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Monthly Archive for September, 2010
A sound sculpture for the Coney Island Museum by Ranjit Bhatnagar and Nick Yulman. (Courtesy of ranjit.)
Hey Y’all:
Paddy Johnson over at Art Fag City is in the middle of a pretty dang rad project called the Sound of Art. She has gathered all kinds of audio taken from a variety of New York City art spaces, which she will cut-up, remix and otherwise smash the hell up. As part of this, she’s raising some bucks to create a vinyl LP — something I can totally get behind since I provided the sound of my heartbeat. The record, ultimately, will pit the art sounds of Brooklyn against Manhattan.
Anyhow, Paddy is in the midst of a Kickstarter funding drive for this project, for which she needs to raise a total of $10,000 so that she can get the record pressed. As of this writing, she’s already more than halfway there. Pitch in a mere $20 and you could be the proud owner of an LP (old school!) and an MP3 (impress your friends!) of the work. Pledge more and you could be the proud owner of a Phillip Neimeyer lithograph or a screen print by Michael Smith or a painting by Aron Namenwirth. If you’re a moneybags and you kick in the remaining balance needed, Paddy will call the Pope and beg for beatification. Okay, not really, but close.
I’d really like to see this take off — not to mention be able to have a piece of vinyl that contains my beating heart in some sort of artsy remixed form — so PLEASE contribute. I’ve kicked in myself.
You can donate right here. Help a blogga out!!!
xox,
C.
Sea Nymph, by Josh Beckman, at Machine Project in Los Angeles, through Oct. 8. Read the L.A. Times review here. (Image courtesy of Machine Project.)
- L.A.: Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, at LACMA, opens Saturday.
- L.A.: Carlee Fernandez, World According to Xavier, at ACME, through Oct. 9.
- San Jose: MOMO, Better Than 2009, at Anno Domini, opens Friday at 8pm.
- S.F.: Binary Cities Biennale 2010, a one-day new media and art festival, at The Lab, this Saturday.
- Fort Worth: American Modern: Abott, Evans, Bourke-White, at the Amon Carter Museum, opens Saturday.
- Des Moines: Jeanne Mammen, City of Women, at the Des Moines Art Center, through Dec. 12.
- Ann Arbor: The Politics of Fear, a group show, at Gallery Project, through Oct. 17.
- NYC: James Case-Leal, Radical Spirit, at the Lutheran Church of the Messiah in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, opens today at 6pm with a reception and performance.
- NYC: Michael Chelbin, The Black Eye, at Andrea Meislin, opens today.
- NYC: Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-68, at the Morgan Library, through Jan. 2.
- Washington, D.C.: Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy at the National Gallery of Art, through Jan. 9. (Pack the bud for this one.)
- Basel, Switzerland: Vienna 1900: Klimt, Schiele and Their Times, at the Fondation Beyeler, through Jan. 16. (The Art Newspaper.)
Climate Change Expedition, 2009, by Isaac Cordal. Part of the series Cement Eclipses. (Image courtesy of Cordal.)
- Punk tea cups. Seriously. (Thank you, Alex.)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the bigoted legacy of The New Republic’s Martin Peretz.
- Is Arianna Huffington a parasite? (My two cents are in the comments below the story.)
- On writing that becomes what it is intended to critique, from the ‘80s to the present. (@giovannigf.)
- The difficulty of understanding hipsters.
- You’ve sold the work. Now try getting paid.
- The art world universe of Terence Koh.
- From the Department of Look-What-I-Found-in-Storage: The Prado uncovers a Breugel the Elder after giving it a cleaning. How comes this never happens to me?
- The New York Times highlights a few videos from the Guggenheim’s YouTube Play project. And all I can say is that they are…crazy bad. I haven’t seen all of them, so I probably shouldn’t be lobbing opinions, but still…
- On being a hyphenate (and kissing Sean Penn): John Perrault on James Franco.
- Relational dogsthetics, courtesy of Martin Creed. (FYI: The story is good; photo is better. Click through.)
- Diaphanous membranes.
- Why I love reading about art conservation: You learn about stuff like the Pondovac 4 Pond Vacuum.
- Thing That Are Freaky: A map of all the oil rigs on the Gulf Coast. (Cool Green Morning.)
- The Biggest Marker in the Universe. (The Rumpus.)
