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Japon liseli kızların başlattığı yeni internet çılgınlığı: Makankosappo

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Stump and Stello | 1930s

Promotional still of the African American vaudeville dance act Stump and Stello. Scurlock Studio Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

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1958 Saul Bass Residence (Case Study House #20) | Architects: Buff, Straub & Hensman |  2275 Santa Rosa Ave in Altadena, CA

Home of Graphic Designer Saul Bass and part of the Case Study Program for John Entenza’s Arts & Architecture Magazine.

From the book, “Case Study Houses” Editorial Taschen. Elisabeth A. T. Smith

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Today we offer a series of Michael Rougier’s powerful photographs — none of which ever ran in LIFE magazine — chronicling the conditions endured by migrant workers and their families across the United States in the 1950s.

(Michael Rougier—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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From the White House Diary:

"On March 11, 1965, President Johnson devoted much of the day to discussing the civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama. Just after noon, the President met with the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a group of Negro publishers, in the Cabinet Room and talked with them about the situation in Selma. Late in the morning a small group of civil rights demonstrators staged a sit-in in the East Wing of the White House. Several hours later policemen removed the demonstrators."

March 11, 1965. Twelve protestors stage a sit-in demonstration at the White House in relation to civil rights.

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features photographer and essayist Leo Rubinfien, who curated the Garry Winogrand retrospective opening this weekend at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Winogrand’s pictures, typically taken with a hand-held camera, are classics of the street-photography genre that dominated American photography in the 1950s and ’60s. They captured American prosperity, the flight to the suburbs, the tumult of the Vietnam era and the retreat of Americans into a kind of self-interested hedonism in the 1970s and early ’80s.

The exhibition, which was co-organized by the National Gallery of Art, includes more than 300 pictures; the Yale University Press-published catalogue that accompanies the show includes more than 400. The book also includes numerous essays on Winogrand’s career and influence, including a particularly excellent essay by Rubinfien.

Among the pictures Rubinfien and host Tyler Green discuss are the photographs Winogrand took in the booming American West, such as Fort Worth (1975, detail)..

How to listen to the show: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. Stream the program at MANPodcast.com. See images of art discussed on the show.

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Way down in the background, I can see frustrated souls of cities burnin, And all across the water vapor, I see weapons barkin out the stamp of death, And up in the clouds I can imagine UFO’s jumpin themselves, Laughin they sayin,

Those people so uptight, they sure know how to make a mess

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“In this expertly researched, wonderfully witty essay, O’Connell explains why we enjoy watching the spectacular artistic failures of others. The culture of the epic fail is a culture of “sublimated predation,” he writes. It’s a concept well understood by great artists, including Shakespeare, but understood little by its unfortunate victims, who often remain convinced of their creative genius even in the face of mass ridicule.” The San Francisco Chronicle on our own Mark O’Connell’s Epic Fail.

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Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Bilingual Blues

Always.

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A photographic series on the documentation of black Africans.

Frantz Fanon once said: "The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves" 

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Tseng Kwong Chi

Tseng’s self-portraiture skirst along the border between serious and humorous.  His cheap Mao outfit was bought from a thrift store to wear to a dinner with his sister and mother. 

In his portrait series, he poses in front of famous Western tourist spots. He also impersonated a foreign dignitary and was able to weasel himself to rub shoulders among rich and famous figures.  

In his later work, arguably more contemplative and perhaps influenced by his HIV+ diagnosis, his human figure begins to fall away from the frame, taking up less space and attention, making room for the natural scenery and landscape. 

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Saatchi Gallery

Curated by Nigel Hurst, Johnson Chang, and Serenella Ciclitira (CEO of Parallel Contemporary Art), the Saatchi Gallery’s latest show, Hong Kong Eye, brings together 18 emerging Hong Kong artists.

In an effort to cast the Hong Kong art scene in a different light, the three curators consulted academics, galleries specializing in Hong Kong art, local curators, and professors in preparation for the show. 

Hong Kong Eye is on view from December 5, 2012 through January 12, 2013 at London’s Saatchi Gallery. 

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Photo by George Valdez

Pondicherry India 10/25/2012

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“I can’t pretend to keep up with new books—I don’t even try—but this year a few leapt off my desk and refused to be put down. Gabrielle Bell’s graphic memoir The Voyeurs got me through a sad rainy Thursday evening as if I’d just made a friend. Karl Ove Knausgaard is the Proust of the Walkman generation; the first volume of his magnum opus, My Struggle, kept me up late for a week and remains the best novel I read all year. Maureen McLane’s My Poets was the continuing ed. class I needed in poetry but never expected to love. Everything I know about gospel music I’ve learned from Anthony Heilbut’s compilations and writings; thanks to his crazy compendium The Fan Who Knew Too Much, he has now, also, taught me everything I know about radio soap operas, Aretha Franklin, and homosexuality in the black church. All by itself, David Foster Wallace’s essay on David Markson makes Both Flesh and Not the best book ever written on David Foster Wallace (plus, it’s written by David Foster Wallace), and Masha Gessen’s The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin is the darkest, bravest, and wittiest biography I read this year. Finally there was John Jeremiah Sullivan’s Pulphead. I knew all the essays already, but reading them all in one place was so much fun I’ve done it a few more times since then.” —Our editor Lorin Stein, from Yahoo News’ “Holiday Gift Guide: What do you give a book lover?” Image Credit Marion Williams and Anthony Heilbut, 1992. (David Gahr, courtesy Anthony Heilbut)

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Death With Girl in Her Lap, Kathe Kollwitz

The Widow, Kathe Kollwitz

Self Portrait, Kathe Kollwitz

Infant Mortality, Kathe Kollwitz

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Salvador Dali and Coco Chanel.