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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Art Attack | Machines that Almost Fall Over

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Machines that Almost Fall Over from Michael Kontopoulos on Vimeo.
A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse. My intention was to capture and sustain the exact moment of impending catastrophe and endlessly repeat it.
- Michael Kontopoulos

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The City | Laser Bridge

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Keith Bowler created a projection of lasers that are beamed onto the disused columns of the Blackfriars Bridge in London. The green lasers form a ghostly suspension bridge at night.
From CR

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Art Attack | Between Sky and Earth

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Shao Yinong’s continuous painting on silk at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery in London.

Installation view of exhibition “Between Sky and Earth - Beginning of Summer”, Beijing

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Art Attack | Rob Wynne in Philadelphia

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Rob has another show opening this weekend at Locks Gallery in Philadelphia.

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McDonald’s Invades Japan

Sunday, September 28, 2008

MASAMI TERAOKA. McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan/Chochin-me 1982

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JMC

Saturday, September 27, 2008

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The City | Megastructures Reloaded

Saturday, September 27, 2008

We went to the Megastructures Reloaded exhibition at the former state mint in Berlin. From the catalogue:
Archigram’s Plug-in City, Constant Nieuwenhuys’ New Babylon and Yona Friedman’s La Ville spatiale rank among the incunabula of the 1960s. Combining visionary architecture, pop culture, art, and situationist rebellion, they became known far beyond the narrow confines of urban [...]

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Art Attack | Torstrasse 166

Friday, September 26, 2008

Facade sculpture by Chiharu Shiota
Also known as the “House of Imagination,” curators invited 12 artists to choose an apartment in the building to create a site-specific installation. It also happens to be next door and I think I just heard a marching band playing outside.
Some photos inside the building:

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Photo Op | Patrick Tsai

Friday, September 26, 2008

Pat Pat launched a new site a minute ago that features some of his work from the past year in Japan and China. Keen observations, as usual.

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Photo Op | Three Well-Dressed Gentlemen

Friday, September 26, 2008

The Three Well-Clad Gentlemen [Les trios gentlemen bien en veste], February 1965© Malick Sidibé / association GwinZegal

The Chequered Woman [La femme a Carreaux] August 1971 © Malick Sidibé / association GwinZegal

Sidibe’s notebook
From the latest Malick Sidibe exhibition at Foam in Amsterdam.

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