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The changes address corporate governance, liability, and other issues.
Russia continues to pursue a series of reforms to modernise its civil and commercial laws and improve the business environment. Recent amendments to the Russian Civil Code relating to legal entities are summarized below.
Types of Entities
Starting 1 September 2014, important changes to Chapter 4 of the Civil Code, which governs legal entities, will take effect.[1] Legal entities are now classified as either corporate entities, which have members (such as shareholders), or unitary entities, which do not. The latter category is mainly for state enterprises and nonprofit organizations of various types.[2]
Corporate entities (corporations) include public and nonpublic companies as well as certain types of nonprofit organizations. A public company is a stock company whose shares are publicly traded or whose charter or name refers to it as public.[3] The main forms of nonpublic companies include the limited liability company (LLC or OOO, using the Russian acronym), which is already widely used, and the new nonpublic stock company. Certain former types of entities will no longer be available, including open stock companies (whose Russian acronym is OAO) and closed stock companies (in Russian, ZAO).
The new public companies are subject to many of the same rules that have applied to OAOs. For example, a public corporation must have a board of directors (or similar governing body) with at least five members. In contrast, nonpublic stock companies and LLCs enjoy greater flexibility. A board of directors is optional, although some form of management body is required. There is also greater leeway in determining the types of decisions that shareholders make (or, the board, if applicable) in nonpublic companies.
Transition Period
Existing companies will be governed by the new rules. For example, an existing OAO will be treated as a public stock company. Companies are expected to amend their names, charters, and other governing documents to comply with the new legislation, but there is no fixed deadline, and the changes may be implemented when convenient. Until this is done, if the Civil Code conflicts with a company charter's existing provisions, the Civil Code will prevail.[4] The current Stock Companies Law[5] will continue to apply to ZAOs until such companies change their charters. Similarly, the existing rules of the Stock Companies Law that relate to OAOs will now apply to public stock companies to the extent that this does not contradict the Civil Code.[6] (Eventually, the Stock Companies Law will be amended to correspond to the new Civil Code changes.)
Shareholder Voting Rights
Additional protections are available for shareholders in nonpublic companies, as set forth in revised Article 66 of the Civil Code. Voting rights may differ from the percentage of equity ownership, thus allowing a minority shareholder to have "disproportional" veto rights over certain decisions. Such rights must be expressly provided in the charter or a corporate agreement (see details below), and a description of the rights or such agreement must be formally recorded in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, which is a publicly available database of all legal entities.
Shareholder Obligations
New Article 652 imposes certain mandatory duties for all members of a corporation, such as a shareholder in a stock company or "participant" in an LLC. These duties include abstaining from disclosing confidential information, participating in decisions essential for the entity's continued existence, and refraining from actions that are known to be harmful for the entity or that would "materially complicate" or render impossible the pursuit of the entity's fundamental goals. These obligations are drafted somewhat more broadly than in prior Russian company laws and should be reviewed carefully by potential investors. Although no monetary liability is specified for breach, claims may presumably be brought for damages under general civil law principles, Russian company laws, or an entity's own internal governance documents.
Right to Expel a Shareholder
Under a well-established rule, Article 10 of the LLC Law[7] allows the participants in an LLC to force the mandatory withdrawal of a participant who has substantially breached his or her obligations or materially complicated or rendered impossible the entity's activities. Now, revised Article 67 of the Civil Code grants corresponding rights to shareholders in nonpublic stock companies. A shareholder who has committed such misconduct may be required to sell his or her shares back to the company and, in exchange, will receive the shares' "actual value" (which is not defined in the Civil Code, but may be interpreted by reference to the equivalent rule in the LLC Law[8]). Such expulsion is a new concept for Russian stock companies.
Rights of Board Members
New Article 653 of the Civil Code establishes certain rights for the members of a board of directors (or similar governing body) of a public or nonpublic corporation, with the goal to improve corporate governance and compliance. These include the right to receive information about the business, review accounting and other internal documentation, challenge certain transactions that may be harmful to the company, and initiate damage claims on behalf of the company against officers, executives, or controlling persons whose actions have caused harm. This is an important new provision that strengthens and clarifies directors' power to protect the company's interests.
Shareholder Meetings
New Articles 653 and 671 address various aspects of the formal meetings held by shareholders or other members. Notably, Article 671 imposes new requirements for documenting the quorum, voting, and decisions made at a meeting, with the goal to reduce fraud and minimize disputes about corporate actions. For public stock companies, an independent registrar[9] must certify the meeting minutes. For nonpublic companies under certain circumstances, a notary must do so.[10]
Corporate Agreements
Although shareholder agreements have been recognized in Russian law since at least 2009, new Article 672 introduces the concept of a corporate agreement, which is a generic concept that covers agreements between shareholders in a stock company, participants in an LLC, and certain agreements that include third parties. Such an agreement may impose obligations with respect to voting, corporate governance, restrictions on share transfers, put-and-call options, and exit mechanisms. The new Civil Code amendments also address the following related matters:
Certain disclosure requirements apply. Shareholders who are parties to a corporate agreement must inform the company, and public companies may be required to disclose further details under the Stock Companies Law or securities legislation. When a corporate agreement results in certain parties obtaining effective majority control of a company or exceeding certain thresholds of voting power, prior approval from the Russian competition authority or other bodies may be required.[12]
Company Representatives and Joint Signatures
Several new provisions in the Civil Code will facilitate internal controls, for example, so that a company may require dual or multiple persons to sign contracts or manage bank accounts if it desires. In particular, under Articles 53 and 653, a corporation may authorize one or more persons to act on its behalf, either separately or jointly, without a power of attorney. Corresponding information must be included in the charter and the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Previously, such "joint signature" and similar arrangements were difficult to implement in Russian companies.
Liability of Shareholders or Controlling Persons
Several new provisions address liability issues. Under new Article 531 of the Civil Code, a "controlling person" of a legal entity may be held directly liable for losses that the entity suffers because of his or her "fault", and any agreement that seeks to limit or waive such liability will not be valid. Generally, a controlling person is anyone who holds the power to determine the entity's actions, including the right to direct the actions of officers or executives. When a controlling person causes losses, officers and executives may all be held jointly and severally liable. (A parent entity may also be held jointly liable with a subsidiary for actions directed by the parent or with its consent.[13]) Liability may also apply to shareholders or controlling persons when the company is a foreign legal entity but conducts its business primarily in Russia.[14]
Liability of Officers and Directors
Existing Russian company laws already address the potential liability of officers and directors.[15] New Article 531 clarifies that such liability may not be waived or avoided by agreement (such as a clause in an employment agreement) for actions not taken in good faith (and, for a public corporation, when the actions were not reasonable).
Mandatory Audits
All public and nonpublic stock companies must now have their annual financial statements reviewed by an independent, licensed auditor under Article 671.
Corporate Reorganizations
Under amended Article 57, the means for reorganizing different types of entities have been streamlined, making it easier to merge or convert different types of companies. For example, a stock company may now be merged directly into an LLC; this was not previously possible without a cumbersome, multi-step process.
