Triple Canopy, Issue 4: War Money Magic

Issue 4: War Money Magic http://canopycanopycanopy.com

Star Wars: A New Heap by John Powers Was George Lucas a minimalist? Was Donald Judd a Jedi? The coincidences of Star Wars, minimalism, modernist architecture and urban planning. Milestones: The Noble Lie by Adam Helms An artist project examining the symbiotic relationship between the works and lives of Sayyid Qutb and Leo Strauss, and the visions they have spawned. Programming by Seth Erickson. Reconstruction by Rachel Owens “Human beings are human beings are human beings.” Collages with enemies exsected to the point of embrace, and an interview with Desmond Tutu. The Stalin by Picasso Case by Lene Berg, with Sam Frank Has a 1953 portrait of Stalin been censored by Cooper Union in 2008? A dossier of evidence, for and against. Bullion with a Mission by Barry Harbaugh Bernard von NotHaus’s crusade to establish an alternative to the dollar and challenge the supremacy of the Federal Reserve. Photography by Julia Sherman. No Other Home by Maria Sonevytsky, with photography by Alison Cartwright The stories and songs of Crimean Tatars who have returned to their homeland after fifty years in exile. Homemade Memorials by Sonya Blesofsky The second installment of an ongoing project memorializing desecrated, destroyed, and forgotten buildings, with sculptures constructed from images submitted by readers. Heraclitus Series by Amir Mogharabi Currents in logic made ancient, for OS 9. An artist project bringing together the fragments of Heraclitus and the calculus of truth tables. Flash Yr Idols by Bidisha Banerjee, with George Collins From Kolkata and the universe within Krishna’s mouth to Vermont and the pleasures of virtual prayer. A rumination and a Flash game. Original Ideas in Magic by Tim Davis “Think of a number between thunder and money.” Poems and proliferating visions of a magician’s lair without a magician. With photocollages by Hannah Whitaker.

This Friday, November 14: New Black Triple Canopy issue 4 launch party and performance by New Humans With Orphan and DJ sets by curator/writer Bob Nickas and musician Mark Ibold (Sonic Youth, ex-Pavement). Artwork by Colby Bird, Jonah Groeneboer, Andres Laracuente, Matthew Lusk, Rachel Owens, John Powers, and Lucy Raven. Starr Space, 108–110 Starr Street, Brooklyn $7 donation, $3 drinks; doors at 8pm Directions: Take the L train to Jefferson Street. Head southeast on Wyckoff Avenue toward Troutman Street and turn right at Starr Street. for Triple Canopy Rachel Aviv, Taylor Baldwin, Colby Chamberlain, Adam Florin, Hannah Frank, Sam Frank, Kimmy Eliot Fung, Adam Helms, Sarah Kessler, Molly Kleiman, Laurence Lowe, Alexander Provan, Tom Roberge, Kathleen Ross, Peter J. Russo, Genevieve Smith, William Smith, Caleb Waldorf, Hannah Whitaker, and Jane Yakowitz Triple Canopy works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. These investigations are realized in an online magazine as well as in public programs and print publications encompassing various fields and locales. We aim to present work and advance ideas informed by a multitude of disciplines and perspectives, and to disseminate them among a broad and diverse audience. Our first issue was published on March 17, 2008. RSS | Un/subscribe