Entries Tagged 'READING, LOOKING' ↓

and see her current exhibition of the Tiwi Sistagirls at Nellie Castan Gallery, and be surprised at the transgressive conjunctions. There’s a slide show here.

In Basle. See here at ARCspace.

The best 22 structures of the recent past, according to Vanity Fair.

Iconophilia predicts. Facebook will destroy Hotmail, and everything else, in seven easy steps. 1. If there are x million teenagers using Facebook. 2. Each, like my stepson, relays a copy of every Facebook murmur, comment, like, and share to his Hotmail account. 3. His Hotmail account fills up with thousands of pointless messages – what he acknowledges is useless data (so much so that he doesn’t even look for real email messages anymore). 4. Email networks progressively sink under the weight of useless copies of Facebook chatter. 5. Each message uses energy to send, store, and, hypothetically retrieve. 6. Facebook is still growing exponentially. 7. Msg to Dr. Who! Here’s the crack in The Universe…

is by Jean Nouvel. See here on ArtDaily…

…it’s all been taken care of, thanks to Rep. Michelle Bachmann, seen here on Wonkette. Remember to keep breathing, and watch it all the way through!

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The Toledo Museum of Art names New Director Brian P. Kennedy to lead Museum. ArtDaily. But see his exit achievement, also on ArtDaily: the Owen and Wagner Collection of Aboriginal Art donated to the Hood Museum of Art.

in the flow of the moment, here’s the link to the Getty’s new exhibition: Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties. The show features the work of Philip Jones Griffiths, Leonard Freed, W.Eugene and Aileen M. Smith, Susan Meisalas, Mary Ellen Mark, Lauren Greenfield, Larry Towell, Sebastiao Salgado, and James Nachtwey. P.S. Can’t wait to see the book!

If this is “war art”, what position does it take? Is it sufficient to present upscaled readymades-altered to speak about the subject of war? I think not. One could hardly image a context more removed from the circumstances and experience of war than this. Fiona Banner presents Harrier and Jaguar as the Duveens Commission at the Tate Britain, seen here courtesy of ArtDaily. Each has been transformed (painted like a bird, polished like a mirror) and upended (recontextualised) in the Tate’s neoclassical museum space. The aestheticisation to which these particular functional objects have been subjected is therefore reduced to four actions: selection, surface treatment, re-orientation, and context.

Fiona Banner is quoted as saying: “It’s hard to believe that these planes are designed for function, because they are beautiful. But they are absolutely designed for function, as a bird or prey is, and that function is to kill. That we find them beautiful brings into question the very notion of beauty, but also our own intellectual and moral position. I am interested in that clash between what we feel and what we think.” How very English. Is that clash as in Margaret Thatcher, or Tony Blair? She’s not anti-war, just anti-these-wars, and their cost: “This work is not a direct response to the Iraq war. I marched against the war, we shouldn’t be there and the costs of Afghanistan are too high.”

It’s hard to find more than just the reworked press release to continue this discussion. Adrian Searle gushes excitedly at The Guardian… And Arifa Akbar is awe-struck at The Independent Blogs…