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...Every other year, the Venice Biennale—a vast and international contemporary art exhibition—increases this sense of visual bombardment. The city’s vistas are adorned by banners that display the Biennale’s trademark red, square logo. They announce the performances, special events and exhibitions that go on until November, held mostly in the national pavilions in the public gardens of the Giardini—the main site of the Biennale—but throughout the city’s various “sestieres” as well...
Have a burning question? Well, if you happen to be in the Square this summer, and you happen to write said question on a notecard, and you happen to insert said notecard into the box attached to the Wheel Questions art installation on Brattle St. near Chipotle and Eastern Mountain Sports, then Johnny Monsarrat just might have an answer for you. Actually, he will definitely have an answer...
...Mike Myers film that received a whopping 14% approval rating on rottentomatoes.com (clearly quality)—and felt the idea was “too cool not to do it.” Now, it’s a fully-fledged, touring, interactive art project: Passerby contribute questions via notecards and Monsarrat answers them on the back, displaying the cards on a black cylinder for the world to read. The mastermind behind the project estimates he’s received 2,000 queries at this point, and was quick to note that this bests postsecret.com...
...definitely always committed. To date, he’s put in about $1,600 and 1,000 hours of time, and hasn’t received any donations. FlyBy wonders how buying notecards could cost so much money. That’s art...
...Ferrah Leni Fawcett (her first name a variation on the Arabic word for joy) was born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. Voted Best Looking at her high school, she studied microbiology, then art, at the University of Texas, Austin. In Hollywood she got her first big role in the calamitous 1970 satire Myra Breckinridge, escaping unscathed and, for the most part, unnoticed. Until she was signed in 1976 for the ABC series Charlie's Angels, Fawcett was most visible as an icon of TV commercials: she made the Mercury Cougar pant and gave extra body to Wella Balsam shampoo...