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Year 2013

March 2013
20/03 - Art inspired by the Walker/Sculpture Garden is featured at this one-night exhibition and reception. over two dozen artists with developmental/physical disabilities recently took part in a program co-organized by the nonprofit Partnership Resources inc - in art
20/03 - A consideration of one object and two seemingly unrelated series of photographs from the early days of the Space Race reveals a sudden transition in mankind’s perception of outer space. In an ambitious photographic sky survey, the universe is a subject of in art
19/03 - Even if the piece is later dismantled, its fragments remain as they were before they were incorporated: there is no alchemical transformation, there is no trick or magic. Transformation occurs only in the viewer’s mind. And in my hands, of course. So, ... in design
12/03 - OBJECT ORIENTED - JF & SON stages pink and fuzzy ruminations on Speculative Realism and the modern museum environment as part of the Museum of Arts and Design's month-long The Home Front: American Design Now (JF & SON, who completed a residency at MAD...) in design
11/03 - “Not only is the world more complex than we think it is, the world is more complex than we are able to think it is.”* That unreachable complexity, the searing pathos of a world more complex than we can understand, is almost my definition of beauty. What in art
09/03 - Rauschenberg's 20 acre estate on Captiva Island, will be transformed into a creative center that welcomes artists of all disciplines from around the world to live, work, and create. The Residency is inspired by bob's early years at Black mountain college in misc
07/03 - Printed Matter and ROLU at the Independent Art Fair 2013 /// We're excited to be part of the Independent Art Fair again this year, and have two booths at the fair (3rd floor and 4th floor). In one booth we collaborated with the design team ROLU to.... in design
07/03 - ROLU WHEN DOES SOMETHING STOP BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE? (Objects for Constructing One’s Own Interior Cosmos) CAPTIVA - Please join us March 8th From 7:00PM – 8:30PM as Matt Olson of ROLU broadcasts live from Robert Rauschenberg’s estate in Captiva Florida in misc
06/03 - O.K. we'll begin with entropy. That's a subject that's preoccupied me for some time. On the whole I would say entropy contradicts the usual notion of a mechanistic world view. In other words it's a condition that's irreversible, it's condition that's... in art
06/03 - the question before me is, "wether the restoration of the arts and sciences has had the effect of purifying or corrupting morals." which side am i to take? that, gentleman, which becomes an honest man, who is sensible of his own ignorance, and thinks him- in misc

February 2013
26/02 - Pepperidge Farm created a cookie in honor of the island. It is a Dark Chocolate Brownie cookie called Captiva. Notables: Captiva was the full-time home of world renowned artist Robert Rauschenberg. His home still stands there. South Seas Island R in misc
21/02 - His body of graphic work imparts an easy understanding and synthesis of the bright moments in visual history, from Bauhaus posters to ancient Asian fabric patterns. Every project he undertakes is intentional; his natural gift for form and perception has b in art
21/02 - Everybody wants to be free / But before this can be / You've got to learn, learn how to see / Just from what it is that you want to be free / Why do we waste our lives / Wy do we stay asleep / So many confused words / So many total disasters there are in misc
19/02 - "We will never find the sense of something (of a human, a biological or even a physical phenomenon) if we do not know the force which appropriates the thing, which exploits it, which takes possession of it or is expressed in it." - gilles deleuze (1962) in misc
13/02 - Alterity is a philosophical term meaning "otherness", strictly being in the sense of the other of two (Latin alter). In the phenomenological tradition it is usually understood as the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed, and it implies in misc
11/02 - The Academic Paul Eli Ivey sums up Mosset’s predicament thus – “[He] opens a dialogue with the history of abstract art, and at the same time criticizes the ontological status of pure painting.” For Mosset, painting is an object in the world rather than a in art
09/02 - I Quadri specchianti costituiranno la base della sua successiva produzione artistica e riflessione teorica. Tra il 1965 e il 1966 produce un insieme di lavori intitolati Oggetti in meno, considerati basilari per la nascita dell’Arte Povera, movimento arti in art
06/02 - Paolo, dunque,ci racconta ‘a sensazione’ il naufragio di un’utopia. L’artista scopre l’ingegnere Giorgio Rosa, fondatore di un isola artificiale, chiamata Repubblica Esperantista dell’Isola delle Rose, che si auto reggeva con proprie regole, una propria m in art
05/02 - two radios with home-made autotune on every signal received. every station is in tune with every other station. even static is in tune. peace on earth. - if you want to make your own: -take any radio, open it up -clip the wires headed to the speaker at in misc
04/02 - the authenticity of this place is the most important aspect of the exhibition, which is accompanied with objects that illuminate that very quality of this place. At the same time, the work seems to appear out of an accumulation of thoughts about 'metaphor in art

January 2013
29/01 - Softside, a solo exhibition of new work by Minneapolis-based artist Joe Smith. The exhibition is a combination of three distinct, yet interconnected, bodies of work that includes painting, photography and sculpture that continues the artist's exploration in art
24/01 - eye 1, eye 2 seees: Longer than your arm. Charming in its surface. Crooked at its end? Broken? Black Umbrella. Fish scales. Yes, ruffled. Hook hand. Pokes. It’s as big as the wall, but small like a pencil. Loop. Tubular. Rods. Tube, Tube, Tube, so on. As in art
23/01 - Visible light (commonly referred to simply as light) is electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye, and is responsible for the sense of sight.[1] Visible light has a wavelength in the range of about 380 nanometres to about 740 nm – between in art
22/01 - “The exhibition is the only medium that you can physically move through. By moving, our body enters into a system of physical correspondences with the works. And what if the task of the curator was precisely the management of this negative space? in art
21/01 - carving, joining, stacking, arranging, re-working ... "I saw that simple objects, physical things and places an ax, a mountain, a box, pieces of wood roughly stacked could convey complex human emotion in an unmediated, undivided and instantaneous way.” in art
14/01 - La galleria come white cube? Si può ancora fare, a patto però di contaminarla con le opere adatte. Che possono ad esempio mimare la proliferazione vegetale. Succede alla Galleria Upp di Venezia, fino a domenica. È la “Tree3 Strategy”--- How do you... in art
09/01 - Omer Fast's works examine how individual and collective histories interact. Focusing on narratives, Fast mixes sound and image into stories that test the line between personal and media accounts of current and historical events. In his concern with the... in art
04/01 - bail bonds sign from previous tenant? Renting this space feels like I was given a gift and I don't want to mess with that. And for whatever reason, I think maybe I've attached the symbolism of that to the sign. The sign is the sign! Plus, when folks ask - in misc
03/01 - This experience creates disturbances in the retina, accustomed to receive wide range of colors simultaneously. The Chromosaturation can act as a trigger, activating in the viewer the notion of color as a material or physical situation, going into space... in art
02/01 - I started hanging blank white canvasses: “okay, so imagine that this is a so & so painting or something.” There's an idea here about legibility at the cost of legibility, & I want people to understand it if they're there in person or it's on the internet. in art
01/01 - My acts-painting, photographing, considering-are part of, not separate from, this process of evolution & change. These photographs aren't so much about this process as they are remnants from it. My participation wasn't so much one of intellectual consider in art

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December 2011
29/12 - "Digression is an essential part of creating. It’s like hiking — every path that opens up in front of you is a viable one until it’s not, and then you find another or retrace your steps. It's a way of seeing more of the mountain." - various projects in design
23/12 - The pieces grew, conceptually, from ROLU's interest in a Seth Price essay Décor Holes. The forms are shapes extracted from early 70s drawings choreographer Trisha Brown made. up next? an ommu published book about rolu's work designed by Benjamin Critton. in design
22/12 - research for a huge project (!) summer 2012: rauschenberg, merce cunningham, trisha brown, allan kaprow, francis alys, scott burton, louwrien wijers, franz erhard walther, guy de cointet, matthew stone interviews louwrien wijers... psyched! in misc
21/12 - Originally published between 1965 and 1967, the Great Bear contributors were a who's who of the sixties avant-garde: George Brecht, John Cage, Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Nam Jun Paik, Diter Rot and Emmett Williams, were just but a few of th in art
20/12 - It incorporates many of the features presented in Utopia e Ambientazione (Utopia & Setting), published in consecutive issues of Domus in 1949, revealing Mollino’s own philosophy of decor as deeply trans-historical. In this two-part essay Carlo Mollino pre in art
19/12 - describe your approach to art making: "things that look like other things is good. i have always been very interested in how the photographic documentation of painting and sculpture can start to build a secondary experience of the work, which can be more- in art
16/12 - “And as if each viewer’s history and state of mind were not already enough to drastically scramble any possibility of an image being interpreted in a manner that was intended by its creator; the always-altering and heterogeneous environments of the ...... in art
15/12 - Come forth unabashed Come out unbuttoned Bury belligerence Resurrect frolic Only through body can you clasp the divine Only through body can you dance with the god In every man’s hand the gift of compassion In every man’s hand the beloved connection Trust in art
14/12 - Facestate would be a state of the type that Peter Thiel, the Paypal founder and Facebook angel investor, dreams about: no welfare and no taxes. The theorist of this state-form is Robert Nozick, whose 1974 book Anarchy, State, and Utopia is an enduring ins in design
13/12 - The principal action of Pelican consisted of Rauschenberg and Swedish painter Per Olof Ultvedt, with open parachutes attached to their backs, skating about the arena. Around and between them, Carolyn Brown, the Cunningham company's most elegant dancer.... in art
12/12 - This is It. This is really It This is all there is. And it’s perfect as It is. There is nowhere to go but Here. There is nothing here but Now. There is nothing now but This. And this is It. This is really It This is all there is. And it’s perfect as It in misc
09/12 - here's a man in the funny papers we all know Alley Oop Oop Oop Oop Oop He lived way back a long time ago Alley Oop Oop Oop Oop Oop Oh well this cat's name is a-Alley Oop Alley Oop Oop Oop Oop Oop He's got a chauffeur that's a genuine dinosaur Alley Oop Oo in design
08/12 - i have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. i have never never been able to figure it all out. what it's all about. what it all means. so when i begin now, to put all the rolls of film together, to string them all in art
07/12 - Michael Dumontier is a contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. He's known for minimal paintings & collages but may be best known for his collaborations with Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber as a founding member of The Royal Art Lodge in art
07/12 - ruben Nusz’s exhibition 'sticks and stones' explores the non-verbal language of painting as well as the metaphysics associated with painting’s potential for illusion. Nusz has divided the recent work into two categories, a dialectic of shapes and meaning: in art
07/12 - I believe sensoriality is the most primitive, the most immediate thing. If I want to retread hypothetical origins, I must concern myself with the senses. My childhood was sharply affected by the presence of what is summarily called Nature; by the smells a in design
06/12 - "is this a mutant? is this a quantum jump to a different energy level? is there a new form of communication to accomodate these changes? is it here? has it yet to be developed? has it any relationship to "knights thinking?" or hauntology? has it any..." in art
05/12 - The public life of Yves Saint Laurent was as extravagant as it was decadent- but few are familiar with the private life of the legend. Upon his death in 2008, Pierre Berge decided to sell the couple's beloved private collection.It is through this momentou in design
01/12 - あの草原の中でいつか感じたなつかしいそれに気づいたわたしの中のすでに放たれていた光空はわたし　あなたは空鳥はわたし　あなたは鳥太陽はわたし　あなたは太陽宇宙はわたし　あなたは宇宙光はわたしあなたは光放たれて反射するすべての光前田征紀 --- In a field I found a memory in myself - a light freed from deep within in art