- Today’s Street Intervention, Toothpaste Edition: Goro in Poland.
- The difference between art and street art, explained. Now it all makes sense.
- Longer than 16 miles of string: 30 Miles of Yarn.
- How segregated is your city?
- An idealistic city that is also walled off from the rest of the world. Interesting story by Nicolai Ourossoff on a so-called “zero-carbon” Abu Dhabi development that is all suburban gated community – a style of urban development that he likens to “a cancer.” In relation to this, Alexandra Lang asks a smart question (not answered in the piece): How much carbon does it take to build a carbon-free city?
- The Nixon Family vacation album.
Look at what San Suzie found: The above is a screen grab of the spa menu at a Miami hotel where it is possible to do yoga with your dog. We are in awe.
I’m at WNYC today, y’all, where you can find all the latest New Yorky listings. (Photo by megapiksel.)
Waving goodbye, possibly forever. Olga, Havana, 1967, from the Exile series by Jose A. Figueroa. Part of the exhibit Mis 60/My 60s at Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles. (Images courtesy of Couturier.)
During the mid-1960s, when Jose Alberto Figueroa worked as the studio assistant to renowned Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, he regularly shot photographs of friends, family and his daily life in Havana. Figueroa never printed those negatives and never considered them aesthetic material, worthy of exhibition. As a photographer, he is generally regarded as a product of the ’70s, when he began working as a photojournalist for Cuba magazine — where he covered Cuban involvement in the Angolan Civil War and various aspects of domestic life. (Some of these images will be on view in a show that opens at New York’s International Center of Photography this week.)
The 1960s photographs were long forgotten by Figo (as he is known to friends and family), and only surfaced several years ago, when he and his wife, curator Cristina Vives, began searching through his archives for material that would become the book Jose A. Figueroa: A Cuban Self-Portrait. “We realized right away that there was important material here that had not been seen before,” Vives said of the images — which include photographs of friends going to parties and hanging out; of carnival and beach parties. Most striking are images of the artist’s mother preparing to leave the country.
First exhibited in Cuba in 2006 when Figo turned 60, and later in Finland, the collection Mis 60/My 60s, now on view at the Couturier Gallery in L.A., constitutes an intimate and unique portrait of Cuba in the 1960s. They are worth seeing not only for their beauty, but for the exhilarating counterpoint they provide to a place that is known almost exclusively through a near-mythical revolutionary lens.
Mis 60/My 60s is up at Couturier through Oct. 16.
Continue reading ‘Havana in the ’60s: The photographs of Jose A. Figueroa.’
Scorched Earth, 2006, by Mark Bradford. Part of the artist’s solo residency exhibit at the Wexner Center for the Arts, in Columbus, Oh. Modern Art Notes has a story on the show here. He’s also giving away three catalogues of Bradford’s work. Nice! (Image courtesy of the Wexner.)
- NYC: Another Green World, with Vija Celmins, Mathias Kessler, Gerhard Richter and others, at Carriage Trade, opens Wednesday at 6pm.
- NYC: Geoff McFetridge, You Can’t Put a Hat on a Hole in the Sky, at Half Gallery, opens this evening at 6pm.
- NYC: Alternative Histories, an examination of New York’s alternative art spaces, at Exit Art, opens Friday at 7pm.
- NYC: Jeremiah Maddock, Daniel Trocchio & Amanda Wong, SeeNoEvilSeeNoEvilSee, at Factory Fresh, opens Friday at 7pm.
- NYC: A reception and book signing for the group show The Four Eccentrics, at The Proposition, on the Lower East Side, this Saturday at 5pm.
- NYC: Real Non-Fiction, the Third Annual Artists from the Registry Exhibition, at BRIC, in downtown Brooklyn, through Oct. 23.
- Poughkeepsie: Sharon Butler at Kork, the 864 square-inch art space, inside the offices of Bailey Browne CPA & Assoc., through October. (Read more about Kork here.)
- Pittsburgh: The Art of Structure at the Carnegie Museum of Art, opens Saturday. Yes, I’m an engineer’s daughter. And if I lived in Pittsburgh, I sure as shit would be checking out this show.
- Chicago: James Marshall (Dalek) at Rotofugi, through Sept. 17. (Hustler of Culture.)
