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Jul/ Aug
ISSUE #04
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| Art Market |
2008-07-14 |
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After the euphoria of the art boom, Indonesia's contemporary art circle is presently
overshadowed by concerns that the market bubble is about to burst. What actually
is happening?
The contemporary art market in Indonesia had taken a turn towards revival beginning
in the first half of 2007. This continued with strengthening interest and a flurry
of buying and selling at the two international auction houses dealing in Southeast
Asian contemporary art, Christie's and Sotheby's, as well as amongst local auction
houses, Larasati, Masterpiece, and Borobudur, some of which have now gone international.
Traditionally at auctions, lots from Indonesia have always been dominated by works
of the... read more
By: Eddy Soetriyono |
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| Discourse |
2008-07-14 |
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Synthetic Times
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The future started fifty years ago, when mathematician John von Neumann noticed
that the geometrically accelerating pace of technological progress "gives the
appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race
beyond which human affairs as we know them could not continue."
The most famous futurist living today, Dr. Ray Kurzweil, transformed von Neumann’s
insight into a mathematical predictor that has, so far, correctly foreseen by
over a decade specific things like the internet explosion, handheld reading devices ... read more
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By:Alexander Boldizar and Michelle Swayne |
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| Point of View |
2008-07-14 |
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A Conversation with Ai Weiwei
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The following conversation, between Thomas J. Berghuis (TB) and Ai Weiwei (AW)
took place 2 May 2008 at the Campbelltown Regional Art Centre in Sidney.
TB: I think congratulations are in order for the exhibitions here in Sydney.
AWW: I don't know about that; I really don’t now what the congratulations should
be for. Is there is any real meaning to them or was it, maybe, perhaps, that a
foundation, gallery, or art center saw that they had some kind of time or space
gap that needed to be filled, that they needed to fill a space with artw... read more
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By: Thomas J. Berghuis |
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| Profiles |
2008-07-14 |
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| Melissa Chiu: Building a new Babel |
Born in Northern Australia, Melissa Chiu is now the chief curator at the Asia
Society in New York. Her path has thus taken her, through study, work as a curator,
and, perseverance, from an Australian backwater town to the preeminent metropolis
of art and commerce; from a background in Australian multi-culturalism to a life
in the American Babel—a Babel from which she now overviews, curates and, records
the no less Babelian visual cultures of dozens of Asian countries. Of ethnic Chinese
descent, she thus embodies, in herself and her career, the enc... read more
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By: Jean Couteau |
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| Lifestyles |
2008-07-14 |
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Living Sculptures: The Myth of the Eternal Golf Course
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On March 6
th, 1457, James II King of Scots decreed that "ye gowfe be utterly cried down and
not used," because too many of his subjects were neglecting their archery practice
in favor of a game started by sailors strolling from port to town, smacking stones
with sticks as they went over the grassy sheep-shorn dunes that the Scots refer
to as linksland. Over time, preferred pathways emerged, and the low spots where rocks tended
to fall got smacked by repeated swings, exposing the underlying sand and giving
birth to bunkers. ... read more
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By: Alexander Boldizar |
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