October 2009
WatchKnit hat stabs you in the head if you don’t smile - Boing Boing
Want to open your own pop-up gallery?
hydeordie:
It’s so easy with this little how-to from theartnewspaper.com:
The minimum budget required to put on a show, according to curator and organiser Katie Guggenheim, is zero—provided you can beg, steal or borrow a space. Guggenheim—a former art student who changed her name by deed-poll as an on-going work of art—has two shows on during Frieze week, both in artist-run spaces she has for...
Movie director David Lynch on artist Ed Ruscha -... →
Special Report - Contemporary art - At Last,... →
(via artlistpro)
8 – Anyone living in only one place, as opposed to... →
fette:
The Top 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World for Hyperallergic, October 2009.
my design for the POP shirt at Threadless got... →
“images generally contain such a wonderful ability to confuse things inside of us...”
– airform archives: when the mind’s eye and the eye’s eye play with memory…
Wow. This reminds me why I still want to make images. (via porcupineschool)
“I’m not an abstractionist. I’m not interested in the relationship of color or...”
– …and so on!?? Mark Rothko (via tiffanyhoran)
“Style is what you make of the face you were born with. Frida Kahlo, Georgia...”
– Isabella Rossellini (via harpy) (via vonnnegut)
“Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way...”
– from susan sontag’s “on photography”, probably one of my favorite things that i had to read in college, and one of the very few articles that still intrigues me even though it was written in the 70’s (‘72?) for casey, who i’m sure has already read “on photography”, but if you haven’t you totally...
“The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings...”
– Jackson Pollock (via tiffanyhoran)
YouTube - Creed - "Bullets" (Official) →
jonrafman:
via mathwrath
Silly me, actually thought it was a new piece by Martin Creed. It isn’t, don’t click, you’ll be underwhelmed. (Kids; please pick up some ministry or even therapy?)
VC funding for 20x200 →
jenbee:
The law-abiding Kottke shares the news about the round that Jen Bekman Projects/20x200 just closed, complete with a series of highly amusing disclosures.
Congratulations! This deserves to get going and to expand; so much beautiful art that I can actually afford. Love it. But then again; why would you need VC money? What will that enable that you were not able to do ‘on your...
On the Road: Where Hirst Counts His Dough –... →
Curating Isn't As Precious As Creating Is
claytoncubitt:
Theremina (Mer) is right:
“Make a painting, make a dress, make music, make a novella, make love to the camera, make a new flavor of beer, make a wild rumpus in the middle of the woods. Make a mess! Make something merely for the sake of making it. Make without any thought to an audience. Make without any anticipation of validation or gratification from an outside source. Make for...
