Spreading soooon...
This business of coding is taking forever. Those fiercely few spreadheads who have grown anxious about our seeming absence may be in for a grand takedown: Coming soon this month. One freshly squeezed issue for the mean season. Watch for it...
8:41 AM 5/8/04
Art news and goings on...
Here's a summary of some of the latest in art news and happenings this month (October - November 2003) from our friends at absolutearts.com. For details to events below, simply give them a drop see...
Webism - Art Connecting the World:
Works by 10 International Artists from 6 Countries out of 3 Continents
Art Hotel, Vienna, AT Austria
From October 25 to November 30, 2003 an international artists exhibition will take place in Vienna/Austria as part of an international artists tour through Europe. Webism ˆ Art connecting the World in the Art Hotel Vienna, Brandmayergasse 7 - 9, 1050 Vienna, bring together 10 international artists who work in various forms of digital media. American artist Dr. Rodney Chang (Pygoya), founder of Webism (1999) and German artist Ingrid Kamerbeek collaborated to make this exhibition come true. The artists previously met on the Internet and have worked to present this exhibition as the real thing.
Before Expressionism: Art in Germany circa 1903.
An Exhibition for the 100th Anniversary of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard Cambridge, MA USA
This fall, Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum marks its 100th anniversary of collecting, studying, and presenting the art of German-speaking countries and the related cultures of Central and Northern Europe. Founded as the Germanic Museum by scholar Kuno Francke and currently the only museum in the United States devoted to promoting the appreciation of art from this area of the world from the Middle Ages to the present, the Museum grew out of Harvard’s commitment to the study of Germanic culture and a dedication to creating museums that are exceptional interdisciplinary resources. Today, the Busch-Reisinger Museum is distinguished by its collection, its unparalleled leadership in advancing the appreciation of Germanic art within the United States, and its role in shaping the development of scholars and leaders in the field.
Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider
Jewish Museum, New York, NY USA
The first American museum exhibition to concentrate on the friendship and intellectual dialogue between the visionary painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and the revolutionary composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) will be on view at The Jewish Museum from October 24, 2003 through February 12, 2004. Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider illuminates a pivotal moment in the early 20th century when artists and musicians embraced radical ideas and created new modes of expression.
The City That Never Was:
Fantastic Architectures in Western Art
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
The CCCB closes its cycle of exhibitions directed by Pedro Azara about the architectural imaginary with 'The city that never was: fantastic architectures in Western art. After ‘Soulhouses’ (1997, which showed models from antiquity and reflected on the ancients’ notions of dwelling), and ‘Founding the city’ (2000, turning around the myths of city foundation in the ancient world), this exhibition presents a selection of imaginary architectures by creators of all epochs, from ancient Rome up until the present day.
Black and White:
Painting from the United States to South America
Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, TX USA
Painting is not always in color and black and white is not only found in drawings and photography. This show is an examination of paintings in black and white from the United States to South America. Richness and depth can be achieved in the subtle manipulation of light and shadow. A world without color is nonetheless rich in texture as the artists explore a variety of subjects and styles. It's all laid out in black and white. Artists include Kcho, Jose Franco, Tania Bruguera, Arturo Montoto, and Raul Martinez from Cuba, Sergio Hernandez from Mexico, Gene Pearson and Colin Garland from Jamaica, Rosangela Renno from Brazil, Kenneth Green and Bas Albert from the U.S.
Archi+Texture:
A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Art
NurtureArt Non-Profit, Inc., Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, New York, NY USA
Architecture suggests the objectification of personal space and it‚s outgrowth from within the landscape. The artists‚ works selected for Archi+Texture reflect their personal interaction with the visual world around them as defined by constructed space. Some of these spaces are treated as metaphor for emotional states, socio-political conventions, idealized utopias, and as pure aesthetic inspiration. These themes were inherent in many of the selected artists‚ works. Along with the implicit compositional features of the works, there exists an emotional factor portrayed in the depiction of structured space.
Call to Artists: 2004 North American Sculpture Exhibition
Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO USA
The Foothills Art Center in Golden, Colorado, invites entries to the 13th North American Sculpture Exhibition (NASE), a biennial event. Initiated in 1979, NASE has grown in size, outreach and awards, and claims a roster of former jurors who have achieved great honor among American sculptors, including Donald Lipski, Alison Saar, Jesus Bautista Moroles, Peter Shelton, Manuel Neri and Francisco Zuniga.
11:15 PM 10/27/03
Top 10 activist campuses
On February 15, 2003, millions of college students were among anti-war protesters who filled downtowns from Auckland to Warsaw -- the largest demonstration in human history. The looming war with Iraq also prompted a March 5 national student strike called "Books Not Bombs." But from defending affirmative action to battling budget cuts to protecting workers' rights, this year's protests were as diverse as they were dramatic. Here, our 10th annual roundup of the top 10 activist campuses. Check them out!
10:12 PM 10/27/03
Dispensing art and culture through the end of a tattoo needle...
To the uninformed it may look like a garden-variety, inner-city house party, but to the initiated it is an underground ritual of sorts... More.
12:13 AM 10/17/03
In search of erotic intelligence...
Everybody's not doing it. That's the word from Newsweek, The Atlantic, and other trend watchers: Couples are having less sex these days than even in the famously uptight '50s. Why? Busy, exhausting lives is the easy answer. But how Americans view eroticism in the wake of recent sexual and social revolutions may be an even bigger factor, according to a growing number of researchers and social observers. More.
9:31 PM 10/16/03
Old skool, new skool...
