This photo was taken in Red Hook, Brooklyn, by street art photographer Becky Fuller. And here’s a view of the same sign from a few years back. (Posted here with the permission of the photographer)
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If you don’t know about the biennial Triangle workshop, you should. This is from the Triangle website:
The Triangle Artists’ Workshop Program is an intense two-week studio session for an international group of 25-30 professional visual artists. The workshop’s mission is to create an environment designed to maximize exchange, stimulate new ideas and encourage experimentation.
Artists are provided with studios, meals and housing. Accepted participants are asked to give a $100 acceptance fee. Artists will have access to a woodshop, technical support, and possibly darkroom and printshop access. Artists are responsible for all other expenses, including the costs of travel and materials. Accepted participants with a demonstrated need, can apply for limited travel scholarships. The workshop culminates in an Open Studio exhibition, free and open to the general public. During the workshop, artists will receive organized studio visits from critics, writers and curators, and two organized panel discussions.
The deadline for fall 2010 applications is March 15, 2010.
Applications are now online: trianglearts.artistsubmissionsystem.com
Full disclosure: I am a Triangle board member
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Recreated in Beloit, Wisconsin, by OldOnliner — in case you forgot what the original looked like.
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I’ve just published a post over at Hyperallergic on why pop sensation Lady Gaga needs some serious help in the art department:
The age of celebrity art has dawned and no one is a better example of that high-end marriage between the haves and the haves than pop singer Lady Gaga. It has been a long time coming for the maven of the dancefloor, whose every move feels like a tribute to 1990s club kid culture. Yet, her recent collaborations with Francesco Vezzoli and Terence Koh begs the question, does she desperately need an art teacher?
Caption: Terence Koh & Lady Gaga count pearls in the Canadian artist’s latest YouTube video “88 Pearls” (via Gagadaily)
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Los Angeles County Museum on Fire can be a pretty insightful blog, their latest post on Renoir in the 20th C. may be the best one the blog has posted yet. The blog discusses the strange fact that some awesome early modernists loved late Renoir (like Matisse, Apollinaire…) but today we see it as shlocky and to use LACMoF’s word, “icky.”
But late Renoir aside, LACMoF had one priceless line about the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, which does a fantastic job of characterizing that institution within an institution, or whatever it is:
“BCAM” is becoming more and more like Voltaire’s definition of the Holy Roman Empire: “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
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Caption: Ed Ruscha, “LACMA On Fire” (1965-68) in the collection of the Hirshhorn
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People are funny. They often say one thing and do another. This isn’t more true than in the world of culture. My years as a cultural worker have shown me that people are not honest about how they would like to truly spend their free time. Ask most people what they would like to see and they may say concerts, art shows, performances, but then try to get them to attend and there’s always something they have to do instead of those noble cultural pursuits. We need to realize that the audience for culture, particularly specialized things like experimental video art, is rather small and that’s not a bad thing, it actually makes it more fun sometimes.
During my recent professional venture, Hyperallergic, I’m encountering the same problem. Ask people what they want to know about and they’ll tell you reviews, global issues, … but the stats don’t prove that online readers care. From what I’ve been able to discern, most people want to know about things that impact them directly and/or are an extension of themselves (their cultural group, their neighborhood, etc.).
There’s a great quote about the phenomenon from Newsweek editor Jon Meacham who recently spoke at an event organized by the Texas Monthly on how to get the news media to return to “intelligent” news, whatever that means:
He used PBS’s NewsHour an example, and said if the number of people who claim to watch the program actually did watch it, the show would have much higher ratings. “It’s fundamentally a supply-and-demand problem. There’s an infinite demand for something and a limited supply for intelligent something.”
But not everything is negative on the horizon for online content, according to the New York Times‘ Science article, “Will You Be E-Mailing This Columns? It’s Awesome,” which was reporting on the University of Pennsylvania’s study of online behavior by Times readers, there are signs of hope … awe, to be exact:
People preferred e-mailing articles with positive rather than negative themes, and they liked to send long articles on intellectually challenging topics … Perhaps most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list.
So, do we all have to go the Gawker route of reporting on Lady Gaga’s vagina for major web traffic? Probably not. But have I seen the pictures — particularly the one super enlarged by AnimalNY – ummm, how could I miss it.
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