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UCLA Department of Art Lectures: John Knight

2009-11-10T11:40:00.000-08:00

It has been some time since I posted on here, but this one needed to go up!

UCLA Department of Art Lectures: John Knight

"John Knight has exhibited recently at Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2008); Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló (2008); Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008); Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009); and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2009). This fall, he will have an exhibition at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles. He lives in Los Angeles and works in situ."

Damien Hirst meet Damien Hirst

2009-08-07T15:53:00.000-07:00

“I am Damien Hirst. I am an unknown artist from Slovenia. I am doing art by doing art. My art glorifies the futileness of being an artist. It's a parody of the belief in nothing. My purpose is to demystify everything that was mystified in the name of art. Art is a religion and I am an atheist.”

Read more from Slovenian Damien Hirst on his website nothingthing.com or his blog. The blog has more of his recent artwork. Scroll through, take a look and have a little laugh.

Disclaimer: “In case you didn't figure it out yourself yet let me just make it clear that I am not the famous British artist named Damien Hirst. I am just an artistic appropriation of the name Damien Hirst and what it might or might not represent for you and everyone else. As well as I am an appropriation of the main concepts and principles found in contemporary art.” Read more of the disclaimer here.

Sticker Mural

2009-08-06T10:10:00.000-07:00

The Ace Hotel in New York has commissioned artist Michael Anderson to create a mural consisting of about 4,000 stickers.

“Consisting of 4,000 or so stickers scanned from Anderson’s notebooks, printed in black-and-white on silk paper, and assembled into a dense collage, the mural evokes both the Giuliani years and a grittier, preboom downtown. “I think of myself more like the curator rather than the artist,” Anderson says, standing in the Ace lobby. As a curator and collector, he took an egalitarian approach: The mural contains stickers by well-known graffiti-ers like Barry McGee (who tagged as Twist) and Steve Powers (ESPO), as well as those of the unknown and untalented.”

Mosaic Graffiti in Sweden

2009-08-06T10:05:00.000-07:00

The above image (by August Dahllöf) is a mosaic graffiti wall in Malmo. See more images here. (via Wooster Collective)

2009 Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair

2009-07-31T10:42:00.000-07:00

For those in Los Angeles this Saturday and Sunday, the 2009 Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair will be held this weekend.

“The Second Southern California Anarchist Conference and Cultural Fair will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 1 and 2, 2009 at the Southern California Library for Social Studies & Research, 6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90044 (Saturday) and the UCLA Downtown Labor Center, 675 S Park View St, Los Angeles, California 90057 (Sunday).”

SOKKOMB: DIY Justice

2009-07-31T10:31:00.000-07:00

“SOKKOMB is a new low-cost product designed specifically for all those citizens who are so interested in Do-It-Yourself Justice.”

Have you been wronged in a way that makes you boil? Do you demand payback? Now is your chance... Sokkomb allows for at-home, do-it-yourself justice!

David Storey Two Tone Prints

2009-07-14T13:13:00.000-07:00

These limited edition re-release Two Tone posters were brought to my attention by Chadski.

"These limited edition Two Tone posters have now been re-released as a result of a collaboration between the artists responsible for the original Two Tone graphic design work – John ‘Teflon’ Sims and David Storey*. They are now making each of these influential artworks available again in a limited edition of 100 giclée prints. Printed on Fine Art paper (Baryte Museum 300gsm) using light-fast archival ink, each one is numbered and signed by the artists and includes a certificate of authenticity.

(* The original Two Tone design work was carried out under the creative direction of Jerry Dammers.)"

"Walter Hopps Will Be Here in 20 Minutes"

2009-07-10T10:39:00.000-07:00

For Your Art will be distributing these pins in honor of the late Walter Hopps to local Los Angeles bookstores and art venues.

From their website:

"In L.A. on May 3, the anniversary of the 76th birthday of Walter Hopps, the first director of the Pasadena Museum, we began distributing recreations of the original "walter hopps will be here in 20 minutes" button and will continue through March 20, 2010, the anniversary of his passing. The buttons were originally made by employees at the Corcoran Gallery in D.C., where Hopps served as director in the 1970s, prompted by his chronic lateness and near-mythic disappearing acts, which weren't particularly suited to a bureaucratic environment."

In Keeping with The Gundam Theme

2009-06-26T17:10:00.000-07:00

Also posted by Pink Tentacle are images of a Pink Gundam that a fan has made!

Life-sized Gundam at Night!

2009-06-26T16:51:00.000-07:00

Posted earlier this month was the life-sized Gundam built in Japan. Now there are night pics appearing and they look amazing!

It all makes sense now as I realize that this the 30th anniversary of Gundam.

(image via Pink Tentacle.)

For Those of You in Montreal - The Infringement Festival

2009-06-25T09:32:00.000-07:00

For those of you in Montreal June 18th through the 28th, (I realize this post is a little late,) check out The Infringement Festival! Let me know how it is...

Here is the mandate from their website:

Infringement Mandate

The infringement Festival is an interdisciplinary festival open to all critical artists.

Celebrating freedom of expression and designed as a real arts democracy, this festival is a critical response to the oppressive neoliberal worldview and all its billboard trucks, televisions, flyers, advertisements, jingles, made-for-TV Wars; and the depoliticisation of people through this diversionary Spectacle.

The infringement welcomes a variety of performances and cultural resistance: theatre groups, performers, street activism, political theatre, musicians, radical performance, visual artists, films, marginalized arts, spoken-word, puppet shows, disadvantaged groups, and anyone wishing to artistically infringe on the monoculture that creeps into every corner of our lives.

The festival aims to emphasize both critical practice in the arts, and artistic practice in activism. It also aims to provide a positive environment that encourages and nurtures critical art.

To avoid being co-opted, the infringement festival follows a mandate that looks like this:

1. The infringement festival is free for all artists and activists to participate in. The festival will never charge a registration fee and participants will keep 100% of their box office.

2. The festival is open to all critical artists and will never discriminate, set entry criteria or censor.

3. The festival is run as a non-hierarchical arts democracy.

4. The festival will only accept ethical companies that pose no conflict of interest as sponsors, as the interests of the festival's participants come before those of the sponsors. (our criteria for ethical sponsorship is available here)

5. The festival will encourage, although not be limited to, progressive acts that encourage discussion and oppose oppressive structures.

