Line By Line

Great series of lessons on drawing by James MacMullan in the NY Times.

-James MacMullan

Christian Marclay's 24-hour video work: The Clock

So I just stumbled into the Paula Cooper Gallery on my way to the Gym at Chelsea Piers and I was transfixed by this strangely compelling film. I started watching at 4:20 pm and I soon realized that all of the clocks in the film said 4:20 pm. It took me a while to realize that time passed in the film just like real time!!! The film is composed of cut scenes drawn from the history of cinema and many recognizable actors and films are put in service of this clever conceit. I can rattle off a few that I can remember: Bette Davis, Humphey Bogart "Casablanca", Jack Nicholsen "About Schmidt"...
I plan to go back and see more as the show just opened and will close on February 19, 2011.

In The Clock, Marclay samples thousands of film excerpts indicating the passage of time. Spanning the range of timepieces, from clock towers to wristwatches and from buzzing alarm clocks to the occasional cuckoo, The Clock draws attention to time as a multifaceted protagonist of cinematic narrative. With virtuosic skill, the artist has excerpted each of these moments from their original contexts and edited them together to form a 24-hour montage, which unfolds in real time. While constructed from a dizzying variety of periods, contexts and film genres whose storylines seem to have shattered in a multitude of narrative shards, The Clock uncannily proceeds at a unified pace as if re-ordered by the latent narrative of time itself. Because it is synchronized with the local time of the exhibition space, the work conflates cinematic and actual time, revealing each passing minute as a repository of alternately suspenseful, tragic or romantic narrative possibilities.

MoMA is dead! Long live MoMA!

Here's my take on the NY Times article celebrating the re-birth from near death of MoMA.

Interesting take on how MoMA is settling in to the new space that seemed so unpromising when it first re-opened. I agree that Monet looked insignificant and that the Barnett Newman sculpture felt out of place; I also was delighted with the crowd pleasing foam cushions and felt that they added a humanizing element sorely lacking in the vast impersonal atrium.
I am too often repelled by the immense crowds that flock to MoMA and I find myself going less than I used to as it is more like Times Square and less like a haven for those who like to spend quiet moments with great works of art. For that, the Morgan and the Frick have always had a prime appeal.
Has \"Modern Art\" has become too popular? Perhaps the mission of MoMA has been fulfilled too well: crowds of tourists, toddlers and toadies swarm to every venue of the latest thing. So love/hate is the new MoMA and that push/pull is just another of the many NY City places that we all cling to and retreat from anew.
MoMA is dead! Long live MoMA!

What is to become of the Whitney Museum Building?

Great discussion on today's NY Times article about the fate of the Marcel Breuer building on 75th Street now that the Whitney has plans to vacate the site for new digs downtown.

The "uptown bunker for difficult art" is how I have referred to the Whitney for years; my wife calls it the "Whip-me Museum". It is both beloved and beleaguered and not unlike the Museum of Art and Design which has inherited the scorn of many from the Huntington Hartford building.
People joke about Target becoming the new owner but it will be worse: another Hermes / Lacoste / Ralph Lauren corporate showcase for sure will seize this museum and erase all the wonderful history of the love/hate relationship to the city that we all lave/hate.

Brushes on the iPad: Drawing in the 21st Century

Announcing a launch of a new blog about Drawing on the iPad using Brushes
Drawing 21
 http://drawing21.blogspot.com/


It's official: a major artist embraces the iPhone/iPad Brushes app to create a series of images for an exhibition!
David Hockney: Fresh Flowers at the The Fondation Pierre Bergé


Related Articles:

Canvas is just so 20th century

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-21/world/hockney.iphone_1_iphone-ipad-british-artist-david-hockney?_s=PM:WORLD

Gerhard Richter@The Drawing Center

Gerhard Richter
Lines which do not exist

"...approximately 50 graphite, watercolor, and ink on paper drawings made by Gerhard Richter (b. 1932, Dresden, Germany) over a period of five decades from 1966 to 2005."

