Posts Tagged ‘LUCKY’
Paul McCarthy
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Paul McCarthy is one of my fav artists. He constructs Hollywoood-type sets, throws multi-day orgies on them (girls get naked, saw off fake limbs in pools of blood), or he’ll make automated sculptures, like the famous pig that squirms happily on its motorized base. Back in the day he performed by himself, like in “Painter” (above). He started out by making videos of himself alone in his studio naked lathering himself in Heinz ketchup. It took him 30 years to get commercial representation: Hauser & Wirth is showing some of his new work in Zurich.
Paul McCarthy – Captain Ballsack & Other New Work
Paul McCarthy – 30 Year Retrospective (2007)
Flickr set of the S.M.A.K. Retrospective
Death Of Auto-Tune
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Jay-Z performs his new song “D.O.A.” at Summer Jam 2009. First thing the beat reminded me of was “Takeover,” which Hova famously debuted at Summer Jam 2001, jumping-off his public rivalry with Nas.
Jay-Z – “D.O.A.” (Death of Auto-Tune)
Hova on Hot 97 talking about how this ain’t a diss song
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale opened yesterday! 77 countries pick one artist to represent them; it’s like the Olympics of the art world. The artist gets an entire building, or pavilion (USA’s is pictured above), to work inside. Awards are handed out and everything. It’s pretty amazing. This year Canada is represented by Mark Lewis, who works in video.
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Official Website of the Canada Pavilion
Official Website – Biennale di Venezia 2009
Globe & Mail – “The Pavilion doesn’t even have a bathroom…”
Tracey Emin
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One of my all-time fav artists. She has a new show on now at White Cube in London, the gallery she started out with in the ’90s.
Tracey Emin – Those Who Suffer Love @ White Cube
Channel 4 Video Interview w/ Tracey Emin
Lunch with the FT – Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin’s Column @ The Independent
The Tunnel
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Jay-Z, Beanie Sigel, DJ Clue, Memphis Bleek, Amil, Freeway, even Pain In Da Ass does the intro, at The Tunnel in NYC — this is AFTER Jay-Z’s “In My Lifetime Vol. II” went 4 x platinum. So ghetto.
Joe Bradley
Personally, as a collector I enjoy looking at really simple things hanging on my wall that don’t distract and don’t have any immediate meaning or concept. This way, since I see it everyday, I can either totally ignore it (look past it) or stare at it intently.
I also like small. Now, small can be a framed scrap of paper, but when that hangs on your wall alone, it becomes really BIG, because it’s attracting all the attention away from the rest of the blank wall. But if you hang a huge canvas with only two lines on it (see image above) you basically get to keep your blank wall and still have something interesting to look at.
Big pieces on big walls are much easier to ignore. It’s like furniture: we generally look past our couches, or tables in a restaurant, to see the room itself.
I’ve never really been into the “draw like a kid” style but when I saw Joe Bradley’s “Schmagoo Paintings” the concept really clicked for me: do it on huge canvases so I can appreciate the abstractedness of the linework. The minimalism of a “stickman” turns into an abstract concept of three long pencil strokes and then a blast of scribble. Cool.
Cannes Film Festival
UPDATE: The Palme d’Or award ceremony starts at 10:15 am PST and you should be able to watch it live on the Festival de Cannes website.
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Le Monde is saying the favorites to win Best Picture are between “The Prophet” by Français Jacques Audiard and “The White Ribbon” by Michael Haneke; Best Actress could be Charlotte Gainsbourg (daughter of Serge) for “Antichrist” by Lars Von Trier (see trailer above).
A Canadian cleaned up at the Fortnight Awards: 20 year-old Xavier Dolan of Montreal won 3 awards for his first feature, “I Killed My Mother”.
Inglourious Basterds – Official Website
