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		<title>Modernist Dollhouses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annina Günther, who lives in Brighton, England, makes well designed Modernist dollhouses. share share]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=311</link>
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		<title>Yan Yan Candy Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what I like best about these odd &#8220;dipping cookies&#8221; from Singapore. The fact that inside this cup are a few long, flat, tasteless cookies, each with the name of an animal and a fortune, or simply a comment? The fact that they are served with a totally artificial looking &#38; tasting &#8220;strawberry&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=267</link>
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		<title>The Sweet, Green Little Digger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually covet construction equipment, but a Komatsu Excavator is parked two doors down from us on a building site and I can&#8217;t keep my eyes off of it. It is such a sweet piece of design: proportional, compact, small, and just generally cute. What&#8217;s more, the Komatsu Corporation has been recognized by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=235</link>
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		<title>Reiner Riedler&#8217;s Authentic Fakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reiner Riedler is an Austrian artist who originally wanted to study ethnology. It is clear he is interested in ideas of technology, the authentic experience, globalism, simulacrum, and leisure. His series entitled Fake Holidays explores the physical manifestations of manufactured demand, constructed satiation, privileged entitlement, and the tension between excessive wants and basic human needs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Animal Revenge: Marcus Butt&#8217;s collage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marcus Butt of Bristol, UK, was recently featured in Wallpaper* magazine, and I was thrilled by his working process and the end result. So much Photoshop work looks so computer-generated, and this method yields a beautiful hand-made look. His process starts with a hand-drawn sketch, which he then scans into Photoshop. Then he &#8220;colors&#8221; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Trauma, Portraits, Sex, Religion: Otto Dix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art in New York is showing one of my favorite German Expressionists, Otto Dix. Along with George Grosz and Max Beckmann, Dix showed decadent and corrupt views of Weimar society. The exhibition runs from March 11-August 30, 2010 and contains over 100 works. The show was recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Drawing Room with a Pot of Glue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn&#8217;t love Victorian photocollage? Well I do, anyway. It&#8217;s odd and awkward and so strange. This new show at the Met (organized by the Art Institute of Chicago) explores this odd preoccupation of the rich. The Met writes: &#8220;Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=131</link>
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		<title>Ray Yoshida&#8217;s Talking Collages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James Jensen has organized a memorial tribute to the Kauai-born artist Ray Yoshida at the Contemporary Museum First Hawaiian and we went last week. May I just say that Yoshida has made some of the most ingenious collages I have ever seen? First, as a Chicago Imagist, he played with fantastical images and, I believe, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Subconscious Narratives: Sally French</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sally French is one of our favorite artists, and she lives here in Hawaii! I&#8217;ve always been partial to her truly twisted kitties in bikinis series. Recent projects include a fantastical photo series involving a giant egg and 32-foot mural in Kaua‘i entitled, “The Keeper Series: He‘e and the Golden Egg.” “He‘e and the Golden [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Control is Lost: Zhou Jun&#8217;s Photography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We love this new work by Zhou Jun, showing now at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Red Gate is an incredible space; we attended an opening there in 2008. -From the Red Gate press release by Yang Liyu: &#8220;The last thirty years of the Chinese economic miracle has led to unprecedented changes, perhaps the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://elasticlimit.com/?p=55</link>
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