September 11 – November 18, 2010
I was planning to go to the opening reception but something else came up. Gerhard Richter is always interesting. Here is a body of work that has never been shown before. Richter's huge retrospective at MoMA in 2002 apparently was not exhaustive, since drawings were not included in the 40 Years of Painting exhibit.
The New York Times reviewed the exhibit saying it was "superb".

A Daily Dose of Architecture

Here is an interesting blog about Architecture.

Sarah Morris: Pools

I've been asked to feature more women artists and so here is one of my favorite contemporary painters (who happens to be a woman). This is painting that is smart, insightful and thoroughly hip.

Personal Geometry @ Lori Bookstein Fine Art

Jan Müller
Untitled (Polyptych)
c. 1955
Oil on seven wood panels
46" x 40"

This is a show that is a must-see for me. I am always looking for a fresh perspective on geometric abstraction.
"Müller and Wilson, two painters whose work has been split between abstraction and representation, provide adept examples of paintings composed from the arrangement of humble squares, but which function foremost as matrices for the study of color relationships and personal moods." -from the press release for the exhibit


Personal Geometry
January 08, 2009 - February 07, 2009
Lori Bookstein Fine Art | 37 West 57th Street 3rd floor | New York NY 10019 | 212.750.0949 |

Women in Art

Here is a very engaging video that morphs through five hundred years of portraits of women in art. Enjoy!

Animatus Animation Links

Animatus Animation Links

Chromacolour | Pegbars | Canada

Chromacolour | Pegbars | Canada

Flash Frame-By-Frame Animation: Detailed Animation Part I

Flash Frame-By-Frame Animation: Detailed Animation Part I

3D Books

3D Books

Light Boxes for Sale: Cartoon Supplies

Disney Inks Stan Lee | Animation Magazine

Disney Inks Stan Lee | Animation Magazine

the TAB | Paperless 2D Animation Software for Web Designers and Broadcast | Download

the TAB | Paperless 2D Animation Software for Web Designers and Broadcast | Download

Music to See in NYC: Summerstage

Grat acts coming to NYC this summer: Joss Stoe. Cassandra Wilson and Television

Cubist Mashup #3

This image combines several components: a carafe, a wine bottle, a glass goblet and a projector contemporaneous with those seen by Picasso and Braque. The goal is to re-create a Cubist image that incorporates elements of the early Cinema apparatus (the projector) to prove the theis that Picasso and Braque embedded the machinery into there Cubist images.

Cubist Mashup #2

Starting with a photograph of a woman from the Victorian era, Photoshop was used to create a second image transformed by simple reflection; the was then overlaid onto an image of a tripod in an effort to replicate effects found in several images by Picasso.

Cubist Mashup #1

Using Photoshop, an image of a cinematograph was combined with an image of a Mandora (a type of guitar) in an effort to duplicate effects in a painting by Braque. In Photoshop, the clone stamp tool allows for painting multiple sections offset from the original Mandora.

Abstract Views of Maine - April 26, 2007 - The New York Sun

Abstract Views of Maine - April 26, 2007 - The New York Sun
This looks like an interesting show at the Anita Shipolsky Gallery.
http://www.nysun.com/article/53703

Van Gogh and Expressionism @ Neue Galerie by Al Doyle

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
White Tree Trunks, 1908
Oil on canvas, 67.5 x 77.5 cm
Brücke-Museum, Berlin

Here is a review of an outstanding exhibit at the Neue Galerie in New York City by Al Doyle.

IFILM - Video, User Video, Movies, Trailers, Music and Viral Videos

IFILM - Video, User Video, Movies, Trailers, Music and Viral Videos
Here is a mother-lode of Flash, Claymation adn Video.

