This just came in. It starts with a letter from a lawyer for British Petroleum. This is going to get funny. Stay tuned...

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Subject: Use of a website... infringing copyright on the trademarks of BP p.l.c.
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:15:09 -0000
From: White, Robert S C

Dear Sirs,
My name is Robert White and I work in Group Trade Marks - part of the
Legal Department of BP p.l.c.

Our responsibilities extend to protecting the BP brand and trade marks
which includes monitoring the internet for infringements and fraudulent
activities.

Martha Trivizas interviews Joseph Nechvatal

MT: What do you think of the writing trend in which the assumption is that of technology as being inseparable from us as human beings?

Gustave Courbet (portrait by Nadar; public domain)

Thought I would forward this late breaking news.
Cheers, Lee

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The New York Times - February 28, 2008
Guggenheim’s Provocative Director Steps Down
By CAROL VOGEL

After nearly 20 years, Thomas Krens, the provocative director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, is stepping down, its board announced on Wednesday.

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installation shot, Jan de Cock, Denkmal 11

The young Belgian artist Jan de Cock (b. 1976) has shown in many European venues over the last several years, including the Tate Modern in London and De Appel in Amsterdam. This exhibition at MoMA is his first major show in the United States. Landing on our shores after having achieved the status of a distant but persistent rumor, if not quite a cult item, his work turns out to be compellingly erudite, tasteful and clever. But after the first flush of formal audacity wears thin, it unfortunately registers as an emotional dead end, dry and airless, failing to find resonance beyond its own hermetic self involvement.

murmuring tOngue Of Ovid: XS: The Opera, a collaboration with Jane Smith, Rhys Chatham, Yves Musard, Karen Hansgen et al at Shakespeare Theatre, Boston
1985 (photo by Paula Court)

murmuring tOngue Of Ovid was just posted at:
http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html