November 2011
30/11 - designers seem to be warming up to wood's rustic charms again. pin-up went for a long walk and brought home a selection of the most interesting new or updated designs, including stools, chairs, benches ... as well as some sculpture for good measure.... in architecture
30/11 - art nova: This section is designed for galleries representing two to three of their artists with new works, meaning that they have been created during the last two years - and are often even "fresh" from the studio. at the Miami Beach Convention Center... in design
29/11 - Death, life, growth, alchemy, and magic come into a space that chooses to express itself through minimal, carefully considered actions, and tries to open the stitches of a world that would otherwise be caught in a one-sided vision, perhaps due to too much in art
28/11 - the amazing vincent price, a massive art lover, once said “Art is love - times - love; the creator loves it and his audience adores it. To miss the sensation of loving art is to miss a kind of parenthood — false pregnancy perhaps." and i can not disagree. in art
22/11 - Graphic Design: Now in Production is the largest museum exhibition on the subject since the Walker’s seminal 1989 exhibition Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History, and the Cooper-Hewitt’s 1996 comprehensive survey, Mixing Messages: Graphic in design
21/11 - Her wordplay and self-evident titles explore the relationship between cultural and physical associations; the intermingling of materiality, feeling and identity creates a wild blend of synaesthetic experience wherein the substances of life literally and - in art
19/11 - if i were in l.a. tonight? - ricky swallow at marc foxx - 6150 wilshire boulevard los angeles, ca opening november 19th 6-8pm ---------- bill daniel and cali thornhill dewitt - american slang at 966 e. 4th st., los angeles, ca opening november 19th 7-10pm in art
17/11 - 1. "do i really see different each time, or do i only interpret what i see in a different way? i am inclined to say the former. - but why? to interpret is to think, to do something, seeing is a state." 2." i don't want a sound to pretend it's a bucket." in art
16/11 - "the artist may or may not know everything that lies in their work simply because they are as much an author as a medium for the channeling of different currents and energies (originating elsewhere in time and space and coming to inhabit their practice)" in misc
15/11 - Chris Held is a visual artist, and co-creator of the new American design house, Von Tundra. His work often combines contemporary, as well as historic, design symbolism with industrial furniture, such as shipping crates, pallets, and scaffolding. In doing in art
14/11 - this is the story of a little known painting by ingres. its first owner took good care of it, but as things go, he eventually had to sell it. succeeding owners were not so cautious about its welfare and did not take as good care of it as the first owner. in art
10/11 - We’re closing because our ambitions outweigh our resources. Although we feel that we’ve done several significant projects, we’ve been working on a fairly small scale, which gets tiring. All of our energy goes into quick projects that have short life spans in misc
09/11 - "he moved to california and he drowned in the pacific" - cali dewitt "better a broken arm than a bruised spirit" - eastside projects ||| "he moved to california and he drowned in the pacific" - cali dewitt "better a broken arm than a bruised spirit" - eas in art
07/11 - Other Places, curated by Tema Stauffer, brings together different generations of international artists whose photographs contribute to a dialogue about individuals & communities - past/present — existing in social & political margins based on sexuality &- in art
07/11 - tom sachs "shows his work" by emphasizing the presence of the human hand, to remind the viewer of the labor involved in the creation of objects. he addresses the conception, production, consumption and circulation of modern-day creativity by refashioning- in art
04/11 - "i'm more interested in the facts of moving rather than my feeling about. movement possibilities are limited for me, since I'm limited by what I can do physically or can think up for someone else. But I always hope to find something i don't know about." in art
03/11 - new 01magazine - theme: documented (everyone has a good story.) issue #7 - hans ulrich obrist, steven shearer, andy beach, confetti system, lightning dust, jérémie egry & aurélien arbet, peter sutherland & maia ruth lee, ari marcopoulos... in misc
03/11 - what is the meaning of mondo? 1. many or much. 2. very; really; extremely. ♦ slang words: abso-fucking-lutely – and a half – assload – beaucoup – boatload – boocoo – buttload – hecka – hella – hell of – hellza – like a heart-attack – out the ass – mondo in misc
03/11 - “conceptual art, simply put, had at its basic tenet an understanding that artists work with meaning not with shapes, colors or materials. anything can be employed by the artist to set the work in play." from public texts / stolen texts - joseph kosuth in art
02/11 - An early example of richard artschwager's "furniture surrogates" -geometric masses wrapped with formica “pictures” so that they resemble domestic items. “the way a table with a tablecloth is in a painting, in a still life—a three-dimensional still life.” in art
01/11 - In Clay House; Situation #4 a house in Minneapolis covered with clay. The result has an unexpected power and solemnity. As with Smithson, this is not avant-garde, ordinary people can get to the heart of the matter without the assistance of theoreticians - in art

October 2011
31/10 - "It struck me that the people you choose to work with, to surround yourself with in life and those you choose to love – these people say as much about you as you could ever hope to express in your own words." -- adam bainbridge - also known as - kindness in art
24/10 - the sand, like the water that in water is invisible, is lost in the desert, where neither the sand nor the desert is distinguished. in that indefinite or infinite space similar but opposed to the rigorous precisions traced by the labyrinth, one makes out- in art
14/10 - "Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides." -- Jacques Derrida +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ in design
13/10 - It is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. + I'm against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, compositions in art
12/10 - An elementary storage unit, four voids in a block, is affected to comply with types and formats of furniture, from one scale to another, until the limits of a room. Logics of formal manipulation specific to digital modeling are applied to the primitive... in design
11/10 - The Quaderna series represents the radical design movement of the late ‘60s. Franco Raggi wrote (in his “Radical Story” (Casaballa, 1973)) that the radical movement tried to “overcome the disciplinary discourse of design, namely the reconstruction of the in design
10/10 - Karnak comprises a vast mix of ruined temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings, notably the Great Temple of Amun and a massive structure begun by Pharaoh Ramses II (ca. 1391–1351 BC). Sacred Lake is part of the site as well. It is located near Luxor, in art
06/10 - “I am interested in getting you to engage in looking rather than losing your attention to thoughts about what you are looking at. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is the title of Robert Irwin’s biography.” uta barth cited by jennilee in art
05/10 - "Man is unique insofar as he constitutes two events. The event of his biological organism - and the event of his consciousness. Thus in man two times coexist - The time during which he is conceived, grows, ages, dies. And the time of his consciousness." in art
04/10 - Uno dei fondatori del Gruppo 58 di Napoli, d'impostazione neosurrealista e neodadaista, ha inoltre collaborato alla rivista Documento Sud. Le sue opere del periodo 1958-1960 proponevano assemblaggi di vari oggetti, tra cui frammenti di stampe e immagini p in art
03/10 - if rolu brought out a fragrance - what would it smell like? splinterboard dust + worn/burnt plectrum of industrialcore guitar + volvo 69 or sportster 73 starting first fuel fragrance + disreali gears album pvc note + whiff of vetiver and summer girl skin in misc

September 2011
30/09 - franz erhard walther, finde einen zweck fur die tasche, 1968, 30x10 cm, unlimitieret, herausgeber; vice-versand, remscheid translates to Franz Erhard Walther "find a purpose for the bag", 1968, 30x10 cm, unlimitieret, editors; vice-delivery remscheid in art
28/09 - the users from time to time establish visual contact, the significance and intensity of which is increased by color accentuated surroundings. die beteiligten nehmen gegebenenfalls blickkontakt auf, der durch den farblich hervorgehobenen umraum intensivier in art
27/09 - lee ufan's work "relatum (formerly phenomena and perception a)" was initially named after a treatise by phenomenologist maurice merleau-ponty, presents three rocks laid on a rubber strip marked as a measuring tape. the tape stretches and buckles, disrupti in design
26/09 - more and more i am interested in the impossibility of viewing a totality of any work - the 10-hour piece is longer than the opening hours of the gallery, for example. The documentation is not "faithful" - they are not "installation shots" to let one know- in art
23/09 - Finding it difficult to discuss the meaning of a moment without reflection, we utilize the lens of “truth” and “reason” in order to better provide a snapshot of contemporary objects. With the idea that designed objects and art are the visual represent-... in design
22/09 - A flavor broken off from something immensely more vast, something that in its overabundance that could not bear to remain whole. Mystery denies secure possession of truth. Further, scattered are sculptures of tactile matter in vacuum sealed plastic bags - in art
21/09 - Each door signifies that one person could enter. The room is large enough for the presence of two persons who could meet parallel to two bodies of light. The personal history and memory of each visitor and the choice of time for using the room, determine in art
20/09 - the story Dorso's residence told about the forms and colors of 60s California art. yhbhs created a temporary open space inspired by the geometrical, hard-edged works from Dorso's collection by Baldessari, McCracken, Ruscha, Arnoldi, and other early in art
19/09 - A mirror is an object that reflects light or sound in a way that preserves much of its original quality prior to its contact with the mirror. + a plug in horticulture is a small-sized seedlings grown in trays from expanded polystyrene or polythene. Planti in art
15/09 - "i think there's a love of classicism in the work - not just classical architecture, but the whole idea that nature & civilization can be synthesized + the social questions interest me more than the art ones. i hope people love eating their lunch there." in design
13/09 - "art is what we do. culture is what's done to us." carl andré ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "if art is what we do and culture is what's done to us - what could culture do to us if art is what we didn't do?" keith arnatt in art
12/09 - “Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of himself." in art
09/09 - How did you begin to approach an art exhibit about 9/11? Eleey: I started thinking about it around the second anniversary, when I opened the New York Times and encountered a piece by the artist Ellsworth Kelly. He proposed that Ground Zero should be... in art
09/09 - these are circumstances (stop) morning january tenth two thousand eleven jo-ey tang sneaked into construction site of exile on koepenicker str before cement truck arrival attempting to bracket life span of gallery (stop) two spanish silver dollars seventv in art
08/09 - "line breaks" - matt connors at veneklasen warner in berlin september 3rd through october 22, 2011 ---------- "you're gonna take a walk in the rain, and you're gonna get wet " matt connors at lüttgenmeijer berlin september 6th through november 15th, 2011 in art
07/09 - mauricio kagel was a German-Argentine composer who was notable for his interest in the theatrical side of musical performance. He has been regarded by music historians as deploying a critical intelligence interrogating the position of music in society. in art
06/09 - twelve new wall works by peter nencini will be on view at Partners & Spade, nyc, accompanying the boxed edition, for their re-opening next weekend 9th September. All within a 400mm dimension, with a plywood carcass. Each with a variant 40mm pegboard grid in art
06/09 - susan sontag's essay “against interpretation” led interfunktionen to “eliminate the mediator” between artist and public. to be a critic or a historian then was to engage in a “despicable activity.” conceptual art claimed a new immediacy with no need for in art
05/09 - Angelo Plessas is an artist based in Athens, Greece. This year his work has been shown at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, and the Triennale of Milan, Italy. His work is currently on show at the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale and will be includ in art
01/09 - Dear friends, As you may know, I have put in place an independent publishing house focusing on contemporary photography, called oodee. This weekend, I will have a stand at the first London Photo Book fair from from 11am till 6pm. - Damien Poulain in art

August 2011
31/08 - PRODUCT PORCH is a 6-month experimental retail collaboration between Specific Merchandise and Vitrine at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.Blaire Dessent & Brooks Hudson Thomas are taking over the museum shop during the exhibition "Phenomenal" - in design
31/08 - Down to the clouds / Up from the roof / I missed the ball / Why so aloof? / Way up high and goin too fast / Way up, way up high / Open your eyes / Come see my quilt / Big as the bed / Look what I built / Way up high and goin too fast / Way up, way up high in misc
31/08 - "We were doing a furniture design course. we were asked to study existing plywood chair designs before we start designing our own chairs from scratch. The course is over and we're going to have an exhibit in Hong Kong Poly University school of design - " in design
30/08 - happenings are not some style, but a moral act, a human stand of great urgency, whose professional status as art is less critical than their certainty as an ultimate existential commitment... and if at all possible, pizza is absolutely the best way to go. in art
29/08 - Body Techniques - a series of photographs that considers the interrelationships between art and globalized commerce. The title refers to ... habitus, which describes how an operational context or behavior can be affected by institutions or ideologies. in art
26/08 - food's family fiscal facts: investment $63,000, gross sales $104,120.72, total income $167,120.72... and 1,111 lbs of baked duck, 5,568 loaves of bread, 3,082 free dinners given, 1,083 glasses broken, 3,913 shirts, aprons & towels dirtied, 1 box toothpick in misc
24/08 - Gernes constantly questioned what art was, and undermined customary concepts of art, whether in the use of materials, the inclusion of everyday actions in his works or in his reflecting on industrial production processes and becoming actively involved in in art
24/08 - If you lived here, you’d be home by now is also an investigation of how an exhibition contextualizes objects within a given space, and how new meanings for objects are produced by the vantage points from which we experience them. The exhibition is based - in art
22/08 - we can look at the form of an architectural space as something that questions the behavior of the human body. there are questions related to the materiality of a place, to the shapes of the materials, and to materials modified so that they are perceived in art
19/08 - When life and work blend together - when we are always on, always working, always under deadline, always waking up and writing emails, always in a state of fragmented distraction - when the professionalization that comes from work permeates into our life in misc
18/08 - Oftentimes the mysterious phenomenon of sensory adaptation is best observed through reduction rather than growing complexity. Reduction certainly doesn’t mean simplification, but it is the way—at least in an ideal scenario—to the most intense awareness of in art
17/08 - jan dibbets contributed the 7-minute film "12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective, Netherlands Coast, February 1969" to Gerry Schum’s Land Art film compilation, which aired on German tv and formed the overture to a new approach to art, allow- in art
16/08 - Uta Barth examines photographic and visual perception—how the human eye sees differently from the camera lens and how the incidental and atmospheric can become subject matter in and of themselves. That is to say, she is perhaps less interested in where - in art
15/08 - carlos Scarpa refused to take the architecture exam administrated by the Italian Government. Consequently, he was not permitted to officially practice architecture and those who worked with him, clients, associates, etc, called him "Professor" as a title. in architecture
10/08 - "nothing is more important to us than those civic institutions, of which the art center is one, that create a broader appreciation of our common bonds - our homes, our work, and our personal experiences" excerpt from a 1941 walker art center pamphlet in art
09/08 - "during the opening night tour, donnelly, while answering my questions and offering her own comments on the exhibition executed an action. without explanation, she removed the lid of a long narrow cardboard box and removed a large roll of quilted black - in art
08/08 - 其實我在說的是關於很多洞，我在追憶我的八零年代，我的大學生活，我不能再喜歡別人了，我不值得。難想像演完以後會怎樣。跟以前一樣大家拼命的說我的問題是我太多洞了。不管是對自己或者是在關係裡，我們都扮演某一種身分和模樣，姿態和黨派。我們不得不去塑造自己的形狀，總是在激勵自己，然後絕望。拒絕成熟拒絕姿態但陳腔濫調 in art
06/08 - Ettore SOTTSASS (1917 -2007) See "Seating near Enigma" - 1987 Docket white marble veined gray, sitting blancinclusions black terrazzo terrace of black marble. (Accident Laterrasse) 68 x 45 x 70 cm Provenance: Galerie Yves Gastou - Paris; collectionparticu in design
04/08 - "Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm late or so busy." Isaac Mizrahi "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy ... and unconcerned with self." Iris Murdoch in misc
02/08 - "my work is philosophical, not instrumental. rather than being social criticism it seeks social insight. the more active it is (in fact) the more reflective it becomes in time." allan kaprow - in essence he seems to be saying if you don't do the work you in art
01/08 - calling... wait on streets for cars tied in silver foil and rags taken to parking lot. change cars ... taken to grand central station propped against info booth call ... no answer ... - in woods hang upside down ... callers come, rip off their clothes - in art

