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'RETRO: "Zero Tolerance for Silence (Part 1)" by Pat Metheny
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'The Che Guevara of Copyright: Johannes Kreidler's 'Product Placements'
When Brahms did it, it was art. When Negativland did it, it was funny. (And when 2 Live Crew did it to Roy Orbison, in a way, it was artfully funny.) But when Girl Talk's Gregg Gillis plunders the entirety of recorded popular music and emerges with the perfect riff x to complement just the right lick y, somehow it's a borderline illegal calculus. -
'Bison-tennial Man: A John Lurie Print
The first piece of art I purchased purely for art's sake was a facsimile (edition of 45) of John Lurie's magnificently stroked 'Bison.' A 21x30 inkjet print on archival rag paper, it's signed by John, too.
