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Sunday, April 27, 2014
DEPRESSION – #11 of 16
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A scale model exhibited simultaneously with Depression commissioned by Ramiken Crucible and funded with capital leveraged against the permanent collection to be amassed by the gallery over the coming century, this building embodies the ideal art space. Constructed in international waters, this free standing open ocean platform will function as an independent state. This island fortress will provide artists with a private kingdom free from any moral law, civil code, or financial regulation. The building will house the ultimate gallery, named Unamerican Fine Arts, and is scheduled to open for the fall season of 2100. The scale model was designed and built by the architecture firm known as We Will Replace All Of You With Cool Mexicans.
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
THE PACIFICATOR
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The La Trobe Journal
Article: No 86 December 2010
The Pacificator: discovering the lost bust of George Augustus Robinson
The Pacificator: discovering the lost bust of George Augustus Robinson
STOLEN & unOFFICIAL!
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When was the last time you walked into a painting exhibition at a commercial gallery and saw something truly politically radical? .....“The Un-Officials | Art Before 85” highlights the practice of artists working in post-Reform China ...... [and] were active amidst the denouement of the prohibitive Cultural Revolution, as early as 1973, ........ [until] Deng Xiaoping after Chairman Mao’s death in 1976.
“The Un-Officials” focuses on the efforts of two groups: the Wuming Painting Society (wuming means “no name,” or “anonymous”), founded in 1973, and the Xingxing (“Stars”) Group ...... [all] self-taught artists .... reject[ing] Socialist Realism ... paint[ing] in banned western styles ..... dodg[ing] government surveillance; many of these groups’ members were jailed for insurrection or sent to the countryside for “reeducation.” .... to connect click here
Friday, April 25, 2014
A Contentious & Contested Muse
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The so called GREAT WAR invokes a myriad of muses, emotion laden muses, muses about heroism, muses invoking nationalism, muses confronting debauchery, musing on selective memories, musing upon contested forgettings and more. On the cusp of a centenary commemoration the musing takes on poignance and places far away, and times long ago take on new significaces. A letter to an editor gets published, platitudes get to be repeated and truths are searched for. It seems not much is learned upon reflection. Likewise, musing can be a rhizomic journey and it's compulsions can lead you to some very dark places.
GOOD & BAD NEWS
Some time ago Trev left the hill, the one that did a lot of the work, and took on a journey for serious musing. The good news is that the baton has been picked up so that the auxiliaryMUSING may continue even if intermittently and somewhat less reliably.
“Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull
into a cup for others to drink wine from.
In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man,
who doesn't know what he's about to do!”
Authentic Musing?
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In 21st C museums the frontline of the muse is likely to be something of a struggle between the 'authenticists' and ... let's call them 'The Thinkers".
With current technology, even 20th C technology, it is possible to produce FORENSICcopies. Just think about Rodin's Thinker of which there are about 28 FORENSICcopies in the world – all there without diluting the power of the work.
So why not acquire a FORENSICcopy of Dancing Shiva and bypass the ARTcrooks that sold one for a lot of money to Australia's National Gallery.
What's more, by doing so, vest musing value in the cultural property, leave mere things in place and debunk the mythologies that CROOKartdealers feed off.
Just a muse!
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