Time offf

Until the end of January I probably won't be able to post. In the meantime, enjoy the archives and the links.

Crisis etc.

There's a huge crisis in the Portuguese Ministery of Culture, and I'm writing about the influence of the CIA on the abstract art of the 70's. Escapism?


Francois Lefranc, Escapism (2001)

Abstract art's secret agents

Sam Francis, “Untitled” (ca. 1988-89)Reposting can really be a good thing.In 2003 Mark Vallen, the author of one of the most conservative contemporary art blogs I know, wrote a review of a book called The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. Because...

Art Bar

What would a real Art Bar look like? Of course, it would have nothing to do with those fancy, plushh interiors for posh people that have art director written on their business cards. It would have to be a place that corresponds to the very thing art is. And that wouldn't...

Duchamp, Urinals, and the Press

Yes, Duchamp's Fountain is safe. It was attacked by an old man with a hammer, but without success. Only some pieces of porcelain were chipped away. The porcelain seems to be of good quality.The author of the act considers them performance art. Maybe in an act of revenge,...

Conceptual or not conceptual?

Photosynthesis Robot, by Amy Franceschini and Michael Swaine of Futurefarmers, is a possible perpetual motion machine driven by phototropism - the movement of plants towards the direction of the sun. The motion of the plants upon this four wheeled vehicle would propel slowly...

Art of(f) the Edge

The internet "intellectual site" Edge has recently published the answers to its Question of the Year. The question this year was "What is Your Dangerous Idea?" The answers came from a range of intellectuals, 117 of them to be precise. Most of them are physicists or psychologists,...

I should have been a waiter

Would you look at that: 195 comments!

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Fluffy crazy sculpting

Botanica Beluosa - Monstrous Botany - soft sculpture ("Fabric Sculpture Installation ") by Martha Sue Harris
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