Dame Barbara Hepworth, Parent I, conceived in 1970, number 2 ...

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Concept of Permanence

Gauging the Possibilities of Impermanence at the New MoMA

MoMA’s recent expansion embodies the tension between the ways in which cultural spaces can offer visitors comfortable narratives and on the other, how they can suggest the potential for radical inclusiveness by iteration, reinvention, and reinstallation.

 Laura Raicovich   January 9, 2020

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The Perm is Back

 Ali Oshinsky (below with perm)   February 2019 

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Animal, vegetable, mineral?

TAR series 

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? 

Collection : FIAPCE  

This week's panel  
Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Jacquetta Hawkes, 
Julian Huxley 
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Glyn Daniel

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This week's ***** for deTARmination : 
Regard-at-large of image of 'Rock and Orchid' scroll by Ike Taiga (1723-1776)

Yes, ladies and gentlermen, girls and boys, this week it is in fact all three catagories : Animal, vegetable and mineral.

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Vexations of TAR

Don't F**k With Cats  

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via Hotel Bellevue

Bonzaview 
by Label cascade 
to the see

 1946 photo by Marcel Duchamp : Hotel Bellevue and waterfalls

  Marcel Duchamp, Étant donnés : study for waterfalls backdrop

  Étant donnés in progress at 14th Street studio, New York 1965

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Making mochi in Hell

  Making mochi in Hell                                   collection : FIAPCE

The first recorded accounts of mochi being used as a part of New Year's festivities are from the Japanese Heian period. The nobles of the imperial court believed that long strands of freshly made mochi symbolized long life and well-being, while dried mochi helped strengthen one's teeth. Accounts of it can also be found in the oldest Japanese novel, The Tale of Genji.

Mochi continues to be one of the traditional foods eaten around Japanese New Year, as it is sold and consumed in abundance around this time. A special type, called kagami mochi (mirror mochi), is placed on family altars on December 28 each year. Kagami mochi is composed of two spheres of mochi stacked on top of one another, topped with an orange (daidai).    On this occasion, which was originally practiced by the samurai, the round rice cakes of kagami mochi would be broken, thus symbolizing the mirror's opening and the ending of the New Year's celebrations. (Wikipedia)

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that was now | this is then | never before seen

Australian PM Scott Morrison to curb ‘selfish’ climate action

The Times (UK) / Bernard Lagan, Sydney

2 November 2019

The prime minister of Australia, the world’s biggest coal exporter, has vowed to punish climate protesters after days of clashes outside a mining conference.

Scott Morrison accused environmental activists of “economic sabotage” and warned that Canberra was drawing up laws to limit damage to businesses.

“A new breed of radical activism is on the march,” he said. “Apocalyptic in tone — brooks no compromise — all or nothing. Alternative views — not permitted.” In 2017 Mr Morrison brandished a lump of coal in parliament, telling MPs not to be “afraid” of it.

 

As Australia Burns, Its Leaders Trade Insults
The New York Times / Damien Cave
Published 13 Nov. 2019 - Updated 2 Jan. 2020

Credit...

Matthew Abbott for The New York Times 

Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide
As record fires rage, the country’s leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom.

Richard Flanagan / New York Times (Opinion)
3 Jan. 2020

BRUNY ISLAND, Australia — Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen ...

... “Australia is a burning nation led by cowards,” wrote the leading broadcaster Hugh Riminton, speaking for many. To which he might have added “idiots,” after Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack blamed the fires on exploding horse manure.

Such are those who would open the gates of hell and lead a nation to commit climate suicide...

Matthew Abbott for The New York Times 

GOVERNMENT CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE

TAR banner / Schools Climate Strike #4

21 Sept. 2019 

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A Praise to Dependent Arising

Tommy Lascelles (The Crown) consulting amid the
timber panels of 'A Praise to Dependent Arising' :

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The Coalman Cometh!

This is coal. 

Do not be afraid. 

Do not be scared. 

It will not hurt you.
Scott Morrison 

Parliament House : Feb 2017

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I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

"I have always believed in miracles." 
Prime Minister Scott Morrison
Election night address : May 2019

Yesterday at Cobargo, this firefighter refused to shake Prime Minister Scott Morrison's hand

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

'Cause for great concern': Australia ranked last in global assessment on climate action
SBS NEWS : 11 Dec 2019

   Australia’s climate policy rating was ranked the lowest in the world with analysts noting that “the newly elected government continued to worsen performance at both national and international levels.”
   Its policies were given a 0.0 rating, in comparison the United Stated ranked one position higher held a 2.8 rating and the top-performing nation Portugal received a 98.7. 

Scott Morrison attempts to shake the hand of a pregnant woman at Cobargo yesterday : click here to watch video

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

Scott Morrison does not want kids to have 'anxieties' about climate change after Greta Thunberg's speech

ABC NEWS : 10 Sept 2019

   Scott Morrison has warned against causing children "needless anxiety" about climate change and suggested Australian kids need to be given more "context and perspective" on the issue.
   Responding to a passionate speech by Swedish teenage environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg at Monday's United Nations Climate Summit, the Prime Minster said it was important Australian children were confident they would live in a "wonderful country and pristine environment".
   "They will also have an economy to live in as well," he said.
   "I don't want our children to have anxieties about these issues.
   "We've got to let kids be kids."
   The Prime Minister has faced criticism from Australian businesspeople and scientists for missing the summit.

Yesterday, this Cobargo resident preferred to tell PM Morrison: 
Nah, you're an idiot, mate. You really are.

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

And this Cobargo resident told Scott Morrison: 
This is not fair. We are totally forgotten down here. Every single time this area gets a flood or a fire, we get nothing. If we lived in Sydney or on the North Coast we would be flooded with donations and emergency relief. How about about the money for our forgotten corner of New South Wales, Mr Prime Minister? How come we only had four trucks to defend our town? Our town doesn’t have a lot of money, but we have hearts of gold.

I tell my troubles to the coalman
He's a coalman but he understands
He's not such a very very old man
He's a soul man and he takes my hand
He makes a man feel good when he's down
Head is touching the ground
He's going to help you if he can
He's a coalman
- Ronnie Burns / Bee Gees (1967)

In December, Eamon Sandwith of The Chats updated the Coalman song :
I Hope Scott’s House Burns Down 
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