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this might be very good....
"Progress"
on view July 11, 2008 - November 30, 2008
“Progress” brings together works from the Whitney’s permanent collection, highlighting connections between art and visions of utopia. In the early part of the twentieth century, artists and architects like Joseph Albers, Naum Gabo, and Frederick Kiesler carried the revolutionary aims of the European avant-garde to America. The utopian impulse of these artists found its parallel in America’s optimism in developing new technology and
the rise of consumer culture--advancements registered in the emergence of Minimalism and Pop Art in the 1950s and ’60s.
This presentation includes works in a variety of media at once representing and critiquing the social and aesthetic goals of Modernism. Artists such as Dan Flavin, Ad Reinhardt, and Sherrie Levine recorded the myriad responses, both hopeful and critical, to the transformation in American culture brought on by the influx of utopian ideals. Other artists address the linear advancement of modernity from a distance, neither celebrating nor critiquing the changes it has brought, but tracking its effects over the passage of time. “Progress” also presents more recent works by artists including Paul Sietsema and Joel Sternfeld, who mine Modernism’s utopian moments in order to gauge how the familiar narratives of progress in the United States continue to haunt and inspire contemporary experience.
might have to go rubbernecking. shouldnt they be home watching turkey v. germany?
The current Birder’s World features my little blurb about Calvert Vaux Park, the site at the mouth of Coney Island Creek where the Western Reef-Heron was found last year. There’s lots more there than just one rarity…
jim henson's time piece
george carlin, rip.
what to do with a baby bird too little to fly on our front stoop? well, now he's in a box. ALEX!!!
"Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!" the Mars Phoenix Lander tweeted at about 5:15 pm.
hey, gif collectors!
dylan thomas under milk wood pt 1 pt 2
I am aware of all internet traditions.
http://video.google.com:80/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147
what u think??
kea'd up
foot-loose and car-free
meet the tim meets his maker
heart attack at 58
staycation all i never wanted
staycation couldnt get away
Mr Bill, New Orleans and mastercard
This sounds like a great program! :-) Congrats b.
value priced computers.....(from economist article)
XO $100 laptop that cost $200 to make (Linux system)
Classmate by Intel $300 to $500
Asus Eee PC $299 to $549
stupid fucking politicians
grateful chucks
Google maps, what a joker. Thinking about taking a day off next week and going to a N. Carolina beach and I put in my zip code as starting point and N. Carolina beach as end point but I forgot the last number and the four digit number I did put evidently corresponds to Australia. So Google maps gives actual directions from a point in Australia up to the water's edge and then says, "kayak across the Pacific Ocean," 12,742 km. And then picks up again in Washington State and gives directions to NC. Total trip, "17,796 km, about 42 days, 17 hours."