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Money for Nothing
No-fee coin-exchange machines
Who
among us, artist or otherwise, doesn’t have a jar or box or
bowl or some other container filled with coins (and lint and
safety pins and rubber bands)? When was the last time you
hauled that treasure—the coins, not the lint—down to the bank
or supermarket and exchanged it for paper bills? Standard
coin-exchange machines, while really cool, are also routinely
going to charge a service fee of close to ten percent of what
you put in. Well, now Commerce Bank has coin-processing
machines that do the job for free. And you don’t have to be a
customer to use ’em. (Note: The machines aren’t at every Commerce location, so check before you
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Here Be Monsters
A Guide to New York's Architectural Beasts
Mapmakers
of old, when confronted in their work with unexplored regions,
often simply wrote “Here be monsters” in lieu of providing
actual cartological information. Amelia Wilson has provided
something of the online equivalent—only this time, our guide
is celebrating the beasts, not warning us away. At A Love of Monsters, visitors will find a bestiary of
gargoyles and other nasty (but lovely) architectural critters
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Electronic Museum of Mail Art
“The envelope is the museum”
EMMA
Marcel Duchamp is usually
credited with creating the Mail Art genre. We don’t know if he
did or if he did’t. We do know that there are few art
movements, or trends, or genres that share Mail Art’s
simplicity and beauty of idea and design. Artists create
work—envelopes, postcards, stamps—and then send the art
through the mail to friends, colleagues, strangers. Talk about
the medium being the message! If you bypass everything else,
don’t miss EMMA’s stamp gallery. Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
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A is for Angry (very, very angry)
Maybe
you’ve already seen this little verité masterpiece
online somewhere. Maybe you haven’t. Either way, it’s a
classic. Allow us to set the scene: a security camera is
trained on a guy seated in his cubicle at work. His computer
acts up. The guy flips out. He slaps, smashes, and kicks the
machine to pieces. It’s glorious, and creepy, and funny. Hell,
it might even be a work of art—it’s definitely got catharsis
going for it.
(NOTE: You’ll have to download and
unzip a 5MB MPEG file, but on a fast connection it’s pretty
painless. Enjoy the
show.) | |
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New York Foundation for the Arts
155 Avenue of the Americas,
14th Fl.
NYC
(212) 366-6900
NYFA
site
The New York Foundation
for the Arts’ stated goal is “to provide the time and
resources for the creative mind and the artistic spirit to
think, work, and prosper.” And by its own reckoning, it shells
out more money to individual artists and arts organizations
than any other like-minded institution in the country. So
what’re you waiting for? You think they’re just going to come
knocking on your door? Get busy grant-writing, people!
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