Kelly Mark - Crosswalk (2001, 1.2MB, 0:38) Basketball court sprints at a busy intersection. Man unknown. From Kelly Mark. [more]

Joe Bradley, Schmagoo Paintings, at Canada - I saw it right after it had officially closed, but the stuff was still up... except one of the paintings was in Miami.Two previous mentions of this show have generated (and continue to generate) a lot of good comments... so I'm re-posting them all together... if you want your "comment name" switched to "anonymous" here in this more open posting just e-mail me and I'll fix it.First Post 11/10/08:Chris Sharp on Joe Bradley, at Canada - "it doesn’t get... [more]

Right. Deaccessioning.The blog will be back in gear tomorrow, but, to kick off the New Year, here's a terrific post by Michael O'Hare, the Cal-Berkeley professor who was quoted in the New York Times article I discussed before the break. You really should read the whole thing, but a few tastes:"I defy any reader of this [anti-deaccessionist] discourse to infer a goal behind the assertions and pronouncing that could be stated in public with a straight face. My best try: 'the purpose of art is to... [more]

Farewell Shoes for Mr. Bush is a shoe art exhibition open to artists of all mediums and from around the globe, who will have an opportunity to express their feelings on a shoe or pair of shoes. Participating artists are encouraged to explore innovative, evocative and genuine creations and to transcend the outside layers of the shoes. Shoes of all sizes (size 10 not required!) materials and provenance will be transformed into expressions of political, visual art, or simply a “farewell”.The selected... [more]

Hello Everybody, Happy New Year and very best wishes from FBC! I don't really know what to tell you ... except I hope you and I will have and keep our jobs in 2009, that you and I will be in good health, surrounded by friends and loved ones, that your projects will be fruitful, the art will be good and the senseless violence will cease. It doesn't matter who started it first, people. Please [more]

"FRONT CURTAIN" Richard Gleaves Opening Reception: January 10, 2009 / 6 - 9pm Art Produce Gallery 3139 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92104 619.584.4448 lynn@artproducegallery.com www.artproducegallery.com... [more]

The OC Art Grant is back. Three $500 grants for drawing, painting, photo and sculpture and one $500 grant for graduate students and one $400 grant for undergrad students will all be awarded on May 2nd in the Santa Ana Artists Village at 8pm.To be considered send your CV, Statement and ONLY 4 images on printed on heavy white paper with details by Feb 7th to:Grand Central Art Center125 N. BroadwaySanta Ana, CA 92706ATTN: DSABC Orange County Art Grant (w/SASE)Contact davidmichaellee@yahoo.com for more details... [more]

Download audio file (Bad_at_Sports_Episode_175-Lucking-Ivison.mp3) download This week: THE AMANDA BROWDER SHOW! Amanda talks to Nick Lucking and Tim Ivirson about www.spcmkr.com and their various projects. SPCMKR facilitates and documents space exchanges, providing a site through which to organize a gift-economy between users. The web-based component of the project provides an interface for locating and contributing resources, arranging for temporarily inhabiting surplus spaces, and documenting both... [more]

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If you look over to the right hand column of this blog you'll see this little button If you click on the button you should get an option to 'subscribe' to this blog in your favourite feed reader. (You can also subscribe via email via the link above if you don't use a feed reader).I have been hovering around 100 subscribers for the last couple of months. This year I'd like to push that number much higher. Why? Well, I subscribe to a lot of galleries and as many artists as I can find. I get ever... [more]

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where peoplemail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.-----Email Message-----Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 2:21 AMSubject: regarding picking your noseI almost broke off the engagement for that exact reason. I'm glad I didn't -- it turns out we're both closet nose-pickers and we've been blissfully married for nearly 4 years!-----Email Message-----Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:15 AMSubject: Afraid of handicapped childI also have a handicapped brother, and because of him I have no fear of having a handicapped child, because I know... [more]