Van Gogh and Expressionism @ Neue Galerie by Al Doyle

Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Autumn Sun, 1914
Oil on canvas, 100 x 120.5 cm
Private Collection, Courtesy Eykyn Maclean, LLC


Van Gogh and Expressionism @ Neue Galerie - Art Review - whitehot magazine of contemporary art
Here is a great opportunity to see Van Gogh alongside his most ardent admirers. I went to see this show, and it is near perfect in size, intensity and purpose.

wm | whitehot magazine of contemporary art

wm | whitehot magazine of contemporary artHere's a link to an article about the Guggenhem show: El Greco to Picasso by Al Doyle.

Online art directory of gallery exhibitions & contemporary visual fine artists - Re-title.com

Online art directory of gallery exhibitions & contemporary visual fine artists - Re-title.com

Wonderful Snowflake Site

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Snowflakes for all of you flakes out there...

Exreme Geometry: Sarah Morris@Petzel Gallery

Looking forward to seeing this show of extreme geometric paintings currently on view at Friedrich Petzel Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
Oon view until March 17, 2007.

Artists Talk: Whitney@Altria

So I went to this 'artists talk' last night at the Whitney Museum @ Altria.
Here are my impressions:
First of all, the show is spectacular: not to be missed. Each artist contributed to the overall effect which gives evidence to a new aesthetic based on obsessive/compulsive construction, found objects, re-purposeing refuse and an idiosyncratic approach combined in thought-provoking and visually stunning ways.
For this, I salute the artists Diana Cooper, Charles Goldman, Jason Rogenes, Jane South and Phoebe Washburn, the curator and all involved.
That said, here are my thoughts on the 'talk'.

1. This is 2007, please don't use a slide projector from last century in a show concerned with technology... please. "Next slide, please...next slide please..."
2. Learn how to speak into a microphone (rehearse, if you have to!).
3. If you plan to show projected images, please place the screen where it can be seen.

This may sound like a rant but this was the most unprofessional event I have attended in recent memory and I had to excuse myself in the middle because:
I couldn't hear the artists speak (faulty microphone? no rehearsal?),
I couldn't see the artists (they could have been on a platform or even in the raised section of the Altria space),
I couldn't see the slides,
and finally, these artists had very little to say other than drop names of grants, residencies, schools and other self-serving trivia that added little at all to the experience of the work on view.

All that being said, the show itself is a gem.

Burgeoning Geometries - Mon February 19, 2007

Planning to see this talk:
As part of The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria’s Artists on Art series, artists from our current exhibit, Burgeoning Geometries, are scheduled to speak on Monday, February 19 at 6:30pm.

Artists Diana Cooper, Charles Goldman, Jason Rogenes, Jane South and Phoebe Washburn will discuss their work in conjunction with the exhibition, Burgeoning Geometries.

Glitter and Doom: Last Chance

Last Chance (closes on February 19, 2007) to see this exquisite jewel of a show. This exhibit evokes the spirit of Joel Grey in Cabaret and the Weill-Brecht Weimer Republic in all of its' decadence; a mesmerizing detailed depiciton of the demi-monde .

Sonja, 1928
Christian Schad

Brice Marden@MoMA : Last Chance to See It

Went to see the Brice Marden retrospective@MoMA a few days ago and I was reminded how different a paintings looks ‘in the flesh’ as opposed to a reproduction of it. Brice Marden’s paintings (more than most) suffer from the inability of a reproductive process to capture the nuance, the surface quality and the subtle transparencies and incidents that are the real subject of his art. The intense looking that is required of his images does not travel well to the small-format printed page. On the web, these paintings look like cartoons.
I must say that the earliest monochrome paintings literally pale next to the later, richer and denser images. These paintings sing with color and light and the sure hand and eye of a master painter in his prime.
*Thanks to simpleposie from Toronto for this photo.

Albers / Moholy Nagy @ The Whitney Museum: *****

These works alone are worth the trek to the 'uptown bunker for difficult art'!

Painting - Timeline Index

Painting - Timeline IndexI've posted this once before but the point is that there are more and more excellent online resources for the student of art history. Are there any art history students still out there?

