Archive for January, 2006

Cat Power, “The Greatest” video interview

Friday, January 27th, 2006

A new interview with Chan Marshall aka Cat Power has been posted in the French indie music magazine Inrockuptiples websites. In this interview Cat Power opens up about her childhood memories and the music that she was surrounded with back then. The interview then trails into the ideas and emotions in her new album “The [...]

Curating the Whitney Biennial

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

A panel discussion will be held on, as the title says, the curating of the Whitney Biennal this coming Monday Jan 23rd at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium NYC. Both the present and a few of the past curators will be on stage to discuss questions like “What where you thinking when you included [...]

Exhibition of Artists’ Studios + Roxy Pain (the band, not the artist)

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

“The Studio Visit“, a new exhibition that just opened at Exit Art last Saturday, is a collection of 160 videos shot by artist of their own own studios. I have not seen the show yet but one artblogger (Art Fag City) has already mentioned, as I was suspecting, that it might not have been [...]

More Geishit

Saturday, January 7th, 2006

While Googling geishas, shunga, etc… I found this woodblock print done by Helen Frankenthaler. I sorta like it.
Geisha by Helen Frankenthaler, 2003, Ukiyo-e woodcut 38 x 26 inches, courtesy of Pace Editions Inc, New York. Frankenthaler portfolio.