It took Israeli director Ari Folman four years to create Waltz with Bashir, an unusual autobiographical animated film now in limited engagement across the U.S. that warns of the nightmares that follow in the wake of war. The movie opens with an unsettling vision, a pack of rabid dogs - twenty six to be exact, racing along wet streets under yellowy skies, frothing at the mouth and evidently [more]

My first illustration for the New York Times (above) will be in tomorrow's magazine section. The online version of the article can be found here. There are also nice illustrations by Adrian Tomine, Seth and Zohar Lazar.... [more]

Snow-Capped Mountains in the distance,seen from the flats of Beverly Hills It's been cold and foggy in Los Angeles for the past few days. Last week though, after the rain cleared, you could see the snow on the mountains from the middle of Beverly Hills. My Mom and Step-Dad recently moved back to Beverly Hills from Marina del Rey. From their 5th floor apartment, the views are stunning!Classic Duplexes and Apartments,looking north toward Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA Beverly Hilton HotelYou ca... [more]

Willoughby Sharp was a man of art, in the old fashioned sense Thomas Craven meant it. He was fully committed to every facet of a life spent waiting on the muse, wherever it would lead him, from the meanest squalor and confusion to the grandest scene of triumph. read more [more]

Recommended viewing The story of stuff Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption. We need things consumed, burned up, worn out, replaced, and discarded at an ever-increasing rate. Victor Lebow The modern industrial economy works like this: resources are dug from a hole in the ground on one side of the planet, used for a... [more]

Yes. It is gonna get wacky. [more]

This looks like a great weekend of performance, curated by Chase Granoff and Chris Peck: LAPS: Live Sh-- Alternative Presenter Fair Saturday January 10 6-10pm & Sunday January 11 4-8pm FREE admission, homemade chocolate chip cookies and cheap drinks! The Chocolate Factory Basement 5-49 49th Avenue L.I.C., NY 11101 Directions Live Sh-- invites a number of independent presenters (including performance series, record labels, galleries, and collectives) to share video and documentation from... [more]

It took me a very long time to finish this painting. Not because I worked especially hard on it but because the inevitable hard work scared me away from the studio. Stacy took the picture with her iPhone and my mom specifically chose this image to be placed within a frame she adored. It really was a struggle. I could not seem to capture the likeness of my daughter and still maintain a fresh level of paint. I must have painted that square inch of her face for hours! I eventually came to a... [more]

The Hope Dionysos George Frederic Watts, Hope Gustav Klimt, Hope IIThe Hope Diamond Hope. It's what's for dinner.... [more]

Before 2008 ends, in anticipatory celebration of an anniversary, I want to publish a paper I wrote in 1979 . “Aart and Obscurism: First Arguments” outlines a view of art and art making informed by conceptual art and seeking to advance its tenets. Of necessity, this theory of art was sub-cultural and germinated outside of the established “art world.” My personal position in the established art world at the time was that of “outsider,” and that perception obviously colored the tone of... [more]

Parisian band, the Cavaliers live at Regine's Club January 7th, promoting their self-titled debut album. (Video features them in a previous concert at the Nouveau Casino.) Regine's49, Rue Ponthieu 75008 Paris... [more]

Please join me on Facebook and/or on Twitter. (My Tweeted content includes both art content that's not necessarily on MAN, as well a little bit of non-art stuff.) [more]

Left: Georgia O'Keeffe, Ranchos Church No.1, 1929, Oil on canvas, 18 3/4 x 24 inches, CR 664, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Right: Ansel Adams, Saint Francis Church Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, c. 1929, Gelatin silver print, 13 5/16 x 17 9/16 inches, Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, ©The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. I think of Ansel Adams as the Walt Whitman of American photography, creating "silent songs"... [more]

I was just in New Orleans in a futile attempt to view all the art at the myriad Prospect.1 venues. I'm working on a piece for ArtSlant, and will be posting from my seemingly endless stream of photos on Flickr, so stay tuned.FIRST IMPRESSIONS:• This could easily surpass the Whitney Biennial in the coming years.• If you are a famous video artist today, you are making elaborate works requiring huge casts and crews, hoping to conquer cinema.AND:• Every time I go to New Orleans I wish I'd planned... [more]

