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The Drama of the GIfted Child

Jun. 24th, 2009 | 01:24 pm

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Drama of the Gifted Child:
The Five Year Plan
June 28 - August 30, 2009
Opening reception, Saturday, June 27, 7-9 p.m.
David Burns, curator

The exhibition consists of new work by ten of Los Angeles’ emerging artists, all Southern California art school MFA graduates of the last five years: Dan Bayles, Spencer Douglass, John Knuth, Julie Lequin, Julie Orser, Marco Rios, Amy Robinson, Christopher Russell, Kelly Sears, and Bari Ziperstein. The exhibition is organized by David Burns, a member of the artist collective Fallen Fruit and the former Assistant Curator at the Armory.

The works included examine these artists’ recent work as a process by which they explore the relationship between an often-hyped academic training and the raw demands of a career. The exhibitions consists of videos, sculptures and installations and reflects the various practices of artists trained in the new millennium, after 9/11 and after the crash of what appeared to be an unendingly growing international art market.

Each of the artists selected could be characterized by the combination of their studio practice and growing exhibition record, however considered as a group, each of the projects in the exhibition generates a larger internal and external dialogue. The work is bold and experiments with its materials and messages. Representing some of the more outstanding emerging artists in Los Angeles right now, Drama of the Gifted Child: the Five Year Plan suggests the relationship of artists to career goals and academics that has fostered the opportunity for success as a contemporary artist today. Each of these artists employs a bold directness that is hard to deny.

(P.S.: The Drama of the Gifted Child is a GREAT book. There is writing on artists, such as Buster Keaton, therein.)

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Film Posters

Jun. 9th, 2009 | 09:34 pm

I'm researching film posters for a project I'm doing
and these are some of the great ones I've come across tonight in my travels
on
Film Art Gallery Online & in L.A.:

More, 1969


Out Of Africa, 1985



Rosemary's Baby, 1968

And from CinemaMasterpieces.com

         
      

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My Friends' 'Gallery', Downtown LA

Jun. 9th, 2009 | 05:08 pm

 Gallery 1927


Thursday, June 11, from 6- 9 pm for the opening reception of a solo show by David Gilbert.  Gilbert is currently working on a Masters at UC Riverside and created this show, centered around his examinations of the idea of a display window, especially for the Gallery 1927 space.  Light refreshments and soft liquor will be served.  

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wtf 3

Jun. 9th, 2009 | 04:13 pm

Jogging Hurts
Website for Bras with a really weird animation...

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(no subject)

Jun. 8th, 2009 | 01:08 pm

I am in a show in Las Vegas
June 6 - August 15
Ambient Art Projects
7432 Silver Palm Ave.
Las Vegas, NV.  89117
702.233.3777 Phone
702.454.6333 Fax
 
 

Here is an image of the new piece I made for it.
 
Treble, 2009
Watercolor on paper
30 x 20 inches
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Frnd Frnd Frnd Show 533

Jun. 1st, 2009 | 09:29 am


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Diamonded

May. 13th, 2009 | 01:17 pm

My friend's new blog:
Diamond Dusted & Rhinestoned




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Hands

May. 12th, 2009 | 06:49 pm



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Mexico, Lebanon, New York, London, more.

May. 5th, 2009 | 09:13 am

Found an amazing website, and what I can tell, pretty interesting projects, though written information is limited.
Emilie Halpern has a show up currently (as well as many other events listed on her site.)

May 2-May 24, 2009
Galeria Perdida
Project Row Houses, Houston, TX





Also while talking with this friend, he mentioned Harun Farocki:

And said I could find his films on UBU
(I guess this is like HULU for art!)
UbuWeb resource is presented in partnership with Art Torrents

Although, most of these films were [Removed by copyright holder's request]
This one by Stan Douglas was available:
Der Sandmann (1995)
Originally an installation: Two-track 16mm black-and-white film projection and stereo soundtrack.