July 2011
29/07 - En 1967 realiza su primera muestra individual y en 1972 publica su primer texto teórico. Hasta el presente cuenta con 35 exposiciones individuales y más de 100 colectivas en América y Europa. En 1997 realiza una obra interactiva concebida para Internet, - in art
26/07 - kommen aus new york, wo ihre objekte im kontext von kunst und design ausgestellt und benutzt werden. sie schrieben uns "gosh we had a lot of fun doing this!" erst bauten sie einen judd stool aus plexiglass nach dann fullten sie ihn mit erde damit er präse in design
25/07 - Aranda\Lasch - Rafael de Cárdenas with Evan Gruzis - Jim Drain - Paul Kopkau - Paul Lee - Shawn Maximo - Leon Ransmeier - Rich Brilliant Willing - RO/LU - SITU Studio (NEW DESIGN) - Michael Stipe THE NIGHTSTANDS SUMMER EDITION for PIN–UP No. 10 7/20-8/1 in design
22/07 - the pith (or essence or heart or...) of robert barry's work usually cannot be touched, heard, or seen but surrounds the viewer completely. his riddles of quantity test or trust in matter and its apprehension. barry's work stretches the definition of .... in art
21/07 - With their work Slothouber and Graatsma had a clear social intention. The designers considered themselves in fact as ' anonymous ' discoverers of the many applications of cubics. In democratic passing these possibilities, in which the useful construction in design
19/07 - in the 1970s in Argentina, Venn diagrams were banned from primary school curricula as they were considered to encourage subversive thought. It’s an incredible moment in history, when simplified graphic representation was neurotically re-imagined as a ... in art
18/07 - despite their documentary status, the images and descriptions provide only fragmentary glimpses of a forever distant and incomplete given form because of their selective presentation... making the quotidian appear strange and obscure, opening the door to- in art
15/07 - the artist may or may not know everything that lies in their work simply because they are as much an author as a medium for the channeling of different currents and energies (originating elsewhere in time and space and coming to inhabit their practice)... in architecture
14/07 - a construction designed to bridge a large vertical distance by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. Stairways may be straight, round, or may consist of two or more straight pieces connected at angles. The step is composed of the ... in art
13/07 - "Taking its name from the famous area in Hyde Park, which has historically been the bastion of free speech, Speakers’ Corner is a simple but provocative pun that brings together linguistic and visual elements." slide sequence of one image projected in a - in art
12/07 - I appreciate the variety of ways to connect materials in general. I like discovering different ways of uniting objects and seem to understand this best with metal. A lot of my work ends up being mono-forms because of this idea of seamless uniting until - in design
08/07 - manufactured materials like glass, metal or electricity combined with natural materials like dirt, rocks and water. I use the Japanese word chutohampa to describe it, which means unresolved, incomplete, or not polished. So you’re neither here nor there; in art
08/07 - Each line he made, he said, was “the actual experience” of making the line, adding: “It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.” Years later, he described this more plainly. “It’s more like I’m having an experience than making..." in art
01/07 - this place may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. mt. Josephine is a peak in the ... in misc

June 2011
29/06 - The Intelligent Clashing publication for Rhiannon Silver’s exhibition at Hunter Gatherer will be launched at PSL on 15 July. ‘Intelligent Clashing: Something Tremendous Has Happened’ is an image essay bringing together images of objects housed in the Arte in design
28/06 - As a consequence, a document of cul-de-sacs and iterations. The piece is sequential, fiddly in the way it pieces together but also in the way it was conceived. Maybe the most significant outcome for me is quite a changed methodology — or one that taps... in art
27/06 - "in late 60s italy, the radicals, a movement that defined themselves an avant garde, started to edit objects rather than project them. with surprising new materials and decorations, they attempted actions that were intended to "anti-banalize" things." in design
24/06 - Through the project, Horvitz will give his audience’s tweets literal and metaphorical weight. Serving as an anachronistic messenger in an era in which distance is no longer an obstacle to communication, Horvitz will re-engage with the relatively slow pace in art
23/06 - We not only pretend to be what we are not, but by staging our pretense we strive to conjure and bring in to existence a new genuineness. The strange thing is that often this conjuring act succeeds, and we become what we pretend to be. - Eric Hoffer 1955 in art
22/06 - Boundary, border & frontier share the sense of that which divides one entity or political unit from another. Boundary, in reference to a country, city, state, territory, or the like. boundary can be confused with: boundary, limit, parameter, variable... in art
20/06 - Impasse: Cutting Board, composed of two paintings that each replicate one usable side of a wooden cutting board, hang on opposite sides of a room facing one another. Upon entering the space the viewer is left to decide which is worth observing, while... in art
20/06 - In Chris Larson’s new video work Heavy Rotation, which will be shown in the historic water reservoir of THE VIEW, the artist declares himself as the protagonist of the story. The film sets, invented and built by Chris Larson, reach over three rooms lying in art
17/06 - Night Market is a working marketplace for small unregulated goods and services which will run from June 17 - September 30th at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts; Minneapolis, Minnesota; rural Wisconsin along the... in design
17/06 - the house reinterprets elements od minneapolis' housing stock in ways that would allow a denser urban fabric. consider the house's narrow corner lot. "it became a question" says architect julie snow "of how to make private outdoor space in that location." in design
17/06 - "“This piece sort of made itself. Once I had the warm, dull glow of the plywood, the form just came to be without much deciding, and the painting was similar, like I painted it whilst sleepwalking. In this way it felt like a ghost." sarah braman in art
16/06 - I think this whole question of whether it is art or not has been asked because I’m not sure what I’m doing, what a few other people are doing, has any real legitimate connection to past art. I mean, it’s still used as art, it’s focused on as art, it’s ... in art
15/06 - "By pacing a specific code, represented by a character or word on the ground system is activated by a signal from the video recorder that produced by a video tape loop, a clay image: It shows the viewer cheering crowd. The social-therapeutic dimension.... in art
14/06 - ‘Le Suicide Des Objets,’ by Philippe Ramette - Although the picture represents a macabre situation — which the wood as a former living material reinforces — the setting is unrealistic. A chair doesn’t hang itself. I like the idea of transforming heavy... in art
13/06 - "back in the day, they saw everything as it was, without metaphysics, without exaggeration, without a magnifying glass, with the naked eye. The microscope hadn't yet been invented yet, either for material things or for the things of the spirit." ........ in art
10/06 - art should ''place itself not in front of, but around, behind, underneath (literally) the audience.'' art should ''place itself not in front of, but around, behind, underneath (literally) the audience.'' art should ''place itself not in..." scott burton in art
10/06 - Dirk has never been the biggest fan of furniture, but he would probably relate to the austere, but vibrant, qualities of this chair. We also want to imagine him sleeping in this chair as well, with a nighttime routine that consists of him merely sitting d in design
08/06 - I think art should ask a question, not give an answer. That’s why fragments come into my work, so not all of the piece is there, begging the question: this is a fragment of what? Lots of people don’t have the intellectual curiosity to get involved in ... in art
07/06 - All elements are connected by the color gray. It is a visual stimulus, darker than white, brighter than black, somewhere in between without its own color: one achromatic color. The name of the individual gradations as pure black or neutral gray to emphasi in art
06/06 - The experience was said to have fallen on the painter Apelles who was trying to paint... the foamy saliva of a horse. He was so unsuccessful that, in a rage, he gave up and threw the sponge he was cleaning his brushes with at the medium, thus producing in art
04/06 - "I soon realized it was not so simple. The autoprogettazione table in my head was the only one I’d ever seen in person: a limited edition, chrome-plated steel version which the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija showed at Art Basel in 2004." - greg allen in design
01/06 - Their stories are not written in stone, only told by those who remember, and those who share the remembering. If you happen to be in the Amache Camp, and a tree happens to have fallen, will you make a chair out of it? Only if it has fallen on its own. in design
01/06 - Además de incluir contenidos botánicos de una forma sencilla, personal y cercana, The Plant Journal ofrece a los entusiastas de las plantas una nueva mirada sobre el mundo vegetal presentando las obras de creadores y artistas que también se apasionan por in art

May 2011
31/05 - an emphasis on thinking and communicative possibilities over art’s visible and material qualities. But by invoking a sensibility beyond words, it also underscored an interest in the Sublime-an aesthetic preoccupation which typically gets written out of in art
31/05 - " To question the very notion of sculpture. What can it be? How can it relate?" and... "To me, they are sculptures because I define them as sculptures. I look at the short-lived relationship between a person and an everyday object..." erwin wrum in art
27/05 - "Normally I use ordinary materials, nothing special. how I peel off the ordinariness from the materials and objectify them is a great excitement. And it's an agony at the same time. That's why "Events" is a form I'd like to keep challenging." kishio suga in art
26/05 - scattered light - the world is blue at its edges and in its depths. this blue is the light that got lost. light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. it disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in art
25/05 - Location does not present documentation of art work: artists create work specifically for each Location volume. We believe that these archival volumes provide the perfect opportunity for artists to express themselves in a format that is both conceptually in art
24/05 - "It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books, setting out in 500 pages an idea that can be explained orally in five minutes. 'The "better way to go" is to pretend that those books already exist." - borges in art
23/05 - the notary public is an artist-run curatorial project and occasional apartment exhibition space founded by Jo-ey Tang. 1289 Madison Avenue, #3A, New York, NY - viewings by appointment - For more info, contact thenotarypublic.nyc at gmail.com in art
20/05 - A nightstand, alternatively night table or bedside table, is a small table or cabinet designed to stand beside a bed. Before indoor flushing toilets became commonplace, the function of a nightstand was to contain a chamber pot. early nightstands were... in design
19/05 - Pues nunca he procurado mostrar la realidad inmovilizada en un determinado momento, sino al contrario revelar el cambio universal cuya temporalidad e infinitud son valores constitutivos. El universo, para mí, es aleatorio. Mi obra también debe serlo. in misc
16/05 - The link between spirituality and gratitude has recently become a popular subject of study. While these two characteristics are certainly not dependant on each other, studies have found that spirituality is capable of enhancing a person’s ability to be gr in misc
12/05 - rolu @ icff /// noho next 2011 - rolu w/ ashley helvey @ 45 great jones street nyc /// pin-up magazine presents "the nightstands" at phillips de pury 450 park avenue nyc /// you have been here sometime interviews rolu /i'll be back here a week from today in design
10/05 - Los Angeles in the 1960s was still fairly isolated and had developed a kind of parallel universe where the main artists had careers that were serious and active locally, and included shows in New York and Europe. But I cannot think of one artist who was - in art
09/05 - I was consciously writing poetry before I was consciously making sculpture. . . . A typewriter has even spacing on the lines . . . [and] is essentially a grid. . . . Rather than trying to achieve a certain look, I was using the same underlying abstraction in art
07/05 - Impossible Vacation May 7 – June 4, 2011 Opening reception Saturday, May 7, 7-10 PM Tommy Hartung / Thomas Helbig / Tony Matelli / Lin May / John McAllister / Scott Olson / Virginia Overton / Mitzi Pederson at white flag projects - saint louis, missouri in art
06/05 - As both noun and verb, book and exhibition, CATALOG recasts the deconstructed components of finished design projects as new work. The result is an exhibition that is an exploded book, and a book that is a collapsed exhibition. CATALOG represents the work in design
05/05 - "I was struck less by the willingness of this fair-skinned artist to inflict pain on himself than by the title of the book on his chest––Tactics: Cavalry and Artillery. Here was someone who was going to play the art game hard and from a ..."- alice aycock in art
04/05 - on friday sept 1 1971, hiro kosaka, 24 year old japanese artist born in wakayama, ran non-stop for five hours around a string track at mori's form, a new gallery on l.a.'s west pico blvd. the aim of this private activity (the space was curtained off) was- in art
03/05 - Hosted by the Guggenheim as part of their "Intervals" series, the show opens today and is on view through May 14. "Intervals: Futurefarmers" includes a revamped pedestrian press, plus a series of readings (aka "Sole/Soul Sermons," at the Guggenheim), non- in art
03/05 - FORCE MAJEURE -- Bill Sullivan 1965 Born in New York City , USA. Lives and works in New York City , USA. 46 pages, Softcover, 15 x 21 cm, Black and White lazer print -A original photo print is pasted on the cover (Fujicolor) Perfect bound Limited and... in art
02/05 - Bless, Constantin and Laurene Boym, Fernando Bryce, Mariana Castillo Deball, Wim Delvoye, Dr. Lakra, Cao Fei, Jaime Hayon, Christian Jankowski, Peter Marino, Olaf Nicolai, Damián Ortega, Dexter Sinister, Kiki Smith, Francesco Vezzoli, Lawrence Weiner, And in art

