Some pretty amazing vintage publicity photographs found in an alleyway in Venice, California. The photographer is James Kriegsmann, one of the most famous publicity photographers of the 20th century. A lot of the pictures in this Flickr set are compelling not just because the subjects look so… well… unusual but because they are so earnest, [...]
One big scoop of Van Morrison with a dash of Super XX Man and you get this very sweet (perhaps lost love) song: “I Wish That I Could See You Soon” by Herman Dune. Herman Dune – I Wish That I Could See You Soon
The debacle that is Andres Serrano continues: “Andres Serrano’s upcoming fall exhibition is already making headlines, such as the New York Post’s “A Show to Hold Your Nose For.” Debuting at Yvon Lambert’s New York and Paris locations in early September, “Shit” features new large-scale color photographs of a variety of excrement, produced by animals [...]
I’m pleased to announce the launch of a minisite I designed for the New Museum exhibition, “After Nature.” Visit the minisite here.
There are times when one stumbles upon an inadvertant fluxus video. This is one of those times: Thanks to David Rager for the tip.
Now here are two shows with themes fiercely congruent with my sensibilities. A show about cubes. A show about white.
Some fine landscapes by Peter Allen Hoffmann over at Freight and Volume. Lots more pictures here. Press release here.
I’m pleased to see another group put on a Flux Concert. This one was in England on June 27, 2008. Differing from my group, FLUXCONCERT in America, their venue was a church and presented more of a performative installation than a straight ahead performance. Good photos but I wish they had video. More here
FLUX-FEST is in full swing across the sea in the UK. It’s celebrating the spirit of Fluxus, featuring rare films, publications, music, performances and Fluxus miscellany. Wish I could be there. Check it out.
Alarm Will Sound – one of New York’s leading new music ensembles – will be playing the Beatles’ Revolution #9 at the Bang on a Can Marathon this Saturday around 2AM at Winter Garden.
Two sculptures by Douglas Witmer from his series “Fruitville.” More at his website.
Kristine Moran, surfacing, 60″ X 54″ 2008. oil on panel. Kristine Moran, behind closed doors. 72″ X 66″ 2008. oil on wood panel. More at kristinemoran.com
In keeping with Brian O’Doherty’s recent burial of his alter ego Patrick Ireland, now’s as good a time as any to plug his (O’Doherty’s) series of essays compiled into the book, Inside the White Cube which presents an elegant examination of the contextualizing role of the museum and gallery in understanding art objects. Published in [...]
Patrick Holderfield, Paris, 2007 More drawings by Patrick at James Harris Gallery, Project 4 Gallery, and Patrick’s website.
The new perrygarvin.net has launched. The old site’s navigation structure was hard for some to figure out, the Futura theme was growing tiresome, and the art section’s slideshow couldn’t go full screen. Those issues have been addressed and a few more goodies have been peppered about. Take a look around.
Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s at SculptureCenter Promising show. (tags: exhibitions minimalism landart feminism art sculpture)
Martin Barré – Andrew Kreps Gallery (tags: martinbarré art exhibition gallery painting drawing shapes geometry minimalism) Kate Burnet and Dan Woerner, Shallow: You’ve Got A Friend – The Space (tags: art installation) Michael Bilsborough: The View From Here – Daniel Cooney Fine Art (tags: art drawing gallery exhibitions)
Allan Kaprow–Art as Life » Documentation of Fluids (1967/2008) at MOCA and Cal State LA (tags: happening art allankaprow fluids video documentation exhibition)
Art Fabrication Company Is At the Ready When Artists Think Big – New York Times (tags: art fabrication) TRAPPED IN AN ELEVATOR FOR 41 HOURS One of the most captivating videos I’ve seen. (tags: elevator drama videogames)
Ezra Johnson: Wrestling with the Blob Beast (tags: art dia digital)
A common museum rubric and its problems Too often museums simply present mini-commercial shows by commercially popular, even familiar artists, and then present the work in a way that fails to add context or depth. (tags: museum art exhibitions conflictofinterest)
