Category Archives: artists

Sam Falls and Lucas Blalock on Humble

Sam Falls and Lucas Blalock are debuting a new collaborative “dialog” through the Humble Arts’ online solo series. Clone tools and hazy surfaces decorate most images, with the cognitive effect being akin to looking into a perpetual mirror tilted sideways as you scroll through the images. There’s no doubt a push towards the ground glass [...]

2010 Whitney Biennial Artists Announced

The Whitney released the following video on their site announcing the lineup for the 2010 biennial: According to the NYT, 5 Chicago artists will be included: Julia Fish Watch video documentation of Theaster Gates’ work on the MCA Media Player here. Jim Lutes Curtis Mann (previously written about here.) Scott Short

Wanderers

By Joe Scanlan (an additional post to follow soon…)

Beehive Collective – True Cost of Coal

The Beehive Collective, whose mission is “To cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools,” recently released the sketch version of their “True Cost of Coal” campaign/poster, which you can explore in detail with this high resolution jpg. It’s worth spending some time with, and here’s [...]

Updates From Everyone

1. Alec Soth Do you want me to pretend that I don’t feel like a little child on the way to an amusement park when I hear Alec Soth has a new body of work? Someone pick me up from Chicago and take me to Atlanta to view Black Line of Woods, his new body [...]

Hitting the Road/Thank You’s.

HITTING THE ROAD. Moscow, Ohio via Google Maps. Click for larger version. When I’m finished writing this blog post I will get in my car and drive to Ohio to begin work on my next project. To summarize, here’s an excerpt from a little blurb I recently wrote about the project: However, photographing coal as [...]

Were You Ever a Hardcore Kid?

THURSTON MOORE: I challenge you to a question-off. SPIKE JONZE: [nervous laughter] Oh, I didn’t know that this was taking place in that form. I know how good you are at this. I’m scared. All right. What do you got? TM: I’ll start easy: Did you ever get into trouble as a teen? Like, real [...]

Art World News!

Guido Castagnoli is represented by Sasha Wolf Gallery As I stated in my last post, I don’t normally post news that is already being talked about. However, I haven’t seen anyone really post these news tidbits, so I figured I’d share. Both items relate to galleries’ new initiatives in a struggling economy. Project 5 is [...]

Dear Dash Snow

See the original large version here.

Famous Landscapes Part 1

Olafur Elliason‘s Landscapes: The Fault Series, 2001 The Waterfall Series, 1996 Roman Signer‘s Lanscape: Florian Maier-Aichen‘s Lanscapes: Untitled, 2005 Untitled, 2004