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PUBLIC ART COVER-UP! MOCK ART TREND?

October 11, 2011 By
Ojek/Rosenthal: Alamo

ARTOPIAnews   LENIN DESECRATED IN BULGARIA. AND IN NYC GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE ASTOR PLACE CUBE. WHO’S TO BLAME? Is the public so disgusted by outdoor sculpture that even temporary defacement is cheered? Who’s to blame? Soon not even works by Calder or Oldenburg will be safe from mockery.  Olek, the Polish-born crochet artist, made a cheerful one-day coverlet for Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo, that point-balanced black cube at Astor Place that each new generation of Cooper Union art students discovers can be rotated with a … [Read more...]

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Fluxness: Mischief Is My Mistress

October 4, 2011 By
PAIK nOTHINGNESSfxd

Fluxus is in flux. The interpretations are coming fast and furious. The latest entry is the imaginatively titled exhibition “Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life,” with works mainly selected from the George Maciunas Memorial Collection at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, but with significant additions from MoMA and other sources. It is now at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery until December 3. In her essay, curator Jacquelynn Bass writes: The point is to experience Fluxus artworks for yourself. These days that will most likely be … [Read more...]

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NOT ONE ARTIST GETS GENIUS AWARD THIS YEAR!

September 27, 2011 By
MacArthurdope

                                                                                                ARTOPIAnews   Not One Artist Awarded MacArthur This Year. Shame, shame. This is not to say the recipients are unworthy. But why nominate or evaluate artist candidates if the results are so insulting? For the record, you can’t apply and all nominators, evaluators, and juries are top secret and, therefore, unaccountable.     Salvation Army Buys Museum Will … [Read more...]

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Just Say No: New Indigenous Australian Art

September 13, 2011 By
Fiona Foley: HHH

                    Would You Believe This If It Were Science Fiction?   Over the course of a century, Aussie cops and “Aboriginal Protection Officers” kidnapped some 100,000 “half-caste” indigenous Australian children from their mothers. Many of the youngsters had been sired by white, ex-convict, railroad workers and other Anglo-Australians who also built and maintained the coast-to-coast rabbit fence. Yes, the State Barrier Fence, first … [Read more...]

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Summer Special: Art Cops Double Feature

August 16, 2011 By
copcloseup

While John Perreault is enjoying the beach on Long Island, the art cops try their hand at art criticism, above...and then, in the second video below, solve an art-world mystery: Why does the art world leave New York City in July and August? [Please note there is nothing wrong with the following video. If you look really carefully you can just about see Dominic and Dominic Two, talking and gesturing in their usual manner. This new installment of John Perreault's Art Cops is not meant to be a reference to avant-garde cinema. This is not a … [Read more...]

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The Art Cops: Art School Confidential

June 28, 2011 By
Capture

On his Paris Biennial website, Jean-Baptiste Farkas claims over one trillion new artworks have been made since October 2009. And the clock keeps ticking: 1,685,740 new artworks per day.  Click here for counter. What are we going to do with all this art? Why is it being made? Who is making it? In the fourth installment of the world's first-and-only art criticism, animated cartoon, John Perreault's art cops investigate the art glut and its source. Sort of.       NEVER MISS AN ARTOPIA ESSAY AGAIN! FOR AN … [Read more...]

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Gustav Metzger: The Remix

June 6, 2011 By
HistPhotoOne

  Gustav Metzger: Historic Photograph No.1: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 19-28, 1943, 1995/2009/2011     Metzger Rescued from the Footnotes of Art History   Gustav Metzger's first U.S. exhibition ever, the thought-provoking "Historic Photographs," is now at the New Museum (235 Bowery, NYC, to July 3, 2011). All 12 sculptures, forming a set originally made in 1995-96, are exhibited together for the first time.   Ironically, until now we have known these sculptures -- which are "about" photography as … [Read more...]

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The Art Cops: Return from L.A. — The Writing on the Wall

May 24, 2011 By
Capture

        MOCA-LA             Banksy            Graffiti Art     KEITH HARING       Jeffrey Deitch                              Street Art        Eli Broad                Art in the Streets      Related Artopia … [Read more...]

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Richard Serra, Drawing

May 9, 2011 By

                                                                        After Minimalism   Richard Serra was never burdened with the Minimalist strictures offered up by Donald Judd (or Dan Flavin or that old devil Ad Reinhardt) and certainly not by the lesser lights of Minimalism, who, let's face it, did not even have beauty, strength, or expression on their … [Read more...]

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The Art Cops Return: Fluxus Must Die!

April 26, 2011 By

Links to more thoughts on Fluxus in Artopia:                    Fluxus Redux               Ken Friedman      Ben Patterson … [Read more...]

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