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Going It Alone
Via artforum.com
Apr 3
“Making art by relying on your own resources cuts you out from a crowd that is begging for cash to do anything,” says artist Richard Jackson. “Fostering independence in yourself, wherever you are, can be more isolating than working up in the mountains.”
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Leave of Presence
Via suntimes.com
Apr 3
After 46 years at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he wrote more than 200 reviews a year, film critic Roger Ebert is taking what he calls a “leave of presence.” Facing a new bout of cancer, he’ll focus on personal projects and offer the occasional newspaper review.
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Abstract Revolt
Via architizer.com
Apr 2
Columbia architecture grad students aren’t fond of Stefan Sagmeister’s design for The Abstract, a year-end book honoring top student work. They reportedly chucked copies—which directed users to download the publication online—out the windows of Avery Hall.
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Counter-Surveillance Couture
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 2
Adam Harvey’s show of “counter-surveillance fashions,” now on view in London, includes an anti-drone hoodie, a half-sweatshirt “made of silver, which is reflective to heat and makes the wearer invisible to thermal imaging.”
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Critical Miss
Via jsonline.com
Apr 2
Mary Louise Schumacher has a beef with a report by Columbia U’s Tow Center on the state of journalism: “There is no real consideration of cultural dialogue and criticism, perhaps the fastest shrinking segment of mainstream media today.”
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Cemetery of Kings
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Mar 29
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is prepping his first feature film since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2010 for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recount His Past Lives. Set in northern Thailand, Cemetery of Kings tells a tale of soldiers struck by a strange sleeping sickness.
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Marriage Meme
Via hyperallergic.com
Mar 29
With SCOTUS considering the constitutionality of DOMA, Facebook users are showing solidarity for marriage equality through profile pics that riff on the iconic equals sign—with everything from a Rothko painting to a pair of cans of Bud making appearances.
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Rock Doc
Via thecurrent.org
Mar 28
In concert (ahem) with the March 31 broadcast of MN Original’s mini-documentary on Rock the Garden 2012, The Current shares a few web-only extras—footage of Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and Howler (covering Hüsker Dü’s “Don’t Wanna Know if You Are Lonely”).
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“Analog Nostalgia”
Via rhizome.org
Mar 28
The next time Hito Steyerl sees a 16mm projector in a gallery she vows to “take the poor thing to a pensioners home.” “It made sense to use Bolexes in 1968 […] but today people use cellphones, Kinnect sensors and After Effects to deal with the present and shape it.”