cranky is more than a mood — its an attitude
The other day I was pulling out of my driveway at the absurdly early hour of 5:45. As I slowly began moving forward I saw this amazing, huge bird on the street. I think it might have been a hawk. It had an enormous yellow beak, long tail feathers and its huge body stood on [...]
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 [...]
Mel recently asked if I had any good readings on death… what a question. Yes, i have too many good readings on death too count – but from what angle. We explored the usual suspects – Goulish’s 39 Microlectures which brought us to Kathy Acker, Peggy Phelan’s tribute to the dying student which begged me [...]
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 [...]
One of the big projects I’ve recently become involved with is X-square, an initiative of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. The program has a Facebook Presence and this is the official blurb for the program:
X-square is an annual project commission for student teams to conceptualize, design and build a structure that activates [...]
its becoming increasing clear that i need to buy an iphone. an expensive proposition, to be sure. but i don’t really think i can function without ical, on hand. and, hey, att lets you bank your unused minutes. *right.*
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 [...]