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Wanna go to a Delaware opening tomorrow?The exhibition is called "Hispanic Lives, Latin Worlds: Simple Complexities" and the guest curator is Riccardo Stoeckicht, Vice President of Operations at the Rodel Foundation of Delaware. The opening reception is on my birthday, Saturday September 6th from 5pm-8pm. and the exhibition will be up until the end of September.More info here and also here.... [more]

With eye-catching design and advanced sensorial elements, the Morphosis Gamma is at the pinnacle of relaxation technology. The Morphosis line, which includes Alpha and Sigma models, was designed by Pininfarina, best known for designing cars at Ferrari. The Gamma's unique proportions allow it to fit in tight quarters, while providing the user with multiple seating orientations. It combines back and body jets to deliver a number of different hydrotherapy configurations. The Gamma's defining fea... [more]

First OCMA hires a new curator and now it's LAM's turn. This week the Laguna Art Museum announced that they hired Grace Kook-Anderson to fill the vacancy created when Tyler Stallings decamped to Riverside. Kook-Anderson comes to us via San Francisco where she curated shows for the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, the Wattis Institute and New Langston Arts. She will be responsible for all aspects of the museums curatorial program. Welcome to Orange County!... [more]

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Foxy Production is moving to a larger space on their same block on West 27th Street: the old Clementine space. Their next show (Jimmy Baker) opens there on October 17. ... [more]

Meta: haven’t done a good old geek post on the MTAA-RR in a while… I really want to go back to using BBEdit. Overall, it’s better than TextMate (especially the search). But it’s got this syntax coloring problem when editing JS in the head of an HTML page that DRIVES. ME. NUTS. Is pictured below: BBEdit 9 is a better than the previous version, but it gets tripped up on parans in the string if you put a forward slash in it as well (if you take the parans out it works correctly)... [more]

Mary Jo, Carla, Natalie, EllenYou know that I've always said, Granny Squares are the building blocks to fashion. Well, granny squares and all other types of squares can also be the building blocks to love. I'm so proud of my friends of the West Hollywood Stitch 'n Bitch in addition to members of the Santa Monica Fairview Knitters for contributing squares for two beautiful comfortghans for Frank and Oliver. The other day, angelic messengers Carla and Natalie gifted Frank and Oliver with the completed afghans. You... [more]

Time's Richard Lacayo Q&As with MoMA chief curator Ann Temkin;Glasstire's Titus O'Brien makes an art trek to the Texas panhandle. The best stuff -- on Cadillac Ranch/Amarillo Ramp enabler Stanley Marsh, his un-Gorky and such -- is about halfway down.The Washington Post's Blake Gopnik sees a real estate ad and Barbara Kruger.A Yale MFA student was kicked out of school because she "listened too much to her instructors' advice?"If you have or read a particularly smashing post that you want to make... [more]

The New York Times has more today on the dispute between Sotheby's and Cnet founder Halsey Minor, which I mentioned earlier this week.I've also heard directly from Minor, who gave me permission to print the following email:"Sotheby’s is spending all their time talking about what I said at this time or at that time or why I didn’t have the money, etc, etc. Why would they or anyone care? It’s just a lot of noise that is irrelevant. The only actual fact is they did not get the money."They of... [more]

From:       zjoajr@tom.com Subject:     Precision Parts Machining in China: fast delivery Date:     September 5, 2008 1:09:51 AM EDT To:       editor@artistsunite-ny.org We mainly focus on machining jobs with the lot size ranging from 100 to 2000 pieces on monthly basis. Please be advised with the basic information of our shop below: A. Facility & Machinery -Employers: 120; Space: 10000 Sq. feet; Certificate: ISO9000; -CNC lathe: 10; CNC mill: 8; Grinders: 3; Auxiliary machine: 35; Wire... [more]

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Yevgeniy Fiks Adopt Lenin September 5 - October 4, 2008 Opens September 5 6:00 PM - 8:00 PMWinkleman Gallery is very pleased to present “Adopt Lenin,” our first solo exhibition of new work by Russian-born New York artist Yevgeniy Fiks. Continuing his exploration of the post-Soviet dialog and the legacy of attitudes about Communism in the West today, Fiks presents a critique of the commodification and fetishization of the Russian Revolution’s legacy and imagery. Over the 15 years since the fall of the Soviet... [more]

{Affectionately nicked from Dilettantsia) What is your idea of perfect happiness?Boarding a private plane. What is your greatest fear?Minor infections. What historical figure do you most identify with?Boudicca. Which living person do you most admire?You. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?Empathy. What is the trait you most despise in others?Indifference. What is your greatest extravagance?Picking up the check. On what occasion do you lie?I don't. What do you dislike most ab... [more]

I know it's last minute, but if you're in New York Cityt tomorrow night (Friday) Sara and I are moderating an amazing panel at the New Museum of Contemporary Art at 7:30 pm. On the panel, and giving short presentations of their work, will be CutUp Collective from London, Leon Reid IV (of Darius + Downey) from New York, Betsey Biggs from New York, and Roadsworth from Canada. Click here for more info.... [more]

