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Dori Atlantis & Karen Frimkess Wolff have 2 large site specific installations at the Platt Gallery, American Jewish University.
Grains of Connection is made of salt, glass rocks and shards, adobe, branches, metal structure and monofilament.

Click here to see AMP's August Newsletter on Music in LA:

http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs038/1101291727376/archive/110267139...

Show: Monday, Aug 3rd 8pm - Life On Wilshire (venue website)

Click on the flyer to go to artist website

Die Demokratie - Der Laizismus - Der Saekularismus

CMU merges art with reality TV and fresh waffles
Monday, June 29, 2009
By Adrian McCoy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It was supposed to be a two-semester community artistic social experiment for a Carnegie Mellon University art class, videotaping hip late-night crowds discussing what was on their minds while they ate waffles.

But the combination of homemade treats and homegrown reality show has proven to be an unusual recipe for success since Waffle Shop opened its doors last fall in East Liberty. School is out, but the doors are staying open, weekend brunch hours have been added and the menu has expanded.

Dear Family and Friends, Mentors and Colleagues:

BBC world service story about 'Play Me, I'm Yours' artwork by Luke Jerram. 30 street pianos installed across London for SingLondon and City of London Festival.

News link from the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/30-pianos-scattered-acros_n_230...

Thanks to AMPer Shirin Pilehvari for sending this on:

Text of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's speech in European Parliament on Wednesday 8 July 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen;
Honourable members of parliament,

I am here - as an Iranian, as an artist and as a representative of the protestors who are being killed in Iran for the sake of democracy - to ask you the following questions:

"If the passengers of an aircraft were taken hostage by a hijacker, would the governments of the world side with the hijacker or with the passengers? Would the nations and governments of the world declare that the hijacking is an internal affair between the passengers and the hijacker, or take steps to rescue the passengers?"

Volume 6, Issue 8 is now online...

http://www.poetryvictims.com/

Jeff

Thanks AMPer Kelly Thompson for passing this on.

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