Van Gogh and Expressionism from Art Daily.Com

Top:
Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House (The Street), 1888. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Stichting).
Bottom:
Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau Street with Women, 1908. Private collection, Courtesy Neue Galerie New York.
In keeping with the recent trend for exhibits that link an artist and a related movement or area of art historical relevance (“Picasso and American Art @The Whitney”, Soutine and Modern Art @ Cheim & Reid last spring), along comes another winner: Van Gogh and Expressionism scheduled to come to the Neue Gallery in NYC this spring. I have been amazed at the sort of neon colors and nineteen-sixties flavor acheived by Kandinsky in the first decade of the last century!






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Frank Gehry IAC Model / Building

From concept to execution, the new Frank Gehry building for Interactive Corp (IAC) on the West side of Manhattan is almost finished.

If you are a Frank Gehry fan, check out the "Frank Gehry Sketches" DVD.

Real 'Turkey Art'

This is the real deal. Good to see that ceramics is alive and well in Turkey.

Bad Turkey Art

I can’t believe it, but there are still teachers making ‘Turkey Art’ out there.
I hate to be negative on this Thanksgiving Day, but please...

"Using a white piece of paper and crayons, trace around one hand of the child. Enclose the space left by the wrist and add legs. Draw wattle, beak, and eyes on the thumb (head). Color the feathers (fingers)"

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

El Greco to Picasso@Guggenheim

Picasso Bullfight Mash up! This image is based one a painting now appearing at the Guggenheim. I have yet to see this show but it promises to be a stunner. El Greco, Velasquez, Zurbaran, Goya, Miro, Dali, Picasso: who could ask for more?

Jennifer Steinkamp @ Lehman Maupin, Chelsea until 11/25

Looks like an interesting show, thanks to Modern Art Obsession for pointing this out.

The panoramic The Wreck of the Dumaru is a site-specific installation encompassing every wall of the first room of the gallery. The work references her great uncle who became delirious and died at sea during World War I. Steinkamp portrays a forceful sea in hallucinogenic colors rising from the gallery floor. A languid blue acts as a tranquil background while the slow moving, yet dynamic waves rise and fall. Reaching extraordinary heights, the waves are disorienting as they crash and crest around the gallery.

Brian Eno: 77 Million Paintings!

Yes, 77 Million Paintings!! No two alike! Brought to you by Brian Eno, formerly known for his music. I happened to be listening to Steve Reich's Drumming Part 1 while viewing this web page which definitely enhanced the whole experience.

What to See in NYC: Brice Marden @ MoMA

Brice Marden / Pablo Picasso
Interesting comparison, n'est-ce pas? Everything comes from Picasso in NYC right now. The Brice Marden show @MoMA looks to be an eye-opener. The Picasso pictured above is on sale this week @ Sotheby's.
Don't forget the Picasso and American Art @ the Whitney. A must-see.

Frank Gehry's InterActive Corp

NYC's first Gehry Building is nearing completion. Several more (including the much-delayed Nets Stadium in Brooklyn) are in the planning stages.

See more photos of IAC@brianrose.com

Cézanne to Picasso exhibit@the Met

Cézanne to Picasso exhibit@the Met showcases the usual suspects in all their splendor: a great opportunity to see Van Gogh, Gaugin and Cézanne alongside their progeny: The early Matisse, Vlaminck and Picasso. This exhibit serves as a mini-primer of Post-Impressionism (sans Seurat), Fauvism (sans Derain) and even Cubism (sans Braque). For the missing pieces trek to the Met's modern galleries one flight down.





Sean Sculley@ The Met:

"The works in “Sean Scully: Wall of Light” are paintings of imagined walls made of rectangular blocks. Inspired by the light Scully saw on the stones of Mexican pyramids, the series is an exercise in repetition and variation. But it is also a push backward and forward at the same time.