April 2011
29/04 - This exhibition presents the work of the visionary architect and theorist Anne Tyng. she worked closely with Louis I. Kahn and independently pioneered habitable space-frame architecture, Tyng has applied natural and numeric systems to built forms on all - in design
28/04 - in May 1970 bruce nauman made a V-shaped corridor at San José State College, California, 2ft wide at the beginning and narrowing down to about 16in, with a mirror at the end a little less than 5 1/2ft high, so that a person about the same height as him... in art
27/04 - Does anyone ever actually execute these things? Complete the artist's instructions and realize, presumably, their intentions? Or have market forces condemned these kinds of works to permanent potentiality? Maybe it'd be interesting to buy a few of these - in art
26/04 - The 3rd episode of Composing with Process: Perspectives on Generative and Systems Music for Radio Web MACBA is now online. The episode examines the use of determinacy and indeterminacy in music and features music by John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Lejaren Hill in misc
22/04 - The walls came down, the city came in, ushering in the era of the “museum without walls.” At the Goodbye Party on January 18th, 1969, members adorned the walls, devoid of precious art collection, with improvised graffiti—signaling a new urban relationship in misc
22/04 - september 3rd 1971 front page story in the minneapolis tribune by mike steele, entitled "sculpture takes a hammering", carried a two column photo of william wegman's 42 ft long billboard of foshay tower on its side. wegman's work was one of four removed- in art
21/04 - the square is much more honest and tells me that it is sitting on one line of the four, usually a horizontal one, as a basis. And I have also come to the conclusion that the square is a human invention, which makes it sympathetic to me. Because you don't in design
20/04 - รวมมิตรเว็บ archizoom \(^o^)/ รวมเว็บไซต์ archizoom ♥♥ ข้อมูลเว็บไซต์ archizoom มากมาย ที่นี่ รวมมิตรเว็บ สารบัญเว็บไทย แหล่งรวบรวมเว็บไซต์ ค้นหา archizoom ง่าย หาอะไรก็เจอ. รวมมิตรเว็บ archizoom \(^o^)/ รวมเว็บไซต์ archizoom ♥♥ ข้อมูลเว็บไซต์ archizoom ม in architecture
19/04 - cleaning up my desktop is a kind of self portrait in a way. everyday i'm grabbing images, making scans, creating folders, organizing things... truthfully, i should just post them here and move on. maybe this will be a new weekly event - posting all the in misc
18/04 - the world is filled to suffocating. man has placed his token on every stone. every word, every image is leased and mortgaged. we know that a picture is but a space in which a variety of images, none of them original, blend and clash. a picture is a ... in art
15/04 - "My basic principle is: I start from an idea and from the material. It is not fixed which of the two comes in the first place. For me, sculpture begins before design. When I speak of sculpture I think of material, form, mass, process and the location." in art
14/04 - The second edition of Construction in Process occured in Munich, June 1985. Over forty artists, many of whom had participated in the first gathering, came again to work together for one week. As had been done in Lodz, the artists donated their work, this in art
13/04 - For many architects modernism was a physical manifestation of human progress ... to quote from The Architecture of Good Intentions, “The architect could stipulate an intrinsic connection between the form of their buildings & the condition of society." in architecture
12/04 - Goeritz is best known for monumental projects that blur the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, like the famous Torres de la Ciudad Satélite, a collaboration with Luis Barragán. He also created a discrete number of works on a smaller, less arch in art
11/04 - Among a digressive range of topics, Macuga finds speculative relationships between Abbott's heroic capitalist picturesque and current Tea Party rhetoric, represented in photographs she took at a rally at the Minnesota state capitol. Within an exhibition a in art
06/04 - "an artwork's success, in a way, depends on its capacity to co-opt an existing situation and to be co-opted in return. i'm quite happy to see people recreate my work for their own use and to adapt it to their own frames of reference." ROLU + ETC AND...... in art
05/04 - "Progress - There isn’t any program in my work. No going from worse to better or simpler to more complicated. On the other hand it’s always different. So instead of saying I’ve made something new, I’ll say I’ve made something more." fred sandback in art
04/04 - smithson's first solo show of sculpture opened late november '67 at dwan gallery in nyc. these works comprise elements that reflect one another ... sequential arrays of identical cube forms in progressive scales. we can imagine these forms diminishing as in art
01/04 - michael craig martin's early work made deliberate reference to the American artists he most admired, such as Donald Judd and Robert Morris. Although he was particularly affected by Minimalism and used ordinary household materials in his sculptures, playin in art

March 2011
31/03 - thursday march 31st 2011 in los angeles - lucky dragons | brendan fowler | crazy band | with xen maf djing at the mountain school of the arts 9pm - 473 gin ling way chinatown. free and open. another new idea exchange. anothe new idea exchange. another - in misc
31/03 - two days of workshops (3/31 & 4/01 12-6pm) Project 1 will feature the work of Gareth Long and adopts his projects Bouvard and Pecuchet's Invented Desk For Copying and "Who Invented the Desk?" as a starting point for a public talk and workshop. The desk is in art
30/03 - using the glass house or the farnsworth house as an emblem of architecture that is subsumed by sculpture, the photographs that mies van der rohe took of the site have been encoded with the memoirs of edith farnsworth using the dataglyph technology of encr in art
29/03 - Koshimizu investigates the substance of wood by sawing planks into different shapes, exposing their surface qualities through different kinds of repetitive cuts. The geometric lines produced by an industrial saw contrast with the slight irregularities res in art
28/03 - Elemental brings together works consisting of repeated elements arranged in a sequential structure, a formal strategy often associated with minimal art and the work of Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. The show considers the similarities and differences between in art
25/03 - Fair use and transformative work are still messy, ambiguous principles, almost by design, and artists are gonna do what artists have to do. And really, Judge Batts' decision is so poorly constructed, and ignores or misconstrues so many basic facts of the in art
24/03 - What happens when history finds its gaze in the mirror? How does it regard itself? Its figure? Its look? Like the exhalation of a stale gas, this reflection bespeaks a spiritual emptiness that pervades Elements of Style. The third and final installment of in art
24/03 - Keep Out You Thieving Bastards - Alec Soth, Aaron Spangler, Angela Strassheim, Cameron Gainer, Chris Larson, David Rathman, Justin Newhall, Paul Shambroom, Rob Fischer, Ross Knight, Santiago Cucullu, Sara Woster, Shannon Kennedy, Tetsuya Yamada, and Chris in art
23/03 - And you learn to build all your roads on today Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn... That even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your garden - in misc
22/03 - Tacita Dean’s film The Green Ray depicts the day's last ray of sun refracting and bending below the horizon and producing, for a fraction of a second, a distinctive green glow. searching for this elusive event became about the act of looking itself, about in art
21/03 - a work meant to register the progressive decomposition of a group of buried objects ... fusing the dirt inside with a foreign object in a "union with its surroundings." -the whole edition ought to be mounted "naked" after the experiment. patterns of decay in art
18/03 - I created “Primary Demonstrations” to show the public what it means to be together at the same time, - man and woman getting up, sitting, standing, being there, getting tired, going slowly down, lying – daily rhythms, life rhythms, gravitation, earth boun in art
17/03 - With Pro Forma, Rich Brilliant Willing borrows from the archetype of globalization and transposes it onto icons of the home: the credenza, the coffee table, the bookshelf, side table and bar cabinet. By stripping the container shapes of their original con in design
16/03 - "recordable revelations - unrecordable revelations: these revelations are generally oral - these revelations are generally uncommunicable / attempts to explain experiencing the work-process fail." franz erhard walther via avalanche magazine spring 1972 in art
15/03 - ten twin cities changemakers will take the stage at the historic capri theater on friday march 18th for an evening of short, inspiring presentations. encounter surprising stories of community based innovation from a cross-section of emerging and establis in misc
15/03 - Né à Strasbourg en septembre 2009, le Collectif etc a pour volonté de rassembler des énergies autour d’une dynamique commune de questionnement de l’espace urbain. Par le biais de différents médiums et de diffé- rentes compétences, le collectif se veut êtr in design
14/03 - In the spirit of the early 1970s desire for experimentation and freedom of expression, 112 Greene Street was open to artists from all disciplines and did not impose censorship over their shows. In contrast to the traditional gallery space and the Modernis in art
10/03 - "when i sit down i do not sit the way my flesh would want to be seated, but as my intellect or spirit would want to be seated, as if woven together." - message written on the bottom of a gerritt rietveld chair as recounted by rupert deese in his talk for- in design
09/03 - Milhé plays with a shape derived from medieval fortification architecture and with the scale of the landscape. Embrasures, openings intended for attack and defence, are also connected with sight, for one can see through them without being seen. The embra in art
08/03 - "Not really a narrative or interpretation but perhaps a sense of the attitude of the work. Artwork is always specific in its materials, images and attitude whether one chooses it or not... no "message" per se, but a beginning and starting point." amy yao in art
07/03 - shusaku Arakawa's work is a question of "game" between language and image, between signifier (a word) and signified (object that designates the word), as well as dealing with the imaginary and the central issues including the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp. in art
04/03 - Walther’s provocative meditations on the concept of art as an act of “doing” that is temporal, subjective, and open to interpretation have resulted in an interdisciplinary practice that challenges conventional categories of painting and sculpture. and in art
04/03 - “One reason I personally run my shop this way is that I’m not really interested in having something if someone else has it, in part because a lot of my friends are shopkeepers and I don’t want to compete with them,” - brooks hudson Thomas of specific l.a. in design
03/03 - "I do not want to be enclosed by my work; I want to be free to do different things. Not because I am so intelligent that I can do whatever I want, but because I do not feel comfortable doing only one thing, to me this is not natural." -- ivan argote in art
02/03 - "The field of the finite is all that we can see, hear, touch, remember and describe. This field is basically that which is manifest, or tangible. The essential quality of the infinite, by contrast, is its subtlety, its intangibility. This quality is conve in art
01/03 - In the 1990s, Nicolas Bourriaud described the artist as a “user of forms”, Schumacher’s answer is the appropriation of digital data as a component of his sculptural works. Schumacher points out questions of the artwork’s origins in a time where any kind o in art

February 2011
28/02 - concept shop focusing on high craft and design pieces. Favoring traditional handmade practices, IKO IKO represents custom furniture by WAKA WAKA, limited run clothing and accessories by Rowena Sartin, jewelry, artwork, curiosities, Japanese utilitarian ob in misc
28/02 - william Wegman is guided by an entertainer's instincts: an infallible sense of the comic potential — and thus the pathos — of everyday ideas and objects. In this he is aided by a short attention span, a deadpan manner and a deep-seated penchant for frugal in art
26/02 - Eric Carlson is an archival vandal. He collects, reorganizes, reassembles and over rides what existed before, sometimes there is only a slight variation and other times the source material becomes unrecognizable. Carlson manipulates imagery through collag in art
25/02 - It concerns a subtle, stifling feeling that architecture can evoke and the realisation that when you relate to a space in a natural way, without everything being boxed up, regulated or marked with signposts, you will be more aware of the dangers. That is in art
24/02 - Public Access is an art project produced by David Horvitz in late December 2010 and early January 2011. For roughly two weeks, he drove along California's coast from the Mexican border up through the Oregon border. Along the way, he stopped and took pictu in art
22/02 - Timur Si-Qin is an artist of German and Mongolian/Chinese decent who grew up in Berlin, Beijing and the American Southwest. His work emphasizes the nature of the synthetic, focusing on the materiality of globalized and networked society. Often times blend in art
21/02 - i was cleaning up my desktop and came across these photos of various rolu furniture projects that i never got around to sharing. golden age, ifs ltd at the ny art book fair, at david horvitz place and art in general. there's a bunch of great rolu coming - in design
18/02 - Line, like thought, once understood as linear and progressive, has evolved into a kind of network: fluid, simultaneous, indefinite, and open. And what about works works in which line and background are fused, giving greater significance to the space .... in art
16/02 - "In general, if one were to summarize my vision of art it would be this: Art is living together with each other at the same time, earthbound to the same globe. Some people come earlier into this life, some people later but all in time..." -- klaus rinke in art
15/02 - franz erhard Walther’s work comes across as a peculiar fusion of Allan Kaprow (restrained, private mini-Happenings), Donald Judd (plain, symmetrical, static) and Temple Grandin (reassuring tactile contact and containment). Mr. Walther is one of the precur in art
14/02 - Each of the artists’ works address issues with the exchange of public information, the historicizing of the collective memory, and the reinvention of artistic form (serial printmaking, monumental sculpture). In this presentation, two generations of artist in art
11/02 - I wanna talk to you about another world, a completely different world - a world in which art had a meaning that had nothing to do with what art has for us, here - now. A place where art really was important - where it really made a difference" - r. nonas in art
10/02 - Encountering the “take away” artwork, consisting of unlimited or large-run editions whose individual pieces are free for the taking, has become a common occurrence in contemporary art exhibitions. A strategy notably employed in Félix González-Torres’ ... in art
09/02 - together is an online visual art exhibition that nurtures an artistic network in a format that is not restricted to a time or a place. together embraces the role of the internet as an accessible platform to promote the relationship between art, language a in art
09/02 - Holding Still is a collection of found travel photographs from a woman’s collection. Nothing is known about her other than that she was a resident of Vancouver, Canada. After feeling a strong affinity to her aesthetic and photographic sensibilities, I ... in art
08/02 - the environment is important - unimportant | the environment is important because while working with the instrument i relate to it directly. the evironment has an influence-the environment is unimportant because a direct relationship does not occur: i ... in art
07/02 - Also notice how the trunks of the trees are painted white. My memory is that they were usually only painted 2-3 feet up the trunk, but these go way up. Interesting.... Some say they were painted to keep away pests: there are all sorts of theories, but I - in art
07/02 - "We are fighting against: (a) the timidity and symmetry of colours, colours which are arranged in wishy-washy patterns of idiotic spots and stripes; (b) all forms of lifeless attire which make man feel tired, depressed, miserable and sad, and which ..... in art
04/02 - the purpose of a studio and the definition of the word itself have been interesting subjects for discussion. are studios limited to places for production, or can we still consider a studio a room for study and thought, where manifestations are less ... in misc
04/02 - 'These sculptures are monuments to the people I love and the joy and confusion I feel in being alive, but they are not about things, they are things! They don't exist as a reference, representation or metaphor, but as themselves. Sculpture can act as a... in art
03/02 - Two terms are used to describe the application of scientific information about human variability and adaptability to the design process. Ergonomics (aka Human Factors) describes information about humans in "working" situations. Anthropometrics deals with- in design
02/02 - There is a great misunderstanding among architects. They think they are inventors and always need to be avant-garde. But you cannot permanently exist as an avant-garde. That is impossible. But architecture can be carried forward in a dialectical process, in architecture
01/02 - the artist running at top speed along a fifty foot room and throwing his body into the far wall as hard and for as long as he could stand it. besides the physical activity and strain of the work, which resembled an athletic event - le va succeeded in ... in art

