Archive | July 1, 2010

Ingestion / Table Manner – Anthony Grafton



On 18 July 1573, the Venetian Inquisition summoned Paolo Veronese to answer questions about the Last Supper that he had painted for the Convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo. In Veronese’s magnificent image, Palladian architecture frames the central scen…

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Islands and the Law: An Interview with Christina Duffy Burnett – Sina Najafi and Christina Duffy Burnett



Bounded by water, circumscribed, and discrete, islands arguably constitute a natural geographical model for the classic territorial conception of a state (where sovereignty is thought to extend homogenously across a defined terrestrial region and …

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Shit We’re Diggin: The Sand Sculptures of Hampton Beach New Hampshire



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Marielle Heesels
Rijen, Netherlands

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Justin Gordon
Groveland, Massachusetts
“It’s No Yolk”

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Michel Lepire
Charlesbourg, Quebec
“The Enchanting Spirit”

See the whole series here.

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Cristian Sonda – An Introduction (In Itialian)

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ProjectRoom London

ProjectRoom London from Agents Of Change on Vimeo.

Following on from the success of the ProjectRoom series in Berlin, Remi/Rough and Jaybo brought ProjectRoom to London with the help of the UK’s abstract graffiti pioneer; Juice 126.

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Toxic Face’s “Women From Kato City”

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C215 Goes Big in Moscow

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The Non-Toed Fur-Coaties by NEOZOON

The Non-Toed Fur-Coatie / engl. subtitles from Neozoon Collective on Vimeo.

The video captures people’s reactions to NEOZOON’s art installation in a real zoo in Münster, Germany

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Checkin’ In With Elmaks in Montreal

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From Elmaks:

“The future of the Turcot Interchange has been a hot topic of discussion over the past year, with community groups, urban planners, citizens and politicians arguing over which plan for the interchange’s remodelling is best. Current plans call for the expropriation and demolition of some 200 homes in a neighborhood that has been hard-hit by megaproject expansions.

To top it all off, a city politician who ran on a platform of openness and transparency has taken over the Turcot planning issue and shut out almost all community groups. So I made these posters in order to try and bring the Turcot Interchange and its future back into the public eye… This is the first in a series of posters I’m doing which will feature alternate futures for the Turcot.”

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Seen On The Streets Of Memphis, TN

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