Chris Jones, Repair Is the Dream of the Broken Thing, 2008. Hot mess edition: Former Slate critic Lee Siegel forgets that it was he who accused a peer of pedophilia for no good reason, not vice versa. [Lawyers, Guns, and... [more]

These aren't going to be "weekly" anymore, but I hope to start posting them more often as I finish them. [more]

My friend Thea had never been. My friend Jay's gonna move away. Those were two very good reasons why I had lunch at Philippe's today. Though, looking at the photo accompanying this post, does anyone really need a REASON to go to Philippe's? Tucked near the neighborhoods of Chinatown and El Pueblo/Olvera Street and virtually a block or so away from Union Station (the Alameda side, not the Vignes) ... [more]

This is a guest post written by David Brown. Within a month of submitting my Portland search engine optimization website to Google’s local business listings, I was pleased to find myself at the top of the rankings for the phrases, “Portland Web Design,” “Portland Search Engine Marketing,” and “Portland Search Engine Optimization.” However, these rankings quickly faded due to my lack of understanding toward local business optimization.  Having identified this as a source of confusi... [more]

by Kevin Freitas I was recently asked the following question: What is your vision of the future of the visual arts for San Diego? This is how I answered: That San Diego becomes another pole or axis in the larger national and international wild world of art. That its public and tourist profile goes beyond a city for sea sex and sun, the Padres, Midway, ComicCon, and the Gaslamp. That there is more to San Diego than the weather and Cow Parade 2009. That the artists and individuals who have been... [more]

stashed sock yarnOh yeah...it's August..the perfect time to begin thinking about your knitted and crocheted holiday gifts! Last year I made a ton o' wrist warmers for many of my friends and relatives. They were well-received. This year I'm not sure what I will knit or crochet for everyone. I got really tired of making the same wrist warmer pattern over and over again last year. I may mix it up a bit this season...some hats, some scarves, etc. Above is some lovely sock yarn from my stash. Socks are... [more]

This Sunday the fine folks at LAM are giving you not one, but two opportunities to get a walk-through of the current exhibit In The Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapose Factor led by LA gallerist Billy Shire. First walk-through will be at 1pm and the second will be at 4pm. Couldn't think of a finer way to see this show.... [more]

The Franz and Virginia Bader FundDeadline: September 15, 2008The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund welcomes applications from visual artists aged 40 years or older, who live within 150 miles of Washington, D.C. and can demonstrate that they have the potential to benefit as artists from a grant. The Franz and Virginia Bader Fund does not, however, accept applications from filmmakers, video artists, and performance artists. In 2006 the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund awarded three grants totalling $50,... [more]

The New York Sun's Kate Taylor has a short piece on the ADAA's 50-artist pledge in support of the pending Artist-Museum Partnership Act: "In the hope of spurring Congress to pass a bill allowing artists to take fair market-value tax deductions on works they donate to public institutions, the Art Dealers Association of America is promising to secure donations by 50 artists to museums in 50 states upon the bill's passage."Taylor has a good succinct summary of the current state of play:"Since 1969, artists, com... [more]

Another fraud alert...The email below has been sent to some of our members. We believe that this person is involved in fraudulent activity such as ID fraud - please do not waste your time replying to them. Below is a CLASSIC example of cashback fraud - PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THEM. First Name: AlexLast Name: DavidEmail: a.david12 @ ymail.comMessage: My name is Alex, I am an individual art agent and interior decorator from Glasgow,scotland. I got an order for the supply of some artworks from a clie... [more]

Photo via T.Whid’s new iPhone Photo via my old 3.2 Mega Pixel Pentax ?Blog post about the show by Diane Hatz ?background on Cory’s Glockenspiel Addendum... [more]

This is the replacement for my pick-up truck that threw-a-rod. You will understand why it might take me a day or so to post a response to cap's questions, "How do you see the drawings relating to the paintings? Am I missing the connection? Or isn't there one?" The drawings relate to the paintings in the same way that this photograph does. This is a web log of my process, not an exhibition space. And yet, when I was drawing last night, the pencilove suite's connections to the paintings I display at galleries seemed deep and essential.... [more]

