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artblog (featured blog Feb 20 - Mar 1)Representation Reconsidered in MontrealLately, I’ve noticed that colour and Quebec seem to go hand in hand. From the Claude Tousignant retrospective last year and the Francine Savard show currently at the MAC, colour has been the subject of objective consideration – not being used as a means to enliven a work of art but as a way to express ideas about the creation of art. The works of architect/artist Rodney LaTourelle and multimedia artist and performer Matthew Biederman are no exception. The moment you walk into the Centre de design de l’Université du Québec À Montréal (UQAM) space, your eyes grow wide with the vibrancy of the colours in the room.
 ... Read the rest of "Representation Reconsidered in Montreal"Weekly Update – First Friday roundupThis week’s Weekly has my December First Friday roundup. Copy below with a few pictures.
“Slo Mo” at Germ Books and Gallery is a valedictory exhibit celebrating three now-defunct artist collectives— Pifas , Bobo’s on 9th and the Philadelphia Athenaeum . The group show, curated by Pifas member April Glaser , has colorful and psychedelic works by artists affiliated with the three spaces. It will hardly be a sob-fest. Paintings, sculptures and video by artists Lindsay Kovnat , W.J. Hyatt , Brian McKelligott , Bobos and others will make the show as jolly and noisy as a New Orleans Second Line parade.
Art Basel Miami Beach goes for the goldHow many gold sculptures did we see at Art Basel Miami Beach today. Uh, we lost count. Here are just a few of the artists.
 Madeln , Spread 023. silver and gold chain word art laid out on the floor and lit by flashlights, at Shanghart
James Lee Byers’ golden zen globes
Marilyn Minter’s golden tongue
Chris Martin turns cardboard into gold
Rudy Stingel̵... Read the rest of "Art Basel Miami Beach goes for the gold"Miami heat beatFasten your seat belts, we’ve assigned ourselves to cover the Miami art fairs beat. We’ll be there with Andrea Kirsh and if you’re down there come see us at the artblogger’s panel at Art Miami on Saturday, 11-2 pm, Art Miami Lecture Hall. We’ll be on the panel with a bunch of other artbloggers like Joanne Mattera, Hrag Vartanian, Paddy Johnson, Sharon Butler and Thomas Hollingworth.
Among topics under discussion will be whether bloggers — in the more democratic arena of cyberspace — have changed the relationship between critic and reader, or critic and artist.... Read the rest of "Miami heat beat"Kelsey Halliday Johnson at the Green Line CafeEbullient drawings of heaving landscapes and meditative mark-making by Kelsey Halliday Johnson, now up at the Green Line Cafe, caught my eye on my way in for a cup of joe. I was drawn in by the mix of gorgeous colors and powerful geographical forms.
 Kelsey Halliday Johnson, “Faulting like breaking bread,” acrylic on paper, 65×33 inches
Filled with repetitive dots and dashes and shapes, the dra... Read the rest of "Kelsey Halliday Johnson at the Green Line Cafe"December Picks on MapsArtblog’s picks for December are now up on maps & listings. See for yourself and pick for yourself. If you haven’t submitted yet, submit!... Read the rest of "December Picks on Maps"
Books to consider for holiday giving Rabari mirror-work (embroidery with appliqued mirrors)
Threads and Voices; Behind the Indian Textile Tradition, Laila Tyabji, ed. (Marg Publications, Mumbai: 2007), ISBN 8185026793
India has an extraordinarily rich textile tradition but this is not a book about beautiful fabrics. Rather it tells stories of the village craftsmen (spinners, weavers, printers, dyers and embroiderers) who produce hand-worked textiles today. Eleven studies from eight states across India examine the conflict they face between individual creativity and market forces, tr... Read the rest of "Books to consider for holiday giving"Monnier on Rachel Harrison at One Review a MonthIf you are in the throes of questioning why you are making art and are looking for support for this decision, this month’s post by Annette Monnier on her blog One Review a Month is not to be missed. Monnier’s doubts about the value of all art production were inspired by Rachel Harrison’s exhibit Consider the Lobster, at Bard College.... Read the rest of "Monnier on Rachel Harrison at One Review a Month"
(Picture) Postcard From Paris Henri Cartier-Bresson. On The Banks Of The Marne, 1938. Everyday life as metaphor.
After the crowds at the FIAC in Paris subside, the gathering at Paris Photo, held in the Carrousel du Louvre, creates a different kind of picture show. Intimate and targeted to serious collectors of photography, only 89 galleries, and 13 publishers including book dealers and other image merchants appear fresh and pressed in the well-appointed marble basement of the world’s largest museum.
