Amy Goodwin

 

beyond hilarious

 

The Coen brothers make great films

Nylon carpet designed by the artist Gerhard Richter 

available at ARTWARE editions

Bye Bye Harvey Korman

 

Steven Easton at The Fuller Museum 

opening this Sunday from 2:00 till 5:00 

show runs through September 14th 

Machinery of Heaven

taggalaxy jammed up from all the traffic today 

hopefully it will be running again soon

A fantastic way to find photos on the internet

http://www.taggalaxy.de/

Steve Powers, a graffiti artist, has just returned to New York after spending nearly six months in Ireland on a Fulbright scholarship. His idea was to create public artwork with the help of teenagers from housing projects in Dublin and Belfast. Here, he puts the finishing touches on a piece in Dublin. In today'sNYTimes

Paranoid 

by Leslie Weiner

Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives. This chair swivels to constantly look behind itself to see what is going on behind its back. It has literally made itself sick with paranoia, resulting in a putrid green color. 

MFA Designer As Author 

2008 Chair Project 

to see more

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)

Mel Bochner’s Blah, Blah Blah (maroon) (2008)

Stag Scaffolding Sculpture by Ben Long at Oakmayne building site, Elephant Road, London SE17 1LB

Botero in chocolate

Sebastian Smee, formerly the national art critic at The Australian, will be the Boston Globe's visual-arts critic, beginning today. Smee, 35, served as The Australian's critic, based in Sydney, from 2004 until last month. Before that he worked in London, where he was art critic at the Daily Telegraph and a contributor to The Guardian, The Times, The Financial Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Art Newspaper, Modern Painters, and Prospect magazine

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Sugar Man  

a sugar man sits on the edge of a cup, dipping his feet into the drink to test the waters. 

a little poke from a sugar-hungry finger pushes him over the edge.

'how sweet' it is by natasha chetiyawardana

Congrats Alex. Everybody tune in.

Catherine Keener is one of my favorite actresses

announcing some upcoming shows

H&M's tribute to Marimekko

paintings by Diane Hoffman 

 

to see more work

Yoshitomo Nara

I love these things

The Brannock Foot-Measuring Device, designed by Charles F. Brannock, 1925

I Love You

encaustic on panel

2008

art of Lucian Freud 1947-1985 (chronologically)

Russell Baker, Connecticut College commencement, 1995

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s address got to the heart of the whole commencement speaker tradition.

“Let’s plunge right ahead into the dull part. That’s the part where the commencement speaker tells the graduates to go forth into the world, then gives advice on what to do when they get out there. This is a ridiculous waste of time. The graduates never take the advice, as I have learned from long experience. The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don’t do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.”

Flying Remote Controlled Penis Disrupts Garry Kasparov Speech

Paola Antonelli & Charlie Rose

Design and The Elastic Mind

A first grade teacher collected well known proverbs.
She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb
and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb.
Their insight may surprise you.

Better to be safe than....................Punch a 5th grader
Strike while the .........................Bug is close
It's always darkest before............... Daylight Savings Time
Never underestimate the power of..........Termites
You can lead a horse to water but........how?
Don't bite the hand that................. looks dirty
No news is................................impossible
A miss is as good as a...................Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new............math
If you lie down with dogs, you'll.........stink in the morning
Love all, trust..........................me
The pen is mightier than the..............pigs
An idle mind is..........................The best way to relax
Where there's smoke there's...............pollution
Happy the bride who.......................gets all the presents
A penny saved is..........................not much
Two's company, three's....................the Musketeers
Don't put off till tomorrow what..........you put on to go to bed
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.......you have to blow your nose.
None are so blind as......................Stevie Wonder
Children should be seen and not...........spanked or grounded
If at first you don't succeed.............get new batteries
You get out of something what you.........see pictured on the box
When the blind leadeth the blind..........get out of the way

And the favorite:

Better late than.........................pregnant.

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'Just because I took my clothes off for Lucian Freud, that
doesn't mean I'm a nudist or a floozy or whatever,' said
Sue Tilley, the subject of Benefits Supervisor Sleeping,
which broke auction house records for any living artist last
week, when it sold for £17m at Christie's International in New York.

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Wall Art
via artsJournal

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

I call her pencil girl.
Jennifer's studio is downstairs from my studio.
SHe makes very beautiful work

Jen Maestre

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I would love it if I saw this in my latte.

Waiting For Google

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GE Clouds

The Last Supper
and the one after that…
and the one after that…

Vanity Fair

Legos

David LaChapelle

Cui Xiuwen
Link

1939 Marital rating scale
wife chart

link

Robert Rauschenberg died May 12, 2008.
He was 82.

NYTimes article

I loved this video when it first came out.
I think it reminded me of some of the students I taught at RISD over the years.
Particularly the students who would be assigned a drawing project but would decide to perform an
interpretive dance instead of making a drawing. Always enjoyable.