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Come hear local glass artist Erwin Timmers discuss his work.    Thoughtful and ingenious, Timmers' sculpture calls attention to contemporary issues through a creative re-engineering of often-overlooked forms and concepts, often focusing on industrial salvage and recycling.   In my opinion, he's also one of the "earliest" green artists on the planet.   Artist Talk:  Saturday, June 22, 2:00pm   Brentwood Arts Exchange - exchanging ideas through art located in the Gateway Arts Center3901... [more]

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Bristol Farms Parking Lot, Beverly Hills adjacentThere's so much traffic along my route this summer that it has given me ample time to snap many vanity license plates.  Some of my friends have also contributed a few for your viewing pleasure!Translation:  A Bug Lover, 405 Fwy.Del Rey Yacht Club Parking Lot, Marina del ReyTranslation: Hippo Man.  Hi job or his figure? 10 Fwy.Translation:  Stamp Art.  A fellow artist! 10 Fwy.Translation:  Hockey. 10 Fwy.West L.A.Always in debt?  Pico Blvd., Mid... [more]

The Royal College of Art’s 2012/13 degree show opens to public this Thursday, presenting works of more than 500 MA, MPhil and PhD graduates. It’s a hell of a lot to absorb, so one probably needs to prioritize which departments to concentrate on. We had a a quick peek yesterday at the Design Interactions (at Kensington campus) and Fine Arts (Battersea). Here’re some of the projects and pieces that caught our eye:   Kelvin Brown: Where Are We Going? kelvinbrown.co.uk Kelvin graduated from t... [more]

This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: Q and Art, where American Art's Research department brings you interesting questions and answers about art and artists from our archive. Edmonia Lewis' Moses (after Michelangelo) Question: What does the term "after" mean in the description of an artwork, as in a sculpture that is "after Michelangelo"? Answer: In most cases when an artwork is described as "after Michelangelo" or "after Titian" it means that the work is a copy after a known work by Michelangelo or Ti... [more]

The utter absence of Romanian feminism in the Academy as well as in everyday life has been one of the most surprising takeaways from living in Bucharest for the past year as a Fulbrighter. It seems Patriarchy has won the day through deployment of pressures both brutally institutional and unwaveringly individual. On the street Romanian women associate being called a “Feminist” with admitting weakness and the need for help. With the immovable metaphysical authority of the Orthodox Church backing it... [more]

Felix Salmon takes a look at the Detroit Proposal for Creditors. He summarizes "the litany of municipal woes," including a "crumbling" infrastructure (40% of its street lights are out of order).  And he points out that among the big losers here are going to be Detroit's municipal retirees, whose pension payments are going to be cut.Still, he says the Michigan AG is "absolutely right" that the DIA's collection "is off-limits when it comes to satisfying the obligations of the City of Detroit."  It... [more]

I have a new website. And the blog is integrated into the home-page of the new site. All new blog posts will be continue over here.thanks!tomN. [more]

It's been an interesting 72 hours. And that's putting it mildly. If you asked me a week ago if I would ever expect to read a headline about myself that says "Wooster Collective Dad Currently Enjoying Cocaine and Transvestites" the answer would certainly have been "No." But if you had asked me a week ago if I would have ever expected to be in a situation that would lead to the headline "Wooster Collective Dad Currently Enjoying Cocaine and Transvestites" I would have probably laughed a... [more]

Eric Doeringer, Some Los Angeles Apartments, in Love to Love You, curated by Martha Joseph. MASS MoCA SUMMER 2013!! .... some new shows opened.... a Jason Middlebrook show, a Joseph Montgomery show, and a small group show including Eric Doeringer. Jason Middlebrook's centerpiece... a Falling Water sculpture... kind of an 'awkward space'-filler, his totems/planks are more interesting.MASS MoCA recycles everything... I wouldn't even be surprised if this was Styrofoam left-over from K. Grosse's wond... [more]