Scully, 60, was born in Ireland, raised in England and began his career as a figurative painter. But he became interested in the work of Mark Rothko and moved to the United States, where he is now a citizen. Inspired by Rothko’s spiritual abstractions, Scully became an abstract painter who clearly acknowledges his debt to those who came before him."

http://www.sheldonartgallery.org/about/news.html?topic=details&news_id=132



Read More:
-from an earlier exhibit of Sean Scully paintings:
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/scully.html

NY Times Review of Sean Scully at The Met

Dylan@The Morgan Library

O. K. So I went to the Morgan Library, ostensibly to see the Bob Dylan show (somewhat of a bore, to tell the truth) but I was most impressed by the new addition designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano.
The space was bright and modern but not cold and austere like the new MoMA. The warmth was due in large effect to the use of an indoor tree, ample sky lights and light-colored wide planked wood flooring throughout.

Jeweled bookcover of the Lindau Gospels
http://www.themorgan.org/collections/collections.asp?id=62
The enameling technique know as 'champleve' in this exquisitely be-jewelled binding was impressive in the new gallery which is essentially a jewel box within the larger space.

"Basse Taille: French for “low cut.” A technique in which a pattern is created in the metal backing before enameling.

Champleve: French for “raised field” or “raised plain.” A technique in which enamel is inlaid into depressions in the metal, leaving metal exposed. The depressions are typically made by an etching process, although other methods exist. First done in the 3rd century AD by the Celts decorating their shields, this technique has been one of the favorite forms of enameling."

Art of Fine Enameling

Cimabue@ The Frick

Looks like another stunning exhibit at The Frick.
Mirror images of two extremely rare paintings by the early Italian master, Cimabue. Shown here to emphasis the formal clarity and compositional elegance to best effect.

Romare Bearden@Michael Rosenfeld

Mr. Blues Leaves a Calling Card, 1981

Always a treat for the eyes, this latest Romare Bearden exhibit looks very promising: I plan to visit the gallery in the near future. Bearden took collage to a new level and his incluson in the "Picasso and American Art" exhibit @The Whitney would have been instructive.

Klimt Review: Well Said

"The difference between seeing the art vs. looking at a reproduction is so vast, that personally, I always find it worth it because I learn so much, and the experience provokes so much thought..."

- Sky Pape from the Artists Unite Issue blog.

Picasso@Whitney / Klimt @ Neue Gallery

Hurry, Last Chance: I finally went to see the Klimt show at the Neue Gallery before it closes on October 9th. While the painting of Adele Bloch is indeed very fine, and fetched the highest price ever paid for a painting ($135 million clams!), I can think of many paintings by Picasso alone that are more important, arresting and valuable (mot to mention Matisse).

Michael Kimmelman Agrees: Johns is a Bore!

"Picasso-inspired works by Jasper Johns, that most hermetic and constipated of American masters. ... Johns doesn’t so much enthrone Picasso as repeatedly entomb him."

Michael Kimmelman in today's NY Times
As we reported a few days ago, Johns comes off looking tiresome and forced in this pairing of Picasso and a host of American artists. I still think this is a must-see show, with a great many worthy De kooning, Pollock, Gorky and yes, Max Weber paintings sharing the space with Pablo.

Wowie-Zowie! Picasso and American Art @ the Whitney Museum

Wowie-Zowie! Blam! Get to the Whitney and see this fabulously conceived and wonderfully surprising exhibit. Picasso is paired with a slew of state-side modernistas in ways that show some to their advantage and cause some to wilt in the glaring light of the greater genuis that was Pablo Picasso in all his many guises.
Pollock, de Kooning and Max Weber (see his Chinese Restaurant) show outstanding tenacity in the face of overwhelming odds; Jasper Johns comes out looking pallid, thin and rather dry. Some of the Roy Lichtenstein paintings hold up better than others (his output was uneven).
I went to the 'members only' preview today and was knocked out by the stunning examples by Pollock and De Kooning (the De Kooning Queen of Hearts painting would have looked great here alongside a painting of the same title by John Graham, though).
One small Picasso painting of a bullfight stands out for the outragously fluid paint handling which made it look quite at home among Pollock's signature drippings.
*****
This is a must-see exhibit and may turn out to be the highlight of the Fall season.

