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Tales of Space and Time Tales of Space and Time Tales of Space and Time. The Morisons exhibited their self-sufficient wooden house-truck, customized from a decommissioned fire engine and containing, next to a stove and pot plants, a library of apocalypse-themed fiction. Tales of Space and Time, as it was called, embodied a jauntily over-optimistic [...]

Mr Clevver, a traveling sculptural artwork in the form of a puppet theatre, is on an unhurried tour of the less-traveled side roads and small rural settlements in western and north-western Tasmania. Moving slowly through the landscape, Mr Clevver uses only the spectacle of an un-fashioned 1960s truck drawing a hand-built humpy and the ‘bush [...]

Off to China to be a part of the Hong Kong/ Shenzen Bienniale with Ghana ThinkTank | http://www.szhkbiennale.org/2011/ ??????\???????.

Tommy Hartung at On Stellar Rays . TOMMY HARTUNG Anna October 30 – December 23, 2011 Opening reception: Sunday, October 30, 6 to 8pm On Stellar Rays is pleased to present Tommy Hartung’s second solo exhibition, an ambitious expansion of and conscious departure from his work in video to date. Comprised of a single channel [...]

U.S. Department of State Launches smARTpower, Will Use Visual Arts to Engage Underserved Youth Overseas and Strengthen People-to-People Diplomacy via U.S. Department of State Launches smARTpower, Will Use Visual Arts to Engage Underserved Youth Overseas. Ghana ThinkTank to work in Lebanon with the U.S. State Department, Bronx Museum of Art, and the Arab Image Foundation. [...]

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Didier Faustino also brought us double happiness, the billboard turned into a swingset I talk about in life quite often.

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Contraband People!

So I was driving by a construction site this AM, and they stopped traffic and moved cones so one of those breakfast trucks could pull in, and the best part was as the driver backed up, he had a little bright red squuezee horn in his hand, which he was squeezing timed to make his [...]

So I was driving by a construction site this AM, and they stopped traffic and moved cones so one of those breakfast trucks could pull in, and the best part was as the driver backed up, he had a little bright red squuezee horn in his hand, which he was squeezing timed to make his [...]

Alice “Boo” Ross ????-23 September, 2011 You were the sweetest cat everyone who ever met you had ever met

The Ascent of Man | Watch Free Documentary Online.

Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Reading Capital and Kapitalism 101 via Dan Levenson

Break the word "question" down to its root–quest–and you get a sense of the insurgent inquiry practiced by artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. Their poetic and unabashedly activist conceptual art challenges everything from common definitions–they define protest as "proactive testing" and responsibility as "the ability to respond"–to concepts like free speech and historical commemoration. [...]