I'm battling a balky laptop fan that makes my computer buzz (and overheat), so here's a visual 'lead-in' to more on the Cleveland Museum of Art's re-opening of its 1916 building:Very 1916: Beaux Arts in the park;Arms, armor and drama;It's probably hard for a digital image to capture light quality, but the light in pretty much every gallery here is superb. A number of years ago Lawrence Weschler wrote a New Yorker piece about the unique quality of the light in Los Angeles ("The Light in LA") and why it was so different from the light anyw... [more]

The piece above is on Federation Square and was painted as a part of the Melbourne Stencil Festival. [more]

Sound of Art. Music and Visual Arts Museum der Moderne Salzburg Moenchsberg Moenchsberg 32 5020 Salzburg Austria Contact: christine.forstner@mdmsalzburg.at www.museumdermoderne.at Sound of Art' shows up the bonds between music and visual arts. The exhibition will present scores, objects, photographs, videos and video installations, records of actions and many more exhibits. Right at the beginning the exhibition focuses on its main themes: the radical break of the avant-garde art movements emerging at the beg... [more]

If you haven’t made it down to Hyde Park recently, I would like to suggest you make the trip. Visit the Smart Museum, if not to check out the excellent Idol Anxiety show. [Which I reviewed for ArtSlant, see below] Then to see On Paper, a group curatorial project engaging the museum’s permanent collection I participated in with six other graduate students from the University of Chicago under the guidance of Stephanie Smith, Director of Collections and Exhibitions, Curator of Contemporary Art.Works... [more]

Grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Trust for Mutual Understanding Allow for Program Growth Baltimore, MD - July 21, 2008 - Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation announces a major expansion of USArtists International (USAI) effective immediately. The Foundation received grants of $500,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and $100,000 from the Trust for Mutual Understanding in support of USAI. A program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment... [more]

Anonymous Postcard is a new project of Tucker Nichols and Dakin Hart. Their description: Anonymous Postcard is designed to allow anyone to openly communicate to a third party without the complications of personal contact. After being vetted by our staff of experts, a claim found to reflect the civic spirit of the project will be transformed into a vague and largely indecipherable postcard and mailed toward the intended recipient. This is my favorite one so far: To: Liz Pate of Greenwich, Ct Claim: She was... [more]

As a few folks noted in the previous thread, I was quoted in an article Sunday about an artist who has had a good deal of commercial success outside the gallery system but is now entering it. This decision raises a wide range of questions, none the least of which is why an artist would choose to share the profits of their labor with a dealer. Indeed, from the comments on a recent Bad at Sports post by Lisa Boyle (who recently closed her eponymous gallery in Chicago), I was beginning to wonder h... [more]

The Luce Foundation Center is not a static space. Every so often SAAM's curators come and "shop" for artworks to be included in new exhibitions. The museum is currently expanding the folk art galleries on the first floor and as a result, nine folk paintings have been removed from Luce Center cases to be installed in their new home. Luce Center staff doesn’t mind too much when this happens, however, as it gives us the opportunity to explore SAAM's vast collections and make recommendations for... [more]

Dear Adored Readers, Sorry there were no post last week, I've been frantically trying to write as much as I could before cleaning up my place from floor to ceiling and packing up . Because tomorrow I'm leaving you for about 10 days! Yours truly is leaving for a magical place where there's no cell phone reception, no TV, no Internet, the only radio station you can catch broadcasts classical [more]

Police stopped Velibistes for jumping red lights today on Blvd Henri IV... [more]

Charif Benhelima - Wim Catrysse - Patrick Vanden Eynde Plinio Avila - Filip Van Dingenen - Jan Van Imschoot Fred Bervoets - Emilio Lopez-Menchero - Wilfried Vandenhove Stephan Balleux - Tom Vanuytrecht - Wim Van der Celen Peter Weidenbaum - Koen Van Den BroekFreemen Gallery - Exhibition curated by Koen Van Den Broek click here.... [more]

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Brandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman Books, 2008), and Two Kinds of Arson, a chapbook from dancing girl press. She is editor-in-chief of Switchback Books. Poem in Which I Am My Own Porn Star Most days I just want to live in a Crate & Barrel catalog. I can't stop watching Law & Order.... [more]

