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Saturday, February 26, 2005

sarah moon

i wasn’t terribly impressed with the stuff in the 1972 pirelli calendar, but since then, things like this

moon-01.jpg

did get my attention. so i direct your attention to one sarah moon.

posted by roj at 12:08 pm  

Saturday, February 26, 2005

the exonerated

by the exonerated, i mean the live production, which concluded its off-broadway run almost a year ago now, and the tour is over too, but it’s now being produced by independent theater groups.

while i missed a couple opportunities to see it myself, it’s an important social commentary. find it, see it… or maybe even produce it yourself.

posted by roj at 12:02 pm  

Saturday, February 26, 2005

ciao fonseca

painter

posted by roj at 11:51 am  

Monday, September 20, 2004

goodbye romania

goodbye romania is one of the most interesting applications of technology to message i’ve seen in a while.

the downside – each visitor destroys a little bit (well, pixel) of the site. or is that the point, really? be careful where you go.

posted by roj at 1:43 pm  

Wednesday, September 8, 2004

something different: flip

having wasted most of my time and space here at the meta-roj blog on silly subjects like politics and spam, i’d like to take a few minutes, while i’m still conscious, to devote some attention to things more important, and i’m going to start with a bunch of 17th century paintings on display in south africa.

the current exhibitiion of the michaelis collection, including works of frans hals, jan steen and anthony van dyck under the curatorial direction of andrew lamprecht displays the paintings with a flip: the works face the wall.

here are some stories, from circa art magazine, the sydney morning herald, the independent online and art daily.

do you feel challenged?

posted by roj at 3:53 am  

Friday, July 30, 2004

in his own words

in his own words [quicktime or realmedia].

the words of president george w. bush from the 2003 state of the union. change the state of the union.

everything is on the record. the people have the tools. perspectives will be available.

[via metafilter]

update: if you like that, you might also like this, which we did here a while ago.

posted by roj at 12:21 am  

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

pants on fire

ben cohen brought the pantsonfire-mobile to baltimore recently, as part of the art car exhibition portion of artscape. unfortunately, due to a crush of events in my universe, i didn’t get to see it up close and personal, so i can’t drop a photo in here for you. fortunately, the net is there to handle that part for me.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder inflamed by Bush [ap via seattle post intelligencer]

“I believe that it’s disrespectful of the president to essentially lead the country based on lies,” he said. “If that happens, then I believe it’s actually our patriotic duty to make people aware of it.”

the official pantsonfire journal and itinerary don’t give many clues about the baltimore appearance, but the baltimore sun seems to think it was here.

Ben & Jerry’s co-founder inflamed by Bush [ap via seattle post intelligencer]

Reaction to the effigy across the country has been overwhelmingly positive, Cohen said, so much so that he has commissioned a second one to tour.

maybe it was the debut of pantsonfire-mobile-2?

posted by roj at 4:47 am  

Friday, July 16, 2004

underexposed

doing something for the local music scene, if a bit far from me (london), bob stuart has assembled underexposed, with hundreds of photos of working bands.

this is the other end of the spectrum.

posted by roj at 10:54 am  

Friday, July 2, 2004

bodyworlds comes to los angeles

opening today in los angeles, bodyworlds

200 real human specimens are displayed to reveal an extraordinary new look inside the human body.

the announcement from the california science center.

posted by roj at 6:23 am  

Thursday, June 10, 2004

art attack and attack

i just had to put these two stories together… from boingboing, art attack, on the developing story of steve kurtz, and from the new york post, wacko in ‘art’ attack.

the stealthy museum invader has hit the guggenheim (ny), the met (ny), the national gallery (dc), the philadelphia museum of art (pa), and, according to newsday, princeton (nj) and yale (ct).

not that these things are related, of course, but let’s get a statement from the metropolitan museum:

The Metropolitan is a repository for the greatest works of human creativity over the last 5,000 years. It is not a bulletin board. For us it is clearly an unwelcome demonstration of self-aggrandisement.

posted by roj at 5:14 pm  
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