digging for chicory (2005, 3.6MB, 1:15 min.) doable (2005, 8.1MB, 3:31 min.) home economics (2005, 6.8MB, 2:06 min.) Chapter 4,5,6 from “A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness� by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir. Here philosophical bickering, an ever more luxuriant formalism & a mad -no other word - monologue on chainsaws & Amsterdam make for a rich dish & form this week’s back door to the sublime… Looks easy - bet it isn’t.... [more]

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Download audio file (Bad_at_Sports_Episode_141-Ryan_McGinley.mp3) download This week the West Coast Crew heads down to Ratio3 to talk to Ryan McGinley and gallerist Chris Perez. Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of nudes in abstracted natural landscapes. With his subjects as willing collaborators, he used photography to break down barriers between public and private lives. Drawn from skateboarding, music, graffiti and gay subcultures, his models perform for the camera and expose thems... [more]

I'll try, but really, words fail to describe the boundless joy I felt when, an hour or so ago, the decidedly Uptown lounge singer at Bemelman's (famed hotel bar of posh pied-a-terre, The Carlyle) did a cover of New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle. It was one of the most delightful moments of my life. (contented) sigh. 'Every time I see you falling...' [more]

Blu never ceases to amaze and delight us. His latest wall animation left us speechless. It was done in Buenos Aires and Baden took months to paint, film and edit. Once again Blu takes "the bar" and raises it to an even higher level... ... [more]

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A picture of my mom when we went to Japan in the 70's. She passed away in October 2005 and i still think of her everyday.Happy Mother's Day to all! [more]

WGS Open StudiosThe Washington Glass School is having their big annual open house and 7th Anniversary Party this coming Saturday. Tons of glass sculptures and bowls for sale as well as music, food, and class specials. This annual event is always a load of fun and a great way to grab some real fine art as well as some decorative bargains! Over two dozen artists in the area will be participating... so you don't want to miss this one - pencil it in now.Saturday, May 17th from 12noon to 5pm. Details... [more]

The reader profile is a regular series where I attempt to give something back to one of my readers. It typically includes some information about his/her online projects as well as a mini interview. Today we’re featuring Maria Reyes-McDavis from WebSuccessDiva.com. Maria offers a variety of services to help online entrepreneurs achieve greater success with their business. Her site of course covers all of the details about her services, plus she also posts to her blog. Some noteworthy posts that you should check out: Blog Design and La... [more]

Great to see that Saturday Night Live is relevant again. This clip gets my vote as the best political skit so far. [more]

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John Constable, Cloud Study, 1822Oil on paper laid on board, 19 x 23"Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature, 1836... [more]

We have been consistently annoyed at the mainstream media's enthusiastic spinning of white voters' support for Hillary Clinton as attributable to the racism of working class white men, with mostly only the blogosphere and Hillary's supporters arguing that Barack Obama's popularity is attributable to voters' sexism (not least the sexism of young "post-feminist" women). Both arguments are cynical and unproven (though perhaps not entirely false), but the mainstream media's preference for one narrativ... [more]

Not so long ago The Guardian asked us to recommend some music and club venues and we'd like to share our thoughts with you. To be frank, the clubs in Paris tend to be quite ringuard compared to the scene... [more]

303 Gallery's Simon Greenberg sent Mark Barry an e-mail telling Mark to remove two photographs of Maureen Gallace paintings from his flickr site, photos he took at the 2006 Armory Show (press preview?).hello mark -this is simon at 303 gallery. i noticed you had an image of Maureen Gallace's work up on your flickr page - please be aware that 303 Gallery owns the copyright to the work and all public display of images, including web content. if you could kindly remove this image from your page, it woul... [more]

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mailin their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard.-----Email Message-----Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:13 AMSubject: stretch marks and motherhoodMy first child is due on Wednesday and stretch marks appeared just this week. I could care less . . . I just want to meet my daughter!-----Email Message-----Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 2:37 PMSubject: Mom and cancer postcard.My mom died of cancer when I was 17. I'm almost 24 now and I'm still angry and I'm still sad, but I'm finally ha... [more]

a small sculpture of a man getting shot from behindclick here via who killed bambi?.... [more]

Photographs from the Church of the Rough Guide at OTO last night are now up at Flicker. Yes, some people ate the shrimp off the walls. OTO’s Flickr set [more]

