Standard Proportions
A Hoist (width) of flag 1.0
B Fly (length) of flag 1.9
C Hoist (width) of Union 0.5385 (7/13)
D Fly (length) of Union 0.76
E 0.054
F 0.054
G 0.063
H 0.063
K Diameter of star 0.0616
L Width of stripe 0.0769 (1/13)
It's the final hours of Michael Asher's (shortnened from the original proposal) piece for the 2010 Whitney Biennial, where the artist had the museum open continuously to the public 24 hours a day. Ends tonight, Friday May 28 at 11:59 pm. The entire Biennial exhibition closes this Sunday.
Photo: meowzas
I think this comment sort of sums it up:
When AP first challenged Shepard Fairey's use of this photo, Mr. Fairey should have had the courage to admit that he had indeed based his painting [sic] on Mr. Garcia's photo — and to assert that he was well within his rights to do so under the fair use doctrine of copyright law. If he had told the truth from the outset and asserted the well established right to fair use, he would have done a real justice to artists, thinkers and all who seek to preserve the free exchange of ideas that copyright law envisions — even while it protects an individual's expression of those ideas. Instead, the important battle over fair use was drowned out by the false controversy over whether Mr. Fairey had, in fact, based his painting on the photo. True courage here might have meant admitting that his painting was perhaps not original while asserting that it was still legal.
by Marika, Boston, MA
May 28th, 2010, 6:31 pm
Also:
The NY Times captions the photo, but not the poster.
Spencer Silverman, collaborator/sitter at Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present. More here.
Portrait by Marco Anelli. ©2010 Marina Abramović.
$60 buy-it-now SOLD for $40 [eBay]
Scattered Light
Opening Reception: Saturday May 22, 7-11pm
at Art of This
3506 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis
Carl Auböck at Mondocane
Exhibition: May 20–June 18, 2010
Opening Party: May 20, 6–9pm
Mondocane: 174 Duane Street, NYC
Go see this!
More Auböck on Ref Lib: here.
On the way to Brimfield I stopped at a church book sale in Princeton, NJ. Scores: Lifespace; The Black Family Reunion Cookbook; Brian Wildsmith's Birds and a minty copy of Herbert Bayer's World Geo-Graphic Atlas.
Above: a great pile in the corner of the gymnasium; nice tilework and bench in the locker room.
Faddy's Donuts and Sister Corita Kent at Brimfield. More pics of what I saw and ate here.
:-)
There is a new book about Nan and Arthur Kellam called We Were an Island. These beautiful images of their home are from an old book by David Graham called Alone Together.
via Kelly [hfha]
