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about victor strelkovsk
BARGANTE: Que ou quem tem maus costumes; libertino,patife,velhaco. Trabalhador que trabalha em grupo, indivíduo de baixa extracção que se agrupa com outros, soldado, mercenário. Homem do mundo que anda com gente alegre, malfeitor. UM BLOGUE DE FERNANDO GONÇALVES
Os 23 mil objectos do Museu de Arte Popular serão transferidos em 2007 para o Museu de Etnologia, revelou o director do Instituto Português de Museus, Manuel Bairrão Oleiro, também presente.
Isabel Pires de Lima visitou ontem as instalações do Museu de Arte Popular para reafirmar, perante os jornalistas que a a acompanharam, a sua determinação em encerrar este Museu e em seu lugar criar o Museu Mar da Língua Portuguesa
Segundo o relatório apresentado ontem em Londres por Nicholas Stern, Portugal será um dos países mais afectados pelas alterações climatéricas, caminhando para periodos cada vez mais alargados de secas e incêndios florestais.
More than 6,000 state legislative seats in 46 states are on the Nov. 7 ballot, and like the seismic state elections in 1994 and 1974 the cumulative impact of the outcomes could be immense, with Democrats possibly gaining control of a majority of state capitols for the first time in a decade.While the nation’s attention has been fixed on the question of which party will control Congress, another campaign season has been unfolding in the shadows — upstaged and overlooked but more likely to affect the day-to-day life of voters than the big-money Congressional races.
Most significantly, the groundwork for redrawing Congressional districts after the 2010 census will be done under the 50 capitol domes, and the party in power will set the table for those discussions in ways favorable to its interests. Gains made this year, analysts say, will help give incumbents a leg up in the final elections leading up to the redistricting.
If the Democrats take control of a majority of the legislatures, which polls indicate could happen, women could also attain leadership positions in greater numbers, since Democratic women in state capitals outnumber Republican women by nearly two to one. The next generation of national political leaders, by tradition, is nurtured in the state legislatures.
Nota Formiga Bargante: Para todos aqueles (poucos...) que entendem que a vida não se esgota no "rectângulo", esta leitura é fundamental.
about pierpaolo koss
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The Congressional campaign of 2006 slouches toward election day through a grotesque landscape of torture and excuses for torture, scabrous messages from a Congressman to young boys, a Congressional cover-up of the same, murder and countermurder every day in Iraq (a heart-stopping 655,000 Iraqis have died since the invasion, according to a Johns Hopkins study), and nuclear fallout from North Korea (of the political if not the literal kind). The stakes, as President Bush likes to say--and on this point he is correct--could scarcely be higher. But they include one stake he never mentions: the future of constitutional government in the United States, which his presidency and his party have put in serious jeopardy. The old (lower case) republican system of checks and balances and popular liberties, you might say, is in danger of replacement by a new (upper case) Republican system of arbitrary one-party rule organized around an all-powerful presidency.
Guia prático para compreender os mecanismos de corrupção ligados à construção civil.
When I moved into this house, everything seemed self-evident. The space, the light, the trees – I just accepted it without thinking about it much. Now I look around with new eyes. I think it’s all kind of a miracle.
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning returned his focus to painting in 1975 after two years of devoting himself primarily to making sculpture. In this resurgence of artistic creativity and with a newfound confidence, de Kooning produced an extraordinary body of work that would soon become one of the most highly regarded series of his long career. During this period, de Kooning experimented with varying levels of image abstraction and morphology. The sunlight, dunes, bright blue water and deep green landscapes of Long Island increasingly informed de Kooning’s representation of the female form, and as a result the two subjects merged. As Thomas Hess stated, “Woman, for de Kooning, is the human equivalent of water; more than a vessel, she embodies it in planes of rippling flesh.” (Harry Gaugh, de Kooning, New York, 1982, p. 109)
Though highly abstracted and gestural, the figurative element in Untitled (Figure in a Landscape) maintains a powerful presence even as the form appears to be engulfed by the turbulent, watery background. The overall effect is a tapestry of marks in a stunning orchestration of color and brushwork. The energy with which de Kooning applied the paint is palpable; the bravado of the brushstrokes is keenly sensed in the strong blue strokes splashing over the figure’s head. Other than the well defined arms and head, the rest of the figure’s body is subsumed by the watery paint application of the lower region. The swirling reds, blues and fleshy pinks of Untitled (Figure in a Landscape) highlight de Kooning’s reputation as a superb colorist. The group of paintings produced from 1975-1977 have long been noted as being the most direct reference to liquidity and flow in de Kooning’s work. Having left Manhattan and living full time in East Hampton, de Kooning explained: “I wanted to get in touch with nature. Not painting scenes from nature, but to get a feeling of that light that was very appealing to me, here particularly. I was always very much interested in water…I reflected upon the reflections on the water…I do that almost every day.” (Harold Rosenberg, de Kooning, New York, 1973, pp. 48, 50) Untitled (Figure in a Landscape) is a beautiful and lively representation of the watery landscapes and figurative forms that de Kooning so expertly merged in his late seventies renaissance.
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A frank statement of the seriousness of Britain's predicament in Iraq from the chief-of-staff of the British army, General Richard Dannatt, has precipitated an unusual air of realism that opens up the serious possibility of a British withdrawal.
