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“Plank” Sculptor John McCracken Dies in New York
John McCracken was a minimalist with a sense of humor. Possibly a decade ago, In 2000, on seeing More …
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The Guggenheim For a Guy with His Head in the Stars
The 2011 Guggenheim Fellows were announced- and part-time New Mexico sculptor Charles Ross is one. Ross who lives More …
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Why Internet Radio Will Simply Be Called “Radio” Pretty Soon
This article is a slow pitch to all the DJs sitting in the brick and mortar mega-corp offices More …
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The Future of Music is in Your Fridge
The general malaise of the recording industry is a well whipped horse cadaver in the media world–with many More …
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It’s Complex Systems in HD in “Infrastructure”
If Bernd and Hilla Becher tried to systematize industrial operations into banal presentations, flat-framed black-and-white photographs that demonstrated More …
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Kinshasa Symphony Tunes Up At the New York African Film Festival
Central Africas only symphony orchestra is the Kinshasa Symphony, an orchestra of some 200 musicians in the capital More …
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The Rumpus on High-Speed Rail in the Rockies
Politicians love to talk about the fiscal deficit, but what about Americas infrastructure and transportation deficit? Take high More …
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Dragonslayer Film Like a Tame Day in Mediocre Land
Dragonslayer isnt an important film. It wont change your life, awaken new understandings, or teach you anything. Its More …
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Wes Hempel Bares His Unease
Classical art was about nothing if not body worship. Think discus throwers and gods hurtling stars. The spirit More …
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Why Some Music Festivals are Fading Faster Than Justin Bieber’s Teen Idol Status
Live music has always been the golden rock n roll goose laying some very profitable eggs, but in More …
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Schnabel’s New Movie Is Boycotted by American Jewish Committee
Brooklyn-born Jew Julian Schnabel finds himself on the orthodox firing line after having made a new movie, Miral, More …
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Ai Weiwei “Dropping the Urn” – But “Where is Weiwei” Today?
Editors Note: Ai Weiwei has been arrested in Beijing and on April 4, 2011 there are fears for More …
April 2011