Paris is a good place for this kind of art schmooze because it was Frenchman Louis Daguerre (1787 – 1851), who... Read the rest of "(Picture) Postcard From Paris"“Incarnational Aesthetics” in New York and Cool Conversations around Barkley Hendricks at PAFA Liilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen's performance 'How to Break the Great Chinese Wall' 2009
Jenny Jasky is Philadelphia’s loss and New York’s gain; she recently moved and already found an outlet, curating an exhibition at NYCAMS (New York Center for Art and Media Studies) with Stamatina Gregory. Incarnational Aesthetics (Oct. 24-November 25, 2009) is one of those idea-driven exhibitions where I found the work provocative but couldn’t entirely reconcil... Read the rest of "“Incarnational Aesthetics” in New York and Cool Conversations around Barkley Hendricks at PAFA"Shelter at the Painted BrideA mix of some great art and lots of good will make up the exhibit Shelter at the Painted Bride. The exhibit asks the question, What really matters to sustain us as human beings? While not literally answering that question, a number of answers are on display here, and it is those compelling, individual answers that make this show tick.
 Matt Savitsky's rendering of Panina Brown's original lullaby
The back story is that curator Marianne Bernste... Read the rest of "Shelter at the Painted Bride"Whatever you’re cooking – Happy Thanksgiving!From today’s NY Times, a story with a great graphic showing who’s cooking what in various parts of the country. The maps are based on inquiries yesterday to allrecipies.com, the top US cooking site, on how to make what. Sweet potato casserole was the top search followed by pumpkin pie. Happy dinner wherever you are!
 Cherry pie in the great middle country
... Read the rest of "Whatever you’re cooking – Happy Thanksgiving!"Weekly Update – Talking with Barkley HendricksThis week’s Weekly has my article on Barkley Hendricks’ Birth of the Cool at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Below is an expanded version with more of the interview I did with the artist.
Bashir, Jules, Tuff Tony and Angie wouldn’t stand out in a crowd. But in Barkley Hendricks’ “Birth of the Cool” at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, these seemingly ordinary people, depicted in nearly life-size paintings, become new icons for a secular age. The works have such a sense of stillness that they feel almost like religious images.
Movie review: (untitled)The movie (untitled) mocks everything you love to hate about contemporary art and how it’s marketed. The movie also pokes fun at the pretensions in the atonal music scene (one of my fave lines–melody “is a capitalist plot to sell pianos.”
 Adam Goldberg, who plays a composer of pretentious noise music, standing in front of a Christopher Wool parody in the movie (untitled).
Murray and I probably would never have gone to see it, b... Read the rest of "Movie review: (untitled)"Post your listings for Dec. and Jan.The maps & listings page is eager to accept your December and January shows and events. If you put in your December listings last month, they are still in there. We are still not automated, so please have patience. The new December listings will be going up early next week, but that automation is coming early next year. We can’t wait!!!!... Read the rest of "Post your listings for Dec. and Jan."
Finley and Muse at Haverford and Hollis Frampton at International House Finley & Muse, still from "Lost"
Imaginative Feats Literally Presented; three fables for video projection, an exhibition of Jeanne C. Finley and John Muse’ work is on view at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery through Dec. 11. Muse teaches at Haverford and Finley at California College of Art and they have collaborated for many years. Like all fables, theirs deal with big ideas: vulnerability, fear, family, safety, truth and fiction, ... Read the rest of "Finley and Muse at Haverford and Hollis Frampton at International House"What’s it Worth? Works on Paper at Arcadia–the showThis is part 2 of a 2 part post. Part 1 is about the talk delivered by show juror Joao Ribas.
Ribas’ choices for the Arcadia Works on Paper exhibit raise issues of sharing, reproducibility and loss of copyright control. They raise disturbing questions about the value of all art at a time when works on paper have never been more highly valued.
 James Johnson, 14K Sentences on C... Read the rest of "What’s it Worth? Works on Paper at Arcadia–the show"Sweet horror tripDead of the Living Night at Space 1026 is a mash note for horror movies with a surprise psychedelic candy-coated center.
 Neon sign on the black box created for Dead of the Living Night
Jonathan Cammisa and Jonah Birns, two former Philly artists now living in New York, collaborated on the installation of mock movie p... Read the rest of "Sweet horror trip"Jeanne-Claude of Christo and Jeanne-Claude dies, age 74Sad news. She of the flame red hair and peppery personality. NY Daily News story. Thanks to Andy Carvin via Megan Wendell.
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Techno wonders from DelawareIn a show that should attract all the techno-art hackers out there, the University of Delaware faculty show themselves able to out-techno the technologists. Feats of tech derring-do abound in video and mechanical and electronic wizardry. Things growl and click at you in this show and the art doesn’t stand still. Neither do you as it surrounds you in some surprising ways.
 Lance Winn and Simone Jones, Knock, Script by Hope Thompson. Made Possible by the Banff Art Center 2007
Best of all is Lance Winn and Simone Jones’ murder mystery video Knock with a dea... Read the rest of "Techno wonders from Delaware" |
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