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"The most conventional of modernist conventions has been the need to shock and offend, doing so by "transgressing boundaries." Salman Rushdie has lamented how lame and predictable transgressive art has become: "Once the new was shocking, not because it set out to shock, but because it set out to be new. Now, all too often, the shock is the new. And shock, in our jaded culture, wears off easily." Where does that leave the artist or curator who wants to shake things up? According to Rushdie, he "must try harder and harder, go further and further, and this escalation may now have become the worst kind of artistic self-indulgence." Not only is it self-indulgent, it's self-defeating. Things are so far gone that shock rarely registers in the first place. This is the natural result of artists using up the public's reservoir of indignation." - Adriano from Bookmarklet

Right on the money! - Chris Weige

the tiny "Read" links redirects to free PDFs at mediafire, e.g. http://www.mediafire.com/... for Žižek. - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"A couple boarded a train to Paris with a suitcase full of works by Picasso, including “several watercolors, dozens of lithographs, more than 200 sketches and 9 Cubist collages, in the hopes of having it authenticated by Claude Ruiz-Picasso, the artist’s son and the administrator of the Picasso estate.” The works’ owners are Pierre Le Guennec, 71, and his wife Danielle, 68. Mr. Le Guennec had worked as an electrician at three of the famed Spanish-born artists’s properties in the French Riviera in 70s. The couple had kept the works in their garage for the past thirty years. Instead of giving the authentication, Mr. Ruiz-Picasso contacted the Fight Against Traffic in Cultural Goods. A law suit was filed on September 23 claiming the works as stolen goods. Two weeks later, on October 5, the Le Guennecs were stunned to find the artworks seized from their home by police." - Adriano from Bookmarklet

AÇIN DİNLEYİN LAN - mersenne

"Driver had fallen in love with a haunting 1948 Bowles story about a young woman who escapes from an asylum, and decided she wanted to make a film of it. With no money for the rights and the thinnest of shoestrings to make the movie itself — she forged ahead anyway. Before its well-received premiere in 1983, she shipped a print of the 48-minute black-and-white film, the first screen adaptation of one of Bowles’s stories, to his apartment in Tangier, Morocco, praying simply not to be sued. But almost as quickly as it built a cult reputation, the film fell from view, the victim of a leak in a New Jersey warehouse that destroyed Driver’s negative. That left her with only one film-festival print so battered that it would barely run through a projector. [...FANTASTIC STORY...] The unearthed print of the film, which will remain in the University of Delaware collection, has been completely cleaned and restored. A digital copy has been created, which was used to screen “You Are Not I” for the first time in almost 20 years." - Adriano from Bookmarklet

"The film’s rediscovery has been like opening a time capsule of the No Wave independent-film scene, which flourished in New York in the late 1970s and early ’80s. It included directors like Jim JARMUSCH (Ms. Driver’s longtime romantic partner and the cinematographer and co-writer for “You Are Not I”), Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, Bette Gordon, Susan Seidelman and even Kathryn BIGELOW, of... more... - Adriano

"In the manner of a Renaissance prince, the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years. In the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete. Former case officer, Donald Jameson, has broken the silence: "It was recognised that Abstract Expressionism was the kind of art that made Socialist Realism look even more stylised and more rigid and confined than it was." To pursue its underground interest in America's lefty avant-garde, the CIA had to be sure its patronage could not be discovered. Because Abstract Expressionism was expensive to move around and exhibit, millionaires and museums were called into play. The money came through the Farfield Foundation, a secret conduit for CIA funds." - Adriano

Oil on wood, 118.1 x 160.7 cm (46 1/2 x 63 1/4 in); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - mersenne

"The Harvesters is basically, I think, a visual meditation on the near and the far. The near is the harvesters themselves - painted as only Bruegel can paint. He shows us real people: the man slumped with exhaustion, or intoxication; the hungry eaters; the men finishing off their work before their noontime break. Yet he caricatures them just slightly. He sees a woman with grain-like... more... - mersenne

Just days after The Slits frontwoman Ari Up passed away; Gregory Isaacs, the notorious rudebwoy, and one of the most prolific reggae singers ever passes away after a long battle with lung cancer. Guardian has an obituary for the 59 year old. Really a sad year for rasta brethren & sistren, first Yabby You then Sugar Minott and now Isaacs. - mersenne

The seeds, installed by Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei, come as the eleventh commission in the Tate Modern's Unilever series, which fills the museum's central Turbine Hall with big, unusual and often interactive art. Weiwei's seeds—all 100 million of them—are not actual sunflower seeds but porcelain replicas, hand-crafted and individually painted over the course of two years by some 1600 Chinese artisans. - mersenne from Bookmarklet

Gittim, gordum, hec beyenmedim. - elif kavalci from iPhone

Disney ve Warner Bros cizgi filmlerinin arkaplanlari. Gelmis gecmis en iyi blog fikri sanirim. - mersenne from Bookmarklet

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hooh en sonunda link veren çıktı. teşekkürler - Peren Perengil

Çok güzelmiş ama acaba üzerinde oynanmış olabilir mi diye düşünmeden edemedim. :) Macro ile çektiğimde bile bu kadar detay yakalayamıyorum ben ama tabii bu benim yetekneksizliğim de olabilir. :) - Meyra

Black and white! - mina_sydney

.........................Love............................... عاشقی .... ................... - reズa .