Unfortunately due to low energy and lack of time, I could only attend the LA Art Show for a few hours to grab this interview and have a quick look around on one of the days that this was here. INTERVIEW: My radio interview with Kim Martingdale (click here for his bio) and others is now up: click here to listen REVIEW: My first stop was the live...
Read MoreMuseum of Jurassic Technology’s David Wilson: Lecture and Film at the Armand Hammer Museum 05/06/09
David Wilson is the founding director of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, which opened in 1988. Wilson has also produced six independent films, most recently under the auspices of MJT in conjunction with Kabinet, an arts and science-based cultural institution located in St. Petersburg, Russia. We were treated to a lecture and film...
Read MorePawning the Rights to Artwork
Someone forwarded this to me: Allen Salkin has a fascinating story in today’s NY Times (link) about high end pawnshops like Art Capital Group. Annie Leibowitz has borrowed about $15 milllion from them and for collateral, among other things, she has put up the rights to all of her...
Read MoreMy Favorite Pieces from the 14th Annual LA Art Show at the LA Convention Center, January 25, 2009
This photorealistic painting of a pile of The Wall Street Journal newspapers on a bookcase by Steve Mills and the concave intaglio-like sculpture by Yong Deok Lee were my overall favorites from the LA Art Show. Please scroll down for comments and other photos. Steve Mills (detail) Steve Mills Wall Street Journal 2 Oil on Aluminum Panel 42″ x...
Read MorePhoto LA
These have been an emotionally rough and confusing few years for me and it’s been easy to give up and become a hermit. I’ve had some health issues. So, I challenged myself to try to make the effort to see some art, especially when I have press access to events and museums, and even when it means being smooshed inside a building with crowds on...
Read More9/11 Memento Mori
Remember that you are mortal. Director David Lynch’s ‘Interesting Questions’ online art gallery (http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/030107_lynch_art.html). His interesting website invites visitors to walk through a virtual gallery where they can stop in front of art work hanging on the “walls” for a closer look. Choose Floor...
Read MoreDecember 18 – Today Is My Birthday – Scaling the Alps of My Mid-30s
In the entry for December 18, WIkipedia notes: 218 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia – Hannibal‘s Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Roman Republic. In one of my five years of studying Latin, I had to translate parts of Livy’s (59 BC to AD 17) The War with Hannibal. Synopsis In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC...
Read MoreGordon Matta-Clark at MOCA until January 7th
Gordon Matta-Clark is one of my top five favorite artists. I’m a big fan of his films documenting his cut buildings, as well as, the cut building performances themselves. He first captured my heart fifteen years ago at Sci-Arc and during a city-wide retrospective with lectures and screenings at MOCA and UCLA. The NY Times has background on...
Read MoreNam June Paik’s Seminal “Moon is the Oldest TV”
In homage to this morning’s Full Moon Lunar Eclipse (2 to 4 AM), a revisit of Nam-june Paik’s video installation, “Moon is the Oldest TV,” feels appropriate. Moon is The Oldest Television – 1965-67 (1996) Nam-june Paik TV Moniter,projector and video I. The Moon vis-à-vis the Beholder In 1963 America put the first man on the...
Read MoreThe Meteor as Art – Maurizio Cattelan’s “Pope Struck by a Meteorite” Sells for $3 Million
Maurizio Cattelan’s La Nona Oralso (1999) Venice Biennalle Installation wax, clothing, polyester resin with metallic powder, volcanic rock, carpet, glass This critique is only for this particular art installation and not Maurizio Cattelan’s body of work which I like. I don’t normally write public negative reviews and I will reexamine what...
Read MorePerseid Meteor Shower as Culinary Masterpiece
It used to be that on an occassion like the Perseid or Leonid meteor showers, I’d be in my car in a heartbeat, headed into the desert, passing Gorman, away from the light pollution of cities. This year, I content myself by feasting on artists’ interpretations of these events. In honor of the Perseid Meteor Shower, Belly-Timber has...
Read MoreManfred Muller’s “Twilight and Yearning” beneath the Santa Monica Pier
I though I would repost some art writing from my Echo in the Sense website here: Much of 2004 was spent taking long walks along the Santa Monica pier and wallowing in a tide of inertia. I came upon this installation for the first time this January at a time when I very much needed a mental jog from the past. The boat sculpture/permanent installation in...
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