Between 1996 and 2005, Maria Eichhorn conducted interviews with artists, gallery owners and others–including Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Paula Cooper, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Adrian Piper, Robert Ryman, John Weber, Lawrence Weiner and Jackie Winsor–about sales of artworks, speculation, the role of collectors and museums and artists’ rights. via Amazon.com: Maria Eichhorn: The Artist’s Contract [...]
“We will stay together for one year and never be alone. We will be in the same room at the same time, when we are inside. We will be tied together at the waist with an 8 foot rope. We will never touch each other during the year.” Artist Tehching Hsieh performed this piece with [...]
Adam Hayes, an artist from Newark, NJ (remember when it was the new Brooklyn?) is having a show at the gallery Number 35 in Manhattan. Sadly I can’t dig up much information (make a website for yourself, sir) but the press release suggests his drawings “feature a moment: hair blowing, the space between drapery, a [...]
Francesco Longenecker is a young painter (b. 1981) in New York with a promising show of new paintings at Rare Gallery. Here are some selections. More here.
John Milton Ensor Parker is a painter working out of Brooklyn. After investigating his very thorough (and well designed) website, I was only really taken with these pictures (above).
Regular readers will know I’m simply mad about painter Kristine Moran. Here’s a painting she made on view at a group show she is in at Anna Kustera Gallery. Terrific, terrific.
The history of art shouldn’t take such an artist-focused perspective. While it makes constructing a historical narrative easier (the “Great Man” theory of history), it overlooks the importance of the artist’s vast retinue of supporters that made his/her achievements even possible. For nearly every “important” artist there has been the supportive gallerist (Daniel Kahnweiler, Virginia [...]
And while we’re on Diebenkorn, for those living in Northern California, be sure to check out a little show of his work at Stanford.
a scribble M’s doing, originally uploaded by herm007. Nice Sol LeWitt wall drawing cooking along at MASS MoCA for their upcoming retrospective of Sol LeWitt wall drawings.
Why oh why is this “art” news? Looks like the media still gets a cheap thrill out of tsk-tsking a sexually controversial woman. Sigh. Controversial millionaire artist Tracey Emin reveals she is frightened of dying alone and childless | Mail Online.
Some fine landscapes by Peter Allen Hoffmann over at Freight and Volume. Lots more pictures here. Press release here.
“Second Stage” is a music show from National Public Radio with a mission that differs from its manifold peers: it only plays musicians not signed to record labels. Producer Robin Hilton scours CDs sent from musicians all around the country and podcasts a few selected tracks each day. It’s a rare opportunity to listen to [...]
Buffalo, New York used to be a boom town. The Erie Canal opened in 1825 connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic and Buffalo was one of its biggest beneficiaries. Home to steel plants, grain mills, and railroad intersections, wealth boomed. In 1900 it was the 8th largest city in the country. Now it’s 46th. [...]
An open letter to emerging artists on how to get seen.