Ellipse Foundation curators Pedro Lapa
The text of President Bush's news conference yesterday ran to nearly 10,000 words, but what may have been more significant were the things he did not say.The president talked repeatedly about "benchmarks" for progress in Iraq, using that word 13 times. But he did not discuss the consequences of the Iraqi government missing those targets. Such a question, he said, was "hypothetical."
That response left unclear how the benchmarks would be different from previous times when the United States has set out intentions, only to back down. For example, the original war plan envisioned the U.S. troop presence in Iraq being cut to 30,000 by the fall of 2003. Last year, some top U.S. commanders thought they would be able to significantly cut the U.S. troop level in Iraq this year -- a hope now officially abandoned. More recently, the U.S. military all but withdrew from Baghdad, only to have to have to reenter the capital as security evaporated from its streets and Iraqi forces proved unable to restore calm by themselves.
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Para todos aqueles que não tiveram oportunidade de lêr o artigo
"João Rendeiro partilha a propriedade artística com o Banco Privado Português e a Ellipse Foundation (em inglês, com sede em Amsterdão, onde é mais favorável o direito das fundações). A dita Ellipse começou por ser anunciada como um fundo de investimentos em arte, com rentabilização a sete, oito anos. Já em andamento, mudou de estratégia, afastou o horizonte da alienação (por sinal, as compras são feitas num período de grande inflação do mercado) e decidiu abrir um "art centre" para ir mostrando o acervo - são duas condições que a favorecem como cliente, tal como a associação ao Museu do Chiado por via do curador-director Pedro Lapa. As obras de Sharon Lockart que lá se expõem pertencem à Ellipse, o que tem vantagens desiguais para as duas partes. Outro comprador é Alexandre Melo, que acumula com o posto de conselheiro cultural do primeiro-ministro e com o papel de comissário de exposições oficiais ("Portugal Novo", no Brasil e em Luanda - nem todos os artistas são apostas da Ellipse) e particulares (agora na Galeria Presença , Porto, com três artistas elípticos estrangeiros). Os conflitos de interesses são gritantes nos dois casos, mas já se sabe que a arte é um dos mercados muito pouco regulado e que a imprensa cultural é a mais complacente de todas".
Em sinal de apoio ao excelente texto de Alexandre Pomar, recuperamos aqui alguns outros textos, estrangeiros, sobre o mesmo tema.
Carmona Rodrigues decidiu-se, finalmente, a lutar contra os interesses instalados em Lisboa.

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Por este meio vimos fazer um veemente apelo a Manuel Oleiro, Presidente do Instituto Português de Museus, para demitir Dalila Rodrigues.
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As I talk with curators at museums not called 'MoMA' about their collections, they usually start with some variation of this: We can't afford to collect comprehensively. We can't build a 'complete' collection of contemporary art. We have to pick a few foci and collect richly in those areas. We can't have everything the way that museum can.
This has turned out to be a blessing for contemporary art. Here's why: MoMA's Cezanne-to-WWII timeline dominates the history of modern art. (Nevermind that it ignores American modernism and that it pays short shrift to Latin America and Central Europe.) But because there are so many museums and private collectors around the world who are committed to building major contemporary collections, there will not be a single institution that dominates the history of contemporary art the way MoMA does in modern art. This means that more artistic voices will be heard and more varied histories will be formed.
That's all the more important because MoMA, the modern/contemporary art world's richest institution, is struggling with contemporary art. As nearly every critic with a keyboard has noted, the current contemporary installation at MoMA is a mess. An unfortunate Wangechi Mutu competes with Mona Hatoum competes with David Hammons. And from the other side of a silly Martin Creed, the soundtrack of a Pipilotti Rist encrocahces on everything.
What happens when a computer programme starts buying and selling stuff on Internet auctions like ebay autonomously? That is the key question of superconsumers. The stuff the Bot has bought is exhibited for a short time. Thus digital values are translated into tangible goods. And vice versa, since the Bot sells them again after a while to buy new ones. In this way, commonplace products are temporarily translated into works of art.
The basic principle of superconsumers is to make an amount of money available to a software (a so called “bot”). The software uses this money to buy goods autonomously at the online-auction-platform ebay, transfers this goods to an art-space, exhibits them and sells them again via ebay.
| Superconsumer pictures by Ulrich Thaler. | ||
The exhibition-module consists of a computer-interface displaying the softwares actions at ebay, 7 pedestals that show the current goods and a watchmann who executes the softwares instructions and arranges the goods on the pedestals.
There are mainly 4 points that form a fascintation for this project:
The relationship between humans and machines - the bot replaces exemplarily the role of humans in the ebay environment.
The ready-made principle: While transfering ordinary objects from the mass-market to an art space, the bot enhances the objects to pieces of art. This enhancement is temporarily, the bot takes away the “art aura” by selling this pieces again via ebay.
The installation gives an constantly updated overwiev on the mass-market. The programming of the process makes the items the bot will buy unpredictable - a search on the topic “football” can respond items like fan-articles, computer games, books or sportswear.
Interaction is an important point on art-projects dealing with the internet. The interaction at superconsumers is quite hidden: Everyone dealing with the bot at ebay is arranging the exhibition without knowing it.