Monthly Archives: December, 2006

No war has ever been fought over the control of coffee plantations—at least, not yet. While oil remains the most valuable legally traded commodity on Earth, coffee comes in second.

If you believed what the media, let alone anyone in the White House had to say, in the run up to the midterm elections, the Democrats weren’t in such great shape for reclaiming the Senate.

Thirty years may be infancy in terms of art history, but in the history of video art, it’s ripe old age. This November, the Video Data Bank (VDB) celebrated its 30th anniversary with several days of screenings and speakers.

If you have ever taken a field trip during class to the art museum across the road, you’ve experienced that exquisite cross between embarrassment and pride.

“I was always interested in weird, fucked-up imagery and I always made ‘shocking’ little pictures,” Jacobsen says, “but it took me a while to really push it in a direction where it transcended ‘shock-art.’”

It has been a crazy month here in the F News Headquarters; mail has been piling up, and not even my bevy of mostly naked young men can sort through the chaos.

It has been a crazy month here in the F News Headquarters; mail has been piling up, and not even my bevy of mostly naked young men can sort through the chaos.

Anthony Vizzari lives with dead people, about four hundred to be exact.

It is often easy to disregard the role that drawing plays in the creative process; although typically smaller, more fragile, and less valued than other media, it has been and remains an important part of artistic production.

“I arrived with books, magazines, and sewing tools, some fabric, and many ideas and pre-conceptions. The crafters were thirsty for knowledge and day after day we would work from early morning to late afternoon—or until the water stopped running or the electricity shut off.”

Nato Thompson is a writer, activist, curator of the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), and School of the Art Institute (SAIC) alumnus.

Elizabeth Peyton informed the crowd at her lecture that she hoped to benefit from discussing her work. “It’s another way of thinking about my work without making work,” she claimed.

Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, who is known for his “portraits and sculptures of happy rotund people,” focuses his latest work on Abu Ghraib and the American abuses at the Iraq prison, reports National Public Radio’s Margot Adler.

Artist Sherrie Levine said of her work to the Journal of Contemporary Art: “I am interested in making a work that has as much aura as its reference.