What with sound art, photo art, and virtual-reality art, how can an Old Master, armed merely with paints, palette, and a few hog’s-hair brushes, compete? More.
7:30 PM 10/16/03
He thinks, therefore he sells...
A California artist brainstorms and decides to sell options on his neurons. Right now the price is $10 per million neurons for a piece of his mind. More.
8:48 PM 10/15/03
Kafka's babes...
Franz Kafka’s relationships with women had been tricky, on-off affairs. With Dora Diamant, he came close to simple happiness... More.
6:59 PM 10/15/03
The agony of the essay...
Too many modern essays are thin, watery things by self-absorbed sentimentalists who inflict their maladies on the reader... More.
9:45 PM 10/14/03
Antitotaliranian totalitarian...
The Last Intellectual in the mind of many a Frenchman. Jean-Paul Sartre invented a fine vaccine against totalitariarism, but forgot to inoculate himself... More.
7:34 PM 10/14/03
Postmodernist body...
The body is a wildly popular topic in cultural studies: the plastic, socially constructed body, not the piece of matter that sickens and dies. Postmodernism loves body but is terrified by biology... More.
5:55 PM 10/13/03
I shop therefore I am
Shopping, a ceaseless search for the next meaningless object, is for people without purpose... More.
3:11 PM 10/13/03
Papa lives...
"Hemingway can sustain a breathless pace for chapters at a time, piling image upon image, scene upon scene. He isn't a leisurely read." In 1983, Atlantic's James Atlas critically examined Hemingway's four best-known works. More.
9:15 PM 10/12/03
The grammar class...
Are grammatical rules devices to make it harder for the lower orders to ascend the social ladder? Consider class, power, and the singular they... More.
7:10 PM 10/12/03
Alien morality...
Extra-terrestrial beings: what if they turned out to be not only technologically ahead of us, but morally too? More.
11:32 PM 10/11/03
Vatican Condomnation...
The Vatican has advised people living in AIDS-stricken countries not to use condoms, as they contain microscopic holes that are permeable to HIV. More.
9:09 PM 10/11/03
We the planet...
Led by Julia Butterfly Hill, a group of activists and musicians are travelling the country in a bus fueled by vegetable oil, discussing wide-ranging issues such as peace, human rights, and the joys of being vegan... More.
4:04 PM 10/10/03
Peak oil blues...
An extraordinary interview with an oil exec exposes the real reasons behind the War on Terror. By Mike Ruppert... More.
2:31 PM 10/10/03
The incredible shrinking studio...
Musicians are no longer tied to the studio when they want to make recordings. Now that laptops are so powerful, music can be made anywhere, freeing musicians and changing the music landscape... More.
7:34 PM 10/4/03
Spread issue x: now bruising...
New on spread:
Randall W. Collier's poems meant to be performed.
'After the War—War,' an essay by Drazan Gunjaca.
'A Quick Existence,' story by Luke Buckham.
Here.
7:34 PM 10/4/03
New mind cakes...
—Javstract art - randomly generated javascript paintings.
—Hate Object - who do you want to hate today?
—Blahbylon virtuale - there is nothing here for you.
Blow the candles... all here...
7:34 PM 10/4/03
Frankenfood...
Over the next half century genetic engineering could feed humanity and solve a raft of environmental ills—if only environmentalists would let it. Jonathan Rauch looks at what may be the farming of the future. More.
7:34 PM 10/4/03
Other noteworthy readings...
Farewell, Galileo.
Word Fugitives by Barbara Wallraff.
7:33 PM 10/4/03
Bush's other lies...
"George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. His Iraq lies have loomed largest. In the run-up to the invasion, Bush based his case for war on a variety of unfounded claims that extended far beyond his controversial uranium-from-Niger assertion. He maintained that Saddam Hussein possessed 'a massive stockpile' of unconventional weapons and was directly 'dealing' with Al Qaeda – two suppositions unsupported then (or now) by the available evidence." Read David Corn's full essay.
7:33 PM 10/4/03
Brainshrinker?
When the culture of humans finally started to produce art and technology, our brains were actually shrinking. Still, we made it to the moon... here
10:41 PM 8/27/03
Hinglish, binglish...
It’s the freshest, most clever and funny language on earth, with echoes of Wodehouse and Dickens: English of the Hindu peoples – Hinglish... more
10:49 PM 8/26/03
Awful advertising?
Commercial logos saturate our world, and are the occasion for anti-globalization riots and heavy Marxist tomes. How awful is advertising?...more
11:34 PM 8/25/03
The big city...
Bright lights are more than useful for big cities, they define them, as we saw last week. Yet for most of Homo sapiens’s history, night was experienced as dark... more
8:16 PM 8/24/03
Literature, a dead art?
Hardly. It will instruct and inspire long after books by our angry, arrogant, and obtuse generation of critics have turned to dust, says Myron Magnet... more
7:10 PM 8/24/03
Poetic license to kill...
Post-post poets give us the poem without the baggage of meaning: the liberated poem itself, naked, streaking down the freeway. Joan Houlihan is unimpressed... here
10:57 PM 8/23/03
Breast X...
Thanks for the mammaries. Women are supposed to be in control of their own bodies. Except, it seems, when they choose to have breast enhancement... Here... There...
11:00 PM 8/22/03
Bad writing...
Ugly, slovenly, inaccurate English makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts, George Orwell said. Bad writing is useful not for expressing, but for concealing and preventing thought... more
9:01 PM 8/21/03
Untech...
The computer keyboard, the chair, the football helmet: all designed to make life easier or safer. Do they really? Our upside technologies have their other side... more
12:22 PM 8/20/03
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