- 21 Jun 10
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Out of Focus Silhouette
Working image that I just shot.
Working image that I just shot.
This is the tiniest model I’ve made. Today, I built the building and sign today for a complete setting.
I took apart the hotwheel town and saved a few of the house. Here is number 18.
From the BBC, experts think the remains discovered in a Tuscan church almost certainly belong to Italian Renaissance artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
Larry Sultan Sharon Wild 2001.
Today, I was reading a NYTimes article on the Brooklyn Museum’s failure to draw in the crowds despite their “populist” approach. It made me think about how annoying I found the displays in the art portion of the Oakland Museum of California. At the mention of the new glass front of the Brooklyn Museum (added years ago), I realized there was nothing structural at the Oakland Museum with which I have an objection—the exploratorium aspects could be easily erased. It is mostly just paint and vinyl letters on the walls and some free standing displays. So, hopefully there will be a return to white or at least white-ish walls and less “lounges.”
Sharon (not her real name) was the cover image of Larry Sultan’s book The Valley (2004). The photo is currently on view at the Oakland Museum of California. At the time Sultan was taking photos for the project, I was taking picture of various models for a project I have yet to do.
A photo of Sharon I took circa 2000/1.
Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 108 by 84 inches, 2000-1.
Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, discussed vision, art, and the biology of seeing at the HIrschhorn.
Here is the podcast of the talk. It is 53:37 in length.
the entrance
I went to the art section of the Oakland Museum of California for the first time since they reopened. It seems more like an exploratorium than an art museum. They have interactive sections setup throughout. It was all rather leading and didactic, and not a good thing. The new addition was quite nice, but still had a lounge in it, next to the conceptualist art that sought to address the various practices within that mode of art making by allowing one to choose if their samples were art by leaving a yes or no ticket in the container in front of each object among other things to do.
The wall says “Art. This word has no definition. Ambrose Pierce, author”
These sorts of wall texts were in every section.
From the permanent collection…
Richard McLean and Jack Mendenhall
Raymond Saunders
Here is Christopher Knight’s review
View of Lake Merritt from the sculpture garden.
There is something about Vija Celmins’ paintings that seems like they were always there.
Here is Roberta Smith review in the NYTimes of her show on view at McKee Gallery, 745 Fifth Ave at 57th Street through June 25th.
Untitled, 2001-6
German Artist, Sigmar Polke died last night after a bout with cancer. He along with Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg founded “Capitalist Realism” in the early 60s as a reaction to Socialist Realism and Pop Art. Over the years he produced a wide variety of art, mostly painting and photography, but in many different materials and modes of operation. [I’ll add to this later as I want to get the stories right.]
Unfortunately, SFMOMA recently deinstalled several of his works that were part of their 75 anniversary exhibit that focused on select artist, but maybe they’ll put one back up somewhere.
The painting above is from Michael Werners website.
screen grab from the website
Today, I got an email, possibly because of my posting of Alexandra Schwartz’s book Ed Ruscha’s Los Angeles, from KCET about their online documentary series, Departures. Regardless of how it found its way to me, the KCET site is worth digging around. I’ve mostly been on the Venice section as that was one of the links they sent me. It includes video interviews with Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and several others.
Here is the Departures main page—quoting the email “Explore, comment and share.”
