I’m of the mind that Goya’s work, especially Los Desatres de la Guerra, has only become more meaningful with time. So meaningful that his painting, The Third of May 1808, demanded a re-creation in staples for an exhibition in Tel Aviv by Tofi Stoler. There’s something very “MOMA gift shop” about this object, [...]
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El Celso and C-Monster are on the road. Where they’re going, nobody knows. But they stopped at Ant Farm’s Cadillac Ranch long enough to throw some serious colour onto one of those old Caddies. I miss Cadillac Ranch, ya’all are making me road-sick. Here’s the same car back in [...] I recently came across Gerry Judah’s work on BLDGBLOG, and it’s nuts, totally gonzo hot painting/installation/sculpture. These bleached and skeletal cityscape derived works arouse so much end time emotion in me, the “empty world/after man” feeling. I want to be near one to see if the dead time smell of abandoned buildings and [...] My visit to LACMA during Spring Break! Woo! Woo! 2011! was particularly fruitful. The stars aligned and I kept hitting high notes over and over again. Anyways… The piece above is John Outterbridge’s John Ivery’s Truck: Hauling Away the Traps and Saving the Yams. If my memory serves, it may be one of [...] Edith’s installation, Transversal Garment Manifestation No. 1 at Windward School was on view for a fruit fly’s lifespan. Like her ongoing installation, Long Beach Garment Manifestation at The Collaborative, it was amazing. I was lucky enough to attend the opening while I was in El Lay, here’s a short Flickr tour of an [...] Currently on view at LACMA. This thing is hypnotic. I’ve been having a number of exciting art moments during “Spring Break in LA 2011!!! Woo!!Woo!!”, including a much anticipated visit to Edith Abeyta’s ongoing installation, Long Beach Garment Manifestation, at The Collaborative in Long Beach. It’s massive, architectural an an awe inspiring piece of installation art. The image above is a tease, [...] The photos from the Cypress College Class of 3011 robot prom were unforgettable, and the teaser for what I think it’s safe to describe as the most anticipated robot dance party film of the coming Oscar season is an accelerated cardboardstorm of pure joy. I am so gonna steal this “elongated body tiger line drawing” for some future project. That’s real style, there, just lovely line work. Hollow Brick with Tigers and Bi Disk, from the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-225 CE), from the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Side view & label. When [...]
Going through the archives of the unposted, found netsuke I hadn’t posted or written about before… I’m pretty sure there’s probably 100 more where these came from. LACMA does a great job of rotating the netsuke in the Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, so I’m not sure if any of the netsuke in this post are currently on view, but all of these were on view in August of 2010. The teeny, tiny gun at top is by Murusada, of whom I know nothing about. I don’t know if it works, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it did. You can see all 18 of the netsuke posted today here on Flickr, all of my netsuke images here, and a little focus on some more great ones below the break. |
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