Off Center

Outside Ideas from Inside the Walker Art Center

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by Paul Schmelzer at 11:05 am 2006-04-11
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A bulletpointed list of things we’ve been noticing:

• The “Nobel Prize of Architecture,” the Pritzker Prize, just named its newest winner: Brazil’s Paulo Mendes da Rocha. “Architecture is a human endeavor inspired by the nature all around us,” he’s said. “We must transform nature; fuse science, art and technology into a sublime statement of human dignity.”

• Painter, assemblage artist, and inventor of the Happening, Allan Kaprow died at his home in Encinitas, California on April 5. He was 78.

• Online footage of Yoko Ono’s 1965 performance of Cut Piece.

• A member of Muzak’s marketing department, quoted in a New Yorker profile of the company: “Our biggest competitor is silence.”

• Italian porn star (and former collaborator with then-husband Jeff Koons) has an offer for Osama bin Laden: “[H]e can have me in exchange for an end to his tyranny. My breasts have only ever helped people while Bin Laden has killed thousands of innocent victims.”

• Do you know the blog gang sign?


 

1 Comment

  1. […] First came the blog gang sign, then, thanks to Walker COO Dave Steglich (street name: Hellrocket), the Walker Art Center gang sign: […]

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