Shopping has being happening for 5 hours already in certain stores here on the East Coast, it is 10:30 AM, which is depressing.
For those of you who don’t know what Buy Nothing Day is please go to Adbusters here, to find out more.
Other Buy Nothing Day sites:
UK: here
Japan: here
Denmark: here
Sweden: here
Netherlands: here
Germany: here
10.20.08 – 12.13.08
April Greiman
Visual Arts Museum
209 East 23 Street
New York, NY 10010
More information on exhibit here.
An interesting article on James Corner and his firm Field Operations describing the reclaiming of the abandoned High Line and the transformation of the Fresh Kills landfill, both into parks.
Read the article at Metropolis here .
(Link also includes a photo gallery of the High Line by Olef Wolberger.)
Corner’s firm Field Operations can be found here.
A very interesting and detailed article about New York City subway signage on the AIGA site. Read the full article, all nine pages, here.
Aperture Foundation at The New School presents Confounding Expectations – Photography in Context: Street Art, Street Life: Street as Site of Globalization
Wednesday
12.03.2008
7:00 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY
FREE
“This panel looks at the complex social, political, and economic conditions of globalization in the context of contemporary photography and the street as a venue and source of inspiration for artists from the 1950s through today. Join photographers from the exhibition “Street Art, Street Life” as they discuss their work and its larger cultural context.”
More information can be found here.
More information on “Street Art, Street Life” at the Bronx Museum can be found here. Press release here (opens a .PDF document).
Participate here.
