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<title><![CDATA[Random(Net)Radness...]]></title>
<link>http://theouterbox.wordpress.com/?p=275</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>edbot5000</dc:creator>
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<p>I found this crazy picture stumbling around online. DeviantART user FilthyLuker, in collaboration with Pedro Estrellas, created this awesome piece entiltled: "Cthulhu Fhtagn: Octo-pied Building" locates in France. Part Lovecraft, part Christo all freaking sweet! Did not find too much more info on the artist personally, but there are some fun images to look at. Check out more of FilthyLuker's installation work at his DA <a href="http://filthyluker.deviantart.com/">page.</a></p>
<p>-eb5k</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Q and A]]></title>
<link>http://nbc5streetteam.wordpress.com/?p=1774</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tom Kolovos, NBC5 Street Team
The dog days of summer is the time of year when writers and editors ca]]></description>
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<p>The dog days of summer is the time of year when writers and editors call me with questions about fashion, style and, lately, politics.</p>
<p>I'm so used to giving answers for a living that I rarely get to ask the questions myself. Here are some questions I'd like to ask. (OK, sue me. I'm impatient so I answered them too. Old habits die harder than Bruce Willis.)</p>
<p>Feel free to add to my list, but keep in mind this is a public forum and a good <em>double entendre</em> is as risque as you can get.</p>
<p><strong>Who really motivated Marie Osmond to lose all that weight?</strong> The makeup person who finally screamed at her "for God's sake it's blush not steaksauce!"</p>
<p><strong>What do you wear to a foreclosure?</strong> A housecoat.</p>
<p><strong>In a post-Scalia Supreme Court, what will a burglar be wearing to your home?</strong> A chalk outline.</p>
<p><strong>What kind of rice is dangerous if it stays in your cabinet too long</strong>? Condi Rice.</p>
<p><strong>How many years does it take Neocons to screw in a lightbulb? </strong>The same amount of time it takes them to screw everyone, 8 years.</p>
<p><strong>Why is Rick Santorum's first name so often misspelled?</strong> Because the P is silent.</p>
<p><strong>Why do rumors still abound that Bill Clinton keeps getting caught with his pants down?</strong> Because it's Hillary who <em>wears</em> the pants. </p>
<p><strong>What's the subtle difference difference between Christ and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo" target="_self">Christo</a>? <span style="font-weight:normal;">Christ would like it very much if Oprah got out of the business of walking on water. Christo would like her to stand perfectly still.  </span></strong></p>
<p><strong>On what floor does Antonin Scalia always exit a building?</strong> The gun lobby.</p>
<p>On a tangentially related note, if you have never checked out <strong><a href="http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/" target="_self">stuffwhitepeoplelike.com</a></strong>, you are missing some serious hilarity. It turns out <strong>"Stuff White People Like: The Book"</strong> hits bookstores today.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thebestdressedlist.com" target="_self">TheBestDressedList.com</a></p>
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<link>http://directorofphotography.wordpress.com/?p=217</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fito Pardo</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fito Pardo</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fito Pardo</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fito Pardo</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fito Pardo</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fito Pardo</dc:creator>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Fito Pardo</dc:creator>
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<title><![CDATA[Schrijven op het Plein]]></title>
<link>http://conniefranssen.wordpress.com/?p=553</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Connie</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Fietsen naar Haven. Het zonlicht valt door de bomen in plasjes op de velden die oplichten dankzij he]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://conniefranssen.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/gates3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-557" src="http://conniefranssen.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/gates3.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="298" /></a>Fietsen naar Haven. Het zonlicht valt door de bomen in plasjes op de velden die oplichten dankzij het wit van fluitekruid en uitgebloeide paardenbloemen. Het fietspad slingert zich door een zacht lichtgroene poort. Ik denk aan de docu van gisterenavond. Over kunstenaar Christo en zijn vrouw die The Gates maakten in Central Park. Kilometerslang meanderen oranje poorten met daaraan saffraankleurige doeken zich door het park. Het beeld iedere keer anders, afhankelijk van wat de wind met de stof doet, hoe het zonlicht er doorheen valt, de maan haar stralen werpt. Je ziet hoe de New Yorkers - aanvankelijk gereserveerd - gaandeweg betoverd worden door dat bevreemdende en blij makende beeld van die eindeloze doeken in de wind.</p>