Rebecca Horn, Cosmic Maps | Sean Kelly Gallery (tags: art painting rebeccahorn) Louise Lawler | Metro Pictures (tags: art photography louiselawler gallery)
TRISKELION ARTS performance and rehearsal space in brooklyn (tags: art dance space rental performance) 4′ 33″ Performed by William Anastasi (tags: instructionbasedart music johncage video)
Art of Allan Kaprow, Happening Again in Los Angeles – New York Times (tags: allankaprow exhibition museum happening performance art) Mario Theme Played with RC Car and Bottles Video (tags: humor mario music videogames)
Shearwater (tags: music band) 40th Anniversary: The New York Art Canon — New York Magazine Jerry Saltz’ selection of New York art highlights over the past 40 years (tags: art jerrysaltz newyork) Shaker Design Shaker Design: Past, Present, and Future (tags: shaker design exhibition)
YouTube – Nintendo 1988 Inside Edition TV news report with Super Mario (tags: video nintendo game mariobrothers) A Fleeting Art Show in the MoMA Restrooms – New York Times symbols and objects reach alterity through displacement or geometric operations. (tags: art moma exhibition guerrilla)
the lolvant garde (tags: lolcats lol art humor) Morgan Croney, Math Rock (tags: art exhibition math sollewitt artist)
Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today (tags: art color exhibition online moma flash)
To the Letter Born – Campaign Stops – 2008 Elections – Opinion – New York Times Blog (tags: barackobama branding font) YouTube – MXC (tags: video humor japanese gameshow)
A singles map of the United States of America – The Boston Globe (tags: dating love) Impenetrable prose from the Whitney Biennial (tags: art jargon humor whitney biennial artspeak)
dahlhaus: Art/Performance: FluxConcert2008 (tags: fluxconcert review fluxus performance art)
The Object in Transition (Conservation at the Getty) (tags: art conservation) Pointless punditry (why critics don’t matter, ch. 35) But the statistics that raised the most eyebrows had to do with “citations.” Does a mention by a critic or a selection by a museum curator make a difference in the sale price of an artwork [...]
Cambridge Arts Council :: Public Art (tags: paulramirezjones artist art park)
PATRICK HOLDERFIELD – Opening Reception: Saturday, March 8, 6:00 – 8:30pm (tags: art exhibition patrickholderfield drawing painting)
Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue (.com) by Damon Zucconi, 2007 (tags: art digital web)
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks Projects – Amy Cutler, Alterations (tags: art drawing exhibition) bitforms gallery – C.E.B. Reas, Process / Form (tags: art exhibition digital) Triple Candie – Proposal for an Exhibition, Unwitting Accomplices 36 Objects Thrown in Violent Incidents (tags: art exhibition) Paula Cooper (534 West 21st) – Dan Walsh (tags: art exhibition painting) Ahhh, [...]
Modern Art Notes: Richard Diebenkorn (tags: richarddiebenkorn artist painting art)
Modern Art Notes: Is our children stitching, and other museum issues (tags: art museum culture criticism) Modern Art Notes: Is our children stitching: Solutions (tags: art museum publication writing criticism)
YouTube – GUMBY BANGING HORSES (tags: humor video comedy gumby)
Mark Grotjahn – Artworks – The Saatchi Gallery (tags: markgrotjahn art artist drawing painting abstraction)
Sids Baby Furniture – Los Angeles – Furniture – Home & Garden – Los Angeles, CA – City Guides – Open List (tags: SIDS humor store baby furniture) Sol LeWitt – 358 Construction (tags: sollewitt wall drawing art) Metro Pictures | Exhibition | Catherine Sullivan | Press Release (tags: catherinesullivan video art artist exhibition)
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks – Accidental Modernism Accidental Modernism is an exhibition of works in which chance is employed in direct contrast to the willed control of the artist. (tags: art exhibition chance) Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis Zach puts Michael Cera, the Superbad and Juno star in the hot seat for this special Comedy [...]
An Emotional Clinton Reflects on How She Does It – Video Disgusting, phony, and manipulative. A candidate down in the polls all of a sudden gains a “heart” at the expense of honesty and truthfulness. (tags: hillaryclinton crying tears video) Is Prefab Fab? MoMA Plans a Show (tags: building modular housing prefab moma exhibition) If [...]
