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Liberal Arts in Crisis: The Creative Sector Hunkers Down
“….The art world, on the other hand, is a more complex beast. There’s no question that it’s struggling — the big auction houses, Christie’s and Sotheby’s, are in freefall; art fairs aren’t generating the buzz they once did; and buyers are drying up at galleries. And yet, it doesn’t seem to be an uncommon opinion that a recession could actually be a positive here, at least in some sense. Critics contend that the art world has grown bloated, full of itself, and unfocused during the boom years — one doesn’t see book or movie critics calling for a hard time to cleanse their realms, but in the art world, it’s not uncommon. Art and money, after all, have always had an uneasy relationship.” Read full article on Flavorwire
Blue Mustang, sculpture at Denver Int’l Airport, by Luis Jiménez.
Mr. Jiménez died in 2006 when a section of this 9,000-pound fiberglass statue fell on him during construction. via NY Times
Where Ignorance is our Master, There is No Possibility of Real Peace, Xiang Yang
NYtimes Article on Tibet
Senate approves resolution opposing Proposition 8
‘Just days before the matter is to be taken up by California’s Supreme Court, the state Senate today approved a resolution today calling Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage, an improper revision of the Constitution because it was not approved by the Legislature.
Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) said the initiative is a fundamental revision to the document, not an amendment, and therefore required deliberation by the Legislature and a two-thirds vote of both houses to put it on the ballot.
“Do we have a constitutional democracy in California, or do we have mob rule?” Leno asked his colleagues before the 18-14 vote approved the resolution.’
antologia: 100’s of radioactive pieces of scrapped Russian army hardware left after participated in Chernobyl accident liquidation. (via English Russia )
The Decline of Detroit……United Artists Theater, built in 1928, closed in 1970s
via Time, photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
First Robot + Human theatrical project. In the play, the robot is complaining that it has been forced into boring and demeaning jobs and enters into a discussion with the humans about its role in their lives. It is a 20 minute production by playwright Oriza Hirata.
I saw this robot at the UNIQLO store in Soho this past summer….or one like it.
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