Art thief Jeff Dieschburg plagiarised the work of Jingna Zhang and presented it as his own version of Turandot. Even winning prize money for it.
When confronted, he claimed he was “inspired” by her work even though it’s obviously just her work but flipped and recoloured.
In other news, Jingna is not the only artist he has chosen to steal from.
Here is his lovely responses when questioned. “I don’t understand why you have to make such a scene”, “I didn’t represent this woman from Japan (or wherever she is from)”. Smells like white bullshit.
And here is a snippet of a message he sent to Jingna trying to cover his ass after she found out about his plagiarism. Btw the person he “stumbled upon” is another plagiariser, birds of a feather something something.
The rapidly growing annual or biennial Calendula officinalis (common marigold, goldins, Jack-on-horseback, Mary's gold, pot marigold, Scotch marigold, souvenir, yellow goldes, marybuds) can be found flowering all year round, especially in a mild winter. The leaves have distinctive aromatic leaves.
Similarly, grafting a shoot from the LDP Petunia hybrida onto a stock of the cold-requiring biennial henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) caused the latter to flower under long days, even though it was nonvernalized (Figure 20.18).
"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.
Checked out two Chicago Architecture Biennial Kick-off Programs today: The preview of Gelitin’s Democratic Sculpture 7 (a giant pizza guests stick their heads through to make the toppings) at the Chicago Cultural Center before it goes on exhibition at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society Sept. 23-Jan. 12 + The in-progress installation of ITECH’s HygroShell (a research project that explores a new kind of bio-based and bio-inspired architecture) at the James R. Thompson Center (second slide here). CAB 5 opens this November!
[Edit: Thank you for RTing me, Do312 and CAB, and thank you for sharing my photo on Instagram, CAB!]
At the local market there was a display of Myosotis sylvatica cultivars (garden forget-me-not). This short-lived perennial, usually grown as a biennial, has blue flowers but the cultivars also offered white and pink flowers. These plants will have been grown from seed for spring planting in containers and borders.
On 1/16/24, I planted several types if seeds. When I choose seeds to plant, I think about which foods do I like to eat. Then I also consider which foods that I like are the most nutrient dense. One of them I planted was Swiss chard.
Swiss chard can be considered a superfood. It contains high amounts of vitamin K, vitamin C and vitamin A. It also has a good amount of magnesium and…
This Week's Six Pillars to Persia - Curating MENA Art in Europe
Arab Photography Now – edited by Rose Issa and Michket Krifa
Curators and authors Rose Issa (London) and Michket Krifa (Paris) discuss curating Middle Eastern and North African art in a European context, at a time when institutions, for the first time in France, but since some years already in the UK, are faced with cuts.
Rose Issa is director of Rose Issa Projects, a gallery spread across two…