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March 2009

Is Anyone Talking About Privacy?

by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

Jordan Rhoat, Sunrise, 2009. Image via: Vvork “Is Anybody Talking About Originality?” asks a recent post at click opera about creativity.  Comparing the myth of masturbators who suffer from palm hair growth, imomus describes a “similar trope” from the psychometric research into creativity. For educational psychologist Gary A. Davis, “personality characteristics of creative people include […]

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by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

ArtCat – Hell’s Kitchen – Dieu Donne – Tony Fitzpatrick, Big Rock Candy Mountain Recommended. Opening reception Wednesday at 6.

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by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

Art gallery beverage sponsorships / Boycott Jamaica – bloggy Before galleries take on Red Stripe opening sponsorships, they should be aware they aren’t exactly queer friendly.

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by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

ArtCat – East Village / Lower East Side – Canada – Luke Murphy, Certainty Shelter Viewers: Cover your genitals when entering the gallery. Luke Murphy’s using uranium in this show.

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by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

ArtCat – Chelsea – Horton & Co. – Asuka Ohsawa, Spring Love Sunday LES expands into Chelsea under the name Horton & Co. They open this week in Taxter and Spengemann’s old space.

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American Public Files Report on God

by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

Image via: OBA Founded by artists Carla Repice and Geoff Cunningham, The Office of Blame (OBA) highlights a few fieldwork samples from their archive of blame forms and recorded conversations. The project, in structure, lands somewhere between The N.E. Thing Company and PostSecret; A little less interested in the labeling of visual information than N.E. […]

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by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

Cory Doctorow: Authors have lost the plot in Amazon Kindle battle | Technology | guardian.co.uk Amazon’s Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature is not so much violating authors’ copyright but rather basic consumer rights

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by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

IIHS debuts new roof strength crash test, small SUVs rated first Notably this gallery of smashed SUV hoods include none made by GM and Chrysler; the two companies with government bailouts and time lines. Via: Things

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by Art Fag City on March 31, 2009

Helen Levitt – the god of urban gestures – Another Bouncing Ball Photographer Helen Levitt died in her sleep Sunday at the age 95.

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Calling All Rick Rollers: Rhizome’s 50,000 Homepage Has a Spot For You!

by Art Fag City on March 30, 2009

The 50,000 dollar homepage. Screengrab AFC Giant philanthropic gifts from banks and hedge fund managers are down this year, so we all have to pull together to take care of what we value.  Buying a few pixels on The 50,000 Homepage, Rhizome.org’s newest fundraising campaign, offers a means to do just that.  An homage to […]

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