ART BLOGROLL

As the inaugural foray into the world of “social practice” pedagogy, my experimental art theory course, Art as Social Practice, yielded some expected aesthetic results and raised a few theoretical issues for future consideration. The project that was collaboratively developed in tandem with eighteen Corcoran College of Art and Design undergraduates was urban, public engagement culminating in an “art event” that modestly invited further viewer participation. Ironically perh... [more]

I'm not even sure where to start with "Witch House", a genre coined as a joke and then canonized by Pitchfork. It is the most interesting thing I've found of late. It combines gothy emo emotion, pretty high-pitched synth melodies from 90s rave music, slowed down vocals, the occult ...and rap. It should be the worst thing ever, and that's part of it's charm–it is horrible and brilliant at the same time, as all the best art is. It also perfectly describes how I feel right now in the crudest hyperb... [more]

Memorial Day Weekend is the kick-off for summer!  First and foremost it's a day to remember those who have fallen in the line of service to our country.  There are lots of Memorial Day observances that you can attend in the Los Angeles area this weekend. Summer also means backyard barbecues, parties, the beach and vacations! What are you planning to do on this three-day weekend?1959 Barbie-Q Ensemble Have a wonderful holiday celebration! [more]

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Trusto Corp bombed a theme park turned ghost town in California, and gives the abandoned town a little life with some vibrant art. Mass Appeal captured the whole process on film. We love the desert backdrop in this video--it's beautiful. Enjoy! [more]

From the VASA Journal on Images and Culture: The advent of the Internet and digitization of the image has brought about what appears to be a debatable democratization of the medium of photography. The 'WWW' has expanded what images we experience and the way we experience them. It changed the avenues for the embodiment, dissemination and consumption of images, opening new channels for expression, participation and exchange.The form and function of more traditional photography gatekeepers such as c... [more]

The sound switches. Loud intensity and vibration. My body is permeated by the sound and radio waves. While watching the dancer move, I realize that all the cells of my own body are moving, oscillating, with the sound waves. The dancer runs across the stage, throws herself towards the floor, glides. My body feels the impact of the floor on skin, skidding, sliding, perhaps squeaking. Darkness and light, spotlights on my sight horizon. The moving horizon line, the white board, shifts my bodily pers... [more]

Joanne Greenbaum + Steven Parrino, at Kerry Schuss. ���  [more]

I’m reading Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of New York City) at the moment, and there is a bit of American art history that was new to me. The Panic of 1837 had disrupted Manhattan’s patronage system. Cole, Sully, and Asher Durand found that merchants laughed wanly at the notion of buying paintings with their businesses facing bankruptcy. Spurred by hard times, artists fashioned new and more collective ways of supporting their work. In 1838 portraitist and engraver Jam... [more]

Last chance to visit Sound Spill, a group exhibition curated by Thom O’Nions and Richard Sides for the Zabludowicz Collection and part of their ongoing project with artist Haroon Mirza. The setting of Sound Spill is quite unique: on two separate, and otherwise vacant, floors of an iconic New York skyscraper close to Times Square, with stunning views and serving as a perfect background for the artworks and the sound installations. See for yourself. The project sets out to examine how s... [more]

Thomas Day, Newel, 1855, Glass-Dameron House, North Carolina. Photo © Tim Buchman 2013 The elegant Grand Salon was the setting for a panel discussion on the many lives and interests of Thomas Day, the subject of the Renwick Gallery’s, Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color. Day, a carpenter by training, learned the art from his father and became the most famous craftsman in North Carolina, in the years before the Civil War. His work is both fluid and idiosyncratic, and he created furniture... [more]

". . . what it is not is a victory for clarity, guidance and certainty in the very murky area of fair use and 'transformativeness.'" [more]

After the contemporary art overload at the fairs, galleries and auction houses the last couple weeks, it was a bit of fresh air to enjoy the Frick Collection's small but important Piero della Francesca exhibition. More images Piero della Francesca Artist Piero della Francesca was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Wikipedia Born: 1415, U... [more]

[General] Carpenter snapped up his intercom. "Send me a poet," he said.He waited, and waited...and waited...while America sorted feverishly through its two hundred and ninety millions of hardened and sharpened experts, its specialized tools to defend the American Dream of beauty and poetry and the Better Things in Life. He waited for them to find a poet, not understanding the endless delay, the fruitless search, not understanding why Bradley Scrim laughed and laughed and laughed at this final, fat... [more]

[General] Carpenter snapped up his intercom. "Send me a poet," he said.He waited, and waited...and waited...while America sorted feverishly through its two hundred and ninety millions of hardened and sharpened experts, its specialized tools to defend the American Dream of beauty and poetry and the Better Things in Life. He waited for them to find a poet, not understanding the endless delay, the fruitless search, not understanding why Bradley Scrim laughed and laughed and laughed at this final, fat... [more]