Related links:
De Kooning paintings from the Columbia University Art History Database (scroll dopwn to see Pink Angel from 1945)

Point Line Space: Examples

Here is a page of some of my favorite artists and some very abstract and geometric compositions. The image by Josef Albers above serves as a reminder af an upcoming exhibition at the Whitney Museum.

Don't forget the Picasso and American Artexhibit opening this week at "the uptown bunker for difficult art" : the Whitney Museum.

Gmail Space

This allows you to use your Gmail Space (2GB) for file storage! Very cool.

Howard Models

Google Image Result for http://www.howardmodels.com/replicas/Empire200/EmpireTop.jpg
Great models and renderings here.

John Paul Caponigro :: ILLUMINATING CREATIVITY

John Paul Caponigro :: ILLUMINATING CREATIVITY
Here is an interesting Photographer/Educator worth chdecking out.

No fat clips!!!

No fat clips!!!Here a fellow blogger has linked to "Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase" and many other titles worth checking out.

Monalisa Descending a Staircase - Google Video

Monalisa Descending a Staircase - Google Video
Wow! Wish I made this one. I've been having thoughts of doing something along these lines for quite awhile and BANG! here it is: already done! I love this animated clip.
"Check it out, Wendy... check it out."

Soutine and Modern Art 2006

Soutine and Modern Art 2006According to MAO< this is a 'once in a lifetime'opportunity to see a lot of Chaim Soutine paintings together.

Great Buildings

Great BuildingsAn overview of Architecture in both words and pictures here.

Gary Panter @ Sandra Gering Gallery

Gary Panter @ Sandra Gering GalleryDefinitely worth seeing, this is a gem of a show!

Dada @ MoMA: a must-see!

MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2006 | Dada I am planning to see this show in the very near fuiure with a review to follow.

A Daily Dose of Architecture

A Daily Dose of ArchitectureThis blog has a great sidebar with many links to check out.

New York Architecture Images- Storefront for Art and Architecture

New York Architecture Images- Storefront for Art and ArchitecturePlan to visit this soon.

New York Architecture Images- HOME

New York Architecture Images- HOME

Painting - Timeline Index

Painting - Timeline Index

Timeline of architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Timeline of architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Virtual Chartres Cathedral

Virtual Chartres Cathedral

A Thousand Years of Church Architecture

A Thousand Years of Church Architecture

Architectural history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Architectural history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ARTCARDS.CC - New York City Art Openings List

ARTCARDS.CC - New York City Art Openings List

Art & Architecture

Art & ArchitectureGreat reference with the ability to zoom in on images built in to the browser.

All the Works of Vermeer

I found this image at mystudio.com and I just had to share it.

Heavy Metal: Serra, Smith and de Suvero

Richard Serra@Gagosian Gallery

‘Heavy Metal’ master Richard Serra has done it again. I usually detest most post-David Smith rusted steel sculpture, but this latest show @ Gagosian just whets my appetite for the upcoming show planned for Spring of 2007 at MoMA. See photos of these heavy weight Serra sculptures (thanks to Brent Burket).

Turns out it’s ‘Springtime for Sculpture in Chelsea’ right now. The show of early steel sculpture by Tony Smith@Matthew Marks provides the perfect foil to the rusted surfaces and elemental forces of Serra with precise black geometric constructions. Just when you thought that there was enough strong sculpture here for an entire city in a few small blocks, you stumble upon that other ‘master of the momentous’:

Mark de Suvero@Paula Cooper

Architectural Models

Architectural ModelsAn online course on Architectural model building.

Digital Archive of European Architecture

Digital Archive of European ArchitectureA great resource here.