Now go out and start infringing!

Make Your Own Contemporary Art?

2009-06-25T09:20:00.000-07:00

iartistlondon is enabling you to create your favorite piece of contemporary art at a fraction of the price.

"IARTISTLONDON is a brand new way of creating your very own contemporary work of art. It's quick, it's easy and you don't need any artistic training or ability to start making great pieces! We supply you with all the necessary tools to produce your personalized copy of an original master.

You will get great art for just a fraction of the original price. Why spend millions of pounds? We have made high art affordable so you can beat the credit crunch. We are obsessed with keeping the prices low because the smaller the price, the greater the number of people who can actually afford the art. Anyone can do it. In addition, the result is an immensely satisfying and unique work of art which has that priceless added value of being made by you.

This year´s catalogue is filled with new products, new ideas and new lower prices, to make it even easier to create art that truly suits your life."

Is it art or is it just a producer of tropes? Are they commenting on contemporary art or just using it? You decide.

Think about Honking It

2009-06-25T09:13:00.000-07:00

Available from the Walker Art Center's online shop.

Vinyl Poyluck – Bring some records. Listen to some music.

2009-06-09T16:58:00.000-07:00

The After School Arts Program (ASAP) presents:

Vinyl Potluck
a project by Tom Norris

Saturday, June 13, 1-4pm
Bring a record, play your favorite track and share a few thoughts.

Guest Speakers:
Dave Muller, Artist
Gregory J. Lenczycki, Composer and a board member of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS).

Sea and Space Explorations
4755 York Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Vinyl Potluck proposes to invite guests to draw from their own record collections with a sense of nostalgia and playfulness. Guests will play a track from the record of their choice and can comment on it if they wish. The selection could be musical, historical, art-centered, or otherwise personally meaningful. Tom will provide a crate of vinyl records from which participants without records may choose a selection.

The After School Arts Program (ASAP) provides innovative and experimental arts programming for artists, curators, historians and critics interested in continuing their education in the visual arts.

Tom Norris is an artist living and practicing in Pasadena, CA.

1:1 Life-Size Gundam!

2009-06-09T16:42:00.000-07:00

The pictures pretty much say it all! Doobybrain.com has the scoop and the pictures of the life sized Gundam now standing in Japan! There is a link to a google map of the location if you cannot see him from where you stand.

Intellectual Property

2009-06-04T14:57:00.000-07:00

Artist Evan Roth has created hand painted canvases of Shepard Fairy's Obama Hope poster, and Mannie Garcia's Associated Press photograph and put them for sale on his website. You can view both creations here and here.

Here is what his website says:

"Who is the bigger intellectual property asshole? Is it the artist who has amassed a small fortune based on "appropriation" yet still sends cease and desist letters to other artists for appropriating his work?

Or is it the largest (and only) US based nationally-oriented news service which fails to recognize "fair use" even when it literally stares them in the face?

I have created hand painted canvases of Shepard Fairy's Obama Hope poster, and Mannie Garcia's Associated Press photograph and put them for sale on my website here and here.

The first person to send me a cease and desist notice wins!"

Who will be the first to send the letter? Taking bets...

3/50 – Saving Independant Stores

2009-05-26T10:35:00.000-07:00

Last week, while walking back from lunch with some co-workers, we passed by a store with this in the window.

Memorial Day

2009-05-26T10:27:00.000-07:00

I find it ironic that burning the flag is the dignified way to properly retire a US flag. The above image appeared in Tuesday's edition of the Pasadena Star News.

"What Comes around Goes around!"

2009-05-12T10:12:00.001-07:00

That's right. It's been a while and I have not felt like posting anything, but this needed to be further disseminated. The above poster, designed by the Global Coalition for Peace, when wrapped around a street pole looks like this.

View more posters here.

MoMA Infiltration

2009-03-30T11:09:00.000-07:00

An interesting project has been carried out by artist Jennifer Jacobs, in which she impersonates a MoMA Security guard and "monitors" the galleries. Here is the project. Too bad the rest of her art work does not hold a candle to this infiltration.

How Peeps Are Made

2009-03-30T09:51:00.000-07:00

A fun photo slideshow of how everyone's favorite marshmallow treats are made.

Post-Modern

2009-03-30T09:47:00.000-07:00

ASAP at The Outpost for Contemporary Art - March 14th

2009-03-11T09:27:00.000-07:00

After School Arts Program has organized an interesting discussion with current and former board members of non-profit spaces. This event will take place on Saturday, March 14th and is hosted by Outpost for Contemporary Art.

Boards and Nails: On Non-Profit Boards
Presentation will be followed by Q&A

Guest Speakers:

Carol Stakenas
Executive Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Walter Askin
Artist, Former Board member of the Pasadena Arts Museum (1963-1968)
and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)

Letitia Ivins
Former member of the Outpost for Contemporary Art Advisory Board and
current member of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Maria Grant
Board Overseer for the Huntington Art Museum and Board Chair of the
Thomas Aquinas College

Fair Use versus Fairey Use

2009-03-11T09:11:00.001-07:00

Brian Sherwin, Senior Editor at My Art Space, delves deeper into the whole Shepard Fairey and his definition of fair use.

Read his blog post, titled "Disobey Shepard Fairey".

"The contradictions involving Shepard Fairey are widespread. Unfortunately, the major media has barely reported on this aspect of Shepard Fairey and "fair use". Instead, most have conveniently championed Fairey as an advocate for “fair use”-- which is obviously false. If anything, Shepard Fairey is a champion for his own work involving "fair use"."

Post-Post Script: The funny thing is that as I was reading this article the Google ad at the top of the page was for a signed Shepard Fairey "HOPE" poster.

Voids, A Retrospective at Centre Pompidou, Paris

2009-03-03T09:28:00.000-08:00

"The idea of exhibiting emptiness is a recurring notion in the history of art over the past fifty or so years, almost to the point of becoming a cliché in the practice of contemporary art. Since the exhibition by Yves Klein – "The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility" in Paris in 1958, totally empty exhibitions have been the statement of different conceptions of vacuums.
A quite exceptional event, "Vides" (Voids) is a retrospective of empty exhibitions since that of Yves Klein in 1958. In almost a dozen rooms of the National Museum of Modern Art, it assembles in a totally original manner exhibitions that showed absolutely nothing, leaving empty the space for which they were designed."

