propositions press Vox 2009-11-11T07:36:11Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c114132ae1c408/ war and culture wars.... delivery guy tag:vox.com,2009-11-11:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddbbeaa4860b 2009-11-11T07:36:11Z 2009-11-11T07:36:11Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Chicago pals Daniel Tucker and David Meyers found a way for my Madison/Chicago commute to function as something more than just a private two and a half hour meditation. They are both roasting and peddling coffee as small scale cottage ind...

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]]> milwaukee art museum research trip tag:vox.com,2009-10-29:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddde86cb860d 2009-10-29T08:06:03Z 2009-10-29T08:18:31Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

chairs on pedestals theaster gates video with chipstone manager's desk 100_1087 100_1084 "checkpoint" by aaron hughes calatrava lobby

I scooted over to Milwaukee yesterday, to meet up at the Milwaukee Art Museum with Ethan Lasser, a curator from Chipstone, and, in yet another capacity of working together, good ol' Rebecca Zorach. Ethan walked us through the galleries that house ...

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]]> reading report: the origins of totalitarianism tag:vox.com,2009-10-23:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddb2e258860b 2009-10-23T05:35:06Z 2009-10-24T00:11:03Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom It was more than three years ago that I picked up a remaindered copy of Hannah Arendt's classic The Origins of Totalitarianism. It sat on the shelf for a long while before I decided to tackle it. Nobody would call me a voracious reader, but I try ...

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]]> more mud stencilling...in madison! tag:vox.com,2009-10-18:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd8be98860d 2009-10-18T03:07:43Z 2009-10-23T06:22:52Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

sarah quinn, from wisc. books to prisoners mud stencilling teams jesse graves mud stencilling demo laying down mud the moment of truth! a perfectly laid mud stencil! books liberate, in front of the federal courthouse mud stencil, abstracted by vandal-security guard 100_1059

Nicolas Lampert and Jesse Graves came to town to lead a mud stencilling action for the Wisconsin Books to Prisoners campaign to end the Department of Corrections bad habit of denying prisoners from receiving used books from the outside. The ostens...

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]]> students at columbia college fight to save MAP grants tag:vox.com,2009-10-16:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddc3f767860c 2009-10-16T05:41:41Z 2009-10-31T14:53:06Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

I Wonder What I Could Be

Students at the school that employs me, Columbia College Chicago, have been very active in trying to save the Monetary Award Program in Illinois. This publicly funded program helps tens of thousands of young people in Illinois gain access to highe...

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]]> bouncing between recent events, madison and chicago tag:vox.com,2009-10-09:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd3d542860d 2009-10-09T05:30:53Z 2009-10-10T02:57:11Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom As a human yo-yo, I do try to hit the best of both poles. On Wednesday night at the Wisconsin Book Festival going on in Madison I caught all of Lewis Koch's presentation and most of Barbara Manger and Janine Smith's, who together authored the book...

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]]> commute report tag:vox.com,2009-10-03:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123ddd13936860d 2009-10-03T08:12:05Z 2009-10-03T08:12:05Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

100_0987 100_0985

I am in the middle of a very busy season. Shanghype! is open now at the Hyde Park Art Center. Heartland is open at the Smart Museum. And Demise continues at the South Side Community Art Center. Well, a busy three weeks, anyway. It means making a l...

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]]> on joe wilson and annie le tag:vox.com,2009-09-17:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080123dda3078c860b 2009-09-17T08:53:01Z 2009-09-17T08:53:01Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Social interactions in the United States between persons are always already informed by race relations, precisely because this society is and always has been made up of so many different kinds of races, nationalities, and ethnicities, ...

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]]> laurie jo reynolds, space ghost in madison tag:vox.com,2009-09-10:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080110186eb1be860f 2009-09-10T04:31:39Z 2009-09-10T04:33:50Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom And tomorrow evening, Thurs, September 10, we have a great event in Madison: Laurie Jo Reynolds! Come out and view her video work Space Ghost. I've seen it once and can say for sure, it is entertaining, sad, funny, clever, and gets us thinking abo...

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]]> letter from richard van orman tag:vox.com,2009-09-09:asset-6a00c114132ae1c4080110186e6f84860f 2009-09-09T16:49:07Z 2009-09-09T16:49:07Z dan s wang http://prop-press.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom My father-in-law, Richard Van Orman, who served many years in the Army, specializing in different aspects of logistics and suppy, sent out a letter to his personal email list. With his permission I post it here. His deep concern for what the extre...

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