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title="Postopolis DF - 2 activists from Mexico"
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Meet two activists from Mexico. The first is hackarchitect Ehécatl Cabrera who believes that since architecture is not able to answer the many issues that the city has to face, we should raise and 'make the city ourselves'. The second is Tijuana-based Raúl Cárdenas from Torolab who was in Mexico to present his Institute of Waste continue
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title="Postopolis DF - notes from day 5 (first part)"
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The last time i blogged about Postopolis was two months ago. The idea of getting to grips with a report that had to chronicle a criminally long day was a bit intimidating. The fifth day of our blogathon in Mexico DF started at noon and ended at 10 pm. We were braced for the worst but the whole day was over in no time, thanks to some brilliant presentations and a friendly weather. No time to yawn nor complain continue
- Eat your art out: Artists develop a taste for food - Features, Art - The Independent
Cake Britain ? the world's first entirely edible art exhibition.
The show at London's Future Gallery (which is appropriately sponsored Tate & Lyle Sugar), celebrates a nascent British art scene that uses jelly, cake, candy or other fare instead of paint or canvas. - Turn left at the horn: 'Rhino City' revealed - Africa, World - The Independent
There are those who cannot think of Africa without thinking of safari animals. Apparently, Southern Sudan's city planners are among them. Authorities in what may become Africa's newest country, depending on the outcome of a referendum next year, have unveiled plans to rebuild their two biggest cities in the shape of a rhinoceros and a giraffe. - Las Fantásticas bailan 'trance' · ELPAÍS.com
La visión femenina de la intimidad de la cúpula del narcotráfico colombiano. Más la novela sobre una 'narcomantenida' estadounidense
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title="Book review: Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Spaces"
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This perceptive work brings art to the masses and helps us to rediscover our every day surroundings. It challenges us to question if the cities we have are the cities we need while adding a touch of magic to mundane places and situations continue
- L'art contemporain derrière les barreaux - lesoir.be
Montevideo prison turned into contemporary art center
- Anger over ex-Israeli soldier's Facebook photos of Palestinian prisoners | World news | The Guardian
Menuchin ascribes Eden's behaviour to "an Israeli military culture that brings young Israelis to systematically violate the basic rights of Palestinians".
Shalicar notes that, as Eden has been discharged and the pictures do not contain information of a sensitive military nature it is unlikely that action will be taken against her.
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title="FILE Festival - the installations"
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The main exhibition of the FILE festival in Sao Paulo showcases some of the most exciting artistic productions in the field of electronic and digital arts. The sound installations were particularly good. So good that my little round-up features mostly sound pieces continue
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online issue of the magazine featuring sol santarsiero, carly waito, placeresdehacer, kim daehyun aka moonassi, mitch thar, angeles peña, hin chua, agustín sirai and maximilian haidecher.
- Disney sued by mother who 'was groped by Donald Duck’ - Telegraph
A woman is suing Disney for £30,000 claiming she suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after Donald Duck allegedly groped her breast.
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title="Book Review: Berliner Luft"
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Berlin in photography. The campy, the ostalgic, the decadent, the sexy and the never boring continue
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title="War of Internet Addicition"
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The movie that received most attention from both the public and the members of the File Prix Lux is War of Internet Addiction, a machinima advocacy production that voices the concerns of the mainland Chinese World of Warcraft community. Although the machinima was created with WoW players in mind, the video strikes a chord with the broader public by pointing the finger to the lack of Internet freedom in the country and conveying a general feeling of helplessness continue
- Pavlovsk seed bank faces destruction | Environment | The Guardian
Twelve Russian scientists famously chose to starve to death rather than eat the unique collection of seeds and plants they were protecting for humanity during the 900-day siege of Leningrad in the second world war. But the world's first global seed bank now faces destruction once more, to make way for a private housing estate. - ASA watchdog bans 'offensive' anti-terror hotline radio advert | UK news | The Guardian
Britain's eccentrics, recluses and misanthropes, you can relax. Ignoring neighbours and keeping your curtains permanently shut to the world outside might not win you many friends, but you're no longer likely to be denounced as a possible terrorist.
- Clint Eastwood joins fight to save UK Film Council | Film | guardian.co.uk
A new combatant in the fight against the proposed closure of the UK Film Council raised his head above the parapet this weekend. Oscar-winning actor and director Clint Eastwood was so concerned by the move, announced by the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, a fortnight ago as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures, that he wrote a letter of protest to the chancellor, George Osborne.
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title="American Documents"
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Fifty years after The Americans of Robert Frank, and practically at the same time as the reconstruction of the then pioneering exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", FotoMuseum, through the exhibition American Documents, offers a comprehensive overview of the documentary trends in American photography from the 1970 until now continue
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title="What is American Power?"
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In this series of photos and installations in public space, Mitch Epstein explores and questions the 'power' that lays at the core of the United States. 'Power' in this case stands for both strength and energy. Over the course of 5 years he traveled through 25 states to photograph nuclear reactors, oil refineries, mines, rigs, abandoned gas pumps, wind parks, pipelines as well as their environs continue
