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Richteriana In The German News

There is a review of Richteriana in this weeks DER SPIEGEL [22/2012]. Google doesnt do tone, so who really knows, but it sounds alright. Theres not a link or an English version of the Spiegel review ...

8 h ago

Trump, Sforza. Sforza, Trump.

Here is Mitt Romney deplaning in Las Vegas, where he met with Gingrichs bank, and where reality [sic] TV personality Donald Trump is hosting a fundraiser for him. Suffice it to say, Romney is either ...

8 h ago

Brancusi Self-Portraits

Andys tweet about it reminds me how awesome the show of Brancusi photographs is at Bruce Silverstein. Just remarkable stuff, and great, old prints. The shows been around a while, and some of the high...

1 day ago

On Gunter Sachs Roy Lichtenstein Bathroom

Roy Lichtenstein, Composition, 1969, image via sothebys.com With the confluence this week of an incredible-sounding retrospective in Chicago and a bonkers-sounding sale at Sothebys, I was reminded of...

5 days ago

Jasper Johns Making Silkscreens, By Katy Martin

Usuyuki, 1981 Alright, Katy Martin, who made two incredible Jasper Johns films in the late 1970s when you were practically a kid. Uh, actually, yeah, thats about it. Just watch them. Harvards Sackler...

6 days ago

Richteriana In The News

I find the maxim of not reading reviews of ones work to be much easier to live by when there are no reviews. Because at least two takes on Richteriana have already been published, and I like the conc...

6 days ago

Richard Artschwager Chair Picture, 1965 Or So

Well thats mighty interesting. The National Exemplar has an exhibition of Richard Artschwager, which includes this 1965 piece, described as a "three-dimensional chair picture." Its roughly ch...

23 may 12

At A Loss To Explain

The first thing that was blowing my mind about Short Circuit was not just, how could there have be a Johns Flag before the first [sic] Johns Flag, but how could there be a missing Johns Flag? I mean,...

20 may 12

An Intentionally Incomplete Inventory of Pictures: Richters Bilderverzeichnis

Photograph of a painting destroyed by Gerhard Richter, Gerhard Richter Archiv via Spiegel Since I first started looking into them, Ive wanted to know why Gerhard Richter destroyed some of his paintin...

18 may 12

Painting Truth To Power

Ooh, that is interesting. By covering themselves in paint, members of Occupy Frankfurt effectively inverted the crowd control technique where police use dye cannons to disperse protesters--and to tag...

17 may 12

Color The Tom Sachs Way

While everyone else is cavorting on Tom Sachs Mars, Im home, watching this rather entertainingly deadpan documentary short about the approved color palette in Sachs studio. I imagine it to be a highl...

16 may 12

Where Their Fakeness Is Self-Evident And Salable

While trying not to steal his thunder, let me just post the awesomely vivid ending to LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthornes review of Williams + Tsiens unavoidably flawed Philadelphia m...

15 may 12

Will Work Off Jpegs: Destroyed Richter Paintings

Destroyed Richter Painting #03 First off, a huge thanks to everyone who came to the opening of Richteriana Saturday, and a high five to Magda, Postmasters and the artists in the show. It really does ...

14 may 12

Editing A Life In Painting

Richters studio, 1965, as seen in Elgers A Life In Painting. Note the lady in the bikini on the left, which Jasper Johns is well known for destroying his early work, thereby managing and reordering t...

11 may 12

Pasadena Style Brillo Box Redux

Will you look at that, another one of Irving Blums Pasadena-style Brillo Boxes is coming up for auction in the morning at Christies, with an estimate of $400-600,000. [The last Blum Pasadena Brillo b...

09 may 12

Jasper Johns First Flag

Flag, 1954-55, collection and image: MoMA When, after a couple of weeks of poking around, I didnt stumble, Banacek-style, onto the Jasper Johns Flag painting from Short Circuit, and then flip it for ...

07 may 12

Combine Paintings And Pillow Talk

Oh, now thats interesting. I cant find an actual print copy of the Portable Gallery Bulletin anywhere, but Joel Finsel has scans of a couple of pages in Swimming Naked At The Y, his biography/oral hi...

03 may 12

In The Backroom With Jasper Johns

Well this is interesting. I dont know how I missed this before now, but Albert Vanderburg was the associate editor of Portable Gallery Bulletin whose 1962 article discussing the impact of Rauschenber...

02 may 12

Two Months.

Two months. Id feign shock, but frankly, its been almost a year since I figured it out, and Im only now posting it. Last January, while going through the newly opened Castelli Gallery Collection at t...

02 may 12

The Maze (1957/XXXX), Tony Smith

For issue 5+6 of Aspen: The Magazine in a Box (1967), guest editor/curator Brian ODoherty conceived of a conceptual art exhibition in a box. [Which really should be staged in real space somewhere. Ha...

30 apr 12

Things We Were Going To Do Are Now Being Done By Others.

And speaking of big universes and small worlds, Im starting to listen to the 1991 recordings of John Cages Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse), and just ten minutes in,...

30 apr 12

Big Universe, Big Data

Ross Andersen has a fascinating interview with JWST scientist Alberto Conti about the orders of magnitude increases in the amount of astronomical data being gathered these days:There are two issues d...

30 apr 12

The Daily Practice Of Painting, c.1915

ZOMG, I will never complain about the minor annoyances of painting ever again. Brooklyn Bridge painters at work high above the city, on December 3, 1915. via Alan Taylors archive-diving into the newl...

28 apr 12

Canal Zone: Yes Kate Moss

Can you tell Im trying to clear out the to-post photos from my desktop? In Februarry Christies sold an interesting, large Richard Prince Joke painting in London that was made in 2007. The date is sig...

28 apr 12

The Chickpea Conspiracy

During the 1960s, Mickey Ruskin regularly let artists eat and drink for free or trade art for sustenance at Maxs Kansas City. So when Ruskin ran into financial trouble, artists rallied and held a ben...

28 apr 12

Richteriana, Postmasters Gallery, 12 May 2012

Destroyed Richter Painting No. 04, 2012, oil on canvas, 110x110cmPostmasters is pleased to announce: RICHTERIANA GREG ALLEN, DAVID DIAO, RORY DONALDSON, HASAN ELAHI, FABIAN MARCACCIO, RAFAËL ROZENDAA...

25 apr 12

Fingerspuren

Fingerspuren/Finger Marks, with Palermo, 1970, image via gerhard-richter.com Despite an 11-year difference in their age, Gerhard Richter and Blinky Palermo became fast friends in the early 1960s. Ric...

20 apr 12

Awesome Marijuana Plantation/Land Art

Reuters Jorge Duenes cropped aerial shot of a 300-acre marijuana plantation "discovered" in Mexico last July that The Atlantics InFocus photoblog ran today was dramatic and awesome enough to ...

20 apr 12

Is Shanzhai Still A Thing?

Its manifestations have been around and obvious for a while, but I cant quite tell if shanzhai is played out, over, or still a thing. Shanzhai translates as "mountain fortress" when people wa...

19 apr 12

On The Catalogues Of Giants

top right is Bonnefoys beautiful but otherwise ridiculous Giacometti, and center left is Gobers Sculptures and Installations, which turned out to be lighter than it looked. So yeah, hmm, I probably s...

18 apr 12

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