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July 2010
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The true artist helps the world by revealing...
Window or wall sign was made in the winter of 1966-67 at a time when Nauman had established his studio in a disused grocery shop in San Francisco. The work was designed for the large shop window at the front of the studio, rather like the neon advertising signs that hung in the shop fronts nearby, although Nauman’s neon carried a rather different message: ‘The true artist helps...
MANY HAPPY RETURNS (from art forum summer 2010)
Few individuals have so radically altered the vocabulary of architecture as REM KOOLHAAS, whose theoretical writings (Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan [1978]; S, M, L, XL[1995]) and groundbreaking structures (the IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center in Chicago, 2003; CCTV headquarters in Beijing, 2010) largely gave form to our turn-of-the-millennium understanding of the...
June 2010
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Post-American AGE from 032C Issue #16 — Winter...
Above & Below (unrelated to the original text), title: It is what it is, USA, 2009, by Jeremy Deller
“The global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down. The era of American dominance is over,” says JOHN GRAY. The prominent British philosopher and historian sits down with Hans Ulrich Obrist to discuss the cult of...
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les rallizes dénudés - les bulles...
May 2010
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April 2010
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WatchPLASTIC BAG
By Ramin Bahrani (voiced by Werner Herzog)
March 2010
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Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism and Consumer...
Christopher Williams, Clockwise from Manufacturer Name… Douglas M. Parker Studio, Glendale, California, January 03, 2008 - January 04, 2008, 2008
Postmodernism and Consumer Society, by Fredric Jameson
The concept of postmodernism is not widely accepted or even understood today. Some of the resistance to it may come from the unfamiliarity of the works it covers, which can be found in...
February 2010
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