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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: David Lynch paintings condemned, Andy Warhol blog speculated, Annie Lebowitz financial ruin examined

Image credit. Welcome to Friday’s Hairy Eyeball, a weekly gnarl of linkage to the art blogs of the world. . ART FAG CITY kicked off the week with a photo montage by Michael Mahalchick and by asking the question “What would Warhol blog?” then on Tuesday offered sarcastic commentary on David Lynch’s solo show at [...]

Hump Day Cool Finger: Artists custom design bikes for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG foundation

Damien Hirst’s Madone design for STAGES. Image Courtsey of www.trekbikes.com In an effort to alleviate the boredom of the working midweek ARTLURKER is pleased to present its new doldrums smashing feature, Hump Day Cool Finger. Join us each Wednesday as we reflect with disenchantment upon the hybrid art ventures eroding the walls of contemporary art [...]

Christy Gast’s Mounted Horse Men via open-Player

Still from Mounted Horse Men featuring an unmounted donkey man. Christy Gast is an artist whose practice is immersed in investigations of liminal landscapes. Driving around South Florida and the wider USA with her video camera she visits local history museums, public lands and the communities that support them. Through exploring folklore, music and vernacular [...]

The Sunday Video: Miljenko “Dino” Dvornik

This week’s Sunday Video serves to disseminate Miljenko “Dino” Dvornik, a Croatian musician, actor and reality television star born August 20th, 1964 in Split, Croatia. Despite his father Boris’ successful acting career, both Dino and his brother were forced as children to generate extra income by playing roles in ’70s movies and TV shows, most [...]

Miami 21 Vs Zoning 11000

Mayor Manny Diaz and Commissioner Johnny Winton present the cities master plan, Miami21. On Thursday, August 6th, 2009, at Miami’s City Hall a plan to overhaul the existing zoning code was rejected. Named Miami 21 (Miami in the 21st Century) the proposal called upon the internationally recognized urban planners Duany and Plater Zyberk. Elizabeth Plater [...]

The Sunday Video: Chumbawamba on Celebration, Florida

This weeks Sunday Video features a song by Chumbawamba from a live performance in Düsseldorf on the 23rd of April, 2000. The song is about Celebration, a census-designated place and an unincorporated master-planned community in Osceola County, Florida. Located around 4 miles South of Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Celebration was developed by The [...]