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Entries from December 15th, 2010

A Silent Night…Literally!

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

What do Pete Doherty, the Kooks, Billy Bragg, Imogen Heap, and Orbital have in common? Well…they’re all in the music industry. However, this year, their defining unifying factor is the collaboration of support for Cage Against the Machine. Cage Against the Machine is the campaign to put the silent piece 4’33” by John Cage (our […]

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When Art and Death Embrace

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

Death is not an easy topic to cover, but Jay Rosenblatt does so anyway. A master of found footage form, this San Francisco based artist “splices” neglected or discarded educational or industrial films, commercials, news clips, and home movies into a seamless moving collage, with subtly layered soundtracks that range from poetry readings, journal entries […]

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To Think of Time

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

In regards to parent and child, many agree that the apple does not fall far from the tree. Some commonly known examples are actresses Blythe Danner and daughter Gwenyth Paltrow, as well as musician John Lennon and his son, Sean. In the realm of visual art, the VanDerBeek’s are no exception. Sarah VanDerBeek is the […]

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Within the Crab’s Shell

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

It’s safe to say that Henry Darger was a hermit. He was a notoriously reclusive artist who is famous for a 15,145 paged (single-spaced, mind you) manuscript titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, […]

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