Start Date:  5/21 6:06pm - 9:09pm Hours:  6:00PM-9:00PM Cost:  $25.00 Venue:  Eyebeam ... [more]

One year ago, in March of 2012, A1one was kidnapped on the streets of Tehran, Iran by the civilian police from the “Intelligent Service of Islamic republic”. For nearly two weeks, he was kept in a hidden prison, blindfolded and lonely. Accusing him to receive money from Israel to promote graffiti and resistance against the Islamic Government of Ahmadinejad. They also accused him to have received training in a military camp in Jordan, aiming to go back to Iran and promote graffiti and hip hop... [more]

Richard Serra: Double RiftsThrough June 1stGagosian Gallery Poet Ted Kooser writes in “After Years” about seeing a woman he used to love and relates the encounter to both the vast and tiny tectonics of the world: “Without a sound/the glittering face of a glacier/slid into the sea,” he writes, “An ancient oak / fell in the Cumberlands, holding only/ a handful of leaves.” The poem then turns on a sort of hinge, elegantly pivoting away from the large and anonymous into the small and specific: “An old woman/scattering corn to her chickens looked up/ for an instant.” It feels like... [more]

The Atelier LaRose classes are on hold as I put more time and energy into making some paintings.  I just created an electronic commerce website for selling my pieces.  Steven LaRose Fine Art is up and running.  [more]

View of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen’s Spoonbridge and Cherry (1985–1988) in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Gift of Frederick R. Weisman in honor of his parents, William and Mary Weisman, 1988 Gov. Mark Dayton and the Minnesota House of Representatives have recommended that the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden receive $7 million for a much-needed renovation, and now we need to make certain that all legislators strongly support a bonding bi... [more]

2 Humans, 1 Paper (2013, 10MB, 3:38 min) I first stumbled across Osvaldo Cibils and his marvellously eclectic and well..simply marvellous work on Flickr but he seems to have all sorts of things going. So simple but so, so telling. Kind of Buster Keaton meets Bruce Nauman meets something hard to pin down but lyrical, grotesque and smart all at once. My kind of artist. +++ 2 humans 1 paper video art/soundart. performance with plotter paper 200 x 107 centimeters. performers: fiorella alberti architect and osvaldo cibils a... [more]

details from the private collection of Miles Johnson and Viktor Sandberg (Levi's) exhibited at the new vintage store Harvest & Co. [more]

Dorit Chrysler at Chez André at the Standard, East Village, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. [more]

It is finally the time! After some years in the making, the room-filling painting-installation based on my PhD dissertation is opening at Jedlitschka Gallery in Zurich. You are cordially invited to the opening, I'd love to see you there. -------- Mark Staff Brandl My Metaphor(m), Painting-Installation 28 Feb. - 18 April, 2013 Opening Reception: 28 Februar, 5 pm - 9 pm the artist will be present (as well as on Saturday, 2 March) Laudatio/Opening Speech: 28 February 7 pm Dr Philip Ursprung,... [more]

Early this morning David Bowie celebrated his 66th Birthday with the release of his first single in a decade. This song Where Are We Now?, taken from Bowie's forthcoming album The Next Day, is accompanied by an artful video directed by the contemporary artist Tony Oursler. Set in a black and white Berlin of memory and dream, Oursler's video combines with Bowie's voice and lyrics to question the themes of human bondage, release, freedom,  doubt, ageing, and death.  The video opens with a... [more]

Sugarloaf, Timberline Chair, 2012, oil on canvas, 42 x 32 inches, private collection. It has been a while since I have posted any news or a new painting here recently. I am happy to send this painting off to a new home in Calgary to live on the walls of a skiing family. Last March I posted an image of the study for this painting. The painting took quite a few turns along the way and I finally finished it a few weeks ago. [more]

Sugarloaf, Timberline Chair, 2012, oil on canvas, 42 x 32 inches, private collection. It has been a while since I have posted any news or a new painting here recently. I am happy to send this painting off to a new home in Calgary to live on the walls of a skiing family. Last March I posted an image of the study for this painting. The painting took quite a few turns along the way and I finally finished it a few weeks ago. [more]

The US government spends much on ways to treat depression, as reported by Reuters. However, certain antidepressants have been indicted for causing adverse effects such as Zoloft birth defects. Legal observers says “the increase in spending is believed to be caused mainly by the prolific increase in prescriptions written for antidepressants like Zoloft.” According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “mental health spending per patient rose from $2,802 t0 $3,610 during the time perio... [more]

The US government spends much on ways to treat depression, as reported by Reuters. However, certain antidepressants have been indicted for causing adverse effects such as Zoloft birth defects. Legal observers says “the increase in spending is believed to be caused mainly by the prolific increase in prescriptions written for antidepressants like Zoloft.” According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “mental health spending per patient rose from $2,802 t0 $3,610 during the time perio... [more]

