Heroes Show: Olympia, Washington

The Studio... and a painting (in progress)

Alright, I promised I wouldn't talk about this sort of thing... but...



what the hell:








That's all I'm sayin' for now.

Home-made Folk Synthesizers

Thanks to VVORK for sending me here.


They're called Dewanatrons, and no I sadly can't get an image going right now...


BUT, they are having a show here:

April 27 - May 21, 2007

The Coin-Op Melody Gin will be appearing as part of the Come One, Come All show at
3rd Ward Art Space
195 Morgan St.
Brooklyn, NY

Opening: April 27, 7-9pm


AND you can here what they sound like here.


AND you can buy a CD recording of their music here.


Amazing

The Legitimacy of Modern Art (By John Molyneux, Aug. 1998)

The Legitimacy of Modern Art




...Not even gonna talk about this today, probably gonna leave it for someone else. I can't even get through most of it in one sitting. Sorry!

Artist of the week: Julie Mehretu

Georgetown


Ethiopian Passages interview


Bomb magazine


Colombia


Newsweek

Sol LeWitt Dies at 78

...leaves burial instructions at 15 major galleries and museums.






From Michael Kimmelman:


nytimes.com

At Syracuse University, he studied art before he was drafted for the Korean War in 1951, during which he made posters for the Special Services. After his service he moved to New York to study illustration and cartooning. For a while he did paste-ups, mechanicals and photostats for Seventeen magazine. He spent a year as a graphic designer in the office of a young architect named I. M. Pei.

Meanwhile, he painted, or tried to. For a while, he hired a model to draw from life and copied old masters. He felt lost. An aspiring artist in New York during the waning days of Abstract Expressionism, an art squarely about individual touch, he thought he had no particular touch of his own and therefore nothing to add.



“Conceptual art is not necessarily logical,” he wrote in an article in Artforum magazine in 1967. “The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.”





Asked about the switch he made in the 1980’s — adding ink washes, which permitted him new colors, along with curves and free forms — Mr. LeWitt responded, “Why not?”

He added, “A life in art is an unimaginable and unpredictable experience.”