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Archives for December, 2009

Is the Internet Helping Authoritarianism?

A screen grab from YouTube shows Neda Agha-Soltan lying on the ground after getting shot in the chest in Tehran on June 20. Reuters / YouTube From Techno-Utopian Fail, by Evgeny Morozov: Every few years the public fixes its gaze on a new technology, which, no matter how trivial, is immediately endowed with magical, even [...]

Anthem

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in. – Leonard Cohen var addthis_language = ‘en’;var addthis_options = ‘email, favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’;

Snow Shoes

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A Review: On Seeing Color

In the above photo (which I took a few months back, in Queens, NY), the sky is blue, but do you remember why? Why is the truck faded, rusty reds? Or, what causes the vivid colors in sapphires or emeralds? What do diamonds and rainbows have in common? Most of what you’ll ever see in [...]

Party Like It’s 1909

For art, nothing compares to the noughties: Bold artistic revolutions, stunning new architecture … Only one problem: it’s not the first decade of the 21st century I’m talking about, but a century ago Say what you like about the first decade of this new century, in art it has been epochal. Never did the accident [...]

Foreign Tongue: An Exhibition at CUAC

An Exhibition curated by Andrea Serbonich. December 12 – January 16, 2010 Opening Reception: Saturday, December 12 from 6-8pm Central Utah Art Center 86 South Main Ephraim, UT 84627 435-283-5110 www.cuartcenter.org Foreign Tongue situates a photojournalistic approach in a fine art context. Most of the photographers in this exhibition have renown for their arresting and [...]

East Village, New York City

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Nine Photographers on the Frontiers of Climate Change

From the frontiers of climate change comes Consequences by NOOR. Featuring the work of nine, internationally acclaimed photographers, this exhibition documents the devastating effects of climate change around the globe. These stunning photographs show not what might happen in the future but what is happening today. Above photo by Pep Bonet: From the Upper Silesian [...]