Andrea Bowers at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

An imposing pair of new landscape works and seven small figure drawings by Andrea Bowers speak in smart, blunt and compelling terms about a fundamental trait of American experience.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/07/art-review-andrea-bowers-susanne-vielmetter-los-angeles-projects.html

Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies

Overview
This conference begins with the question "What is Evidence?" Art offers
a lens through which we come to recognize the politics of power and
abuse. Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies brings
together artists, activists, and scholars who will discuss their work in
the context of human rights as it transforms the raw material of
individual and collective suffering into legible and convincing data,
confrontational imagery, and testimony.

This conference will begin on Thursday, March 4, at 4 p.m. with a
presentation by artist activist Coco Fusco. It will conclude with the
collaborative project Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954-
0034064: A Public Reading. The conference will be held both days at
the Wexner Center for the Arts.

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/1811/45104/3/Humanrights_03_0405_10.pdf

Eat, Pray, Marry

Picking up pretty much where “Eat, Pray, Love” left off, “Committed” describes how visa problems enticed Elizabeth Gilbert into a dreaded institution: marriage.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/books/review/Sittenfeld-t.html?hp

Filmmaker bristles over Australia's barring of North Korean artists

Five painters had been commissioned to produce works for the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art show in Queensland. Their paintings will be there, but they won't.

Reporting from Seoul - Nick Bonner has a cautionary tale about propaganda, censorship and North Korea. But it's not what you think, he says.The British filmmaker and art dealer had helped commission five North Korean painters to produce works for an Australian art exhibit, inviting them to come and talk about their craft and inspiration.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-north-korea-artists11-2009dec11,0,16131.story

Send Us Your Tired, Your Poor, But Only if They're 'Culturally Unique'

Immigration Caseworker AA0089 Has Some Thoughts About What Is Art

By MIRIAM JORDAN
LOS ANGELES -- When Jordan Peimer booked an Argentine band that fuses Jewish Klezmer music with tango, he thought he had the perfect act to headline his "Fiesta Hanukkah" concert.
"It is hard to imagine any band more fitting than Orquesta Kef," says Mr. Peimer, the program's director at the Skirball Cultural Center here. The event was designed to attract a Jewish audience and the city's burgeoning Hispanic community.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126040747425984693.html

Judge gives border activist time to think

A federal magistrate on Friday gave a border activist two weeks to think about his decision not to comply with a sentence for leaving water jugs on a wildlife preserve.

http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/12/04/breaking_news/00staton.txt

FOLLOW THE GPS, ÉSE The Transborder Immigrant Tool Helps Mexicans Cross Over Safely

Ricardo Dominguez is very happy that the Border Patrol considers him a nuisance. (Photo by Brett Stalbaum)http://bang.calit2.net/xborder/