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Big ups to self-proclaimed "backpack hip hop designer of the 21st century" and creative director Kevin Lyons, whom I had the distinct pleasure of working with at Tokion way back when! And I mean waaaaay back...... [more]

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.(Secret posted last week) The morning after you hit our 10-year old daughter, we all stood there and watched as a fan asked for your autograph.-----Email Message-----I've been clean for years but can't listen to Lou Reed's Heroin because it makes me feel like I've relapsed.See More Secrets. Follow PostSecret on Twitter.FB.init("13e00bfb9f5ce7529ce1ae88a47d8233");PostSecret on FacebookThe new book is available from bookstores and online.The new b... [more]

Dramatic DiningNow in its fifth year, the Food Glorious Food art show and associated 2010 calendar will be unveiled by the Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) at Woolly Mammoth Theatre on Thursday, December 3, 6-10pm, with a Calendar Launch Celebration and Silent Auction to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank, celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2010. Emcee for the evening will be WUSA 9 News Anchor Andrea Roane.Cooked up by ZCAF in 2005, Food Glorious Food’s menu of food, art and charity i... [more]

Sonia Rykiel for H&M lingerie–– in stores December 5th Vintage Fringe Ear Cuff–– $18 at Nasty Gal UltraHD Camcorder–– $200 at Flip Leica C-Lux 3 Digital Camera–– $500 at Saks Fifth Avenue Maestro Liquid Eye Liner–– $30 at Giorgio Armani FILM IST. a girl & a gun at Anthology Film Archives–– tickets $9... [more]

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Mica / Videoblog from media artist Mic 11/21/09

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A 3d animation created over the course of 5 years documenting the graffiti on the wall outside of Serge Gainsbourg home.,,, Serge Gainsbourg - animation des graffitis sur 5 ans du mur rue de Verneuil from Arnaud Jourdain on Vimeo.... [more]

Preview of Yeondoo Jung’s piece - Cinemagician, commissioned by Performa 09 and presented at Asia Society. Video courtesy of Asia Society On November 19th and 20th, Asia Society hosted one of 9 individual artists commissioned to conceive a piece of interactive art specifically for the 3nd Performa Biennial that has been remastering the landscape of New York art scene for the last two weeks. Yeondoo Jung’s Cinemagician is a project of one of the most prominent Korean artists working today. Comb... [more]

Preview of Yeondoo Jung’s piece - Cinemagician, commissioned by Performa 09 and presented at Asia Society. Video courtesy of Asia Society On November 19th and 20th, Asia Society hosted one of 9 individual artists commissioned to conceive a piece of interactive art specifically for the 3nd Performa Biennial that has been remastering the landscape of New York art scene for the last two weeks. Yeondoo Jung’s Cinemagician is a project of one of the most prominent Korean artists working today. Comb... [more]

Preview of Yeondoo Jung’s piece - Cinemagician, commissioned by Performa 09 and presented at Asia Society. Video courtesy of Asia Society On November 19th and 20th, Asia Society hosted one of 9 individual artists commissioned to conceive a piece of interactive art specifically for the 3nd Performa Biennial that has been remastering the landscape of New York art scene for the last two weeks. Yeondoo Jung’s Cinemagician is a project of one of the most prominent Korean artists working today. Comb... [more]

"Ragged, jagged melody."... [more]

reminder - SUBWAY ��� 1 ��� 2 ��� 3, a new three-channel projection by G.H. Hovagimyan at OTO tonight 7 to 10pm more information... [more]

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.John Haber on New Museum controversy. Is our Dear Leader still talking about this on facebook?"The museum is doing a fascinating project" argues Jeffrey Deitch. Deitch is also curator of the Joannu collection.Deitch employee (and artist) Kathy Grayson requests "a little respect for the inderdisciplinarity we all celebrate", lauding Jannou's brilliance and the "obvious coolness of the most important artist of the last few decades doing a curatorial project"."If Louis XIV was alive today he'd own a... [more]