Charter Capital
New rules address the formation of charter capital for certain corporations. Company founders are required to pay in at least three-quarters of the initial charter capital before registration and must pay the balance within one year,[16] unless otherwise stated in specific company laws (which vary depending on the type of entity[17]). The minimum amount of charter capital must now be paid in cash.[18] (Such amounts have not changed: 10,000 Rubles for LLCs and 100,000 Rubles for stock companies [approximately USD277 and USD2,773, respectively]. Higher amounts apply for banks, insurance companies, and other regulated entities.)
[1]. Federal Law No. 99-FZ, "On Introduction of Changes to Chapter 4 of the First Part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and Invalidation of Certain Provisions of Legislation", dated 5 May 2014 (Law No. 99-FZ).
[2]. Article 651 of the Civil Code.
[3]. Article 663 of the Civil Code.
[4]. Article 3 of Law No. 99-FZ.
[5]. Federal Law No. 208-FZ, "On Stock Companies", dated 26 December 1995, as amended (the Stock Companies Law).
[6]. See Federal Law No. 218-FZ, "On Introduction of Changes to Certain Legal Acts of the Russian Federation", dated 21 July 2014.
[7]. Federal Law No. 14-FZ, "On Limited Liability Companies", of 8 February 1998, as amended (the LLC Law).
[8]. Under Article 14 of the LLC Law, the "actual value" of a participant's share is equal to a pro rata share of the company's net assets.
[9]. Because of an earlier amendment to the Civil Code, all stock companies must arrange for a licensed, independent registrar to maintain their share registers by 1 October 2014. See Article 149 of the Civil Code and Article 3 of Federal Law No. 142-FZ, dated 2 July 2013.
[10]. For nonpublic stock companies, in some cases, an independent registrar or the company itself may certify the minutes. For LLCs, a notary is required unless the charter or a unanimous decision of participants states otherwise.
[11]. Amended Article 1214 of the Civil Code. Certain matters must be governed by Russian law, such as the company's legal status and form, issues of shareholder liability, and relations between the company and shareholders. Other issues relating to the choice of law are beyond the scope of this LawFlash.
[12]. Notably, the Federal Antimonopoly Service must approve the acquisition of voting power above certain thresholds in applicable circumstances, and, if the company involved is a "strategic enterprise", approval from a special government commission may be required where a foreign investor acquires a controlling interest or in certain other circumstances.
[13]. Article 673 of the Civil Code.
[14]. Article 1202 of the Civil Code, due to a change made in 2013.
[15]. For example, Article 71 of the Stock Companies Law.
[16]. Article 662 of the Civil Code.
[17]. For stock companies, the rule has not changed: at least one-half is due within three months after registration and the balance within one year, under Article 34 of the Stock Companies Law. For LLCs, there is a new rule: full payment is due within four months after registration, under Article 16 of the LLC Law.
[18]. Article 662 of the Civil Code.
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- In the opening sequence of Jewelpet Twinkle, Akari scrambles to cover her height (153 cm), but this is never addressed in the series proper.
- Pink from Jewelpet Kira Deco was very short when she was younger and the memory still causes her a bit of angst.
- Kud from Little Busters! is a fair bit shorter than the rest of the cast, a full head shorter than the already short protagonist, and it's one of the things she often comments on in her occasional mumbled insecure rambles.
- A large part of Lovely Complex, with the male and female protagonists being very short and very tall respectively. It doesn't help that several characters are a Shipper on Deck for them.
- Toshiro Hitsugaya from Bleach is the youngest captain in the series' history, but because Shinigami age much slower than humans he's still physically a child, which irritates him. He's said to frequently take naps because his grandma told him that children who sleep often grow taller. Isane Kotetsu is sometimes shown to be insecure about her height, as she's easily the tallest of the female Shinigami.
- And then, at one point during the Quincy Blood War arc, when Toshiro and Byakuya are fighting against Gerard, Toshiro actually tries to make a height joke about himself... and all Byakuya gives him is a pity laugh.
- In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Hori is a bit insecure about being only 5'4''. He's a head shorter than most of the other characters.
- Yugi Muto from Yu-Gi-Oh! occasionally gets annoyed when people mistake him for a pre-schooler, notably when out on a trip to a theme park with Anzu. Yami Yugi, despite originally being the same size as Yugi when possessing him, never seems to feel the same way, although he's still shorter than the rest of the gang even when drawn taller in Battle City and in the anime.
- 16-year-old Komari from Non Non Biyori is very self-conscious of her lack of height because people keeps on mistaking her as a little girl, although she'd rather be seen as a mature Cool Big Sis to her mostly younger friends.
- Tsurezure from Ojojojo mentions his lack of height as something that bothers him, although it's only ever brought up once. Not helped by the fact that he hangs out with and later dates a girl that's almost a foot taller than him.
- Suzu from Seitokai Yakuindomo has her height as a Berserk Button and occasional Trigger; she actively avoids doing things that would remind herself of her physique. Outside of the sex jokes, it's the most commonly reoccurring gag in the series. This is actually used to show just how bad her fear of ghosts is when she tries to use her height as an excuse to avoid entering a haunted house.
- Satoshi from Bokura no Hentai doesn't seem to generally dislike his height however his growth spurts were one of the effects of puberty that made him quit crossdressing.
Comic Books
- The Golden Age DC superhero, The Atom, was in reality Al Pratt. He was only five feet and one inch tall, constantly being taunted for his size. Even after a boxing coach helps him become stronger, Pratt continues to get teased at his college over his size.
- Ramsey Kole is a 4'6" dancer who's overlooked because of his size. He seeks out Sizeshifter Bill Foster for something to make him taller. Although he's been working on new growth serums he declines Ramsey largely because they're untested. Kole knocks him out and downs several beakers anyway. He gets taller, but disproportionately and freakishly 15' tall. He becomes obscure Spider-Woman villain, Daddy Longlegs.
Fan Works
- Downplayed in Bait and Switch. Eleya mentions in chapter three that she usually feels awkward on a dance floor since she tends to tower over her partner. In this case, though, her dance partner Gaarra is actually a few centimeters taller.
- In Blue Sky, Wheatley gets upgraded from a spherical, fairly small computer body into a Hard Light humanoid body that is over six feet in height. He doesn't like this — getting used to limbs is hard enough without the excessive length — and he really wants to just fit in with humans.
- Felix in "Good Enough". It's tied up with his concern that he's too "cute" and not good enough for Calhoun.
- Celestia expresses this regarding her own height and mass in the Triptych Continuum. She gains a benefit in that it can be very easy for her to intimidate — but that's it. The other side of the scale contains an inability to easily have an eye-to-eye conversation, looming without meaning to, neck cramps, an entire society built underscale to her comfort requirements, designers who claim her proportions are elegant and then mentally lock up upon having them in a fitting room (followed by charging quintuple for any dubious results), and so on down the line. One of the more comedic moments in A Mark Of Appeal has her accidentally admitting that she's created diagrams for use in the unlikely event of her ever having sex, just to make sure nopony gets hurt. (They're apparently rather simple to memorize, have never been seen by the general public and if Celestia has anything to say about it, never will be...)
- A Hard Day's Night :
- Norm, the Beatles' manager, complains constantly about his assistant's height.
Norm: Stop being taller than me!
Shake: I can't help it.
- Ringo is seen to be concerned about his height as well.
George: What's the matter with you, then?
Ringo: It's [Paul's] grandfather. I can tell he doesn't like me. It's cause I'm little.
