Carved in Stone Ain’t What it Used to Be: King Monument Quote to be Amended
The National Park Service is putting on its poetical thinking cap to come up with an amended version of an inscription at the newish Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington DC. Among other inscriptions at the monument, one reads “I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness.” The paraphrase is snipped from [...]
Whitehouse Chokes on Bad SOPA, Sends Back to Kitchen
The Whitehouse has chimed in against the upcoming SOPA anti-online piracy bill, hailed by big media, but feared by internet companies and free-speech advocates. In a blog post yesterday, Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President [...]
Thinker Returns to Stanford: Rodin’s Icon of Introspection Returns From North Carolina After Republican Primary, Still Puzzled
Auguste Rodin’s iconic “The Thinker” returns to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University after a two year loan on loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art. Stanford’s iteration, for years installed in front of the campus library until it went AWOL in 1998, is one of 12 authorized super-sized casts of the often-reproduced [...]
Letter from LA: “Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s”
“Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture from the 1970s and 1980s” at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is not part of “Pacific Standard Time.” The Getty-funded project, advertised as a “region-wide initiative encompassing every major L.A. art movement from 1945 to 1980,” includes upwards of 150 exhibitions at upwards of 125 institutions, from Venice to [...]
Art Documentary Binge: Happy Queue Year
A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I began binge viewing art documentaries. We started with Herb and Dorothy (2008), the story of an elderly middle-class couple whose private collection of art, amassed over 50 years, directly challenges the preconceived notions of what a prominent New York City art collector looks like. Herb, a life-long [...]
Dead Media
DEAD MEDIA A bibliophile: A lover or collector of books. A bookophile: A person who has sex with books, usually with the gaps between pages. WTF Dead Media is a speculative exchange addressing a recent crisis of destabilization in the contemporary art world: the primacy of the printed object. Dead Media is a process-oriented [...]
