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Repository 134: King of Collage | Rex Ray | Gallery 16
On first blush, the thought of doing a collage sounds fairly easy, craft-like and possibly nostalgic of something you did at age 14 from ripping out pictures and words from magazines. Looking at a Rauschenburg (“Retroactive 1, 1964”), or an old Picasso collage (“Still Life with Chair-Caning”), you get the sense that there is accessibility here – that you may in fact be able to pull off the playful act that is collage. Wrong. Collage is hard. Very hard. While…
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Repository 86: Levi Strauss | Magical Art Rumpus | Doug Aitken
Levi’s sponsors Doug Aitken’s magical art rumpus Once again proving that art and fashion are never strange bed fellows, Levi’s has sponsored Doug Aitken’s ambitious, nomadic happening Station to Station. Very sexy fashion like ad for the art project here. I first came across the project by accident researching some 1960’s Tom Brokaw footage of Joan Didion, which landed me on their site. They’ve compiled an impressive web site with videos past and present of artists, musicians, curators and general…
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