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Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Sunday Video: The Witness by Clive Sansom

This weeks Sunday Video comes from “The Witnesses” a dramatic series of verse monologues by the English poet, author and composer Clive Sansom (1910 – 1981) in which people who met Jesus describe their encounters with him. In this virtual animation, first published in 1956, Sansom tells the story of a Roman Centurion. Others recounts [...]

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Cut and Paste; free art from Skip Van Cel. Please print the image below and mount it somewhere far away from where you are, or if you will, there. This free art was paid for and created as a site specific work for ARTLURKER by the artist Skip Van Cel. . . [Editors note: This [...]

Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Takashi Murakami and Chateau Versailles, Charles Saatchi book bore, David Hockney spawns digital genre

Image credit. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball. To the conscientious observer of cultural affairs what a poorly guarded drip tray is to a piss broke bar fly. Takashi Murakami to exhibit at Chateau Versailles in 2010 [via ArtObserved] Charles Saatchi’s new book My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic comes under fire [via ArtFagCity] [...]

Hump Day Cool Finger: De’Longhi Limited Edition Perfecta Artista Series auctioned for Oxfam America

Image credit. Far be it from us to slam good intentions but… “Bid on a series of limited edition Perfecta espresso machines etched by world-renowned artists.” – De’Longhi “Its one of the world’s most sought-after espresso machines and a testament to Italian design. In fact, more than one person has called the De’Longhi Perfecta a [...]

You might sleep, but you will never dream by Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova at David Castillo Gallery

You might sleep, but you will never dream. Image courtesy of David Castillo Gallery. This coming Saturday (Second Saturday Art Walk) David Castillo Gallery will present You might sleep, but you will never dream, a contemplative exhibition by Miami based contemporary artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. In the exhibition Rodriguez will represent a room using a number [...]

The Sunday Video: 9/11 Anniversary Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri hiking in Afghanistan

As the eighth anniversary of the September eleventh atrocities approaches and America simultaneously mourns its dead and contemplates both the effectiveness and necessity of its military involvement in Afghanistan (not to mention a growing disillusionment in Barak Obama) we provide [a link to] the complete footage of a 2003 video depicting Osama bin Laden and [...]