George: Ah, you've got an inferiority complex, you have.
Ringo: Yeah, I know, that's why I play the drums - it's me active compensatory factor.
- Norm, the Beatles' manager, complains constantly about his assistant's height.
- Lord Farquaad from Shrek is much shorter than other characters in his realm, for which he takes ridiculous measures to compensate.
- Leo Valdez of The Heroes of Olympus is short and skinny, which does a number on his self-esteem, especially with his male compatriots all being tall and muscular save Nico.
- In the Lord Peter Wimsey novel Busman's Honeymoon, while Lord Peter is getting nearer the solution to the murder, there's this: "If I'd had more inches," said Peter, regretfully (for his height was a sensitive point with him) ..." The immediate context is that the murdered man was taller than Lord Peter, and Lord Peter thinks if he had been the same height or taller he could have figured it out earlier. His being shorter than others may have been mentioned a couple of times previously, but I'm pretty sure his height is given as 5' 10" (average) somewhere.
- Aliera from the Dragaera novels is short for her race, and you should never comment on this because she has an incredibly deadly weapon and will end you.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, of the Little House on the Prairie fame, was short even by the standards of her day, when people in general were shorter than they are now. When she first begins to teach school, she worries that her students won't obey her because she's so small. She does have some trouble, but she manages to handle it. Fortunately she's also a Pintsized Powerhouse: while she's still a student, at one point she manages to rip the bolts out of a bench formerly secured to her classroom floor just by rocking it.
- In The Wheel of Time, evil general Sammael hates his shortness (with Word of God even implying he'd use the One Power to make himself taller if that was at all possible). This, however, is a case where it's almost all in his head - Sammael is only slightly shorter than average. Unfortunately for him, his enemy Lews Therin Telamon, said enemy's reincarnation Rand al'Thor, and rival Quirky Miniboss Squad members Ishamael and Demandred are all tall guys.
- In Reaper Man, Mrs Cake's daughter Ludmilla is described as being not just tall, but built to a larger scale than everyone else, and is constantly in a slight crouch and trying not to loom at people.
Live-Action TV
- Barney Miller: Officer Carl Levitt is only 5′6″ and believes that this is the main reason he's never made Detective. Played with in one episode where the perp is a little person note who complains to Levitt that "you tall guys get all the breaks."
- Leonard from The Big Bang Theory is always complaining about how short he is, and is often mocked for it. Howard is also shorter than average and is made fun of for that, but Leonard is the only one who openly angsts about it.
- The Brady Bunch: Bobby had this in one episode, hating that he was little. But in the end, he and Greg got locked in Sam's meat locker while picking up meat for one of the boys' delivery job and only Bobby fit through the window to get out and get help.
- Chummy from Call the Midwife is taller than just about everyone else in the show, including her husband. She doesn't spend a lot of time angsting about it, but it comes up from time to time that she's always felt clumsy and awkward in part because of her height.
- Degrassi Junior High episode 5, "The Great Race." The B-plot was Arthur and Yick being jealous of how tall Snake was, while he found his height made him unable to play soccer.
- Ruth Buzzi had this in a Donny And Marie sketch, where she and Patty Maloney were applying for a secretarial position at a cardboard box company. While Patty had no trouble with her equipment during the typing test, Ruth's tiny desk and chair collapsed under her weight.
- In an episode of Home Improvement later in the show's run, Randy complains to his father that his "little" brother is taller than he is.
- George Jefferson from The Jeffersons is visibly shorter than his wife Louise, and their maid enjoys needling George about his size. Calling him "runt" is George's Berserk Button.
- M*A*S*H: Radar is periodically embarrassed by or ashamed of his shortness; combined with others teasing him, this makes him very angry.
- Jennifer Mosely from Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide has a whole subplot dedicated to her being much taller than the other girls at school. This becomes meaningless later in the series, when the other characters get older.
- C.J. Cregg throughout The West Wing. Lots of jokes through the seven seasons, but a few that come to mind are the episode when Sesame Street comes to the White House resulting in Big Bird jokes toward CJ, and when CJ takes over as Chief of Staff and she chides the interior designer who tries to give her a small desk.
- On The Mentalist Jane invokes this trope when he is transferred to another team despite his objections. One of the agents on his new team is a short guy who has some residual anxiety over his height. No one in the office actually cares about the guy's height but Jane makes the guy think that the others are mocking him behind his back. Jane stages some height-related pranks and the short guy snaps and attacks the agent he thought was responsible. This combined with other conflicts instigated by Jayne results in the team breaking up and Jane is reassigned back to his old team.
- How I Met Your Mother pairs the 5'2 Alyson Hannigan with the 6'4 Jason Segel. It's played for laughs more than legitimate angst, but there is one occasion where Hannigan's character has a dream about Marshall leaving her for a woman he describes as "more height appropriate." Part of the reason for this is that Marshall's entire family is very tall. They tease him for being "the runt." When Lily visits, she's shown in a sea of midsections.
- Lizzie Mcguire: In "A Gordo Story", Gordo develops a case of this after Parker says she won't dance with him because he's short.
- Connie of A Chorus Line suffers from this:
"Four foot ten, four foot ten
That's the story of my life
I remember when everybody was my size
Boy, was that great! But then everybody started moving up, and there I was, stuck at
Four foot ten, four foot ten
But I kept hoping and praying...
I used to hang from a parallel bar by the hour
Hoping I'd stretch
Just an inch more..."
Video Games
- Young Fransizka von Karma does not take kindly to being used as an example of someone who wouldn't reach the window in the flashback case of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.
- Ricken from Fire Emblem Awakening is the shortest cast member, even shorter than his own child if you make him a father. The Future Past DLC even hangs a lampshade on this if you have him talk to his kid, though it turns out they're surprised by his size because in the future, Ricken did grow and they remember him looking like an adult man rather than a child.
- Veigar from League of Legends being an Evil Overlord-wannabe yordle... dislikes his short size that he would constitute a lot of things with the word "short" to be a "short joke" and get pissy about it.
- While Susan in El Goonish Shive isn't abnormally tall, she does end up at 5'9" after a magical awakening; she started at 5'6". One of the signs of this is a loud WHAM as she hits her head on a locker shelf she'd normally cleared. Nanase, meanwhile, has at times tried to get herself taller, being at 5'3". (Fortunately, they can at least short-term adjust things, with some magical assistance.)
- Flore from Frivolesque stiffens (or even faint) anytime she meets someone who's overly taller than she is. Even though she's never talked about it, she seems to have some unexplained complex about her short stature.
- It's unknown how short Bree Kay from Kurami actually is, but Dr. Oz, Kurami's large stuffed rabbit toy, is taller than her. And she's not happy about it◊.
Web Video
- In "How to Start Off 2012 Right!" by Matthew Santoro, Matthew tries to follow the New Year's Resolution of standing tall. When someone taller than him stands next to him, he gets mad, says "Fuck you," and walks away.
Western Animation
- Cosmo G Spacely from The Jetsons is barely one-third of George Jetson's height, which adds to the triggers for Spacely to fire Jetson once per episode.
- In "Ewww, That's Growth" episode of Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter and his family want to go on a really big rollercoaster, but Dexter is denied due to being too short. The resulting angst drives him to become as tall as possible, eventually allowing him to finally go on the rollercoaster by the end of the episode. This backfires when he becomes so tall that he hits the ceiling at the very end.
