performative digital scan turned into an aquatint etching, engraving and drypoint, 2006 polyptych of four top images each: 59 x 49.3 cm bottom image: 73.8 x 49.3 cm edition 5 Several of the hand-made prints, which were produced as details and iterations from my performative digital image series “Compressionism,” will be exhibited as part of [...]
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My favorite South African displaced in New York, and an inspired/inspirational sculptor and artist, Sean Slemon, is having his Masters Solo Show at the Pratt Studios in Brooklyn, 30 April – 4 May. If you’re around, do yourself a favor and attend (and tell him I said hi – he’s very nice). More on Sean [...]
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 [...]
I’m exhausted. I know, I’ve been on holiday for the last couple of weeks (but that was visiting family, so it’s not really "restful"), and I mostly just took the last two months "off" to move to Dublin. But a new baby, moving continents, catalogue production, many shows, starting a PhD, quitting my three jobs [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Motsebetsi ya Motsho “Black Labour” (Supa Market) by Cillie Malan OK I’m a lazy shit who is mostly cutting and pasting a press release; but am crazy with finishing up ‘stuff’ cuz we leave in 8 weeks(!), and I can’t believe how little press there has been on New Signatures! Who is this Cillie Malan, [...]
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 [...]
Been doing filler (mostly my own stuff) for the past while on the blog, whilst on residence in Brazil, and not getting out much since going gaga over my daughter. Hit the gallery strip two days ago, tho, and as usual was pleased by the works at Warren Siebrits – with the exception of the [...]
the storytellers: works from the non-aggressive narrative So, more than a year and a half after the fact (and thanks to Sean Slemon, who insisted on lo-res versions of all my prints before deciding on a trade for his sculpture), I finally uploaded a photoset of my first major solo show to flickr. Check out [...]
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 – [...]
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…
