The Beall Center has just published a new catalog about the work of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy on Lulu. The catalog includes an essay I wrote about their piece The Constant World. My essay looks at the work’s relationship to artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, Godard’s film Alphaville (watch the full video online here), and the Atomium building created for the 1958 Universal Exhibition in Brussels.

Here’s a picture of the Atomium to whet your appetite:

Leaked, private information describing what Vice President Dick Cheney requires in his hotel room during speaking engagements.

The infamous sex tape of Pamela Anderson.

Fake passports from CIA officers wanted for abducting a Muslim cleric in Italy.

These are just some of the intriguing source materials artists acquired copies of and incorporated into the latest major traveling exhibit to land in Baltimore.

Titled The New Normal, the exhibit at the Maryland Institute College of Art takes its name from Cheney’s description of wiretaps, luggage searches and other government surveillance measures as “the new normalcy.”

Read the full article here.

Tour riders are contracts that musicians send to venues ahead of their appearances there so that the promoters can prepare the artists’ needs. Dick Cheney’s relatively spartan tour rider forms the basis for Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s piece Vice Presidential Downtime Requirements; Rihanna’s hospitality needs are significantly more… specific.