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I’m in San Francisco right now, returning Benicia Gantner’s work, and meeting with other artists about potential future projects. My hotel is three doors down from the Frey Norris Gallery, which is closed for a few days, but the above painting, a Michael Mann remix of Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat caught [...] I’m traveling and working in San Francisco until Wednesday night, so I’ll keep today’s pimping of the Library of Congress’ Commons project on Flickr brief. FSA photographer Jack Delano shot the above image as part of his documentation of rail yards and workers in the Chicago area in 1942. I love the irregular, [...] More love for those WWII photographers. From what I’ve discovered so far, there are two primary photographers in the 1930s-40s in Color set, Howard R. Hollem and Alfred T. Palmer. Since I gave love yesterday to Hollem, today is Palmer’s turn. I can’t seem to find a decent piece on info on either [...] So I’m officially in love with the Library of Congress images on Flickr. Therefore, I think I’ll occupy some web space here for a while highlighting some of my favourite images from the collection, in an effort to ram its greatness down the throats of the folks who visit my corner of the [...] I probably spend more time on Flickr than I do on any other website. There’s more raw information, and more narrative there than anywhere else on the web. It’s also one of the few web communities I’ve ever taken part of that works for nearly every member. It’s too good, and it just [...] Television, our culture’s primary storytelling medium, and fine art rarely overlap. Unless you’re sawing cows in half, perpetuating harmful art stereotypes by being crazy and dying young or hoaxing the British Museum with faux-neolithic art, don’t expect to see much art on television. Without public programming like Art 21 and Sister Wendy, the only [...] Just assorted thoughts, some inspired by others. I’m better at thinking up questions about this sort of thing than answers, but I can say that in the past few days I’ve heard some really diverse, conflicting and interesting perspectives on the LACMA/Broad situation. #1 – Will this end up in court? Who knew what [...] Judging by the pile of text that’s been written in just days about Eli Broad’s decision to not gift his collection to LACMA, but rather to keep the works within the Broad Art Foundation, it seems like the underpinnings of the relationship between the collector and the museum have just been eradicated. Either that [...] There are a couple of openings this weekend that I’d like pimp here. Saturday, January 12 Systems Theory at the Torrance Art Museum. Curator Kristina Newhouse has assembled a real team of crack artists “who utilize a system to create their artworks and reveals how that system influences the way in which their artwork [...] Noah over at Danger Room linked to a post regarding the history of floating prisons over at the awesome Subtopia blog, Floating Prisons and other Miniature Prefabricated Islands of Carceral Territoriality. Touching on everything from wooden prison hulks, a modern five-story prison barge in New York City, to prison islands, to the suspected [...] |
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