Winkleman Gallery, in conjunction with GalleryLOG, are very pleased to share this Closer Look at Leslie Thornton's current exhibition, Luna, on view through June 22, 2013.  click image above to watchLeslie ThorntonLunaMay 11 - June 22, 2013More informationReview: Susan Silas on Leslie Thorton's "Luna" in Hyperallergic________________________________________New Special Edition in Leslie Thornton's Binocular seriesIn conjunction with her current exhibition, we are very pleased to introduce a special edit... [more]

Winkleman Gallery, in conjunction with GalleryLOG, are very pleased to share this Closer Look at Leslie Thornton's current exhibition, Luna, on view through June 22, 2013.  click image above to watchLeslie ThorntonLunaMay 11 - June 22, 2013More informationReview: Susan Silas on Leslie Thorton's "Luna" in Hyperallergic________________________________________New Special Edition in Leslie Thornton's Binocular seriesIn conjunction with her current exhibition, we are very pleased to introduce a special edit... [more]

Opening of the exhibition NOISE based on my book “Immersion Into Noise” *** Curated by Marisa Vescovo In collaboration with Art critics Bruno Barsanti & Alessandro Carrer *** Location: Magazzino di Campo San Cassiano Calle della Regina, 2254 read more [more]

I'm very excited to announce that my interview with Tania Bruguera has been published on ArtSlant. I’ve been working on it with her for a few months, and I am proud of what it achieves—we cover a number of issues that are pertinent to the current state of contemporary art. Bruguera’s stances on topics ranging from class, education, labor, and professionalism in the art world will hopefully spark much-needed debate. "It is a process of excitement about the impossible made possible; which is also an aesthetic... [more]

Roger Hale (currently an honorary trustee), Martin Friedman (director emeritus), Justin V. Smith (a Walker family member and former president of the T.B. Walker Foundation), Walter Walker (a Walker family member and the late husband to current board member Elaine), and Tom Crosby, with paperwork making the Walker a truly public institution, July 30, 1976. Photo: Walker Art Center Archives It’s fair to say the Walker–and, indeed, downtown Minneapolis–might not look the way it does today with... [more]

As the inaugural foray into the world of “social practice” pedagogy, my experimental art theory course, Art as Social Practice, yielded some expected aesthetic results and raised a few theoretical issues for future consideration. The project that was collaboratively developed in tandem with eighteen Corcoran College of Art and Design undergraduates was urban, public engagement culminating in an “art event” that modestly invited further viewer participation. Ironically perh... [more]

I’m reading Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of New York City) at the moment, and there is a bit of American art history that was new to me. The Panic of 1837 had disrupted Manhattan’s patronage system. Cole, Sully, and Asher Durand found that merchants laughed wanly at the notion of buying paintings with their businesses facing bankruptcy. Spurred by hard times, artists fashioned new and more collective ways of supporting their work. In 1838 portraitist and engraver Jam... [more]

After the contemporary art overload at the fairs, galleries and auction houses the last couple weeks, it was a bit of fresh air to enjoy the Frick Collection's small but important Piero della Francesca exhibition. More images Piero della Francesca Artist Piero della Francesca was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Wikipedia Born: 1415, U... [more]

Start Date:  5/21 6:06pm - 9:09pm Hours:  6:00PM-9:00PM Cost:  $25.00 Venue:  Eyebeam ... [more]

One year ago, in March of 2012, A1one was kidnapped on the streets of Tehran, Iran by the civilian police from the “Intelligent Service of Islamic republic”. For nearly two weeks, he was kept in a hidden prison, blindfolded and lonely. Accusing him to receive money from Israel to promote graffiti and resistance against the Islamic Government of Ahmadinejad. They also accused him to have received training in a military camp in Jordan, aiming to go back to Iran and promote graffiti and hip hop... [more]

Richard Serra: Double RiftsThrough June 1stGagosian Gallery Poet Ted Kooser writes in “After Years” about seeing a woman he used to love and relates the encounter to both the vast and tiny tectonics of the world: “Without a sound/the glittering face of a glacier/slid into the sea,” he writes, “An ancient oak / fell in the Cumberlands, holding only/ a handful of leaves.” The poem then turns on a sort of hinge, elegantly pivoting away from the large and anonymous into the small and specific: “An old woman/scattering corn to her chickens looked up/ for an instant.” It feels like... [more]