Daood interviews Dr. Maulana Karenga, the founder of Kwanzaa. Learn more about Dr. Karenga (who was named in 2002 as one of the 100 Greatest African Americans by scholar Molefi Kete Asante) and about the tradition he helped establish... Take us back to September 7, 1965 to the political climate that brought forth the Us organization? Us emerged in the wake of two critical and shaping events: ... [more]

As we approach the end of what many of us would say has been a year full of hardship, change and uncertainty - not least of all me, here's an excerpt from the current issue of tangent. I'm determined to end this horrible year on a note of rebellious hope, and celebrate the invincible spirit of artists everywhere: Waiting for the Credit Crunch to End? As anyone who’s recently been petrified to [more]

In 2002, I made a decision to drop graphic design from my double major in college. It was an inevitable decision and one a long time in the making. I had become cynical about the relationship between design and greed. I was too much of an idealist then, writing design manifesto's for change within the curriculum. Of course, radical change would never happen and I decided to leave. I would focus on other passions in contemporary art. Yet the language of design, and the love for it, stayed with... [more]

Tonight I had dinner with an old friend and I told him about how I bought myself an inexpensive purse for Christmas. It's lovely, and locally handmade, and I was thinking I'd wear it when I go out on the occasional date so that I will come across as casual and down-to-earth as one can seem without ever wearing pants (or, moreso, as one can seem while having purchased a vintage fur wrap at auction for a song last night because it was the same color as my hair). Overall, I might take thin... [more]

San Francisco, CA: The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to announce that Gene Colan is the recipient of the 2008 Sparky Award, which was presented to him by CAM founder Malcolm Whyte during the museum's "Salute to Gene Colan" on Thursday, December 4, 2008. The Sparky Award is named in honor of Charles "Sparky" Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. Schulz was nicknamed "Sparky" after the horse Sparkplug featured in the comic strip Barney Google. The Cartoon Art Museum would not exist without benefactor... [more]

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Daniel Rozin, Peg Mirror, 2007. The Milwaukee Art Museum is currently exhibiting a show called Act/React. I visited the show just over a month ago and have been meaning to blog about it for some time. It is coming down on January 11, so if you’re going to be in or passing through Milwaukee over the holiday break, take a moment to stop in and see the show. It is worth it. Going into the show, I was most excited to see the work of Cammille Utterback. Her piece, Liquid Time, is one of my favori... [more]

Before I begin my top ten, I want to say that 2008, for me, will always be the year Robert Rauschenberg died. We lost someone special. Rest in Peace. 1. Louise Bourgeois, The Guggenheim and MOCA: Her forms seemed to grow on the Guggenheim’s Modernist, reasoned interiors. Razors and flesh, trauma and tumbling bursts of creative energy, I became a Bourgeois convert instantly. I admit I want to [more]

LMCC Workspace Artist-in-Residence and Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grantee Ricky Sears will conduct a public art project, Pier 17 Hands-On Frottage: Recording History, at Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport. All are invited to participate in Ricky's project at the exterior entrance to Pier 17 Pavilion [map]. Please join him December 30 and 31, 2009 anytime between 9 am - 3 pm to contribute to a 10 x 10 graphite on paper rubbing of the wooden surface of the pier. Ricky will be present both days with paper and graphite sticks but this project will only succeed with participation from the public! Plans are in pl... [more]

During my first few months of blogging one of the most effective methods of promotion was writing guest posts for other blogs. I put a lot of effort into getting exposure and links be writing for a number of different blogs and slowly building my own audience. While I never had any huge spikes in subscriber growth from writing a guest post, I was able to make a lot of great contacts, build my reputation and get a number of quality links by making the rounds to different blogs. From my exper... [more]