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FROGATE UPDATE Artforum.com reports in its International New Digest that according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung the Pope in fact did not in fact condemn Martin Kippenberger's Fred the Frog sculpture. "The statement that allegedly came from the pope was in fact a response from the Vatican’s state secretary to a letter from Pahl." Readers will of course remeber Pahl as the local magistrate that went on a hunger strike in protest of the Kippenberger work until he passed out.---WEEKENDERS ON OUR OWNWhile the wreckers of civili... [more]

Because I did forget to add the following to yesterday's Your Social Life post: Tonight there's the One Night Stand Hotel Art Show at the Beverly Laurel Motel, starting at 7PM until 11PM. I'm linking to Metromix because the Myspace page maintained by the hosts sucks, unfortunately. It should be fun, probably far less conceptual than the show curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist at the Carlton Palace [more]

Today Spencer leaves for Afghanistan to report for the Washington Independent. Again for the Indy, Laura McGann is in Alaska doing the vice-presidential vetting that John McCain never did. Yglesias has a rebuttal in the Washington Post to a Matt... [more]

One of my favorite instructors at the San Francisco Art Institute Bruce McGaw is being honored at the Walter and McBean Galleries at 800 Chestnut Street. Gallery hours Tuesday-Saturday 11 am to 6 pm. The exhibition will be on view from September 23 to October 4. I unfortunately will be out of the country during that time and i am very disappointed i will be missing the opportunity to see his work in person,to talk to Bruce and to get my hug.... [more]

isn't it nice? Have you ever wanted to yell out over a valley and a village?  To just let them know your alive and harsh their day?  Well you still can and all you need is a phone. From Unsworn Industries… Telemegaphone Dale stands seven meters tall on top of the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway. When you dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number the sound of your voice is projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale below. PH: +4... [more]

Gregg ChadwickSpeed of Life65"x49" oil on linen private collection San Francisco Just months before his death, I saw the painter RB Kitaj after a UCLA sponsored presentation he gave at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Kitaj saw a card gripped in my hand of my painting, A Walk with Ganesh, and he started our brief conversation saying, “Is that for me? I would like to have that.” I handed him the card and watched him examine the image of the painting in his hands, and then my face as we talk... [more]

Helen Ingalls begins the documentation of The Lost Pleiad while Michael Mansfield films the process. The Lost Pleiad, 1874-1875, Randolph Rogers, marble, 49 1/2 x 34 3/4 x 27 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1996.35 Julie Heath is the Program Coordinator for the Lunder Conservation Center, our open conservation lab. We asked Julie to fill us in on the Lunder's latest project. The Lost Pleiad, a marble sculpture by R... [more]

Habib-o-llah Sadeghi + Mahmoud Shalooyee (previous and curent Presidents islamic fine arts department)"Rappers,youth,Rock musicians,Artists and freethinkers are all Satanist!!!!!!!!"as been concluded in Iranian official news Program / Iranian Televisionand now this is a new shitJust see the New Law which has been Declared by Iraniabn ministry of Islamic culture and Education,Fine Arts Department: "All of official and unofficial Fine Art shows,Exhibitions,events and expo s should have the previous... [more]

Life of Her Party, today's Op-Ed by Maureen Dowd, the last brain at the New York Times.... [more]

Go Metro with ExperienceLA.com. The ExperienceLA.com YouTube Channel now features Metro videos. See our playlist of Metro Videos after the jump. ... [more]

tomatoes i have known...sad tomato.old lady tomato with no teeth.fat baby tomato.KITTY TOMATO!PUPPY TOMATO!pensive tomato.hey guys wait for me!angry young pirate tomato.old toothless pirate tomato.ghost tomato.... [more]

Please remember, we have moved to a new space NEW MAeX Artblog view it there. Don't forget to update your bookmarks and backtracks! Wednesday evening was RefreshMiami held this month at the Yahoo! offices in Coral Gables. We had a large crowd and each time to go to an event I get to meet more of the local internets people. I'm really happy to have that opportunity as most of them are really super people. I co-hosted an event at Diaspora Vibe Gallery last night, The Power of Email Marketing.... [more]

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The final paragraph of this story from the Berlin Jewish Museum just about sums up the horror and waste of the holocaust: "Yva, who grew up in an assimilated Jewish family, was forced to close her atelier in 1938 due to the work prohibition imposed by the Nazis. She then worked as an X-ray assistant in the Jewish hospital before she and her husband were arrested, deported, and murdered in 1942."Jewish Museum Berlin - A Vintage Print by YvaThe photographic collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin has acquired a new exhibit of considerable significance: The vintage print "Amor Shin" by the... [more]

Does it make sense to speak of free markets at all, when so many public and private institutions have a role in shaping what art, careers, and exhibitions? Does it matter that artists mostly never share the benefits? [more]