For those needing any practical reassurance that “waterboarding” is a form of torture, Christopher Hitchens provided something close to a final word on the matter, at least in the realm of public opinion (and persuasion), when he subjected himself to it for the benefit of Vanity Fair’s readers. One is reminded of the Hitch’s stunt by a short piece from last Wednesday’s New York Times, which used it to introduce artist Steve Powers’ The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, an “animatronic diorama,” insta... [more]

And my dog ate my homework on the way to school, and my little sister peed on my rough paper draft.Yup. That's why you haven't heard from me. Well, okay, if you're going to be all nit picking about it, I got blocked for two days. The blogger team identified my blog as a spam site, and I have been warned, blocked and humiliated. Today they let me back in and if don't post anything in 20 days, the blogger boys will go all nuclear on me and delete my site.(I'm apologizing right off the bat for dou... [more]

I'm going to have an unexpected show in October... this is good news because my resume was looking pretty bare for 2008. Also have a show happening at the start of the new year, although I should probably get back in touch with them and confirm things.- failed again to see the DiBenedetto and Edmier shows. I'll try again next Saturday... either that or maybe go to Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington to see this show recommended to me by Jon Lutz (because of the inclusion of Gianna Commito).... [more]

Download audio file (Bad_at_Sports_Episode_153-Philly.mp3) download This week Duncan adventures beyond the known and takes on Philadelphia’s artworld with the Help of the crew at funnelpages.com and Flux Space. They check in with Flux Space, Little Berlin, Bambi Gallery, PIFAS, Art Making Machine, Vox Populi, Kelly and Weber Fine Art and 1026. The conclusion… Philadelphia is a magical land but don’t leave anything valuable in your car. Direct download: Bad_at_Sports_Episode_153-Philly.mp3... [more]

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.-----Email Message-----Subject: "... they all know and I don't"Sometimes I feel like I know something the rest of the world doesn't...-----Email Message-----Subject: Someone left their secret in a PostSecret book at my BordersFrank-Tonight I found a secret that said, "It will work if you try. Will you wait for me?"There is someone that I am seeing that recently told me not to wait for her. She is in an abusive relationship and her fath... [more]

We have moved to a new space NEW MAeX Artblog view it there. Don't forget to update your bookmarks and backtracks! [more]

Vishal Jugdeo LAXART I'm thinking about video installation again along with split narratives and sculpture's capacity for comedy. In the July/August issue of ArtReview, I invite you to read my piece on Vishal Judgeo's new video Surplus Room, unfortunately already de-installed at LAXART. This is a link to the article online. Thanks for reading. [more]

Knowledge contains within it the essence of pedagogy. It is the “passing down,” either through the presence of speech or, in an author’s “absence,” the written word, where teaching begins. Teaching philosophies vary, from Plato’s suspicion of teaching (and writing, for that matter) in defense of the Socratic dialectic (1), to the assumptive dismissal by St. Thomas Aquinas of the human ability to teach in support of his theology. However, it was the Aquinas essay, “De Magistro” (�... [more]

Coming this September, 2008, San Francisco’s Meridian Gallery will present War and Empire, a group exhibition that has as its theme the state of democracy in the U.S. - as well as the continuing military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. I am delighted that my own art has been included in the exhibit, since being able to show with a notable collection of artists that I fervently admire is no [more]

PDF at Why + WhereforePDFCurated by Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan, and Nicholas WeistVarious locations19 July 2008PDF, a group exhibition presented by Why + Wherefore and curated by Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan and Nicholas Weist opened simultaneously this month on 19 July across more than 20 international venues. The exhibition was a reproducible selection of specially commissioned PDF files authored by the invited artists. It was installed at each of its material sites for a single day only, while the... [more]

When I ran into jewelry and furniture designer Kiel Mead this weekend at The Future Perfect, he told me about his latest project, The American Design Club. With the sole purpose of putting on regular exhibits, Kiel's taking his passion for design and his links to the Brooklyn design scene to further the cause of American design. It picks up a thread he and I discussed earlier this year (when shooting our video on him) and is an idea that we couldn't get behind more. The inaugural show takes on the t... [more]

