via BoingBoingMore images and an interview with the artist here.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
1 Image 1 Minute
Art Los Angeles Contemporary presents
X-TRA's 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE
Angelenos Present Significant Photographs
http://www.x-traonline.org/1IMAGE1MINUTE_2010.php
Saturday January 30, 2010
4 pm
Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Silver Screen Theater
Tickets: $15
http://artlosangelesfair.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=233859
Now Available!
X-TRA's 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE
Over 45 Artists, Curators, and Historians each present a significant photograph of their choosing for 1 minute. Participants from all over the LA art community will come together for this live presentation of ideas and anecdotes tied to images. Ranging from funny to poignant to historically iconic, the presentations will surprise, delight, and inspire.
Participants (list still in progress):
Scoli Acosta / Benjamin Ball / Andrew Berardini / Delia Brown / Julia Bryan-Wilson / Annie Buckley / David Bunn / Dorit Cypis / Tony de los Reyes / Shannon Ebner / Tim Ebner / Janet Fitch / Tim Fleming / Brendan Fowler / Piero Golia / Judith Jack Halberstam / Stanya Kahn / Dawn Kasper / Peter Kirby / Bettina Korek / Liz Kotz / Brandon Lattu / Thomas Lawson / Aram Moshayedi / Dave Muller / Leonard Nimoy / Shana Nys-Dambrot / Karthik Pandian / Christopher Pate / Lucas Reiner / Britt Salvesen / Kim Schoenstadt / Mohamed Sharif / Aandrea Stang / Sally Stein / Catherine Taft / Geoff Tuck / Margaret Wappler / Christine Wertheim / Carlin Wing / Josh White / Mark Wyse / HK Zamani / Peter Zellner /
The 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE event is based on Micol Hebron's column in X-TRA, which is a recreation of a television series produced by Belgian director Agnes Varda in 1983.
This year's event is presented with the generous support of the new Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair.
The Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair is at the Pacific Design Center from January 28 – 31.
http://artlosangelesfair.com/
Check out the event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?eid=219201951134=4#/event.php?eid=219201951134
All proceeds from ticket sales will support the publication of the Contemporary Art Quarterly X-TRA.
Inquiries: 1image1minute@x-traonline.org or call 323/982-0279
X-TRA is published by Project X Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit corporation, with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Pasadena Art Alliance. Thank you to Art Los Angeles Contemporary and the Pacific Design Center for their support of this event.
X-TRA's 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE
Angelenos Present Significant Photographs
http://www.x-traonline.org/1IMAGE1MINUTE_2010.php
Saturday January 30, 2010
4 pm
Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
Silver Screen Theater
Tickets: $15
http://artlosangelesfair.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=233859
Now Available!
X-TRA's 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE
Over 45 Artists, Curators, and Historians each present a significant photograph of their choosing for 1 minute. Participants from all over the LA art community will come together for this live presentation of ideas and anecdotes tied to images. Ranging from funny to poignant to historically iconic, the presentations will surprise, delight, and inspire.
Participants (list still in progress):
Scoli Acosta / Benjamin Ball / Andrew Berardini / Delia Brown / Julia Bryan-Wilson / Annie Buckley / David Bunn / Dorit Cypis / Tony de los Reyes / Shannon Ebner / Tim Ebner / Janet Fitch / Tim Fleming / Brendan Fowler / Piero Golia / Judith Jack Halberstam / Stanya Kahn / Dawn Kasper / Peter Kirby / Bettina Korek / Liz Kotz / Brandon Lattu / Thomas Lawson / Aram Moshayedi / Dave Muller / Leonard Nimoy / Shana Nys-Dambrot / Karthik Pandian / Christopher Pate / Lucas Reiner / Britt Salvesen / Kim Schoenstadt / Mohamed Sharif / Aandrea Stang / Sally Stein / Catherine Taft / Geoff Tuck / Margaret Wappler / Christine Wertheim / Carlin Wing / Josh White / Mark Wyse / HK Zamani / Peter Zellner /
The 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE event is based on Micol Hebron's column in X-TRA, which is a recreation of a television series produced by Belgian director Agnes Varda in 1983.
This year's event is presented with the generous support of the new Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair.
The Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair is at the Pacific Design Center from January 28 – 31.
http://artlosangelesfair.com/
Check out the event on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/editevent.php?eid=219201951134=4#/event.php?eid=219201951134
All proceeds from ticket sales will support the publication of the Contemporary Art Quarterly X-TRA.
Inquiries: 1image1minute@x-traonline.org or call 323/982-0279
X-TRA is published by Project X Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit corporation, with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and Pasadena Art Alliance. Thank you to Art Los Angeles Contemporary and the Pacific Design Center for their support of this event.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Picasso Painting Ripped After Visitor Bumps Into Museum Exhibit
Picasso Painting Ripped After Visitor Bumps Into Museum Exhibit
By Lindsay Pollock
Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- A Picasso painting, worth more than $130 million by some estimates, was gouged on Friday at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art when a museumgoer fell into the artwork, leaving a six-inch gash.
