http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/28/interesting-times/ The Official Blog of Art21, Inc. and the <i>Art in the Twenty-First Century</i> PBS series Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:56:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.art21.org/2011/02/28/interesting-times/comment-page-1/#comment-29509 Weekend Links: The disjointed, sickly edition | Stephanie Vegh Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:03:31 +0000 http://blog.art21.org/?p=36934#comment-29509 [...] Interesting times in Egypt: Artist and Art21 guest blogger Lindsay Lawson coincidentally found herself on a workshop assignment in Egypt at the same time as the recent protests-turned-revolution. Though she’s not alone as an artist reporting from within the storm, what is fascinating about Lawson’s post is her open acknowledgement that the events and encounters swirling around her cannot be neatly reconciled into any sort of coherent narrative – this is chaos at its most honest: “During the protests a man went wakeboarding down the Nile, as he does every Friday, while people on the shore ran away from police and tear gas.” [...]

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