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EASY TO ASSEMBLE – Spain’s Podemos Leftist Party Printed its Program as an Ikea Catalog so Voters Will Actually Read It
Read more: EASY TO ASSEMBLE – Spain’s Podemos Leftist Party Printed its Program as an Ikea Catalog so Voters Will Actually Read ItWhether or not they follow politics, it’s fair to assume most people don’t actually read electoral programs. Podemos, Spain’s growing leftwing party, which got nearly 21% of the votes in last year’s elections, doesn’t think that’s good, so it adopted…
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Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”
Read more: Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”Marcel Duchamp, father of the readymade, forced the world to consider mundane things as significant objects, worthy of greater-than-average contemplation — yet his bicycle wheel, shovel, and urinal didn’t come freighted with all that much history. For Nick Cave, the…
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Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit Home
Read more: Artist Relocates Abandoned Detroit HomeAs art projects go, it’s pretty audacious. Ryan Mendoza, an expatriate American artist living in Berlin, Germany, and Naples, Italy, has torn down an abandoned two-story house in Detroit, shipped the pieces overseas and rebuilt it for display in Europe.…