Artissima summarizing itself for 2021

*It’s great that they’re alive, after what the European cultural scene has been through (and continues to experience). *There’s hard-working Artissima director Ilaria Bonacossa in the art press — “Exibart 114,” to be specific. Home page Artissima has closed its 28th edition Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin, closed on November 7 […]

How Four NFT Novices Created a Billion-Dollar Ecosystem of Cartoon Apes

*Rolling Stone decided to get all interested, but at least they wrote a pretty good article about it. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bayc-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-interview-1250461/

The XLR8R Web3 Weekly Wrap

*It’s mostly about music and the music event scene, but at least they’re making an earnest effort as journalists to keep up with the NFT mayhem. https://xlr8r.com/news/web3-weekly-wrap-holly-herndons-holly-fwb-gatekeeper-nft-takeover-of-times-square-and-more/ https://xlr8r.com/features/web3-weekly-wrap-telefon-tel-aviv-and-effixx-and-sven-vath-announce-nft-drops-zora-embed-universals-bayc-supergroup-and-more/ “We detail our favorite NFTs, DAOs, platforms, and DeFi and DApp projects in the Web3 space from last week.”

Torino: every form of contemporary art

*Not some of them, but ALL of them, tutto!

Bamboo processing machinery

This video features a wide variety of these industrial devices, and after looking at them and the way they work, it’s easier to understand why bamboo chopsticks in restaurants cost nothing. https://youtu.be/MrCF5HMm8rg

Adam Savage displaying IFixit tools

“Both a practical and a political frame,” and it’s become even more political since he made this video.

“Sinfonia” by Alessandro Sciaraffa, part three

The work has a large reverberating gong in it. *A time lapse of the artwork’s generated projection:

“Sinfonia” by Alessandro Sciaraffa, part two

*It’s fair to say that we were gloating over it.

“Sinfonia” by Alessandro Sciaraffa

*A pleasure to see this work, created by one of Share Festival’s favorite artists, entering The Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art for its permanent collection.