TOE TAPPING ON A SUNDAY

I finally, after delaying doing so for no particular reason, signed up for Pandora Radio. I typed in a music stand by and for the most part enjoyed the selections that came up. The song "Red Yellow & Blue" by Born Ruffians came up (album of the same name, Red Yellow & Blue). I admit, I know nothing about the band other than they are from Canada, but the song made me smile and it helped chug a Friday afternoon along.

I hear they are touring with Akron Family.

Here is something I found on the interweb about the band.

Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT

This spring the Whitney Museum of American Art has a new exhibit called Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT. It's Holzer's largest and most comprehensive exhibit in the U.S. in almost 20 years. The exhibition deals with LED lights - Holzer's medium of notoriety - as well as silk screens and paintings and and sculpture.

While there is a lot of positive talk about a new U.S. goverment and thus, a new take on U.S./Middle East relations, there still remains an Everest sized quantity of information from the past eight years that has not found a public audience. Holzer provides viewers with a new set of information to debate in PROTECT PROTECT. The text is often a shocking expose on the day-to-day of modern warfare provided by documents that are public, but the public never sees. Most of her text is taken from declassified military documents and makes them a) art b) worthy of thought and deliberation.

Check out a video on Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT