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Nice article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wallace-shawn/life-as-an-artist_b_279558.html

Several years ago I stopped into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood to visit a friend who had unexpectedly landed there for an emergency procedure. Cedars had a well-known program of installing actual art in patients' rooms, rather than bland designer graphics or cheap reproductions. My friend was a well-respected museum curator and critic, so I was especially puzzled to encounter an ordinary scarf unceremoniously taped to the wall opposite her bed.

"What's that?" I asked.

"My scarf," she moaned. "Underneath is the ugliest watercolor I've ever seen. It's making me sick."

From a bike's perspective, riding around the Leideseplein area.

Looks interesting:

subvision. kunst. festival. off.

Festival for International Contemporary Art

August 26 - September 6, 2009

subvision. kunst. festival. off.
Strandkai, HafenCity
Hamburg, Germany
info@subvision-hamburg.de

http://www.subvision-hamburg.de

Opening: August 26, 2009, 7 pm

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106645373

This is a great ongoing series on National Public Radio right now about how artists make a living. They've interviewed artists of all kinds - poets, dancers, writers, musicians, performers, and more. I'm really enjoying it.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106645373

Click here to see AMP's August Newsletter on Music in LA:

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs038/1101291727376/archive/110267139...

CMU merges art with reality TV and fresh waffles
Monday, June 29, 2009
By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It was supposed to be a two-semester community artistic social experiment for a Carnegie Mellon University art class, videotaping hip late-night crowds discussing what was on their minds while they ate waffles.

But the combination of homemade treats and homegrown reality show has proven to be an unusual recipe for success since Waffle Shop opened its doors last fall in East Liberty. School is out, but the doors are staying open, weekend brunch hours have been added and the menu has expanded.

BBC world service story about 'Play Me, I'm Yours' artwork by Luke Jerram. 30 street pianos installed across London for SingLondon and City of London Festival.

News link from the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/30-pianos-scattered-acros_n_230...

Thanks to AMPer Shirin Pilehvari for sending this on:

Text of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's speech in European Parliament on Wednesday 8 July 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen;
Honourable members of parliament,

I am here - as an Iranian, as an artist and as a representative of the protestors who are being killed in Iran for the sake of democracy - to ask you the following questions:

"If the passengers of an aircraft were taken hostage by a hijacker, would the governments of the world side with the hijacker or with the passengers? Would the nations and governments of the world declare that the hijacking is an internal affair between the passengers and the hijacker, or take steps to rescue the passengers?"

Thanks AMPer Kelly Thompson for passing this on.

http://artbaloney.wordpress.com/