jameswagner.com |
15 minutes ago
Move over China and Zimbabwe, make room for America. Okay, so I exaggerate a bit; let's just say instead that the gap is definitely narrowing between us and those foreign governments whose practices we abhor when it comes to what can be done to prop up an unrepresentative regime. Four weeks ago we were told that in Denver demonstrators who wished to address those attending the Democratic Convention (that is the unpaid, unprofessional, unworthy lobbyists, the unwashed multitudes) were/are not permitted [...]
Supertouch |
16 minutes ago
“Barry O’Bomber,” got game in a fresh pair of Blazers before MJ took over #23… As BARACK “BARRY” OBAMA prepares to accept his party’s nomination as the official presidential candidate at the thrill ride of political theaterthat is the DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION tonite, we felt compelled to honor the occasion by presenting this photo of the candidate in his glory days. After all, had “Barry O’Bomber”—as he was known in 1979 as a so-called “rat baller” on the Punahou High [...]
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we make money not art |
Aug 27, 2008 11:46PM
As i blogged the other day, the Bolzano segment of Manifesta 7 exhibition is located in a disused aluminium factory by the Dolomites mountains. The exhibition is called The Rest of Now and words fail me to express how consistent, intelligent and thought-provoking it is. The curators, Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta from Raqs Media Collective, took as a point of departure for their reflection the abandoned industrial site and the questions its 'after-life' raises: What gets left behind [...]
Art Fag City |
Aug 27, 2008 11:33PM
ArtCal - East Village / Lower East Side - V & A - Kevin Bewersdorf, Monuments to the INFO spirit Highly recommended
Art Fag City |
Aug 27, 2008 11:33PM
ArtCal - Soho - Artists Space - Amanda Coogan, Yellow Recommended: "A durational performance curated by Marina Abramovic Panel Discussion: Differences in Attitudes about Performance from the 1970s to Today with Marina Abramovic, Amanda Coogan, and Chrissie Iles"
the making of |
Aug 27, 2008 11:02PM
I've had some intense conversations with people who wanted to know what the US presidential candidates thought about the arts, who is advising them, and what their policy statements were on the matter. Frankly, I couldn't have cared less at the time, and now that I know the answer, I can hardly think of a less significant or important issue on which to base a decision. What the two presidential candidates do and say in other realms--in fact, their entire governing [...]
we make money not art |
Aug 27, 2008 10:46PM
Cultura y Ocio - Venecia reniega de Calatrava - ADN.es Las continuas críticas por el puente del arquitecto valenciano han provocado que el ayuntamiento veneciano cancele la inauguración de la obra. Unsurprisingly Idiot Sgarbi finds the bridge 'ugly' Tim Dowling on the stars who are backing John McCain | World news | The Guardian But have any celebrities jumped on John McCain's bandwagon? Admittedly, the list isn't long, but it's no less glittering for that. Actually, it is less glittering. [...]
Art Fag City |
Aug 27, 2008 09:32PM
Obama Secures Historic Nomination - NYTimes.com "The moment concluded one the quickest rises in American political history. In just four years…" the full paragraph is used twice in the same article, which is the second time I've noticed this happen on a developing front page story.
jen bekman news |
Aug 27, 2008 07:31PM
Jen Bekman Gallery art star Amy Ross is in a group show curated by Rita de Alencar Pinto. All Cut Up opens next week at Roebling Hall in Manhattan. From the press release: ALL CUT UP signals an inventive curatorial approach, whereby the artists have been chosen not by a core theme or unified ideal, but in a process that mirrors collage itself. It is a mental collage of color, texture, scale, and wildly differing themes, which creates a raw [...]
NEWSgrist |
Aug 27, 2008 07:02PM
I forgot (did we all?) what it means for Bill Clinton to give a speech: it is thorough, it is galvanizing, it hits every point articulately and even poignantly (points: torture, Katrina, cronyism, the most unequal America since the '20s...), and importantly, you forget that some of the points are reversals; but most of all: it doesn't really sound like speechifying, it seems like he's having a conversation with us. What a consumate actor. For [...]
Art Fag City |
Aug 27, 2008 05:32PM
ArtCal - Midtown - Last Rites Gallery - Dark Pop The first art alien of the Fall season! A multieyed, bare breasted, hairless wood creature. Oooh subversive!
Art Fag City |
Aug 27, 2008 05:32PM
ArtCal - Chelsea - Roebling Hall (Chelsea) - All Cut Up Pre-opening impression: The show concept of "turning subject matter and aesthetics on its head by working in collage" asks a lot from practice. Includes a few good artists, a few not so good artists.
artblog |
Aug 27, 2008 05:02PM
Now that we at artblog told you about the bargains at the new art supply store in town--Blick Art Supply (see post)--we will also share with you why some people are angry with the place.It seems the building that Blick has occupied has Thomas Eakins' old studio at the top, and in moving in, Blick removed a plaque explaining this--according to a post signed CA Conrad at PhillySound blog. The post is one of those wonderful bloggy expressions of outrage at [...]
Art Of The State |
Aug 27, 2008 02:47PM
Street art show at the Foundry, Shoreditch. Opening night Thursday 28th August 2008. Featuring work by PureEvil, Hutch, The Krah, Dibone, Snub, Copyright, Rugman, Pam Glew, Blam, Kai1, 45rpm, Duce, the 5683, James Johnson, Fors, Wen, SRI, Mr Gauky and more. Till the 7th of SeptemberFree entry, No guest list. Down stairs gallery at the Foundry: 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JLOld Street tube (exit3) t 020 7739 6900opening times:from 6:00-10:00 Tuesday to FridayCLOSED on Monday and Sundays. for more info [...]
