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This week Manifesta announced that Manifesta 8, the latest in the series of European art biennials, was going to be held in 2010 in Murcia in southern Spain. Curator/founder/director Hedwig Fijen gave the reasons to the Spanish press: “We have chosen Murcia because it is a place of transit and crossing of cultures and because Jonah Lehrer’s book How We Decide has received quite a bit of attention recently, and his website is chock full of other good reads. I particularly enjoyed a recent piece in the Boston Globe on how cities dull our brain while also being fertile areas for innovation. Here’s an excerpt: Now scientists Wow, an official video for Mykonos by Fleet Foxes. It looks like they’ve crossed their hippie beard music with 1920s avant garde stylings. This is still one of my favorite songs. {Disappearing series, 2A, 2B, 2007, oil on canvas, 48×24 inches, by Diane Burko} Clicking around the site for the upcoming show Out of the Blue, I found these works by Diane Burko. Some might question the need for more landscape painting, but these seemed to make sense to me. Sure, they On this blog there’s been some debate as to the preservation of environmental art and its merits. When does a work that is meant to decay become not-an-artwork, that is, just another rotting thing? Curators in Venezuela are determined to never let it get that I’ve been busy as of late, getting ready for the recently passed open studios. I missed posting about the opening of one of these shows, but another one is coming up on the East Coast. Anyway, here’s the info: Out of the Blue, at Bergen Community College in NJ. Opening on Feb Just as we’ve received a reminder from the Community Arts Network RSS feed, we are reminding all of our readers about this upcoming event. We’ll both be there in Houston (my home away from home for the better part of the last decade) Sustaining our planet, our culture and our creative enterprise” are WILLIAM SHAW: This morning comes the news that measles is on the rise in the UK, predictably so as MMR vaccination rates dropped. The question is why so many people chose to disregard good information and clung doggedly instead to bad science or anti-establishment dogma. There's a parallel here with the science of {Likeness: Portraits Of Artists By Other Artists, available at Amazon for $0.24!} Here at the Eco Art Blog, we’re big fans of used books. And though the NYTimes recently pointed to the online used book market as another nail in the retail bookstore coffin, you really can’t beat some of these Mo`olelo recevied the MetLife/TCG A-Ha, Think it, Do it Grant in late 2008 and today held a half-day meeting to begin the nitty-gritty of the grant work. Mike Brown and Eric Wilmanns of Brown & Wilmanns Environmental Consulting, Costume Designer Jeannie Galioto, Lighting Designer Jason Bieber, Scenic Designer David F. Weiner, LEED AP Charlie |
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