On view at the Centre Pompidou until March 23, 2009, Voids, a Retrospective ehibits the history of empty gallery and exhibition spaces starting with Yves Klein's 1958 exhibition "The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State of Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility".

Hirst's Skull Sculpture

2009-02-18T12:48:00.000-08:00

As reported in today's Guardian UK, Spanish artist, Eugenio Merino, has made a clever sculpture that addresses Damien Hirst's relationship with the art market. This sense of humor reminds me of Maurizio Cattelan.

"It is a joke but it is also paradoxical that if he did kill himself his work would be worth even more," said Merino. "That is a metaphor for the current state of the art world."

A New HOPE Poster

2009-02-12T12:36:00.000-08:00

I saw the above poster wheat pasted around Pasadena and started nerding out. Lauren (Scott) Short is the graphic designer who came up with the newest inspirational "HOPE" poster. You can check out more of his handy work at BLACK BOOK.

Blue Monday Owners Club

2009-02-12T12:20:00.000-08:00

A friend of mine emailed this website around, meant especially for Chad over at Chadski.com.

Blue Monday Owners Club is a site collecting images of all the owners of the 1983 12" single of "Blue Monday" by New Order. Organized by artist Spencer Graham, this site collects the images of owners along with their anecdotes on having the single in their collections. Take a look at an interesting intersection of art and music.

A Historic Day

2009-01-21T11:36:00.000-08:00

Thanks to The Art of The Prank for bringing this image to us.

Harry Shearer's "Silent Echo Chamber"

2008-12-31T12:06:00.000-08:00

Harry Shearer has installed a video piece, titled "The Silent Echo Chamber", at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT. Read more about it here.
It was also reported in the NY Times by Andrew Adam Newman. You can read his article here.

Catch the Latest Trend Here

2008-12-31T11:22:00.000-08:00

As the last day of 2008 winds to a close, I tire of reading the annual wrap-up lists, ie. "2008's Top Ten Movies", "2008's Top Ten Albums", etc.

I happened upon an article from The London Free Press' Senior Online Editor, Dan Brown. I'll let you figure it out for yourselves, but do read Dan Brown's A Trend Piece.

"Cultural experts are puzzled. None of them can explain why the trend has caught on. It’s just one of those things. They do, however, give the impression that if you don’t learn all about the new trend as quickly as possible, you’ll be in the minority."

More on The Death of Polaroid

2008-12-29T16:51:00.000-08:00

The New York Times critic, Michael Kimmelman, who can be reached here, reminds us that a one-time giant is falling. (I posted about this earlier in the year here.)

"Digital cameras let us do away with whatever we decide is not quite right, and so delete the mishaps that not too often but once in a blue moon creep onto film and that we appreciate only later as accidental masterpieces. In fact, the new technology may be not more convenient but less than Polaroid instant film cameras were, considering the printers and wires and other electronic gadgets now required, but at this one thing, the act of destruction, a source of unthinking popularity in our era of forgetfulness and extreme makeovers, digital performs all too well. Polaroids, reflecting our imperfectability, reminded us by contrast of our humanity."

Read the full article The Polaroid: Imperfect, Yet Magical.

Hot Dog!

2008-12-19T11:05:00.000-08:00

OK, if you haven't see Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, you should. If you have seen it, you should also read this article that appeared in today's NY Times.

The NY Times' Wendell Jamieson has a cynical yet humorous take on the events that take place on that fated Christmas Eve in 1945.

"Here’s the thing about Pottersville that struck me when I was 15: It looks like much more fun than stultifying Bedford Falls — the women are hot, the music swings, and the fun times go on all night. If anything, Pottersville captures just the type of excitement George had long been seeking."

Proximity Magazine Interviews Steve Lambert

2008-12-18T10:20:00.000-08:00

Hey! That's Steve Lambert starting in outside Lane 5.

Proximity Magazine's James H. Ewert, Jr. conducted an interview with Steve Lambert. Here is a quote, but do read the interview:

"Questioning, who cares? I mean, if all people do is question stuff, nothing changes. There’s a lot of work, or activism, or whatever, that points out what’s wrong. Everyone knows that shit’s fucked up. How much more artwork do we need to tell us that Bush is a bad president? Everyone knows; the guy has, like, the lowest approval rating of all time, but there are still people making work that says that. So, what’s the next step? That’s what I want to do. I try to do that. I’m not always successful, but that’s what I want to do . . . It’s not a new idea, it’s not even really my idea. It’s how people use mass communication to create change."

The Shoe Heard Around The World

2008-12-15T16:38:00.000-08:00

By this point I am sure everyone has either heard or read about the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at Mr. Bush.

"The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush has become the talk of Iraq, hailed by marchers as a national hero but blasted by the government as a barbarian."

Pity Petty Hirst

2008-12-09T10:40:00.000-08:00

Damien Hirst has become the meglomaniac oppressor he was meant to be. (Or, secretly was all along.)

The Independent's Arifa Akbar reports on Damien Hirst's latest doings—oppressing other artists.

"One is an entrepreneurial 16-year-old who takes time off from his schoolwork to create urban stencil designs of cultural icons such as Mickey Mouse and Clint Eastwood, which he sells for £65 on the internet. The other is the Turner prize-winning father of Britart whose diamond-encrusted skull and pickled sharks have brought him a £200m fortune.

Ordinarily, the two figures at opposite ends of the art spectrum should never have cause to meet. But Cartain, the moniker for the teenage artist, has earned the ire of Damien Hirst for incorporating photographic images of his platinum cast of a human skull, For the Love of God, into his graffiti prints. The two artists have become locked in an unlikely art clash that has led Hirst to demand recompense from the teenager for selling £200 worth of images of his skull without permission, says Private Eye magazine.

He [Cartain] was surprised to learn Hirst had not only seen the work but also contacted the Design and Artists Copyright Society (Dacs), who apparently informed the young artist he had infringed Hirst's copyright. The older man has reportedly demanded that Cartrain not only remove the works from sale but "deliver up" originals, along with any profit made on those sold, or face legal action."

The irony of all of this is that Hirst is bolstering up the art work of Cartrain by causing such a stink. He has drawn more attention to this matter, than would have been if he had just left it be.

”When I left you I was but the learner. Now, I am the master!”
Only a master of evil, Damien Hirst!