"The film installation Der Sandmann investigates the intersection of history and memory as witnessed against the backdrop of post-Cold War Germany. Shot on 16mm film in the old Ufa studios near Potsdam, the piece fuses E.T.A. Hoffmann's eponymous tale, Freud's citation of it in "The Uncanny," his study of repression and repetition, as well as the social impulses behind 19th-century German urban planning, which instituted the Schrebergärten, plots of leasable land on which the poor could grow their own food. Projected as two separate but intersecting videos showing the garden at different chronological points-in use during the 1960s and as a construction site some 20 years later-Der Sandmann contemplates temporality and the transformative effects of history." -- Nancy Spector


And I watched a film by Mona Hatoum for the first time.
She is a Lebanese artist who shows at White Cube in New York.
Link to that film


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AVAILABLE FOR FILMING

May. 4th, 2009 | 09:18 pm

Anyone need a place to shoot?
Film Listings....com? Who knows if this will work?
I hope I can generate some revenue from my storefront!

I found this though:
A picture stroll of North Figueroa Street, dated 2005.
My place is the Fiesta Travel Agency!


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Twitter!!!

Apr. 28th, 2009 | 05:31 pm

www.kcrw.com

Art Talk with Edward Goldman
 
To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question

To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That Is the Question

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Looking back at the past thirty years, I see the pattern of my initial reluctance to embrace the technology of the modern world. First, I had to learn to drive a car, though some of my friends tell me that I still drive like a Russian peasant. Then, there was an especially embarrassing moment when I heard for the first time the word ‘fax' and mistook it for, hmmm...an unprintable profanity, and that's how l learned about the existence of fax machines. When I started to do my Art Talk, I would write and edit the text on an old-fashioned typewriter, until an assistant of mine eventually persuaded me to start working on a computer, so I got a used one, courtesy of her husband.

at090428a.jpgNow, years later, I am spending most of my working hours staring at a screen, reading and sending an endless stream of emails. Every time my program is broadcast, I receive responses from people who hear it on the air as well as from those who get the email version text plus images and links that goes to over 5,000 people on the Art Talk mailing list. Several weeks ago, a new feature was added to the Art Talk page on the KCRW website, where listeners can now post their comments. Slowly, very slowly, I've come to the understanding that I must have a website of my own, and as luck would have it, one of the participants in my Art Collecting class, Good Samaritan that he is, took it upon himself to build one for me.

Meanwhile, I'm still trying to make sense of all the fuss over yet another mysterious way of communicating these days Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So, I'm asking you to help me decide: Is it worth doing? And if so, which one do you think I should choose, or should I embrace them all? It would be great if you would post your comments online.

at090428b.jpg With all the wonderful advantages that technology provides, there is still no substitute for face-to-face interaction in real space, in real time. Tomorrow, Wednesday April 29, at 7pm, I will be moderating a panel discussion at the Getty Center about ‘Ethical Dilemmas in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art.' Ironically, many works made from new and untested materials create more problems for conservators than traditional artworks made hundreds of years ago. Many contemporary works of art were not intended to last, however, as they enter museum collections, we are forced to confront this paradox: how to preserve a work of art which is not supposed to last? In my opinion, it was smart to throw out Damien Hirst's deteriorating shark and replace it with a new one, but what would you do if the famous (or if you prefer, infamous) work of Italian artist Piero Manzoni, his 1961 Merda d'artista small cans of his feces started to leak? Do you replace it, and if so, with what?

at090428c.jpg All that and more will be discussed tomorrow night by a panel of experts, including conservators, collection managers and curators. I invite you to attend this free event, but you will need to call (310) 4407300 or make a reservation online. And if you tell them that you are an Art Talk/KCRW listener, you will be given not only preferential seating, but a souvenir as well. How about that? I also suggested a bottle of Russian vodka for each of you but, alas, was told that it's illegal...

Ethical Dilemmas in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art
Wednesday April 29, 7pm
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center

If you’d like to share your thoughts on today’s show, you can post your comments on today’s show page at kcrw.com/arttalk

Edward Goldman is an art critic and the host of Art Talk, a program on art and culture for NPR affiliate KCRW 89.9 FM

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Nother Cool Blog Attack

Apr. 28th, 2009 | 03:43 pm

MO CO LOCO

Art, Design, Etc....

Not the greatest blog ever, but has my friend Bas Louter's work on it, so that's awesome!

Bas is renting my studio until the end of May. It's really nice to have him there, and be privy to his process.
Thanks Bas!