Economists Say Movie Violence Might Temper the Real Thing – New York Times (tags: violence film movies) ArtCal – Chelsea – Paula Cooper (534 West 21st) – Hans Haacke (tags: hanshaacke paulacooper gallery exhibition art artist) Study: Monkeys ‘Pay’ for Sex by Grooming (tags: monkey sex grooming)
SliceoflifeTV – Who is Lauren Cornell? (tags: laurencornell serialkiller humor satire art) The Gates | The Daily Show | Comedy Central (tags: video gates colbert dailyshow humor christo) 28years.mov (video/quicktime Object) (tags: video balls art) Black and White Gallery (Chelsea): Catching the Word (tags: art gallery exhibition text)
The Women Vote – The Caucus – Politics – New York Times Blog (tags: barackobama election) Evolution Book Sees No Science-Religion Gap – New York Times (tags: creationism science religion) Brand New: New Brand for New Museum (tags: newmuseum brand wolffolins review)
dahlhaus: Movies: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (tags: movie review friend)
fuzzy judd (tags: donaldjudd yarn sculpture kinetic art artist)
City’s First Bike Share Planned for Governors Island (tags: governorsisland bike share)
Creased Comics: Brad Neely (tags: comics humor bradneely) Mr.doob | PV3D 2.0: Clock (tags: clock design interactive flash)
Future Claus (tags: humor christmas claus bizarre evangelical reindeer future santa jesus crucifixtion holiday video) Devin Powers (tags: devinpowers exhibition art artist drawing geometry abstraction) An (Un)easy Guide to Holiday Tipping – City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog (tags: tipping)
Jonas Mekas – Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (1992) (tags: georgemaciunas fluxus documentary jonasmekas film)
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (tags: religion pasta)
Video Rhizome and the new New Museum – rocketboom, joannecolan, rhizome, new, cornell – Dailymotion Share Your Videos (tags: rhizome)
Chris Doyle – Love (tags: chrisdoyle watercolor animation video artist art)
The Edible Martini | New York Times Video (tags: video cucumber martini)
Richard Prince – Jim Krantz – Photographs – Art – New York Times (tags: art richardprince copy photography attribution appropriation) Human 2-Year-Old Child Skeleton Bone Clones SC-187-A SC-187-D SC-187-DH (tags: skeleton model child)
village voice > art > The New Museum of Contemporary Art Debuts its New Home by Christian Viveros-Fauné (tags: art review newmuseum unmonumental) jamesdeavin.com (tags: artist jamesdeavin photography)
artblog (tags: newmuseum) Found in Brooklyn: New Museum on the Bowery (tags: newmuseum) BROKEN SELF by Rafael Rozendaal (tags: artist rafaelrozendaal) PAPER TOILET . COM by Rafael Rozendaal (tags: artist rafaelrozendaal digital) MUCH BETTER THAN THIS (tags: artist rafaelrozendaal digital art)
New Museum Madness (tags: newmuseum review) Viewing Art in a Stack of Boxes – The New York Times (tags: newmuseum review video) Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century – New Museum of Contemporary Art – Art – Review – New York Times (tags: newmuseum review unmonumental) New Look for the New Museum – New [...]
Museum’s Fluffing Collectors (tags: art museum collectors conflictofinterest ethics) Jade sale creates complications for MFA – The Boston Globe (tags: museum ethics conflictofinterest collector) Aqsa Shakil: Traces (tags: aqsashakil art painting watercolor) From Sewage, Added Water for Drinking – New York Times (tags: sewage water drinking)
Get Rid of the Translucent Menu Bar in Leopard | dailyApps (tags: leopard macosx menubar hack) Scott C. McFarland (tags: scottmcfarland photography artist) Tino Sehgal – Art – New York Times (tags: artist immaterial dematerialized art tinosehgal performance eventscore fluxus) From Ladles of Molten Metal | The New York Times (tags: manholecover india foundry)
Maccarone: Peter Paul Chocolates, edibles by Paul McCarthy (tags: paulmccarthy chocolate store business art candy performance gallery maccarone)
Molly Springfield, The World is Full of Objects (tags: artist conceptualart art conceptual douglashuebler text language) A New Tower for The Times – The New York Times (tags: newyorktimes renzopiano architecture)
color averaged IKEA catalogue (tags: color art design ikea average coloraverage) Bird Lovers Only Rescue: May I have this dance? (tags: bird dance backstreetboys humor)
Museums – Art – New York Times (tags: art market exhibitions finance sponsorship conflictofinterest museum curating gallery) Does Death Penalty Save Lives? A New Debate – New York Times (tags: execution deathpenalty)
