*I get a lot of use from the hefty, many-featured Victorinox “WorkChamp with Slide Lock.” It’s thick, heavy, stout and, at 111 millimeters in length, it’s better classed as a multitool than a “pocket knife.” It also ceased production back in 2017. *However, this old tool of mine lacks any Swiss Army pen. So I […]

*Here at the Artmaker blog, don’t say we never gave you anything that was actually given to you by Lev Manovich. http://manovich.net/index.php/projects/cultural-analytics

*Traditionally, the moment when they die is a great time to learn about artists. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/arts/vera-molnar-dead.html

*Doing some occasional art coverage on the social-media site. https://bsky.app/profile/bruces.bsky.social/post/3kgsgyxfydh2t

*That’s how it goes sometimes. *We seem to be back with no permanent damage, so let’s see how the art-blogging goes.

…from a century ago.

https://medium.com/@bruces

*The culture-industry foundations and institutions in Torino are getting more muscular. There’s Compagnia di San Paolo (they’re 460 years old), but there’s also Pinacoteca Agnelli, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Merz, the Galleria d’Italia e Camera, the OGR (which used to be giant railway repair yard, and now is some giant techno-cultural barn), the GAM […]