January 2011
31/01 - The book features transcripts from talks in which editors and designers were invited to discuss their magazines; a stocktaking of over 100 significant issues that tracks the changing density and progression of the little magazine phenomenon; transcripts o in architecture
28/01 - This experience reminded me of how exquisite art should be, how rarified real art should be. We too often end up considering artworks as commodities. Or we organize exhibitions and send loan forms and get a signature back and that’s it—no conversation, no in art
27/01 - This is my favorite dirt road. It goes up to Buttermilk and is mostly washboard and straight. It’s a modern dirt road, wider than most dirt roads. You can do fifty miles an hour on it. It’s sandy on the sides. I learned to drive on it and we used to go u in art
27/01 - "...photograph of a man doing a handstand atop a rocky peak in a big-skied landscape. His straight graceful form appears effortless, despite being inches away from a substantial plunge... The paradoxical photograph is the first of the series 8 Natural... in art
26/01 - The way in which a sign signifies is a topic in semiotics and philosophy of language. A sign is an entity which signifies another entity. A natural sign is an entity which bears a causal relation to the signified entity, as thunder is a sign of storm. And in art
25/01 - "Walther, the process of art attributed to the addition Happening and Fluxus , often as a counter-position to the minimalism is understood. Walther turned it against an outdated understanding of art, is hosting the "finished" works" internet translation in art
24/01 - The Gutai bulletin, born from the vision of the movement’s founder, Jiro Yoshihara, and the group’s sensitivity, is still a groundbreaking example of the importance of communication in the art world. The first publication dates back to 1955. Thanks to the in art
21/01 - it is neither sincere or insincere, having transcended such issues - its mere existence acts as a cerebral black hole, engendering critical paralysis. Any possible reaction you may have to it has been foreseen and theoretically integrated into the work... in design
20/01 - four events and reactions 1. putting a finger in milk 2. touching a cactus 3. putting out a cigarette 4. pushing a plate off a table - john baldessari * Published by Florence. Centro Di (1975) Oblong 24mo. Unpaginated (50pp) Illustrated with reproductions in art
19/01 - "I, the world, things, life-we are all situations of energy." Giovanni Anselmo wrote these words in 1969, during the heyday of arte povera, and has since developed an artistic practice that explores visible forms of latent energy in the natural world. in art
18/01 - alexander rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. he designed a workers club for... in design
18/01 - "There are over three times more stars in the universe than astronomers have previously estimated: the new calculation is three hundred sextillion stars. That is a three with twenty three zeros after it." via frieze magazine's twitter feed 12/18/10 ...... in art
17/01 - With our present awareness, the arts we have known up to now appear to us in general to be fakes fitted out with a tremendous affectation. Let us take leave of these piles of counterfeit objects on the altars, in the palaces, in the salons and the antique in art
14/01 - " The actual working in the studio was, in a sense, the expression. I was taught that the finished sculpture was maybe the end of the paragraph. Once a sculpture was completed it was critiqued and put back on to the scrap pile. " - charles ray in art
12/01 - eccentricity and restraint, attention seeking and jealousy, gaurded privacy, excess and sustainibility - they all peacefully clash in this "reluctant metropolis" that perpetually fluctuates between leisure and hysteria. pin-up invited five architects to - in architecture
11/01 - For Penone, nature represents the great memory, the ever-present model of the processes of change and growth that shape the individual life. His art is often concerned with the revelation and realisation in the form of sculpture of natural processes, whic in art
11/01 - The exhibition FRESH HELL dives into history, recent or distant, but doesn't bore through the strata. Instead, it skims horizontally and nonlinearly, generating multiple paradoxes and stirring up a breath of fresh air that is constantly sucked away by... in art
10/01 - wikipedia - "The comfort zone is a behavioural state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviours to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk. A person's personality can -" in art
07/01 - Through disrupting the hierarchy of objects, and re-situating these once invisible details as the main event, susan Collis collapses the distinctions between significant and insignificant and opens up for re-evaluation our assumptions about the gallery... in design
06/01 - Sometimes Breer’s films seem almost like toys that never quite succeed, contraptions that never quite ‘get going’, model planes that crash after only the briefest of flights. But it’s never one ‘crash’: the ecstatic nature of his work is that his films - in art
06/01 - It's been very hard But it's getting easier now Hard times are over, over for awhile The leaves are shining in the sun And I'm smiling inside You and I watching each other on a street corner Cars and buses and planes and people go by But we don't care We in misc
05/01 - "What fresh hell is this?" the American writer and humorist Dorothy Parker is supposed to have exclaimed whenever the phone rang. No wonder she turned to drink. Fresh Hell is also the title of an exhibition now at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, curated by in art
04/01 - Allan Kaprow became known for its happening ("what is happening") which he invented the term performances that take part in the audience. En 1966 il crée Gas , happenning réalisé à Long Island aux Etats-Unis sous forme de jeu de piste, les participants ve in art
03/01 - Lotty Rosenfeld’s performances, videos and video installations are conceptual and material interventions against the grammar of social order. The cross as a mark of resistance is a recurrent motif in her work. Echoing the way that she herself crossed thro in art

Year 2010

December 2010
31/12 - "Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving." ~Martin Amis "on to the next one" ~jay-z in misc
30/12 - An ambitious 6-channel film installation, its title is self-explanatory: Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS (in three movements) to John Cage’s composition 4’33” with Trevor Carlson, New York City, 28 April 2007 (six performances; six films). Legendary c in art
22/12 - “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” and “Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.” and "then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions." and "I in art
21/12 - You hold the essence of the idea in your head. It’s just like someone saying: I am thinking of God – that’s as close as you will ever get to it – you have the essence of the idea. My next step was simply to realize my interest in speech as a medium – firs in art
17/12 - In conjunction with the exhibition Thirty and Eight, ROLU will present new pieces designed to activate one's awareness of the physical actions related to sitting. Matt Olson, Mike Brady and sammie warren of ROLU studio will be present at the opening.----- in design
16/12 - VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installation, body performances, feature films, experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, Persona Performances, in art
15/12 - … Within the world of IA [Image Aggregator] websites, even the seemingly simple act of recognizing an image’s author proved to be a task that was chronically prone to oversight. Unsettling as these oversights were, many of the “content-conscious,” having in design
14/12 - the rolu exhibit at mondo cane has been extended. Extension may refer to: * A cheerleading stunt * The building of community capacity by outsiders ie agricultural extension * Extension (geology) relating to the pulling apart of the Earth's crust * Extens in design
14/12 - Weeping is a collection of newspaper clippings from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal of people crying. part of the "After Modern History" series which is a report on world events that re-edits the news of the day by linking together images - in misc
13/12 - david Maljkovic's work focuses on the concepts of historical and cultural heritage, with particular reference to his country, Croatia, once part of Yugoslavia. Dopo l'indipendenza nel 1991, la Croazia subì numerosi cambiamenti, non solo in termini geo-pol in art
13/12 - La segona exposició temporal del Laboratori de Fabricació reuneix per primer cop des de 1972 les pel·lícules originals realitzades pels dissenyadors que van participar a "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape", la cèlebre mostra original del MoMA, comissariad in design
10/12 - Golden Age is pleased to present Thirty and Eight, Derek Chan and Ayako Yamasaki featuring furniture from Minneapolis based design studio RO/LU. This is Chan's first exhibition with the gallery and directly follows a solo exhibition at the Museum of Cont in art
10/12 - Drink the long draught down Drink the long Drink the long draught Big priest He is not (appreciated) Drink the long Drink the long draught Drink the long draught for big priest Rock the records Check the record Check the guy’s track record Check the re in misc
09/12 - "This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have... " - walt whitman in misc
08/12 - "It was not until the invention of printing had greatly reduced the cost of books, allowing many more people direct access to owning books, that it became the practice to write the title on the spine and shelve books with the spine outwards." -wikipedia in misc
03/12 - "I’ll be more relaxed, I’ll be more full – than I am now, In fact, I’ll take fewer things seriously, I’ll be less hygienic, I’ll take more risks, I’ll take more trips, I’ll watch more sunsets, I’ll climb more mountains, I’ll swim more..." - borges in misc
02/12 - More than 40,000 people are expected to attend the ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, which opens to the public Thursday and runs until Sunday. In the first 90 minutes after the 11 a.m. opening, the rush proved profitable: Dealers at the contemporar in design
01/12 - For the upcoming month of December YOU HAVE BEEN HERE SOMETIME will be doing things a bit different! Y H B H S has asked Writers, Artists, Interior and Furniture Designers, Bloggers, Gallery and Store Owner/Directors, and various design enthusiasts a very in misc
01/12 - Fernanda Fragateiro (Born in Montijo, Portugal. Lives and works in Lisbon). Fragateiro’s work has been exhibited at the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela; Serralves Foundation, Porto; Centro Atlâ in art