  I do not know why I bother posting images.  Any picture I have seen has not done Alex Grey’s work justice.  Grey is far more than the commercial, psychedelic artist he may appear to be; he is a master figure painter, educated anatomist, and a perfectionist-he was touching up one of his paintings during the opening reception.  And, yes, he did the album cover for Tool’s 10,000 Days. The Art of Alex Grey at the Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion at Orange Coast College showcases the various styles Grey has explored... [more]

The new issue of e-flux/journal is up online and I am giddy over it.  This is their tenth episode as the journal, which makes it nearly a year old, as they publish monthly. Though the journal is a relatively new application of the e-flux program, e-flux.com has been around since January 1999 beginning with an email announcement about a small exhibition in a Chinatown Holiday Inn hotel room.  A decade later e-flux is still based out of New York with far reaching out posts in Berlin, and the corneal recep... [more]

For many, gifts with a three-figure price tag make a generous offering, but this year Yatzer upped the ante with their guide of gifts for the ultimate in luxury and the pinnacle in price points. CH picked a few of the gifts that may just be worth saving up for—providing you have a very large piggie bank. Hasselblad's H4D medium format DSLR features a 60 Mpixel MF sensor and a new True Focus technology, an attribute built to provide outstanding focus throughout the entire image. The camera w... [more]

Hey ya’ll. There are quite a few shows I’m interested in the weekend, not all of which are getting dropped into the Top 5, but which still bear a mention: Bob Jones at 65 Grand, Ann and Maria Ponce at Packer Schopf, Joe Hardesty at Western Exhibitions, Creator/Curator at HungryMAN Gallery, and New Blood 3 at the Chicago Cultural Center. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it to everything, but you’ll be happy with any of the above mentioned selections along side any or all the shows li... [more]

When I heard that artist Jeanne-Claude had died, I went back to the blog post I wrote last year about her visit to American Art with her other half, Christo. Together, as husband and wife and as artists, Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been reinventing the contemporary art landscape for more than fifty years with their installations such as wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont Neuf in Paris, and of course, Running Fence, their monumental project in Northern California from the 1970s. Christo and... [more]

from the press release BOOKMEAT - The silent auction of a one-night-only library http://www.sidestreet.org/bookmeat Saturday, November 21, 2009, 6pm-10pm Event to be held at-- "The Brick Building" 8870 Washington Blvd. (between Robertson & National, next door to the Royal/T) Culver City, CA 90232 Side Street Projects PO Box 90432, Pasadena, CA 91103 626.798.7774 jon@sidestreet.org www.sidestreet.org Join LA's most intriguing & celebrated artists, writers and curators for a most unusual sile... [more]

My friend Stephan Walter along with James Ramsey and Tracey Ryans put this exhibition on. Art of the motorcycle 2?... [more]

This is the Thanksgiving edition of Vintage Photo Friday!At the head of the table, Grandpa Sam, Aunt Mae (standing), Grandma Freda, Cousin Marilyn, Cousin Janet, Uncle Bob, Aunt Celia, Mom (closest to the camera), Me, Cousin CarolynEvery year since I was a tiny girl, my Aunt Mae and Uncle Marvin have hosted our family Thanksgiving. Aunt Mae is my Mother's older sister. Here we are in 1956 at Mae's and Marv's duplex on Spalding Drive in Beverly Hills. After Dinner!L-R: My brother, Ken, Dad, Grandpa,... [more]

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I just dashed together Small Oil Abstractions, a place to purchase some of the small paintings from earlier this year. I will be updating it this weekend with better images. Thanks to Tracy for organizing the Fine Art Department.... [more]

Tomorrow, it is the 25th Worldwide Sketchcrawl. More info here. There is an interview with the creator of Sketchcrawl, Enrico Casarosa and after reading it, i hope you will be as inspired as i was. The act of drawing, seeing, looking, being aware of the moment is not only meditative, it makes me feel alive. I only heard about this event a couple of days ago and would have joined a group or make one of my own. Perhaps, i can do a solo sketchcrawl.Tonight - College Night at the deYoung Museum... [more]

