hyde or die

I love the Machine Projects, Artist in Residence program at the Hammer Museum, it is tooooo cool.  A few weeks ago I had a private concert in the coat closet. The musicians played a song called Dreamweaver and I haven’t posted it yet because I haven’t gotten the pictures off of my camera, but it was awesome. Don’t believe me, this weekend you can have your own personal soundtrack:

LIVE PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK
Saturday, March 13, 1-4PM
Eric Klerks
Visitors to the Permanent Collection and Luisa Lambri’s Being there will be presented with the option to “check out” guitarist Eric Klerks to walk with them through the exhibitions. He will follow the visitor around, playing live music into headphones through which only that visitor can hear. This event will happen intermittently on Saturdays throughout the year, in various galleries and exhibitions. Curated by Chris Kallmyer.

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March 12, 2010, 1:43pm  

Ant Farm, (Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Curtis Schreier) Media Burn, July 4, 1975.

This was a performance at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.  I wasn’t alive yet. Live is unfair.

March 10, 2010, 11:38am  

vinyl, records and covers by artists: a collection Guy Schraenen

For more than 30 years, Guy Schraenen’s fascination with artists’ multiples (objects, catalogues, books, magazines) has led him to amass a unique and highly specialised collection on the theme of sound. Vinyl shows LPs from an acoustic and visual angle to illustrate how artists from the 1920s and throughout the twentieth century have experimented with language and sound. The exhibition presents close to 800 albums alongside tapes, CDs, specialist magazines, reference books, catalogues and artworks. As artists began to work with sound, and as records and covers became media for the visual arts, a new and extremely creative art form appeared.

I think this is the appropriate time for me to say “It doesn’t get any cooler than this”.

March 10, 2010, 10:58am  

Painter and sculptor Nasser Azam has today returned to the UK having endured temperatures of -30˚C (wind chill of -45˚C) and battled winds as high as 100kph, whilst completing a series of large-scale paintings in the Antarctic tundra.

Over the course of a nine days on the continent (20–28 February), Azam produced a total of 13 paintings in response to a variety of frozen landscapes. The works were painted outdoors using specially designed brushes, canvas and non-freezing paints.

Working in situ, Azam executed a series of monumental canvases on an ice desert, an ice lake, an ice cave and a glacier. The paintings were left out overnight at each location for the elements to contribute to the compositions. The harsh conditions of the ice desert proved hazardous and four canvases were lost in high winds during the night. A special search mission two days later retrieved one of the lost canvases.

The abstract motifs of the Antarctica series are informed by Azam’s physical and psychological response to this harsh and desolate environment. The works also draw on themes developed in his previous work, which comprise an extended meditation on the expressive and abstract possibilities of the human form.

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March 10, 2010, 9:04am  

Piotr Uklanski Untitled(Monster) 2009 

March 09, 2010, 2:08pm  

Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance

Pyrotechnics, exploding pigment, blowtorches, lacerated décollage, and found materials, define the radical gestures of the avant-garde movement, Nouveau Réalisme. Translated as “New Realism,” it was founded by art critic Pierre Restany and artist Yves Klein in Paris in 1960. The circle of artists formally and informally associated with the movement included Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Martial Raysse, Christo, Mimmo Rotella and Arman, among others. They believed direct and aggressive physical explorations, characterized by a paradoxical emphasis on notions of deconstruction and accumulation, and the use of discarded materials from everyday life in the tradition of Dada, achieved a more truthful understanding of modern society in a moment of rising consumerism. As proclaimed in the First Manifesto of Nouveau Réalisme, “if one succeeds at reintegrating oneself with the real, one achieves transcendence, which is emotion, sentiment, and finally, poetry.” via…

Well, aren’t you Houstonites lucky? This is up at the Menil through August 9th.

March 08, 2010, 5:53pm  

I love it when museums blog.

How cool is this shot of Claes Oldenburg’s Floor Cake getting restored at MoMA?

Also, how psychic am I?

March 08, 2010, 3:09pm  

Liza Lou Security Fence (detail)

March 04, 2010, 2:36pm  

Michel Francois

March 04, 2010, 12:18pm