Networked_Performance |
Aug 27, 2008 02:32PM
Special Issue of Dance Chronicle (Published by Routledge) - Choreographers at the Cutting Edge: Contemporary Practices in Concert Dance :: edited by Lynn Matluck Brooks and Joellen A. Meglin :: Call for Research Articles: Deadline: January 30, 2009. Choreographers today are pushing the edges of dance as a concert form: extending movement capacities of the body, intermixing movement genres, integrating the virtual with the actual body through technological applications, presenting dance in non-traditional sites, challenging audience-performer boundaries, and in other ways [...]
Networked_Performance |
Aug 27, 2008 02:17PM
The Order of Things :: September 11, 2008 - January 4, 2009 :: Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp [MuHKA], Leuvenstraat 32 2000, Antwerp, Belgium. The Order of Things is an exhibition on the uses of archival images, image archives and image banks (and various other manifestations of a classificatory, encyclopaedic impulse) in contemporary art. It takes as its point of departure a web-based project by Vancouver photo-artist Roy Arden titled The World as Will and Representation, an online image archive consisting [...]
artblog |
Aug 27, 2008 01:47PM
POST BY LEE ARNOLD"I'm not slacking off, my code's compiling" (t-shirt slogan worn by conference attendee)I attended the SIGGRAPH** computer-graphics conference this year (in Los Angeles, Aug 11-15) as one of the jurors of the art gallery.Olesksiy Pikalo/ Latte Art Printer (OnLatte, Inc., Cambridge, MA).Looking forward to sampling what was on offer, I started the morning with a cappuccino with computer-generated latte art. The images were created by Olesksiy Pikalo using carmalized sugar and his modified printer.Olesksiy Pikalo/ Latte Art Printer [...]
artblog |
Aug 27, 2008 01:47PM
Lee Arnold's an artist whose digital animation I've had a great time getting introduced to. Over the last two years the artist, who was teaching at Drexel University, was in group shows at Drexel University (twice), Vox Populi, Painted Bride and Fleisher-Ollman and each piece of Arnold's was a kind of take on the landscape, internalized and remade in a new, melancholy and poetic way. Kind of like Jeremy Blake's moody distortions only quieter.Alpinia, a work I first saw in 2006 [...]
Networked_Performance |
Aug 27, 2008 11:32AM
Online Videos by Veoh.com Data Cities Modelling Movies @ Metropolis’ Connecting Cities Congress :: October 22-25, 2008 :: Sydney, Australia :: Call for entries. Research leaders from all disciplines relevant to the data modelling revolution in planning, designing and managing cities are invited to present their latest achievements to senior government delegates from more than 100 cities attending the Metropolis Connecting Cities Congress in Sydney. d_city is working with the Metropolis to showcase well-researched concepts and discoveries which can inform [...]
Networked_Performance |
Aug 27, 2008 11:17AM
Urban Screens Melbourne 08: Conference: Mobile Publics; October 3-5, 2008 :: Exhibition: Connected Communities; October 3 – 8, 2008 :: BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne :: Registration Reminder. Urban Screens Melbourne 08 (USM08), hosted by Federation Square Pty Ltd, is the first international urban screens conference and exhibition to be staged in the Asia Pacific region, following successful events in Amsterdam in 2005 and Manchester in 2007. USM08 will present an integrated conference program of keynote lectures and panel sessions in [...]
Networked_Performance |
Aug 27, 2008 11:02AM
Mother’s Day by Smadar Dreyfus :: September 13 - November 8, 2008 :: Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Tulpstraat 79, 2060 Antwerp, Belgium. Extra City is delighted to announce the premiere of Mother’s Day (2006 – 08), a multi-channel sound and video installation by Smadar Dreyfus (1963 Tel Aviv, lives and works in London). Following on from her seminal large scale installation Lifeguards (premiered at the 9th Inter-national Istanbul Biennial, 2005), Mother’s Day is part of Dreyfus’ investigation into the [...]
Networked_Performance |
Aug 27, 2008 10:47AM
In 2008, the Wiesbaden Grant Follow Fluxus – after Fluxus will be awarded for the first time. The goal is to support young international artists whose works suggest ideas inherent to the Fluxus art movement in order to keep the art current alive. The establishment of the grant was inspired by the “Fluxus Festival of Very New Music” which took place in Wiesbaden in 1962. This Fluxus event provided the first real broad impact for this new art movement. The Wiesbaden [...]
VVORK |
Aug 27, 2008 10:31AM
“Aussenportal”, 2008 by Kilian Rüthemann.
Hey, Hot Shot! |
Aug 27, 2008 10:17AM
Fall ‘06 Hot Shot Shen Wei has a solo show of his series Almost Naked at Kunst.Licht Gallery, September 13 - November 30, 2008 in Shanghai, China. Wei writes: “Growing up in Mainland China, I was brought up strictly and conservatively, any untraditional and unconventional ideas of life-style can sometimes lead to misconceptions. I was numbed about the ideas of intimacy, sexuality, and love. Since I moved to the United States, my needs for self-expression has grown. However, my curiosity [...]
Personism |
Aug 27, 2008 09:48AM
Olive oil consumption leading to 'serious environmental problem … (tags: environment food) Digg This Save to Del.icio.us
