RafaelFajardo

Creating a National Art in El Salvador

hyperallergic: The outside courtyard of the Museum of Art in El Salvador. (all photos were taken by the author unless otherwise specified) SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — What is Salvadoran about El Salvador is not immediately apparent in San Benito, a leafy neighborhood in the country’s capital San Salvador, where the national art museum, El…

March 13, 2014

laughingsquid: Black Simon and Garfunkel Cover Lorde’s ‘Royals’ on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ (Source: http://links.laughingsquid.com/)

March 13, 2014

There is no evidence from any other nation that replacing a public system with a privatized choice system produces anything but social, economic, and racial segregation. Understanding the Propaganda Campaign Against Public Education (via azspot)

March 13, 2014

abelardogfournier: Nam June Paik, TV Garden (1974-2000), seen here

March 13, 2014

futuramb: Digital Life in 2025 By Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, pewinternet.org Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill

March 12, 2014

thecultureengine: Roman Signer

March 12, 2014

I like the inertia of instruments, like a turned-off television taking up space but no time, like a museum where all the art dies a sudden death at closing time, reverting to hunks of stone, steel, dabs of paint in various stages of flaking away, bits of cloth. Laurie Anderson, Avalanche (via jacobwren)

March 12, 2014

lifeandcode: WHUT. I CAN’T EVEN. story-spaces: Processing + LED Building Facade = Programa La Plaza What happens when someone gets lost in Madrid? They run into a kid playing Space Invaders on the side of a building, of course. This ambitious project by Medialab-Prado (part of the Madrid City Council) allows anyone to be able…

March 12, 2014

99percentinvisible: This smart rug can automatically call for help if a person has fallen on the floor.

March 11, 2014

Contemporary artists have to be way ahead of curators. If not, they become illustrators of curatorial concepts. Anton Henning (via originalgiantcontent)

March 11, 2014