Passageways: James Turrell
April 17th, 2009
Doc on James Turrell and his Rodin Crater.
Archive for the 'art' Category
DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE
April 6th, 2009
"The father of camouflage, Abbott Thayer described animal coloration as a way to conceal or disrupt an object. Dazzle is disruptive (think of a zebra)."
A Loft Filled with Dirt, the Man Who’s Cared for it for 19 Years
January 16th, 2009
Video profile of the Earth Room and it's caretaker, Bill.
Francis Alÿs
January 12th, 2009
I don't respond as much to the more theoretical works on paper, but his art dramatizing boundaries and spaces – painting the green line between Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan; pushing a block of ice through Mexico City – are direct, absurdist, and through provoking.
September 10, 2008: Celebrating the day CERN turned on the Large Hadron Collider for the first time.
September 10th, 2008
The earth was not destroyed, and Leah made a small thing.
A History of Art Forgery
June 4th, 2008
"Eight versions of the Mona Lisa make a puzzle for the art lover." Also includes anecdotes about Roman reproductions of Greek originals, Renaissance repaintings and many trenchant captions. I wonder what the next century's forgery market will look like?
Crazy Horse Webcam
June 3rd, 2008
My friends know how fascinated I am with Mount Rushmore as an art object and just all-around bonkers thing. Here's a live, constantly refreshing webcam of the nearby and (forever? in progress) response, the Crazy Horse monumet.
Museums wrestle with preserving art that’s not made to last
June 2nd, 2008
Sort of begs the question what is actually made to last? There's artwork in museums that's thousands of years old. And performance art, which can only be curated through means and materials other than the art itself (which then becomes the art itself?)
I am sitting in a room
May 27th, 2008
Original recording of Alvin Lucier's seminal sound art piece. I was on the phone for 45 minutes with the IRS this morning and sort of wish this had been the hold music. Would have set the mood a little better than the bit of Swan Lake or whatever.
Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82
May 13th, 2008
"Apropos of Mr. Rauschenberg, Cage once said, 'Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.'"
The Meaning of Various News Photos to Ed Henderson
April 28th, 2008
Thank GOD. FINALLY. UbuWeb now hosts three of Baldessari's video pieces, including this hilarious exercise in context and imagination. PLEASE, PLEASE, keep these coming.
THINGS FOR SALE THAT I WILL MAIL YOU
April 16th, 2008
Whimsical conceptual art for sale.
Charles Simonds
March 2nd, 2008
Passersby found them on windowsills, on the brick facades of abandoned buildings, and in empty lots. The artist imagined these to be homes for a nomadic population he called "the Little People."
A Life Round Table on Modern Art
February 25th, 2008
Haven't read through it yet but I cannot, cannot, cannot handle the subject matter raised to the power of the advertisements.
A Reformed Stolen-Art Dealer Tells All
February 22nd, 2008
Interestingly refutes the notion that it's impossible to sell stolen art. But maybe more interesting is the idea that the rewards offered by burgled museums amount to something very like traditional supply and demand.
The Pyrotechnic Imagination
February 18th, 2008
The Illustrated President
January 24th, 2008
Our President's interpretation of the subject of this painting is somewhat at odds with it's historically verifiable context, in a humorously apt way. But this account begs the question (again): what is the place of the viewer in interpretation?
If the Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s the Original?
December 24th, 2007
After attending the Richard Prince retrospective at the Guggenheim, I was disappointed enough in the show's lack of critical interest in its own subject that my view of appropriation art may be shifting. Prince may have made a breakthrough, but now what?
Tree Dance
November 14th, 2007
Sadly not set in the tree on the library lawn that at one time had the longest unsupported limb in treedom, the Vassar chapel is recognizable in the background.
Antony gormley
November 1st, 2007
Love this guy.