domingo, 02 de novembro de 2003

Art speculation Elipse Foundation A 20 million Euros art fund will be launched by the Portuguese finantial institution Banco Privado Portugues (BPP) beginning next year. To enter this art fund you will have to spend a minimum of Euros 250.000. The fund will last 7 to 9 years. After this period of time the BPP will sell the entire collection to a Portuguese, Brazilian or Spanish art museum. Investors will have the option to either sell their titles accordingly to the economic evaluation of the art collection or to get tax exemptions by donating them to the final receiver of the artworks. Accordingly to Portuguese weekly magazine Expresso, Elipse Foundation will build a very ambitious international art collection. The BPP chairman, Mr Joao Rendeiro, will host the presentation of this project on November 10th at Fundacao Arpad Szenes-Vieira da Silva, in Lisbon. It will be interesting to know how much artists will gain from this engineering strategy. Will the European "droit de suite" apply to the final sell off (or donation) of the collected items? - ACP. 9:06:02 PM    comment []

Wet Dreams Luis Herberto hardcore paintings Quadrum Art Gallery, Lisbon. November 06 - December 12. "Wet Dreams" is a perfect example of a non politically correct art exhibition. It's not pornography but it's on pornography. It has not been done to excite people as porno sites do, but the paintings shown in this exhibition are all about female masturbation and female zoophilia. Portuguese people are in this very moment going through a collective media catarsis about the moral issues surrounding sex practices and so-called sexual perversions. This is happening because several media jet-set people and politicians got envolved in a mega sexual scandal related to child abuse and paedophilia. Most Portuguese have been living in a real "reality show" during the last six months! And it will go on for the next one to five years ahead! I have decided to show Herberto's paintings right now for a simple motive: child abuse and exploitation, as pedophilia, must be exposed and severely punished. But we must watch out all the moralists (usually right wing hipocrates) that will try to use this opportunity to atack democratic rigths and liberties in general, as well as the specific sexual liberties obtained during the last 100 years. - ACP. more on Quadrum's site 5:47:05 PM    comment []

Cloned Food OK by FDA. The FDA green-lights meat from cloned animals for human consumption. An official decision on whether companies can sell it is due in January. [Wired News] 5:30:05 PM    comment []

BBC Offers Power to the People. The Beeb launches iCan, a site for citizens to get government to fill in potholes and build sidewalks. Some call it real e-democracy. Others say it will not address real issues, like war and peace. By Kari L. Dean. [Wired News] 5:28:48 PM    comment []

No More Ringing in Your Ears. If it's popular in Korea, you know it will wind up here. Your calls to a cell phone may never be the same, thanks to ring-back tones, which play music instead of bells when you connect. By Elizabeth Biddlecombe. [Wired News] 5:13:27 PM    comment []

'Park and ring' scheme launched. Edinburgh becomes the first city in the UK to let drivers pay for parking by mobile phone. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 5:11:15 PM    comment []

British Library archives websites. The British Library is now able to store web pages and e-mails alongside other documents in its archive. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 5:09:54 PM    comment []

Julien MacDonald Laptop Bags Laptop bags go from geek to chic. Fashion designer Julien MacDonald has taken the geek out of laptop bags for the wireless working woman. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition] 5:00:03 PM    comment []

A DVD Offers a Chance to Think Inside Cornell's Boxes [New York Times: Technology] 4:55:19 PM    comment []

Sex and Death by Jake and Dinos Chapman Turner prize 2003 short list Chapman brothers turn on the Tate. Arts: 'I'd rather go to Alton Towers than Tate Modern,' says rebel artist Chapman. [Guardian Unlimited] 4:48:50 PM    comment []

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