"In Defense of Teasing"

2008-12-09T10:01:00.000-08:00

As it appeared in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday, Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, writes an amazing article on the social benefits of teasing. Read it here.

"In seeking to protect our children from bullying and aggression, we risk depriving them of a most remarkable form of social exchange. In teasing, we learn to use our voices, bodies and faces, and to read those of others — the raw materials of emotional intelligence and the moral imagination. We learn the wisdom of laughing at ourselves, and not taking the self too seriously. We learn boundaries between danger and safety, right and wrong, friend and foe, male and female, what is serious and what is not. We transform the many conflicts of social living into entertaining dramas. No kidding."

Life 1.0

2008-12-02T10:13:00.000-08:00

Wooster Collective posted this morning about artist Filippo Minelli's Contradictions series. ("Microsoft", Paint on barrels, Bamako-Mali, 2008. above)

This is what he told Wooster:

"All my "Contradictions" ongoing project has the same motivation/meaning. Technologies and the marketing behind them usually push the almost religious aspect of their evolution, as also said by Leander Kaheny in his "Cult of Mac" book, and the users are pushed to live in an intense way the abstraction from reality, living technologies only as an idea and sometimes without even knowing their real functions. And this aspect works for the social-networks too. The idealization connected with these experiences provokes a small-but-important detach of the perception of reality and what i want to do by writing the names of anything connected with the 2.0 life we are living in the slums of the third world is to point out the gap between the reality we still live in and the ephemeral world of technologies. It's a kind of reminder, for people like me which I'm an Apple user and also have social-network accounts that the real world is deeply far from the idealization we have of it, not only in the third world and even if technologies and globalization are good things. I hope it's clear and sorry for my Italian-English. ;)"

Do take a look at Filippo's website.

It is still ironic that I post this on a blog? "post-post-ironic?"

A Solo Show at Sea and Space Explorations

2008-11-26T12:58:00.001-08:00

For those of you in the Los Angeles area this holiday weekend, I have an art work on exhibition at Sea & Space Explorations in Highland Park. Below is the press release from Sea & Space.

_______________:_______________, A Solo Show
Your show title here: Your name here

November 29th - December 7th, 2008
Reception: Saturday, November 29th, 8 - 11 PM

Sea and Space is offering every artist we know a solo show in late November. The largest solo show ever will feature the work of 100 artists, who will be able to list this solo show on their resume by entering their name and show title into the blanks in the central title. The show will enhance the careers of all artists, subverting the way art projects are documented and defined.

While there is no limitation on the number of works for this show, artists will be sharing limited space. Work will hang from the walls, ceilings, rolling walls, and pedestals redefining solo show presentation and practice. Work may even be leaning, with care, on someone else's.

Many of the pieces will roll over into the next show, the holiday raffle. This fundraiser will help Sea and Space Explorations raise the application fees to attain non-profit status.

All postcards and press releases are being documented and archived on the website and will be viewable this Wednesday at http://www.seaandspace.org.

Sea and Space Explorations
http://www.seaandspace.org
Gallery is open Sundays 1-5 PM and by appointment
Tel.: 323-445-4015.
email: info@seaandspace.org

Eli Broad Steps Up to Save MOCA

2008-11-24T09:15:00.000-08:00

OK, I feel that now that I have posted about it once, I need to see it through.

Eli Broad has stepped up to save MOCA. Here is his editorial that appeared in Friday's LA Times.

More on MOCA

2008-11-20T10:03:00.000-08:00

As was the news yesterday, MOCA is in trouble.

Today, in the LA Times Christopher Knight sends an open letter to MOCA's board of trustees.

He basically tears everyone apart and holds them accountable. Excellent! This is the same rigor that should be applied to the current debate over the auto industry bailout.

A Recent Gallery Trip

2008-11-19T09:42:00.000-08:00

On a recent visit to the galleries in Chinatown, I happened upon the Inaugural Group Show for the Charlie James Gallery. Nowadays, every time I venture to Chinatown there seems to be a new gallery or an old one that has shifted location; so, it is not unusual for me to have wandered into this gallery not knowing what to expect.

Apparently, this is the inaugural installation and it is worth talking a look at, especially the work of Ray Beldner. He has sewn together currency to resemble famous art works from modern art history.

For the last five years, I have worked on a series titled Counterfeit in which I selected key artwork by famous 20th century artists, such as Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp, Three Flags, by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol's Marilyn, and re-made those "signature" pieces out of sewn US currency. Counterfeit referred to my plagiarism of these masterpieces as well as the conditional nature of the value of art and money. – Statment from Beldner's website.

Yes, I know it seems very "grad-school", but there is something there in the Ruscha, Flavin and Lichtenstein composed of dollar bills. The piece that really stands out is Money Bag (2008). This is more than timely in the current state of the nation. I only wish I had my camera at the time.

Big Happenings in Los Angeles

2008-11-19T09:18:00.000-08:00

A lot to read this morning.

The Los Angeles Times reports that MOCA is in trouble; to the extent of even shutting down the Geffen/Temporary Contemporary for six months.

This article come just one day after the New York Times reports that Eli Broad has approached the city of Beverly Hills about creating his own museum.

An Original Art Work!

2008-11-14T10:16:00.000-08:00

The Art:21 blog posted this blurb about Eric Doeringer.

I think this is pretty humorous. If you can't afford a Barney or a McGee, you may be able to purchase a Doeringer.

Take a look at Eric's work at his website.

A Handshake

2008-11-13T09:28:00.000-08:00

This image was posted this morning on Wooster Collective. Seen on the streets of Chicago, a handshake says it all as we as a nation move forward.

Election Day

2008-11-04T09:14:00.000-08:00

I was thinking about this as I was riding my bike to work...
Real change is voting for someone not Republican or Democrat. Voting for either of these parties is only a return to politics as usual, not change.

See You There...

2008-10-17T10:49:00.000-07:00

Ian MacKaye will be speaking at the Hollywood High School Auditorium on Sunday October 26, 2008, at 7:00pm. The cost is $5 at the door, and doors open at 6pm.

Here is the link.

Bi-Partisan Poetry

2008-10-14T09:41:00.000-07:00

Ok, not matter your political tendency, this is just plain fun...

PALINdrome

Go ahead and check it out. Make poetry that speaks to your constituents.

