Where I’m blabbing about Andy Warhol’s Empire. (Image courtesy of MoMA. © 2011 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.)
Monthly Archive for February, 2011
From the series Higher Education, by Jörg Colberg. (Image courtesy of Colberg.)
- Manifesto of the 343. Stand with Planned Parenthood. (Thank you for reminding me of this, Mira Schor.)
- Toxic avenger fish.
- Angie Dickinson gives good beat.
- The New York Academy of Art runs afoul of Facebook’s nudity police. You can, however, join a Never Nudes fan page.
- Looks like the University of Iowa won’t be selling that Pollock after all. Related: Modern Art Notes has an interesting interview with Pepe Karmel, the curator behind MoMA’s ’98 retrospective in one and two parts.
- Caravaggio’s police file. “19 October 1604: Arrested for throwing stones at policemen near Via dei Greci and Via del Babuino.” (@thebookslut.)
- Walter de Maria sculpture installed in former Hitler bunkhouse.
- An art video game that kills.
- As the Oscars approach, the chatter is whether Exit Through the Gift Shop is for real.
- The long and the short of it: Good piece by Sarah Fishko on works that are very long and very short. Andy Warhol’s Empire gets a shout out. (@lizarnold.)
- On the state of arts criticism. I love any article that begins with a reference to Julio Ramón Ribeyro. (In Spanish.)
- “My experience has been that the installation of art video is dominated by a need to make audiences uncomfortable; consciously or not, they are designed to be difficult to enter, uncomfortable to occupy, and awkward to leave.” Video art curators, please READ.
- Marshall Astor went to the De Young and found some seriously bad-ass art.
- Digging this round-up of make-up themed films currently featured on Art Fag City.
- Regency Arts Press is doing a fundraising raffle of Ed Ruscha’s Every Drawing on the Sunset Strip. Tickets are $250, but if you win it’s a deal. (If I had $4000 laying around, I would totally buy one of these straight out.)
- Thing That Could Also Be Yours: A vintage Danceteria flyer featuring the art of fetish artist Eric Stanton.
- Duuuuuuuuude.
- Minnesota graff artist gives Titian’s Venus an outfit.
- Today’s Graff: sdkaröe in Germany.
- Steve Powers (aka ESPO) speaks at TEDxPhilly. (Ekosystem.)
- From the Department of Awesome: James Franco, with overweight cats shooting eye lasers.
Kin XXXII (Run Like the Wind), 2008 by Whitfield Lovell. Part of the exhibit More Than You Know at the Smith College Museum of Art, in Northampton, Mass., through May 1. (Image courtesy of the Smith College Museum of Art.)
- L.A.: Sandow Birk, Steve Lamber, Raymond Pettibon, William Powhida, Eduardo Sarabia and others in These Walls Could Talk, at the Charlie James Gallery, in Chinatown, through April 2001.
- L.A.: Jedediah Caesar, Mango Obstruction, Susanne Vielmetter in Culver City, through March 12.
- L.A.: Sol Lewitt, Structures, Works on Paper, Wall Drawings: 1971-2005, at L.A. Louver, in Venice, through Saturday.
- L.A.: Do/No/Go Nuts at Family, on Fairfax, opens Thursday.
- Cincinnati: Keith Haring, 1978-82 at the Contemporary Arts Center, opens Saturday. To herald the opening of the show, French street artist JR will give a talk at the museum on Friday evening at 7pm. (Museum membership is required to attend the talk.)
- Chicago: Susan Phillipsz: We Shall Be All, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, opens Saturday.
- Chicago: Kings, Queens and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France, at the Art Institute of Chicago, opens Sunday.
- Fort Worth: The Hudson River School: Nature and the American Vision, opens Saturday.
- NYC: The Unusual Suspects, Abe Lincoln Jr., Celso, Chris RWK, infinity, Keely, Matt Siren, Royce Bannon and many more, at the Frost Art and Performance Space, this Saturday at 6pm.
- NYC: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jon Lutz, at Wildlife, in Brooklyn, opens Friday at 7pm.
- NYC: Angel Otero, Memento, at Lehmann Maupin, through April 17.
- London: Cory Arcangel, Beat the Champ, at the Barbican Gallery, through May 22.
Have you ever had a burning desire to admire the inkjet paintings of Jeff Koons doing it with his porn star ex-wife La Cicciolina? Well, consider this your lucky day. ‘Cuz I’m giving away one copy of the catalogue from the recent exhibit of Koons’ porny pictures from his exhibit at Luxembourg & Dayan.
Leave a comment and this little baby could be yours. All yours. Seriously.
xox,
C.
Where, for the day, I’m watching the Empire State building and Tweeting (’til roughly 6pm E.T.). (Photo by C-M.)
Smells on a freight car. (Image courtesy of Smells.)
- Sculpture you can shred on. (Eyeteeth.)
- Atonement via smartphone app.
- The five worst gallery websites.
- The world needs more video interviews with Tracey Emin.
- Jasper Johns to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- NEH and NEA likely to get hit with brutal budget cuts. In NYC, the Department of Cultural Affairs is about to get hit with some serious slashing, too.
- Opponents of Barnes Foundation move are attempting to get the judge reopen the case. (@KnightLAT.)
- Iowa Republicans really really really want to sell Jackson Pollock painting at the University of Iowa. I mean, like, really.
- Crowd-sourced shows: Kyle Chayka is over them. So am I.
- Groday: Wafaa Bilal’s body rejects camera implanted in his head.
- ‘Cuz They’re Old? Why Van Gogh’s sunflowers are turning brown. (Arts Journal.)
- New York Times photographer criticized for taking award-winning pix with smartphone app. He responds.
- The Day in Art Merch: The Damien Hirst bling skull hoodie. For when Ed Hardy is not douche enough.
- Ruins Porn: Gary, Indiana edition.
- Aerial shots of Germany. (Eyeteeth.)
- Today’s Graff is all about being green: Mosone in Italy.
- For sale: Subway station.
- Eero Saarinen’s TWA terminal at JFK to serve as the entrance to a boutique hotel.
- I want it big and brutal and with a lot of windows: Cosmic Communist Constructions.
- What Eli Broad can learn about urban planning from The Grove.
- From the Department of Holy Crap: The five strangest shows on Latin American television. The Peruvians take the prize for scary surrealism, while the Argentineans win for nasty sexual harassment. (@giovannigf.)
Find my weekly Datebook over at Gallerina. And don’t forget about the Empire film Tweet-a-thon all day tomorrow at MoMA (and online). Starts at 10:30 am.
Last night, I attended a highly interesting panel at Hyperallergic HQ in Brooklyn called “Nostalgia for the Net” — in which an interesting crew of folks (including Joanne McNeil, of the always awesome Tomorrow Museum) reminisced about the early days of the internet, when connecting to one another digitally involved acronyms such as Telnet and BBS. At one point, the discussion drifted to Steve Lambert’s recent discovery of the movie Space Jam‘s website — in its pristine 1996 state. And it reminded me that, recently, while doing research for an upcoming story in ARTnews, I came across the Whitney Museum’s website for a 2001 digital art exhibit called Bitstreams. It has retained its early millennium layout — complete with reference to Netscape. Old school!
Find the site here. Or by clicking the image above.
