books-on-tables asked: Do you have a/some favourite book(s)?
You guys respect me. I love it!
My current favorite art books are:
“We consider it tacky to do that.”
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Richard L. Feigen on art galleries posting prices next to works.
It really is. Where would you suggest you put a sticker price on a Carl Andre?
Carl Andre 3rd Steel Triangle; 1 x 150 x 150 cm 2008 | Ahmet Ögüt intervention n.1: 2 tape measures 2011
SFMOMA, I love your blog so much.
Carl Andre, you already know how I feel about you.
Ahmet Ögüt, it’s nice to meet you and thank you for making me feel things.
Robert Ryman, Archive, 1980
via cavetocanvas
Regarding this…I don’t like the “I could have done that” argument, I find it has very little merit in regard to the worth of a piece, besides this, here is what I have to say about Robert Ryman and in turn, a lot of minimalist artists out there, it’s not for everyone. And on that point, nothing is for everyone, not one piece of clothing, one game, one TV show, one movie, one type of flower, one color, one city, one haircut etc, etc. You don’t have to like everything, no one is twisting your arm about it.
I worked at a gallery that had a (IMO) brilliant Carl Andre opening and the crowd was split in thirds: 1/3 hated it and left immediately (very vocal), 1/3 hated the people who hated it (also vocal), and 1/3 enjoyed it without hating on anyone.
To me Robert Ryman was looking for ways to convey meanings using a different method of painting and used materials in a way that is often viewed as nontraditional. I find this piece to be meditative and his methods to be one of a purposeful and controlled chaos. It’s really beautiful to me.
I also find it interesting that people can get so violently angry against minimalist art in a way they don’t against even abstract expressionism, pop or whatever contemporary thing is happening at Peres Projects. I feel like it must be some resentment that builds to the piece not engaging or reflecting one’s disgusted or dissatisfied mental state when being confronted with it.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
A collection of posters from exhibitions/events at Modern Art Oxford
via: prochoicenyc and rkjd
Are there any original thoughts left OR Why do so many people make pieces I like to take pictures of?
Left: Jeppe Hein’s floor mirror at Nicolai Wallner’s booth, Art Basel Miami Beach image via… *
Center: Carl Andre 16 Ace Zinc Square, 2007**
Bottom: Walead Beshty at Regen Projects Black Swan: The Exhibition ***
Now here is where it gets to be super Hyde-centric:
*The Jeppe Hein piece looks like the same theme he was working with when he created this street art that I GPOYW-ed.
**This Carl Andre piece was almost the end of me. However it also produced a wonderful GPOYW.
***And while I never posted a GPOYW of the picture I took of myself in this piece, it is my avatar on Instagram.
Peter O’Donohoe, the Tate’s senior executive officer, responded in a 1974 memo: “I find it difficult and alarming to believe that the only way of obtaining information…from these artists was to allow them to become intoxicated… I would be very loathe to put much credence on anything said that was alcohol assisted.”
When Art Newspaper refers to “the bricks” I am assuming it is a Carl Andre piece they are speaking of that caused so much hoopla that it overshadowed a video of the two flamboyant artists getting drunk at lunch with 3 Tate curators which was also aquired by the museum.
The curators made the excuse that they encouraged the liquid courage so they could get answers from the normally cagey artists. Sounds like a good plan to me!
I also find it humorous (or depressing) that in 1972 one could get drunk for £16.51 (3 bottles of wine and 12 glasses of port!). Well done boys.
Carl Andre 144 Graphite Silence 2005
I am glad I didn’t have to source materials for this, although it is gorgeous.