<p>Waar was ik, o ja, fietsen naar Haven. Als ik de Kerkgracht op fiets zie ik Daniel aan de overkant voor zijn deur gitaar zitten spelen. Zwaaien. Niet verkeerd, een dagelijks fietstochtje als dit. Naar de Hulk voor een officiele bezichtiging. Myra en Huub mee. En een mevrouw van de Alliantie die het allemaal niet zo goed weet te verkopen. Bovendien is de Hulk is nou niet bepaald een plek waar je meteen verliefd op wordt. Onbestemd lopen we naar buiten. Lastige beslissing. Eerst maar 's op zoek naar koffie. We lopen Willem tegen het lijf die een communicatiebureau heeft. "Bij mij in het gebouw is ook nog plek, loop even mee." En dat voelt meteen goed. De ruimtes die leeg staan zijn te groot voor ons 3-en. En dan zegt Willem dat hij het ook wel gezellig vindt mee te doen. En Peter wil ook wel...Ineens is er weer energie. Schrijven op het Plein. Klinkt goed.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Art Spotlight: Christo]]></title>
<link>http://elizabethlaney.wordpress.com/?p=385</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>elizabethlaney</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Christo and Jeanne-Claude&#8217;s work is about temporarily altering an environment.  The artist]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://elizabethlaney.wordpress.com/files/2008/04/h1u1064t.jpg"></a><a href="http://elizabethlaney.wordpress.com/files/2008/04/h1u1064t.jpg"></a>Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work is about temporarily altering an environment.  The artists use one part of the environment, so we can see and perceive the whole environment with new eyes and a new consciousness.  Christo's <em>The Gates</em> in Central Park of NYC was completed in 2005 after being originally conceived in 1979. </p>
<p><a href="http://elizabethlaney.wordpress.com/files/2008/04/h1u1064t.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-386" src="http://elizabethlaney.wordpress.com/files/2008/04/h1u1064t.jpg?w=400" alt="" width="213" height="189" /></a></p>
<p> <span style="font-size:xx-small;font-family:Verdana;">Photo: Wolfgang Volz</span></p>
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<link>http://annamation.wordpress.com/?p=243</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ruthanzo</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hhow iiss itt than None getz to ggo to tthe bbig rappel aand mmany of us gget to sstay inn the bbehi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hhow iiss itt than None getz to ggo to tthe bbig rappel aand mmany of us gget to sstay inn the bbehind at l'owzile de kkoranwall? ttthe llast ttrip we ttuque wwwas to ththe Emouly Carrharrt att tthe slowmart in Vile Mairie &#38; tthat was in ssleptember. llately i've bben atttending to a ffilmy corse (nappoleon soddommites) aaat tthe cooledge of dh llaurence. aftter chattering up the laddies oour 80 sumthhing prooff ffires uup the pprojectile aand ttries hhis ddamndest tto reel us in jjust like Jorge BBush ddoes tuna. wwe have to ppry oour eeyes open wwith toothpicks tto staay awaake dduring ssome of tthe ppresenstations of la cross.  Laast weak was La ggrange illusion &#38; I cconfesse itt eeluded me as I ssearched in vein four somme hhay so's i ccould baille. it's sas pplane as the bbarn on yer fface h ed said. ccan';t hhardly wwait for Streetwalker named ddésirée wwith Marlon Monroe. </p>
<p>Spruce Top. P.<br />
c/o Yee Ault Waterboarding Haus<br />
CCarnal st.<br />
KKoranwall</p>
<p>Naan ssays sshe scened tthat fflaky rrapper Crisco with hiss opining act Jeanne-Red-Cloud &#38; tthat tthey look rready ffor mmummiffication. tut tut. naaan sshould talk.<br />
inkqueery: ddoes anyone kknow any goood noparkingsongs? towtapppers? uncchained mmelodies? wwwinching ballades?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Print on demand]]></title>
<link>http://kronbergskrattarochler.wordpress.com/?p=263</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>letaguldkorn</dc:creator>
<guid>http://kronbergskrattarochler.wordpress.com/?p=263</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jaha - så har jag skrivit min första print on demand-bok.
