John Perreault by John Perreault, 2010, dimensions variable. (Image of Portrait of John Perreault by Philip Pealstein,1973, multiplied and altered with Pop Art app and Picnik). "There are no second acts in American … [Read more...]
SCIENTIST BERN PORTER QUITS TO BECOME ARTIST!
June 14, 2010 by
Bern Porter: Commentator on Contemporary Culture, 1946. Self-published pamphlet. OUT IN FRONTAn Illustrated Lecture About New Fashions in Everyday ThingsDesign and clothing, light and music, … [Read more...]
Yves Klein Online…..plus The MoMA Syndrome
May 17, 2010 by
Sleepers Awake Not all museums are asleep. Some are trying to rope in customers by stealth or educational and internet outreach. Certainly the most innovative ploy is the Hirshhorn Museum's new effort, led by a Facebook experiment. A daily Facebook entry offers Yves Klein information-nuggets, up to the opening day of "Yves … [Read more...]
Lil Picard: Mother Dada
April 26, 2010 by
A Life That's Picardesque If you wrote a novel or a play or a jazz opera about Lil Picard (1899-1994), who would believe it? She would pop up in various places in the 20th century, wearing different wigs. Very Brechtian, with music by Kurt Weill. If there were a movie, who would star? She herself had a brief appearance in E.A. Dupont's Variety (1925).A cabaret performer during the … [Read more...]
Star of Doom: Eastern State Penitentiary…plus J.J. McCracken
April 12, 2010 by
Jailbreak I was recently in Philadelphia to check out some site-specific artworks curated by yours truly. They were part of that city's Clay Studio "Interactions" project, tied to this year's NCECA, the National Conference for Education on the Ceramic Arts. Checked in at my Market Street hotel and immediately took a taxi to historic Eastern State Penitentiary. Here are a … [Read more...]
Marina Abramović: Prisoner of Charisma
March 24, 2010 by
Marina Abramović as Joseph Beuys (Guggenheim Museum, 2005) MoMA Redeemed? Marina Abramović (MoMA, to May 31) did not set up the parameters of Performance Art. Though there are only a few years between the seminal (sic) works of Vito Acconci and those of Abramović and her early-Performance partner Ulay, their efforts are … [Read more...]
Tino Sehgal: Thunder Under the Rotunda
February 15, 2010 by
A Whole Lot of Nothing Tino Sehgal has managed to fill the Guggenheim without giving us much to see. But there is plenty to like, not the least of which is the interior of the Frank Lloyd Wright monument to Frank Lloyd Wright. The Guggenheim, all spiffed up at last, has never looked better. It's the 50th anniversary. My, how time flies...or doesn't. The … [Read more...]
Who’s Afraid of Eli Broad?
February 1, 2010 by
Historic button produced by employees of the Corcoran Museum in D.C. when the "elusive" Walter Hopps, once an art dealer, was director; now reproduced to celebrate the publication of Hans Ulrich Obrist's History of Curating. Moving From the Dark Side New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch will be the new director of … [Read more...]
