Arcane and Insubstantial

Sunday, September 02, 2007

It's eerie how quiet the "anti-war" movement is on this one...
This is a bigger mistake than Vietnam, everybody knows it, and nobody
wants to do anything about it.

reddit.com

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Biology is the New Black

http://www.slate.com/id/2168469/nav/tap1/

Sunday, April 29, 2007

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.

Monday, April 23, 2007

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

Monday, April 09, 2007

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.”

Sunday, March 25, 2007

JENNIFER RILEY on Melissa Meyer (art critical)

Melissa Meyer Triptych #2 VSC 1992
oil stick on paper, 30 x 67-1/2 inches
Private Collection
COVER March 2007: Untitled, Diptych (1991)
oil stick on paper, 30 x 45 inches
Private Collection (art critical)

Melissa Meyer in Black and White
Works on paper, 1984-1994

New York Studio School
8 West 8 Street
New York City
212 673 6466

December 14, 2006 to February 3, 2007

GREG LINDQUIST on Benjamin Edwards (art critical)

Benjamin Edwards Softstream Meadows 2006
acrylic, oil and texture media on canvas, 44 by 60 inches
Courtesy Greenberg van Doren Gallery (art critical)

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue at 57th Street
New York City
212 445 0444

November 17, 2006 - January 12, 2007

I missed this show (as well as the review in a timely fashion) but saw his work in an earlier exhibition two years ago. I believe the works I saw then might've been strictly in acrylic and lacked this (newfound?) sense of atmosphere. Even still (without the oil), the structure is incredible not just as a perspective element but as a surface element as well. The simple act of layering is made to be amazing.

Greg compares Edwards to George Lucas's backdrops from the early Star Wars trilogy.

Arthur C. Danto on Egon Schiele (The Nation)

Link here.

ArtCorps

Join ArtCorps and use your art—performing and/or visual—to strengthen international development in Central America in 2008. It’s like the Peace Corps but for artists. Through community arts projects, artists educate and inspire people to participate actively in improving the environmental, health, and social conditions in their communities. Each works for 11 months with a host nonprofit development organization that is an expert in its field.

Apply now for opportunities in Guatemala and El Salvador that begin in January 2008. Candidates must be proficient in Spanish. For info and application, visit http://www.artcorp.org/artist_placements.html.

Deadline for full application is May 7, 2007. Contact Suzanne at jenkins@nebf.org or +1 978-927-2404 x4 for
more info.

originally blogged by Miami Art Exchange

Chuck Close & Franz Gertsch @ max lang (closed)

Reviewed by Roberta here.

Best thing since sliced bread...

It does:

It is:

Fred Eerdekens

Selected images encountered while browsing the web-site of Fred Eerdekens. Biography here.

Could suggest something...

1999
Copper, light source
14 x 220 x 18 cm

Modalities

2001
Watercolor on paper
67 x 59,5 cm

Life itself is not enough

1999
Clothing, glass, steel, light projectors
700 x 120 x 90 cm

Cambodian Gun Sculptures

Note the use of artificial limb

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Polly Apfelbaum

From VCU:

The Painting and Printmaking Department hopes that everyone can make it
to this exciting lecture
Thank you

Polly Apfelbaum – Artist Lecture – Thursday March 22, 4 pm Grace St.
Theatre, 934 W. Grace St.. In conjunction with Solvent Space
exhibition. Exhibition runs March 23-June 30. Polly Apfel baum has an
extensive exhibition record including solo shows at Institute of
Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, Kempner Museum of Art, Kansas City,
MO and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. Group exhibits
include Galarie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, The Wexner Center,
Columbus, OH and The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT.

For more information please visit:
>http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=EE059E93-067E-4D77-C40785568FCD23B0

http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/past/polly.php

http://www.ctgallery.com/index2.html