Category Archives: art
the guy behind Donkey Kong and Mario Super Bros.
is Shigero Miyamoto. He began as Nintendo’s first official staff artist right out of college and has since become Nintendo’s head creative guy in Japan. Miyamoto said something interesting in an article in American Way magazine (Nov 15, 2006): “Most … Continue reading
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more babies – NYC Day 2
Another satisfying day in the city. Bella’s greatest interest was getting to the Abercrombie and Fitch store on Fifth Avenue, so we made a deal to go to the Jewish Museum first for the Masters of American Comics exhibit. All … Continue reading
lotsa babies – NYC day Part I
Our first day in the city was very full of art, pizza, and Korean food, and hence very perfect. Chad and I first walked from 120th and Amsterdam to the Met on 82nd and Fifth. As we are calorie-burning, exercise-loving … Continue reading
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A consideration of sprawl in art and art-writing
Only from a self-consciously denaturalized position can we see how the appearance of naturalness is itself constituted. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble INDULGENCE Every beginning I wrote about Noah Purifoy’s art was critiqued as being too personal and not telling what … Continue reading
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November Vogue
A moment of thesis-related poignancy from Cate Blanchett: “Why do so many people seek stardom as its own end? I have a theory about the obsession with celebrity that seems to have consumed so much of our world: Don’t you … Continue reading
potty post
Intrigued by a mention of a show called “Weeds” in blueheliotrope’s blog, I did a quick search in google and came up with an article about a show called “Who’s Afraid of San Francisco?” at the Frey Norris Gallery and … Continue reading
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NYC To-Do List
A reason to visit MoMA while in NYC next month: Brice Marden retrospective. n.b. Must remember to borrow my friend’s membership card. There is a write-up of the exhibit here, but it talks more about Marden’s multiple property holdings around … Continue reading
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societe anonyme
New item for the Washington D.C. to-do list at Thanksgiving: the Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America exhibit at the Phillips Collection. Sounds fascinating. It’s based on 150 works of art from Katherine Dreier’s 1000-piece collection donated to Yale in 1941. … Continue reading
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wangechi mutu
I had to tear and save this article about Wangechi Mutu from the June 2006 Vogue after reading this little excerpt about what inspires her:”She remembers watching a 1992 demonstration in Nairobi during which a group of mothers protesting the … Continue reading
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self-reflexive blogging cannot be helped
Dang it, sometimes you have to post a link to something somebody else posted about. This time it is Zeke being un-American, which is fine since he’s Canadian, and also fine because anybody who posts un-American pictures of George Bush … Continue reading
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