Finns här:

Jonathan
Hade velat haft fl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jaha - så har jag skrivit min första print on demand-bok.</p>
<p>Finns här:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.vulkan.se/Presentation.aspx?itemid=15150" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="https://www.vulkan.se/FileService.axd?FileID=26581&#38;FileType=preview" alt="" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.vulkan.se/Presentation.aspx?itemid=15150" target="_blank">Jonathan</a></p>
<p>Hade velat haft fler bilder med i boken - men så är det det där med rättigheterna.</p>
<p>Skrev till <a href="http://christojeanneclaude.net/" target="_blank">Christo och Jeanne-Claude</a> för att få veta om det var okej att använda denna bild:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://radicalart.info/nothing/cover-up/cover/christo/62RideauDeFer.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Detta var ett av deras tidigaste verk. Utfördes på rue Visconti i Paris sommaren 1962 - när min mamma var där. Hon såg det - men förstod inte vad det var. Ett konstverk sa någon. Folk stod på varsin sida och pratade med varandra - genom muren av oljefat.</p>
<p>Min mamma trodde att det kanske var ett experiment för att se hur folk reagerade när de tvingades gå en annan väg - än de var vana vid - till favoritcaféet.</p>
<p>Men det som Christo och Jeanne-Claude hade tänkt på var järnridån. Verket heter <em>Rideau de Fer</em> - Järnridån - och föddes som ett embryo 1961 - när Berlinmuren byggdes.</p>
<p>Denna bild och andra - av konstnärer som min mamma umgicks med hade jag velat ha med - men jag vågade inte med hänsyn till rättigheter.</p>
<p>Christo och Jeanne-Claude har förresten inte hunnit svara - jag skrev till dem idag.</p>
<p>Men jag var så otålig - så jag publicerade boken utan att vänta på svar - och utan detta foto.</p>
<p>Såg förresten att Lena Donnér som min mamma ungicks med - det var hon som ordnade boendet åt min mamma och hennes väninna Elena i Paris - den <a href="http://lenadonner.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lena Donnér gick visst bort 2006</a>.</p>
<p>Tråkigt.</p>
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<link>http://artistquoteoftheday.wordpress.com/?p=280</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>karynmannix</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday Christo
Christo (born as Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Bulgarian: Христо Ява]]></description>
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<p>Christo (born as Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев) and Jeanne-Claude (born as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon) are a married couple who create environmental installation art. Their works include the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris, the 24-mile-long curtain called Running Fence in Marin and Sonoma counties in California, and most recently The Gates in New York City's Central Park.</p>
<p>Coincidentally Christo and Jeanne-Claude were born on the exact same date - 13 June 1935.</p>
<p>Although their work is visually impressive and often controversial as a result of its scale, the artists have repeatedly denied that their projects contain any deeper meaning than their immediate aesthetic. The purpose of their art, they contend, is simply to make the world a "more beautiful place" or to create new ways of seeing familiar landscapes. Art critic David Bourdon has described Christo's wrappings as a "revelation through concealment."</p>
<p>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude</p>
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<link>http://fuckgrapefruit.wordpress.com/?p=27</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>misterfricative</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[According to Wikipedia,  so-called &#8216;[a]rt critic David Bourdon has described Christo&#8217;s w]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo">Wikipedia</a>,  so-called '[a]rt critic David Bourdon has described Christo's wrappings as a "revelation through concealment."'</p>
<p>What a tosser. Personally, I'd call it malicious littering.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/sharedMedia/wc/thumb/WCoast1thu.jpg" alt="Christo and Jeanne-Claude vandalize a stretch of Australian coastline" /><br />
<em>Christo and Jeanne-Claude vandalize a stretch of Australian coastline</em></p>
<p>Who needs this?  No-one. Who'd be better off without it?  Everyone.  Case closed.</p>
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<link>http://pollocksthebollocks.wordpress.com/?p=255</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pollocksthebollocks</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Christo and Jeanne-Claude, born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon re]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Christo and Jeanne-Claude, born Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon respectively, are a married couple who collaborate in creating environmental installation art. Their works, all credited under the name Christo and Jeanne-Claude, are massive and visually magnificent projects.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.nyc.gov/html/thegates/images/photos/03_valley_curtain.jpg" alt="" width="379" height="270" /></p>
<p>Although their art is largely controversial due to their size and scale, Christo and Jeanne-Claude insist that their art does not contain a hidden message or agenda. Their aim for their art, they said, is to present a different way of looking at landscapes that have become familiar to the general populace, as well as to make the world look more beautiful. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's work was described by art critic David Bourdon as "revelation through concealment."</p>
