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São Paulo, Brazil Says No To Outdoor Advertising

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São Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising

This is interesting-it looks like the city of São Paulo, Brazil has decided to heavily restrict out door advertising and take down their ubiquitous billboards and large posters, which were apparently covering the city. It will be interesting to see how this experiment plays out in the long term once the dinosaur-like billboard shells are all removed and the people have time to reflect on how this changed their city.

There is a really nice set of images on flickr related to this, including the image above.

New Andreas Gursky work

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© Andreas Gursky.

Looks like Andreas Gursky is getting talked a lot about lately. He is showing his new work and I can't wait to see it up close. Here is a nice pdf of his work. I found a good article and exhibition images in a Wallpaper Portfolio. Here is a good blog post with nice detail shots of the new images.

Also check out a haus der kunst translated page
via jm Colberg

If you happen to be in London tonight looks like there is a show up for another few days in London at Sprueth Magers London Gallery and also at White Cube.

He opened a show in New York yesterday. Anyone go? if you did how was it? I need to get up there soon. If you didn't go the show is at:

Matthew Marks
522 West 22nd Street
New York

Andreas Gursky
May 4-June 30, 2007

Zoe Strauss: Works-in-Progress Slide show

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Last October I was lucky enough to find myself in Philadelphia at the same time as one of Zoe Strauss's Works-in-Progress Slide shows. I have been meaning to post the images I took while I was there for some time so here they finally are.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.


© 2006 Harlan Erskine. All rights reserved.

The whole slide show was a really nice experience. Zoe Strauss has a recap of the slide show I went to on her blog. After the show, Zoe told everyone to take the pictures off the wall and keep them at no extra charge. There were also signed laser prints (?) for sale for $5 or $10 and an assortment of postcards. The whole experience was the opposite of many art show at a traditional gallery there was no pretense and inaccessibility of the $100,000 9-foot print. All of that was striped away and what I got in return was very satisfying.