Studens Occupy Cooper Union

Students occupy Cooper Union clock tower, demanding resignation of president who will not defend the schools traditional free tuition, as mandated by founder.

Story via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/d8j6yth

MOCA/USC Marriage?

MOCA-LA and USC partnering floated. Short term salvage for MOCA; long term L. A. hegemony for USC. Is this a good idea?

Story L.A. Times> http://tinyurl.com/br7hoat

The Truth About Rauschenberg Donation!

Better version of the donation of the Rauschenberg to MoMA  Times buried IRS details. The heirs HAD TO DONATE IT. Read this and laff out loud. Or weep.

WSJ> http://tinyurl.com/cqzrafh

Jonas Mekas in Focus

"Jonas Mekas in Focus" doc on MOCATV. Includes excerpts of films: Walden, Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtIQCxypAFM

Tape Poems at Sao Paulo Biennial

As part of the Sao Paulo Biennial, Tape Poems, the first "publication" of works created specifically for stereo tape edited by Eduardo Costa / John Perreault and audio engineered by Alcides Lanza, New York, 1969, was played on Mobile Radio BSP, http://mobile-radio.net/  December 2nd, 2012.

Featuring: Vito Hannibal Acconci, Michael Benedikt, Scott Burton, Ted Castle & Leandro Katz, Eduardo Costa and John Giorno, Joseph Ceravolo, Dan Graham, Bernadette Mayer, John Perreault, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh and Hannah Weiner.

Time:

 Sao Paulo: 3 pm

 Barcelona: 6 pm

 Beijing: 1 am (Dec-3)

 Bombay: 10.30 pm

 Brussels: 6 pm

 Buenos Aires: 2 pm

 Cairo: 7 pm

 Caracas: 1 pm

 Hong Kong: 1 am (Dec-3)

 Lisbon: 5 pm

 London: 5 pm

 Los Angeles: 9 am

 Madrid: 6 pm

 México DF: 11 am

 Miami: 12 pm

 Minneapolis: 11 am

 New York: 12 pm

 Paris: 6 pm

 Prague: 6 pm

 Rio de Janeiro: 3 pm 

 Roma: 6 pm

 Salvador Bahía: 2 pm

 San Francisco: 9 am

 Santiago de Chile: 2 pm

"The works exist completely in terms of aural phenomenon, rather than in terms of visual systems of signs, thus beginning a new art of the tape recorder that has in common with written literature the fact that it refers to real language."

                               Eduardo Costa and John Perreault in An Introduction to Tape Poems, 1969.

Are You A Kunstvermittler?

Top of the art world pyramid? Mark Staff Brandl notes the new German honorific "Kunstvermittler" for curators, historians, critics...meaning "art-intermediary" or "art broker" or "art middleman" or even "art procurer." 

Via Swiss Art Sharkforum: http://tinyurl.com/caqlvk5

Armstrong's Breathing Sculpture

Sara Garden Armstrong's "Decem Aspirare" commissioned sculpture breathes.

Video: http://player.vimeo.com/video/41742312?badge=0