Anti-Dooring

2008-10-14T09:05:00.000-07:00

Since I have recently started riding my bike to work, this seems timely. Often as cars are rushing passed me on the left, I never know if the people exiting their cars are aware of oncoming auto and bicycle traffic. I know this is not a new concern and has caused problems before my recent return to my bike.

Anti-Dooring is a website that offers information for both motorists and cyclists, as well as flyers and stickers to print out. If you aren't familiar with the term, check the website or read below:

What is Dooring?
Dooring is when the driver or passenger of a car opens a car door into or in front of a cyclist. Cyclists can be seriously injured or killed, either by slamming into the door, by being thrown into passing traffic, or when they must swerve suddenly into passing traffic to avoid the door. Most commonly, this occurs when the driver of a car that is parallel parked suddenly opens a door, but can also occur when passengers in cars stopped in traffic open doors.

"Zero Dollar" by Laura Gilbert

2008-10-08T13:25:00.000-07:00

This article appeared in the Washington Post this morning.

A full-time artist based in New York, Laura Gilbert used a computer and her drawing skills to create the "The Zero Dollar," a slightly shrunken version of the greenback. Yesterday, she headed to Wall Street, hoping to find the masters of finance who have just body-slammed our economy and, as she put it, "confront them with my art."

"America – The Gift Shop"

2008-09-24T10:31:00.000-07:00

I know it has been a while, but this is a good one.

"America – The Gift Shop" by Phillip Toledano is an amazing art piece that combines both America's stance on foreign policy and commercialism.

Gone are the days of subtle commercial takeover, via McDonald's or Disney; now, it is a forceful commercial take over!

Sell to them all! And let God sort out the receipts!

Oily Dollars

2008-09-10T10:54:00.000-07:00

Oil Change brings us this interesting way to view your local politicians and how much they have accepted from the oil industry.

Ladies and gentlemen, Oily Dollars!

"The Man (Or The Money) Behind Damien Hirst"?!?

2008-09-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

The Wall Street Journal's Kelly Crow writes this article titled, "The Man Behind Damien Hirst".

Martin Beddall's image appears.

My image should have.

Artists Running Rampant at LACMA

2008-08-27T09:52:00.000-07:00

Today's New York Times previewed the opening of the newly reinstalled Latin American collection. Installation design-disaster by Jorge Pardo.

This has been done before, on several occasions. Obviously in every one's mind is the recent Baldessari installation, Treachery of Images.

The most successful being Michael Asher's Student Reinstallation Project of a Permanent Collection Gallery from 2003.

8/8/08 Incident at SFMoMA

2008-08-26T10:44:00.000-07:00

I smell something fishy! Smells like institutional smoke screen!

Apparently, there was an "incident" at SF MoMA on August 8th. The facts are spotty and in the end it seems to have become an instance of "he said/she said." First, read what Thomas Hawk, the artist and museum visitor in question, has to say about the situation. And now you can read SF MoMA's response regarding the incident here.

Well the response, if you can call it that, has inspired many comments on SF MoMA's blog Open Space which you can read here.

And SF MoMA's blog, Open Space, comes back with this post to prove that they are hip, can be the butt of a joke and can look at themselves with a sense of humor. (That's sarcasm.) Trying to recoup the situation, they have dug through their archives to prove to the readers that they have been hip all along, but it seems like an attempt to recoup the situation and serve as smoke screen. "Hey! Look at that over there!"

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!"

eBay Art?

2008-08-25T12:33:00.000-07:00

As reported here by the Independent, The Hayward Gallery in London will be showing an exhibition of items purchased by the gallery on eBay. View Basket: Art Bought Online consists of "A range of images and objects (that) have been selected by Hayward Curatorial Associate Tom Morton and purchased from the auction site eBay.co.uk over a two-week period in August 2008."

The exhibition is described as follows:

A range of images and objects have been selected by Hayward Curatorial Associate Tom Morton and purchased from the auction site eBay.co.uk over a two-week period in August 2008. The chosen pieces reflect Britain's 'hidden' art - works that have occupied people's homes rather than the public space of a gallery, offered for sale through the democratic marketplace of the internet. View Basket comprises everything from Victorian paintings to original comic art, from customised action figures to ephemera by leading art world figures. An ever-expanding selection of works fill the gallery as new items arrive during the run of the exhibition, reflecting the project's open-ended nature. It also includes a display of the improvised and sometimes highly idiosyncratic packaging in which these items have been sent to The Hayward. When the exhibition ends the works will become part of The Hayward's archive.

Conceptual proposal or curatorial nightmare?

Bomb after Bomb, A Violent Cartography

2008-08-01T12:49:00.000-07:00

Elin O'Hara Slavick has compiled the places the United States has bombed. Her website offers interesting information and it is also available in a book form that includes a forward by Howard Zinn and 48 color plates.

Yoko Ono Attacks Art Again

2008-08-01T11:25:00.000-07:00

Yoko Ono will be installing a "wish tree" at One Colorado. In her own words:

“Make a wish.
Write it down on a piece of paper.
Fold it and tie it around a branch of a Wish Tree.
Ask your friends to do the same.
Keep wishing
Until the branches are covered with wishes.”

It is just a little too optimistic for me, a little too "hippy-dippy" feel good. I realize that this may work for some people; but, at what point does it intersect with the art world, if at all? Maybe having been "commissioned" by the Armory forces that intersection.

"Dear Wish Tree,
I wish the Beatles never broke up."

"After a two year visit to the United States, Michelangelo's 'David' is returning to Italy..."

2008-08-01T10:46:00.000-07:00

"After a two year visit to the United States, Michelangelo's David is returning to Italy..." This is the text the email contained which I received this morning. No credits, no links, no story... Just a simple line and two images.

Artists at War

2008-07-31T14:49:00.000-07:00

Artists at War.

"Artists At War asks artists to respond to the larger world that our field belongs to. To use their skills and talents of their professional practices and respond to the war, the empire, the political situation that surrounds us. To become an activist."

Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914-1990)

2008-07-24T11:00:00.000-07:00

Artist Guglielmo Achille Cavellini (1914-1990) has recently been brought to my attention. Take a look at The Cavellini Archive Foundation's website.

"Self-historicization" is a term was coined by Cavellini himself at the dawning of the Seventies. It is a sort of maieutic term that concludes one cycle in GAC's life and opens another [...] a watershed between a potential vocation and the actual attempt at the affirmation of himself in the system of art.

