Exhibition looks back on Beirut's violent past, now made cruelly present 'Fossils' drew on memories of transitory existence

By Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Daily Star staff
Saturday, July 22, 2006

Rayanne Tabet's installation "Fossils" should have been the last of its kind.

An arrangement of vintage suitcases covered in concrete, Tabet's piece carries the immediacy of Mona Hatoum's "Traffic" (a 2002 sculpture of two suitcases with human hair spilling out) and the solemnity of Rachel Whiteread's "Untitled (Pair)" (a 1999 installation of 18 cast bronze mortuary slabs).

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Right-wing media divided: Is U.S. now in World War III, IV, or V?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200607140017

With the recent escalation of violence in the Middle East and a terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, the right-wing media have declared a new "world war" but have not agreed upon which world war the United States now faces: World War III, IV, or V.

* World War III?

Most recently, on the July 13 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly said "World War III ... I think we're in it." Similarly, on the July 13 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, a graphic read: "On the verge of World War III?" As Media Matters for America has noted, CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck began his program on July 12 with a discussion with former CIA officer Robert Baer by saying "we've got World War III to fight," while also warning of "the impending apocalypse." Beck and Baer had a similar discussion on July 13, in which Beck said: "I absolutely know that we need to prepare ourselves for World War III. It is here."

http://billionairesforbush.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

Here in Beirut, it seems as if the war has not really started. The
sounds, sights, images, and words we are seeing and hearing are
familiar. We saw them in 1982, in Iraq and Palestine, time and time
again. It feels like 1982, and 1948 (as Rasha Salti reminded us in
her last posting) all in one again. So far, this war follows the
path of the one the Americans launched in Iraq. The air war the

Scope (a.k.a. –scope) is the little art fair that could. A scrappy competitor able to roll with the punches and come out ahead on points, it gives proof to a central precept of natural selection: survival through mutation. One of the obvious mutations of the recent Scope Hamptons (July 13 - 16, 2006) was a significant change in personnel. This overhaul came a scant four months since its last outing in March, when the fair took place in an Eleventh Avenue warehouse just one block from the Armory Show’s Hudson River piers.

From twhid at MTAA-RR
 A great Rocketboom today
An interview with David Cronenberg on the opening of his curatorial effort, “Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962-1964” at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
 

If you make something that is of arbitrary value
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I wonder
In corporate commodity capitalism,
being an artist is not important
art has no value in the corporate world
What happens if you make an art that has no value.

It is now July 2006, I was born on the 23rd of August 1958 in France. 30 years ago rock n roll music, me and others coalesced into a movement named Punk which died 2 years later having transformed me, others and the way folk culture is created and experienced. Less than 20 years after that the french hypermedia revue Pleine-Peau was started by me, others. They departed. I opened the first french blog ever in April 2000 again inviting others, it is still there at 2balles.cc, with others and me currently working out a blueprint.

calendarlive.com: Fleeting Albuquerque heavens in Antarctica

Fleeting Albuquerque heavens in Antarctica

The L.A. artist's team will map `Stellar Axis' and then take it apart, thanks to a U.S. grant.