The Montreal Gazette has a story on Peter Paul Biro, the "forensic analyst and art restorer" who's been accused by the Fine Art Registry of using forged fingerprints to bolster the case for authenticating an alleged Pollock painting. (See earlier post here.) Biro says he "has mandated a lawyer to sue." It's hard to see what FAR had to gain -- other than the right to pay a lot of legal fees defending the lawsuit -- by speaking up here.... [more]

Our big news for May is that the 2008 Conflux Festival Call for Proposals is now open! Submit your proposal before the May 31 deadline and see ya in September. Speaking of Conflux, past festival artist Bettina Johae has a beautiful new website documenting her Borough Edges project, which is also featured in the “Eminent Domain” exhibition at the NYPL. Glowlab artist Heather L. Johnson recently shared her skills to create a special embroidered piece for Scope Basel. Beka Goedde’s work was... [more]

Chris Marshall lives and makes his artwork in the UK. I met Chris in 2000, in Brussels, when he came there as part of a cultural artist exchange between UK and Belgian artists. A reciprocal exhibit entitled Terre à Terre, organized by A.P.T. (Art in Perpetuity Trust) Gallery, an artist collective located in Deptford, S.E. London; Maison de l'Art Actuel des Chartreux, Brussels, a contemporary art gallery with resident studio space (similar to our LUX Institute); and my space, Abel Joseph Gal... [more]

Thai artist Korakot Aromdee is a product of his surroundings. His art pairs one of his home town's most abundant resources with the time-honored Asian art of kite-flying. In creating his large scale sculptures and hanging lighting, he employs the "tie and knot" technique from kite construction, which he learned from his grandfather. He uses only bamboo, and specifically bamboo that is aged more that three years and properly smoked to ensure strength and pliability. He chose the material due to its ren... [more]

Modern Art Obsession, a blog well worth visiting and reading, is written by a dedicated collector of photography (Mike, a "youngish NYC Art Collector, working on Wall Street by day, and a total art fanatic by night and weekend" as he describes himself). It does, however, occasionally feature other media as well. He recently wrote about visiting Art Chicago "Possibly the best thing about going to Art Chicago this year for MAO, was the VIP program, and getting to see the Richard and Ellen Sando... [more]

04.20.08-06.08.08 The Renaissance Society, , review written by Britany Salsbury [more]

Still Life with Fruit and Champagne by Helen Searle In my house there's the five-second rule: if some edible falls on the floor and you snatch it back in the alloted amount of time, it's still good enough to eat. Germs only begin to appear after the sixth second. Today, I stood in front of Helen Searle's Still Life with Fruit and Champagne and thought, this spread looks pretty good for being nearly 140 years old. Searle, born in Burlington, Vermont in 1830, painted this still life when she was thirty-si... [more]

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Your weekend awesome: Jumping in Art Museums. Yes, really. [more]

While in Europe I've been working on this project called Check-In Architecture (making videos, writing essays, conducting interviews, maintaining a second blog, travelling incessantly, etc), I've been a bit lazy about posting the details but I'll get to that sometime in the next couple of days.In the meantime, I did an interview with an artist I found really compelling at the Berlin Biennial named Ahmet Ögüt. Ahmet himself goes into a lot of the background information about his projects and pr... [more]

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From the hyperbolic, apparently world-wide, email misleading people about Guilermo Vargas Habacuc's "starving dog" piece to the response by certain members of PETA, In Defense of Animals, and The Animal Liberation Front to the exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute by Adel Abdessemed (titled "Don't Trust Me") that was closed after a coordinated, sometimes threatening campaign to stop it, there seems to be momentum building, under the guise of "protecting animals," to declare artistic explorations of how humans treat animals so off limits that it is, quite... [more]

Pfeww, with all these art things, all the poor you who cannot buy a Jonathan Herder drawing for Mother's Day are starting to feel the heat. What, but what the heck can you do for your respective Moms in time for that day? No panic! FBC! is here to rescue you with a killer muffin recipe to serve for breakfast on Sunday (or tea, or dessert, depending on your Mom's tastes). Careful! the quantities [more]

1967's "Toy of the Year" was the embodiment of controlled emotion in the face of that decade’s social unrest and conflict: John Bowers remembers The Spirograph. [more]

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Taking a line for a walk - or maybe a fly... a sort of drawing, seen from 20,000 feet or so. Beautiful, isn't it? [more]

Monday, May 5th wasn't exactly a typical Cinco de Mayo celebration, but there was dancing and singing...and drinks weren't absent from the scene either. My roommate and I headed out to the Staples Center (7th/Metro Red Line Station is just a few blocks north) to see the Alicia Keys' "As I Am" concert. The tour has been in the press lately because of one vocal incident or another - first Jordin ... [more]

