Roman Signer

Wish I was in Houston to see this at Rice U's Video cubicle. 3 of his videos will be up till June 16th.


56 kleine Helikopter, 2008
Video from St Gallen in Switzerland where Signer filled a room with 56 small remote-controlled helicoptors and started them all at the same time. The helicoptors were left flying until their batteries ran out.

whitehot | April 2013: Jeffry Mitchell @ Henry Art Gallery

Jeffry Mitchell, Pickle Jar with Silver Elephants, 2007. Glazed earthenware with platinum luster.
Image courtesy of James Harris Gallery.

"Mitchell just wrapped up a retrospective, Like a Valentine, at University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery, where marble halls were filled with twenty-five years’ worth of work in almost every medium imaginable. His oeuvre reflects his persona: positive, gregarious, Catholic, gay. The man has close-cut, snow-dappled hair, a gap-tooth smile, intoxicating blue eyes. The art he makes is equally intoxicating, trademarked by a pervasive, ejaculatory whiteness, frolicking, totemic
animals, and a sweetness darkly carnivalesque and sexual." READ MORE HERE...

ps. I heart Jeffry Mitchell

james henkel

of loss and homecoming

Museums Confront the Skeletons in Their Closets
DOREEN CARVAJAL for the NYTimes
"For more than a century, the museum has exhibited assorted limbs, bones, tubercular lungs and fetuses, all in the name of science and enlightenment. Yet lately the curators are re-evaluating the principles that govern their displays as they confront a growing debate over what cultural organizations should be doing to preserve the dignity of the dead..." More here

Josephine Baker- Blue Skies

Emir Šehanović

Richard Serra

Felix Gonzales-Torres

"Untitled (Supreme Majority)", paper, seven parts, fractional gift of Werner and Elaine Dannheisser, estate of Felix Gonzales-Torres, courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, 1991

Badge of Shame

A badge of shame, also a symbol of shame, mark of shame, or simply a stigma, is typically a distinctive symbol required to be worn by a specific group or an individual for the purpose of public humiliation, ostracism, or persecution. Under the Poor Law Act of 1697, paupers in receipt of parish relief were required to wear a badge of blue or red cloth on the shoulder of the right sleeve in an open and visible manner, in order to make life more humiliating for the poor. The yellow badge that Jews were required to wear in parts of Europe during the Middle Ages, and later in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe, was intended to be a badge of shame. The term may also refer to other identifying marks that are associated with shame. The biblical "Mark of Cain" can be interpreted as synonymous with a badge of shame. The term is also used metaphorically, especially in a pejorative sense, to characterize something associated with a person or group as shameful. ^{via: wikapedia}

Group of polygamists in the Utah Penitentiary, 8 men standing in prison stripes. 1885

^{dunce cap/ in the corner}

Jared Pankin

Natural, Natural, History (Satan's Sanctuary)
2005

art crush: Aleana Egan

‘We sat down where we had sat before’, Installation view, Kunsthalle Basel, 2008

NYTimes Video: The Sweet Spot: Villains in Black Hats- The Other

Can't embed so click on link... for a discussion on movie monsters. "We all contain multitudes"

similar but different: yellow

Christian Tedeschi, Molasses Happens Rather Quickly

Liz Larner

Desmond Blair

Nice interview ArtandSeek!

Margaret Griffith at Western Projects

 Coringa, handcut paper, approx. 144 x 60 x 36 inches

Canopy Detail

Treehouse Kit – Guy Ben-Ner

video link: via dvblog.org

Liz Larner

Yves Klein

Philippe Petit 

 

Gertrud Vasegaard

via NN

Tony Feher

Untitled. 2007
Perforated mylar snack bags, staples, transparent tape
11-1/2 x 8-1/2 x 8 inches

So called MONSTERS

Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?
Soi disantra, soi disantra...

I'll fly away

Culturehall Issue 98

Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go It's the freakiest show
Take a look at the lawman Beating up the wrong guy Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know
He's in the best selling show Is there life on Mars?... READ MORE...

Ellen Gallagher

Murmur 2003–4 (Monster)

Rodarte 2013- so many good things

Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher
Bird in Hand 2006
via: Tate Modern