- The episode "Biglet" from The Book of Pooh features Piglet getting fed up with being short, and starts wearing stilts, giant gloves, and an amplifier in his mouth.
- The episode "A Very, Very Large Animal" from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh has a similar premise. In this case, Piglet's friends tie Backwards Binoculars over his eyes and boxes on his feet to make him think he's grown overnight. His newfound height soon goes to his head and ends with him confronting some large crows, who dismantle the disguise and expose the truth. In the end, Piglet comes to accept his size after he helps out some ants, making him realize that he's not as useless as he thought.
- In the episode "A Pinch to Grow an Ed" of Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy Ed and Edd try to help Eddy become taller when he is unhappy with people mocking his short height.
- An episode of Gravity Falls titled "Little Dipper" deals with Dipper's height insecurity after realizing his twin sister Mabel has recently become one millimeter taller than him. He finds a size altering crystal in order to make them the same height again, which just leads them to being shrunk down instead, but eventually decides to give Mabel back her extra millimeter upon realizing that he tends to best her at everything else.
- In Steven Universe, Peridot sees her smallness as a weakness. She makes up for this by being able to control metal.
Real Life
- Apparently Silvio Berlusconi is sensitive about his height in real life, and is always careful about camera angles and so on. When the playwright Dario Fo played him in his work Two Headed Anomaly, he wore a dwarf puppet-suit to make it extra insulting.
- The same applies to Nicolas Sarkozy. Except for the play part.
- Stephen Merchant believes his 6'7" height should qualify him for disability.


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Foodie Thoughts for 24 September
24 Sep 2007
Today is National Cherries Jubilee Day!
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09/24/2007 - 16:47
Where is the recipe and photos?
09/24/2007 - 20:06
mmm, love those cherries!
09/24/2007 - 20:44
Not that it's too hard to make but I've never done it...
09/24/2007 - 22:02
So did you have a cherry jubilee today?
09/24/2007 - 22:39
I wish I could have - I spent the day in airports, airplanes, and meetings... I'm going to make the recipe someday and do a video to post... :) :) Nikko
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You "Fans" can bash me all u want, u can attack me with stats, but i STILL believe in this team, and i am STILL faithful. Even after a 4 game losing streak.
Yea i am tired of losing and losing but that doesnt mean im gonna give up on this team who seriously does have a great future ahead.
All im saying is that i will be watching the remaining games and i will still be decked out in niner gear. im on this website for a reason, and thats because im a FAN and ill still back this team no matter what the scoreboard says.
Like i said in the beginning of the season, i will always stay faithful and i do believe in Playoffs 2010


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It's hard out here in Philly for a pimp.
At least, it appears that's the lesson that self-described filmmaker-activist James O'Keefe learned when he and cohort Hannah Giles showed up at the Philadelphia ACORN headquarters on July 24 in the middle of a probe that has touched off a conservative-media firestorm.
O'Keefe and Giles were dressed as a pimp and prostitute, just as they were during undercover visits to ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington, Brooklyn and San Bernardino, Calif., over the summer. ACORN stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.


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|20160828 11:35
|Sometimes the medium IS the message, Richard.
|20160828 10:58
|Mullah Richard
|Understand some Postal workers in the Border Security branch (the folks who screen incoming letters and the like) have gotten ill from some of the chemicals infused into paper or packaging materials coming in.
Don't always side with the USPS, but in that case it is indeed a sh*tty but necessary job.
|20160827 17:20
|you are correct Dale, was/is called blotter acid, very common way of delivery. The solid version "Window Pane", is much less common.
|20160827 08:31
|New to myself is passing a drug or drugs on paper. Looks like a plain piece of paper. Same look and feel but costs several hundred dollars because it is clear coated with some drug. They say LSD was passed this way. I had suggested that the Baltimore officers should transfer to Western Maryland corrections. Officer said that was not a good idea because officers are bringing in drugs themselves at our prisons.
|20160827 08:25
|People traveling this weekend. Five Saudi's one night and then Four Kuwaitis Saturday night. Each group traveling to DC. One Saudi said to say Hi to others and gave his name but I didn't catch his pitch. All young men. Hope they aren't recent graduates of commercial flight school.
|20160826 15:50
|Irony of the Week is at the bottom of an article by the last editor of Gawker.com, lamenting its demise and how an "experiment in journalism free of commercial pressures and the need for respectability, constrained only by law" was undone by someone smarter and angrier than them, using law.
At the very bottom is:
"This discussion is closed"
|20160826 13:28
|Deacon Blues
|Do Androids dream of electric sheep?
|20160826 06:57
|The 160th pilot said, "Tent?"
|20160825 22:04
|Thing From Snowy Mountain
|Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet Dream Wishes You Can Keep
How I Hate the Night...
|20160825 16:36
|A General was conducting an All Service member pilot briefing in Afghanistan one day, and he posed the question: "What would you do if you found a scorpion in your tent?"
A Navy pilot said, "I'd step on it."
An Army pilot said, "I'd hit it with my boot."
A Marine pilot said, "I'd catch it, break the stinger off, and eat it."
An Air Force Pilot said, "I'd call room service and ask why there was a tent in my room."
|20160825 16:11
All the contradictions between pacifist politics and military reality are being highlighted by the feckless North Koreans. Imagine a scenario where the Japanese are told one of North Korea's Sinpo submarines has put to sea with a 1 MT warheaded missile and intelligence indicates it is on a suicide mission to attack Honshu.
What do they do to make sure the missile is never fired? Take the chance that North Korea won't? Authorize a conventional attack on the sub? Or hit it with an atomic depth charge? This is the problem which North Korea is slowly posing and which the Obama doctrine has constrained itself from answering.
Perhaps in his heart of hearts president Obama believes there is no answer; that we are trapped between our godlike technology and our infernal human impulses. So he just spends the time reassuring everyone, both hawk and dove, that there is nothing to worry about. In the meantime he prays to the God that liberals don't believe in and hopes for the best.
|20160825 12:52
|Marvin the paranoid android ***SPAM?***
|Don't talk to me about life.
|20160824 12:20
|When you recognize these biobags as organic machines Dale, I think you have pretty much described life.
|20160823 22:18
|I am beginning to think a matrix life will be upon us in the near future. The consciousness will simply be downloaded in a system to create a VR. No need for the body. No illness. A world of machines to maintain systems. A point will be reached where we can choose our fate. I believe that choice may not be an option. Living space will be whatever you wish it to be. A pleasant caretaker will be your guide to the life you wish to live, oops!! exist. Space exploration with no concern for time, or services. With Hilly in charge I suspect a large number of deletions will occur.
|20160823 10:23
|Speaking of 'tiny habitats'.
|20160823 10:21
|Somebody at NASA reads Rantburg!
|20160823 08:47
|Well a tiny house would work for us, provided we built a 2500 sq.ft. , climate controlled barn next to it, for stuff.
|20160823 08:43
|Don't get me wrong - I ain't opposed to living in a small house. My current abode, the "Closet Near the Wadi From Hell," is about 640 square feet.But it's about costs and planning for down the road. I like Airstreams; it'd be cheaper living in the RV park on base. But tiny houses are a fetish (in the mystical sense.)