The 1904-1905 painting, “The Actor,” depicting a graceful, gaunt male figure in a dusty pink costume on stage, was hung in a second-floor gallery among a display of early Picasso artworks.
An unidentified woman attending a museum class “lost her balance’’ and fell into the artwork, according to a museum statement. The woman was not injured, said Elyse Topalian, a museum spokeswoman. The painting received a vertical tear in the lower right hand corner, the statement said. “Actor” is worth about $130 million, according to a New York art dealer.
The Picasso has been removed from the gallery and taken to the museum’s conservation studio for “assessment and treatment,’’ the statement said. Because the tear occurred in the lower portion of the canvas, the repair is expected to be “unobtrusive,’’ according to the museum.
The canvas will be included in the “Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’’ exhibition, featuring 250 works, scheduled to run April 27 to August 1.
The six-feet-tall painting is crucial to the artist’s oeuvre, signaling a shift from his early blue period to the rose period, according to the statement.
Automobile heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy and daughter of Walter P. Chrysler donated the painting to the museum in 1952.
The incident recalls casino mogul Stephen Wynn’s 2006 collision with Picasso’s 1932 “Le Reve,’’ a portrait of the artist’s mistress, when he punctured the work with his elbow. Wynn was in the process of selling his painting to hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen and later kept the work that’s since been repaired and hangs in Wynn’s office.
(Lindsay Pollock writes for Bloomberg News. Opinions expressed are her own.)
To contact the reporter on the story: Lindsay Pollock in New York at lindsaypollock@yahoo.com;
Last Updated: January 25, 2010 01:01 ESTCheck out this movie, Beautiful Losers
In this documentary, filmmaker Aaron Rose explores the world of a group of underground artists who began influencing areas from fashion and film to music and pop culture in the early 1990s. With outsider art elements such as graffiti, skateboarding and street music, these mavericks redefined creativity. Interviews with Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson and others shed light on this remarkable movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyRAHKTy6hI
Saturday, January 23, 2010
The Artist: Charles McGill
"Using golf as a visual metaphor, Charles examines symbiotic relationships between culture, racial profiling and mass-media stereotypes by modifying the game’s implements–clubs, balls and bag.He combines these “tools” with historical data, sociopolitical texts and personal ephemera, lacing hisobservations with humor and irony."
http://artnegro.com/wordpress/
Friday, January 22, 2010
Independent Art Curator & Critic, Simon Njami
Wikipedia
Simon Njami (b. January 4, 1962 in Lausanne) is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots.
He is also a consultant in visual arts for the Association Française d'Action Artistique and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine "Revue Noire". His publications include essays in the catalogue for the Sydney Biennale and other exhibition catalogues. Njami has been the artistic director of the Bamako photography biennale since 2001, and was co-curator with Fernando Alvim of the first African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. He has curated numerous exhibitions of African art and photography, including Africa Remix and the first African Art Fair, held in Johannesburg in 2008.
Africa Remix Contemporary Art of A Continent Online photo tour of the exhibition
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/specials/africa-remix/e-njami.htm
A conversation with Simon Njami
-http://www.odcap.com/conversation_simon_njami_co-curator_of_the_first_african_pavilion_at_the_52nd_international_art_exhibition_in_venice/index.html
Simon Njami (b. January 4, 1962 in Lausanne) is an independent lecturer, art critic, novelist and essayist. He lives in France, and has Cameroonian roots.
He is also a consultant in visual arts for the Association Française d'Action Artistique and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine "Revue Noire". His publications include essays in the catalogue for the Sydney Biennale and other exhibition catalogues. Njami has been the artistic director of the Bamako photography biennale since 2001, and was co-curator with Fernando Alvim of the first African pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. He has curated numerous exhibitions of African art and photography, including Africa Remix and the first African Art Fair, held in Johannesburg in 2008.
Africa Remix Contemporary Art of A Continent Online photo tour of the exhibition
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/specials/africa-remix/e-njami.htm
A conversation with Simon Njami
-http://www.odcap.com/conversation_simon_njami_co-curator_of_the_first_african_pavilion_at_the_52nd_international_art_exhibition_in_venice/index.html
Monday, January 18, 2010
Art 12AD Gallery & Exhibition Design... To Be or Not To Be...
... That is the question that will be answered Tuesday, January 19th. I enrolled in this class with great anticipation only to find out that it might be cancelled. Oh well... it has been a beneficial, albeit short experience.
We shall see...
We shall see...
Sunday, January 17, 2010
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