Clarida and Bernstein on the recent Schrock decision (mentioned earlier here):"[T]he cases appeared to diverge as to three fundamental questions: (1) Is a photograph of a copyrighted work a derivative work at all? (the 'Definition Question'); (2) Must such a derivative work exhibit a higher level of originality in order to qualify for copyright protection? (the 'Originality Question'); (3) Must the creator of such a derivative work obtain separate specific permission to register his or her copyright, ov... [more]

Currently in the heartland, celebrating my father's 70th Birthday (Happy 70th, Dad!!!). Regular blogging to resume next week. [more]

Artists Write: Thinking While Making Things Jackson Pollock and Piero della Francesca Ride Lonesome, Part 2 -- David Reed The alternation s in this film between day and night both marks time and shows changes of mood. Day is for moving; night is for contemplation and conversation. These scenes are 'American night,' shot during the day with filters. Thus, although supposedly 'night,' there are strong, eerie shadows in the darkness, making night look like darkened day, daytime with an... [more]

I'm taking a Friday off. I'll have two more posts on Edward Burtynsky next week, plus I'll kick off our 2009 DonorsChoose.org drive. (Last year you gave $3,000 to help provide art education to 1,300 students!) [more]

If you live in LA, you can't have missed the hoopla about MOCA's 30th birthday and all the self-congratulatory stuff about the-museum-back-from-the-brink-celebrates-its-gala, with worldwide famous and famed art amateurs Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in attendance, to witness the Francesco Vezzoli orchestrated "performance" with no less than Lady Gaga. In case you wondered, tickets to attend the [more]

Auto Exposure and White/Black BGs (2009, 23MB, 3:53 min.) Educational video by Ian Parks. [more]

drawing by marguerita... [more]

This piece, along with 4 others, will be part of an art show called The 100 Euros Show in Stuttgart, Germany, opening this Friday.I think this is the first time my art has been shown outside of the U.S.If you're in Germany- GO CHECK IT OUT!... [more]

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Date: Friday, November 20, 2009 7:00pm Location: BlueStockings 172 Allen St New York, NY Wu Ming is a pseudonym for a group of Italian authors, "a band of guerrilla novelists" whom have collaboratively written several novels, including 54 (2002), Manituana (2009), and, under the pseudonym of Luther Blissett, Q (1999). read more [more]

11/18/2009 - 12/14/2009 4081021596_093359c966_o(2).jpg Uncommon Ground, Steve Lambert and Victoria Estok. Photo Christine A. Butler. Eyebeam is pleased to announce our call for next season's Residents and Fellows is NOW OPEN. Eyebeam Residencies are a 5-month opportunity for production and presentation of projects querying art, techn... [more]

Text by Kay Roberts - Opening tomorrow evening, Thursday 19th NovemberPURPLE DESK is a 30 part work, a series of 30 photographs, the offices of the cardinals in the Roman Curia, the Vatican City. Matthias Schaller was given access to these rooms, making portraits of place, but without the presence of each cardinal. The series was realised between 2004 and 2008 and is now a book published by Editions Steidl, this will be shown at the chapel, along with 2 other books by the artist published by Steidl. On... [more]

We’ve heard the business gurus: This is the age of creativity. Only the dreamers survive. The MFA is the new MBA. But hold on. Stefan Leijnen and Liane Gabora, researchers at the University of British Columbia, Canada, point out that too much creativity may not be a good thing. Their argument boils down to this: Innovation–creativity–is necessary to introduce new ideas. But for any innovation to take root, it must also be copied. Society depends not just on creators but also on followers.... [more]

ART MATTERS ANNOUNCES 2009 GRANTEES William Cordova Support for travel to Peru, Uruguay and 35 US states to document historic landmarks associated with radical community activist groups. Simone Leigh Support for travel to Durban, South Africa, to research contemporary material culture in Zululand. Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere Support for travel to Castelfidardo, Italy to attend the 34th annual Festival Internazionale Fisarmonica and tour the Borsini factory. Marc Andre Robinson Suppor... [more]

