Miriam Klein Stahl and Gabby Miller, Dreams of Things That Have Never Been…,2011
UC Berkeley police to purchase a Lenco Ballistic Engineered Armoured Response Counter Attack Truck (BEARCAT), using funds granted by the Department of Homeland Security.
This is surreal, dishonest, and disgusting — militarized police waging war against the people (the students) they’re meant to protect.
MACAO in Milan, 2012: The project by Lavoratori dell’Arte to occupy a skyscraper for the purposes of contemporary art.
See Lucia Tozzi, “Macao: chronicle of an occupation,” in Domus
And Barbara Casavecchia, “Occupy Milan!” in Frieze
Joanna’s essay “Occupying Skyscrapers” will appear in the catalogue for the exhibition she’s co-curating with Michael Darling, Skyscraper, which opens at the MCA Chicago in June.
In Afterall, Josefine Wikström interrogates Tate Britain’s conference on immaterial labor.
Ben Webster and Danny Marcus, circumspect, on Occupy Wall Street’s May Day action.
And, overhearing a conversation about “Wanna Be Startin’ Something,” Kate Sutton recommends we read John Jeremiah Sullivan on Michael Jackson.
Lucien Baylac, Aerial of the Exposition Universelle, Paris, France, 1900
Matthew Day Jackson, In Search of…Ghosts, 2011, Blu-ray Video still Dauer: 31’ 10” min.
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Inside the Main Dining Room of the Hotel St. Regis, New York City
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