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Tag Archives: art
Beyond the eye: A Virtual Art Exhibit via EduBlogs RUM
Mario A. Núñez Molina just posted about the virtual component of a photo art exhibit for an art class at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Now, there are a number of remarkable photographs (I’ll reproduce a few below without … Continue reading
Music for the coming Depression
About a week or so ago I got Robert Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country which I have been totally digging. The book has been reinforcing an informal education I’ve been getting through my various conversations with Folklorist Gary … Continue reading
Survival Research Laboratories
It’s Funny the things you begin to find once you explore a certain subject. And I have been thinking more and more about this as it pertains to learning on the web, versus the kind of radically open (yet in … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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,” … Continue reading
Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein and other philosophers on YouTube
Last night, Anto and I spent the evening playing with YouTube. Anto did her Laurea in Philosophy at the Unviersity of Milan and here thesis was on Ludwig Wittgenstein, so it is always a joy to listen to her talk … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading