October 2008
61 posts
Frieze Foundation | Talks →
For those of us who couldn’t make it to Frieze this year - check out this year’s talks online over @ the Frieze Foundation website.
Watchobsessed with this playlist.
download here.
(via the one and only stephane)
“I want to locate a bit of you, cradle it,
say: this, there is no word for this.”
– Another Jeffrey McDaniel from “The Offer”
The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long...
Berliners' Love Affair With America Grows Cold... →
Eric Kirschbaum’s great piece on the history of Berliners love (recent lack thereof) for America. Really interesting perspective on our relationship with Berlin/Germany.
The Post-Materialist | Paris Reborn (The Moment) →
Always like reading Nick Currie’s take on things… here he chimes in on “Le Cent Quatre” as well as some great projects from Le Palais de Tokyo & arts initiative La Générale.
Classical coup in the capital (The National... →
The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra performed for the first time outside of Germany since 1989 in Abu Dhabi this week.
I really don’t fully understand how Abu Dhabi is becoming the site for so much culture…. as if people are giving up on exisiting cities and investing all of their hope in this created city in the Middle East.
Why did the BFO choose Abu Dhabi?
Art Scene in Overdrive: Berlin Opens New Gallery... →
Wow - I’m overwhelmed just reading this article on what’s happening in Berlin right now. Sadly when I was in Berlin last year it was around Christmas and many of the galleries were closed - but I’ll def. be trying to get back soon and experiencing this (before it grows into a true behemoth).
Berlin truly is a city where true development and growth and a shifting identity have...
I just want to say.
word.
langer:
I am eternally grateful to be alive at this moment in history. I’ve spent the better part of my life wondering what it must have felt like to be alive in 1968, to experience the campaign of Robert Kennedy, to be truly inspired by your public servants. For the first time in my life I don’t have to wonder anymore.
Sam Taylor-Wood: renaissance woman (The Times) →
This article is a bit over the top for me - but I did love reading about STW new works and especially her work “Sigh” in which she recorded the BBC Orchestra pantomiming playing their instruments. It’s going to be projected as part of “Yes I No” @ the White Cube Gallery (Mason’s Yard location).
When will I make it to London again? Who knows?
A new center for art, a new sort of arts... →
Would love to see this.
On October 31st, we are recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at the Village Halloween Parade. This will involve tens of thousands of people breaking out into the world’s largest Beatles sing-a-long. We want the streets to erupt in joy and for it to be one of the greatest experiences of everyone’s lives. We will need thousands of secret audience agents to get the ball...
“I remember watching it [Creepshow] as a kid in the living room, solo style in...”
– Sensitive Touching: HEATHEN HALLOWEEK PT.II: THE EXPERIMENT
It’s Halloweek over @ the Genevan Heathen’s blog…. I love Halloween minus getting dressed up (my mind shuts down - not one for costumes….)… anyway, you should check it out - doesn’t get better than...
Fresh Talk: Ginny Branch | The Supermelon →
cutie feature on one of my favorite bloggers ginny branch. her daily gratitudes bring a smile to my face every time. love it!
obsessed with this hair and these glasses on hyoni kang @ the 3.1 phillip lim spring 2009 RTW show.
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better...”
– Francis Bacon
“To feel confident and successful is not natural to the artist. To feel...”
– (via happypancake)
Michelle Obama On Tonight Show (Huffington) →
I sat the first lecture for the 'History of French... →
Being sick at home doesn’t have to be a complete waste of my life.
Entry: Updike, John
Undisputable style.
He has now written tens of thousands of sentences, many of them tiny miracles of transubstantiation whereby some hitherto overlooked datum of the human or natural world — from the anatomical to the zoological, the socio-economic to the spiritual — emerges, as if for the first time, in the completeness of its actual being. This isn’t writing. It is magic.
via NYT
New blog obsession: JJJJound →
Thanks for the link Lana!
Amazing shots of Obama throughout (and before) his... →
via Kottke
“Enthusiasm is priceless.”
– Seth’s Blog
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to Run Artists’... →
YES YES YES!
great design by my friend ben sisto for the 92Y opening.
this guy is unstoppable.
Vote for my friend Jonathan Olivares' 'Smith' for... →
“Some people already have collections in warehouses that they take out one or two...”
– Singapore leads the way in innovative thinking - they are dropping the prices on rents for private collectors to rent spaces to display their private collections - leveraging available property for a good use (the display of art that would ordinarily just be in storage) - good for the city, good for...
Upon my return to BOS: Rachel Whiteread @ the MFA →
Stuff I love: Muji Chronotebook — jackcheng.com →
Please please please please please!
I am strickly computer/blackberry these days, but this new organizer/notebook by MUJI makes me want to go back to my pen and paper ways. EEP!
Jacob's Pillow, grant to create online presence... →
This is absolutely great news for Jacob’s Pillow. I’m so excited to hear about the distribution of funds in order to create accessible and more protected ways of managing a company’s archive (esp. in terms of performance).
I’ve always thought that the ability to truly catalogue the choreography and staging of dance/opera/theatre must be incredibly difficult using just...
What price the rise of private art? (Observer) By... →
Hard to even know where to begin on this article.
SO MUCH TO SAY but….
honestly, what are the implications of a majority of contemporary art being held by private collections? (Esp. if they aren’t managed by families and individuals who believe in sharing the great works in their posession.)
London's Frieze Prepares for a Chill - WSJ.com →
I attended my first Frieze in 2004 - only it’s second year and ripping at the seams of its white tent in Regent’s Park with activity and true spectatorship.
Kelly Crow writes an interesting piece in this weekend’s WSJ on the potential (and real) impact of the economic crisis on the scale of international art fairs.
As a random sidenote - do you think the art market will follow...
"New Opera? Great Idea. Good Luck!" (NYT) →
Interesting article by Anthony Tommasini on the state of contemporary operas - taking recent West Coast productions/premieres of “The Fly” (LA Opera) and “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” (SF Opera) as examples.
Casting a critical eye over the state of contemporary opera is helpful (to say the least), but I do wish he’d given some examples of modern operas he found...
my love for you is a stampede of horses.: daniel... →
my good good friend dan is featured over on ‘my love for you is a stampede of horses’. so exciting! i love his work and have the distinct honor of having one of his pieces framed for adoration in my home.
check his website for more details.
UPDATE on centquartre
via ArtForum, “Artists can set up their studios in the imposing space, in return for allowing the public to wander around and inspect their work. Any reluctance among artists to put themselves on display is likely to be overcome by the shortage of affordable studio space in Paris, which has caused a flight of young talent to Berlin and cheaper European cities.”
EVEN BETTER THAN...