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Small Press

Apr. 17th, 2009 | 05:11 pm

 
Shelf Life: A Big Day for Small Press

April 18, 2009
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
USC University Park Campus
Harris Hall

 

 

12 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Bazaar, Harris Hall Courtyard
1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.: Panel, Gin D. Wong Auditorium (Harris Hall 101)

 

A diverse group of independent publishers, artists, writers and designers whose voices and images question and push the boundaries of popular culture will come together at this vital and historically charged event. Today, a few large corporations control publishing and distribution, and independent publishers are rapidly going out of business. What are the dangers of corporations deciding what we are able to buy and read? Who will continue to publish new material without compromise? Who is the audience for independent publishing? What is the impact—and potential benefit—of digital technology for today’s small publishers?

 

To address these questions and many more, a dynamic panel will be presented, featuring V. Vale, founder and publisher ofSearch & Destroy and RE/Search, San Francisco; Rachel Kushner, critic, novelist and editor of Soft Targets, Los Angeles;Bruce Caen, artist, publisher and author of Sub-Hollywood, Los Angeles; Brian Kennon, artist and owner of 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles; Joe Carducci, writer, producer, and former A&R of SST Records; Aaron Rose, artist and publisher ofANP Quarterly; and Emily Roysdon, artist and editor of LTTR.

Additionally, a festive and free-wheeling bazaar will feature small publishers, artists and independent stores, who will have their printed matter on hand. Vendors include Afterall, The Ice Plant, Semiotexte, Primary Information, 2nd Cannons, Black Clock, Les Figues Press, Beautiful/Decay, Beyond Baroque, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and many, many more. The bazaar will also include free food and music by DJ Wendy Yao, artist and owner of the store Ooga Booga in L.A.’s Chinatown. 

http://roski.usc.edu/calendar/event/868902/visions--voices-shelf-life-a-big-day-for-small-press 

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Group Show

Apr. 17th, 2009 | 05:01 pm

Friends' show



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If walls could talk

Apr. 3rd, 2009 | 05:42 pm


Braille Wallpaper.
Lame but awesome.

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Who I want to be when I grow up

Mar. 29th, 2009 | 09:27 am

http://johannareed.blogspot.com/ 

What a great art resource.
I told my friend "This makes art look cool and fun. The plethora of images is so much more rewarding because it's selective. With a cross-section of interesting images, like The Flog, and so many great art blogs these days, I can just choose and browse on end. It's really intimidating on the one hand, but so much more comprehensive than a day-to-day art experience on the other. Wow."

Heather Rasmussen was mentioned here recently for her L&W show! yay!

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Standing Ovation

Mar. 29th, 2009 | 09:20 am

Soon, the gallery I co-run will  be having its first physical exhibition.
Until now, we have been creating "fake" shows, which are not really all that fake.
Fore the sake of more information vs. less about the space, we decided to do an interview with OVATION TV.
They also have a YouTube with interviews by artists, etc.
Here is the LINK to the article about Light & Wire Gallery.
Hopefully this will make it all make sense.
Show opens April 11th in conjunction with Circus Gallery


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Bike Oven

Mar. 28th, 2009 | 06:59 am


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Going into business for myself.

Feb. 23rd, 2009 | 01:07 pm

I think I'm going to stop shaving my armpits and start making crystals.
I wonder if Bank of America would give me a loan to start a full on Etsy production where I can buy huge bags of salt and rock salt from Smart&Final and sell jars of crystals with light bulbs through the top at Gem Faires.
I think my dad should move down here and we can stop working and start hanging out in the garage and buying Bell Jars online all day.
I think I'll hole up in my house without a car, and without a job, and I'll start existing only online, and I'll post pictures of myself on Flickr only.
I'll be a virtual friend and girlfriend, and I'll get really fat and lay in bed on my laptop all day and sleep.
Maybe I'll start to develop crystals on my upper lip, and then sell those too.

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NY Times Article

Feb. 21st, 2009 | 06:55 pm

What's "Happening" to the Art Market

"And where is art in all of this? Proliferating but languishing. “Quality,” primarily defined as formal skill, is back in vogue, part and parcel of a conservative, some would say retrogressive, painting and drawing revival. And it has given us a flood of well-schooled pictures, ingenious sculptures, fastidious photographs and carefully staged spectacles, each based on the same basic elements: a single idea, embedded in the work and expounded in an artist’s statement, and a look or style geared to be as catchy as the hook in a rock song."

