Ok, everyone do your part. Heal the Bay has declared December 20th, National A Day Without A Bag Day. These sort of days are good because they start the ideas, which (hopefully) eventually work their way into everyone's daily routine.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
The Glue Society
The above images are biblical recreations using google maps, created by The Glue Society.
Whether it is meant to recreate biblical incidences or meant to subvert theology; this is an interesting use of contemporary technology.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
When Will The Madness End?
I for one am tired of reading about Art Miami, or any other art convention/trade show/money-love-fest!
Blog after blog, and newspaper after newspaper have devoted far too much time and energy to these over-bloated, uninteresting and over-valued gatherings of money hungry artists, galleries and "art-investors."
I am standing up and giving a huge middle finger to the general direction of Miami. Where is that anyway? East coast?
(I know... I know... even writing negatively about something gives it power, but I've had enough!)
Blog after blog, and newspaper after newspaper have devoted far too much time and energy to these over-bloated, uninteresting and over-valued gatherings of money hungry artists, galleries and "art-investors."
I am standing up and giving a huge middle finger to the general direction of Miami. Where is that anyway? East coast?
(I know... I know... even writing negatively about something gives it power, but I've had enough!)
Shepard Barely Strikes!
I must have missed it in the art section of the LA Times earlier this week. OH WAIT! The article about Shepard Fairey wasn't even in the art section. It happened to land in the "Style Scout."
Hmmmm... maybe the LA Times Art Department does know a thing or two about art after all!
Do be sure to peruse the slideshow of images, most importantly the one of the recreation of his studio in the gallery?!?!
Hmmmm... maybe the LA Times Art Department does know a thing or two about art after all!
Do be sure to peruse the slideshow of images, most importantly the one of the recreation of his studio in the gallery?!?!
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Drinkable Art
Images from thecoolhunter.
Artist Hannes Broecker's Drink the Art Away at a gallery in Dresden, Germany, looks to be creating quite a buzz.
The exhibition is comprised of nine frames, each filled with a colored cocktail that can be dispensed from the bottom. Gallery goers are encouraged to grab a glass and "drink the art away," very much along the lines of a Tom Marioni piece.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Just In Time For Christmas
Christopher Knight has written his idea of a wish list for Christmas. As if the article wasn't bad enough, it is accompanied by a literal checklist!
Now, I know it is the job of the art critic/writer to put themselves out there and take a stand which will stir up the pot; but this is just ridiculous and problematic rolled into one. Not only are we fed the "45 under 45" must haves, but Christopher Knight misleads the readers down a path into non-critical thinking. As readers, we are meant to believe that artists in art schools are wrongly questioned as to why they are painting.
What a romantic ideal Knight has of painting, when he describes it as "...just one person in a room, with a flat plane and some colors, trying to juice the corpse and make it dance."
There is hope for Knight! In the last paragraph, he writes, "Painting isn't dead -- or, more precisely, it always has been and always will be. The perpetual trick is to give a painting life." This hints at the idea that it is the artists job to give painting a reason to exist, which in the end should be applied to all art, not just painting; but it is painting that gets dragged down this path.
Now, I know it is the job of the art critic/writer to put themselves out there and take a stand which will stir up the pot; but this is just ridiculous and problematic rolled into one. Not only are we fed the "45 under 45" must haves, but Christopher Knight misleads the readers down a path into non-critical thinking. As readers, we are meant to believe that artists in art schools are wrongly questioned as to why they are painting.
What a romantic ideal Knight has of painting, when he describes it as "...just one person in a room, with a flat plane and some colors, trying to juice the corpse and make it dance."
There is hope for Knight! In the last paragraph, he writes, "Painting isn't dead -- or, more precisely, it always has been and always will be. The perpetual trick is to give a painting life." This hints at the idea that it is the artists job to give painting a reason to exist, which in the end should be applied to all art, not just painting; but it is painting that gets dragged down this path.
Louisville, Kentuky Asks, "Why Vandalize Art?"
In an interesting article in the Louisville, Kentuky, Courier-Journal, Diane Heilenman poses the question, "Why vandalize art? Are acts craziness or simply personal statements?"
This asks a great question, to which there may be no answer depending who you ask. The thing I do like about this artcle is that it does raise support for the side of artist's intervention.
British art historian, Richard Murphy, wonders, "If we are not seeing an implied critique by 'artists' that an earlier 'tradition' of the avant-garde is dead," in his book Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Cambridge University Press: 1999).
This asks a great question, to which there may be no answer depending who you ask. The thing I do like about this artcle is that it does raise support for the side of artist's intervention.
British art historian, Richard Murphy, wonders, "If we are not seeing an implied critique by 'artists' that an earlier 'tradition' of the avant-garde is dead," in his book Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Cambridge University Press: 1999).
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