Archive for the 'Art' Category

Feet on the Ground, from Baghdad to New Orleans

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans photo by Donn Young and Frank Aymami, more photos here.
A couple of nights ago we bumped into artist Paul Chan at a mini film festival of Apichatpong Weerasethakul at Anthology Film Archives.* I remember having read that he had just completed a production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for [...]

RadioDays Archive

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I just discovered RadioDays, a temporary 30 day radio program held by De Appel back in April 2005. It’s archives have some interesting blast-from-the-past interviews and discussions, for example there is an interview with Anton Vidokle of E-Flux discussing some project he was working on back then before PawnShop (see post: Art Pawnshop by Eflux) [...]

Appendix Appendix Pilot Online

Monday, November 26th, 2007

If you missed Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey’s events in this month’s Performa 07 (“Loose Associations Lecture v.1.1″ reading at Drawing Center, or the radio performance of “Appendix Appendix” on WFMU) You’ll be happy to know that their radio performance is online now as a mp3 from the Dexter Sinister site. We attended [...]

Not a Dime to His Family

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Martin Ramirez (right) holding up one of his large drawings with art and psychology professor Tarmo Pasto (left) at DeWitt State Hospital.
NYTimes just reported the finding of some 140 new works by Mexican outsider artist Martin Ramirez who’s work previously numbered at around 300. The works were discovered by the daughter-in-law of one [...]

Art Pawn Shop by E-Flux

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Bills piling up? Short on studio rent? Stop by E-Flux’s Pawn Shop if you said yes to either question. E-Flux, the international art email list has opened up shop, a *Pawn* Shop to be exact. It began in November and is running until the end of December, the store front at 53 Ludlow Street has [...]

Cowboy Swordfight Slides by Sensorship

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Above left to right: (inset) The original source image of Sid Vicious. Peyton’s painterly beach towel image. Original source detail of Sid’s T-shirt.
Target, the department store, has been teaming up with artist to produce various consumer items for sale in their store. A friend of mine forwarded me the link to their over-sized beach [...]

Performa 07 TV, LIVE! like NOW!

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

I don’t know if you’ve been catching any of the Performa 07 performances running though out the city this month, just the other day a friend and I went to a radio performance of Stuart Bailey (a.k.a. Dexter Sinister) and Ryan Gander’s Appendix Appendix (pilot show) at Home Sweet Home, it was interesting, got [...]