Yesterday I had the great honor to open a remarkable exhibition of artworks at the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht – multiform institute for fine art, design and reflection Curators: Lex ter Braak, Director of Van Eyck and Huib Haye van der Werf, Head of Artistic Program. The exhibition runs through The Van Eyck Academie, Marres,…
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Nobson Newtown – In Parenthesis
The great exhibition of Paul Noble’s work opened at Museum Boijmans van Beuningen at the weekend – [Link] An endlessly growing cosmopolis 14 June – 21 September 2014 This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will exhibit Paul Noble’s Nobson Newtown, an ever-growing cosmopolis on which the artist has worked for eighteen years. The vast drawings…
The Garbologist – Bill Rathje on TV
I have uploaded to Vimeo some clips from Bill Rathje’s TV appearances – explaining, promoting, getting passionate about garbage! Bill Rathje – Garbologist from Michael Shanks on Vimeo.
Disney – everything in its place
Bill (Rathje) used to comment on the irony of garbage – “in sight and out of mind” … Here at Disney the garbage cans are everywhere, and the place completely spotless. [portfolio_slideshow id=5631]
an archaeology of the contemporary past
Today I’m in the Clark Center at Stanford, hub of the Bio-X Program – bioengineering and more. Steve Quake (Stanford Bioengineering and Applied Physics) is hosting a meeting of The Human Document Project – [Link] With us are Laura Welcher (Long Now Foundation), Tim D. White (Palaeoanthropology, Berkeley), Michael Fischer (Anthropological Sciences, Canterbury, UK), Andreas…
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From the archives of Bill Rathje – some images of his life and work. More at archaeographer.com – [Link] [portfolio_slideshow]