March 2010
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Guerrilla Opera
Anemic Blog would like to take this special occasion to venture out of the realm of visual art and into that of music…
My friend Jesse Brown (you can check out his Tumblr at here) is currently independently producing the premier of his opera When We Dead Awaken.
“When We Dead Awaken” is the first opera written by composer, J. A. Brown, adapted from the play by Norwegian...
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February 2010
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The Hit List
Interview with Hans Haacke: The Art of Politics on FlashArt
Wade Saunders and Anne Rauchette on Simon Starling, Art in America
My favorite thing of the week: Art Cards
Lady Gaga’s College Essay
Science has proven that wall information diminishes art appreciation. (via)
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“Stop it and just DO. Try and tickle something inside you, your ‘weird...”
– Sol LeWitt, letter to Eva Hess.
Quoted in the New York Times
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The Hit List
Art Beyond the Museum by Nick Riggle on Hyperallergic
The Difference Between Jerry Saltz’s America and Mine by John Yau in The Brooklyn Rail, and while you’re at it, check out Saltz’s response.
Criticism and Experience by Bernardo Ortiz Campo in e-flux journal.
Let’s talk about medium: What is Printmaking today? Philadelphia Dares to Ask by Ken Johnson in the New York...
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“All institutional conventions governing art’s veneration should be given...”
– Johannes Cladders
Quoted in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s A Brief History of Curating
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“Art is no longer a thing of the past; that is, we have no usable image of its...”
– T.J. Clark
in In Defense of Abstract Expressionism, 1994
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“8) When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole...”
– Sol LeWitt
From Sentences on Conceptual Art (1968)
on UbuWeb (I very much recommend reading the whole article)
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“Then, I would suggest, when your movement hits the museum, abandon it. Your...”
– Dave Hickey
in Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy
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Mark Dion: Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered
At Tanya Bonakdar
Closing February 6
PRESS RELEASE:
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is very pleased to present its fifth solo exhibition of Mark Dion’s work, an installation of sculpture from the artist’s ambitious recent project of exploration, history and art entitled Travels of William Bartram—Reconsidered. Investigating the visual representation of knowledge and the natural...
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Yes, But is it Art?
One of the greatest challenges to any of us working in any capacity in the arts, especially contemporary, is explaining to non-art folks what it is that we deal with, and, with much more difficulty, why. A few months ago, I conversed with a software designer sitting next to me on plane who was interested in approaching contemporary art (he was from Seattle, and though I have never been there, I...
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“That’s the only purpose of any form of art: that it adds something to people’s...”
– Francesco Bonami (via artnotartnot)
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January 2010
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“A blanket of snow may be used like paper or canvas on which marks and traces can...”
– -Hans Haacke
via
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BIG NEWS: It's Not Over
I thought I’d open my first actual post in nearly a month by reminding the world that I am still here. And so are you. This came to my attention when I was leaving the library last night; I noticed a copy of the New Yorker with a headline that said something like “00s: The World Didn’t End!” Hmm, I thought, was it supposed to?
But that’s exactly the thing. It was. Remember when everyone...
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“The idea becomes a machine that makes art.”
– Sol LeWitt, quoted by Joseph Kosuth in Art After Philosophy. On Ubu Web.
December 2009
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“Fuck You!
Fuck Me!
Fuck Peace!”
– MIRANDA JULY WEEK PART FOUR
-Miranda July in Me and You and Everyone We Know
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WTF, OMG: Pontus Hulten forged Warhols
ARTnews reported that the venerable curator Pontus Hulten, who passed away in 2006, had a set of Warhol Brillo boxes fabricated in 1990, three years after the artist’s death. No one knows why he did this.
Let’s think about it: Pontus Hulten had fabricated copies made of sculptures that were fabricated copies of a commercial product. Bonus: at the 1968 Warhol retrospective, the boxes...