Around 3,000 people, seemingly all in their 20s and 30s, attended the first Takeover at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.New York Times
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Culture Institutions Go After the Short-Attention-Span Crowd
Around 3,000 people, seemingly all in their 20s and 30s, attended the first Takeover at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.New York Times
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Howtoons cartoon science project book
Howtoons is a terrific new science project book that has how-tos in the form of comic strips. Co-author Saul Griffith. who has been writing Howtoons comics for MAKE for the last 3 years, was recently awarded a MacArthur "genius" award.Part comic strip and part science experiment, Howtoons shows children how to find imaginative new uses for common household items like soda bottles, duct tape, mop buckets, and more–to teach kids the "Tools of Mass Construction"!
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Devendra Banhart and Paul Klee at SFMOMA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is presenting an exhibition that pairs the artwork of Paul Klee with the drawings and beautiful freak folk music of Devendra Banhart. According to the SFMOMA, the exhibit, titled Abstract Rhythms: Paul Klee and Devendra Banhart, "explores the relationship between music and visual art." It features more than a dozen of Klee's works on paper along with thirteen of Banhart's drawings, created along with his new album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Seen here at left, Klee's "Der Verliebte (Man in Love)" and, at right, Banhart's cover art for "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon." From the SFMOMA:BoingBoing
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The Art of Promotion: Chanel Bags and the Mobile Art Project
'Avant-gartists' to participate in two-year installation tour commemorating quilted bags
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