Archive for June, 2006

‘Gagosian’ Not the Only “Guerilla Franchise” at Berlin Biennial

Sunday, June 18th, 2006

Whether the “faux” Gagosian by the Wrong Gallery crowd in the Berlin Biennial is actually as guerilla as its creators claim is arguable (piles of EU funding and institutional approval for the show being the two obvious reasons to question their guerilla cred, as even art forum points out). Whether the replica of [...]

YouTube, TheySue?

Saturday, June 17th, 2006

I don’t want it … that way.

Our good old friends at the RIAA are at it again—reports have come in that they’ve sent cease and desist letters to creators of videos that make use of music to which the RIAA holds the copyright (the artists sign it over in their contracts). So watch out, next [...]

Overheard in Paris

Monday, June 5th, 2006

This is just too good not to blog. While walking down the street (Rue de la Roquette in the 11th to be exact), a bum, in the most natural, non-chalant manner possible, started to solicit us for money:

“Vous n’avez pas un milliard d’euros?”

Translation: “You don’t happen to have a billion euros?”

Classic. We couldn’t stop laughing [...]

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