<p><img src="http://www.nyc.gov/html/thegates/images/photos/04_running_fence.jpg" alt="" width="418" height="298" /></p>
<p>The first project undertaken by the couple was Dockside Packages, done at Cologne Harbor in 1961. It was a temporary artwork that involved stacking barrels and covering them with cloth. The exhibition of Dockside Packages lasted for two weeks and happened simultaneously with an exhibition at Haro Lauhus Gallery, also in Cologne.</p>
<p>After Dockside Packages, Christo and Jeanne-Claude became involved in various outdoor wrapping projects. Among these notable projects are:</p>
<p>The Air Package they created for Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany in 1968, which is an inflated structure erected without a skeleton. It was the largest structure ever created thus.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.nyc.gov/html/thegates/images/photos/09_wrapped_reichstag_02.jpg" alt="" width="375" height="299" /><br />
The Running Fence, a 40-kilometer veiled fence constructed from steel posts and steel cables. The veiled fence ran across the landscape of the Sonoma and Marin Counties in California and led to the sea.<br />
The veiling of the Reichstag, the seat of the German Parliament, in 1995. The project was viewed by more than five million people before the building was unveiled.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.nyc.gov/html/thegates/images/photos/08_umbrellas-japan.jpg" alt="" width="377" height="269" /></p>
<p>Christo and Jeanne-Claude met in 1958, when Christo was commissioned to do a portrait of Jeanne-Claude's mother, who was the wife of the influential General Jacques de Guillebon. The two share a birthday, June 13, 1935. It was described that in the partnership of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Jeanne-Claude handles the publicity and the logistics of their projects while Christo makes the final decisions in the creative department.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/thegates/html/photos_others.html">Photos of other Christo works</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Arte Contemporáneo III]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>raulonso</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Continuando con este empeño personal de ayudar a entender un poco más el Arte Contemporáneo, voy ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Continuando con este empeño personal de ayudar a entender un poco más el Arte Contemporáneo, voy a escribir un poco sobre las características del arte más actual, del arte de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.</p>
<p>En primer lugar hay que señalar que si algo le ha apasionado al ser humano desde siempre, eso ha sido el crear; lo que quizás le hacía ser y creerse superior a otros e incluso poderse comparar al mismo Dios, caso que pasó por ejemplo con Miguel Ángel. Y eso mismo pasa en esta segunda mitad del siglo XX, a pesar del posible desbarajuste que había en el mundo del arte con artistas, movimientos, tendencias y corrientes; el artista-creador necesita desarrollar su espíritu creativo, buscando un camino personal y único, en búsqueda de una trayectoria y oteando unos horizontes a veces ya vistos y otras por explorar. Por eso, las tendencias, escuelas y movimientos que habían vertebrado el arte de los siglos y años anteriores, no tienen su razón de ser; porque el arte, la creación, se convierten en algo totalmente personal. Por eso, a veces nos cuesta tanto comprender la obra de un artista, porque nos tenemos que poner en su lugar, ver cual ha sido su trayectoria hasta el momento, leer documentos que nos haya dejado, buscar bibliografía...</p>
<p>Otra característica de esta parte más actual de la historia del arte, es la ruptura de los soportes tradicionales, y de las disciplinas artísticas. Me explico. En general, cuando solemos explicar el arte que se desarrolla en un período tendemos (inadecuadamente) a reducirlo a arquitectura, escultura y pintura: las mal llamadas "Artes Mayores". Pues bien, en este período, y en general en el siglo XX, debido al carácter creativo del artista del que hemos hablado antes, se buscan nuevas disciplinas, nuevos soportes donde expresarse, porque el arte es expresión. Se rompen los lienzos (ver foto abajo de cuadro de Millares), se acude al cuerpo humano, se busca el arte en los medios de comunicación, se hacen obras de arte en paisajes naturales, la arquitectura busca nuevas formas y materiales, el arte se alía con el cine y con los mass-media, se hacen instalaciones, performances y environments, se crean obras de arte que serán desmontadas y dejarán de existir como tales, también se buscará en los ordenadores y las nuevas tecnologías un campo enorme por abarcar... y también se continúa con las disciplinas con las que se venía trabajando (ver La Gran Vía de Antonio López abajo).</p>
<p>Los escarceos de los siglos pasados por hacer el arte al margen de la belleza, son ahora una realidad firme, un objetivo. Un paradigma de esta forma de crear, es el ya mencionado urinario de Duchamp. Los movimientos continuadores de esta filosofía creadora, por poner algún ejemplo son el Expresionismo Abstracto, el Minimal y el Arte Conceptual. En estos tres movimientos, lo importante es el proceso creativo: en el primero a través de impulsos, gestos espontáneos expresados con colores; en el segundo, nace como reacción al Expresionismo Abstracto y consiste en eliminar todas las cosas superfluas hasta dejar a la obra con su esencia; el tercero, el Arte Conceptual, es en realidad una forma de agrupar a ciertos artistas y obras, aboga por dar más importancia al proceso creativo que a la obra final.</p>