Make sure to take a look at the mail and sticker projects that Cavellini was working on.

Something To Think About

2008-07-14T14:40:00.000-07:00

"No one, in fact, can be satisfied by an answer which appeals to the scarcity of available resources, when we all know how much is spent on wars, on the construction of missiles and anti-ballistic missiles, on moon projects, on research for the defoliation of forest inhabited by partisans and for the paralysation of the demonstrators emerging from the ghettos, on hidden persuasion, on the invention of artificial needs, etc."
– Giancarlo De Carlo, Legitimizing Architecture (1968).

Chalk One Up For Whom?

2008-07-14T10:32:00.000-07:00

Mia Fineman, writer for the New York Times, reports on an interesting topic as advertisers counter-attack on the art world. The Image Is Familiar; the Pitch Isn’t appeared in the July 13, 2008, issue of the New York Times.

One quote that stands out:

"In an age when sampling and appropriation have become widespread practices in contemporary art and in the culture at large, some find it paradoxical that artists are now guarding their own creations more vigilantly."

This quote resonates upon an issue, an issue in which the cycle between art and advertising continues to evolve. Where are the intentions; is there an idea or is there a bottom line?

Donn Zaretsky, a lawyer in New York who specializes in art law, is quoted as saying:

“Copyright law doesn’t protect ideas, it only protects expression. The question is, where do you draw the line? Is the agency being inspired by the idea? Or did they copy the artist’s expression?”

Definitely a tricky situation, one that has been taken to the courtrooms as the article explains. It is not as cut and dry as many would have you believe, especially when it is unclear as to which side of the argument has non-commercial intentions.

Vinyl Preservation Society of Boise, ID

2008-07-11T09:19:00.000-07:00

The Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho details their mission as follows:

The purpose of the Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho (VPS Idaho) is to preserve our vinyl music heritage by fostering active, all inclusive community building amongst the passionately interested and curious to promote enjoyment and education relating to vinyl records, record collecting, record playing and all associated matters of analog musicology regardless of listening tastes.

This is a great idea, but one for those who have not been listening, collecting and sharing their vinyl their whole lives. In the end, it serves to promote vinyl, so I am not complaining.

With The Pending Election

2008-07-09T11:31:00.000-07:00

With the pending election, I have found a website that will prove invaluable to each and every voter, no matter of party affiliation or idea leanings!

Project Vote Smart is a website dedicated to bringing the candidates and the facts to the voters.

"This project is an historic undertaking. Citizens come together, not in selfish interest or to support one candidate over another, but to defend democracy. It is an extraordinary gathering of people committed to one purpose: to strengthen the most essential component of democracy -- access to information -- even as it suffers grave attacks from candidates and political parties, many who are now willing to manipulate information and deceive voters."

Now, we the people can see just where the candidates stand on different issues without the rhetoric, media and campaign strategists getting in the way.

A Question of Authenticity

2008-06-26T11:19:00.000-07:00

From today's New York Times, Randy Kennedy and Carol Vogel report on a story of Warhol authenticity.

This may be Warhol extracting his posthumous Duchampian revenge, and all the while galleries and collectors pay more and more.

A Very Pertinent Question.

2008-06-26T10:59:00.000-07:00

As gas prices proceed to climb, why is a "sport" such as NASCAR, or any other motor vehicular "sport" for that matter, allowed to continue? This thought occurred to me as I read of record gas prices and record profits for gas companies. What if they all took a month off? Think of the fuel that would be saved. We are all trying to do our part to conserve, they should not be exempt!

Sit down and think about it for a while; NASCAR is a supposed sport built around wasting gas.

The least NASCAR drivers could do is carpool! Have you seen those in-dash cameras? There is only one guy sitting in there!

Selected Cartoons 2000-2008by Matt MacFarland

2008-06-17T11:29:00.000-07:00

A good friend of mine, Mr. Matt MacFarland, has just released a compendium of his cartoons. "Selected Cartoons 2000-2008" is 94 pages full of "imaginative and autobiographical cartoons from 2000-2008."

MacFarland, through the use of "autobiographical" cartoons, takes us on a journey through our own thoughts and insecurities. A cast consisting of self-deprecating characters, failed comedians and guys with back-dicks walks us down a path which is not all too unfamiliar.

John Knight's COLD CUTS

2008-06-11T13:38:00.000-07:00

Calvin Phelps brought this to my attention.

Los Angeles artist John Knight currently has an exhibition in Spain, entitled COLD CUTS. The show is located at Espai d' art contemporani de Castelló.

COLD CUTS
JOHN KNIGHT

A project for the Espai d' art contemporani de Castelló curated by Joel Benzakin y Michèle Lachowsky

Since the late 1960’s, the project of the artist John Knight has managed to negate easy categorization, by assuming an immediate and critical distance from the overly generalized label of Conceptual Art. Instead, Knight assumed a more singular position, by not hesitating to re-employee object/subjects within the vernacular, beyond the simple reinterpretation of the ready made, or simulacrum, as in the case of so many other contemporary artists working at time.

In particular, the reconfiguration of the vernaculars of Electric blankets, window frames, tourist posters, bicycle bells, popular journals, bank cards, etc., vis-à-vis the discursive models of architecture, “design” or, advertising strategies in general, in an attempt to locate what Knight refers to as the place of “over-design.”

A place – or, as they might be considered, moments – of production, that are codified with a certain condition of ‘refinement,’ within and beyond the domain of art, that appears to be tailor made for desirous consumption, while simultaneously operating with semantic agency, in order to effect a more complex reality - a reality, which locates itself within the social, economic and political spheres of culture production, without being altogether bound to the conditions of a concrete place of inscription, rather by the supple means of mobility that resists problems inherent in the stagnant models of conventional production.

The project of JK for the EACC entitled “Cold Cuts,” refers directly to restaurant menus, like an appetizer before the main course, which in this case is a book. A travel book, that takes us on a journey to many places around the world, with an American cultural point of view, or as one might say a certain art de vivre, as a contribution to the visited countries, through texts, tales, images and recipes. Because it is, above all, through its cuisine that we approach the identity of a foreign country.

Nevertheless, beyond the peaceful appearances of these touristic peregrinations, will appear interferences with a more problematic travel, the one of an imperialist relationship to those cultures, as a certain idea of a world order has to be maintained.