It's like 'minimalism' where everything you do own is top-brand. Walden Pond as a designer label. And anyway, Henry Thoreau was a fraud.
|20160823 02:12
|Shipman - not good: Extracts from the bark of yohimbe are used in West Africa as a general tonic and as an aphrodisiac.[2][3][4] Yohimbe bark and extract are widely used in manufactured dietary supplements. The levels of yohimbine present in yohimbe bark and manufactured supplements are highly variable.[2][3]
Although proposed as a potential treatment for erectile dysfunction in humans, there are cautions about its safety or effectiveness.[2][3]
Side effects of using yohimbe, particularly in high doses, may include high blood pressure, increased heart rate, headache, nausea, tremors and sleeplessness.[2]
Animal use[edit]
Yohimbine is used in veterinary medicine to reverse sedation in dogs, elk or deer.[3][6]
|20160823 00:35
|Thing From Snowy Mountain
|"...Not to mention a symbol of decline."
I'm not a fan of tiny houses, unless they have "AIRSTREAM" on them, but my personal life choices are down to "accept decline" or "make a viable business out of robbing banks" and I doubt the latter is possible these days.
I don't know what to do any more.
|20160823 00:23
|Some late Monday night Haley Reinhart (Post Modern Jukebox):
|20160823 00:00
|trailing wife
|I strongly suspect the number of tiny houses being build is in the same order of magnitude as the total number of episodes about them. How many parents with 3.5 children under the age of four are going to create a home inside a schoolbus and hit the road looking for adventure in this great land of ours, secure in the knowledge that Daddy's job can be done remotely?


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Robert Stieglitz Faces Khomitsky in Dessau on July 26
By Per Ake Persson
Former WBO super middleweight champion Robert Stieglitz (46-4) faces Sergey Khomitsky (29-10-2) for the WBO I/C title in the headliner of SES show in Dessau (Germany) on July 26. Stieglitz´s goal is the become mandatory challenger for the WBO held title held by Arthur Abraham and Khomitsky, # 9 on the WBO ratings and holder of the organization´s European title, is the first step.
[QUOTE=Hougigo;14671536]He'll bring Ward out of the shadows in a mega PPV showdown[/QUOTE] True that and if some miracle occurs that ward beats him, then ward will make more money than Tyson tenfold.Comment by Hougigo on 06-17-2014
[QUOTE=HWChampion;14671515]Lineal champ at MW now chasing SMW lineal crown ward be careful.[/QUOTE] He'll bring Ward out of the shadows in a mega PPV showdownComment by HWChampion on 06-17-2014
[QUOTE=Hougigo;14670997]Good for kohmitsky[/QUOTE] Lineal champ at MW now chasing SMW lineal crown ward be careful.Comment by Hougigo on 06-17-2014
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2004 OSCAs set to reward cricket's volunteers
The OSCAs (Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards), are aimed at recognising those volunteers who give so much of their time to the game of cricket. As we all know, no sport would be able to survive were it not for the army of volunteers who give of their time freely and passionately. Cricket is no exception.
For the first time in 2003, the England and Wales Cricket Board, with the support of NatWest, decided to organise a special event in order to thank these people for their hard work and dedication. This event, while celebrating the work of volunteers, will also raise the profile of cricket.
The OSCAs will take place at Lord's Cricket Ground in the Nursery Pavilion on October 4. There will be a lunch with approximately 300 guests. Guests will comprise of nominees, press, public, and voluntary and private sector representatives and of course individuals from the world of cricket.
There are seven categories that volunteers can be nominated for and there will be overall winners who are announced on the day.
Last year's event was a tremendous success and all the attendees thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We intend to have a fantastic programme this year, and just as much fun as last year!
Award Categories
Youth volunteer under the age of 25 as at 06/10/03
All Rounder volunteer who wears many hats and keeps the club running
Promotion of Volunteering volunteer who recruits and coordinates other cricket volunteers within the club and local community
Make a Difference volunteer who brings in new commercial support through an innovative approach
Cricket Force volunteer or a group of volunteers who managed a project to improve the clubhouse and/or the club's grounds
Get Involved volunteer who gets involved with the club because his/her child plays
Leagues/Boards volunteer who is active at local league, County Board or county age group levels


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Interview: Sahej RahalPosted: July 30, 2016 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: archaeology, Brexit, clay, Donald Trump, earthenware, film, Liverpool Biennial, performance, politics, rise of the right, Sahej Rahal, sculpture, Star Wars Leave a comment
The artist appears to have a simple and urgent proposition: to render the past absurd is to neutralise the rhetoric of the political right.
Without a golden age to hark about, no one can promise to make America, the UK, or India 'great again'. And we can instead progress to a state of internationalism, equal rights, economic parity and perpetual peace.
Rahal lives in Mumbai, but he points out that the whole planet is "kind of a scary place to be working, globally". He is, however, welcome in the North West, where for the duration of the 2016 Liverpool Biennial, his sculpture and film is being shown across three sites.
We met at Cains Brewery, a cavernous space for art enjoying a good year. It is however scruffy, and Rahal's work looks in keeping with the general state of repair. It is the first thing a visitor sees: nuggets of clay arranged on trestle-like tables; bits of scaffold, locally sourced, covered in clay; and black-box monitors which appear to emerge from the mess on which figurines breathe or practice with lightsabers.
"I'm a huge nerd and I obviously have all these Star Wars references", the artist cheerfully informs me. But like many contemporary sculptors, he aims both high and low, looking to Jorge Luis Borges for "vast metaphysical narratives", and for that writer's concern with "creating this itinerary of our culture".
In short, this itinerary is dystopian. The artefacts presented appear fresh from some archaeological dig. But what kind of half-formed world do they conjure up? A: it is a world run by idiots in which technology has failed us and we have forgotten basic craft skills. And that seems to me the worst of all possible worlds.
"I like the fact that these characters, or these objects of clay could somehow become like harbingers of something, you know?" Rahul tells me as we contemplate his pottery-based triage stations which all appear to somehow breathe in the light of the moving image work.
He also says: "I'm more interested in putting them together to form meaning… from these absurd things, which are beyond reason in a certain way. In that meaning-making ritual that people perform, how do we create allegiances? How do we create bonds across space-time?"
An interest in travel and time travel chimes in well with the 2016 Biennial, which is a nebulous animal in which Monuments from the Future is one of six official themes. You may find, as I did, that as you come across Rahal's work more than once, you build a picture of what might be becoming.
It is a picture of a primitive time around the corner. Rahal expresses concern about right wing governments that have followed the Arab Spring, the rise of presidential candidate Donald Trump, and the hate-filled effect of Brexit here in the UK.
If politics is performative, the artist has another highly political aspect to his practice. Rahul stages improvised, ritualistic performances which offer only "fleeting, fragmented glimpses" of a narrative, and which change gear according to pop cultural requests from his viewers.
"Even I don't have a bead on [these]," he tells me. "Essentially, what's interesting for me is that I'm also a viewer as well." One supposes that in these powerless times, we are all to a degree little more than viewers, even as we march, occupy, tweet or blog.
But perhaps in the light of our political horizons, we'll do well to maintain any civilisation at all.
