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Franklin Evans, Extraction from C/S/SS: A Year of Magical Thinking, 2009
Digital print on Arches cold pressed paper with hand additions in watercolor and ink
22 × 30 inches
Edition of 30 unique, signed works

Franklin Evans has some new work from one of my favorite artist-run publishing studios, Element Editions. Each one has hand painting by the artist, so that it is unique.

Franklin also has a solo show opening next week at Sue Scott on the Lower East Side that looks great.

• Trixie Friganza at wat.tv
  Awesome short clip of performer and suffragist Trixie Friganza, found by James
  tags: trixie-friganza vaudeville suggragist

Berlin TV tower – lift off from Fabian Tischer on Vimeo.

[via this article from Der Spiegel

• A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush | Council for Secular Humanism
  President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.
  tags: religion bush iraq war

• Top-Down “National March for Equality” Won’t Wash
  Article by Steve Ault on the problem of a top-down, non-grassroots approach to queer activism.
  tags: civilrights queer lgbt marchonwashington equality activism

Jane Benson, Dead Swan Wallpaper, 2009
cut Laura Ashley Wallpaper

Sadly, the show is closed now, but check out the artist’s website for more images. Best use of messed-up plinths I’ve seen in a gallery!

• Personal art escorts reveal unknown side of Berlin’s art scene | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 26.07.2009
  One escort service in Berlin organizes a different kind of rendez-vous for its clients – with artists.
  tags: berlin art escorts

• Daily Kos: Wal-Foods
  Owner of Whole Foods: anti-union and anti-healthcare reform
  tags: healthcare politics unions labor organic food