When it comes to social media marketing you’ll hear some people say that it is best opportunity out there for bloggers and website owners, and others will tell you that it’s a complete waste of time. In my opinion, and from my experience, social media brings a lot of potential for getting exposure to just about any website, but it should only be part of the equation. Other types of traffic like search engine visitors, direct visitors, and those who come via links from other sites are mor... [more]

Robert Pattinson’s got nothing on Francis Bacon! Who needs fan sites and movie trailers when you have ArtsConnectEd.org? See the slideshow presentation created by a Twilight fan, who uses artworks by Bacon and others to illustrate an outline of this, uh, literary sensation. It’s not too early to get a start on next year’s Halloween costume: Take inspiration from this paper-crafted self-portrait-as-helmet by 3D artist Eric Testroete, inspired by “big-head mode seen in videogames” Se... [more]

Robert Pattinson’s got nothing on Francis Bacon! Who needs fan sites and movie trailers when you have ArtsConnectEd.org? See the slideshow presentation created by a Twilight fan, who uses artworks by Bacon and others to illustrate an outline of this, uh, literary sensation. It’s not too early to get a start on next year’s Halloween costume: Take inspiration from this paper-crafted self-portrait-as-helmet by 3D artist Eric Testroete, inspired by “big-head mode seen in videogames” Se... [more]

In 1977 I set some small wood stakes in the front yard of the house I rented on Mariposa Street near downtown Los Angeles and stretched yellow twine between them, forming two large X’s on either side of the walkway leading up to our front door. The piece was called I Stake A Claim In LA and had the supplemental component of a want-ad I ran in the Los Angeles Times for the duration of the week the piece existed.As initial announcement of my arrival in Los Angeles, the stake piece served as my address... [more]

Artist Peter Walsh is a writing fellow for Performa ‘09. He just let me know about the project Scoring Performa, which has a number of writers, well, scoring the annual performance art festival. The resulting document is a wide variety of takes on what the assessment of art can be: critique, summary, reaction, etc. From Peter’s own post (an excerpt): “Some Notes on Liveness: Part One” By PETER WALSH I’m addicted to the privilege of “being there.” In a society where the eyewitness testi... [more]

Guido van der WerveMarc FoxxThrough November 28(disclaimer: this essay is not to be confused with the review of the show to follow in next month's ArtReview)A favorite of mine is Adalbert Stifter’s children’s story Rock Crystal from 1853. Stifter is not a familiar name in America, mostly because other than a few anthologized stories and his novel Indian Summer, he is out of print and virtually [more]

20 years ago today East Germany acknowledged that the Berlin Wall essentially meant nothing. This historic moment was carried out in the aesthetic visage of massive crowds gathering on either side, helping each other climb the wall, champaign popping and finally hammers giving way to cranes in the removal of the barrier. It was a powerful signal that heartened many and was basically the point of no return in the fall of Communism. I took this photo while visiting this past summer. To the left is the... [more]

The trouble with Agreements and Contracts is that it attempts to state clearly, for however many parties are involved, responsibilities. This can protect all parties involved in business. Some however use it as a tool to trap innocent parties. This makes us wary when it comes to signing anything. Rightfully so and as an adult, you need to be aware and Read Everything you sign. If you read it completely and have questions you need to raise those questions Before signing contracts and agreements.... [more]

Two portraits of Vladimir Mayakovsky by Alexander Rodchenko, via paris.blog.lemonde.fr Amazon.com Widgets James and I have been listening to this excellent box set of vocal music from the former East Germany. The widget above plays a sample of Friedrich Schenker's "Leitfaden fur angehende Speichellecker" (Guide for bootlickers-in-training) composed in 1974. The text is based on a 1927 poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky, in which the poet provides a satirical "guide for toadies" and at the end rips off the mask and says te... [more]