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Grave Robber

Jan. 30th, 2009 | 10:56 am


Jason Meadows

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cool!

Jan. 24th, 2009 | 12:03 pm

As you may know, I'm a huge fan of Google and their products.
They have really skyrocketed me into internet obsessive, which I never dreamed I would be.
If you would have told me five years ago that I'd be running an online art gallery, blogging like mad, and obsessed with networking, I would have laughed at you.
"I'm a painter!"

Alas, I have to share a find with you.
Google Alerts has led me to these wonderous pages:

http://blue-onblue.blogspot.com/

http://fredbutlerstyle.blogspot.com/

(both of the above are run through Blogger, a Google product,)
and

http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/home

Enjoy yourself out there.
More soon.
xo
Jess

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Introducing Kim Calder

Jan. 23rd, 2009 | 05:22 pm

Writer Extraordinaire:
She speaks on internet radio:
 
 
And a link to her personal oeuvre.
 

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Flirting

Jan. 5th, 2009 | 11:00 pm

It's David, from the Cafe. I checked out your art.  You're work is very beautiful. 
Here is the poem i was talking about by ee cummings.
Enjoy, hope to see you again soon.
Best,
D.



somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond    
by E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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salt lake in a nutshell

Jan. 4th, 2009 | 12:51 pm


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Beauty

Dec. 18th, 2008 | 12:43 pm




Luisa Lambri
Untitled (Casa de Vidro, #01-03), 2003
Laserchrome prints

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Material Press dot org

Dec. 11th, 2008 | 08:46 am

the grain of the voice

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MATERIAL Issue Two fundraising art auction and holiday party
Saturday, December 13, 7:30-10p
5502 Monte Vista St.
Los Angeles, CA 90042



PRESS RELEASE

"It is this displacement I want to outline: the very precise space (genre) of the encounter between a language and a voice.”
 —Roland Barthes, “The Grain of the Voice”, from Image/Music/Text.

Every auctioneer perfects his or her own ‘chant’; their own speed, rhythm, cadence and ‘grain’ of voice. “The grain,” says Barthes, “is that materiality of the body.”  For our holiday auction, MATERIAL is excited to host a live performance with a professional auctioneer: Michael Akin. Michael travels throughout the state of California auctioning off such things as cars, truck parts, jewelry, and cattle, and next Saturday, December 13 he will auction off artwork, donated by friends of MATERIAL. You will also be able to see Michael in Kim’s video installation “Quick Chant” in early 2009. We are lucky to have Michael take the bull by the horns, along with a surprise performance by Robin Dicker, to help us raise the funds to get Issue Two off the ground. 

We will also be screening two videos that deal with performance and the voice. The first, by Chris Peters, entitled “The Last Variety Show,” is a dark look at the language of televised variety shows. We watch on amid static and interruptions as the structure of the show's musical acts and comedic skits completely falls apart and the hosts' voices are silenced. Julie Orser’s "Not Yet Tomorrow" is a 1980’s style sci-fi fantasy musical comedy. The characters, lost in a dark dimension searching for each other, encounter nonsensical incantations in a black void as the characters sing a cappella about their circumstance and impending disappearance.

We begin with a Silent Auction, starting today, December 7, at 5pm (Pacific Standard Time) and closing Friday, December 12 at 5pm. To place a bid on any of the works featured in the attached images and PDF available here, please email info@materialpress.org. We will note the bids by time and date, and update participants via email about any higher bids that come in on the artworks, so people may up the ante if they so choose. On December 12 all spoken-for works will be considered ‘sold’ to the highest bidder. Anyone from anywhere in the world can bid! And we warmly invite you to do so. All payments can be made quickly and easily through our PayPal account, and the work will be mailed to you.

The rest of the works, as well as special ‘live auction’ works, will be kicked off with Michael Akin and his quick chant on Saturday, December 13. So be ready with your bidding paddles (our re-crafted fans from Chinatown) to get your hands in the air starting at 8 p.m. We cannot say/stress/intone or brag enough about how wonderful these artworks, and the artists who donated them, are. All work has low enough starting bids so that everyone may participate. This is your chance to own works by artists whose work sells for exponentially more. They are perfect for holiday gifts for anyone interested in preserving—nay celebrating!—the artist's voice and helping to build a strong community of people who support it.