Despite everything, Rahal is making the most of circumstances: "Earthenware has so much meaning to our origins so I'm drawn to that, but saying that it's also so much fun to just dive into clay and get mud all over me."
As well he might, since in Summer 2016 we are all up to the neck in it.
Liverpool Biennial runs until October 16 2016. I reviewed it for Culture24 here. See artist's website for more images.
Bob and Roberta Smith, Letter to George Osborne (2015)Posted: November 26, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: ACE, activism, Arts Council, Autumn Statement, Bob and Roberta Smith, George Osborne, humanity, open letters, sculpture, signwriting Leave a comment
You cannot help but wonder: did a 50-line letter painted onto the front and rear of a pair of white radiator units have any incidental effect on government policy? Did it really spark a heated debate?
Beyond the headlines about tax credits, the Autumn Statement revealed that the Arts Council can also breathe a sigh of relief and consider its budget protected for five more years.
This is not the beef raised by Smith, who talks tuition fees, the threat to art schools from property developers, and the culture of consumerism which now extends to the student experience.
None of this has changed. But the artist signs off with a message which may just be getting through: "I THINK THE ARTS ARE REALLY ABOUT SAVING HUMANITY". What did Osborne think of that?
Certainly the arts are a cheap way to save humanity. Arts Council England cost £349 million in 2014; to save humanity with a replacement for Trident will cost, according to CND, some £100 billion.
There are dangers in cynicism, however. A positive and polite reaction to this news about the Arts Council could be more likely to encourage the Conservative government in this cultural direction.
But giving credit is not abject gratitude. As Smith says, in another set of emphatic capitals: "ART IS YOUR HUMAN RIGHT". Just as education is a right, welfare is a right, and healthcare remains so.
As inhumane as austerity is proving to be, the left should remember we don't have a monopoly on humanity. Again, appeals to this quality may prove more tractable than immediate class war.
That could be why Smith's naivety, both in tone and execution of this open letter, strikes an effective chord. It treats the Chancellor as a reasonable human. It invites him to enjoy contemporary art.
But this is also is a bit of a joke. Smith is only an artist; he is not the head of a bank. The banker uses headed notepaper, and not beat-up used radiators. So to who does the future belong?
Morley Threads @ BacklitPosted: November 19, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: Backlit, capitalism, indsutrial revolution, liberalism, Nottingham, philanthropy, psychogeography, Samuel Morley, textiles, wool Leave a comment
In the late 19th century, a wool factory in Alfred House, Nottingham, became an asset of the largest wool manufacturing company in the world. Now the premises are an artist-led studio space.
On the face of it, artists have plenty in common with textile workers. Low pay, hazardous conditions (albeit psychologically speaking) and, in the case of Backlit, here in Nottingham, a union.
The Morley Union is comprised of photographers, writers and historians who have gathered in retrospective support of one of the better employers these shores have ever seen: Samuel Morley.
It was Morley who owned the factory in Alfred House. And now Alfred House is set to be the venue for Backlit's exhibition, and a programme of talks which seeks to celebrate the former boss.
It has really come to something, that we might hero a 19th century capitalist. Morley was also a media tycoon. He cut the cover price of the liberal Daily News and turned round its fortunes.
Backlit promises the chance to relive the noise and sweat of the industrial plant, which must still haunt their white-walled exhibition space and paint-splattered workshops.
The Union have pulled together an archive of artefacts, oral histories and even video interviews which will recall experience of workers from a time when Nottingham was a textiles capital.
But if you're still wondering what conditions were like, if mere words won't do, local digital design studio Hot Knife has developed a playable VR tour of the former factory.
Meanwhile a photographic exhibition will gather images from buildings and monuments related to Morley. And a youth oriented fashion show may inspire you about the future of textiles in Nottingham.
Morley was a genuine philanthropist: a decent, responsible boss, rather than a glittering habitué of the fundraising gala. He was also an abolitionist at a time when this was to stick your neck out.
In 1999 the UK saw an introduction of the minimum wage: £3.60 an hour. The current rate is £6.70. Small wonder there are campaigns for the living wage of £8.25 for 60 minutes of menial pain.
No matter how philanthropic company chairmen might feel themselves to be, most are answerable to a board of shareholders. Dutifully, they overlook their workers' needs, in the name of profit.
But this is not a lesson in capitalism, but a postscript to the life of a man who combined his wealth with a healthy set of ideals. Any plutocrats reading criticismism, please take note.
Morley Threads runs weekends only (between 21st and 29th November) at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham. For directions, opening times, and a full programme of events see their site.
Carsten Höller, Karussell (1999)Posted: October 18, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: Carsten Holler, Charleroi, folk art, found objects, Karussell, nostalgia, theme parks Leave a comment
It's just a working carousel in an art gallery, no big deal. We are not only used to such wholesale borrowings from the real world, we might expect as much from Carsten Hölller.
This Belgian, after all, is the artist responsible for turning Tate Modern and Hayward Gallery into theme parks (as if they weren't already), with adrenalin-pumping slides up to 58 metres long.
But Karussell won't increase your heartbeat. It moves slower than the second hand of a clock. And you can look, but for once I don't think you can touch this piece or ride one of the tiny chairs.
What you get instead is a mental journey, from the post industrial city in which this piece is now on show, to perhaps a village green in some low country at the time of a summer fayre.
Duck ponds, picturesque copses, and church spires are painted all around the crown, while the central column of this aging machine features folksy still life arrangements of flowers.
Also, it should be mentioned that Karussell revolves in silence, bringing a pastoral mood of peace and quiet into what is an otherwise loud show at BPS22, visually and otherwise.
So, once you've dispensed with music and thrills, what does a carousel offer you? My guess is that were you to climb on board you'd feel safe, bored, and conspicuous.
You'd feel especially foolish if you tried to fit into one of the gold hovercars. Headlights blazing, these chariots of the air are completely at odds with their tame, nostalgic context.
The utopia from which they come is already out of date. It is so out of date, their quotation here, in a show about folk culture, is laughable. Are we to laugh at the rustic families who once enjoyed these?
Or is the joke on us, as we imagine ourselves boarding a round trip to a more idyllic time, when the local coal mines were still open and painting a church was a simple act of faith?
Karussell can be seen until 31 January 2016 in Les Mondes Inversés: Contemporary Art and Popular Cultures at BPS22: Musée d'Art de la Province de Hainault, Charleroi, Belgium.
Bonnie Camplin, Patterns (2015)Posted: October 6, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: archives, Bonnie Camplin, consensus reality, conspiracy theories, found objects, madness, Michel Foucault, Turner Prize 2015 Leave a comment
There are certain areas of human experience which don't get on the news, don't get written into soap opera plotlines and evade the attention of reality TV. They are pretty much off the menu.
But testimony does survive around, say, mind control, belief in ESP, perception of extra-dimensional beings, witchcraft, fringe religious beliefs and a general susceptibility to the occult.
Books have been written. And many of them comprise Bonnie Camplin's display for the Turner Prize 2015. Wikipedia pages have been compiled, and these too have their place in her show.
The archive is laid out on tables all around the gallery walls. Chairs invite you to sit down and read; a photocopier lets you copy what you need. The artist intends her work is a "research tool".
Meanwhile, a cluster of five monitors invite you to watch documentary films with a quite different tone to that of BBC4. Taken from YouTube, these deal with secret military programmes, and so on.
