The Opera world, like any other stage-based area of creativity is constantly battling to reach contemporary audiences in addition to hardcore opera fanatics. It’s caught between whether it should remain true to itself and its original music and scripts, or if it should have the opportunity to adapt and change with the times. It seems [...]
Photo: Tom Hanson/Canadian Press, via Associated Press, New York TimesThis image was just too hilarious not to post: President Bush and other leaders today at the Asian economic summit meeting in Vietnam, where U.S. officials talked of a new set of incentives for North Korea to give up its nuclear program.There have also been serious [...]
This weekend, Ed Young and Christian Nerf were in town – to cause trouble. So we took a break from that and went to the Brooklyn Museum, where Ron Mueck currently has a mid-career solo on show. If you don’t know his work, he pretty much makes small, or large scale super-realistic sculptures of humans. [...]
If you want to be humbled, motivated and inspired then go to the Guggenheim, and use the building as it was designed by taking the elevator to the top floor, and walking down the ramps. If you walk up like everyone else, you’ll be too tired to fully appreciate the work by the time you [...]
Its called the Docupen and its a portable hadnheld scanner about the size of a pen. Its USB plugin and you can scan anything. Check it -http://planon.com/ Tags: art, art and tech, reviews, technology
In 2 days, www.droppingknowledge.org will launch a global dialogue platform at the table of free voices, Berlin. On September 9th, 2006, 112 of the world’s great minds will come together around the world’s largest table in Berlin’s historic Babelplatz Square. Recorded by 112 digital cameras, they will simultaneously answer 100 questions chosen out of thousands [...]
With his own brand of printed wallpaper (the pattern extracted from one of his photographs), Thomas Demand darkened the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens in London this summer. Each room a busy dark hue of green interfering with your vision in the same way that a chain link fence does: making us struggle to see [...]
At Schedler Minchin Fine Art- A show that I am currently featured on in Birmingham, Alabama: curated by Jon Coffelt Tags: flickr
Solid Light by Sean Slemon at David Krut Arts Resource opens on 22 June at 18:00 @ 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood. Lightness and Beingby nathaniel stern Sean Slemon’s latest body of work strikes an almost sublime balance between the frivolous, and the momentous. Both a departure from, and continuation of, his last series – [...]
Yes its finally coming togetherAlbeit very slowly, but I’m getting there. Today – only two days before I leave for South Africa, on a trip home to see family and friends and make some new work, I got all the bureaucracy and logistics in line to take out 8 dead street trees. After months of [...]
Over the last few days, I have been doing research further reading into the current Whitney biennial. There have been a few things I have noticed, from going to the show, reading and figuring out the catalogue and looking at various reviews and interviews with the curators before and after the exhibition. Over all the [...]
My first Biennial What to say. Simply being in New York and keeping an eye on the process of first, the selection of curators, then general banter in bars over what will happen, subsequently leading to the artist selections being released and now finally the show, predictably leading to all sorts of bitchiness, boredom and [...]
This weekend my girlfriend and I went to Toronto for her bosses birthday. It was a chance to get out of town and have a bit of a break too. We were directed to stay at the Gladstone-one of the longest continuously running hotels in Toronto. Its recently been redone and the owner-an artist herself, [...]
YesThe Museum of Bad ArtIts realIt was only a matter of time. Its everywhere. I think they may need to expand their storage rather soon. Tags: news and politics, pop culture, reviews, sean slemon, theory
David Smith, Hudson River Landscape, 1951. Welded steel, 49 1/2 x 75 x 16 3/4 inches. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Purchase. Thought this was worth a quick mention. This show being done when the man should have turned a 100 years old. The work was generally smaller than I expected, but this [...]
So this last weekend I finally made it out to Chelsea, with a list of shows to see…
Theo Eshetu, Trip to Mount Ziqualla, Ethiopia, 2005 © Theo Eshetu, Image from the International Center for Photography The new exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor at the International Centre for Photography in New York has just recently opened. This was a fantastic exhibition of photography, clearly indicative of the high level of contemporary African work, [...]
My long silence is over at last. I managed to find my long lost password and get to work. Things are on the move. I was recently (4 weeks ago) in New Orleans. We went to volunteer for Acorn-an aid agency assisting local community members in getting their lives back together after Hurricane Katrina. It [...]
It has finally been ruled that airline passengers are allowed to take all kinds of nail clippers, knives shorter than 4 inches/ 12cm and tweezers, NT cutters and other highly terrifying tools of terrorism(sic) back onto the planes for their trips. Freedom at last. Keep your stuff. The five year collection period has ended. Maybe [...]
A panel discussion at the New School, here in NYC was held last night. The topic at hand was the issue of Culture at the World Trade Centre Site. Mainly whether or not the future planners knew what it was or if there was any intent to have any in the the new memorial, or [...]
