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Andrew Berardini at the opening of MoCA LA’s “Rebel” [more]

Chicago! (or rather, Cook County) the Propeller Fund is up and ready for your application. Gallery 400 and Threewalls team up again for the third year in a row to award 15 incredibly lucky people and break everyone elses heart. There is also a slew of workshop and one-on-one opportunities to discuss and learn more about the process throughout the summer. Don’t be lazy! From the website: Propeller Fund provides money directly to artists, curators, and groups living and working in Cook County, Illi... [more]

Uberartist Tim Tate, in my biased opinion the DMV's best-known artist, sends in his top 10 choices in this year's Artomatic, which opened last night with a monster of a party in Crystal City. Here are his choices: 1) helen baribeau 2) nils henrik sundquist 3) dave d'orio  4) drew storm graham 5) kelly guerrero 6) zofie lang 7) justin cameron 8) matt macintire 9) sean hennessey 10) melissa burley ... [more]

 Kevin Christman, has started the first workshop held within Atelier LaRose.  And then Eva Lake popped by for an after-hours visit. [more]

Los Angeles, 1943My cousin Marilyn was the first grandchild born to our grandparents, Sam and Freda.   Here is toddler Marilyn, age 3.  Her mother, Mae is holding her.  Aunt Celia is on the left and Aunt Roz is directly behind Marilyn.  Since Marilyn was the first grandchild, she was photographed quite a bit.  Here she is in her World War II WAC uniform.I know this photo was taken in Los Angeles, probably at Marilyn's parents' house near Sunset Plaza.I just LOVE the hair styles on those three sisters!... [more]

Another one I couldn't resist linking to.  Roberta Smith on the new Barnes:"[Barnes's] quirky institution is suddenly on the verge of becoming the prominent and influential national treasure that it has long deserved to be. It is also positioned to make an important contribution to the way we look at and think about art."But ... but ... but .. THEFT!!! TRAGEDY!! BETRAYAL!A sad day, of course, for the art police, the hand wringers, the hall monitors.  Why does anyway pay any attention to anythin... [more]

Fall into Light (2012, 209MB, 3:57 min) For about the first twenty seconds I didn’t think I was going to like this music video by Dawid Krępski & Jason Chiu, or at least that I would remain easily indifferent and unmoved. Then, ..well.. , it’s a slow burn but it gently explodes, if that’s not too much of an oxymoron, into something fertile and strange that won’t let go of you. I don’t think there probably is a narrative but, as you watch, the piece fools you into believing there is, one... [more]

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Visitors's sketches from The Art of Video Games comment books The Art of Video Games exhibition includes a lot of interactive technology, but one of our favorite components is not hi-tech at all; it's a plain spiral-bound notebook that asks visitors to leave a comment. We include a comment book in every show that we do, and we read all of them. This exhibition has inspired a lot of comments: we've filled 12 books in just 2 months so far! Gamers are a creative bunch, too, and many of the pages are filled with sketches and doodles o... [more]

Tom Sachs Space Program: Mars Park Avenue Armory 66th Street and Park Avenue produced by the Armory and Creative Time May 16 - June 17, 2012 May 16, 2012. It must be a daunting task for any artist to consider placing a body of work into a huge, cavernous void such as the Park Avenue Armory. How to fill the 55,000 square foot Drill Hall, with its high vaulted ceilings and acres of plank floor, in addition to the ornate, memorabilia filled, wood paneled corridors and regimental meeting rooms, and... [more]

“The Nature of Need”, solo show of American neo-pop artist Brian Donnely, a.k.a. KAWS, started this week @ Emmanuel Perrotin‘s brand new Hong Kong space. KAWS, who has a background in graffiti, has gone a long way: his 2010 solo “Pay the Debt to Nature“ @ Perrotin’s Paris gallery sold out already during the opening and besides being a respected artist, he’s also a celebrated product designer (if you don’t have one of his toy figures already, you should consider ;-)). For The Nature of Need he created new series of paintings that use cropping of the pictorial spac... [more]

Cy TwomblyGagosian Gallery - Beverly HillsThrough June 9, 2012Re-posted from Artslant.comCy Twombly, it's been my experience, was always at a distance. Most of his life, he lived across the world in whitewashed ancient cities. I never met the man, but all accounts point to a dignified august presence. To me, he’s a fantasy of a Roman poet with a bearing full of nature and wind but also philosophy and silence. His paintings, at least institutionally, have at the moment a certified “you have to like... [more]

Dear Friends,I am honored to invite you to register for the next One Hour/One Painting Art Meditation Session which will be led by the distinguished art writer Peter Clothier at 6:30pm on May 24th, 2012 in my studio at the Santa Monica Airport. Peter has recently hosted One Hour/ One Painting sessions at the Diebenkorn: The Ocean Park Series exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art and at the LA Louver Gallery. When describing Peter Clothier's sessions, I am often asked what to expect. In short, Peter w... [more]

A comedian told a joke once about how so often, when he paused to reflect on his life thus far, he realized what a jerk he had been about five years ago. After doing this several times over the course of a few decades (realizing that five years prior he had been quite the jerk), it finally dawned on him that he's more than likely being quite the jerk right now. That's why older people tend to be more quiet, he said. They've figured this out.I think of that joke every time I catch myself in a po... [more]

A comedian told a joke once about how so often, when he paused to reflect on his life thus far, he realized what a jerk he had been about five years ago. After doing this several times over the course of a few decades (realizing that five years prior he had been quite the jerk), it finally dawned on him that he's more than likely being quite the jerk right now. That's why older people tend to be more quiet, he said. They've figured this out.I think of that joke every time I catch myself in a po... [more]

