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Jim Carrey | TruLife – Picassooooo Out of my League

by Paddy Johnson on September 15, 2011

Jim Carrey | TruLife – Picassooooo Out of my League – Smart phones are really broadening the range of fodder Hollywood stars can produce for art news hounds.

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Vintage dog photography – in pictures | Life and style | guardian.co.uk

by Paddy Johnson on September 9, 2011

Vintage dog photography – in pictures | Life and style | guardian.co.uk – I love dogs so much.

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museum of contemporary art detroit director resigns – artforum.com / archive

by Paddy Johnson on September 9, 2011

museum of contemporary art detroit director resigns – artforum.com / archive – Luis Croquer, director and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, will resign from the institution when his contract expires at the end of October, reports the Detroit Free Press. Croquer, who has served at the five-year-old museum for the past […]

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Welcome to Art Market Boom 2.0 | The New York Observer

by Paddy Johnson on September 7, 2011

Welcome to Art Market Boom 2.0 | The New York Observer – “With so much money flowing into the art world today, it should be a time of diverse and far-reaching experiments and innovations, and alternative spaces should be vigorously expanding. Instead, that money appears to be flowing into the same few hands, supporting the […]

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No Sleep Till Bovina: Meet Peter Schjeldahl, Pyromaniac! | The New York Observer

by Paddy Johnson on September 7, 2011

No Sleep Till Bovina: Meet Peter Schjeldahl, Pyromaniac! | The New York Observer – “Clearly there were people from the local community and that was marvelous, from fire captains to local residents to farmers and people engaged in regular country life, and the New York art-world-types, curators, critics, dealers and lots of young artists I […]

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Google Plus forces us to discuss identity | Technology | guardian.co.uk

by Paddy Johnson on September 7, 2011

Google Plus forces us to discuss identity | Technology | guardian.co.uk – The first duty of social software is to improve its users’ social experience.

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Freddie on the Plinth: Proposal

by Paddy Johnson on September 6, 2011

Freddie on the Plinth: Proposal – Sign Aleksandra Mir’s petition to transport a statue of Freddie Mercury in Switzerland to Trafalgar Square. cc: vvork.com #turbosculpture

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Danspace Project – Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion CHEAP LECTURE AND THE COW PIECE

by Paddy Johnson on September 6, 2011

Danspace Project – Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion CHEAP LECTURE AND THE COW PIECE – Nov. 3 — I’m totally going to this. Burrows is a former soloist with the Royal Ballet. Fargion began writing music for Burrows in 1989. Cheap Lecture is a translation of John Cage’s “Lecture on Nothing.” The Cow Piece is a […]

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http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2011/09/waking-up-the-white-house-on-arts-policy/

by Paddy Johnson on September 6, 2011

http://blogs.artinfo.com/modernartnotes/2011/09/waking-up-the-white-house-on-arts-policy/ – :Last week the Obama administration announced a new public-input initiative called We the People. The idea is astonishingly straightforward: The White House promises a response to any online petition that gains 5,000 signatures.” Tyler Green wants “to see the White House formally create a White House arts adviser, an office that would put […]

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Millenniata | The First Permanent File Backup Disc That Lasts Forever

by Paddy Johnson on September 6, 2011

Millenniata | The First Permanent File Backup Disc That Lasts Forever – Take that bitrot!

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