Good Friday Afternoon: Marlene Dumas - David Zwirner Gallery
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Marine wedding
One of the most impressive -and meaningful artwork we saw at the Whitney Biennal:a documentary series of photographs by Nina Berman.
Marine Wedding meant to denounce the Irak War through the striking true story of a mutilated soldier who is about to marry his High-school lover. Even though the war took him his appearance of a human being, he doesn’t reject military values.
the entire series here:
http://www.ninaberman.com/anb_port.php?dir=mw&mn=prt
1 Design USA, when the Ipod Touch content is better than the objects featured in the room, is it still a good “exhibition”? We should invent a new name for “that”.
Yesterday, while it was pouring as hell, I checked out Design USA: contemporary innovation at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
It’s like a giant “names-to-know list, so you don’t sound too stupid in posh events”.
It’s not about what you actually see in the exhibition- there are no so many objects featured. The interested part relies much more on the Ipod Touch content with many artists’ interviews and so on. Hence, my fundamental question: Should we even call that an exhibition?
http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Design-USA/
(I’ll post my “best of list” as soon as I find it in my mess.)
Milton Glaser, Push Pin magazine graphic, 1950’s-1960’s.
via Good Magazine.
http://www.good.is/post/the-world-s-most-expensive-cities?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+good%2Flbvp+(GOOD+Main+RSS+Feed)
There’s a tectonic shift rocking the social, political, and economic landscape. The last two points above are what express it most concisely. I hate labels, but I’m going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation “M.”
What does the “M” in “Generation M” stand for? First it’s for a movement. It’s a little bit about age—but mostly about a growing number of people who are acting very differently. They are doing meaningful stuff that matters the most. Those are the second, third, and fourth “M”s.
Gen M is about passion, responsibility, authenticity, and challenging yesterday’s way of everything. Everywhere I look, I see an explosion of Gen M businesses, NGOs, open-source communities, local initiatives, government.
Who’s Gen M? Obama, kind of. Larry and Sergey. The Threadless, Etsy, and Flickr guys. Ev, Biz and the Twitter crew. Tehran 2.0. The folks at Kiva, Talking Points Memo, and FindtheFarmer. Shigeru Miyamoto, Steve Jobs, Muhammad Yunus, and Jeff Sachs are like the grandpas of Gen M. There are lots more where these innovators came from.
Gen M isn’t just kind of awesome—it’s vitally necessary. If you think the “M”s sound idealistic, think again.
Read more: http://www.good.is/post/the-good-100-umair-haque#ixzz0gqX4SqOL
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Umair Haque,
The GOOD 100
http://www.good.is/post/the-good-100-umair-haque
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