Pawlenty among governors targeted by extremist group

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Tim Pawlenty is among more than 30 governors who’ve received letters from a “sovereign citizens’ extremist group” identified by the FBI as the Guardians of the Free Republics urging him to resign within three days or be removed. Pawlenty confirmed he received the letter, but says he’s unconcerned.The group’s website outlines the thinking behind its aim to “restore Biblical law to a devoutly secular population.” It seeks to accomplish its goals “BEHIND THE SCENES, lawfully, peacefully, without violence and without risking civil war.” FBI officials have told governors they have no specific knowledge of plans to use violence but are cautioning police to be alert in case other individuals interpret the letters “as a justification for violence or other criminal actions.” Its members believe the group’s plan can act as a “vehicle for relieving corporate tyranny. Continue Reading

Without a Face: Izabella Demavlys on photographing Pakistan’s survivors of acid attacks

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Memona, by Izabella Demavlys


A former fashion photographer now doing documentary work, Izabella Demavlys writes in her artist’s statement that “to illustrate a deeper definition of female beauty, I photograph women whose pictorial beauty radiates from their accomplishment, character and personal struggles.” Her latest series, “Without a Fac Continue Reading

Artist Joy Garnett will donate painting to collector who gives $10K to Haiti relief

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Joy Garnett’s Evac (2005), an abstraction of New Orleans on fire after Hurricane Katrina


Artist Joy Garnett scours the media for news images of disasters, man-made or natural, that become the basis for her evocative paintings on canvas. Events from the Paris riots to Hurricane Katrina have sparked her work, but it’s that last tragedy that’s the subject of a painting (above) she says she’ll give to the first collector who donates $10,000 or more for relief in earthquake-struck Haiti. Like the southeast Asian tsunami of 2005, Katrina is “a disaster that still reverberates,” she tells Hrag Vartanian at Hyperallergic. Continue Reading

Eyeteeth

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Paul Schmelzer is a writer, editor, and journalist, and the web editor at the Walker Art Center. Occasional posts from his blog, Eyeteeth, are re-published with his permission.

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Is social media a fad?

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by Paul Schmelzer | September 15, 2009 • Stats-rich presentation on the growth and ubiquity of social media. Takeaway: “Social media isn’t a fad. It’s a fundamental shift in how we communicate.”


 



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