photograph a [...]
B-747 Cowling Reception Desk @ Motoart
Making furniture out of airplane parts (and getting women to pose with it) at Motoart. Of course there is the Mile High Bed.
n+1: Issue 9: Bad Money
n+1: Issue 9: Bad Money.