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Literal AC/DC was designed by Phil Jones. Rock the vote: score it now!

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Doug Wheeler, Eindhoven, Enviornmental Light Installation, 1969. Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington. Note: That’s an actual, unaltered photograph of an actual room-sized Wheeler installation. No digital trickery. That’s what it looks like.

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Doug Wheeler, one of the pioneers of light-and-space art. So far as I know, this week’s show is just the third one-on-one interview Wheeler has ever given.

A Wheeler ‘infinity environment’ installation is on view now at Chelsea’s David Zwirner gallery, where visitors have routinely waited in line for an hour (and often longer) to see the piece. A major Wheeler was just acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, which featured Wheeler prominently in its light-and-space survey “Phenomenal.” The museum’s new Wheeler will be on view in downtown San Diego until August. 

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Happy President’s Day! This is my favorite song ever.

Ain’t no tradition like a new tradition.

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Happy President’s Day! 

Here’s a look at Amine el Khalifi, the somewhat hapless would-be suicide bomber that was caught up in an F.B.I sting operation this week.

El Khalifi thought he was headed to the U.S. Capitol building armed with a handgun and a vest full of high explosives. What he found out though, was that the F.B.I. has been tracking him form months, drawing him into a phoney terror plot.

The vest and gun were harmless but El Khalifi intentions were anything but. El Khalifi has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. property.

Interestingly, el Khalifi’s former landlord told reporters that he had tried to alert Virginia police about his tenant’s tendencies a year ago but that his tips to law enforcement were ignored.

via CBS Baltimore

One of the classic bits of Americana at the Smithsonia is taking a bit of a breather.  After a long period on pubic view Dorthy Gale’s Ruby Slippers from the 1939 film, The Wizard of OZ have been removed for conservation work.  

The world-famous footwear is scheduled to return to exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in April.

via Ruby slippers from ‘Wizard of Oz’ to be conserved - WTOP.com