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National Geographic Archives Cracked
The New York Times reveals that the National Geographic Society is entertaining the idea of opening up its archive of more than 11 million images to the fine-art market for the first time.
ich verstehe nicht
Cologne city officials knew the archives were sinking–taking in water for months and noticeably sinking in early february–but they didn’t notify the proper authorities.
Those investigating how the building packed with unique cultural treasures collapsed, killing two people, heard on Friday night that the ground underneath the building had started letting water into the foundations last September – and the building was shown to be subsiding in February.
That’s some sad shit, let’s hope it doesn’t happen to the world economy.
WE ARE ALL NOT BRANDEIS STUDENTS
What do you do when your alma mater sells off its entire art museum to private interests? Start a facebook group.
Brandeis recently announced the sale of its Rose Art Museum, much to the surprise of the Museum’s director and entire staff, who received the notice an hour before the school went public with the announcement. It seems that many of the University’s prime donors got Madoff’d, you see. Here’s director Michael Rush’s response.
More half-assed apologies, retractions, and bloglinks, inside!
from sea to shining sea
MoMA Atlantic Pacific is open. All the ads in the station have been replaced by art reproductions from MoMA’s collection, serving as a giant ad, of course, for the Museum. Eh, we can deal with it. But we secretly hope a Poster Boy out there makes a remix. (We Are All Poster Boy)
Field Recorders’ Collective Recording Collective
This is a private/public synthersis we want to get behind–a collective (read: record label) providing access to private collections of old timey hill music and photographs, complete with digital mastering, and so forth. But maybe we spoke too soon…
Photo: Manco Sneed from the FRC
