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Damn, this is ill as fuck.

From the Jewish Museum website:

Marc Adelman (American, b. 1979)

Stelen (Columns), 2007–2011

Installation: selection of 50 archival inkjet prints from 150 found images
Courtesy of the artist

While living in Berlin in 2007, the artist Marc Adelman noticed that many of the profile pictures on a local internet-dating site for gay men had been photographed at the city’s imposing Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. The photographs juxtapose casually posed, flirtatious figures with the severe abstract forms of the memorial. Adelman assembled 150 of these found photographs in grids that correspond to the memorial’s own serial columns.

Destroy the Art to Save it? »

hydeordie:

Antonio Manfredi is a man desperate for attention. Last winter, with the woes of the financial crisis weighing heavily on Italy’s cultural sector, he sent an open letter to German chancellor Angela Merkel, in which he wrote that the cash-strapped museum he founded in southern Italy was in danger and in need of “cultural asylum.” This past Sunday, he took things a step further: He and his staff burned a photocopy of a work of art in front of reporters, and announced plans to destroy one work from the permanent collection every day, beginning in mid-April, if funding for the museum did not improve.

I don’t think this is what they meant when they were talking about creative problem solving.

I have no idea what happened to me, or anybody else, in 2011. There’s a sharp memory of my second son’s birth in January, followed by a four-month haze of sleepless panic, and then… nothing. My job—like all news jobs nowadays, save for a few atavistic holdouts—works relentlessly at the mind, hammering it into a frictionless thruway for data, a machine-tooled aluminum tube for information to sluice through at maximum efficiency. Nothing lodges. All is evacuated to make way for the unceasing torrent of new stories being pumped into my cortex. My cache has been flushed.

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—	John Cook, The Best Things We Read All Year +1 (via kchayka)

hydeordie:

Chris Burden Beam Drop

Directed by Pablo Lobato

Happy birthday, Rodney Dangerfield. We sure do miss you.

Chris Burden Meets Regis Philbin

PHILBIN: Why did you allow yourself to get shot?
BURDEN: It was a piece of sculpture, and it was the best thing I could think of doing at that time. That’s why I did it.
PHILBIN: [laughs] Chris has got me here. We’re gonna—hang in there Chris, and we’re gonna solve this together. As a piece of sculpture…
BURDEN: Right.
PHILBIN: You allowed someone to shoot you?
BURDEN: Right.
PHILBIN: With a gun?
BURDEN: Yeah.
PHILBIN: And in your mind, that was the sculpture, the result of you being shot.
BURDEN: No, just the moment when I was getting shot was the sculpture, just that instant when the bullet traveled from the gun into my arm. And then after that, it’s all over. That was the sculpture; it was less than a second.
PHILBIN: And it was worth it?
BURDEN: Yeah. It was a good piece.

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towerofsleep:

I thought this was going to be good and it is.

The Thing: The Musical!

via 20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk

Heartfelt birthday wishes to someone who would probably never deign to speak to me.

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