Glossary of Architectural Terms - Architecture Guides from Archiseek.com

Glossary of Architectural Terms - Architecture Guides from Archiseek.comA useful glossary here.

Tony Smith@Matthew Marks

Tony Smith @ Matthew Marks: This is an unexpectedly great exhibit of the earliest large-scale sculptures by Tony Smith, a personal favorite of mine. Minimal but not boring or pretentious, these pieces strike the perfect balance between simplicity and complexity; complete unto themselves yet also complementing one another: this is a must-see show. Catch it before the summer heat drives the real art out of NYC.


Tony Smith @ Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street through Saturday, June 17, 2006.

Canonical Works of Modern Art

I stumbled upon this treasure trove of canonical works of modern art here, collected for a course at Columbia University.

Springtime for Klee And America

Paul KleeI don't know, spring seems like the perfect time for looking at the paintings of Paul Klee. Plan to visit the Neue Gallery to see the current Klee And America exhibit.

Whitney Biennial First Pass / Calling Marcel

Went to the Whitney ("the uptown bunker for difficult art") to see the Biennial yesterday for a quick run through of the first two floors or so...first impresions: "it's a 70's thang" as much of the art reflected, refracted and re-hashed imagery, attitudes and music from the late-sixties adn early seventies. In itself, this is not a bad thing, I liked the Dylan cover, the Miles Davis painting and several other pieces in the show. I plan to go back again next week to see a little more.

I thoroughly enjoyed Sturtevant's "The Brutal Truth" a sort of 'homage a Duchamp' installation which is essentially a re-creation of an entire suite of works by Marcel lovingly re-created...
Speaking of Marcel...
Calling Marcel : Bringing together artists and opportunities.
Check this out, I certainly will as soon as I get a spare moment.

Nan Golden's Suicidal Sister@ Matthew Marks

If you get a chance, check out Nan Goldin’s recent
multimedia installation @Matthew Marks. Be prepared
though; it’s tough to take. Not your typical
walk-through-the-park-on-a-sunny-day. Nope. Not Nan.
This is a 40-minute tribute to Nan’s older sister
Barbara, who committed suicide after a difficult and
rebellious youth.
Catch it before it closes on April 22nd if you dare...
Matthew Marks Gallery

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology

Encyclopedia of Educational TechnologyA great resource for all in the field.
Note to self: try to write an article for inclusion here.

Exhibition Detail � “New Paintings and Gouaches” Works � PaceWildenstein

Exhibition Detail � “New Paintings and Gouaches” Works � PaceWildensteinFor my money, this show of recent work by James Siena was one the most interesting and rewarding exhibits of the season. Other highlights included: Calder Maquettes @ Pace/Wildenstein and Neo Rauch's paintings.

Adobe Photoshop tips, tricks, tutorials

Adobe� Photoshop� and ImageReady� tips, tricks, tutorials and graphics.

Creative Cow Media Pros Community

Creative Cow Media Pros Community
"CREATIVE COW: Top-ranked forums for Adobe After Effects | Premiere Pro, AJA, Apple Final Cut Pro | Motion | DVD Studio Pro | Shake, Aurora Video Systems, AVID, Blackmagic Design, Boris FX, Canon, Discreet Combustion, JVC, Leitch, Matrox, Media 100, Panasonic VariCam | AG-DVX100, Pinnacle CineWave | Liquid Edition, SmartSound | Sonicfire Pro, Sony Vegas | CineAlta | XPRI, Ulead and over 100 more great communities!"

AECT Prerequisite

AECT Prerequisite
Great tutorials here, including one on using layers in Photoshop.

barr.gif (GIF Image, 723x762 pixels) - Scaled (75%)

barr.gif (GIF Image, 723x762 pixels) - Scaled (75%)Here is a link to the Barr original.

Cubism and Abstract Art Chart

Charts - Information Design - Diagram - Story Selling Design
Here is a chart based on the famous Alfred Barr original.