Yet all of this information is suppressed or presented with a heavy pinch of salt in favour of a governable consensus. You won't get on Question Time with a question about SS-controlled UFOs.
It is not even as if Camplin's authors and witnesses are mad. Madness, according to Foucault, is the absence of a work. But these people are minor video stars and scholars.
But what the French philosopher also tells us is that, "Madness is the punishment of a disorderly and useless science". Spend too much time with this work, you'll deserve a sense of derangement.
"Learning becomes madness through the very excess of false learning,"* he also says. And so Patterns, and the SLG show from which it has evolved, can be seen as schizogenic machines.
It's hard to recall a more dangerous exhibition. Perhaps a monumental installation by Richard Serra could fall on you, but Camplin threatens you with psychological collapse.
That's not her plan. It appears she prefers, by giving exposure to hidden bodies of knowledge, to expand our bounds of reality. Nevertheless, this piece should have a health warning.
Bonnie Camplin is one of four shortlisted artists in a show for the Turner Prize 2015 at Tramway in Glasgow. This can be seen until 17 January 2016.
*p.25, Madness and Civilisation, Routledge, 1997.
Ai Weiwei, Straight (2008-12)Posted: October 1, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art, installation | Tags: Ai Weiwei, bureaucracy, China, Franz Kafka, memorials, politics, power, protest art, Sechuan earthquake Leave a comment
There are two epicentres under consideration in this monumental installation at the Royal Academy right now. One was in Wenchuan County in Sechuan; the other is the government in Beijing.
The first meant a quake that destroyed 20 schools. The second has monitored the ongoing work of China's best known artist and kept him at arm's length with bureaucracy and doublespeak.
Ai contends that given their location on a seismic faultline, the schools should have been better built. This piece is a memorial, which lays square blame with corrupt officials and construction firms.
There is even something unpatriotic about substandard architecture. This, after all, is a nation most famed for a wall stretching more than 20,000km. It inspires a memorable short story by Kafka.
For the Great Wall, says the Czech writer (although how would he know?): "An unremitting sense of personal responsibility in the builders were indispensable prerequisites for the work".
But you can see, from 200 tonnes of straightened rebar, the materials in Sechuan were not equal to the task. And as you can see from the accompanying film, the steel bars failed as a structure.
Now another wall was put up to protect the guilty. Ai's team struggled to get information on the missing and the dead. "What if you're an American spy?" asks a drudge on the end of the phone.
Until the major earthquake, Ai appears to have been something of a favoured son and a successful architect in his own right. As you know, he collaborated on the main stadium for the Beijing Olympics.
But it's commonly thought that it is his unambiguous art of protest, and not his tax affairs, which led to his detention without trial for 80 days in 2011. The authorities have said little.
Kafka again, in character as a native of the old empire, "We Chinese possess certain folk and political institutions that are unique in their clarity, others again unique in their obscurity."
Clarity: Ai has crossed the line. Obscurity: we cannot tell you what line or where. Both qualities pursued the artist even to the point of his visa complications in getting to London for his show.
It is of course counterproductive. The repression gives additional power to the work. As if the walls filled with a list of 5,000 victims' names, a list of serene despair, were not power enough.
Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy can be seen until 13 December 2015. You can find my review for Culture24 here. The Kafka story mentioned is of course The Great Wall of China, to be found in the Complete Short Stories of Franz Kafka, Vintage, 1999.
Franz West, 6 Adaptives for Rolls Royce Silver Shadow (2007)Posted: June 28, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art, sculpture | Tags: adaptives, Astrup Fearnley, Erling Kagge, Franz West, luxury cars, Passstucke, Rolls Royce Silver Shadow, The Spirit of Ecstasy Leave a comment
On some level you may already be offended. You don't need to be a total petrolhead to find the addition to this prestigious bonnet to be something of a defacement.
Let's be honest, it lacks the easy romance of the flying woman usually found on the prow of a Rolls: The Spirit of Ecstasy by Charles Robinson Sykes.
Sometimes called Emily, this stainless steel form (with 24-carat gold plating optional) has a really great backstory: a clandestine love affair and a disaster at sea are both involved.
Austrian sculptor West has pretty much dumped on that. He made six of these turd-like accessories for the luxury car market: one for every day of the working week.
Irony alert: if you are a Rolls Royce customer you probably don't need to pull a full week's shift. And yet, this work feels only indirectly political. It is too playful for that.
What's more, given that it is one of the Austrian artist's adaptive pieces, we can perhaps only grasp the work by getting behind the wheel joining in with the consumption of luxury.
But it should be noted the car belongs to Norwegian collector Erling Kagge; it is unlikely he lets just anyone test drive one of the jewels of his personal collection.
In his book about buying art, Kagge relates how, when he bought this piece, he was surprised to find the car thrown in with the deal. It was itemised merely as a plinth.
But a weird thing happens when the three dimensional graffiti above the grille throws the viewer's attention back onto the aesthetics of said plinth, four wheels and all.
Good taste can take a holiday. West once called his adaptives, "a potential attempt to give form to neurotic symptoms (according to Freud the foundation of culture)".
We think we know what neurosis leads to the acquisition of a big, powerful car. Let's just say that the pictured adaptive is the least phallic in the range.
The rest come in a range of colours, including flesh, and cruising round town with your insecurities in full view, rather than simply your wealth, must be quite therapeutic.
West's piece can be seen in Love Story: Works from Erling Kagge's Collection, at the Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art in Olso, until 27 September 2015.
Wael Shawky, Cabaret Crusades (2010-2015)Posted: March 16, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: animation, Doha, Mathaf, performance, puppetry, the Crusades, Wael Shawky Leave a comment
4000 years after their first use in Egypt, Wael Shawky has made marionettes a central part of his art practice, spooking the viewer with what some say is the oldest form of theatre.
These puppets are not found objects. The artist has them made using glass and ceramic to render a cast of plenty, in period dress, who range from ethnic caricature to alien xenomorph.
As destructible as a truce, these include more than 100 hand-blown glass marionettes made by the maestros in Venice, a city with its own minor role in the crusades.
Shawky's theme here is the millennium-old strife between Christianity and Islam or, more accurately, between Islam and Christianity. After all, those of Islamic faith were on home turf.
But the drama is inspired by Arab accounts of the 11th and 12th centuries, when invading knights from Northern Europe waged a war – of varying degrees of holiness – in the Levant.
Take for instance this account by Ralph of Caen: "In Ma'arra [today in Syria], our troops boiled pagan adults in cooking pots; they impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled."
Whether or not this grim moment appears in Cabaret Crusades, I can't say. The new show in Doha is beyond my usual patch. But even on film, you sense these puppets are capable of anything.
And this. As the 9th century rolled around, Baghdad was the most powerful and civilised place on earth with 1,000 physicians, free healthcare, regular post, working sewers and good water supply.
The early Iraqis even had global banking, with several overseas bank branches in China. That's kind of mindblowing, whereas what the invaders had was apparently chainmail and brutality.
Such factoids are on almost every page of the book mentioned by Shawky in generous interviews: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf. It's highly recommended.
Art also figures in this reprehensible past. Upon witnessing the siege of Acre in 1189, historian Ibn al-Athir reports the use of a painting of Muhammad beating Jesus: "to incite people to vengeance".
