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Last week in New York the sculptor Seth Kinmont unveiled the first of three electric cars, bodywork made from wood. For three days he invited people to ride around the block in his new hand-built horseless carriage. Beautiful, huh? I mention this because a) it forms a tenuous artistic link to the following story, and Two very modern stories, and one slightly older one: 1) Attempting to grasp the new digital culture, the UK’s Labour party falls foul of it instead when Gordon Brown’s protege Damien McBride is caught plotting to feed bloggers malevolent disinformation. 2) Protestors, long warning of the evils of surveillance culture, 1.Enough with the goddamned Shakespeare already. 2.Tell us something we don’t know. 3.Produce dirty, fast, and often. 4.Get them young. 5.Offer child care. 6.Fight for real estate. 7.Build bars. 8.Boors’ night out. 9.Expect poverty. 10.Drop out of graduate school. via Ten Things Theaters Need to Do Right Now to Save Themselves – Theater – The Big Rabbits are made from recycled plastic bottles. After the installation is finished, the prolific and cutting-edge art studio destroys the installation and recycles it into a new animal and another project. The Big Rabbits recycled art Installation from Cracking Art Group in Italy has been turning heads across Europe. The recycled Based on that story a couple of weeks ago on the RSA Arts & Ecology website, I have this feature in the current New Statesman: There’s a hint of tumbleweed blowing down the nation’s high streets. Behind the headline-worthy collapses of Woolworths and MFI are the disappearances of hundreds {California Map Project, 1969, by John Baldessari} Somehow I missed learning about this piece until just recently, but it’s my new favorite work of “land art.” In 1969, John Baldessari took the map of California (lower right) and then went to each place on the map where the map letters spelling ‘California’ would be With reference to the post below on the value of art, The Art Newspaper reports that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is about to commission Jeff Koons to create a sculpture of a life size replica of a train that will dangle from a From Live Design Online We asked readers what they’re doing to be green, whether in design, manufacturing, or just life in general. Here’s what Monty McWilliams at Apollo Design Technology had to say: “Apollo has obviously gone green in a big way by switching our gobo production process from chemical etching to clean laser technology. Please Theatre and the Environment Panel (And an excerpt of a work in progress) Martin E. Segal Theatre Center The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309 April 23rd, 2009, 6:30 pm Join us on the evening after Earth Day to explore what theatre artists and production staff are doing to meet the |
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