From the space of a book to the site of the museum, and back again, the public is invited to traverse this universe, through a visual dispositif by way of signs, images and texts in the manner of a trade fair.

This exhibition is an invitation to the exoticism of countries near and far, and to the flavours - sometimes overly spiced – even in the best recipes.

Death of the Critic

2008-05-23T12:54:00.000-07:00

This exchange between Louis Bayard and Laura Miller, two staff writers at Salon, although in regard to literary critics, is interesting due to its parallels to the art world.

This is very much in relation to the recent essays to appear in X-Tra; first, Christopher Bedford's "Art Without Criticism" and then Lynn Zelevansky and Damon Willick's responses.

I am left to reflect on my own decision to venture into the world of blogging. Rather than proclaiming myself a "critic," I like to think I am at least setting the plates upon which people consume and digest the fodder. This does not preclude me from having my own opinions.

Art House / Open Gallery

2008-05-22T17:09:00.000-07:00

This was forwarded to me today. Apparently, plasmosis has been painting murals in his home for two and a half years. They will soon all be whitewashed as the home is up for sale.

Robert Rauschenberg, Dies At 82

2008-05-13T08:55:00.000-07:00

The New York Times reports, "Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82."

Excited About Art

2008-05-09T11:26:00.001-07:00

So excited that they are jumping. At least they are excited about something.

Jumping In Art Museums!

More Polaroids!

2008-05-05T09:22:00.000-07:00

Back in March, the stories started to come out about Polaroid and its departure. My first post on the topic is here.

Christopher Bonanos, writes more here on the soon-to-be-extinct Polaroid in May 4th's New York Magazine.

I love the quote from John Waters...

“Now what the hell am I supposed to do?” asks John Waters, "And has anybody thought about the poor home-porno enthusiasts? Are they supposed to now risk arrest by taking some memory disk to the drugstore to get printed? The world is a terrible place without Polaroid.”

For Those of You Who Know a Little HTML

2008-05-02T09:59:00.001-07:00

For those of you who don't know HTML, the backslash ends the command or statement. Now do you get it?

An Uplifting Read To Start The Weekend...

2008-05-02T09:39:00.000-07:00

James Abruzzo from Arts Management Network brings us this uplifting article in regard to the future of cultural institutions. This is a must read, but you better sit down for it.

Stencilling That Aspires

2008-04-29T09:55:00.000-07:00

Torontoist reports of a stencil art that aspires beyond just being territorial pissing. Thoreau reference abounds on the Humber Bay Arch Bridge.

A Poignant Video In A Time Of Art News Sensationalism

2008-04-23T08:55:00.000-07:00

In a time when the Yale art student Aliza Shvarts is proving her point, and a German artist, Gregor Schneider, is searching for someone to die for his art, a group of bike riders take to the freeways of Los Angeles to prove a very poignant point.

This is not to take away from the issues of abortion rights or our impending mortality; but I feel in the simple act of riding the bike, they are speaking volumes.

Your Art Work (or Cat) In World Renowned Museums

2008-04-16T09:34:00.000-07:00

My newest favorite website, The Art of the Prank, relays a website that allows you to place your own images in galleries around the world!

Have you ever dreamt of your own exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art? A private gallery in Kunstmuseum Stuttgart? Have your art displayed in museum halls all around the world -- eternal fame is just around the corner!

Laser Tag?

2008-04-15T16:57:00.000-07:00

S. James Snyder, writer for Time, brings us this interesting article on the next stage of graffiti. Is it graffiti? I doubt it. Is it art? More likely, but it is interesting how they position themselves.

"The basic idea for laser tag was to create free-speech machines — to find ways of helping people say things at a scale and in a place where you normally have people controlling speech," Powderly says.

Follow The Leader at The Getty

2008-04-09T12:43:00.000-07:00

ImprovEverywhere brings us another of their wonderfully choreographed social interactions.

As reported by the LAist, GuerilLA, LA's off-shoot of ImprovEverywhere, organized a visit to the Getty Museum in Brentwood. Here is the result.

Greenwashing!

2008-04-08T14:51:00.000-07:00

Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic of The Los Angeles Times, gives us this thought on the brand spanking new Whole Foods in Pasadena.

I like the term that he uses, "greenwashing." (At least this is the first time I have heard it, which may mean I was previously being greenwashed myself.)

Although their "green mission" claims to be green by "including Neapolitan bamboo ("a highly renewable resource") and Fireclay tile ("made from 50% post-consumer and post-industrial waste"), among others." Christopher Hawthorne writes:

But the first rule of sustainable architecture is to keep new buildings as small and efficient as possible. With its soaring 30-foot ceilings and endless aisles, 280 subterranean parking spots and all those TVs flickering day and night, this place is neither. It's more like the grocery store version of a hybrid SUV made by Lexus or a 12,000-square-foot "green" house with a swimming pool and six-car garage accompanying its solar panels and sustainably harvested decking.

I have been to this Whole Foods a couple of times, and I have seen the excessive lengths to which this store goes to offer variety and options, not necessarily solutions. Christopher Hawthorne may be on to something here.

Skullphone Finally Speaks

2008-04-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

So, after watching this and this unfold for the last week or so, Skullphone finally speaks about his "hacked" billboards and Paper Mag has the quotes. Read it here.

"The art of hacking I know nothing about. What is hacking? What is art?"

"People thought Bob Dylan sold out when he went electric. I guess people weren't ready for it."

"To me it's American art. The (now digital) billboard on the side of the highway."

"'Skullphone digital billboards.' It was a logical fit."

"Once again, it’s a matter of semantics. What does it mean to hack the system. Is getting people to think for themselves hacking?"

"Skullphone has a right to be there."

These are not very reassuring words that indicate this as much of a subversive act as we had all hoped. Nice try Skullphone, now sit back and watch any credibility you previously had circle the drain.

Splasher Obsession!!!

2008-03-27T15:39:00.000-07:00

OK, since reading about "The Splasher" in my earlier post about street art, I have been thinking and reading about this all day!

Here is a page by page synopsis of the manifesto by Gothamist, and possible "spoilers" as to the identity of the Splasher.

Here is the actual fourteen page manifesto!

Plastic Bag Animals

2008-03-27T12:41:00.000-07:00

Photo from Trish via Wooster.

