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Competing Relationships: Art, Money and the Power of Time and Space

Posted in Art or Commerce?, Exhibition, Installation, Multimedia, tagged , , , , , , on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Earlier this spring, as we stepped off the elevator on the top floor of the Whitney Biennial, my company at the museum made the rather amusing but to my mind also very accurate observation that it all looked like “an open studio at an MFA program”. My friend was reacting against the lack of space [...]

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Radical Cartography

Posted in Books, Exhibition, Mapping, tagged , , , , , , on April 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »

From the first known map of the trading world (inscribed on a Babylonian clay tablet in 600 BC) to Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi’s 1154 world map, to National Geographic’s rendering of the earth’s ocean floor, cartographic representations have helped us imagine and navigate trade routes, political states, scientific discoveries and geographic territories.
Published maps [...]

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Automatic for the people

Posted in Art or Commerce?, tagged , , , , , on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Art*o*mat is a long-term project of artist Clark Whittington, who retools vintage cigarette vending machines to dispense affordable art objects created by over 400 artists from 10 countries. The machines have the chrome and high polish look of restored vintage cars. Each is unique, beautiful and reminiscent of another era. But they are not [...]

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