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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Matthew Higgs: ART IS TO ENJOY. A review by St. Pierre and Miquelon

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Matthew Higgs: ART IS TO ENJOY. Wilkinson Gallery, Vyner Street, London, E2. 04 July – 10 August “Higgs’ work – which invariably takes the form of framed book pages, framed book covers and photographs of books – might productively be thought of as a form of ‘found conceptual art’. For more than 12 years, Higgs [...]

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Miami’s Wax Man: A dirty job but someone’s got to do it.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Disease ‘records’ found at the Miami Dade residence believed by Police to have been the one-time stronghold of Wax Man Lesser known artist Goes only by the name of Wax Man Sightings few Formal exhibitions none This nefarious cultural icon raids the trash bags of Miami waxing salons; his aim: to collect the used wax [...]

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Impossible Realities: Brazilian Art in Veracruz

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Glaucia Mayer, Uma cor é uma cor… e um rosa é um rosa, 2007. Video, 01:40 minutes. Yesterday “Realidades Imposibles” (Impossible Realities), curated by Pedro Varela, opened in Veracruz, Mexico. Presenting 20 Brazilian contemporary artists working in photography and video, the exhibition which takes the whole second floor of the Fototeca Juan Malpica Mimendi in the historical center of [...]

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Tommy Ralph Pace: Cultural Production and the Capitalist Paradigm

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Dialogue Project, 2008. 8.5 x 11 Computer prints Dear Friend, Global warming is an urgent, but solvable problem. That’s why I’ve joined the We Campaign, a powerful nonpartisan movement of concerned citizens that was founded by Nobel Prize Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. We’re already a million strong — and growing each day. Will [...]

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Mot du Jour: Career

Monday, August 4, 2008

Photo not related Jane Talks to ARTLURKER. Jane wouldn’t tell us what she currently did or let us use her real name but said that her dream career would be either as an artist or a curator. Unfortunately she had confirmed our meeting to the wrong e-mail address the previous night and thus her arrival [...]

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