Emerge by William Lamson
video
July 08, 2008
June 24, 2008
Lawrence Weiner
A short film about Charles & Ray Eames by Todd Oldham
June 11, 2008
Judith Warner has a great column in the NYTimes
Her first, post book leave column is amazing(ly sad and true)
Women in Charge, Women Who Charge
all I can say about this video is WTF
June 04, 2008
Zürich Chamber Orchestra | Roller Coaster
June 01, 2008
I love Rex Ray's work and was happy to see this video on dearada
May 30, 2008
The Coen brothers make great films
May 28, 2008
Two days ago I discovered Ovation TV because they were showing the movie Pollock
Last night I watched ART or NOT on Ovation TV.
The program explores the question Is "it" art, or is "it" not art? It showcased artists from the edges of the art spectrum and then critics, art lovers, and lay people would offer their opinions. While there were way too many commercials I found the show to be entertaining and infuriating.
One of the artists discussed was Shepard Fairey.
Mat Gleason is an art critic, writer, and publisher of the Coagula Art Journal of Los Angeles, California. Gleason compared Fairey's art to advertisments for Coca-Cola, saying; "They're both on the street, they're both promoting a brand, and at the end of the day, it's a very empty experience." Gleason went on to say that, "I think that the art experience is to raise someone's consciousness, and at the end of the day the Shepard Fairey experience is to promote the brand of Shepard Fairey as a corporate entity, so I don't consider it art. He is about the furthest thing from art there is."
I totally disagree.
Below is a work by Shepard Fairey.
I thought the Jello landscapes created by Liz Hickok were art.
(Mat Gleason did not)
May 20, 2008
Flying Remote Controlled Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech
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DeCordova Museum, Pretty Sweet
- Pretty Sweet: The Sentimental Image in Contemporary Art Curated by Nick Capasso An installation of 75 laser cut acrylic mirrors configured in a loop-de-loop installation
Wasabi
- Wasabi: Contemporary Art with a Japanese Kick at The Nave Gallery
building the Goodwin-Wise Flatpak
- It took 2 years to build this first production version of the Flatpak House. I will post images as we set up home in our new digs.
China painting factories 07
- In March 07 I traveled to Shezhen, China to sort out production for a series of paintings. The factory painters were mostly young and all talented. Like 1980's art students they wore concert t-shirts, took frequent smoke breaks, and played alternative music very loud from a tinny CD player. All of the painters were either friends or relatives of one another. The factories themselves looked less warehouse and more apartment building. The office of the factory I visited had not only wall to wall carpeting but wall to ceiling. It was a plush environment. The Da Fen district, where all of the oil painting factories reside, is marked by a giant, (very communist) statue of a hand holding a paintbrush. Surreal doesn't quite express the region. The images shown do not depict the artwork I was working on, but rather, the artwork these factories all too often produce.
