Tuesday, December 6, 2011
For Andrew Berardini, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 was stressful, according to his report in Artforum from the celebrity-filled weekend. His story seemed honest. Read article here. Other reports indicate this year was as outrageous and successful as ever in Miami. The Art Newspaper reminded us of Art Basel’s modest beginnings; ten years ago a [...]
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Also tagged Adobe Airstream, Andrew Berardini, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011, Art Newspaper, Art/Art History, change, Charles Saatchi, consumerism, contemporary art, great art, humanity, Miami Art Week, new mexico
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
In 2005 when Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s “air” reportedly sold on Ebay for $529.99, I was shocked. The latest genius of senselessness, of course, is the doomsday prophet Harold Camping. Camping botched his first apocalyptic prediction, confusing the months of May and October. Oops! He meant to say that the end of the world [...]
Monday, December 13, 2010
The perfect mash-up of the Texas museum scene this month is: Vernon Fisher sitting in a stuffed-animal chair designed by the Campana brothers with one leg of the chair in Texas, Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico. I realize that this is impossible, but let me explain. Several exhibitions in Texas museums, happening in December into [...]
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Also tagged Adobe Airstream, change, contemporary art, Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Texas, DMA, El Paso, El Paso Museum of Art, great art, humanity, progress, Texas, texas art, The Modern, The Modern Fort Worth
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The current status of the world is alarming: between inundation of digital data and environmental crises in the so-called first world, disease and catastrophe unrelenting in the second and third. As the unemployment rate in the U.S. intractably high, one could infer there are too many people for America to employ; the same Americans, especially [...]
Clayton Porter at LAUNCHPROJECTS A prominent thinker on ecological economics, Nate Hagens, explains consumerism in terms of evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology, saying that our brains send out “shots” of dopamine (a reward chemical, which makes us feel good) when we decide to have a cigarette, buy another pair of shoes, or eat more ice [...]
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Also tagged Adobe Airstream, Art/Art History, change, clayton porter, consumerism, contemporary art, Cyndi Conn, great art, LAUNCHPROJECTS, new mexico, progress, Santa Fe
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Contemplating the ways in which our society has outgrown itself, I have begun questioning my responsibility to contemporary society. A personal anecdote will suffice to begin this dialog. My brother, two years my senior, has taken his responsibility to reform society quite seriously. Having studied sustainability, majoring in anthropology in college, he uprooted his family [...]