January 2009
Art crush of the day: How's my Dealing?'s Gallery... →
via hydeordie: They have a list of all the galleries that have closed due to economic difficulties. Some say it is gruesome, I say it’s a necessary evil.
“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means...”
– William Faulkner (via vaughnshirley)
When the universe was young
magicmolly:
If you can beg or borrow (not steal!) someone’s MoMa card, hustle over to Rebus. It’s a show curated by Vik Muniz and made up of a long string of items selected from the musuem’s permanent collection. Each item relates to the next in some way: by form, color, theme, or some other affiliation, and part of the game is guessing how each piece leads to the next. Uncovering these links...
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my...”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via kerr) (via hangmanblues)
Time for a cull in the art world - Times Online →
standardgrey:
” Lucky you. Lucky me. Both of us have ahead of us in 2009 the totally tantalising prospect of watching how the art world responds to the recession. Will the entire house of cards collapse in on itself, leaving the thinnest of messes? Or will some cunning redrawing be embarked on that eventually results in a new version of the tottering edifice? Ask me again in December. What is...
Charles Saatchi and BBC set to launch reality tv...
ohcarlos:
British art collector, Charles Saatchi, famous for launching the now established careers of “Young British Artists” of the 1990’s such as Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin and others, is set to preside over a new reality television show on BBC2, described as the Art X Factor.
In an attempt to be the next YBA Hirst or Emin, artists over the age of 18 and residing in the UK will submit...
ART SCHOOL: Failure →
standardgrey:
“Few, if any, challenged the idea of traditional presentation. I always look at the 80’s and think about what can be made after that in photography. Can you make cross country landscapes and dejected portraits as a male in 2009 after Sherrie Levine? Can you use the beauty of woman and youth in photography in 2009 after Cindy Sherman? How serious is your intentional artwork after...
smarthistory.org →
hydeordie:
Ok, this is officially my new favorite website.* You can search for art related posts by Time, Style, Artist, or Themes. It has a super easy layout and really interesting posts, artworks, and podcasts.
This site is being developed by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the static traditional Western art history textbook.
This is a great...
“If the artist is excessively dependent on simply being “liked,” so that her true...”
– David Foster Wallace (via thecusp) (via hangmanblues)