The Wooster Collective had a great post this morning! Apparently, there is someone who, using discarded plastic bags, makes animals come to life over street grates.

The story we heard at dinner tonight is that there's an artist who's been making these animals out of discarded plastic bags. He (or she) ties the bags to the ventilation grates above the subway lines so that when the subway rushes through underneath, the animal jumps up and springs to life.
- Wooster Collective, Street Art At Its Best #3: Plastic Bag Animals, 3/26/08

(4/2/08 Update: These Bag animals were created by Joshua Allen Harris.)

WOAH! Skullphone...

2008-03-27T12:17:00.000-07:00

This just in this morning...

WIRED Magazine is reporting that the earlier reports of the Clear Channel billboards being hacked by Skullphone are false.

Even I fell for it. I wanted it to be true. But who is telling the truth and who isn't? hmmm.... Do we actually trust Clear Channel, or is this a "cover your ass" technique? Did Skullphone actually hack, or is he "buying" street cred?

Grafitti versus Street Art

2008-03-27T10:46:00.000-07:00

Reported in this month's Gotham Gazette, Lenore Costello writes a mildly interesting article in regard to art vs. graffiti vs. street art.

BUT, do be sure to read down to the bottom where the interesting part comes in!

"The Splasher," an unidentified person or group of people, splashed paint on a number of works by famous street artists from late 2006 to 2007. Next to the obliterated art they posted a wheat-pasted manifesto, whose awkward wording proclaimed street art to be a "fetishized action of banality" and that "representation is the most elemental form of alienation. Art by representation is no exception."

Skullphone in LA

2008-03-25T09:21:00.000-07:00

As reported by Supertouch, Skullphone has raised the bar for all of the fly posters, stickerers and graffiti artists.

Last week, Skullphone high jacked 10 digital billboards around LA.

La Tour Eiffel

2008-03-25T08:47:00.000-07:00

In a move that will alter the Parisian skyline, the the Société d'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel has announced that it has awarded the Eiffel Tower redesign competition to a Paris architectural firm.

Meant to open up access at the top level, where waits can be up to an hour, will double the size of the upper viewing deck. I'm glad I made it last winter before the remodel.

Save Polaroid!

2008-03-17T09:53:00.000-07:00

pa-TCHEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!

We've all heard that noise at some point or another. The sound of a polaroid camera going off. From the old flash cubes to the newer i-zone pocket camera with sticker pictures, Polaroid has been "capturing our memories" in an instant format since before the 1960's. After the dawn of the digital camera and affordability of such format, Polaroid declared bankruptcy seven years ago. Although polaroid film is still available in the retail market, it's days are numbered and people are fearing the worst, "Polaroid will go the way of the Do-Do."

The Boston Globe's Mark Feeney has written an interesting article in today's paper regarding Polaroid, which includes a brief history and links to online protests and artists grasping to save a dying format.

I find it ironic that someone is creating a digital online collection of the very format that is being put out of business by the digital age.

More on Büchel vs. Mass MOCA

2008-03-13T11:20:00.000-07:00

In this month's issue of ARTFORUM, Virginia Rutledge speaks of the "on-going" battle between artist Christoph Büchel and Mass MOCA and the legal implications that have come about because of their ordeal.

I think that if anyone could speak on this, it would be someone who works at Creative Commons.

Change!

2008-03-13T10:53:00.000-07:00

My fascination with coins, bills and currency continues...

Tom Scicluna uses a quarter to hold up a temporary wall. Head, 2007, installed at Spinello Gallery, Miami, FL., seems inconspicuous but carries much weight in its comment on the gallery system.

Flash Drives Meet Designer Desk Toys

2008-03-12T13:44:00.000-07:00

Ok, by now everyone has seen the little limited collectible kubricks and so forth and at some point everyone has used the little thumb/flash drives; well, now imagine the two combined!

Mimobot has brought the two together and is selling them for a pretty penny.

I Never Really Liked Moby's Music...

2008-02-22T12:02:00.000-08:00

I have to say that I never really liked Moby's music. (Well, let me be more specific. I did like it in the commercials I heard it on, but that is where it remained.) That being said, I believe that this idea of a free "film music" is an invaluable service to those in need. I may even have to take advantage of this.

More on Büchel vs. Mass MOCA

2008-02-19T10:40:00.000-08:00

OK. This back and forth between Christoph Büchel and Mass MOCA has been ongoing for some time now, even before I started this little blog.

The latest happening is this letter from Michele Maccarone, of Maccarone Gallery, who represents Büchel, asking those involved in LA25 to not get involved with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, the law firm that represented Mass MoCA.

What's Wrong and What's Right

2008-02-14T10:24:00.000-08:00

For your V-Day reading, Jen Graves writes this article as it appears in the Seattle Stranger.

As a practicing artist, this stands out:

The point is that there is no such thing as a "clean" piece of writing or art. An artist's only imperative is to be informed about what came before, Lethem argued, in order to steal better. Outright, daylight theft is best, Fredericksen agreed recently. Accidental copying—the kind Lead Pencil were guilty of with the Neudecker piece—is worst, precisely because it is so uncanny, Fredericksen said: "It's a doppelgänger. That's a classic horror story." - Jen Graves, Gray Area, The Seattle Stranger

Do not underestimate the viewer's knowledge. Visual similarities may not mean conceptual similarities, but half-knowledge is the enemy of the informed.

Christopher Knight on Michael Asher at SMMoA

2008-02-13T12:22:00.000-08:00

Christopher Knight's review of Michael Asher at SMMoA.

Christopher Knight Review of BCAM

2008-02-12T12:23:00.000-08:00

You better bookmark this post, because it is not often I am impressed with what Christopher Knight has to say. His LA Times review of BCAM has become something I have read a couple of times over and refered colleagues to it even more.

He points out the conflated curatorial choices made in arriving at the opening installation of BCAM; including the statistical make up of the artworks included.

Duchamp at the Tate Modern

2008-02-12T09:22:00.000-08:00

The Gaurdian's Jonathan Jones writes a brief "bio" of Duchamp in conjunction with the show that opens at the Tate Modern.

More On The Spiral Jetty

2008-02-05T16:19:00.000-08:00

The Dia Art Foundation updated their website today with information regarding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and the impending oil drilling. They also include a sample letter that all you have to do is print and send.

Don't just sit there! Die Standing!