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FAQ: What does Artisfear mean?
artisfear: Six years ago, Arlington Cultural Affairs held a contest to name an arts institution they planned to open in the former Newseum space in Rosslyn. They offered three options on which the public could vote. I helped promote the contest by posting it on social media. I recall many smarty-pants friends making disparagingly clever…
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Finally, if the question is ‘do artists need to read such-and-such’ type of literature, the answer is definitely ‘no.’ You never know where ideas come from. I believe in chaos for answers. And the most important thing today, when our tastes are calculated by algorithms, is to find things that you are not looking for.…
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Yet perhaps worse than art created by committee, Varoufakis said, are attempts to appropriate it by bureaucrats and big businesses. “Art must not be anodyne, culture cannot be decorative,” he said, and artists “should be feared by the powerful in our society; if you are not, you are not doing your job properly”. In a…
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Yet perhaps worse than art created by committee, Varoufakis said, are attempts to appropriate it by bureaucrats and big businesses. “Art must not be anodyne, culture cannot be decorative,” he said, and artists “should be feared by the powerful in our society; if you are not, you are not doing your job properly”. In a…
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Santa Marta, Colombia, Friday selfie in front of monument to Colombian Futbol, depicting the beloved international Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama. My uncle claims it is the largest statue of a footballer in the world.
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Santa Marta, Colombia, Friday selfie in front of monument to Colombian Futbol, depicting the beloved international Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama. My uncle claims it is the largest statue of a footballer in the world.
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code drawing 102 state 8, and code drawing 103b state 9. #madeonHopscotch by rafaelfajardo
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Immaterial Worlds | The Smart Set
Immaterial Worlds | The Smart Set smart writing about digital/conceptual art works presented at the Biennial of the Americas 2015.
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You can read this as just a local earthquake caused by the larger tectonic shifts of the publishing industry. But art publishing has its own peculiar dynamics. One of these is that a great, great many art titles are vanity projects, backed by a rich person for the same kinds of reasons that rich people…
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code drawing 99d various states (and substates), by rafaelfajardo