Little Superstar

Thanks to Graeme for the link.

Cocaine Karaoke - September

Psychedelic Spaniard

Santiago Calatrava is just amazing. I didn't realize that he was responsible for the Allen Lambert Galleria at BCE place in Toronto but I do now. His designs are both organic and natural looking because of their immediate references to nature (the BCE ceiling reminds me of palm trees) but they also seem to create a landscape fit for aliens. Looking at his designs one gets the feeling this is not for planet Earth. They are reminscent of Gehry's Bilbao and Disney designs but I think they, at least on surface, take a more radical departure from the norm. Two residential projects are note worthy: 1. The Turning Torso in Malmo & 2. A yet to be built residential highrise in New York City are both very bold.

*applause

Why is art important?

Jerry Saltz in the Village Voice answers some big questions. He does an excellent job too. No further comment.

Image:

Diego Velázquez
Dwarf Sitting on the Floor (Don Sebastián)
1645, oil on canvas, 106x81cm
Collection of The Prado, Madrid, Spain

Banksy in the City of Angels

Banksy is at it again.

he says:

1.7 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. 20 billion (sic) people live below the poverty line. Every day hundreds of people are made to feel physically sick by morons at art shows telling them how bad the world is but never actually doing something about it. Anybody want a free glass of wine?

All this regarding... a painted elephant?

The elephant looks wicked. But its logic is a stretch. Maybe you can use the system to subvert it but you can't be against the system and be within the system. (Or can you?) I understand he doesn't like the art world but he's not exactly feeding the poor with his scathing critique is he? His binary critical art stance is kind of tired. It's so... 20th century, so... last millenium.

I'm sitting here comfortable in my 1st world home giving Banksy the gas face.

Photo: Marissa Roth for The New York Times

The art of Tara Donovan

Tara Donovan is a little bit like Brian Jungen, in that she takes common everyday objects and puts her alchemical touch on to them, and poof! out comes a seductive visual experience.

What intrigues me about both Donovan and Jungen, is that they are essentially making readymades: twisted and altered readymades. All is reinvented but nothing is really "invented". It's interesting to me because it inverts Duchamp's wish to infuse art with a degree of cerebrality - which at the time of The Fountain in 1917 was lacking - because of the high visual nature within the reigning aesthetic at the time: cubism. Donovan, more so than Jungen, uses visuals to outwit intellectualisms. I can't say that's a bad thing either.

Photos : Ace Gallery

1000 Cars

Video game replays as a psychedelic music video. Quite elegant in bits.

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Exciting times we live in friend... Today was so beautiful, I could pour out an entire novel about the shine of today's moments. But I'm le tired.