Banksy is for FREEDOM
Recent work by gorilla artist BANKSY in RIO above.Below is a grouping of his works done in Palestine.
Category: opinion
Tell us what you REALLY think:
“I’m finding this kind of thing increasingly tiresome, evidence that “Art” is an imaginary category of behavior that the privileged invoke to justify self-indulgence.” …in reply to THIS post.
public vs private parts
me: ive been thinking a lot about views. like, in new york a view is a privileged thing… and, as in the case of the cloister property and it’s relationship to the palisades, one can literally own a view. So, I took a photo out someonelse’s window this afternoon and I am wondering if that
Travesty!
Remember our earlier discussion on [THIS]? Well… here is the latest [news on Serrano’s controversial work]. Snipit: “I was surprised by the hatred that it caused.” -Serrano 34 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that
in chaos
If you have been disturbed by the chaos and pain that comes from war and natural disaster in our world, you may be interested in this poignant book by Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others “No “we” should be taken for granted when the subjectis looking at other people’s pain. “ — SS
GY!BE – playing with FIL-M
LAST NIGHT: In the back of the venue near to the soundboard they had a kind of film DJ manually feeding loops into reel to reel projectors. He allowed for the heat to melt and obscure some frames, adjusting the overlap of each projection, and masking the light with his hands. Once I realized what
Maybe you should think about seeing: Of Gods and Men
Last night I saw Of Gods and Men at the Sunshine theater. If things like love, brotherhood, fidelity, and peace seem interesting to you – please go see it. You will be moved. Best movie I’ve seen in a long time. Powerful, yet gentle; quiet, yet radical. I don’t want to say too much more.
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High hopes
Summer 2011, I hope to be spending a chunk of in CHINA. (hopefully dressed something like the gal above.) If the details all come together, it should be an awesome expedition! In the meantime – I am reading up on the radical shift that has happened (pretty much since the 90s, I guess?) politically, culturally,
Brining Back Real Issues into the Art World
Whatever happened to the ideal of Art causing change? Are we remembering to breech environmental, humanitarian, and animal rights issues in the gallery? Is it that with the “freedom of speech” in the US we have become lazy? Just think about Ai Weiwei and the brutality he has suffered for speaking out in society. Where
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FLASH back to FEBRUARY
skip on over to DG’s blog for a little gal-entine recap.