<p><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/antonio-lopez-la-gran-via.jpg"></a><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/ad-reinhardt.jpg"></a><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/oppenheim_monumento-al-cine.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-85" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/oppenheim_monumento-al-cine.jpg?w=121" alt="Oppenheim" width="121" height="96" /></a><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/christo-the-umbrellas-japon.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-84" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/christo-the-umbrellas-japon.jpg?w=128" alt="Christo" width="128" height="86" /></a><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/rothko_orange.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-83" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/rothko_orange.jpg?w=74" alt="Rothko" width="74" height="96" /></a><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/mondrian_composicion.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-82" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/mondrian_composicion.jpg?w=96" alt="Mondrian" width="96" height="96" /></a><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/pollock_action-painting.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-81" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/pollock_action-painting.jpg?w=96" alt="Pollock" width="96" height="96" /></a><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/manolo-millares.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-80" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/manolo-millares.jpg?w=103" alt="Millares" width="103" height="96" /></a><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-86" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/ad-reinhardt.jpg?w=96" alt="Ad Reinhardt" width="96" height="96" /><a href="http://elsenordelosespejos.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/antonio-saura_el-grito.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-79" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/antonio-saura_el-grito.jpg?w=74" alt="Antonio Saura" width="74" height="96" /><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-87" src="http://elsenordelosespejos.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/antonio-lopez-la-gran-via.jpg?w=90" alt="Antonio López" width="90" height="96" /></a></p>
<p>Por lo tanto, y resumiendo este último apartado, contemplar una obra de arte "sin belleza" (y por muy objetiva que esta sea), es como comer una tostada sin mermelada. Ahora bien, no por ésto, la obra deja de ser arte; ni porque no nos guste, no quiere decir que no la valoremos, ni la demos la importancia que la obra pueda tener. A veces, debemos salir de nuestro papel, de nuestro yo, dejar de disfrutar y analizar, y reflexionar lo más friamente posible sobre lo que supuso esa obra en esa época; por lo que volvemos a lo comentado en el principio: lo difícil por lo trabajoso que es, indagar sobre las trayactorias de los artistas y sus obras de arte.</p>
<p>Y recordad: <em>El arte reside en los ojos que lo ven y no en las manos de quien lo hace.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[ART // CHASING WATERFALLS]]></title>
<link>http://deviantdecorum.wordpress.com/?p=119</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 02:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>endo</dc:creator>
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The mafia graveyard also known as the East River will now have more for New Yorkers to gaze at than]]></description>
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<p>The mafia graveyard also known as the East River will now have more for New Yorkers to gaze at than snitches and trash.  Artist Olafur Eliasson is set to install four waterfalls (one under the Brooklyn Bride) that will start gushing as soon as July 2008.  The projects $15 million price tag was privately funded through donations to the New York Public Art Fund.  The city is expecting to make a little loot (good ol' tourist dollars) from this project to the tune of $55 million, hoping to repeat the financial success of  Christo's and Jean Claude's "The Gates" in Central Park back in 2005.  These waterfalls will accompany the artists retrospective show named "Take Your Time" being held at MoMA and PS1 during the same time.  I really hope these things have filters, because the last thing I want to see is the contents of the East River being shot out of a 60 foot tower.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Gates - Christo]]></title>
<link>http://agorarte.wordpress.com/?p=204</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Oskar</dc:creator>
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The Gates (diseñada para el Central Park de NY en 2004) fue una de las obras más destacadas del a]]></description>
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<p>The Gates (diseñada para el Central Park de NY en 2004) fue una de las obras más destacadas del artista estadounidense de origen búlgaro, Christo Javacheff. Aquí, el promo del documental realizado por HBO sobre esta estupenda intervención urbana. Por su fuerza evocadora, es una de mis favoritas...</p>
<p>Oskar</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.epdlp.com/pintor.php?id=2686">Biografía de CHRISTO</a></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/">Web site de Christo y Jeanne-Claude</a><br />
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<title><![CDATA[Neues vom "Bänkelsänger"]]></title>
<link>http://naggen.wordpress.com/?p=113</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Kaspar</dc:creator>
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Yes, yes, yes&#8230;..Sebastien Tellier hat es wieder getan. Und es ist sehr geil geworden!
