While the galleries are empty, thankfully, the art blogs are full…
- ArtCal has launched a GREAT NEW SITE for quality art news;
- Just when you thought it couldn’t get weirder, SHIT ART arrives:
It’s a machine that mimics the human digestive system, from the mouth to the bottom hole. Delvoye feeds Cloaca normal human food and shit comes out the other end. The end product is wrapped in plastic and sold to adoring art collectors–lovely;
- Gerhard Richter makes digitized stain glass windows for Cologne Cathedral {thanks bloggy};
- Pakistan’s National Gallery opens and politicos want it to play politics…oh oh…(website);
- For the first time ever, POLLOCK MATTERS at Boston College exhibits 170 fake Pollocks…or are they?…including two dozen drip paintings discovered in a storage locker five years ago labeled as Pollocks; and
- Rem Koolhaus slags architects producing “ever more flamboyant buildings as a way to get noticed” to London’s Guardian {courtesy Time‘s Looking Around blog}–he can’t possibly be talking about his super-hip CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, right?
The sad thing is.. there aren’t that many artists blogging about art. Most of the links you gave aren’t from individuals speaking their own mind, but rather are from established organizations. The artists need to move away from allowing the magazines, galleries, museum curators, and the rest of the art establishment speak for them.
I don’t know if that will work, considering most artists I meet are not very good at explaining their own work. Rare is the artist who sees the real context and meaning in their work. Intuition is a key factor in art making, and often when artists talk (and this has happened to me often) they are their worst PR–wading the work down with ideological, trendy or puerile ideas that obscure the art.
Actually, quite a few of the blogs on the links page at ArtCal are written by artists. Many of them talk about others’ work more than their own.