The future of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is being decided as we speak. Two scenarios have been preoccupying the press — a LACMA-MOCA merger or a “bailout” by Eli Broad — and the final outcome may be a mix of the two, or something different. This is LA, a city of white knights and twisting plots. Events don’t always follow the predictable screenplay. (I have long been a fan of a Getty-MOCA combo, but that, apparently, is not in the cards.) Whatever happens, the art world... [more]

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That's Portfolio's Felix Salmon and I on Bloggingheads discussing the art market: from Eli Broad and supercollectors to the Russian oligarchs to parallels between an art world in crisis today (Murakami, Koons, Hirst) and yesterday (Halley, Salle, and Fischl).... [more]

Click to Play Red shoes take a brisk walk in Boston. ... [more]

Every time I think about what has happened my body just shivers with emotions and my eyes well up. To think that what I've been through, my parents and grandparents, today is SO amazing and unbelievable. I remember traveling across the US by car as a child being forced to drive 20-30 miles out of the way in order to find a place that would rent us a room for the night, being denied service in restaurants for not being white, called names, being treated like unwanted stepchildren and, you know many... [more]

Symposium: Painting in the 21st CenturyOn Saturday, September 27, 2008, from 10 am - 5 pm The Phillips Collection in DC will host a Symposium titled Painting in the 21st Century.Participants:Yve-Alain BoisInstitute for Advanced Study, PrincetonSpencer FinchArtist, Brooklyn, New YorkJonathan FinebergUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignBlake GopnikThe Washington PostSuzanne HudsonUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDorothy M. KosinskiThe Phillips Collection and Center for the Study of Modern ArtL... [more]

Over 250,000 euro cent coins are being used to create Sagmeister's sentence for Urban Play - which the public can then remix as they like. The work has been kindly removed by the police in order to protect it, as people were taking coins (as expected) and eventually modifying the installation. Stefan Sagmeister Urban Play project by scottburnham. Read More at http://scottburnham.com/... [more]

Self-taught Designer Max Lam started Owindo as an offshoot of his Hong Kong-based Moderne Interior Design firm a few years back. His 1960s and '70s-inspired lights now come in pendant, floor, wall, and table styles. He's recently introduced a new white finish in addition to the chrome-plated styles. A few of our favorites include (from top left, clockwise) the Prism Sixty, C.C.C.5.5P, Tube Complex and Diamond Complex. ... [more]

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I've come to the conclusion that I'm not sure how the world works at all. But some lovely soul slipped my name on to a rather amazing list of writers and critics doing a conference in Rotterdam at the Witte de With Contemporary Arts Center in Rotterdam. The list of participants is startlingly good and I am really happy to be participating. Here's the press stuff below, if any wayward Europeans are looking to geek ou tover art criticism, this is probably the best conference I've ever seen of its... [more]

two friends, oil on board, 30 x 30 cm, 2008 A small painting that I finished today. [more]

Habib-o-llah Sadeghi + Mahmoud Shalooyee (previous and curent Presidents islamic fine arts department) "Rappers, youth, rock musicians, artists and freethinkers are all Satanists!!!!!!!!,"concludes an Iranian official news program on Iranian television.Just check out this new law which has been declared by the Iranian Ministry of Islamic Culture and Education’s Fine Arts Department: "All official and unofficial fine art shows, exhibitions, events and expos should have prior permission from... [more]

Life of Her Party, today's Op-Ed by Maureen Dowd, the last brain at the New York Times.... [more]

A short documentary on this great Brazilian artist whose work is currently showing at the San Jose based Anno Domini. [more]

The City of Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Division presents Latino Arts/OHIO 2008, a visual, performing and literary arts exhibition on view in the Concourse Gallery August 25 to September 19, 2008. The Concourse Gallery is located at the Municipal Services Center, 3600 Tremont Road, and is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. The exhibition features a fine arts exhibit curated by Egle Gatins and Elena Osterwalder showcasing a variety of artwork created... [more]