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• We All Scream

  A new generation of artists, activists, and entrepreneurs has begun to re-imagine that timeless mobile treat dispensary, the ice-cream truck.
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  • 012: New School
  • Date: Aug 07 2008
  • Contributors: Alex Goldmark

• Fun with Art

  Jonathon Keats makes art that makes you think. How much is that worth?
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  • 011: Get Lost
  • Date: Jul 01 2008
  • Contributors: Theo Schell-Lambert and Jen Dessinger

• Travel Sketches

  A collection of creative reflections on travel from GOOD's contributing writers, designers, and photographers.
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  • 011: Get Lost
  • Date: Jun 03 2008
  • Contributors: GOOD magazine

• Swoon Tags The Hudson

  The artist Swoon, who we wrote about in Issue 005, set sail down the Hudson last week for her boat voyage-themed performance art piece, "Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea." A flotilla of seven waterbound art installations, each hand-crafted with different materials and manned by a hodgepodge of 40 artists and performers, will travel from Troy, NY to Queens before docking on September 7 for an opening at the Deitch Studios, and remain as part of an exhibition.
  
  It's a follow-up to her 2007 project "Miss Rockaway Armada," in which she floated down the Mississippi to New Orleans in a boat made from trash. That one seemed a little more street-artisty; this current Switchback Sea piece might be more on the "Art for Art's Sake" side, kind of like when Matthew Barney decided it'd be a good plan to traverse the entire Atlantic Ocean in a small boat and draw pictures of dead fish and waves for five months. Then again, ambushing the Hudson with art boats is just another way for her to take public space and make it her canvas.
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  • Date: Sep 05 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• The Old Testament + Astrophysics = New Work By Diana Al-Hadid

  Diana Al-Hadid, a 27-year-old Syrian-born artist based in Brooklyn, opens her first major solo show in New York this week. Her large-scale sculptures are informed by classical and gothic architecture, labyrinths, science, Greek mythology, biblical lore, paintings in the school of Bruegel and Bosch, and—like her previous installations of gloriously macabre organs and staircases—"failed attempts to reach God." Here, her crux theme of God-ward ambition refers to the story of the Tower of Babel and what Al-Hadid calls "our Babel": Geneva's Large Hadron Collider, a 27km-wide machine developed to re-create matter that existed at the genesis of the universe by way of slamming particles together in a manmade Big Bang. Among other things, the work in her new exhibition Reverse Collider is informed by these seemingly disparate concepts (an Old Testament tale and a Swiss-Franco quantum physics experiment), and the parallels she's drawn between the two: working at the limits of technology, the analogous effort to explore the origins of the universe, each construction's resemblance to "an architectural telescope to reach God," and their shared impending sense of danger. Show: September 4th through October 9th, 2008 at both Perry Rubenstein gallery locations in New York City. Image: left, Bruegel, right, Al-Hadid
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  • Date: Sep 03 2008
  • Posted by alexandra_m

• PICA's Time-Based Art Festival 2008

  This Thursday, our chums over at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art kick off their sixth annual Time-Based Art Festival (or TBA:08 for the abbreviation-minded). For a week and a half (September 4-14), moderation gets the heave-ho as the festival surveys what’s happening in contemporary art’s multifarious forms—performance, dance, music, new media, visual arts projects. In fact, it's the only North American festival to examine and exalt today’s art with such breadth. The inspired programming includes 250+ artists with new, next-big-thing work, like Justin Gorman and his outsized, site-specific text displays, and 150+ performances, from the otherworldly melodies of Antony and the Johnsons to the deconstructive confrontations of artist collective Superamas.
  
  Each day is stuffed to the second with workshops, salons, performances, and, for the night owls, music and drinks at THE WORKS, the museum’s late-night spot. If you happen to reside in Portland, check out the list of events/exhibits. There are some discounted travel packages and accommodations available for out-of-towners.
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  • Date: Sep 02 2008
  • Posted by Jason Jude Chan

• oops

  Well, I royally screwed up that link, but this is the picture in question.
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  • Date: Sep 04 2008
  • Posted by caoutchouc

• Oh yes, this amazing sign

  Saw it on a family vacation last summer on the side of the freeway and made my father pull over to get http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=36265606&id=2505463]this picture with my brother...
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  • Date: Sep 04 2008
  • Posted by caoutchouc

• THE VISUAL CULTURE AWARDS

  visualcultureawards.com An international photography competition to uphold positive cross-cultural communications.
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  • Date: Sep 03 2008
  • Posted by Mikayla