The Atelier LaRose classes are on hold as I put more time and energy into making some paintings.  I just created an electronic commerce website for selling my pieces.  Steven LaRose Fine Art is up and running.  [more]

2 Humans, 1 Paper (2013, 10MB, 3:38 min) I first stumbled across Osvaldo Cibils and his marvellously eclectic and well..simply marvellous work on Flickr but he seems to have all sorts of things going. So simple but so, so telling. Kind of Buster Keaton meets Bruce Nauman meets something hard to pin down but lyrical, grotesque and smart all at once. My kind of artist. +++ 2 humans 1 paper video art/soundart. performance with plotter paper 200 x 107 centimeters. performers: fiorella alberti architect and osvaldo cibils a... [more]

details from the private collection of Miles Johnson and Viktor Sandberg (Levi's) exhibited at the new vintage store Harvest & Co. [more]

It is finally the time! After some years in the making, the room-filling painting-installation based on my PhD dissertation is opening at Jedlitschka Gallery in Zurich. You are cordially invited to the opening, I'd love to see you there. -------- Mark Staff Brandl My Metaphor(m), Painting-Installation 28 Feb. - 18 April, 2013 Opening Reception: 28 Februar, 5 pm - 9 pm the artist will be present (as well as on Saturday, 2 March) Laudatio/Opening Speech: 28 February 7 pm Dr Philip Ursprung,... [more]

Early this morning David Bowie celebrated his 66th Birthday with the release of his first single in a decade. This song Where Are We Now?, taken from Bowie's forthcoming album The Next Day, is accompanied by an artful video directed by the contemporary artist Tony Oursler. Set in a black and white Berlin of memory and dream, Oursler's video combines with Bowie's voice and lyrics to question the themes of human bondage, release, freedom,  doubt, ageing, and death.  The video opens with a... [more]

Sugarloaf, Timberline Chair, 2012, oil on canvas, 42 x 32 inches, private collection. It has been a while since I have posted any news or a new painting here recently. I am happy to send this painting off to a new home in Calgary to live on the walls of a skiing family. Last March I posted an image of the study for this painting. The painting took quite a few turns along the way and I finally finished it a few weeks ago. [more]

Sugarloaf, Timberline Chair, 2012, oil on canvas, 42 x 32 inches, private collection. It has been a while since I have posted any news or a new painting here recently. I am happy to send this painting off to a new home in Calgary to live on the walls of a skiing family. Last March I posted an image of the study for this painting. The painting took quite a few turns along the way and I finally finished it a few weeks ago. [more]

The US government spends much on ways to treat depression, as reported by Reuters. However, certain antidepressants have been indicted for causing adverse effects such as Zoloft birth defects. Legal observers says “the increase in spending is believed to be caused mainly by the prolific increase in prescriptions written for antidepressants like Zoloft.” According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “mental health spending per patient rose from $2,802 t0 $3,610 during the time perio... [more]

The US government spends much on ways to treat depression, as reported by Reuters. However, certain antidepressants have been indicted for causing adverse effects such as Zoloft birth defects. Legal observers says “the increase in spending is believed to be caused mainly by the prolific increase in prescriptions written for antidepressants like Zoloft.” According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “mental health spending per patient rose from $2,802 t0 $3,610 during the time perio... [more]

"Thus it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class, and that those states are likely to be well-administered in which the middle class is large, and stronger if possible than both the other classes, or at any rate than either singly; for the addition of the middle class turns the scale, and prevents either of the extremes from being dominant. Great then is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient proper... [more]

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“The deceased, as you know, have the inconvenient habit of cooling off too slowly; they’re burning hot. So they are turned into aspics by pouring memories over them–the best form of gelatin. And since deceased greats are also too large, they are cut down. The nose, say, is served separately, or the tongue. You need less gelatin that way. And that’s how you get yesterday’s classic as freshly cooked tongue in aspic. With a side dish of hoofs, from the horse he used to ride. I’m trying... [more]

