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Directed by Johan Grimonprez and based on Andrew Feinstein's globally acclaimed book The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, this explosive film reveals the murky world of the international arms trade.

Stitching together archive footage and expert interviews, Shadow World reveals that corruption is not a dirty little side effect of the arms trade, but in fact its defining factor. Politicians, who are supposed to represent our hopes and dreams, sell us fear and nightmares in the interest of the very corporations that profit from war.

By shedding light on how our realities are being constructed, the film argues, with alarming plausibility, that we have privatized the function of war. As a result, bribes and corruption determine the economic and foreign policies of some of the biggest countries in the world, making sure that there is always a war to be fought.

#shadow world #johan grimonprez #Vimeo

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Don Cherry, Henry Grimes & Ed Blackwell - November 1961

Jazz scholar Lewis Porter is always turning up interesting and cool artifacts — and recently he shared a great one! An unreleased/unknown session with Don Cherry, Henry Grimes and Ed Blackwell? In 1961?! Sign me up.

Some details from Porter: Cherry’s playing is melodic and creative, and I think you will enjoy his work here quite a bit. And his colleagues here are Henry Grimes on bass and Ed Blackwell on drums! There are lots of connections here: Cherry had of course toured with Blackwell in Coleman’s quartet, and he would work with Grimes in Sonny Rollins’s quartet in 1962 and ‘63.

Yes indeed, a very enjoyable session — I'm surprised it's as early as 1961, since it sounds so modern and fresh. But that was Don Cherry, right? Modern, fresh, curious and always a joy to listen to.

#don cherry #henry grimes #ed blackwell

Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln an

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and the actual soundtrack as a youtube playlist

#soundtrack to a coup d'etat

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FULL ARTICLE HERE

#francis picabia #la sainte vierge #the blood of france: joan of arc and francis picabia's la sainte vierge #simon marginson

HERE

#ulrich ruckriem

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Satie Studs, A film by Lynne Ramsay with choreography by Michael Clark.

You can view the film here.

#michael clark #jules cunningham #lynne ramsay #peter doig #phoebe philo

#richard long #a line in australia

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Josef Albers

Grand Pyramid, Tenayuca, 1937,

Governor’s Palace, Uxmal, 1952

more

#josef albers #tenayuca #uxmal

#francis picabia #la sainte vierge

HERE

#marcel duchamp #calvin tomkins

#marcel duchamp #james johnson sweeney #Youtube

#marcel duchamp #andy warhol #screentest for marcel duchamp #Youtube

This work depicts the ragged skyline of white pines at the west end of Basswood Bay in rural Minnesota, where Duchamp visited Frank Brookes Hubachek (the brother of his longtime companion Mary Reynolds) in the summer of 1953. Working without artist's materials, Duchamp created Moonlight on the Bay at Basswood on the blotter of a correspondence pad, using a fountain pen and pencil for the trees and shadows, a yellow crayon for the moon and its reflection, and talcum powder for the bay's white mists. Perhaps most ingeniously, he shaded in the heavy brown shadows in the pine trees with a chocolate bar.

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#marcel duchamp #moonlight on the bay at basswood