CURRENT READS

current reads to look at more closely:

 

Shocking cruelty against the ordinary soviet.

Diedrich Diederichsen, People of Intensity, People of Power: The Nietzsche Economy.

Boris Groys, Marx After Duchamp, or The Artist’s Two Bodies.

Simple work-outs via HuffPo and YouTube

Author Edwige Danticat on PBS interview (video) on the luxury of being an artist.

Online store artists collective by/with british artist Damien Hirst.

"Facebook Suicide" AdBusters on getting off of facebook.

Historical reenactment, (usa civil war reenactments)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

TIME Magazines's Archives: The Anita Hill Saga.

No Time For Downtime? 8 Tips for Improving Cognitive Function. From HuffPo

NewYorkTimes Article after the recent Wikileaks leaking of 400,000 Documents on death count of the Iraq War .

1hour video 80 blocks from Tiffanys, Documentary on the Savage Nomads gang from the early seventies.
Blog article on teaching Voudou at University.

7 shocking facts about minority unemployment from HuffPo.

 The good and bad of SOY from HuffPo.

Language learning links.

Paris metro transportation tarifs via RATP.fr/ "navigo"= (formerly)carte organge

Interesting artist Find: Bruce Yonemoto represented by Alexander Gray gallery:

 Yonemoto’s use of appropriation continues in the photographic series Beyond South: Vietnam (Caravaggio) (2010). Here the artist recreates masterpieces by the16th century Baroque painter, Michelangelo Caravaggio. Each photograph re-imagines an original Caravaggio portrait setting with the original figures replaced by similarly posed Asian models. Further complicating the Western gaze and ideals of patronage and politics, Yonemoto’s sitters are clothed in South and North Vietnamese military uniforms, themselves reproductions sold to contemporary tourists in Vietnam. Through Hollywood devices of costume and set, the photographs muddy readings of subject and gaze, Western art history and late 20th Century politics, religion and representation, imperialism and tourism.