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Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley’s Heidi

I have to apologize for this post ahead of time, but after talking with the great Carole Garmon about Kienholz (see my previous post for context), she recommended I watch Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley’s Heidi (1992). The video from YouTube below is an edited version that, as the uploader notes(the original is 51 minutes [...]

Kienholz on Exhibit

Once again the Internet Archive delivers the goods. Check out this amazing documentary by June Steel about Edward Kienholz’s retrospective exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1966. I first discovered Kienholz thirty years later in LA at this 1996 retrospective of Kienholz’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in [...]

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Produced in 1973 [by Richard Serra and Carlota Ray Schoolman], “Television Delivers People” is a seminal work in the now well-established critique of popular media as an instrument of social control that asserts itself subtly on the populace through “entertainments,” for the benefit of those in power-the corporations that maintain and profit from the status [...]

Shake It

Carole Garmon pointed me to a beautifully disturbing re-enactment of a performance piece by Allan Kaprow’s “Shake It,” (1972) or at least that’s what I think it’s titled. I didn’t know anything about Kaprow before Carole explained his influential role in defining the concepts of performance art as well as helping to develop the [...]

Storm Tossed Ship (Gonna Make it to the Ocean)

Did I tell you how happy I am to be back at UMW? Well, if I haven’t yet, then this post will seal it.
Carole Garmon (whose sculpture blog Prodigious Builders rocks!) stopped by this morning to tell us about the student art show that went on this past weekend — which I missed, bad, [...]

Andy Warhol’s Clockwork Orange

Since I am already talking about Warhol and film, here is a bit of “Did you know?” trivia I found pretty fascinating when I first heard it.
Did you know that Andy Warhol made the first film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel Clockwork Orange? Trippy, right? He actually bought the rights and made the experimental [...]

Cronenberg on Warhol

Another gem from my Ubuweb video feed.
Just found this series of audio files that feature David Cronenberg curating an Andy Warhol exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto back in 2006. Here’s a nice quote from Cronenberg about Warhol’s influence on his own work:
Andy was making underground films when I was making [...]

Art class using WP header as dynamic gallery

Luke Waltzer over at the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY just turned me on to an awesome use of a WordPress blog in a course. Professor Zoë Sheehan Saldaña of the Fine and Performing Arts Department has her students sharing the resources they find online by way of a class blog. [...]

The Spore Collective Manifesto

Image courtesy of tonx.

Over at the Not For Nothing blog by Kaitlin Butler, a UMW Art major, there is a wild post about The Spore Collective Manifesto that her sculpture class has framed as a way for experimenting more radically with their artwork. Here is how she describes this manifesto:
The Spore Collective Manifesto, now featured [...]

Harun Farocki on the Desgin of Control

My UBUWEB rss subscription is the feed that keeps on giving. I scan it regularly, and indulge in watching a work by a filmmaker I haven’t heard of before irregularly. This time Harun Farocki’s video/documentary I Thought I was Seeing Convicts (2001) caught my attention. The film is about a maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. [...]




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