"Thus it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class, and that those states are likely to be well-administered in which the middle class is large, and stronger if possible than both the other classes, or at any rate than either singly; for the addition of the middle class turns the scale, and prevents either of the extremes from being dominant. Great then is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient proper... [more]

 The Blot is five years old this week.  The Wolf is one year old this week. Wanna help me unpack some of these boxes?  [more]

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The painting Green Forest hung. [more]

“The deceased, as you know, have the inconvenient habit of cooling off too slowly; they’re burning hot. So they are turned into aspics by pouring memories over them–the best form of gelatin. And since deceased greats are also too large, they are cut down. The nose, say, is served separately, or the tongue. You need less gelatin that way. And that’s how you get yesterday’s classic as freshly cooked tongue in aspic. With a side dish of hoofs, from the horse he used to ride. I’m trying... [more]

“The deceased, as you know, have the inconvenient habit of cooling off too slowly; they’re burning hot. So they are turned into aspics by pouring memories over them–the best form of gelatin. And since deceased greats are also too large, they are cut down. The nose, say, is served separately, or the tongue. You need less gelatin that way. And that’s how you get yesterday’s classic as freshly cooked tongue in aspic. With a side dish of hoofs, from the horse he used to ride. I’m trying... [more]

Folly For A Flyover | Londonist On Friday, a temporary structure nestled beneath a concrete flyover in Hackney Wick opened its doors to the public. Part of the Create11 Festival, Folly For a Flyover is the work of Assemble, the gang of amibitious young architects and designers who built the Cineroleum in Clerkenwell last year. Those who filled up at the Cineroleum will feel right at home here: each weekend evening until late July the Folly will hold a series of musical performances and film scr... [more]

May 1, 2013 Call for Art MTA –Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project CALL FOR ARTWORK: Phase 4 Northern Manhattan Artists Deadline: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Midnight Administrative Fee: $10 Dear Artists, Friends and Community Members, The MTA-Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project, a long standing effort by the community is happy to announce this fourth call for artwork to be placed in the subway elevators at the A-Line 184h St (181st. Subway Stop) & 190th St. Subway Stations. This col... [more]

It's been over a year, and I suppose the good thing is that the activity in the space hasn't left me time to concentrate on the blog. And Facebook apparently still remains the main mode of mass communication despite the patchy issues with FB in Vietnam. Anyhow, I've prepared a little pdf to provide a glimpse of some of the activities over the past year, which you can download below. + Scribd. Dia/Projects.pdf + Facebook. Dia/Projects (new open group format) [more]

  Have you heard? We moved! Come visit us! www.ocartblog.com [more]

Yet another way that regulation chokes Washington: The height restriction on buildings prevents investors (including the city) from realizing the immense market value of public parks. In Manhattan, where growth is profound, density is high, and regulation is light, the... [more]

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Transart Institute offers an international MFA program for working artists to develop a sustainable creative praxis with three summer residencies in Berlin; two winter residencies in New York City and individual advisement during two school years - wherever students work and live. The low-residency program leads to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Practice. Students are free to pursue work in any art-related genre and to create their own course of study, working independently and with the... [more]

A short documentary on this great Brazilian artist whose work is currently showing at the San Jose based Anno Domini. [more]

I am writing to you as I am researching content for the constitution of a film and reading library which will be permanently installed in the reading area (which is presently being set up) at Gasworks, London, and will be available as far as possible, as an online linked bibliography or resource. This initiative stems from Disclosures, “http://gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344“, a project exploring the extent to which Open Source methodologies find applications in fields of cultural production outside of the Internet. We have started constituting a library durin... [more]

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PEACE OUT I've grown a pair of handsom wings and it's time to jet on outta here. The truth is I'm having miserable separation anxiety about ending ABCN. It was fun gamboling about the ether to find Team Shredder and the Norf*ckneasters, and here's a final salute to Boadweeblog. It's been swell having a daily writing practice, lame though it may be. I'll try to keep that up through my free verse poetry, quatrains and of course poison ink letters to various evil concerns. Right now I am a broken crown of s... [more]

The weekend's photos are really starting to backup up in here. I've only just now had the chance to upload my pics from Thursday night's Bridge Art Fair preview (selections posted below). Not yet posted: more photos from Art Chicago,... [more]

Olav Westphalen, Extremely site-unspecific sculpture, 2000Image via: Public Art FundIf you're reading this message, chances are you haven't updated my new RSS feed to your newsreader. To do so just follow this link, and in about two seconds you'll be set up! Those who have missed a few of the latests posts will be sore indeed: From the loins of youtube, Making Vindaloo, a soft core bollywood music video, and my the latest Reviewing the Reviews, whidh discusses the New York Times piece Selling Himself and Prin... [more]