I miss this band… Top ten concerts (and business suits) of all time. Jonathan Demme did the documentary…
Music Break: Talking Heads Girlfriend is Better [Live]
Archives For Art
The Germans seem to be the only people who can document James Turrell’s work correctly. This is an excellent tour of his installation in Germany at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and a short overview of The Rodan Crater Project.
This is one of his largest Ganzfeld works named for the “visual effect produced by the phenomenon of perception caused by exposure to an unstructured, uniform stimulation field”. Really disappointing the Guggenheim could not exhibit one of these incredible works for his retrospective in NYC.
Long time influential artist and photographer James Welling finally gets the museum survey and book that documents his long amazing career. Interview with him here.
James Welling: Monograph
February 02, 2013 – May 05, 2013
Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
“For over thirty-five years, James Welling has created beautiful and uncompromising photographs, and continues to be lauded by photographers, artists, and critics for his influence on the contemporary generation of art photographers. Operating in the hybrid ground between painting, sculpture, and traditional photography, Welling is first and foremost a photographic practitioner enthralled with the possibilities of the medium. James Welling: Monograph provides the most thorough presentation of the artist’s work to date, as well as offering an indispensable resource for those interested in this artist’s remarkable, foundational practice”.
Known for her political charged Collage and photomontage works, Hannah Höch appropriated and rearranged images and text from magazines and newpapers to speak about Hypocrisy the German Government of her time. As a Dadaist Höch was inspired by the collage work of Pablo Picasso and fellow Dada exponent Kurt Schwitters but only she alone could of made these distinctive works.
“How to explain the sudden renown of 90-year-old artist León Ferrari? Few knew this Argentinean figure before he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial in 2007. When his MoMA exhibition was announced in 2009 (a retrospective he weirdly shared with the late Brazilian conceptualist Mira Schendel), news of the show elicited as many blank stares as it did words of praise. So how did the work of a mostly forgotten South American gadfly go from last century’s oblivion to this season’s revelation?
Ferrari’s story is, among other things, part of the larger narrative of the making and unmaking of artistic influence—especially as it applies to the world’s two most influential museums, namely MOMA and the Tate. Another artist whose career, like Marina Abramovic’s, announces the expansion of these buttoned-down institutions into new arenas of art history, Ferrari and his newfound popularity effectively illustrate the most recent reinvention of the worldwide modernist canon.
via Village Voice Article Wednesday, Feb 9 2011
León Ferrari exhibition at MoMA (with Mira Schendel)
His website containing all his work is here
