Jorge Benitez

one of the other top professors of mine...and I think the list is really a top 10

Martin Kippenberger

“Put Your Freedom in the Corner, Save It for a Rainy Day” 1990

---“The Wall is a part of German History. Now that all that’s left of it is a bit on Potsdamer Platz, it no longer feels like you’re walking through a wall. History is something you need to feel. First they weren’t Nazis, then they weren’t Communists. So what were they? They pulled down the wall without asking us and smartly wiped out some German history. The wall ought to have been preserved. We don’t need excavations, like in Greece—in this country history happens at your front door. Joseph Beuys thought the wall should have been seven centimeters higher---on purely aesthatic grounds. Everybody cheered when the wall was pulled down. That’s the wrong way to handle history.” Martin Kippenberger

Image Credits;
Martin Kippenberger in Venice, Italy, 1996, © E. Semotan

Joel Dean @ Thrones Gallery

Joel Dean
His Site
"Out Drop The Daggers"

Oct.3rd - Oct.24, 2008







Opening Reception: Oct.3rd, 2008.

6 - 9PM

Thrones Gallery

123 N. Jefferson
3R
Chicago, IL
N. Jefferson St. in between Randolph and Washington

Frances Alys @ LACMA

Francis Alÿs: Fabiola

September 7, 2008–January 4, 2009 | Ahmanson Building

Commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and curated by Lynne Cooke, Francis Alÿs: Fabiola was first installed at the Hispanic Society of America in northern Manhattan from September 2007 to April 2008. Francis Alÿs, a Belgian artist who relocated to Mexico City in the early 1990s, has assembled a significant collection of nearly identical paintings and other depictions of fourth-century Saint Fabiola over the last two decades. All of these are based on a renowned, but lost, portrait by nineteenth-century French academic painter Jean-Jacques Henner. This much-venerated image has been so assiduously copied by amateurs and professionals alike that it has become a popular icon, a phenomenon that, as the artist stated, "indicates a different criterion of what a masterwork could be." Gathered from flea markets, antique shops, and private collections throughout Europe and the Americas, Alÿs's collection offers a window onto aesthetic, sociological, and theological values over the past century and more. This exhibition will display Alÿs's group of more than three hundred Fabiola portraits, all of them copies of a lost original: most are paintings, and there are several versions in needlepoint, wood relief, and other materials as well.

All text courtesy of my contacts at LACMA, thanks friends!

Eric Sall Interview

My Interview with Eric Sall is up!!!

Peter Saul @ Orange County Museum of Art

Peter Saul
Newport Beach

jun 22, 2008 - sep 21, 2008

The Orange County Museum of Art presents the first major American survey of works by Peter Saul. Organized by the Museum with guest curator Dan Cameron, the exhibition features paintings and drawings from the early 1960s to the present, including large-scale “historical epics,” satires of art history, and several of his most recent paintings addressing World War II and the war in Iraq. After its premiere at OCMA, the exhibition travels to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts in Philadelphia.

Peter Saul (American, b. 1934) is among the handful of American painters and collage artists
whose groundbreaking proto-Pop achievements in the late 1950s and early 1960s were demoted once the champions of that movement were anointed a few years later. Saul has always forged his own path, creating often difficult, funny, and trenchant works—“sick jokes” according to Robert Storr, distinguished curator and dean of the Yale School of Art. His art embraces personal foibles and important events in American history, such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. His twisted comic-book forms, artificially hot colors, controversial subject matter, and unquenchable ambition to provoke strong feelings through his paintings have kept him on the edges of the art world while also preserving, for over forty years, the freshness of his work.

"Peter Saul is some kind of national treasure."–Christopher Knight, art critic, LA Times


Major sponsorship for this exhibition provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

This exhibition is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art with guest curator Dan Cameron.

Maya Lin at David Weinberg Collection

Brad Farwell at Hyde Park Art Center

"An African Mask Looks at Sites of American Blackness"
from left, New Orleans Superdome, Cabrini Green projects in Chicago, Rodney King Beating, OJ Simpson chase
all 2006

love

scareorism

that's about right

American Friends Service Committee

Shoes representing the 650,000 Iraqis killed since the start of the war. Federal Plaza, Chicago.
http://www.afsc.org/

Yesterday in Boston

Aqua Teen Hunger Force promo causes terrorism scare in Boston. I blame Master Shake.

by the way, the story says that these were up for 3 weeks before the scare.

here's the link
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16921137/

Colbert vs. O'Reilly rounds 1-2