A sampling of the over 2,000 artworks that are part of the NASA Art Program were recently uploaded to NASA’s Flickrstream, and give an insight into the breadth of work that has come out of this rare merger between a government agency and art.
August 2013
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Abu Dhabi’s Guggenheim and Louvre Projects Site of Bloody Labor Clashes
LONDON — At least 40 laborers were hospitalized and 25 arrested on Tuesday evening after a violent brawl erupted between workers on Saadiyat Island, in an eruption allegedly provoked by the deportation of strikers and the hiring of “scab” workers in the aftermath of a strike affecting thousands of laborers in May.
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When Nightmares in Art Were All the Horrifying Rage
The horror of what your brain can do when you give it up to sleep is universal, yet the heyday of the nightmare in art seems to have passed.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Australia, Illinois, Nebraska, New York, and Virginia.
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New York City Council Members Call for “Cultural Roadmap”
In a statement released earlier this week, New York City Council members Stephen Levin and Jimmy Van Bramer announced their proposal for a referendum to improve cultural spending, a “bill requiring the city to have a cultural plan.” By carrying out extensive assessments throughout the five boroughs, Levin and Van Bramer hope that this information could be used to better direct the City’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) initiatives and bring them in line with community priorities.
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Out with the Old, In with the New: Museum Will Sell Hopper to Buy Contemporary Art
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) will sell one of its two oil paintings by artist Edward Hopper and use the money raised to increase acquisitions, particularly of contemporary art.
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And this Concludes Videodrome…Let the Sunshine In
Thanks for watching today’s programming.
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The IRL Land Where Cats Rule
The Japanese island of Tashiro (田代島) is where the feline things are.
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Art School Girls of Doom!
In a darker time, let’s call it the early 1990s, MTV tried its hand at some edgier things and one of those experiments was a semi-animated short series titled Art School Girls of Doom.
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Making a Film the Source of Its Own Failure
JK Keller’s “Gleaning the Fifth Screen, Minority Report (screen test)” (2012) was created when he wondered if there was a way to have the film be the source of its own failure or glitch.
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Walk Through Juan Atkins’ Detroit
As any techno fan, myself included, can tell you, Juan Atkins is considered one of the elders of techno, which was born in the rapidly changing world of Metro Detroit. Even as the city, once one of the fastest growing cities in the world, was being hollowed out by white flight, the edges of the city were giving birth to a new musical vitality informed by funk, Kraftwerk, Chicago House, new technologies, and other currents of the period.
In this new video from the Avant/Garde Diaries, Atkins takes you through the urbanscape of a “postindustrial city” that he calls “cold and bleak”, but one that has never stopped acting as a muse for creatives like himself.
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A Shadowy Richard Serra Video Break
Richard Serra’s “Hand Catching Lead” (1968, 16 mm black-and-white film, no sound) is a strangely appealing video that functions as well in the digital era as it probably did in its own time.
