French Hashtag Ban Protest

"Hashtag" is now forbidden in France and the Twitter symbol must be called "mot-dièse" (the "sharp" sign in music). John Perreault, whose heritage is Breton via Quebec rather than French, announced that in retaliation ARTOPIA would no longer use "rendezvous" or "souffle." 

Hashtag story NPR> http://tinyurl.com/amapvds

Did Zen Influence Conceptual Art?

Did someone actually get it right? Review: Ellen Perlman's "Nothing and Everything: The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde."


Read> http://hyperallergic.com/63002/how-zen-catalyzed-conceptual-art/

M.A.D. Scent Show Stinks

M.A.D. scent show stinks....and so does the building says hyperallerigic columnist.

The Unpleasant Smell of Lost Opportunities>http://tinyurl.com/bdzf42c

Free Admission at Dallas Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art announces free admission!

http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/

Twitterverse Exposed!

All you need to know about the Library of Congress Twitter Archive. Sort of. Who has access? Will commercial interests be allowed to mine the data? FBI? CIA? Is there a Facebook archive hidden away somewhere in some Cloud? Can you shield your tweets? Who can access my list of borrowed library books from the County Library mesh? Is pruning allowed?

Librarians of the Twitterverse by James Gleick | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

www.nybooks.com

San Antonio All-Digital Library System

Texas leads the way. Bexar County Library System to be entirely digital; U. of Texas San Antonio Library has been bookless since 2010. Beginning of the end? Next: E-books must no longer be treated like physical books with limited access, as in my local library. Publishers? Get a new business model!

TM Daily Post> http://tinyurl.com/bd6vp6n

Free Artist-Statement App

Belgian artist Jasper Rigole's creates free artist-statement generator, "500 Letters." Try it, you'll like it:

"John Perreault ( New York City, United States) makes paintings and performances. By replaying the work for each exhibition and pushing the evocative power of the work a little further, Perreault tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface...."

story via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/a34pq78
http://www.500letters.org/form_15.php