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[object HTMLImageElement]A small smattering of Cubist paintings fromthe Guggenheim in NYC.

village voice > nycguide

village voice > nycguide

The Whitney Biennial 2004 - Favorite Artists

The Whitney Biennial 2004 - Favorite Artists
This looks interesting and very savvy: a video re-creation of a famous painting: in this case Velasquez.

The Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access

The Art Institute of Chicago: Art AccessPost-Impressionism here, there and everywher...we are all post-impressionists!

Timeline of Art History : "It's NOT history and it's NOT art!"

Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of ArtActually, this is a great resource for all things art history and the timeline is, well, sort of artistic n'est-ce pas?

switch building, new york city

Check out the Switch Building, in progress on the lower east side of Manahatta..."narchitecture" for sure. Of the moment? Yes.

Current ArchiTech Exhibition - Architectural Art

Current ArchiTech Exhibition - Architectural Art

Gehry & Partners - IAC/InterActiveCorp Headquarters :: arcspace.com

The first Frank Gehry building in NYC is in progress, check it out here.

Model of The Pantheon, Rome

Great model of the Pantheon with a section view here.

ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Contents

ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: ContentsThis iste has been up and running since 1995. A great place to start the study of Art History on the Web.

Modernism: The End of Art

The End of Art? Great resources for the study of Art History here.

Art is: interaction, communication, dialogue / Marina Abramovic in context

Harold Rosenberg had said that art was "a space open for the individual to realize himself in knowing himself." Today, after decades of narcissistic and exhibitionistic spectacles, when it's possible to grasp the limits of Rosenberg's libertarian ethos, we can see that he should have said art was not only a space for the individual to realize himself in knowing himself, but also a space to enable others to know themselves, as well as a space to evoke the bonds that exist between artist and spectator in their common self-awareness, which is to say in their common humanity. It's a definition that understands art is necessarily a social interaction, communication between people, dialogue, not merely the unfettered expression of the boundless ego as has been the case with so much work over the past few decades. But what does such dialogic art look like?

Marina Abramovic has often been linked to Chris Burden, and with reason. She has staged extreme masochistic spectacles that shock and repel. In "Lips of Thomas," she carved a pentagram in her abdomen and whipped herself senseless. (She recently recreated this piece, and as she brought a razor blade toward her bloodied stomach for a second time, one woman among the spectators cried out, "You don't have to do that again!") But her best work is a dramatization of human vulnerability and personal responsibility. It involves the viewer as much as the artist.

Last month Abramovic completed an enormously ambitious one-week series of performance works in the rotunda of the Guggenheim museum called "Seven Easy Pieces," but her most famous work is probably "The House With the Ocean View," performed in New York in 2002 (and featured in an episode of "Sex and the City"). For 12 days, the artist lived on three platforms in a Chelsea gallery. She had a bed, a shower and a toilet, but denied herself any nourishment except for mineral water, and any distraction; she could neither read nor write nor speak. Her life was reduced to a minimum, less than the bare essentials. "This piece will be about living in the moment," she said, "in the absolute here and now." But if the piece made demands on Abramovic, it also made demands on the spectators. Upon entering the gallery, a viewer was immediately confronted with a moral choice: did one take a quick look at Abramovic up on her platforms and then depart, treating her like some kind of animal in a zoo, or did one linger and absorb the experience? For those who lingered - and there were many, including Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie and Bjork - the effect was magical (or perhaps metaphysical). The entire outside world slipped away, as did time itself - one hour, two hours, three passed imperceptibly. A sense of the immediate present, with its suggestion of the infinite, became palpable in the room. Abramovic was offering her viewers a gift of spirituality without the doctrines, rituals or consolations of religion. On the final day, the gallery was packed, and when Abramovic was helped down - she had lost 21 pounds - she told the audience, "This work is as much you as it is me."

State of the Art
By BARRY GEWEN
Published: December 11, 2005