Seit ei]]></description>
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<p>Yes, yes, yes.....Sebastien Tellier hat es wieder getan. Und es ist sehr geil geworden!</p>
<p>Seit ein paar Tagen ist sein neues Album draußen. Es heisst "<a href="http://www.myspace.com/telliersebastien" target="_blank">Sexuality</a>" und kann so einiges! Sebastien elektro-funzel-popt so irre lässig daher, dass ich die Pladde einfach nicht mehr aus dem Player nehmen kann. Die beiden Tracks <a href="http://www.theyellowstereo.com/February/01%20Sexual%20Sportswear%20%28SebastiAn%20remix%29.mp3">"Sexual Sportswear"</a> und <a href="http://www.theyellowstereo.com/February/Sebastien%20Tellier%20-%20Divine.mp3" target="_blank">"Divine"</a> (via <a href="http://theyellowstereo.com" target="_blank">Yellow Stereo</a>) sind zwar die am besten <i>vermarktbaren</i> Perlen, ich persönlich finde aber, dass "Roche" der vielleicht geilste Tellier-Track überhaupt ist und das größte Potential hat, den Mann in einer größeren Öffentlichkeit bekannt zu machen. <img src="http://naggen.wordpress.com/files/2008/02/sexuality.jpg" alt="sexuality.jpg" style="float:left;" /><br />
Das das nicht mehr lange auf sich warten lässt, liegt aber auch an jemand anderem: Das komplette Album ist nämlich nicht von irgendwem produziert worden,sondern vom <i>französischen Elektro-Gott</i> <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daft_Punk" target="_blank">Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo</a> höchstselbst. Das hört man zwar in fast jeder Note, fusioniert aber überaus elegant mit Telliers Gesang und der Air-artigen Samtigkeit des Slow-Mo-Musikers. Eine Zeit lang hat man ihm sogar nachgesagt, den Stil von Air einfach zu kopieren. Hört man seine älteren Platten, könnte man diesen Satz sogar unterstreichen. Mit "Sexuality" (einer 11 Stücke langen Mediation über das Liebe-machen) ist dieser Vorwurf aber nichtig. Die Musik von Sebastien Tellier ist eigenständig aber trotzdem nicht erwachsen. So eigenwillig, wie sie früher war, ist sie aber nicht mehr. Dazu ist zuviel Pop<font color="#999999"><strike>pen</strike></font> mit im "Sexuality" dabei.</p>
<p>Wer mit dem Namen Sebastien Tellier nichts anfangen kann, kennt zumindest seinen 2004'er Erfolg "<a href="http://www.lastfm.de/music/Sébastien+Tellier/_/La+Ritournelle" target="_blank">La Ritournelle</a>". Ich habe den Song schon immer geliebt und neulich auf <a href="http://theyellowstereo.com/?p=2088" target="_blank">Yellow Stereo</a> den begnadeten Metronomy-Remix gefunden.</p>
<p>Also: Reinhörn!<br />
PS :La Ritournelle = Der Bänkelsang</p>
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