Category Archives: art
Nauman's Green Corridor
I had really wanted to post this pic of Bella in Bruce Nauman’s Green Corridor when I posted about the Nauman show in Berkeley (great thinker, but he doesn’t give you much to look at), but I couldn’t find the … Continue reading
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Bella's Dad
An article today in the local paper, The Hi-Desert Star, about Bella’s dad. Read it here.
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Gordon Matta-Clark Retrospective
Aw geez. I was thinking about planning a little ski trip to Brianhead, Utah for spring break the first week of April, but now it’s looking like I’d rather go to NYC and see all the art there right now. … Continue reading
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andrea zittel coincidence
This is me checking an art work on Andrea Zittel’s property last year at the hi-desert test sites. It is a working phone booth in the middle of the desert. I was very entertained and promptly called myself. My caller … Continue reading
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nice quote about art
This quote by Styrian artist Werner Reiterer arrived in my email today embedded in an eflux ad: “I believe that art per se is actually always about to develop new rules as to how one may perceive the world†I’ll … Continue reading
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"Opening up view to the unvisible"
I want to see Gordon Matta-Clarks’s retrospective at the Whitney in NYC. It’s there until June 3, 2007 and Holland Cotter writes all about it here. I’m going to have so much fun when my thesis is done! (My absolute … Continue reading
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Sean Scully quote
“It is very difficult to keep doing something with a degree of fidelity that allows it to deepen and unfold during the course of a human life.” (from the January 2007 issue of Art in America, p. 118)
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San Diego things to do
I want to go to San Diego soon. First off, the Expanded Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) opened downtown January 21, 2007. And secondly, Sea World has a great deal until April 30, 2007: Buy a one-day pass … Continue reading
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Radical lace and subversive knitting
Despite the great name, this show at the newly-named Museum of Arts & Design (MAD is in NYC at 40 W. 53rd) did not get a great write-up in the NYTimes. The main criticism being that it relies upon out-of-date … Continue reading
fear of typhoons
Here is an excerpt from this article in today’s NYTimes called “Giants of the Heartland.” It is about a Japanese-American sculptor, Jun Kaneko working in Omaha making gigantic ceramic sculptures. Kaneko related a fascinating account of surviving a typoon in … Continue reading
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