Big trouble for Big Three automakers | csmonitor.com
"Shares of General Motors are trading at prices last seen in the 1950s, their value cut in half in just eight weeks. Ford and Chrysler are in even worse shape, analysts say. The sobering implication: The Big Three may have to become the Big Two…"
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Design Criticism | KGB Bar
Recommended. *SVA’s Design Criticism Reading Series: Michael Bierut, Jennifer Kabat, Paul Lukas and Phil Patton
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Golden Bull
We are living in a golden age of the pseudo-meaningful stunt. After all, the democratization of bullshit on the Internet is making it harder and harder to get noticed….This week’s delicacy comes from Sotheby’s, which delivers the news that Damien Hirst has produced a golden calf.
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I Don’t Have Time For Noncontroversial Art Exhibits | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
"These days, my schedule is pretty packed. Take this week, for example. Monday: Abu Ghraib flip books. Tuesday: a blackface reenactment of the Reagan assassination attempt. Wednesday: drive upstate to watch an amputee roast and eat his own golden retrieve
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Behind Walls of Warehouses, a Trove of Artwork - NYTimes.com
At the same time that art museums and galleries have developed larger collections, they have fewer options to expand. Perhaps inevitably, an art services industry that has sprung up in the dark warehouses of New York City’s boroughs is also growing.
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YouTube - The Assistant
Eric Fischl seems like a really good boss. Via Patrick
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Zoilus: Woah, oh, oh, we’re counting to four
Carl Wilson think’s Feist remake of 1 2 3 4 for sesame street improves upon the original. A nice compilation of Sesame street counting songs including one by Phillip Glass. Via: ss
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ArtCal - East Village / Lower East Side - Canada - Journey to the Center of Uranus
Recommended. Eunice Kim, Paul Slocum, Alistair Frost, Willy LeMaitre, Ida Ekblad, Bjorn Copeland, Lizzi Bougatsos, Theo Mercier, Rob Swainston, Jessica Jackson Hutchins
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New Museum Launches Triennial - ARTINFO.com
“Younger Than Jesus”, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, and Lauren Cornell will focus on the work of artists born around 1980. “We want to find the defining factors that shape generational change.” says Gioni, “We will try to analyze how generations emerge”
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Kriston Capps: Jesse Helms: The Intimidation of Art and the Art of Intimidation
“It would take a political genius to drum up enough public outrage over obscene art to make these real-life obscenities fade..,” Steiner says. That’s surely true…but this this sort of strategy—promote a distraction, distort its significance—is the GOP’s favorite brushstroke.
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Zoophilia pr0n? : Wacky Archives
Witness the boring things you can do with Photoshop. I imagine this to be a blind Suburban interpretation of what Pony Porn might look like.
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