If you're in Los Angeles, we hope to see you Saturday, December 13. We’ll have a glass of Crown Royal waiting, and we look forward to celebrating the holiday season with you.

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MIAMI

Dec. 5th, 2008 | 01:58 pm

The era of Art Fairs died with the stock market, but the masses are running for their 4th quarter deals.
I've been included in 2 showings in Miami, neither at the illustrious Art Basel Miami Fair:

JMOCA Genius, Justin Baner Hasch, has concocted a Totem Pole (my favorite!) to display multiple JMOCA contributing artists in an exhibition (not listed on their website?):
Locust Projects:

Locust Projects is an alternative, not for profit, Miami-based exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas and methods without the pressures of gallery sales or other limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work; Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods.  Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artist.

   



And fette's gallery is at the Aqua Art Fair, where my piece is included in the exhibition:



Jessica Minckley
Topiary Owl, 2005
Mixed media
12H x 6W x 6D" inches


Stay tuned for more pictures of Fette's booth HERE

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Christian Jankowski performance, Miami

Dec. 4th, 2008 | 02:28 pm



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Ornament is a Crime

Nov. 26th, 2008 | 04:02 am

Ornament is a Crime
November 13th - December 8th , 2008

Gallery 1927
811 West Seventh Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017


A collaborative venture from Brian Kabateck and Mark Geragos, two Los Angeles attorneys, "Gallery 1927" is actually the ornate, two-story "courtyard" lobby of downtown's Fine Arts Building. In keeping with original architects Walker and Eisen's notion of a working environment for artisans who could, in turn, use the lobby's bronze and glass cases as a showcase area, Gallery 1927 hosts monthly openings timed to coincide with the Downtown Art Walk.


 
Artists included:
 
Danielle Adair
Greg Curtis
Kristen English
Jenny Herrick
Betsy Hunt
Nick Jones
Jason Kunke
Kelli Manthei
Carolyn Mason*
Anna Mayer
Jessica Minckley
Morgan Satterfield
Grant Stevens
Natasha Subramaniam
Nichole van Beek
Luke Whitlatch
Rosha Yagh



The bones of this space are fetching. The Fine Arts Building is a carved and sculpted
shell housing 17 tomb-like golden cases. Since its inception in 1927, the display space
has gone through periods of disuse and, despite the occasional art show in its later life,
has been largely under-used. In the early 1900s, architecture was moving toward clean,
modern lines, as highlighted in a fervent essay by leading architect Adolf Loos which
stated “Ornament is a crime,” or decorative architecture is a waste of time. Today,
the newly christened Gallery 1927 opens a series of shows in connection with the Art
Walk with a celebration of the building’s unapologetic extravagance. Ornament is a
Crime showcases 17 works, one per gilded cage, addressing some notion of decoration,
excess, or crime through sincerity or irony, alternately.


(c) Jessica Minckley
Draftwork, 2008
Installation

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William Daniels

Nov. 25th, 2008 | 04:48 pm






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petah coyne @ galerie lelong

Nov. 22nd, 2008 | 08:51 pm


Not the most amazing art ever, but a striking image nonetheless.
Featured in top rated to see shows in Chelsea.
Ambitious use of stupid art store materials.

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art drama l.a.

Nov. 21st, 2008 | 01:15 pm

Just in case you missed the broo-haha in yesterday's paper:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-moca19-2008nov19,0,5520094.story

And if you haven't read Christopher Knight's very open letter:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-mocaletter20-2008nov20,0,5599508.story

hmmm...esp. since mr. broad plans to build again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20broa.html
 
UPDATE!
Eli Broad offers MOCA $30 Million
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2008/11/eli-broad-offer.html
IF...
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-oe-broad-2008nov22,0,2108831.story

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Neon Vernacular

Nov. 19th, 2008 | 03:02 pm

The Thorn Merchant's Mistress

I was on my high
horse then. I
wore red with ease

& I knew how
to walk. There
were men undressing me

everywhere I went,
& women wishing
themselves in my place,

a swan unfractured
by August. I was still
a girl. If they

wanted culture,
I said Vivaldi
& Plato's Cave.

If they wanted
the streets, I said
Fuck you.

