There have been several welcomed additions to Berlin’s retail offerings in the past couple of weeks. One is the Image Mouvement video art space and DVD shop on Oranienbergerstrasse; another is the international magazine boutique Do You Read Me? Their website features highlights from current issues of some of the magazines they stock (and employs [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Design Observer has posted an interview with recent MacArthur Grant recipient Tara Donovan.
Untitled, 2003, styrofoam cups and glue
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Mother Jones offers a disturbing list of practices used to disenfranchise American voters.
(via we-make-money-not-art.com)
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Always a fall highlight for me, the New York Art Book Fair opens tonight and runs through the weekend. Looks like both the fair and the conference will feature a solid roster of participants. Sad to miss this.
Andrea Zittel delivered a lecture at Portland State University while we were in town. We stopped by hoping to have a listen, but the meagre lecture hall was filled to capacity and the doorways blocked with overflow attendees. PORT blog was kind enough to post a portion of the talk online:
The drop-off in updates during the past two weeks had something to do with the fact that we were in Portland preparing for our impending move to the west coast. There’s a lot to like about Portland. Here are a few examples: Its bridge-laced situation on the Willamette River. Its farmers market. Its compact, traversable [...]
Life is but a stage, especially if you live a tulou-style structure like the ones built by China’s Hakka people more than 1000 years ago. For those interested in trying out communal round-house living, Shenzhen-based Urbanus is developing a modern tulou in Guangzhou to provide some affordable housing China’s vast migrant worker population. The Cooper-Hewitt [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Fascinated by the synesthetic effect of Boudicca’s new fragrance Wode. The perfume is packaged in an aerosol-type container and leaves a striking cobalt blue mark when sprayed (see the video below). The color fades away after a few minutes, but this idea of a visual scent is intriguing and, well, probably good marketing.
Interview with [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Enjoying Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset’s animated “play” Drama Queens. This artworld send-up stars work by Alberto Giacometti, Ulrich Rückriem, Barbara Hepworth, Sol LeWitt, Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol and features the voices of well-knowns like Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes and Kevin Spacey. Gives new meaning to the notion that a work of art “speaks.” [...]
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Kent Henricksen has a solo exhibition—titled Absence of Myth—up at Torino’s Galleria Glance. Kent’s work was included in our By Hand book, so it’s been great to see how his work has developed over the past few years. Here are a few images from the show:
Devious Delight, 2008, 26.5 x 23.5 in. - 67.3 x [...]