cranky is more than a mood — its an attitude
I really do just love Carrie Marill’s work. She makes these astoundingly beautiful, precious gauche paintings. The other day she gave a short talk at the ASU Art Museum about her participation in the show that’s currently in the main gallery.
I wasn’t so sure about her most recent paintings, frankly. They seemed too bucolic. I [...]
I just read in Artforum that an estimated 2,000 works by the inestimable Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica (1937-80) went up in flames. This is really so sad… Oiticica was primarily preoccupied with color who’s work as a Brazilian Modernism often articulated a provocative response to formalism. His commentary on universal form was shaped through 3-dimensional [...]
I went to see Jillian McDonald talk about her work today at lunch time. She’s the current artist in residence at the ASU Art Museum as part of their Social Studies series of exhibitions.
I was so happy that she showed a little video of her earlier work – its the most interesting to me. She [...]
I wrote an earlier post about Nick Cave’s soundsuits and my burning desire to see them… last weekend I made a trip to SMoCA and was astounded by them.
Amazing.
Larger than life-sized and presented on a low platform, the suits towered over me. My nephew was a little taken aback (he’s 3 years old) but once [...]
I’ll be writing about this piece for my paper at CAA in February. This is the first time I’ve seen the video of the fox Alys tracked through the National Portrait Gallery. AWESOME.
Allan Kaprow (center, with beard) and participants in his “Yard” (1967), at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.
This month and next, two of my favorite artists (both featured in the dissertation) will be re-inventing Allan Kaprow’s Yard in NYC: William PopeL and Sharon Hayes. The NYT says a bit about their efforts.
A few days ago, I asked
Who is the 1970’s artist who posed for several self-portraits with small gum vulvae affixed to her body?
And, I’m sure you all knew the answer was Hannah Wilke. In her 1974 SOS: Starification Object Series she issued a critique of the sexualized female artist as seen by the male dominated [...]
I just came across this great article by Time Etchells on Tehching Hsieh.
And the toast Etchells made at the launch of Out Of Now:
To time
To time past
To the clock
To the watched clock
To the minute hand, hour hand
To the second hand
Against the clock
Against the punch clock
To the heartbeat
To ducking out of time
To running out of time
To [...]
I absolutely must see Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth at SMOCA (up until November 29, 2009). Don’t miss the interesting videos on the SMOCA site. In one of the clips he asks: “What makes people be light within a moment?” Lovely. I am particularly enamored of the second video (embedded [...]
Just read a thoughtful article in this month’s ART PAPERS about a piece by Iris Häussler at Art Gallery of Ontario at The Grange called “He Named Her Amber.” Essentially, Häussler constructed a story and embedded the fiction into the institution then recovered it in an archeological dig and invited the public to see the [...]