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Race baiting

Lovely words from Hillary Clinton, via AMERICAblog. That sequence of "hard-working Americans, white Americans" is a gem.

This from today's USA Today:

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

303 Gallery - protecting its artists from the internet

Maureen Gallace at 303 Gallery (The Armory Show 2006)

Maureen Gallace at 303 Gallery (The Armory Show 2006)

Due to our previous coverage of "photography not allowed" policies, blogger and artist Mark Barry forwarded an email he just received from 303 Gallery regarding 2 images on Flickr from his set from the 2006 Armory Show. The photos were taken during the press preview.

From: Simon Greenberg
Date: May 7, 2008 10:06:33 AM EDT
To: mark@markbarryportfolio.com
Subject: Maureen Gallace image - flickr

hello mark -

this is simon at 303 gallery. i noticed you had an image of Maureen
Gallace's work up on your flickr page - please be aware that 303 Gallery
owns the copyright to the work and all public display of images, including
web content. if you could kindly remove this image from your page, it would
be most appreciated.

best
simon

This is one of the more infuriating things I have seen from an art gallery lately. Do the gallery's artists know that they're spending this kind of time trolling the web and harassing bloggers? It hardly seems like a good use of resources.

Related:

• A quote from Lisa Spellman, the owner of 303, on her apprecation of appropriationist art
• Mark's blog post on the 2006 Armory (but the images are only on flickr)
• Edward Winkleman post on galleries and photography -- don't miss the comments

[The two photos above are the ones referred to in the email.]

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Updated: more blogs on the subject

• C-Monster
• Libby and Roberta's artblog
• Heart As Arena is brilliantly subtle

Linkage

• Polling Place Story of the Day - Swampland - TIME
  Thanks to Indiana's voter ID law upheld by the Supreme Court, nuns in their 80s and 90s are turned away from voting.
  tags: voting civilrights indiana voterid

Flickr find: Rafal Karcz

I found these works from a Polish artist based in Krakow named Rafal Karcz on Flickr recently after he contacted me. Check our more on the Flickr site.

PROJECT IN SPACE 1, 2008, watercolor mixed media / paper

PROJECT IN SPACE 3, 2008, watercolor mixed media / paper

Linkage

• C-MONSTER.net. > Blog Archive > The photographs of Bill Eppridge.
  excellent post on photojournalism from c-monster
  tags: photography journalism photojournalism rfk billeppridge

Linkage

• C-MONSTER.net. > Blog Archive > Photos: Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College.
  Frank Lloyd Wright awesomeness in central Florida
  tags: architecture franklloydwright

Linkage

• Artistic director of Art Basel resigns - The Art Newspaper
  Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, who was appointed artistic director of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach less than a year ago, has resigned from the fair with less than five weeks to go to her inaugural edition.
  tags: art-basel

The Civilians benefit "Paris Commune II"

Regular readers of this blog have seen many mentions of the theater company The Civilians. Their latest benefit is Monday, May 12th. Come join me and James at this fun event.

Update: I forgot to mention that Mary Testa and Celia Keenan-Bolger will be among the performers, and that the silent auction is likely to have some good art in it. I know that Mixed Greens is donating some pieces.

Paris Commune II Communards in the South Pacific

Monday,May 12, 8 PM to 1 AM, Performance at 9 PM
Element Nightclub, 225 East Houston Street
@ Essex Street / Avenue A, New York, NY 10002

Enjoy drinks and dancing in this trendy Lower East Side club, surrounded byThe Civilians’ artists, friends, and supporters. This Benefit event will include complimentary sponsored drinks, full cash bar, light hors d’oeuvres, and an exciting silent auction.

In honor of our production of Paris Commune at the Public Theater, the company will perform a special sequel to the revolution. Following the Communards (in song) from life in the streets of Paris to exile on the French Polynesian island of New Caledonia, this one-time only event is guaranteed to prove that the fight (and the show) must go on.

Tickets $25 to $150. R.S.V.P. at www.thecivilians.org or by calling (212)-730-2019.

Libby Hartle at Pocket Utopia

Libby Hartle
Nest, 2008
cast paper

The show closed yesterday, but I wanted to put up an image and provide a link to a few more photos I took. The nest above was made through a rather laborious process of turning found paper and collage detritus into castable paper pulp. That pulp was then used in molds made from real twigs. My crooked photo of some of the process documentation is below.