November 2010
30/11 - HAUNTED (adjective) The adjective HAUNTED has 3 senses: 1. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something 2. showing emotional affliction or disquiet 3. inhabited by or as if by apparitions. Familiarity information: HAUNTED used a in misc
30/11 - minneapolis to miami beach (1,778 miles)- Minneapolis, MN 1. Take the ramp onto I-35W S Continue onto I-35 S / Entering Iowa Take exit 190 for US-18 E 2. Keep right at the fork and merge onto IA-27 S/US-18 E / Continue onto IA-27 S Entering Missouri .... in design
29/11 - As Richard Kalina wrote in Art in America in 1996, Bochner was one of the earliest proponents, along with Joseph Kosuth and Bruce Nauman, of photo-documentation work in which the artist “created not so much a sculpture as a two-dimensional work about scul in art
29/11 - Brooks Hudson Thomas is proud to announce the opening of the holiday season with the largest exhibition ever at Specific: XANADU. In addition to work by many of the artists and design teams specific have exhibited this year, there will be objects and art in design
25/11 - Gratitude, thankfulness, gratefulness, or appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. The experience of gratitude has been considered extensively by moral philosophers such as Adam S in misc
24/11 - Maryanne Casasanta's work contemplates the exchange between art and commonplace. By offering a glimpse into the inner life of every day objects, her personal living environment is transformed through an ongoing process of recording and annotating space... in art
23/11 - Burton was known for his emphasis on the direct experience of the spatial, visual, and tactile experience of particular materials, and thus the palette of his work as a whole is generally limited to the hues of the unadorned surfaces of stone, wood, and m in art
22/11 - in 1968 patricia johanson installed a 500-metre long sculpture in an abandoned railroad bed in buskirk, new york, and named the work stephen long in memory of that legendary 19th century steam locomotive designer. the sculpture does not have any perspecti in art
19/11 - In photography, soft focus is a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration. A soft focus lens deliberately introduces spherical aberration in order to give the appearance of blurring the image while retaining... in misc
19/11 - The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, swiftly spreading to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatn in misc
18/11 - ungulfed by Gulf, crushed by the US, disenfranchised by France, not only you but your entire loving nation of succulent wives, loyal brothers, righteous fathers, and aged but still amusing mothers. All inked out, absolutely.... In the vocabulary of profit in art
17/11 - Nasceu no Montijo. Estudou na Escola Superior de Belas Artes e no Ar.Co, e desde meados dos anos 80 começou a expor publicamente em Lisboa, cidade onde vive e trabalha. Desde então, tem apresentado o seu trabalho em exposições individuais e colectivas em in art
16/11 - bernd lohaus's work is extremely diverse, but at the same time highly consistent. Regardless of whether you are considering his drawings, water colours, works with rope, wooden beams, waxed boxes or his bronze sculptures, time and time again his work test in art
15/11 - Bernd Lohaus's work is characterized by the association of sculptural shapes, of stones sometimes or of metal, but most of all of beams of Azobe wood on which you can see the passage of time; they carry bribes of sentences or words. Lohaus finds his beams in art
12/11 - The skull is a bony structure in the head of many animals that supports the structures of the face and forms a cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible. A skull without a mandible is only a cranium. Animals - in architecture
11/11 - akira Kanayama was a member of the Osaka-based avant-garde group Gutai Art Association. akira Kanayama has made watercolor and ink drawings in the early '50s, austere and presaging the minimalist painters' conceptual concerns as well as respecting the ide in art
11/11 - "You can see why. Because it washes over you like that thunderdrone of healing melancholy before the arrival of a Phoenix reborn in autumnal Mediterranean waters, surging towards Utopia at the speed of negative sound." cfcf all day today at rolu studio... in architecture
11/11 - Task Newsletter ...uses design as a perspective, designed objects as evidence of larger systems, and designers as researchers. ...will be published once a year as a collection of thematic explorations and reports on topics of interest to our readers. - in design
09/11 - recap - Meaning: A summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents Synonyms: recap; recapitulation; review Hypernyms ("recap" is a kind of...): capitulation in design
05/11 - The physical form these ideas take makes them quietly radical. Quoting liberally (often near-literally) from a wide swath of design and art sources, ROLU is ‘finding” in that peculiarly Duchampian sense: making something new, not by creating from whole... in design
04/11 - The terms special edition, limited edition and variants such as deluxe edition, collector's edition and others, refer to a conceptual approach for various kinds of products, originally published products related to the arts, such as books and prints. And- in design
03/11 - The Book Trust, a project by IFS, Ltd. is brought to you by Benjamin Critton, Harry Gassel, Brendan Griffiths, Zak Klauck, and Mylinh Nguyen. Our booth features a custom designed bookcase and various seating by Minneapolis-based design studio ROLU........ in design
02/11 - Lucien Hervé was one of the great architectural photographers of the twentieth century and widely recognized for his collaborations with Le Corbusier from 1949 until the renowned architects death in 1965. Hervé approached his subjects, specifically the... in architecture
01/11 - "The mechanics of the city, the masters, well-form'd, beautiful-faced, looking you straight in the eyes, Trottoirs throng'd, vehicles, Broadway, the women, the shops and shows, A million people--manners free and superb--open voices" -- w. whitman in misc

October 2010
29/10 - at the rolu furniture homepage, you initially see a photograph. As a studio, we believe in supporting artists that we are influenced by. The internet has been such a powerful part of our practice. We have made so many friends and learned so much. We ... in art
28/10 - fIVE FILMS ABOUT CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE chronicles a 30-year collaboration between acclaimed documentary filmmakers Albert and his late brother David Maysles, and the internationally renowned environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The Maysles - in art
28/10 - Sophie Taeuber-Arp (January 19, 1889 - January 13, 1943) was a Swiss artist, painter and sculptor. In 1915 she met the Dada artist Jean Arp, with whom she was to collaborate on numerous joint projects until her death in 1943. They married in 1922 and she in art
28/10 - Phil Elverum is Mount Eerie. The multi-instrumentalist has played in other bands, and worked as a producer, but remains best known for this solo project, which began under the name the Microphones in 1997. In 2003, he renamed the project Mount Eerie ..... in art
27/10 - "A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that ... in art
26/10 - The big wave brought you. Words, any words, your laughter; and you so lazily and incessantly beautiful. We talked and you have forgotten the words. The shattering dawn finds me in a deserted street of my city. Your profile turned away, the sounds in art
25/10 - But, as their online dérive led to a wider, more hybridized set of influences, the unified materiality of the unadorned plywood and OSB began to suggest a more fluid agenda: could these objects become an embodiment—a set of physical locus points--for a... in design
23/10 - Four cubes stacked into two layers, insert a smaller cube and ceiling/floor at the intersection of the cube, taking the cube gouge the threshold of space. きの角度はアルゴリズムによって制御され、多様性を持ちながらも秩序だった空間が生み出された。 Tilt angle is controlled by the algorithm of a cube... in architecture
22/10 - "The woods, paths, woods, gardens, orchards with their trees contained in the doors, in the tables in the soil, boards, beams, onboard ships, in trucks ... I feel the breath of the forest, I hear the slow, inexorable growth of the wood, i shape my breath- in art
22/10 - Furthermore, though the documentation can be sold as an artwork and, therefore held privately, the work itself is available to all who would hold it in their minds, carrying it in their memories for enjoyable or productive consideration. As I’ve thought - in art
21/10 - giusppe Penone's work is concerned with establishing a contact between man and nature. His sculptures, installations and drawings have always been distinguished by his radical choice of unconventional materials and use of processes that are an integral... in art
21/10 - Che cos e il ritmo dell albero? E la stagione, e la primavera e l autunno, forse l' istante dell albero ma e una concezione completamente diversa. Allora basta guardare la realta. Con una concezione del tempo un po diversa e si ha la possibilita di tutta in art
20/10 - Tóxico: Cultura Contemporanea describes itself as an independent cultural project, a creative think-tank, a cultural salon. Founded by writer, filmmaker, and TED Senior Fellow, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Tóxico is based in Mexico City and, among other things, in art
19/10 - The greater part of Roman Ondák's work questions the architecture of the exhibition space, the way it functions, its limits, its construction or deconstruction. In doing this Ondák relies on the fact that we can consider the space itself as a work of art- in art
19/10 - a different take on decorative art, these abstract expresionist painting pillows are each hand painted by john and sewn by linda (wary meyers). this first series is based on the work of de kooning, pollock and kline. painted with pliable acrylic paint on- in design
18/10 - I'm laying down on something that asks-Losing your way, getting way off track-Ain't no stopping, stops from coming-When tomorrow hits-When tomorrow hits-When tomorrow hits-What's easy for you comes so hard-What you got, never got too far-There's no ... in misc
15/10 - "EVER PRESENT NEVER TWICE THE SAME - EVER CHANGING NEVER LESS THAN WHOLE" - ROBERT IRWIN 1997 - "Where they're out there having fun in the warm California sun - We're out there having fun, yeah, in the warm California sun." - the ramones 1977............. in misc
08/10 - Our work is based on an understanding of architecture as object-something. We try to fathom the relationship of the object is to his place and character of his task. In the infinite variety of possibilities and requirements, we draw on existing things and in architecture
07/10 - With some guidance from a friend, David Senior, who is a librarian at the Museum of Modern Art New York Library, I have browsed through Moma's library collection with the goal of finding seven publications. For each publication I will make simple snap-sh in art
06/10 - For Immediate Release—4 October, 2010 Investment Futures Strategy, Ltd., New Haven, CT NY Art Book Fair, 5–7 November, 2010 MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens Investment Futures Strategy, Ltd. is pleased to announce The Book Trust, a site specific collabo in art
05/10 - iko iko / waka waka - wink wink... Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad tea, as we have good and bad paintings--generally the latter. There is no single recipe for making the perfect tea, as in art
04/10 - Mel Bochner (born 1940) is an American conceptual artist. He lives in New York City. Starting in the 1960s, he evolved several of the exhibition strategies now taken for granted, including using the walls of the gallery as the subject of the work and ... in art
01/10 - The architecture of Juliaan Lampens goes beyond conventional living and is instead suggestive of the utopist avant-garde of living without barriers. In 1950, the architect set up his own business in Belgium, in the village of Eke on the outskirts of ... in architecture

September 2010
30/09 - party for rolu furniture at dwr in mpls thur sept 30th 5-8pm free drinks and snacks 2939 Hennepin Avenue South - party for rolu furniture at dwr in mpls thur sept 30th 5-8pm free drinks and snacks 2939 Hennepin Avenue South - party for rolu furniture at - in design
29/09 - Group Architects – “the Group” for short – are New Zealand’s most mythologised firm of mid-twentieth century architects. They are known for their provocative calls for a specifically New Zealand architecture and for their modern houses, often characterise in architecture
28/09 - proportion - is not size - is not weight - is not form - is not an idea - is not studied planning (is planning in itself) - is not large or small (is large and small is grand) - is not heavy or light (is weightless) is not much or little (is everything!) in architecture
27/09 - Sunshine Still is a new work created by Amy Franceschini and Dan Allende. A first time collaboration between the two artists, Sunshine Still reflects a common interest in the future of energy and models of possilbe self-reliant systems of producing fuel. in art
24/09 - participated in the Destruction in Art Symposium in London in 1966 (with Wolf Vostell, Al Hanson, Gunter Brus, Jasia Reichardt, Ono, and Pete Townshend, among others), making what he described as a series of "Skoob towers." (skoob=books spelled backwards) in art
24/09 - our locked eyes and your shy glance away the way your hand fits in mine clutching your ring the cold side of the bed your perfume on my sheets don't let these days stretch into weeks a missed call your missed voice a missed chance at real happiness candle in misc
24/09 - He's lifelike when the light strikes right But no less charmless otherwise Surprised with where my interest lies I try to bite my tongue this time But tonight, Christ, Can't you see my hands were tied? My hands were tied And on my mother's life Suppose - in misc
23/09 - I'd love to know what you think of this project, knowing that your imagination will be much better than what I really powerful build, and you know that "The Invention of Morel" the great book of Adolfo Bioy Casares, continues fruit - but also heavily ... in art
21/09 - Creating an ideal space. More freedom! And full of character evolution. Treasure from the basics too late to listen to people. Always present is a moral geometry. Like a record heat wave that comes barely softened. Let's start preparing for the fall of... in design
17/09 - it all began in Marfa, Texas, a decade ago, when Andrew Blauvelt, the design director and curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and Julie Snow, principal of Julie Snow Architects, both attended the inauguration of Dan Flavin’s seminal fluoresce in design
17/09 - Art Metropole, aaaarg.org, Ooga Booga, Fillip, Printed Matter, Nieves, 2nd Cannons Publications, Capricious, Hassla, Golden Age, Medium Rare, Oslo Editions, Gottlund Verlag, Eastside Projects, Bedford Press, Stripe SF, New Jerseyy, Matt Keegan, North Driv in art
15/09 - New Age people call it Folk - Folk people call it New Age, but it's neither. It's transitional. The style is derived from country blues & string band music of the 20s/30s. Fahey referred to it as 'American Primitive' after the 'French Primitive' painters- in misc
14/09 - To start the library, mylinh Nguyen invited designers, publishers, curators, artists, galleries, and musicians to contribute publications to the project that reflect the donor’s practice, methodology, inspiration and interest. Visitors are encouraged to - in art
13/09 - “Doing the right thing at the right place at the right time. That is art.” (Joseph Beuys) On May 1, 1972, after the Labour Day demonstrations, Joseph Beuys was sweeping up the Karl Marx Platz in West Berlin together with two foreign students. This act-... in design
09/09 - In her first video project, French conceptual artist Sophie Calle joins with Gregory Shephard to create a voyeuristic tour de force. Armed with camcorders, Calle and her collaborator/partner Shephard head West in his Cadillac convertible to produce and... in art
08/09 - Mircea Cantor - Born 1977 Romania, Lives and works on the Earth Co-editor of VERSION artist run magazine www.versionmagazine.ro Represented by Galerie Yvon Lambert , Paris ; Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv and Magazzino, Rome AWARDS and Nominations Prix Paul in art
07/09 - He was the personification of sincerity in every respect. Honest in his convictions of World Aftairs, faithful and sympathetic to old friends and family and his approach to all composers in rehearsals was the same - for a Sousa March - Opera - or Symphony in misc
03/09 - You can make something (or make something happen) anywhere at anytime in any circumstance. These words are not a banal and furthermore sloppy translation of the American Dream, but the principle that David Horvitz, artist and chronicler, is applying ... in art
02/09 - Charles Ginnever was on vacation in Maine when he went to work on a design that had already been in his mind for a while. He started, as he often did, by tinkering with shapes cut from foam core; when he was done, he had produced an object that could ... in art
01/09 - "RAY GUN VIRUS is a work in which no images appear yet one can get pure identity on film - projected film itself makes the viewer aware of where he stands. this is not an "abstract film" / projector = pistol / time-colored pills / yes=no / mental suicide in art