If you are in Sheboygan join us for a presentation and salon at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center on Saturday May 19th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM.  We will be presenting an overview of what is so inspriring about street art and discussing how the city could embrace street art in a major project to be realized in 2013.  [more]

Le vernissage de mon amie peintre Cecile Ronc. À voir! [more]

Le vernissage de mon amie peintre Cecile Ronc. À voir! [more]

What happens when you give a trio of Walker interns some new snazzy cameras and tell them to spend the day photographing? Last week, Ashley Monk, Chyna Bounds and I got to test-drive the new Pentax K-01 camera designed by Marc Newson, which just got stocked at Walker shop. After assembling the cameras, charging the batteries, and giving the manual/cheat sheet a quick read, we were ready for adventure.   We soon gave up on the instructions and opted for hands-on learning – this camera is t... [more]

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I’d like to use this post to talk about Momenta Gallery, located on Bogart Street in Bushwick. It’s in keeping with my post on Conveyor Arts in that Momenta is another institution that aims to provide a space for emerging and established artists alike. April 25th marked Momenta’s Spring Benefit Raffle, which featured 200 works on display for silent auction. Gallery Director Andy Monk described how the benefit functions differently than a typical silent auction: tickets start at $200, wi... [more]

Part 2 of Dr. Philip Ursprung's guest essay on Thomas Hirschhorn's Swiss-Swiss Democracy: What was the exhibition about? Hirschhorn “besieged” – as he put it – the Cultural Center during 50 days. He was present during most of the exhibitions time. He transformed it into an environment of knowledge. The walls were decorated with the “democratic” colors pale red, pale blue and pale yellow. Some walls were covered with texts, newspaper clippings, and photographs. A miniature landscape... [more]

Leslie RobertsMIC CHECK! at Sideshow. The GIANT annual show. Yes, it is closed I am doing a lot of catch-up. I see too much good stuff.Lawrence Swan - his stuff is so weird and cool.SEE Lawrence Swan in Lars + Lori at Valentine, a JK video.Loren MunkPeter ReginatoPeter Acheson - had a really terrific 2010 show at John Davis, i still think about those paintings.Rand Hardy - another very nice and weird little piece.His resume lists a 2012 show at Narthex Gallery St. Peters Church. Has it happened... [more]

I'm heading to Portland this week! And I'm debuting a new book - Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever #1! With new comics and stories by Ed Luce, Benjamin Marra and Me! On Friday Ed, Benjamin and I are having a release party for Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever #1 at Floating World Comics. Sparkplug Comic Books will also be debuting Katie Skelly's Nurse Nurse! Here's the facebook invite.Then I'll have a table at the Stumptown Comics Festival all weekend. Sparkplug Comic Books will be there, too!Next week,... [more]

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]

Here is my most recent painting. 279 x 185 cm / 110 in x 73 in; oil, acrylic and enamel on canvas. Conceiving Metaphor(m)s. And here I am next to it in the corner of my studio in Switzerland. [more]

If you look closely, you can see me in the crowd a couple of times. The first of a number of videos from Varispeed’s performance of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives presented as part of Performa ’11 at Essex St Market in New York City’s Lower East Side. Featuring: Gelsey Bell, Dave Grollman, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons, and Jeffrey Young [more]

Activity Details Call Type:  Student Program Start Date:  02/27/2012 Time Commitment:  4PM-6PM Wednesday // Thursday On-site:  On Site ... [more]

I may have told this story here before, but I always figure if I can't remember, probably neither can anyone else.Shortly after 9/11/2001, about two weeks in fact, an artist came into our new space with a proposal for a group show of work responding to the terrorist attacks. I didn't know this artist. She was simply shopping around for a venue for what I assume she thought would be snapped up as a timely exhibition. We were in the market for group exhibitions at that time, having just opened, b... [more]

"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," Mr. Cook said in a letter to employees. "We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much."During his more than three-decade career, Mr. Jobs transformed Silicon Valley as he helped turn the once-sleepy expanse of fruit orchards into the technology industry's innovation center. In addition to laying the groundwork for the industry alongside others like Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, Mr. Jobs prove... [more]

Lisa Yuskavage Triptych 2011 Oil on linen Each: 77 1/4 x 70 1/8 inches (196.2 x 178.1 x 3.8 cm) YUSLI0395 Why go any deeper when the surface is so pleasing? That's what I asked a skeptic at the opening for Lisa Yuskavage's long awaited exhibition at David Zwirner. I love everything about this painter and her work; the subject matter, the landscape, the art historical references, the palette of colors, the technique of ephemeral-like painting. Indeed she creates a world of heavenly delights. The fact that some of... [more]

I have been to Bern, Switzerland the past three summers for the Sommerakademie at the Zentrum Paul Klee, an intensive two-week residency for artists, curators, writers, academics and all of the above—“art people” as it were. First I attended as a Fellow in the Sommerakademie, returning as an Editor and Contributor to a book published by the Sommerakademie and as an Alumnus. The group of people affiliated with the Sommerakademie is kind of like a family that meets up in this Swiss city at the end of... [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 23, 2011   Call for Art   MTA –Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project CALL FOR ARTWORK: Phase 3 Northern Manhattan Artists Deadline: Sunday, June 12, 2011 Midnight   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 third call for artwork to be placed in the subway elevators at the A-Line 184h St (181st. Subway Stop) & 190th St. Subway Stations. The two phases of... [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]