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Kanye’s house is up for sale. You can take a virtual tour here. My reading: It’s a cool house if you like every room to look like a concrete garage with art and toys on the walls instead of anything useful, and if you never understood why anyone would want to waste space on a kitchen. [...] Drive-By Criticism: snarky comment made about artworks viewed through a gallery window while walking or driving somewhere else. Example: “Oh look, Maude, this artist is showing a series of photos documenting a lengthy study of his navel. Very original and provocative.” This art crime (known in it’s more commercial [...] Shawna Khalily has a new set of prints at her Ex Voto gallery. The unflagging quality of her woodcuts owes to her clear mastery of both material and idiom, and once again she delivers variations on themes of self-discovery, self-disclosure. On top of that, as an artist friend of mine pointed out, her output is astonishing. [...] The real coup, though, was convincing us that our kitchen drains harbored dreadful malodorous fumes. Solution: Buy baking soda, bring it home, and immediately POUR IT DOWN YOUR DRAIN! That is a winner. Daan Roosegaarde gave a joybuzzer of a presentation at Ideafestival in Louisville on Sept. 25 that got the crowd tingling about art and architecture and technology. It was the most exciting and entertainingly-delivered mashup of ideas and artful execution I’ve seen in some time (except for the documentary Copyright Criminals shown earlier in the week [...] Two spires, six major parks, 15 boxing rounds, 20 disco balls, and counting. Those were the highlights of the kickoff reception for the Gill Holland book Louisville Counts! A Children’s Counting and Art Book at the Green Building. The event was part of the September First Friday Gallery Hop… Read the rest of this article at [...] In a review of the book Let’s See by Peter Schjeldahl, critic R.C. Baker said, “Schjeldahl avoids the jargon that lends so much art criticism the charm of a physics dissertation”(42). This praise highlights a key concern for art criticism since the 1970s: the pretentious vocabulary and highly specialized usage so common in theory based [...] Kurt Cobain’s eyes are intense. That’s one of the first things you notice as you step into the Elizabeth Peyton exhibition “Live Forever” at the New Museum. On the first two walls, paintings based on photos of the music icon stare out, and it’s hard not to make eye contact. And eyes, in Peyton’s work, are the [...] A wall at the entrance to the Gilbert and George exhibit reads, “Puzzling, obscure, and form-obsessed art is decadent and a cruel denial of the life of people.” The Brooklyn Museum is the last stop for a touring retrospective of the artists that was organized by the Tate Modern in London. Gilbert and George are visual [...] |
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