I knew how
to plead, Wait, Wait,
till I caught the eye

of some deus
ex machina.

I was in a deep dance

pulling the hidden
strings of nude
shadows. But when

his car drove by
my heart caught
like a fat moth

in spider web. Goddamn!
I didn't know
how to say No.


Read the entire book on Google Books

Another poem online

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Sharon Olds

Nov. 19th, 2008 | 02:53 pm

A Week Later
     
      A week later, I said to a friend: I don't
think I could ever write about it.
Maybe in a year I could write something.
There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school. And in my dream
someone was playing jacks, and in the air there was a
huge, thrown, tilted jack
on fire. And when I woke up, I found myself
counting the days since I had last seen
my husband-only two years, and some weeks,
and hours. We had signed the papers and come down to the
ground floor of the Chrysler Building,
the intact beauty of its lobby around us
like a king's tomb, on the ceiling the little
painted plane, in the mural, flying. And it
entered my strictured heart, this morning,
slightly, shyly as if warily,
untamed, a greater sense of the sweetness
and plenty of his ongoing life,
unknown to me, unseen by me,
unheard, untouched-but known, seen,
heard, touched. And it came to me,
for moments at a time, moment after moment,
to be glad for him that he is with the one
he feels was meant for him. And I thought of my
mother, minutes from her death, eighty-five
years from her birth, the almost warbler
bones of her shoulder under my hand, the
eggshell skull, as she lay in some peace
in the clean sheets, and I could tell her the best
of my poor, partial love, I could sing her
out with it, I saw the luck
and luxury of that hour.

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One Hundred $1 Grants

Nov. 18th, 2008 | 10:48 pm

David Horvitz project alert!

All recipients will be announced December 31, 2008. Projects should be completed January 31, 2009.

He will review each application.

SEE WEBSITE HERE




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400 Blows, Truffaut

Nov. 17th, 2008 | 10:33 pm



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Matryoshka

Nov. 13th, 2008 | 09:51 pm



Matryoshka
October 4, 2008

922 Nolden is pleased to present a group exhibition curated by Kiki Johnson. Sixteen artists were asked to make their own matryoshka doll set, commonly known as Russian nesting dolls.

The exhibition includes sixteen artists: Danielle Adair (Los Angeles), Bianca D'amico (Los Angeles), Adam Feldmeth (Pasadena), Caitlin Foster (San Francisco), Alexa Gerrity (Valencia), Quinn Gomez (Los Angeles), Katie Herzog (Los Angeles), Kiki Johnson (Los Angeles), Veronica Johnson (New York), Jason Kunke (Los Angeles), Sidonie Loiseleux (Los Angeles), Rachel Mastre (San Francisco), Anna Mayer  (Los Angeles), Jess Minckley (Los Angeles),  Kelly Parr (New York), and Kathy Williams (Los Angeles).

Each artist began with the same blank slate of five wooden nesting dolls. Traditional matryoshka dolls are painted, usually quite ornately, depicting women dressed in Russian folk costumes. For Matroyshka, the artists' responses vary widely in material, theme, and concept. Sets range from Kelly Parr's resin dipping to Adam Feldmeth's austere sanding, and Rachel Mastre's pastel sailboats and blossoms to Danielle Adair's unsettling disarticulated toes.

The reception begins at 7pm, but will run late to accommodate gallery goers wishing to visit other openings that night. The reception will feature various infused vodkas and zakuski, traditional Russian vodka snacks.

After the show, the sets will be mixed up and each artist will receive a new and unique set comprised of dolls from five other different artists.



From Kiki Johnson's Flickr

My Russian Doll Set:


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The Paris Review

Oct. 27th, 2008 | 04:12 pm




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Some exceprts:

Two Poems by Paul Guest
...as he throws old Volkswagens into orbit
above Alberta. And to Betty
in her dark charm confiding a misery,
whatever it is, that to her seems equivalent to yours...

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Dragnet Tehran by Abbas Kowsari
In 2003 the first group of female cadets graduated from Iran’s police academy.



