Conscients qu'il ne leur reste que quelques années à vivre, des retraités japonais se disent prêts à se sacrifier pour mettre un terme à la catastrophe de Fukushima. Ils proposent de se rendre à la centrale et d'en colmater les fuites radioactives.
Le Monde.fr - Une charge contre le capitalisme mondialisé vu depuis la Savoie.
La classe moyenne déclassée sur franceinter.fr...
Trois femmes, trois histoires qui se ressemblent. Des histoires de classe moyenne, enjeu essentiel nous dit-on de l élection présidentielle. Sur le fil, funambule. Une vie rétrécie, une vie tendue. Compter. Compter et recompter. L' avenir incertain, précaire, il suffirait d'un rien pour basculer de l'autre côté. La peur. La peur de déchoir. Karambolage - ce qui me manque... ils sont venus en France. Des quatre coins du monde. Arte leur a demandé quel objet leur manquait le plus. 
SMBA is the project space of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam...
The concept of "precarity" serves as a rallying cry for a great number of contemporary protest movements (from the French anti-CPE protests to the Spanish Indignados, via the Greek social movement and recent student protests in Italy and Germany). Equally, "precarity" has become a key notion in both critical theory and artistic practice today. In his lecture at the opening of the Informality exhibition in SMBA Joost de Bloois will unpack the different meanings and the ambiguities of the notion of "precarity" within political and artistic practices and critical theory. Dr. Joost de Bloois is lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, department of Literary and Cultural Studies Via Xavier Leton |
A travers une série de clichés de Marseillais intitulée "People of Marseille", le photographe Santi Oliveri s’est lancé dans une entreprise ambitieuse : édifier un portrait artistique de l’humanité de la ville.
Everyday my wife expresses her love for me. She says, did I tell you how much I love you today? Everyday. Everyday she says that. —Moses Rubenstein, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
An ambitious project involving numerous international contemporary artists and disused Military airplanes is set to make it’s debut on January 28th at the Pima Art and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. The Boneyard Project: Return Trip will include artists Andrew Schoultz, How & Nosm, Nunca, Retna, and Faile who will all paint their own individual airplanes, along with cockpit from Saner. We took a trip to the desert to get you these exclusive preview photos.
Overall Winner: "Homeless"
Photograph by Chan Kwok Hung, EPOTY.org/Fame/Barcroft Children comfort each other in a scrapyard in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a 2011 image by photographer Chan Kwok Hung of Hong Kong. The picture, an entry in the "Quality of Life" category, won top honors in the 2011 Environmental Photographer of the Year awards, whose winners were announced last week. Organized by the London-based Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, the Environmental Photographer of the Year contest honors amateur and professional photographers who "raise awareness of environmental and social issues." (Texte extrait du National Geographic) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/pictures/111027-best-nature-pictures-2011-environment-animals-science/ 
It's 50 years since the Berlin Wall went up, splitting the city in two, dividing families, and leaving some people with a haunting sense of imprisonment. The psychological scars are still borne today. |