- L.A.: Taryn Simon, Contraband, at Gagosian in Beverly Hills, opens Wednesday at 6pm.
- L.A.: Mario Ybarra Jr., Nao Bustamante, the Pocho Research Society, and many others, in Chewbacca to Zapata: Revisiting the Myth of the Mexican Revolution, at Morono Kiang Gallery in downtown, opens Saturday at 6pm.
- L.A.: Now I Remember, with Neckface, Todd Jordan, Jerry Hsu and many others, through Oct. 2. (Hustler of Culture.)
- L.A.: Brit Paint, with Will Barras, Simon Birch, Anthony Micallef, and many others, at Carmichael Gallery, through Oct. 16.
- London: Jason Rhoades, 1:12 Perfect World, at Hauser & Wirth, opens Friday.
- France: Takashi Murakami at Versaille, through Dec. 12. Smoke up for this one.
- Baden: Pipilotti Rist, at the Langmatt Museum, through Nov. 14.
Untitled, 2010, by Jeff Williams, in Chilchota, Michoacán. (Image courtesy of Williams.)
- Blog posts about not posting, courtesy of Cory Arcangel.
- Help Paddy Johnson at AFC fund her record album. It’s got my heartbeat in it!
- The Economist opens up the can of whoop-ass on Dinesh D’Souza. Righteous. (Mark Coatney.)
- 21st century mental states. I think I may be guilty of de-selfing.
- The artifacts of Christian hipsterhood. (It Really Makes You Think.)
- John Cage’s 4’33” — as YouTube mash-up, by Dick Whyte. His reconstruction of Andy Warhol Eats a Hamburger can be found here. (16 Miles.)
- “[Paglia’s] prose style is bloody and lurid and sometimes effectively comical, like a Rob Zombie-directed horror movie; it’s hard to turn away.” In which Ann Powers dismembers Camille Paglia’s take on Lady Gaga and goes on to say some super smart stuff about women, sexuality and the music industry.
- The Tchotchke Stacks of Patrick Jackson. Whoa.
- Marie Lorenz charts some of the unusual spots she’s visited in her art boat over at the New York Times. If you haven’t seen it, check out the video piece Jenn Hsu and I did on our adventure with Lorenz over at WNYC. A truly memorable experience.
- Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto is now on Google Streetview. (Even better: San Suzie’s 2009 report.)
- A couple of relative unknowns will be repping the U.S. at the Venice Biennale.
- Ben Davis on the “celebreadymade.” He asks: “Is this a brilliant new way to pierce the pretensions of the art world—or just star-fucking raised to sublime dimensions?” I vote for the star-fucking.
- Sorta related: The New York Times has been on an all-candy-all-the-time diet with its one-two profiles of Dan Colen and Rob Pruitt. (The latter of which fails to make mention of the totally crazy-honest Jack Early piece at Daniel Reich.) Seriously, y’all are making my teeth hurt.
- In a related story: La Smith thinks Colen needs to grow the hell up. Love her.
- Work of Art tryouts will be at the Brooklyn Museum, this Saturday, September 25.
- Plus: Me Me Me talkin’ about girls and art in NYC on the radio. Be sure to watch that kitchen video in the post. It’s pretty spectacular.
- I have an affinity for suitcases.
- A sculpture for bats. (Cool Green Science.)
- The NYPD is now seeing fit to go after watercolorists. Way to support the arts, New York.
- L.A. MoCA to do a show on the history of street art. This could be fascinating if it’s thorough and includes more than just the same ten names you tend to see in these types of shows (Swoon, Barry McGee, Steve Powers, etc.) I’d be particularly interested in seeing artists highlighted who have turned their street art into a form of architectural intervention (I’m thinking El Tono, Skewville, Darius & Downey). And, for fuck’s sake, keep the Banksy to a minimum. ‘Cuz Blek Le Rat did it first.
- Today’s Street Art: Lignes Rouge gets red-and-white in Belgium. Speaking of which, Ekosystem has a totally awesome end-of-summer round-up of some of his best shots.
- Replicating a Sol Lewitt wall drawing in the comfort of your own home.
- Marijuana, a global price index. Helpful. (Gracias, John.)
As usual, y’all kind me over at Gallerina, where I seem to be spending a lot of time these days.
(Photo by ChrisGoldNY.)