Gonna spend the next few hours converting and uploading videos and video documentation to youtube, in preparation for the new web site (probably going up in a week or three). Enjoy!
“funny slam poetry about identity as constructed through mass consumerism; eat was a site-specific video installation made for a solo exhibition at the Outlet Gallery in Pretoria, South Africa” (more)
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We love Sean Slemon, a South African, award-winning artist, currently living in NYC.
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Paddy’s favorite piece of mine is now on YouTube. See the work in action, stuttering (also below), or watch a video with voiceover of me telling what it’s all about….
Not to again mention Winkleman’s appearance on the US telly about the big Warhol sale a few weeks ago, but there are quite a few good reads about the art market on the web as of late. Not gonna list all the ones I’ve seen (one reason being that it’s not really a focus of mine), but I enjoyed quite a few, if for no other reason than their critical eyes on how “the market” effects production, what it means for art now and in the near future. A few:
The Reality of the Collector-Driven Art World (blog post, Ed Winkleman);
Bursting art’s bubble (The Times, South Africa);
The problem with a collector driven market (The Art Newspaper, NYC-based writer);
and shorter, and more outside (and contrary to a few of the points above), Is That a Hirst?, by newcomer Irish gallerist, Haydn Shaughnessy. I thought this last piece also went well with Haydn’s Irish Times article on Digital Art a few weeks ago: Beyond Art and Design.
via Tom Moody:
You might have noticed the CBS News story “McCain Backs Bush’s Iraq Strategy” on the blogroll to the left for several months now (or maybe not–well, it’s been there). Lots of other people linked to the story, too, and now it shows up in the top 10 Google searches if anyone is looking for information about Mr. Flak Vest in the Baghdad Market (aka Mr. Bomb Bomb Iran). It looks like his presidential campaign is tanking with the announcement this week of huge staff departures (yay!) so some blogroll space will now be devoted to another overrated individual aspiring to be the leader of the free world, with the inclusion of the following three articles:
Rudy Giuliani was kicked off the Iraq Study Group because he never showed up for meetings.
Rudy Giuliani was the only candidate not invited to speak to the Firefighters presidential Forum.
Rudy Giuliani is worse than Bush.
If the thought of Giuliani as president makes you queasy and you have a blog or links page, you might consider getting the word out by pointing to these mainstream media stories, with the link around the words “Rudy Giuliani.”
See also: this Firefighters Union video about “Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend”–it mentions Giuliani’s foolishness in locating his mayoral “Command Center” in WTC 7–destroyed on 9/11/01 and forcing him to go operate out in the street (while running away from the danger).