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Comics critic Sean T. Collins reviews my Melvins comic book " Your Disease Spread Quick.""Tom Neely is working the most fruitful vein of horror-slash-artcomics since Al Columbia."And he also gives a mostly positive review of my collection of comic strip poems "Brilliantly Ham-fisted.""...this collection of "19 comic strip poems" ... boasts some very strong work, including among them some of my favorite comics of the year."I still don't know the release date for the Melvins Boxset, but it should... [more]

If you do much reading in this niche, I’m sure you’re familiar with Blogging Tips. i’ve been following Blogging Tips for the past year (or a little longer) and I recently had a chance to interview Kevin Muldoon. I hope you will enjoy getting to know a little bit more about the man behind blog. I know Blogging Tips is just one of your sites. What others do you own? At the moment I don’t have many. I update my personal blog www.system0.net sometimes. I also have a joke blog I started last y... [more]

Damien Hirst’s decision to sell 223 new pieces direct to auction at Sotheby’s on 15 and 16 September represents the breaking of an unwritten rule: thou shalt not defile your dealer. While threatening the very gallery system that helped to make him a household name by selling his work in the first place (and supposedly nurturing and protecting his interests too), Hirst’s solo venture simultaneously slopes the playing field firmly in favour of the artist. He’s not only temporarily freed himse... [more]

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.-----Email Message-----Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 3:08 PMSubject: TruthDear Frank,I often look at your page and wonder if my friends mailed the secrets.Lately, I find myself looking at your page and wondering if I sent them.-----Email Message-----Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 2:18 AMSubject: I found a secret in a book ...Frank:While I was in a Barnes and Noble today with my friend and my partner looking at A Lifetime of Secrets, I found a... [more]

SEPTEMBER SWEETNESS (2008) I leave tomorrow to join the crew on the installation site at the South Beach Development area. Chaw Ei tells me everything is good so far and sugar structures look fantastic. The only issue now is time, and it's the clock we're racing against. That said, I don't know if I'll have the opportunity to upload material in the next weeks. It's going to be a marathon until the end. So this photo is going to have provide the best approximation of what's to come. Here Chaw Ei... [more]

I lost yet another to Montreal bike thieves. It is depressing and enraging… there is not much more I can say about someone who steals bikes. Here is a post I wrote a few years ago when Bike #2 was stolen : Open Letter to a Bike Thief. [more]

August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century Getty Through September 14th Jen Graves, who writes for Seattle’s The Stranger and runs Slog, wrote a line in a quick post several weeks ago that really affected me. After an open, loving description of an Alec Soth photograph using her own personal family history, she got defensive, saying, “If you think that's cheesy, let's just say this is also [more]

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

Some things we do together...: A collaborative performance series by former Swing Space Resident Shaun El C. Leonardo and Clifford Owens at Momenta Art opens on September 5th, 7-9 pm. "For the exhibition at Momenta, the artists have built a private performance room within the gallery. The series of performances will explore notions of exclusivity, privilege, privacy, and personal boundaries. Some events will be by invitation only, others will require the viewer to sign non-disclosure contra... [more]

The City of Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Division presents Latino Arts/OHIO 2008, a visual, performing and literary arts exhibition on view in the Concourse Gallery August 25 to September 19, 2008. The Concourse Gallery is located at the Municipal Services Center, 3600 Tremont Road, and is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. The exhibition features a fine arts exhibit curated by Egle Gatins and Elena Osterwalder showcasing a variety of artwork created... [more]

1. Park a car, any car, anywhere, because you can.2. Walk through the Tuileries.3. No-stress at BHV.4. Make the most of the national assumption that everyone is on vacation for your work.5. Nap.6. Ride the bus.7. Pretend you’re French when talking to tourists.8. Get first dibs on theatre / concert tickets.9. No line on a Sunday at Sacha Finkelstein’s.10. Reserve your bar stool at La Belle Hortense.11. Figure out how to work the Vélib,12. then get to know your bike route.13. Get a taste for good... [more]

I’m pretty excited to announce that out of the plethora of answers to the game I posted, nobody got all the answers right. I’m happy to report that this black and white interior picture (fig. 1) stumped everybody. I’m lucky to have found it; there aren’t many pictures available online of the interior of Monsanto’s House of the Future. Opened in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland in 1957, it was demolished in 1967, when they decided, ten years later, the white, plastic, Modernist future previ... [more]

I met the Helsinki-based artist couple Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen in early June 2008, during the opening of Arctic Hysteria at P.S. 1, an exhibition of sixteen artists (or artist groups) from Finland. It remains on view through September 15. I was overwhelmed by Mika Ronkainen's documentary of the Screaming Men's Chorus, a huge screen placed at the entrance to the show with a video projection of exactly what was advertised (men in black trekking over a glacier and screamin... [more]

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It began with a song – A Song for Europe.At an empty café, a singer recollects a faded love affair, projecting loss in elegiac melody. Remembering “moments lost in wonder that we’ll never find again,” he realizes how his world has become “a shell full of memories.” He has nothing to share with his now forsaken love except “yesterday,” his obsessive reveries doom him to retrace an endless past, trapped in the decadent European settings that now only mimic romance.More than homage... [more]

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TangentProjects, Art of Occupation; mixed media, 2008. photo: Steve Smith [more]