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Bloggins Family Reunion

Oct. 23rd, 2008 | 09:49 am

Not that I was the first person in the universe to utilize the internet for storage space or nepotism; I got an email from my father saying he found a way to go into the 21st century, bit by bit, and he'd created a blog. I figured for all the linking I do, I might as well link you to my nearest and... Queerest. Bloggins Family Reunion 08:

I don't know why, but my sister has seperated her "art" from her photography.
These are her blogs:
MinxArt:


MinxPhoto:

From a trip she took to Vietnam around 1999.


Click PhotoMinx to see many more travel photos from Morocco, Mexico, and Australia.


My dad's new blog: Midnight Meanderings
Excerpt from the first entry:

"Who is it that lost their earring?... Are they sad that they lost them? Are they nice people?  ...I wonder if finding the loser of such things would be worth the time it might take... But I could I make a friend."

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Your own solo show

Oct. 20th, 2008 | 08:00 pm

Friends of Sea and Space,

We have 62 artists in the show so far. I am thinking that 100 will be the max. So, invite those whom you think would be interested in being included, even if you are passing on the offer. Particularly friends who do good work, but seem to get passed over. I'm sure they are out there. Or maybe some folks who would just enjoy the show concept. 

In case you want to know where this show idea comes from: after 10 years out of Cal Arts MFA studio art, I have yet to have a solo show in a bonafide art space, even though I have been struggling to continue to make artwork (conceptual sculpture for the most part) for years. I know I am not alone. I also know that even if you are luckier than I, things are still hard and competitive and just plain nasty out there.  And it is so hard to have enough time and money to do what I love to do most. So this is for me, and this is for you! Lets all have our solo show together. Lets get another line on that resume in addition to those solo shows you did in grad school at grad school or undergrad, or even if you skipped school, or if you don't fit cleanly into the gallery system, or if you are just sick of your well meaning but ignorant gallery dealer. We can all live this dream together instead of alone, even though it is a fiction. Art is in the mind!

Love,
Lara

...

Need a solo show? Or got a friend who needs a solo show?

Sea and Space is offering artists we know a solo show in late November - December. As many artists as possible will be packed into the gallery for the largest solo show ever. All will be encouraged to list this massive group show as a solo show on their resumes by entering their name and show title into the blank spaces provided below.  The show's objective is to enhance the careers of all artists, subverting the way art projects are documented and defined.

While there is no limitation on the number of works for this show,  artists will be sharing limited space.  Work will be hung from the walls, ceilings, temporary walls, and pedestals. We will use all possible space, redefining how solo shows are presented. Smaller pieces are encouraged. If you don't have anything small, consider one medium work. Larger works may not be possible. But remember that your piece may be leaning, with care, on someone else's.  Video is fine, but you will need to bring a dvd player and monitor. Performances will also be accepted, but there will be limited room.

To be included, send:
name, idea of what you will include, and email for contact to:
please put "My Solo Show" in the subject field.

The work can be rolled over into the next show, the holiday raffle, if you would be willing. We are trying to get as much work as we can for the raffle this year to reach our goal of paying the fees for the non-profit tax exemption application.


___________________:___________________, A Solo Show
Your show title here Your name here
November 29th- December 7th, 2008
Reception: Saturday, November 29th, 8 – 11 PM


Lara 
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Sea and Space Explorations
 
 
 
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"Mormons Exposed"

Oct. 20th, 2008 | 04:27 pm

A Brigham Young University student's diploma has been revoked due to his excommunication from the Mormon church. A hold was placed on the student's records was made after the church found out about his business:
Men on a Mission

A calendar that features Missionaries without shirts, which has sold over 10,000 copies and you can find out about where they went on their missions and the amazing amounts of integrity they have...

Article

Kind of makes me feel gross inside...



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Out to Sea

Oct. 20th, 2008 | 01:28 pm



Sending a package by boat takes much longer than by air.




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Elizabeth Hamby

Oct. 16th, 2008 | 01:14 pm

A Video she made which is on her blog.
This piece came from said blog as well.
I stumbled upon an old email from Elizabeth today and saw her blog link.
There's a great entry about all of the things she didn't get into in a year. I totally understand that feeling.
But I still think she's great.


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NEW WAVE

Sep. 7th, 2008 | 04:16 pm

I'm in another Group Show at Carl Berg Gallery that opened Saturday.
LINK TO SHOW



Jessica Minckley
Untitled
2008
72 x 48 inches
Watercolor on panel, Fir.

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