August 2010
31/08 - Luigi Ghirri (5 January 1943 – 1992) was an Italian photographer. Born in Scandiano, Ghirri began taking photographs in 1970, mostly working in a milieu of conceptual artists. From 1983 he focussed primarily on photographing architecture and the Italian in art
30/08 - in 2008, the Aperture Foundation published “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’t It…,” the first U.S. monograph of the Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992). Hardly known outside Italy, Ghirri’s strange and whimsical photographs center on mundane Italian... in art
27/08 - Family Bookstore Zine Collection - Collection of five new zines by Kaugummi, packaged in a photo envelope. Geoff Mcfetridge | David Horvitz | Sumi Ink Club | Estelle Hanania | E*Rock | Published at the occasion of family bookstore presents kaugummi books in misc
26/08 - Part of an ongoing video correspondence with sculptor Robert Morris, Mumble brings together repeated scenes and gestures, featuring Morris and Jim Benglis (the artist's brother), and a narrative of irrelevant, confusing, and often purposefully untrue and- in art
26/08 - Sound is made audible air vibrating air molecules. Sound is a form of energy, we can’t see it, and we can only hear it when the volume is high enough and if it exists between 20Hz and 20kHz, the audible range of the human ear. Sound also moves through.... in misc
24/08 - Zhang Huan conceived the performance as a concentrated pilgrimage,fusing Eastern and Western approaches to spirituality. Entitled Hard to Acclimatize,it derived from the artist's difficulties in adapting to America. The work celebrates the new freedom tha in art
23/08 - Gradually Posenenske became increasingly indifferent as to whether or not her creations could be identified as art. She stopped working as an artist in 1968, no longer believing that art could influence social interaction or draw attention to social ineq in art
20/08 - Keith Arnatt explained, the series was not created specifically for TV transmission: 'It was originally made as a comment upon the notion of the «disappearance of the art object». It seemed a logical corollary that the artist should also disappear.' in art
18/08 - stretching the object's inexorable dissolution through the space of the city, the artist makes the point that progress is not inevitable - in short, that sometimes making something leads to nothing. [Nothing is a concept that describes the absence of any] in art
17/08 - The exhibition Mexican Modernisms, starts with the assumption that there is not one single homogeneous history of modern architecture in Mexico but rather a complex and multiple set of narratives and productions. In spite of the efforts by theorists and - in architecture
16/08 - In the silent video untitled (jumping) (1999), Trisha Donnelly reenacts what she contends are the signature gestures of specific rock musicians at the moment they achieve their “performance wall”—the point when they reach physical transcendence through th in art
13/08 - oho group - finally, they attempted to develop an ideal, harmonious balance both within the group and with nature, culture, the world and the whole cosmos, even through such unusual approaches as telepathy (described as 'transcendental conceptualism'). in art
12/08 - Marco Braunschweiler and Martine Syms of Golden Age Books (Chicago, IL) are paying a visit to Hot Off The this upcoming week! We’re super excited. Come by the Soap Factory on Thursday from 6-8pm to hear about their experiences with the shop and about the in design
12/08 - Rebecca Solnit once said to me, “agriculture is important to me because; most of the metaphors that we use are agricultural, natural, organic, animal, and spatial. If we have no understanding of what it means to “kick like a mule” or “make a beeline” or.. in art
12/08 - OFF BEAT REPEAT is a pattern making machine. OFF BEAT REPEAT is a pattern making machine. OFF BEAT REPEAT is a pattern making machine. OFF BEAT REPEAT is a pattern making machine. OFF BEAT REPEAT is a pattern making machine. OFF BEAT REPEAT is a pattern.. in design
11/08 - The OHO Group worked in Kranj and in Ljubljana between 1965 and 1971 on the field of Reism, Process Art and Conceptual Art. It was the first 'radical - urban - ideological' artistic appearance in Slovene modern arts. Its function wasn't only an experiment in art
10/08 - in the video projection canadian rain, trisha donnely appears against a blank background wearing a trench coat. her hair is blowing in the wind. she executes a series of stylized gestures from an entirely invented sign language to bring about a ... in art
10/08 - ... work of various urban graffiti knitting groups, these “yarn bombings” are meant to playfully criticize the soullessness of our cities and make the impersonal streets seem slightly more approachable. the crafts-as-activism, or “craftivism,” scene is... in art
09/08 - in her video rio, trisha donnelly appears in silhouette against an ersatz, homespun sunset. to the accompaniment of a latin ballad, she communicates in american sign language, but instead of translating the words of the song, she describes how to find... in art
09/08 - Designing these structures involves intensive study of the combinatorial possibilities of sometimes quite curvilinear and fluidly shaped modules, creating a seamless, quasi-organic unity that can be either rounded and self-enclosed, or open and potentiall in misc
07/08 - vito acconci - 1. on february 8, 1971, i will fly, air canada, to halifax, nova scotia; i am scheduled to return, by plane, on february 21. 2. flying scares me; i am afraid i will die on the trip to or from halifax. 3. before my trip, i will leave an... in misc
05/08 - akira Kanayama has said that he and his wife atsuko Tanaka were the only members of Gutai not interested in “action” and preferred to describe their work as “conceptual.” Gutai Art Association was an avant-garde art group founded in 1954 in Osaka with th in art
04/08 - We envision Open Field as a kind of intellectual, recreational, social, and artistic platform that we create with the public. We’re building an outdoor courtyard, a tool shed with equipment for relaxation and play, a weekly Drawing Club, projects with ... in art
03/08 - Gutai art association was a group of Japanese avant-garde artists founded at Osaka in 1954; the name means ‘embodiment'. Jiro Yoshihara was the group's leader; he was appreciably older than the other members of the group, and his personal wealth was .... in art

July 2010
30/07 - "thus on the one hand, there will remain utensils... on the other, such symbolic objects as monuments or badges... objects that can easily be carried about if we should become nomads, or heavy and immovable if we decided to stay in one place forever." in architecture
28/07 - surveilling the twilight furniture, telescope pressed to patched eye, love is blind, so we are told, don't pull the wool over our eyes, shuttered eye, metal eye, eye and brain, shapes policed and disenfected, shapes policed and disenfected, shapes policed in design
27/07 - Clear light is a state of mind which becomes fully manifest only as a consequence of certain sequences or stages of dissolution, where the mind becomes devoid of certain types of obscurations, which are again metaphorically described in terms of sun-like in art
23/07 - "Truly the 1st of May, let's put it this way, when we made the constitution of the island - we were six professionals, all who loved liberty, etc... I remember that there was even a Roman, a person who used to come visit us often. He had a small boat." in architecture
22/07 - While having dinner at the plaza with Borges / He told me what a bore's Gertrude Stein / When Freud forced me to listen ti his dreams / Dear Jung Always cried behind the door / At the Caffe' Greco with Giorgio De Chirico / A' le Pirat with Pablo Picasso / in misc
22/07 - chums - photographs & objects. musings between emotional posters. plus plants. featuring: andy beach, emmeline de mooij, mary manning, keegan mchargue, riannon silver, carl williamson curated by unchanging window. space 1520 l.a., ca 9/10 - 9/26 in art
21/07 - yona Friedman began investigating mobile structures soon after the Second World War. With Panel Chains (1945) and Movable Boxes (1949) he developed a simple architecture made from prefabricated elements, intended to meet the basic housing needs of the peo in architecture
20/07 - Yona Friedman (born 5 June 1923, Budapest) is a Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer. He became famous in the late fifties and early sixties, in the so-called age of megastructures. In 1956, the X International Congress of Modern Ar in architecture
19/07 - 14 x 22.5, 16 pages, 2 pms, 30lb newsprint. $5 (includes shipping within the US). email vance at vancewellenstein dot com if you are interested. en-route to Brooklyn, NY … via New Haven, CT (M.F.A., Yale University, 2010) … via Minneapolis, MN (Walker in design
16/07 - The crisis of our system obliges us to think very deeply about what the design and production scenarios of coming years might look like. Those countries that boast rapid economic development are investing considerable resources in schools and training... in design
15/07 - He was a leading member of the Minimalist movement, which coalesced during the early to mid-1960s. In addition to making sculpture, he also began to write poems in the tradition of Concrete Poetry, displaying the words on the page as if they were drawings in art
14/07 - "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire." jorge louis borges ---------------------------- in art
14/07 - Open Field is a project of the Walker Art Center that invites the public to help transform our big, green backyard into a cultural commons. Join us this summer to partake in or create an array of activities that bring together relaxation, recreation, and in misc
13/07 - cage: 1. A structure for confining birds or animals, enclosed on at least one side by a grating of wires or bars that lets in air and light. 2. A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners. 3. An enclosing openwork structure: placed a prot in art
12/07 - italian ascendancy in the furniture-design community became official on a sunny august day in 1972, when new york's prestigious moma opened a lavish exhibit on italian design. the change of command in design-from the rigid style and craft of the germans in design
09/07 - Is there a current group or movement that reminds you of the radicals? I really don’t think I can give any names or a list: the world is so large and is turning so fast that I am very happy whenever I can work with the younger generations: people or grou in design
08/07 - At the heart of her work lies the question of the relationship between mankind and its environment. Her sculptures made outdoors from 1985 onward steered her towards a line of thinking about ‘Natural Beauty’. By actually combining the use of materials tak in art
07/07 - Eleven thousand trees were planted in a complex mathematical pattern by eleven thousand people from around the world, to be maintained for 400 years. One of the largest environmental reclamation sites in the world, Tree Mountain, created from refuse mate in art
06/07 - history is the product of an exercise in remembering and forgetting. the looped reel-to-reel of christine kozlov's "Information: no theory" does the opposite, perpetually recording but never playing the ambient noise in the gallery, simply cueing it up - in art
02/07 - nowadays, during the implementation of a project, the designer talks to the people in charge of the engineering department or production in shiny, glamorous meeting rooms, far away from those who actually make the object. i believe, instead, that throug-- in design
01/07 - â€˜Book Showâ€™ is an exhibition of artworks, objects and structures that address the physical form of the book. The starting point for the exhibition is Ulises CarriÃ³nâ€™s provocative series of aphorisms â€˜The New Art of Making Booksâ€™ (1975). CarriÃ³ in art

June 2010
30/06 - My interest in the Internet started during the late nineties while finishing up grad school. It was a funny time where radically new technology was worming its way through society and there was nothing close to a consensus on how it would change the way in art
29/06 - mimesis - this work treats of man's mimetic faculties. the camera allows to realize identity of object representation and represented object: the onlooker is the photographer. //// imitation instruments - man-made objects intended to produce resemblances in art
28/06 - there is a folder on my desktop that gets fuller by the day. everytime i see something i like, i try save it. sometimes i look through the images and think about what i could do with them. should i make a zine? should i make some blog post? or should i... in misc
25/06 - but also their theories concerning architecture and their positions in the social and political overview of those years ... The really interesting thing is that their work appears nowadays even more explosive, desecrating and provocative than it did then. in design
24/06 - Midnight Sun by emilie halpern -La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington blvd Part of LAxxART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt (L.A.P.D. – LA Public Domain) Artistic and Curatorial Interventions and Collaborations in Experimental Contexts in art
24/06 - Sacred geometry is the geometry used in the planning and construction of religious structures such as churches, temples, mosques, religious monuments, altars, tabernacles; as well as for sacred spaces such as temenoi, sacred groves, village greens and ??? in architecture
24/06 - At the same time, this embodiment of the duality between transparency and closedness — between the open space of the home and the concrete shell of protection — is not suited for all, especially since with regard to both elements Lampens takes his archite in architecture
23/06 - Na tevergeefse ontbijtpogingen in Oudenaarde -het is ook al 12.30u- rijden we naar Gavere. Keurige villa wijk, strakke kavels. De villa oogt super-clean, haast ‘Mies-iaans’. Het bouwwerk overtuigt, maar de omgeving niet. / Lampens’ jongste bouwwerk. De ge in architecture
22/06 - Tent Services is a free service based at the Weisman Art Museum that provides Expeditionary Conversation Tents for checkout and use outside the museum. The tents are meant for 2-15 people to undertake an expedition in which the primary purpose is to conve in art
22/06 - Working in situ (on site), he strives to contextualise his artistic practice using the stripe - a popular French fabric motif - a means of visually relating art to its situation, a form of language in space rather than a space in itself. He began producin in art
21/06 - the minimalist concrete architecture with an honest use of materials, a constructive and logical Austerity without folklore. Against these realities to reject he places another practice that transcends miserable and creates a whole new universe full of id in architecture
18/06 - "I want to explain an aspect that is important for understanding this company’s history: its founder was not an entrepreneur, with a factory... Rather, he had been to Art School (“Instituto d'Arte”), and defined himself an artist on loan to industry." in design
17/06 - Often the artist’s combinations of photographs and text creates a sense of narrative as well, if only by magnifying the most subtle or uneventful of events. The Pencil Story, 1972–73, for example, juxtaposes two shots of a pencil—the first dull, the secon in art
16/06 - There is an art that lives perfectly where I experience it, perhaps because on some level it resembles this space. The Internet, unfolding and expanding like the universe, as vast, boundless and unknowable as the sky or the horizon line at the edge of ... in art
15/06 - Is Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons your favorite designer? "Yes." Do you really only have one favorite? No! It’s hard to have one favorite. Norma Kamali, Mary Quant, Alexander Wang, Andres Courreges, Prada, Marc Jacobs, Pierre Cardin, Ashish, Karen ... in design
14/06 - Art & Language is a shifting collaboration among conceptual artists that has undergone many changes since its inception in the late 1960s. Their early work, as well as their journal Art-Language, first published in 1969, is regarded as an important ...... in art
14/06 - “This show instills in viewer's minds the value of recycled materials and presents ways to use trash creatively rather than discarding and polluting our planet. Making art with what would have otherwise become trash is the ultimate level of recycling and in art
11/06 - "the journey is never over. only travelers come to an end. but even then they can prolong their voyage in their memories, in recollections, in stories. when the traveler sat in the sand and declared:'there's nothing more to see,' he knew it wasn't true." in design
10/06 - the world is blue at its edges and in its depths. this blue is the light that got lost. light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. it disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in the water..... in art
10/06 - There is a “we” – did you know this? It’s true. We’re out there, pretty much everywhere. Minneapolis. Saint Paul. Chicago. San Francisco. Brooklyn. Chapel Hill and Iowa City and Las Cruces and Portland and beyond. We’re not a generation. We can’t be ... in art
09/06 - smithson- "just walk in a straight line." holt- "i seem -i think i am. or maybe i'm not" smithson- "straight in to that clump. it's ok now you are on fairly solid ground. straight in. just go right in. now go straight in over that way. turn to your right in art
08/06 - Thanks for all of the numbers (1-360) that you submitted to me through Facebook. Obviously, these numbers were meaningful to you. This is much appreciated. This morning, I will have some coffee and do some number crunching. I will find the average... in art
08/06 - Spend the morning drinking mugs of espresso and reading The New Yorker and answering label/gallery/friend emails and packing up mail orders. Make a major breakfast and wake up Jenna (wife) and Caramel Bobby (poodle) and feed them. Get the whole family ... in misc
07/06 - In the 1970s, the early works of Barbara & Michael Leisgen came as a counterpoint to conceptual photography, notably that of Bernd & Hilla Becher’s typology school of Düsseldorf. The series that the five Frac pictures are taken from belongs to practices.. in art
07/06 - Paul Kos (American, b. 1942). Sound of Ice Melting, 1970. Two twenty-five-pound blocks of ice, eight boom microphone stands, eight microphones, mixer, amplifier, two large speakers, and cables. Dimensions variable. Collection of the artist. in art
04/06 - "on the other side of the railroad bridge / a street off viale ripamonti / is carla's house, her mother's, angelo's and nerina's // the bridge just sits there and underneath pass / trains cars wagons brakemen and cattle for the slaughterhouse..." in art
03/06 - Andreas Angelidakis (b. 1968, Athens, Greece. )1989- 1992 Bachelor of Architecture 1992, Southern California Institute of Architecture Sci-ARC, Santa Monica, Sci-Arc. 1994-1995 Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University... in architecture
02/06 - The house was designed for an ‘unusual homes’ competition held by De Fantasie in Almere. The brief was to design a house without taking into account current building regulations. All prize-winners were awarded a plot of land on loan for five years. This m in architecture
01/06 - “The actions of Mockus might not be essentially different in the formal definition from works in public spaces done by artists (although it could be argued that the latter usually have a more developed visual sophistication), but it’s the instrumentalism in misc