Some weeks back I went to the private view of Mona Hatoum's mini-retrospective, Present Tense at Parasol Unit. It's a fantastic show and it will be ending soon - on the 8th of August, in fact, so if you haven't managed to get down to see it, you might want to do so. Hatoum's work is often subtle and elegant, and this show certainly didn't disappoint. Her economic use of materials has a way of [more]

Singapore is fast becoming a second home. This time around, it's going to have been an intensive six days in the nation state. I came as an observer for the Asia Europe Foundation's (ASEF) Mini Summit on New Media Art Policy and Practice as both a practicing artist and media educator. According to the ASEF website, the three days activities are described as: The summit gathers senior government representatives, artists, researchers and policy-makers for a three-day dialogue on different artistic... [more]

Sun (2008, 5.4MB, 30 secs) Utterly ravishing Lumière from the never predictable, always interesting, Rupert Howe. On that summery note, we’re going to take a rest in the sunshine. We love doing DVblog, but the daily deadline definitely takes its toll after a bit. We’ll be getting ready to hit the ground running again around 16th Sept. & we’ll still keeping our eyes peeled for the new, for the weird & (best of all!) for the wonderful. Have a great summer! Brittany, Doron, Michael.... [more]

I usually keep shameless self-promotion to a minimum here, but what the hell. I was asked to give form to formlessness over in Chinatown, come check it out.Horror! Shock! Frenzy! Devastation! Murder!and the Most Grotesque Monstrosity of AllBreaks Looseon the Most Significant Art District in America!A Double Feature of Titanic Abilities and Frightening Potential!Chinatown LA is Proud to Presentan Andrew Berardini Production'How to'and 'Film Noir'with IntermissionStarringBob Ross, Joe Sola. John Baldessari, Karl Erickson, Erin... [more]

Roberta Smith reviews a Bronx Museum Group show and only finds a few things to like, notably Blanka Amezkua and Jeanne Verdoux. She was so taken with what she found mediocre that she turned the whole review into a criticism of art school. I’d say the whole market could fall under the same evil glare. Here’s a clip: It does gives me pause that 26 of the 36 artists have master’s degrees in fine arts from respected universities or art schools. I think most of them should ask for their money back.... [more]

Crowd Awaits Obama's Speech in BerlinRemarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery)“A World that Stands as One”July 24th, 2008Berlin, GermanyThank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to... [more]

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Douglas McLennan: "The kind of mystery here is that as arts journalism disappears out of the traditional media, what replaces it, and how do you build a business model that supports people to do blogs?" Greg Cook: "My thinking is that at some point within the next five years the newspaper industry will tip and most all newspapers will shift to web-mostly." Norman Lebrecht: "There are two reasons why newspapers are getting rid of established critics. The obvious one is th... [more]

Glowlab’s Christina Ray has just returned from a trip to two of our favorite cities- London and Copenhagen. In London she spent 3 days with Cutup, who will be joining us at Conflux for the second year in a row. Check our photos of CutUp’s latest work being installed in Hackney, East London. From London Christina traveled to Copenhagen to participate in the Metropolis Lab symposium, where she enjoyed a series of thought-provoking presentations by international artists and presented a talk abo... [more]

Click to Play Enjoying the season so much that I decided to expose my toes to the city air, very rare for me.  This required the purchase of a new pair of shoes conveniently enough! ... [more]

The 2008 Stencil Festival will be held in Melbourne at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery in Vere St, Abbotsford, from 1 to 10 August. Highlights of the exhibition will be presented in Sydney at Pine St Creative Arts Centre from 1 - 31 October.To celebrate Stencil Festivals 5th anniversary we will present an exhibition called Five Continents - Six Artists which features the following artists:A1one (Iran - MiddleEast/Asia)Klingatron (Scotland - Europe)Daniel Melim (Brasil - South America)Larry Cyr (USA - North Ame... [more]

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"This is about as exciting as looking at someone's stock portfolio."Overheard in the magnificent elevator between floors at of the new Broad* Contemporary Art Museum at the L.A. County Museum of Art, which according to Christopher Knight's thoughtful review at the LA Times, featured 80% works by Gagosian-represented artists and only 3 women (out out of 28 artists, and frankly, we were only able to spot Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman, so maybe the third was installed in the restroom).*no relatio... [more]