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Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace Tower is up in Reykjavík until Saturday. It is a stunning and interesting work, and there is a live webcam that is particularly amazing at night. Take a look around the Imagine Peace site. [via]
I’ve always been drawn to Ono’s work for its simplicity of vision and statement. As derided as she often is, I think she’s truly attempting to make change in this world. I have seen many of her works in person, and a truly breathtaking performance at the old Tonic on the Lower East Side a few years ago. Until you’ve experienced her work in person, and been allowed to interact with it in the way she hopes, it is difficult to see the power of her simple ideas.
My 5 favorite links from our Blogroll in no particular order:
Arts Journal – an amazing portal for arts related news and spectacular blogs by Kyle Gann, Greg Sandow and many more
Art Fag City – Paddy Johnson takes a consistently interesting slice of the NY art scene
Garfield minus Garfield – I had actually forgotten this was here and was entirely happy to see it once again, removing Garfield (the character) from Garfield (the comic strip) creates gloriously psychotic story lines that are way more compelling than the original
Eater – my first stop for everything restaurant and food related – they also have divisions in San Francisco and Los Angeles
Anthony Bourdain – consistently entertaining and often heartfelt and cutting at the same time, Bourdain’s blog is a great companion to my favorite food show
Our very own Kim Olson, one of our earliest and most frequent collaborating artists, will be performing her work thin WATER blue ICE tonight to open the Denver 2009 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. The performance starts at 6:15 in the lobby of the The Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and leads into the theatre to start the awards ceremony.
If you’re in Denver tonight, definitely check it out, plus it’s FREE!!
These have been making the blogging rounds for a bit now, but there really is something beguiling and endearing about Christoph Niemann’s micro-sculptures and NY commentary. Check out the full gallery here.
I never got around to posting links last week – we were performing Doleo Æternus at the ISIM conference and it was completely insane.
There is a Flickr gallery of images we took during our trip to Denver here and more coverage will be coming as we get images from the ISIM and finalize a recording for your listening pleasure.
In the meantime – here are this weeks sporadic and miscellaneous links:
Hot Karl action on Racked Racked is hosting a Karl Lagerfeld photoshop contest. It is epic and fantastic.
The week in ironic hipster handicrafts.