Untitled

2013-05-25

grupaok:

Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry, 1932-3, Detroit Institute of Arts.
As Detroit’s municipal bankruptcy looms, the city’s “emergency manager” Kevyn Orr weighs the possibility of selling off the collection of the D.I.A. to pay for the city government’s mismanagement — like an art museum is a fuckin’ piggy bank. This is outrageous, unconscionable, and to be resisted tooth and nail.

Diego Rivera, Detroit Industry, 1932-3, Detroit Institute of Arts.

As Detroit’s municipal bankruptcy looms, the city’s “emergency manager” Kevyn Orr weighs the possibility of selling off the collection of the D.I.A. to pay for the city government’s mismanagement — like an art museum is a fuckin’ piggy bank. This is outrageous, unconscionable, and to be resisted tooth and nail.

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2013-05-24

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.

— Kurt Vonnegut (via endangerment)

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installator:

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo), 1991. Installation process. Image courtesy of the Williams College Museum of Art; photo by Roman Iwasiwk (curatedobject.us)

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metamuseum:

Helena Hernmark, Swedish, active United States, born 1941, Glimpse, 1974, Wool, linen; weft-faced with discontinuous weft patterning, The Adele Roller Fund and gift of Mr. and Mrs. Myron T. Kerr, Jr., 97.74

Swedish-born Helena Hernmark works in the traditional art of tapestry weaving, but she has honed a unique approach to imagery, which she calls “superrealism.” Interpreting a snapshot of something ordinary at unexpected dimensions, usually through tremendous magnification, her work jolts the viewer into a new frame of reference.

Hernmarck’s technique, which involves weaving bundles of threads of different thicknesses and hues, known as “butterflies,” into the tapestry, imbues her works with varied texture and complexity of color. Inspired by an aerial photo by William Garnett, which Hernmarck clipped from a 1967 article in Life magazine, Glimpse sees the architectural dimensions of a town shrink when viewed from above.

Jennifer Komar Olivarez

Associate Curator, Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
http://artsmia.org/

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Our view is that the legal basis is quite unclear,” said Salil Shetty, the London-based group’s secretary general. “We have issues with how the United States defines the ‘theater of war’, which is a very broad definition which allows them a free rein to use drones and other weapons under a very wide set of circumstances.

— Drone killings draw ire of Amnesty International - The National

Source: thenational.ae