Next Sunday (May 6, 2007) I will be going down to Philly for a food tour/art-a-thon. That’s right, Pennsylvania Tots, Philly Nuts and food of the like will be consumed.
However, that’s not the highlight. The best part will be seeing Zoe Strauss’s I-95 work, live and in person. I am pumped.
I have to say, I’m a little in love with Dawn Roscoe’s Exquisite Suburbia project.
I really like the “skyline” and “unknown fire” series. Kunihiko Katsumata has a different take on your typical skyline, cutting away the horizon to leave almost all sky. I really wish I had been able to see the prints of these photos at the Armory Photography Show.(via Conscientious)
I have to say, I’m more excited than usual about the upcoming Jen Bekman project: 20×200.
Inspired by a belief that good art should be made affordable, and not just to the incredibly wealthy, the concept is very similar to Tiny Showcase, a website that prints affordable, limited edition (100) prints of fine art. I’m always too late to get ahold of the prints that Tiny Showcase offers, but I’m definitely excited about the prospect of 20×200.
20×200 will release one photograph and one fine art print, every week. The concept is that there will be 200 prints of each work, all for $20. How democratic! How fantastic!
We vote yes!
In regards to Mr. Vonnegut’s death; my favorite Vonnegut book was God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. At one point, I had four copies of this book…excessive, I know, but they kept falling apart. I was in High School and considered it to be a guide for life, a reminder that I should consider others with kindness, compassion and innocence, despite all of the horrible things that we tend to do to each other.
I’ve been reading the Walker Art Center’s blogs lately and they just opened Kara Walker’s first museum survey in the US, Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love. I have to say, reading the blog has been really great for a variety of reasons, one of them being that it’s gotten me really excited about the fact that Ms. Walker’s show is coming to the Whitney in October. She makes intellectual and passionate art that really speaks about the histories that influence our present lives.
You know what else they’re showing at the Walker???
1. Paper Trail: A decade of the Walker’s acquisitions on paper: An exhibit that focuses on all of the changes that have occurred in the ways that artists produce work on paper.
2. Body Politics: Figurative Prints and Drawings from Schiele to De Kooning.
3. And other pieces from the collection.
I would truly like to go there.