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      13 Mar 2009

      Venice Biennale 2009: Thailand

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      txt: Capitalism challenged - www.bangkokpost.com ''Gondola al Paradiso Co Ltd'' is an initiative effort that questions the existence and the myths of capitalism through the substance of Thainess. Its objective is to reveal the facts and the beliefs people cling on to, while at the same time propose an alternative concept called ''Reconstruction''. The exhibition will be held at the Thai Pavilion, at the ''53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia'' from June 7 to November 22. The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre is open daily (except on Mondays). www.bacc.or.th video: Gondoliers in Venice for Obama - marieohanesiannardin on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jhBVaiQw0]
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      12 Mar 2009

      Art, culture, nature

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      txt: How art killed our culture - www.guardian.co.uk
      Consumerism instantly inspired artists. Pop art in America and Britain took the surfaces of objects, the instant appearances of the new bright world, as its subject matter. Everywhere, emotional depth in art was censored. Abstract Expressionism had to die. Art could teach people to look at the world in a new way: to embrace the cool. Pop art taught everyone to enjoy money and the mass media and 1980s post-modernism taught the same lesson again. These emotional styles have long since been so popularised that even intelligent people accept that reality television is a form of culture and celebrities fit receptacles for our ephemeral floods of feeling. All the shallowness of modern mass culture began in avant-garde art 40 years ago. We're Warhol's ugly brood. Art has even fed the unsustainable appetites that are destroying the planet by constantly telling everyone cities are better than the countryside, culture more real than nature.
      img: Venice - Jey-Heich on flickr.com
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      5 Mar 2009

      Venice seen by the others: confetti (coriandoli, actually)

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      txt: Venetians fear for their cultural heritage - Tom Kington - THE GUARDIAN, www.taipeitimes.com - "Jobs have disappeared to the mainland, tourists now outnumber residents and locals fear the Queen of the Adriatic is in danger of losing her soul "
      As the remaining carnival confetti was cleared from the narrow, labyrinthine streets of Venice last week, residents emerged here and there from behind closed doors to watch bleary-eyed revelers stream down the Strada Nuova on their way back to Milan, London, Tokyo and beyond. At the Casino, housed in a palazzo perched on the Grand Canal, organizers totted up the numbers — 1 million visitors; hotels 95 percent full and 100,000 packed into St Mark’s Square to watch a woman dressed in white wings descend on a wire from the bell tower of St Mark’s Basilica.
      img: confetti - Lallyna on flickr
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      27 Feb 2009

      When water touch the bottom...

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      txt: Coca- Cola not 'buying' Venice - ANSA
      Coca-Cola is not ''buying'' Venice, its city council said Monday, reacting to polemics over a planned million-dollar partnership between the drinks giant and the lagoon city. Italian daily La Stampa reported Monday that the city was ''selling itself'' to Coca-Cola in a 2.1 million-dollar deal that will involve ''vending machines in every corner of the city'', including St Mark's Square, where tourists are forbidden from picnicking under strict council rules on urban decorum.
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      20 Feb 2009

      Venice Biennale 2009: Padiglione Italia :-(

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      txt: Padiglione Italia: gli artisti selezionati - www.beniculturali.it
      Punto di partenza – proseguono i curatori Beatrice Buscaroli e Luca Beatrice - è l'omaggio a Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, che di Collaudi è il nume tutelare. E’ la vitalità nel presente che ci interessa del Futurismo, prima e unica avanguardia italiana del '900. [...]
      L'8 luglio 1910, 800.000 foglietti contenenti il manifesto futurista "Contro la Venezia passatista" a firma Marinetti, Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo furono lanciati sulla folla che tornava dal Lido... :-( video: Carmelo Bene Futurismo: Contro la Venezia passatista - CinebrividoBalkan on youtube [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LaaphUwAJk]
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      17 Feb 2009

      Venice Biennale 2009: Palestine

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      txt: Palestine c/o Venice - e-flux.com
      53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia June 7th - Sept. 30th, 2009 - Opening reception June 6th at 5 pm - Venue: Convento Ss. Cosma & Damiano, Campo S. Cosmo, Giudecca Palanca, 30133 Venezia www.palestinecoveniceb09.org Palestine c/o Venice marks the first Palestinian participation at the Venice Biennale. Rather than adopt one theme, the exhibition takes on a conceptual framework that embraces the Palestinian people questioning the disproportionate use of the media image of nameless faces and voiceless people.
      img: (Bansky and the Gaza Wall) - La brecha de Kalandia - torpedo6672 on flickr
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      14 Feb 2009

      Venice seen by the others: gelati

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      txt: Rome on a Roman Holiday - from Art21 Blog by Naomi Beckwith
      In the depths of a seemingly endless New York winter, my mind is already thinking toward late spring days on the Adriatic and the 53rd International Art Exhibition at la grande dame of all international art fairs, La Biennale de Venezia. There will be sultry nights, hobnobbing amongst the cognoscenti and, most importantly, a three-gelati-per-day minimum for all art lovers.
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      10 Feb 2009

      Venice seen by the others: Giudecca

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      txt: Best for culture: Venice - www.independent.co.uk
      There are few places to stay on Giudecca, apart from the swanky Hotel Cipriani. But at the other end of the island is the fantastic Molino Stucky, the largest industrial building in the city. This massive gothic warehouse – built in 1896 – has been converted into a luxury Hilton, and its location is sensational. In between there's a youth hostel on the northern quayside, a few bed and breakfast places and that's about it. Although Harry's Bar has opened a restaurant here and trendy eating places are appearing, this remains one of the least-visited and most atmospheric parts of Venice. Another terrific place to eat outside is Altanella, on the Rio del Ponte Longo. Giudecca was a place where criminals and troublesome members of the aristocracy were exiled, then for hundreds of years it was a rural retreat, gradually becoming covered with warehouses and prisons (there are still two), as well as homes for the workers. Although many of the convents and warehouses are being converted into luxury flats, you can still walk through squares where the washing is hanging outside and everyone eats under the trees on long tables in the summer.
      video: High Five Escalator - ImprovEverywhere [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abt8aAB-Dr0]
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      7 Feb 2009

      Living in the beauty of Palladio

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      txt: Endlessly copied, but never bettered - from Guardian Unlimited Art
      The results over the next 40 or so years were new civic buildings in Vicenza, the glorious churches of San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore in Venice, but most of all the stupendous series of villas - original, timeless, amazingly beautiful - he built for the gentleman farmers of the Veneto. Just to recite their names and locations is to enter into a reverie of educated paganism: Lonedo, Maser, Fanzolo, Piombino, Dese, Malcontenta, Poiana Maggiore, Finale di Agugliaro, Vancimuglio, Villa Rotonda, Bertesina, Quinto, Lisiera, Caldogno, Montecchio. These designs have been endlessly copied all over the world.
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      1 Feb 2009

      About Giving It Away

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      txt The Economics of Giving It Away - the wall street journal
      What about those companies trying to build a business on the Web? In the old days (that would be until September of last year) the model was pretty simple. 1. Have a great idea. 2. Raise money to bring it to market, ideally free to reach the largest possible market. 3. If it proves popular, raise more money to scale it up. 4. Repeat until you're bought by a bigger company. Now steps 2 through 4 are no longer available. So Web startups are having to do the unthinkable: come up with a business model that brings in real money while they're still young.
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