Sympathy for the art gallery

ryanbarone: RUSCHA’S MUSTACHE IN ‘72, 2010

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:18:42 +0200

ryanbarone:

RUSCHA’S MUSTACHE IN ‘72, 2010

standardgrey: (via christopheralexanderolson) Yves Klein Suite...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:18:36 +0200

standardgrey:

(via christopheralexanderolson)

Yves Klein Suite in progress.

artlistpro: Brad TinmouthArtforum Ad2010 “I didn’t know...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:13:05 +0200

artlistpro:

Brad Tinmouth
Artforum Ad
2010

“I didn’t know whether I should spend money on grad school or this ad in Artforum. Welp.”

via knitzilla, theories-of.

tobia:

juliusseizure: David Hatcher - The simplest surrealist act (...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:13:00 +0200

juliusseizure:

David Hatcher - The simplest surrealist act ( Andre Breton)

screenprint on plexiglass 2002

standardgrey: via williampowhida.com If Powhida’s rant about...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:12:00 +0200

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via williampowhida.com

If Powhida’s rant about Work of Art:The Next Great Artist had any magickal effect, it would be that a blogger micro-shitstorm in NYC ensued and thus, I (and I would assume others) have discovered and are now tumbling his work.

standardgrey: towerofsleep: standardgrey: HALF GALLERY MILES...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:41:17 +0200

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towerofsleep:

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HALF GALLERY

MILES MENDENHALL

August 24—September 14, 2010
Opening reception: Tuesday, August 24, 6-8 p.m.

Well, well, well….

I kinda think a show at Half Gallery might be better than Abdi’s show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Abdi has the super-genuine, unpretentious, aspiring to be a better person, nice guy who can draw but isn’t conceptually-solid thing going on. Which ~~NEVER~~ rarely wins in the art world IRL. Miles has a persona to work with and can talk a mean “conceptual” game, so naturally, a shoo-in for a show; I liked most of his work best.

… and I like these even better.

iheartmyart: Man Ray, Compass, 1920, The Metropolitan Museum...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:39:02 +0200

iheartmyart:

Man Ray, Compass, 1920, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Before leaving Paris for New York in 1921, Man Ray made several constructions that questioned the authority of logic and science over the imagination. This quirky instrument, which he called “Compass,” was one. The fields of force to which it might respond are as erratic and potentially as destructive as a game of Russian roulette. After making the exposure, Man Ray characteristically disassembled the magnet-and-pistol device, leaving only this single original print as the reminder of a provocative Dada idea. It is “purely cerebral yet material” (as Man Ray said of Marcel Duchamp’s “Large Glass”), whimsical yet deadly earnest. (via MET)

jillsies: marycaple: agnès b.’s early sketches I love Agnes...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:15:12 +0200

jillsies:

marycaple:

agnès b.’s early sketches

I love Agnes B clothes. I’m wearing some right now.

"My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking;..."

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:14:50 +0200

“My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking; that is to say: heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal, as does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.”

- — john barth

from boxforstanding
(via jennilee, the-space-in-between)

iheartmyart: Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Fairytale, 1979 Oldie but...

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:14:38 +0200

iheartmyart:

Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Fairytale, 1979

Oldie but goodie.

dihard: “Things that are made from organic material age and...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:00:48 +0200

dihard:

“Things that are made from organic material age and decay, especially when they stop being alive. A piece of home-baked bread, say, left on your kitchen counter, will get moldy relatively fast. Lord knows what some ground beef would smell like after a week. But the artist Sally Davies has been photographing one McDonald’s hamburger and fries every day for 137 days. They look basically exactly the same.” via GOOD

I’m confused; is this good or bad?

sexartandpolitics: Debbie Grossman - Jessie Evans-Whinery,...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:29:30 +0200

sexartandpolitics:

Debbie Grossman - Jessie Evans-Whinery, homesteader, with her wife Edith Evans-Whinery, 2010
From the series My Pie Town

In the spring of 1940, Russell Lee wrote to his boss at the Farm Security Administration, Roy Stryker, proposing to spend several weeks shooting Pie Town, New Mexico, a small settlement of homesteaders near the western edge of the state. […] In this work, I take a selection of Lee’s beautifully-photographed body of images and re-imagine, revise, and reconstruct them using Photoshop. The archive I have created resembles Lee’s with an important difference – in My Pie Town, the rag-tag community of homesteaders is populated exclusively by women.

In some of my revisions, I have taken male bodies and rendered them to look like masculine women; in others, I have taken pairs of women, shifted their distance and body language, and brought them closer to create a sense of intimacy. In some of the pictures I have created women so masculine, or so ambiguously gendered, that they may not, for some viewers, clearly read as one gender or the other. I’ve also left a few images untouched, allowing for another dimension of re-reading Lee’s work.

I LOVE THIS. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

via kusamapyjamas:sexuality-space

hyperallergic: Man Barlett, “#24hCycle” (2010), screenprint on...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:08:38 +0200

hyperallergic:

Man Barlett, “#24hCycle” (2010), screenprint on cover stock, ed. of 30, $20

Barlett uses this prints to fund his popular social media-reliant performance pieces, which have taken place at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, the “#class” exhibition, Flux Factory and elsewhere.

breeapperley: 1949 TIME-LIFE chart part a (by scleroplex)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:22:18 +0200

breeapperley:

1949 TIME-LIFE chart part a (by scleroplex)

breeapperley: 1949 TIME-LIFE chart part b (by scleroplex)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:22:11 +0200

breeapperley:

1949 TIME-LIFE chart part b (by scleroplex)

"How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes?..."

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:21:59 +0200

“How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We’ll have a play on the London stage within a year. A President is assassinated? You can have the book or the film or the filmed book or booked film. War? Send in the novelists. A series of gruesome murders? Listen for the tramp of the poets. We have to understand it, of course, this catastrophe; to understand it, we have to imagine it, so we need the imaginative arts. But we also need to justify it and forgive it, this catastrophe, however minimally. Why did it happen, this mad act of Nature, this crazed human moment? Well, at least it produced art. Perhaps, in the end, that’s what catastrophe is for.”

- Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

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(via maybeitsallok)

"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad,..."

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:52:44 +0200

“So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it’s bad, it’s really simple.”

- Damien Hirst (via artnotartnot) this is exactly why i started smoking, when I was 21 and why I stopped, at 25.

powhida: Tips for Artists Who Want To Sell (New and...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:52:13 +0200

powhida:

Tips for Artists Who Want To Sell (New and Unimproved), Silkscreen on paper, 2010, courtesy of the artist and the Lower East Side Printshop. Edition of 30. Buy it. Apologies to John Baldessari

want.

standardgrey: Artforum Ad Project - - Your Artwork in Artforum...

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:30:54 +0200

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Artforum Ad Project - - Your Artwork in Artforum for $1.50!

GET ON THIS

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t..."

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:14:27 +0200

“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”

- Stephen King (via whileyouwereout)