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Matt Darey - Nocturnal 382 | Not Tonight (Protoxic Kabila Beach Remix)
Matt Darey playing Futurism No Nation Ft. Michelle Labelle - Not Tonight (Protoxic Kabila Beach Remix) on his latest Nocturnal 382 Radioshow !! #9679; Like us on Facebook : fb.com #9679; Follow us on Twitter : twitter.com #9679; Follow us on Soundcloud : soundcloud.com #9679; Contact us : contact.futurism@gmail.comFrom:FuturismTVViews:10 0ratingsTime:06:26More inMusic

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The Avant-garde in Theory and Practice
At the start of the 20th century, art became inexorably, but anxiously, linked to politics. Artists renounced traditional criteria of aesthetic beauty and skill to establish a whole new set of ideas about what art should do. Art should transform! Art should critique! Art should inspire! This course will trace this process by asking: what does it mean to be avant-garde? We will examine three central strategies as they unfold from the 1910s to the beginning of World War II: negation, critique, and construction. Looking at Italian Futurism, German Expressionism, Dada, Surrealism, Russian Constructivism, and Productivism, we will pair close readings of foundational theoretical texts, artists #39; writings, and manifestos with rigorous visual analyses of artworks. This will allow us to inquire into definitions of the avant-garde across history, prompting us to ask other questions, such as: what kinds of social relations do works of art produce? What is the relationship between form and content, intention and effect? Why do certain artistic goals and ambitions arise in a particular historical period? Are these models still relevant today? And whether yes or no, do these ideals persist today nonetheless? thebrooklyninstitute.comFrom:ajayc42Views:2 0ratingsTime:01:31More inPeople Blogs

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Spoek Mathambo: Beyond Afro-futurism
Spoek Mathambo talks to the M G about his latest release, his position in the SA music industry and an upcoming collaboration with Gorillaz.From:Mail GuardianViews:0 0ratingsTime:03:44More inEntertainment

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Live sale on artnet Auctions from December 13 through 20, 2012

New York, NY and Berlin, Germany (PRWEB) December 14, 2012

The sale features one of Keith Harings iconic subway drawings, a set of works the artist created from 1980 to 1985. Haring executed these works in chalk on unused subway advertising panels covered in black matte paper. Untitled (Robots, Figures, and Angels), estimated at US$75,000 to US$95,000, was taken from New York Citys 59th Street Station; the piece demonstrates the fusion of Harings unique style with the larger Street Art movement of the 1980s.

Another highlight of the sale is a mixed media on museum board work by notorious Graffiti artist Rammellzee. Untitled, estimated at US$50,000 to US$70,000, is based off of the artists theory of Gothic Futurism. This theory is detailed in Rammellzees treatise, Iconic Panzerisms, which describes the symbolic warfare of rules prescribed by the alphabet and the revision of language in society at large.

The sale also includes an early Futura 2000 spray paint on canvas from 1985 entitled Cerise Clock. The work, estimated at US$20,000 to US$30,000, exemplifies the artists pioneering approach to Graffiti Art. The chaotic arrangements of contrasting color, abstracted forms, and dynamic shapes echo the works Futura 2000 executed across subway trains in the late 1970s.

The 80s Graffiti Sale is live on artnet Auctions from December 13 through 20, 2012, and on view here.

For more information about this sale, please contact artnet Auctions specialist:

Gracie Mansion

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The Future Sound of Mzansi is a compilation album of rarities, remixes and collaborations that will be distributed across the continent.

THE FUTURE SOUND OF MZANSI Spoek Mathambo (Sony Music)

If Spoek Mathambo ever tells you to bet R200 on a racehorse, put down R600. In an April 2009 interview he told me: We are trying to push ourselves into developing an honest and authentic voice in sound that really represents us as postmodern, post-apartheid, post-everything poster boys raised on a steady diet of TV, internet and Chicken Licken.

Mathambo is a highly intelligent overachiever. It is only three-and-a-half years later and he has not only developed that honest and authentic voice without becoming too earnest, but has also moved post all those post-things. This year has been a phenomenal one. He has signed with Sub Pop, the label that became famous for recording Kurt Cobain and his band Nirvana. With his excellent, eclectic dance-rock-electro album Father Creeper, Spoek has managed to create a thrilling meltdown of global styles, according to the Observer. It has received rave reviews around the world, as have his energetic concerts.

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