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

Why do you show your art? That’s one of the questions we are asking in our interviews for the ASCA film. We have gotten a few pretty standard replies and one person didn’t understand how we could ask that question. It was taken for granted and never thought about. Is it an ego boost? An opportunity to make money? (with the noble cause of producing more art no doubt) Do we show to gain the respect and admiration of our peers? To boost our visibility and become famous? To share the inner... [more]

Everyone ought to see this video of Prince covering Radiohead's "Creep" before Prince makes it too hard to come by—copies have already been disappeared from Youtube. You know that's what Prince does all day: Surfing the Web for unauthorized copies... [more]

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Occasionally exhibition opportunities arise that I cannot pass up. It might be the chance to expose my work to new audiences, or perhaps a curatorial relevance to my art practice will catch my attention. That said, the Art Anonymous fundraiser is not only a good cause but offers me the possibility of expanding the idea of anonymity into a unique project.For their first Art Anonymous fundraiser, benefiting the Corcoran College of Art + Design’s BFA Scholarship Fund, the Corcoran Gallery... [more]

Conflux is the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space. http://confluxfestival.org Save the dates: the 2008 festival takes place September 11 - 14 throughout New York City. To submit a proposal to participate in the festival: http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/submissions/ The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2008.... [more]

Apparently unfortunate juxtapositions like this occur when online ads are somehow keyword driven. It's unfortunate and disturbing yet very telling. Click the image to view my original screenshot. CET is currently in Japan and was in London during last summer's catastrophe in Myanmar. We are hopeful that her family is safe in Rangoon. ... [more]

Forces in nature impact our very existence from moment to moment, yet most are beyond our awareness. Thermal dynamics, gravity, electromagnetism, vibration, growth, love and emotions are some of the unseen forces that will be represented in this upcoming show. The Master Designer, Nature, is our mentor and inspiration. Our challenge as artists is to make the invisible visible, and the intangible tangible through the rigors of the creative process. It is our intention to have our creative endeavors... [more]

On May 1st, 2008, the Los Angeles Times reported that famed L.A. muralist Kent Twitchell settled his lawsuit against the U.S. government for obliterating his six-story mural depiction of artist Ed Ruscha. Starting in 1978, it took Twitchell nine years to complete his mural on an outside wall of the L.A. headquarters of the U.S. Department of Labor. In 2006 the mural was deliberately painted over [more]

The first of three MFA shows from the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago opened Thursday. This Saturday an event by Joe Miller centered around his ongoing social/graffiti/art/work/experimentation at the Empty Bottle takes place. Look for more info on the MFA shows at the bottom of this post.> BOTTLE Gordon Matta-ClarkThe Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art closes this Sunday. So make sure you stop by for this excellent exhibition if you havenâ�... [more]

There is art in everything, everything has the potential of art. However, art should not be available as an excuse for fascist killers. Michael Stone is a sectarian killer of the worst kind who has served much time for horrendous slaughter. While his most recent escapade, for which he is standing trial, may be indicative of mental health issues, it is not art that should come to his defence. I can't believe that any 'academics' would play a role in such a charade - but if they do, I await the... [more]

There is, again, a fair amount of buzz about the health of the Art market these days. Robert Frank at the Wall Street Journal recently raised the spectre of a decline, based on the 50% fall in Sotheby’s share price over the last 6 months. He points a finger at the rise in guarantees offered by Sothebys to sellers over the last year, something we talked about last August, and the potential for buyers to default on agreed purchases. Then Marion Maneker at Slate issued a well argued riposte, pointing out that the rise in debtors on Sot... [more]

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Over 600 complete mtDNA genomes from indigenous populations across the continent were analyzed and the data provided surprising insights into the early demographic history of human populations before they moved out of Africa. The extensive data analysis revealed that early human populations were small and isolated from each other for many tens of thousands of years. Originally from ScienceDaily: Latest Science News, ReBlogged by GOOD on Apr 25, 2008 at 02:32 AM ... [more]

Paul LeePeres ProjectsShow Closed March 29, 2008 When viewing Paul Lee’s work at Peres Projects, I thought of Robert Rauschenberg and an old chestnut that still gets theorists and historians all riled up in the arts, namely that there are two ways of looking at Robert Rauschenberg. Some critics see his work in terms of the critique of modernist painting, especially Abstract Expressionism. For [more]