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Holland Cotter’s essay on art and race.
Some accompanying images on nytimes.com.

C-Monster blogs about his session with Bert Rodriguez, as part of In the Beginning.

DEXTER SINISTER WILL OCCUPY THE COMMANDER’S ROOM AT THE 7TH REGIMENT ARMORY EVERY DAY FROM 4 MARCH TO 23 MARCH 2008 RELEASING A SERIES OF PARALLEL TEXTS THROUGH MULTIPLE CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION WHICH REFLECT ON THE 2008 WHITNEY BIENNIAL. MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON THE TRUE MIRROR WEBSITE:
http://www.sinisterdexter.org/

Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt are Dexter Sinister.

Here is one of their transmissions, produced by John Russell, Clement Greenberg is a conceptual artist. There is a pdf.

We are the lucky and happy recipient of a XO laptop. The laptop very cool anyway one breaks it down. It runs Sugar OS, a custom version of Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6, and only comes with free software. It is aimed at kids, mainly outside the US and Europe, as an educational tool. But OLPC has a ‘Give one Get one’ program; so when someone buys a laptop for a child in the US, OLPC ships one to child in Haiti, Peru or Africa.

I think OLPC, exposing kids to Linux, programming language and free software, has the potential to inspire a generation of kids to be non-consumers and innovator. I am thinking of a generational difference between Gates and Jobs as opposed to the dudes who started Google. Gates and Jobs defined themselves against IBM and simply wanted to sell their products; the Google dudes, who probably owned computers as a children and were familiar with unix, programming language and computer clubs, seemed to be concerned with innovation aimed at computers users and not just consumers.

An so I hope OLPC coninues this program long enough to see its effects.

Membership is tax-deductible.

Fabiola Santiago, of the Miami Herald, writes about Wendy Wischer, who has a solo show, n-s-e-w,  currently at David Castillo Gallery.

I have not seen this exhibition, yet.

KH has posted and commented on some of the whitney biennial press.  Here are some links.

Jerry Saltz for the New Yorker magazine.

Carly Berwick for the New York magazine.

Leslie Camhi for the Village Voice.

Holland Cotter for the New York Times.

Peter Schjeldahl for the New Yorker.

Claudia La Rocco  for wnyc news.

Simon Houpt for the Globe and Mail.

Alexandra Peers for Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com.

And one about/of Bert Rodriguez.