The art of Eve Sussman

Eve Sussman is conflating painting and video in a most extraordinary manner. Represented by Roebling Hall in Brooklyn, she's seems to be weaving narratives employing the richness of real time video with the lushness of oil painting. Her piece 89 Seconds at Alcazar, shot in high definition video tells the before and after story of Velázque's famous painting Las Meninas. Shown at the 2004 at the Whitney Biennial, the piece is being followed up by an opera, Raptus - a piece inspired by Jacques Louis David painting The Rape of the Sabine Women - which from what I've seen is seemingly just as brilliant. Eve Sussman's art is similar to Sam Taylor Wood's monumentally constructed photos, mostly I'm thinking mostly of her Five Revolutionary Seconds series but all her other photo and video work as well. I first saw Eve's work in Modern Painters and liked it but I'm more and more finding it better and better to look at and think about. Lovely.

Aubrey Reeves, online...

My really good friend Aubrey Reeves has a short and delightful video work online. I've been meaning to link this for a long time but the 30 seconds it takes for me to create a blog just seemed to always slip me by...

Hearts & flowers

You know how how people say "I like all kinds of music except for country"? Well, I'm not a huge country music fan, but I am a country music fan. There's a lot of soul in country music. There's also a lot of playfulness. Sometimes it's just laugh out loud funny. This song by Loretta Lynn with Conway Twitty exemplifies that playfulness. Both singers are both obviously adults but their back and forth banter is just, well, fun and child-like and it's a super pleasure to listen to...

Spiders & Snakes - Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty from their Greatest Hits

2006 Season: Cocaine Karaoke

The art of Olafur Eliasson

I was checking out these photos of the Venice Biennale and the photos of Olafur's Your Black Horizon show a composition that is wickedly simple. So I venture over to his website and find The Light Setup, linked above. Devilish.

There will be a short film about Olafur shown in Toronto. If you go, you'll also see a short about Chris Ofili. And if you're going, I'm going, holla.

2 blooms, 2 buds, a bun & a dozen eggs

The painting of Shinique Smith

I agree what Kehinde Wiley notes about Shinique Smith (she is "the bomb" *snicker!); and i'll be more direct in saying she should stick to painting for 2 reasons: for one, she's conflating writing, painting, high and low into one neat package and doing it quite elegantly. Secondly her forays into the third dimension just aren't as elegant.

A seriously beautiful font by SABE KST.