March 2009
Artprice’s TOP 10: Art market heavyweights, 2008 →
(via iheartmyart)
Watchvia benedictdrew:
David Askevold
Fill
1970
“Fill is my first video; The monitor becomes a picture-sound box. The screen is filled by laying sheets of aluminum foil on a microphone and wrapped one at a time and then unwrapped. The audio implodes during the wrapping and explodes as the sheets are pulled away from the microphone. Besides the obvious reading of physical filling, the title also...
“Art is not a picnic. It is a combat, a set of gears which grinds one up…”
– Millet (via tumbletumbleweed)
You're a Genius all the time
dailymeh:
Jack Kerouac’s essentials, in his own words:
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Sonething that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from...
“Artists find inspiration in difficulty and constraint; works of the imagination...”
– Christopher Allen (via myownprivate)
William Anastasi
benedictdrew:
William Anastasi (b.1933, USA) is one of the founders of Conceptual Art with solid connections in his earliest works to Minimalism. His exhibits “Sound Objects”, 1964-65 and “Six Sites”, 1966/67, set the stage for exhibitions under the eventually widely used term ‘Site Specific’. In the last four and a half decades this genre has developed into a veritable industry. Even before...
“I`m not sure what these people are saying. Is it that if you depicted no graphic...”
– David Lynch (via bigfun) (via savingoldlitter)
kellykorova:
“To be a good artist in the long term, you need to trust your own intuition and instincts. Whereas academia is based on rational group-think. There is a magic and an alchemy to art, but academics are always suspicious of the guy who stirs the big black pot.”- Chris Burden (Eric, this is the dude that had himself shot in the arm)
Excerpt from my other spring break reading: Seven...
Martin, into the corner. You should be ashamed of... →
magicmolly:
Guest blogging on Martin Kippenberger at MIL.
This makes me want to see/ read more of/ on his work.
“The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and...”
– Milan Kundera
(via hydeordie)
“I worked very hard to get you time with Damien. He postponed dinner with...”
– Gagosian publicist whining to Paul H-O after he turned down an interview with Hirst.
Paul Hasegawa-Overacker’s film, Guest of Cindy Sherman, is opening in the US today. Imdb has the trailer and artinfo has this. (via shashin-etc)
now voyager.: and the googly-eyes go to... →
me! jippie! Thanks a lot!
My calling? →
hydeordie:
Would that be wondering about the engineering issues involved in large-scale public art or trashing overpriced Koons sculptures?
via sympathyfortheartgallery
your call… In any rate it involves physics and art, no?
“What Brooks found holds true for the broader world of aspirational consumption....”
– “The Age of Commodified Intelligence” in More Intelligent Life, a followup to their Winter ‘08 article “The Age of Mass Intelligence” (via gregbrown) (via rach)
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom,...”
– Frank Zappa (via pdvmorris)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-22)
topherchris:
Andy Warhol
Banksy
Mark Rothko
Salvador Dalí
Roy Lichtenstein
I laughed. then thought well, someone probably could cook up some javascript to actually generate a top 5 per week based on my posts…