Cabaret Crusades is unlikely to inspire fanaticism on either side. But what the puppets may well tell you clearly that history is full of treachery, intrigue and reversals of fate.
So if in recent years you've been surprised or indeed exasperated by inconsistencies in US and UK foreign policy, look upon these fragile, mutually dependent figures and realise it was every thus.
Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades and Other Stories can be seen at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, until 16 August.
This interview with Shawky and clips of the action is well worth a look.
UK Exhibitions: March 2015Posted: March 1, 2015 Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | Tags: FACT, Gerald Scarfe, Leonora Carrington, Matt Stokes, Matt's Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn, Tate Liverpool, The Bowes Museum, The Royal Academy 2 Comments
I've been picking a monthly round up of art for a few years now, first on Culture24 and now on criticismism. If it's not my imagination, this is getting more difficult. Cuts coming home to roost?
It's my unscientific impression galleries have got less likely to list forthcoming shows. It could be a sign they're having trouble planning, or that they're at least lacking web resource.
That's to say nothing of the quality of what's on offer. But fortunately, it remains a tricky operation to choose a shortlist from the wealth of UK exhibitions. Anyhow, FWIW, as ever, here goes:
Group Therapy: Mental Distress in a Digital Age, FACT, Liverpool, 5 Mar – 17 May. New group show connects the technology which structures our lives with the mental illness which sometimes blights them. 15 artists provide a chance to reflect on the new psychological landscape.
Leonora Carrington, Tate Liverpool, 6 Mar – 31 May. Too much to say about Carrington in this narrow window, but unfamiliar visitors may thrill to her surreal work, her remarkable life story, and her diversification into poetry, scultpure, tapestry and theatre design.
Gerald Scarfe: Milk Snatcher, The Thatcher Drawings, The Bowes Museum, Co. Durham, 14 Mar – 31 May. With a general election on May 7, this is a brave moment for a museum to remind us of the evils of Thatcherism. And, with recent events in Paris, the power of political cartoons.
Richard Diebenkorn, The Royal Academy, London, 14 Mar – 7 Jun 2015. Heralded by US papers as a painter of superlative gifts, the forthcoming show – Dieberkorn's first in the UK for 20 years – is an opportunity to be seized. The RA promises a career long survey.
Matt Stokes: Cantata Profana, Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, London 27 Mar – 26 Apr. Grindcore metal meets choral composition in an offsite six-channel installation for Matt's Gallery. Find yourself immersed as the volume goes up to (a no doubt cathartic) eleven.
Christian Marclay and The Vinyl FactoryPosted: February 17, 2015 Filed under: contemporary art | Tags: Christian Marclay, seizing the means of production, the music biz, The Vinyl Factory, White Cube Leave a comment
Do vast spaces bring forth big art, or does big art call for vast spaces? I ask because the current production at the South London outpost of White Cube is a monster of wholesale appropriation.
Artist Christian Marclay occupies all five galleries and includes a performance space, a screen-printing operation by Coriander Studios, along with the mobile vinyl press named and pictured.
These are not found objects, so much as found means of production. In fact it's a found production line, with records pressed into unique sleeves available for a very egalitarian £25 each.
David Toop performed on the day criticismism visited. It was standing room only. Sight lines were at a premium. I can only imagine it was even busier for Thurston Moore and John Butcher.
But production was already underway to immortalise an earlier performance by Laurent Estoppey. As the first of 500 slabs of contemporary art acetate were racked up for sale. They were busy.
And never mind, that Marclay could have pressed up CDs or offered downloads. The Vinyl Factory has in recent years done a good trade in limited edition records for artists and artistes alike.
As a result, with all the engineering, and mixing, and ink on public display, the show at White Cube had the feeling of a utopian blueprint, or at least a utopian blue-chip space.
There was more to the show than this circular groove. Elsewhere were bold paintings and prints of the onomatopoeic sounds made by, among other things, gestural movements with paint.
These splatterings are not under discussion here. Nor is the collection of empty pint glasses, nor the drunk-looking sheet music framed behind bullseye glass. These were 'just' the works for sale.
Instead, non-collectors can leave this show with the music industry demystified. For a moment in time, we can all imagine how foolish we were to spend all those years pandering to The Man.
Very much by the by, Sir Nicholas Serota was spotted in Bermondsey at the opening weekend. But of course the art industry, no matter who buys or sponsors, is still squeaky clean.
Christian Marclay is at White Cube Bermondsey until 12 April 2015. More about The Vinyl Factory can be found here.


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Race Planned in Honor of Slain Medical Student
Posted: 05/18/2014 - A memorial race is planned in honor of a slain University of Michigan medical student.
Posted: 05/18/2014 - A memorial race is planned in honor of a slain University of Michigan medical student.
Posted: 05/18/2014 - Michigan natural resources officials are asking anglers to notify the state if they catch Atlantic salmon in Lake Huron.
Posted: 05/18/2014 - The U.S.-Canadian authority that manages the bridge connecting the Michigan and Ontario cities of Sault Ste. Marie has approved an $8.9 million contract to build a new toll plaza on the Michigan side.
Updated: 05/19/2014 - Michigan State University reports that it arrested 261 people for drugs in 2012, a 158 percent increase from two years earlier.
Posted: 05/18/2014 - Police say workers moving earth for a development project in suburban Grand Rapids have found the body of a slain woman who disappeared late last month.
Posted: 05/18/2014 - Philip Huang of South Lyon, Michigan heads to Washington, DC to compete in the National Geographic Bee.
Posted: 05/18/2014 - The fire-ravaged ruins of the 123-year-old former home of Detroit's First Unitarian Church will host a final service this weekend.
Posted: 05/18/2014 - A memorial race is planned in honor of a slain University of Michigan medical student.
Updated: 05/18/2014 - Police responded to two incidents within a short time frame Saturday afternoon, and they need your help.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - For those on fixed incomes when food costs go up, there aren't a lot of options. But what if every dollar you spent went twice as far?
Posted: 05/17/2014 - As a Head Start and Yale Law School graduate, Cornell William Brooks calls himself a direct beneficiary of Brown v. Board Education.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - It's a second-term Cabinet shuffle for President Barack Obama.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - Boy Scouts are hosting commemorative hikes along the Potawatomi Trail this weekend to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - The family of a University of Michigan student slain during a burglary was presented his medical degree at what would have been his graduation.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - A jury in western Michigan has the case of a funeral home director accused of embezzling nearly $500,000, partly by creating false death certificates.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - Volunteers are planting hope in Detroit, one tree at a time.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - A man severely beaten in Detroit after accidentally striking a boy with his pickup truck is home after six weeks in hospitals.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - A 183-year-old southeastern Michigan church is getting a state historic marker this weekend.
Posted: 05/17/2014 - The FBI believes there's a firm connection between the attempted robbery of a jewelry store in the Grand Rapids area and a major theft at a store in suburban Detroit.
Posted: 05/16/2014 - Farmers may see lower yields as a chilly, wet spring takes its toll.
Posted: 05/16/2014 - Local youth wins award for volunteerism, should be catching eye of college recruiters.
Posted: 05/16/2014 - In two weeks, the "Be a Tourist in Your Own Town" event hits Lansing.
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