The 20×200 20% More Ridiculous Sale
All print sizes on sale til tomorrow Midnight! A total steal (if you ask me).
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Facebook’s valuation (in Whoppers)
“Burger King recently introduced a Facebook app called Whopper Sacrifice that allows users to delete ten of their friends in exchange for a Whopper sandwich. Watch the app in action. What BK has unwittingly done here is provide a way to determine the valuation of Facebook.” When all’s said and done, Kottke determines BK’s valuation of Facebook at $3.6 billion; considerably less than the $15 billion valuation assigned to Facebook by Microsoft in 2007 “but in the same ballpark as the lower valuations being tossed about in recent months.”
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MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2009 | Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh
This exhibition opens January 21st and looks VERY promising “…an ongoing series that will bring performance documentation, original performance pieces, and live reenactments of historic performances to various locations throughout the Museum. The first artist to be spotlighted is Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950, Taiwan), who is best known for his five One Year Performances…”
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ArtCal - Chelsea - Bortolami Gallery - Richard Aldrich
Over all this painting show is excellent, though it does beg the question: Is it possible to make a successful painting with an exposed stretcher? Based on this show I’m going to go with, No.
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2009_creativecapitalprojectdescriptions.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Creative Capital Emerging Field winners announced. Artists include Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation;
Beatriz da Costa; eteam: Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, Catherine Herdlick; and more.
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The Big Bend Sentinel - Guest Commentary
More on the Marfa hotel rezoning: The Planning and Zoning commission voted 3-2 to approve the rezoning. The issue now goes before the City Council for review. I wish The Big Bend Sentinel listed easily viewable publishing dates. If it’s listed on that site I can’t find it.
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Cityfile: Richard Prince and Larry Gagosian Slapped with Suit
Photographer Patrick Cariou filed a lawsuit against Prince, Gagosian, and Rizzoli last week for using a number of his photographs in Prince’s “Canal Zone” exhibition without his consent, pics that Cariou alleges first appeared in his 2000 book, Yes Rasta. Ironically the artist’s personal friend and disgraced author James Frey wrote the introduction. He is not named in the suit.
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ArtCal - Chelsea - Schroeder Romero - Michael Waugh, The More I See of Men
Waugh was working on this show through the holidays while also at Momenta helping me with the fundraiser. I’m looking forward to seeing the new drawings! Opens Friday January 16th.
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ArtCal Zine - Events - The Concept of Time at the Guggenheim
“Rirkrit Tiravanija and Douglas Gordon’s Cinema Liberté presents an epic program of previously banned films to be comfortably watched on beanbag cushions.” Not necessarily a bad idea, but who hasn’t seen screened films like The Last Temptation of Christ before? How valuable is the gesture if the films have already been absorbed into the culture?
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Mysterious Sweet Smell From 2005 Returns to Manhattan - NYTimes.com
Labeled “Headline of the Day” by one facebook friend. It’s a little early yet to know, but he may be right.
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Op-Ed Columnist - Fighting Off Depression - NYTimes.com
“Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.” Hello scary.
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Twitter / 1000TimesYes
If it were anyone else I’d think promising to review 1,000 new releases in 2009 over Twitter was a little Internet hokie but I bet music critic Christopher Weingarten can pull it off. Note that the use of dashes does not indicate a minus number rating.
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Thanks for the mention.I really appreciate it.
What is important and new about Twitter’s First Post Conceptual Performance Art event is the opportunity for immediate and world wide interaction. The event is not as much about the “performance” as the community interaction that surrounds it.
I am glad that you mention the “Press release” and cleverly linked to it. Astute of you. The article on the Post Conceptual UnGraven Image Art and Inspiration blog, which you are correct to also see as a press release was Twittered throughout the day and also on Facebook, and was sent in my feeds. This article is at the heart of the performance.
This event was a first, and as such an experiment. I began to really use Twitter a little under two weeks ago. At the time of the event I had about 475 followers. Since many were at work or elsewhere, only Twitter would be able to tell us how many actual people who follow my Twits were signed on at the time of the event.
I have been signing up to follow people that I am interested in learning about, or meeting, which includes everyone related to fine art. I have commented on your excellent blogs previously, so I am eager to follow you!
I hope to continue to add followers and encourage more interaction in relation to the event. I did see many of my followers making comments about art or if they were not artists mirroring ideas from the article. I had a surprising number of private twits and emails both before and after the event from people who wanted to participate or offer encouragement.
While I am not sure what the next step will be it will involve more community participation. Twitter is a social media and community. It is about what we can do as a group. As an artist, I see myself in a spiritual or inspirational role, but art is about communication. It is not about me, It is always about us.
The event was also about us. The articles, comments on Twitter, and more that happened in people’s hearts and minds that we do not have knowledge of as most people do not speak up. For me part of the community event is your blog article. I will be mentioning it on Twitter and in a follow up on the Art & Inspiration blog.
Thank you for the article and your participation.
More to come.
Judy Rey Wasserman
on Twitter: http://twitter.com/judyrey