“The deceased, as you know, have the inconvenient habit of cooling off too slowly; they’re burning hot. So they are turned into aspics by pouring memories over them–the best form of gelatin. And since deceased greats are also too large, they are cut down. The nose, say, is served separately, or the tongue. You need less gelatin that way. And that’s how you get yesterday’s classic as freshly cooked tongue in aspic. With a side dish of hoofs, from the horse he used to ride. I’m trying... [more]

Folly For A Flyover | Londonist On Friday, a temporary structure nestled beneath a concrete flyover in Hackney Wick opened its doors to the public. Part of the Create11 Festival, Folly For a Flyover is the work of Assemble, the gang of amibitious young architects and designers who built the Cineroleum in Clerkenwell last year. Those who filled up at the Cineroleum will feel right at home here: each weekend evening until late July the Folly will hold a series of musical performances and film scr... [more]

May 1, 2013 Call for Art MTA –Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project CALL FOR ARTWORK: Phase 4 Northern Manhattan Artists Deadline: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Midnight Administrative Fee: $10 Dear Artists, Friends and Community Members, The MTA-Artists Unite Subway Elevator Poster Project, a long standing effort by the community is happy to announce this fourth call for artwork to be placed in the subway elevators at the A-Line 184h St (181st. Subway Stop) & 190th St. Subway Stations. This col... [more]

It's been over a year, and I suppose the good thing is that the activity in the space hasn't left me time to concentrate on the blog. And Facebook apparently still remains the main mode of mass communication despite the patchy issues with FB in Vietnam. Anyhow, I've prepared a little pdf to provide a glimpse of some of the activities over the past year, which you can download below. + Scribd. Dia/Projects.pdf + Facebook. Dia/Projects (new open group format) [more]

  Have you heard? We moved! Come visit us! www.ocartblog.com [more]

Yet another way that regulation chokes Washington: The height restriction on buildings prevents investors (including the city) from realizing the immense market value of public parks. In Manhattan, where growth is profound, density is high, and regulation is light, the... [more]

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Transart Institute offers an international MFA program for working artists to develop a sustainable creative praxis with three summer residencies in Berlin; two winter residencies in New York City and individual advisement during two school years - wherever students work and live. The low-residency program leads to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Practice. Students are free to pursue work in any art-related genre and to create their own course of study, working independently and with the... [more]

A short documentary on this great Brazilian artist whose work is currently showing at the San Jose based Anno Domini. [more]

I am writing to you as I am researching content for the constitution of a film and reading library which will be permanently installed in the reading area (which is presently being set up) at Gasworks, London, and will be available as far as possible, as an online linked bibliography or resource. This initiative stems from Disclosures, “http://gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=344“, a project exploring the extent to which Open Source methodologies find applications in fields of cultural production outside of the Internet. We have started constituting a library durin... [more]

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PEACE OUT I've grown a pair of handsom wings and it's time to jet on outta here. The truth is I'm having miserable separation anxiety about ending ABCN. It was fun gamboling about the ether to find Team Shredder and the Norf*ckneasters, and here's a final salute to Boadweeblog. It's been swell having a daily writing practice, lame though it may be. I'll try to keep that up through my free verse poetry, quatrains and of course poison ink letters to various evil concerns. Right now I am a broken crown of s... [more]

The weekend's photos are really starting to backup up in here. I've only just now had the chance to upload my pics from Thursday night's Bridge Art Fair preview (selections posted below). Not yet posted: more photos from Art Chicago,... [more]

Olav Westphalen, Extremely site-unspecific sculpture, 2000Image via: Public Art FundIf you're reading this message, chances are you haven't updated my new RSS feed to your newsreader. To do so just follow this link, and in about two seconds you'll be set up! Those who have missed a few of the latests posts will be sore indeed: From the loins of youtube, Making Vindaloo, a soft core bollywood music video, and my the latest Reviewing the Reviews, whidh discusses the New York Times piece Selling Himself and Prin... [more]