February 2012
1 post
FRANCESSCA WOODMAN
Guggenheim March 16–June 13, 2012
Francesca Woodman is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s brief but extraordinary career to be seen in North America. More than thirty years after her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. Woodman’s oeuvre represents a remarkably rich and singular exploration of the human body in space and of...
December 2010
2 posts
DON'T WORRY.
IT’S GOING TO BE GREAT.
ANSELM KIEFER.
NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM.
There is a special border, the border between art and life that often shifts deceptively. Yet, without this border, there is no art. In the process of being produced, art borrows material from life, and the traces of life still shine through the completed work of art. But, at the same time, the distance from life is the essence, the substance of art. And, yet, life has...
October 2010
1 post
"DRAW LINES, YOUNG MAN,
AND STILL MORE LINES, BOTH FROM LIFE AND FROM MEMORY, AND YOU WILL BECOME A GOOD ARTIST.”
As Ingres advised Degas.
September 2010
2 posts
UBUWEB:SOUND.
I just discovered this site, and it is quickly becoming a favorite. Ubuweb:sound is a comprehensive database of recorded poetry. The selection of poets is varied, ranging in style, region, and period.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/index.html
BOB COBBING.
August 2010
9 posts
NEW YORK.
ON TUESDAY.
WILLEM SANDBERG.
One of the most important figures in Dutch graphic design and a highly influential museum director during his time at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam. The Stedelijk commissioned him, in 1928, to prepare pictorial statistical information for the exhibition ‘Work for the Disabled’. Appointed curator of modern art in 1937. During the second world war joined the Dutch resistance and assisted...
FINAL FRONTIER DESIGN.
TED SOUTHERN + NIKOLAY MOISEEV.
NEW PAINTINGS OF COMMON OBJECTS.
DINE.DOWD.GOODE.HEFFERTON.LICHTENSTEIN.
RUSCHA.THIEBAUD.WARHOL.
SEPT. 25-OCT. 19, 1963.
WALTER HOPPS.
NICOLAS DE STAEL.
Typically his paintings contained block-like slabs of colour, emerging as if struggling against one another across the surface of the image. Accordingly, when a Rothko painting was paired with one by Nicolas de Staël in the show of young French and American painters, Rothko commented to William Seitz (in 1952): “Blobs vs. blocks. They both begin with ‘b.‘ Comparisons are...
EVA HESS.
WHATANARTIST. WHATABABE.
MARGARET ATWOOD.
Only a dream, I think, waking to the sound of nothing. Not nothing. I heard: it was a beach, or shore and someone far off, walking. Nowhere familiar. Somewhere I’ve been before. It always takes a long time to decipher where you are.
June 2010
2 posts
April 2010
4 posts
TOMIHIRO KONO.
Japanese designer and head piece creator Tomihiro Kono has resided in London for three years, but he has thankfully not lost all creative ties to his native country. The artful fashion of Kono - together with his fashionable art - have made waves throughout the capital ever since Kono started exhibiting his work in a Spitalfield Market stall. This was partly because of his Japanese aesthetics...
March 2010
21 posts
MEMORY ENCODING.
FORMATION of a memory is widely believed to leave a ‘trace’ in the brain - a fleeting pattern of electrical activity which strengthens the connections within a widely distributed network of neurons, and which re-emerges when the memory is recalled. The concept of the memory trace was first proposed nearly a century ago, but the nature of the trace, its precise location in the brain...
ANSELM KIEFER.
UGO RONDINONE.
EVA HESSE.
In 1969, one year before her death at the age of 34, German-born American artist Eva Hesse wrote of her desire “to get to non-art, non-connotive, non-anthropomorphic, non-geometric, non-nothing; everything…It’s not the new, it is what is yet not known, thought, seen, touched; but really what is not and that is.” In her effort to make works that could transcend literal associations, Hesse...
FOR ESME.
The Consumption of J.D. Salinger
by: Elizabeth Gumport
J.D. Salinger provokes the personal turn. When we write about his work, we write about him, his private life – or our own. What is public becomes private; criticism creeps towards memoir. Salinger is the JFK assassination, Salinger is 9/11: where were you when you read The Catcher in the Rye? Aleksandar Hemon was in Sarajevo, Aimee Bender...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC.
THE ARTIST IS PRESENT.
AT MOMA -MAY 31.
This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). In an endeavor to transmit the...
AL JARNOW.
want to see “Celestial Navigations” quite badly.
ARTHUR DOVE.
A WAY TO LOOK AT THINGS.
We have not yet made shoes that fit like sand Nor clothes that fit like water Nor thoughts that fit like air. There is much to be done - Works of nature are abstract. They do not lean on other things for meanings. The sea-gull is not like the sea Nor the sun like the moon. The sun draws water from the sea. The clouds are not like either one - They do not keep one form...
January 2010
37 posts
JULIAN SCHNABEL.
HOMAGE TO FRANK O'HARA.
The following remembrances of Frank O’Hara appear in Homage to Frank O’Hara, edited by Joe LeSueur and Bill Berkson. You can purchase that volume here.
Larry Rivers
I began doing portraits of Frank in the fall of ‘52. That was after I’d slit my wrists over something. I phoned Frank, who happened to be in, and he came over and bandaged me up. Then we began seeing a lot...