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| ID: | 1280 |
| Title: | Eyeteeth |
| URL: | http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/ |
| Category: | Arts, Art & Artists |
| Description: | A journal of incisive ideas. |
| Bits: 01.31.12 - Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:49:00 +0000 |
| • This weekend is the last for the2012 Art Shanty Projects, in which artists transform icefishing shanties into creative hubs for community.Read my piece about it at the Walker website. • Accra Shepp onwhy he started photographing individuals participating in Occupy Wall Street: "The press said the movement was predominantly young and white. And I kept seeing Asians, Latinos, blacks. This doesn't look so homogenous. There were people in their 60s and young children with their families. And I thought, this is what people need to see. " • Neil Young: "Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around." •Antony Gormley: "Squatting is a very good way of preserving properties while at the same time putting them to good use. It's a no-brainer that properties that are awaiting renovation or don't have commercial tenants can be of use for creative things, and indeed to provide shelter for the homeless." • Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., told artists last night: “If all you want to do is sing and dance and paint, that won’t be good enough.You’ve got to be part of a political movement that would make sure that we do have public support for the arts.” •Printerestingdigs upChris Jordan's 2009 artworkThe Great Wave, in which he renders Hokusai‘sThe Great Wave off Kanagawausing ”2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour.” • How does a 5-year-old view the GOP's logo? A designer's daughter, analyzing various logos, looked at the Republican elephant and said, "That is a parade outfit." • Your moment of:decommissioned WW2 planes repainted by street artists. • Apop-up park in NYC. |
| Found art: Striped tree - Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:28:00 +0000 |
| Memories of Marfa: "I smell like a campfire" - Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:03:00 +0000 |
| File under: Found art (of sorts). I found this note in Craig Phillips' studio last week. Craig is a "media concierge and analoguebon vivant" and, most importantly, host ofMAKESH!T, a weekly art-making get-together in St. Paul. He tells me he kept a journal last time he visited Marfa (home base of the late, great Donald Judd), and eventually jotted some of his musings on hotel stationery. While it'd be great to see these compiled somewhere, it's also nice to find his notes-to-self amid the sedimentery layers of his well-used and rather magical studio. |