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Can a hole be art? A district court in the German city of Mannheim decided it can’t, Die Welt reports. In 2006 the artist Nathalie Braun Barends created the site-specific installation HHole for Mannheim—a hole drilled through several stories of the museum. The institution, which is currently being expanded with a new building, has decided to…
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It’s both spooky and flattering to find materials I created out in the wild. Aspen Hall study area. (at University of Denver)
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«This photograph of a drain pipe attached to a miter box documents one of the most famous examples of American Dada. The sculpture God, a readymade in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp’s upended urinal entitled Fountain, has traditionally been attributed to Schamberg, a talented photographer and painter who blended machine imagery and abstraction. Recent scholarship…
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Art historians and academics have pointed out that in 1917 Duchamp wrote to his sister, recounting how ‘one of my female friends under a masculine pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent in a porcelain urinal as a sculpture’. Duchamp revealed that this model of urinal wasn’t even in production at the factory where he claimed to have…
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First Action: “The Letter”
whoisrmutt: “The Letter” (Smoking Gun) Starting April 11, 2015 Commemorating the anniversary of the letter, sent by Marcel Duchamp to his sister, April 11, 1917. Instructions Print or order from http://www.zazzle.com/whoisrmutt the R. Mutt sticker. (Allow 1 week for delivery.) Print copies of the letter http://whoisrmutt.com/theLetter.pdf front and back on natural fiber paper such as…
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asamease: Baldessari Face Recognition with Processing and OpenCV iteration #2 How do you test if your program recognizes multiple faces at once when you are working alone? The hardest part was getting the logitech camera to override the built in macbook camera. Final result coming soon!
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by Rafael Fajardo
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mikerugnetta: arpeggia: Ad Reinhardt was an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. Most famous for his “black” or “ultimate” paintings, he claimed to be painting the “last paintings” that anyone can paint. [wikipaintings.org] Image source: afterimagegallery.com, revierpassagen.de, Le.Mat, Mark Notari ultimate morning
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The people now calling for nonviolence are not prepared to answer these questions. Many of them are charged with enforcing the very policies that led to Gray’s death, and yet they can offer no rational justification for Gray’s death and so they appeal for calm. But there was no official appeal for calm when Gray…
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Thoughts re: Frank Lantz’ “Against Design”
clairehosking: I feel really weird writing this because I have so much respect for Frank Lantz and I get that his piece is almost more about describing a sense of something, it’s impressionistic, not laying out a literal argument. That said, here I’m going to treat it as a literal argument so I can unpick…