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The exhibition at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam investigates the borders between fashion and art. Today's fashion designers use installations and performances, and their designs are often more sculptural than wearable. Five of them have been commissioned to make new work specifically for the exhibition continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Scorpio's Garden at Berlin's Temporäre Kunsthalle was a very beautiful show. All by Berlin-based artist and curated by Danish artist Kirstine Roepstorff, an explicitly subjective snapshot of a certain scene. continue
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Regine, at we make money not art, introduces us to photographs by Bas Princen of Cairo's Mokattam Ridge or Garbage City (Zabbaleen) - where a community of mainly Coptic Christians live and make a living out of collecting, sorting and disposing of Cairo's waste.
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A short selection of the photo works i saw at Turin's contemporary art fair earlier this month continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Artissima never disappoints. It is decidedly the edgiest and most exciting contemporary art fair in the country. In fact, you'd almost think that people come here because they love art, not just because they want to buy, invest and speculate continue
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Bas Princen, Mokattam Ridge (Garbage city) - we make money not art I first thought tPrincen's photograph was fake. How could this be real? Looking online for the location of the photo, Mokattam, i discovered that the image is authentic. It's a hilly suburb of Cairo called Garbage City. The Zabbaleen, a community of mainly Coptic Christians, live there. Since the '50s, they have been making a living...
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I first thought Princen's photograph was fake. How could this be real? Looking online for the location of the photo, Mokattam, i discovered the image is authentic. It's a suburb of Cairo, called Garbage City. A community of mainly Coptic Christians were allowed to collect and dispose of Cairo's waste by feeding it to their pigs continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I can't recommend the visit of Persona enough. First, there's the museum, its colonial-era hauteur is so un-PC, it sometimes made me cringe but it needs to be experienced before the place is renovated to a modern, polite and friction-proof version of itself. The exhibition itself presents the most breathtaking collection of masks i've ever seen continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Together, the projects featured in Feedforward create a complex picture of the global political and social forces that drive us forward. The exhibition features both the problematic aspects of the present and future, and the potential for collectivity and responsible action. At the nadir of the current global economic crisis, Feedforward is in effect about cleaning up after the 20th century and asks...
Picdit (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
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We make money not art (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Part of Thomas Demand's show Nationalgalerie, Haltestelle is a large-scale photograph of a paper model resembling a nondescript rural German bus shelter, which happens to be the place just outside of Magdeburg where a teen pop band were waiting for their school bus every morning. continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The exhibition addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces--largely enabled by the "progress" of digital information technologies--inexorably feed us forward continue
We make money not art (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
A comprehensive, timely international survey that addresses the relationship between art and electronic technology, this volume explores the presence and meanings of mechanics, light, graphics, robots, virtual reality and the Web in the art and visual culture of the last hundred years. It also considers the reaction, development and future of artistic practice in the face of new technology continue...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Times Labs blog takes a hard look at the data on music sales and live performances and concludes that while the labels' profits might be falling, artists are taking in more money, thanks to the booming growth of live shows. The Times says that they'd like more granular data about who's making all the money from concerts -- is there a category of act that's a real winner here? -- but the trend seems...
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We make money not art (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Developing projects on the net, filming with mobile phones, remixing common moments and figures of today`s culture in an VJ-like audiovisual rhythm, Amerika redifines the characteristics of today's culture and opens up the possibilities for new interpretations and thoughts from the audience itself continue
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