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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

kinda fascinating…kinda why?

Mona Lisa ’speaks’

By Toshi MaedaWed May 31, 10:01 AM ET
Suzuki’s work has made contributions to criminal investigations — in one case after he successfully aged a person’s voice by a decade. A recording of the voice was broadcast on television, leading to the apprehension of a suspect.
The team also attempted to recreate Leonardo’s own [...]

spreading the word

something good for a change

Check out this interview with artist Simone Leigh. As the corporate boys and girls say, she’s awesome.

oh, fuck

Tribal council outlaws abortion President suspended for alleged donations
NESTOR RAMOS
nramos@argusleader.com May 31, 2006, 1:55 am
The Oglala Sioux tribal council banned all abortions on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and suspended President Cecelia Fire Thunder on Tuesday, charging that she solicited donations on behalf of the tribe for a proposed abortion clinic without the council’s [...]

viva la revolucion!

A couple months ago Deirdre came home from a lecture by Chris Gilbert as excited as I’d seen her in a long time. He spoke about the possibilities of art functioning as something truly revolutionary, not something concerned with aesthetics and its own history, but something that has the potential to work for real political [...]

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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 12, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 12, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 12, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]