COURBET AT THE MET
This show hit me like a ton of bricks. Who knew it was happening?! He's amazing and his work is amazing. I'm so stoked on this I can hardly stand it!!!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Courbet at the MET
COURBET AT THE MET
This show hit me like a ton of bricks. Who knew it was happening?! He's amazing and his work is amazing. I'm so stoked on this I can hardly stand it!!!
Monday, February 25, 2008
IDP
Mondays I am unavailable to meet for the foreseeable future. I go to the Interdependence Project for a half hour's meditation and then an hour long discussion of an issue of the speaker's choice. It's brilliant and I recommend everyone give it a look here: ID Project.
If you can switch days let me know. If not, I still think you're all awesome!
If you can switch days let me know. If not, I still think you're all awesome!
Friday, February 22, 2008
hey
is it that many/most people aren't going to post here now?
anyway, I will be. So if you are that is cool. Looked at the Poussin that Matt mentioned. I checked it out at 2 AMMMMM. kinda cool. at the end are some of the truly great pieces. more later.
anyway, I will be. So if you are that is cool. Looked at the Poussin that Matt mentioned. I checked it out at 2 AMMMMM. kinda cool. at the end are some of the truly great pieces. more later.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
hey Matt
I did also comment about your piece. since you posted a bit ago you might not have noticed. did so the other night. I did mention the other Poussin. It's a prints and drawings complement show.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
still from working video for exhibit
here's a still from a video which will be in my exhibit in Berlin. Basically I land on planet earth (at Coney Island) and I'm caught in the space time continuum, which is the "world" (also reads as the Void). I take on this character/image (something like Man who fell to earth, meets Huxley's Brave New World, meets Stranger in a Strange Land). Anyway . . .
Poussin
Matt noted the MMA exhibit. there's other work as well in other galleries. Needless to say, if anyone wanted to check out an exhibit on a monday just let me know.
Les Bergers d’Arcadie
A Poussin exhibition opens today at the Met. I will go Friday afternoon if anyone is interested. By afternoon I mean that I'll be there at 2pm. If you want to meet there contact me in here or call or email.
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
February 12, 2008–May 11, 2008
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
French master Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art. In them, nature is viewed "through the glass of time" and endowed with a poetic quality that has been admired by painters as different as Constable, Turner, and Cézanne. This is the first exhibition to examine the landscapes of this great painter. It brings together about 40 paintings, ranging from his early, lyrical, Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works in which the artist meditated upon Nature, its transformations and its renewals. An equal number of drawings are on view, the most luminous of which were done en plein air.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation and The Isaacson-Draper Foundation.
It was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
February 12, 2008–May 11, 2008
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
French master Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art. In them, nature is viewed "through the glass of time" and endowed with a poetic quality that has been admired by painters as different as Constable, Turner, and Cézanne. This is the first exhibition to examine the landscapes of this great painter. It brings together about 40 paintings, ranging from his early, lyrical, Venetian-inspired pastorals to his grandly structured and austere works in which the artist meditated upon Nature, its transformations and its renewals. An equal number of drawings are on view, the most luminous of which were done en plein air.
Accompanied by a catalogue.
The exhibition is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation and The Isaacson-Draper Foundation.
It was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao.
The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
Jasper Johns: Gray
Roberta Smith New York Times Article
The Met's Jasper Johns: Gray page
I saw this show and read this article. Read the article before you see the show as it gives you a frame of reference and in my opinion forming one's own opinions is over rated. Wink.
It is good to see masterpieces by a living artist. He admits, in the catalogue I think, to not being a very good colorist. This seams to have aided his painting tremendously.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Ridiculousness
[01.29.08] “There was much music—and merriment—at the Clärchen’s Ballhaus, where three hundred guests gathered for Jonathan Meese and Georg Baselitz’s birthday party with a sit-down dinner followed by dancing to a live band. Bruno Brunnet, taking the stage with Contemporary Fine Arts owners Philipp Haverkampf and Nicole Hackert, announced: ‘It’s art’s birthday today!’” —Jennifer Allen
Thought this was funny. "It's art's birthday today!" How positive!
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Useful?
Singer Turned Actor, 2007-2008
16 x 14"
oil, acrylic, and hot melt on canvas
This is a new painting I made. It's abstract. Any thoughts?
Matt
PS - did the meeting happen last night? Did anything come up of note? Any shows recommended?
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