May 2010
28/05 - "it was a design that could have delivered what the others promised but could not produce, a radically new environment for domestic living. as a technical proposition it proposed fully controlled and conditioned living space, and as an aesthetic..." in design
27/05 - Through the last three decades, he worked in a manner that both deconstructed painting and reaffirmed what it is. Depicting a succession of forms-including subtly modulated rectangles stacked up like sheet metal in shallow space, impossibilist cubes, and in art
25/05 - RECESS  seeks  to  provide  an  open  time  for  play  and  dynamic  learning  outside  the  classroom  or  institution  by  bringing  together  individuals  from  various  fields  and  the  public  to  facilitate  dialogue  and  promote  creative  action in design
24/05 - Last fall we asked ASDF, the art collaboration of Mylinh Trieu Nguyen and David Horvitz to develop a project that would attempt to reacquaint the viewer to his/her surrounding environment and introduce another way of seeing and interpreting the things... in art
21/05 - "this is the foundation of the city: a net which serves as passage and as support. all the rest, instead of rising up, is hung below: rope ladders, hammocks, houses made like sacks, clothes hangers, terraces like gondolas, skins of water, gas jets..." in architecture
20/05 - WE'RE IN SEARCH OF... research, essays, monographs, short stories, type specimens, manifestos, flash fiction (<1000 words), short shorts, (photo) journalism, physical theory, (high) performance books, critical theory, cartography/wayfinding, annotated ... in art
19/05 - It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of this --- scattered light --- the purer the water the deeper the blue. in art
18/05 - beginning on january 1, 1970 a reward of $1,100.00 will be paid to the person who provides the information resulting in the arrest and conviction of edmund kite mcintyre wanted by the federal bureau of investigation for bank robbery. on february 1,... in art
18/05 - in canada on september 15th -in 1988 Mother Theresa gives a speech in Montreal -in 1987 Team Canada beats the USSR to win the Canada Cup, two games to one. All three games decided by 6-5 scores -in 1986 Trial starts for 17 Hell's Angels in montreal... in misc
17/05 - i woke up at dawn in brooklyn new york, got in my car, and headed west. i drove as far west as i could until sundown. speeding towards the sun would extend my day, perhaps for as much as an hour. i was on a straight and flat highway somehwere in the middl in art
13/05 - "this chromatic piano, when it was tried out, gave quite good results.... we amused ourselves by finding all sorts of chromatic mixtures, we composed a few color sonatinas - notturni in violet and mattinate in green. we translated, with a few..." - corra in design
13/05 - Our voice is used to sing, protest, comfort, teach, haggle and express a range of emotions. When voices come together, a panoply of energetic phenomena can emerge. Using "voice" to explore the commons, A People Without A Voice Cannot Be Heard is ......... in art
13/05 - "can an artistic intervention truly bring about an unforseen way of thinking, or is it more a matter of creating a sensation of 'meaninglessness', one that shows the absurdity of the situation? can an absurd act provoke a transgression that makes you... in art
12/05 - I'm more interested in Huebler's work when it begins to take into account his own historical placement... easily seen in his large-scale project, Crocodile Tears begun in '81 but which he sees as an outgrowth of Variable Piece #70, loosely described as... in art
12/05 - "...When we are forty, other younger and stronger men will probably throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts - we want it to happen! They will come against us, our successors, will come from far away, from every quarter, dancing to the ... in art
11/05 - John Cage ...once told me, ‘When you start working everybody is in your studio – the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas – all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are ... in art
11/05 - Janice Guy’s untitled self-portrait from 1979 flirts with the exhibitionism of artists like Mr. Acconci and Robert Mapplethorpe. In the picture she hides her face behind a camera while draping her naked body across a bedsheet.............................. in art
10/05 - While reviewing images of past exhibitions, I began to notice something now absent in the galleries, potted plants. Up until the opening of the Barnes building in 1971, potted plants were a staple in the galleries. While there are few exhibition ... in misc
10/05 - By locating these packages (all with various points of departure and the same location of arrival) at various moments in their transit, one can grasp a mental picture of the vast global infrastructure of shipping - a breathing system of objects in ... in art
10/05 - zero1 in art
06/05 - "in what category do these fabricated animals, disguised as chairs and writing tables and bathtubs, belong? Are they furniture, or are they sculpture? 'simply think of them as lalannes,' say the two creators, with calm reasonableness, for they have..." in design
06/05 - ryszard wasko manifesto - Do not support the art of politicians or economists / Do not support power manias of any kind / Do not accept coercion / Do not wage intrigues, battles, manipulations or hidden manoeuvres / Do not keep up malcontents and destruct in art
05/05 - My work reflects my interest in the personification of every day objects. Either I rearrange them, alter their function, attempt to forge new connections between them or simply take their portraits. I work out of the context my apartment with the resource in art
05/05 - Creatures kissing in the rain, Shapeless in the dark again, In the hanging garden, Please don't speak, In the hanging garden, In the hanging garden, Catching haloes on the moon, Gives my hands the shapes of angels, In the heat of the night, The animals... in design
05/05 - J1studio is an experimental furniture design studio based in Los Angeles, producing simple, functional, unique, modular and systematic objects that function as furniture. Location 125 W.4TH ST LOS ANGELES, CA 90013----------------------------------------- in design
04/05 - Ms. Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1946. Her parents were heroes of the Yugoslav revolution under Tito and lived well as a result. She inherited their instinct for personal valor, but under the emotional rigors of family life also develop in art
03/05 - Anyone can send in nothing to this exhibition. All you have to do is send an empty package or envelope to the Tate Modern in London. All received mailings will be exhibited unopened May 14-16 in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Send your mailing... in art

April 2010
30/04 - "basically, what they are doing is giving reality to the dreams of poets - and of children. did you never dream of a hippopotamus splashing in a stream? ... And what child has not pretended to smoke a banana as if it were a cigar?" in art
29/04 - The Public Media Institute, Proximity’s parent .org, is pleased to announce the launch of our latest project, the Public Media Institute Research Library – a collection of art, architecture, and design journals; magazines; and other periodicals. Join us a in misc
29/04 - "Hank Schmidt in der Beek (born 1978, lives in Berlin) draws on an archive of art history, documentary films, exhibition visits and lectures to create new levels of meaning. His automated painting technique is a process-driven method that brings paintings in art
28/04 - Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garcons had always been an inspiration to us, so it seemed only appropriate that with this issue, Rei became our very first guest editor. To strike up our ''dialogue'' with her, we conceived the issue as a ''visual interview.'' in misc
27/04 - Merce Cuningham's “Scenario” dates from 1997. What is most striking about it are Rei Kawakubo’s bizarre costumes with their Surrerealist lumps and distortions (humps, big rear ends and the like). They are in mostly vertical blue stripes on white or in... in art
26/04 - top 5 - scattered light (kinda) Assignment One by Vance Wellenstein - USA & Assignment One by Lætitia Gorsy - France & Assignment One by Martin Bozick - Venezuela & Assignment One by Alan Gillo Spina - Italy & Assignment One by Matea Jocić - Croatia & all in misc
26/04 - kl: To reboot knowing that the new Kristin Lucas may experience a tremendous sense of loss, detachment, or disappointment, or joy. Kristin Lucas is ready for change. And Kristin Lucas awaits her replacement. JR: But it's not a change. KL: I feel it is a.. in art
26/04 - arp & anthony moore live @ Le Poisson Rouge-the two gents took the stage with their respective arsenals - Revox reel-to-reel, grand piano, and laptop on Anthony's side; turntable, synth, and better laptop in Arp's zone. this video of "Today's psalter"... in misc
23/04 - "a building shall not show its purpose. it is not an expression of structure and construction, it is not an enclosure or refuge. a building is itself. architecture is without purpose. what we build will find its usefulness. form does not follow function." in architecture
22/04 - although this might light, a profusion of dusty glitter, one might almost say, was very bright near the ceiling, as it sank lower it looked as if it were being absorbed by the walls and the deeper reaches of the room, as if it merely added to the gloom... in art
20/04 - Smithson’s flow works, in Nancy Holt’s words are « entropy made visible ». Aside from Smithson’s interest in working outside of the gallery walls, he also had a strong interest in Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist works. It has been noted by ... in art
20/04 - i dreamed that salvador dali wrote me a letter - dear jon, there is very litle difference between the commonplace and the avant-garde. yours truely, savador dali / "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams." in misc
19/04 - But I think the most important thing I learned was to pay more attention to my immediate surroundings and realize the creative potential in everyday, ordinary objects and situations. Most of the works in this project are pieces created in my house ... in art
18/04 - The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free online for public viewing and academic study. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster. It was... in architecture
15/04 - The museum of the houses artist studios and requires a thorough study of the characteristics and history of places and a sign that the artist left in his creation of "other". I grandi studi, col loro disordine organizzato, ma anche le modeste stanze in al in architecture
15/04 - Implied - "strongly suggest the truth or existence of" / Presence - "the state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present in a place or thing" / how does one "show" in an image, that which is not in the image? personal - "of or pertaining to a ... in art
14/04 - Tussen 1957 en zijn dood in 1976, Marcel Broodthaers maakte ongeveer vijftig films. Het exacte aantal is moeilijk vast te stellen: Verschillende geen sprake meer, sommige zijn multipart "programma's" samengesteld uit groepen van korte films (veel toegeëig in art
13/04 - She was particularly influenced by her experience of the New York art scene in the early to mid-1960s and by the work of John Cage and Claes Oldenberg and their interest in ‘non-linear’ structure. Believing any potential for innovation in sculpture ... in art
12/04 - Jonas’ video performances between 1972 and 1976 pared the cast down to one actor, the artist herself performing in her New York loft as Organic Honey, her seminal alter-ego invented as an “electronic erotic seductress,” whose doll-like visage seen reflect in art
12/04 - Plain; unadorned; Mere; not other than; being only; Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a... in design
09/04 - ¿El gran genio de la arquitectura española? Emilio Pérez Piñero tuvo una vida muy intensa, pero, desgraciadamente, muy corta. Nacido en Valencia poco antes de la Guerra Civil, se trasladó muy pronto a Calasparra. Vivió siendo muy niño las crueldades de la in architecture
09/04 - the Maisons Jaoul can be considered Le Corbusier's first "New Brutalist" work. "...Shallow concrete vaults cast against a permanent framework of thin bricks set in place without the use of centering. These brick spans served as permanent molds for the... in architecture
08/04 - Make Do Type began as an attempt to make a typeface out of the natural limits of my drawing hand and its memory. By ‘memory’ I mean the awareness of type before one knows anything of typography. I love [Paul] Renner’s ‘Futura Book’; it’s the one I recall in design
07/04 - These photographic works are prints from screenshots on his (Peter Lemmens) computer desktop. With these prints he literally shows us the platform he works on and gives direct information about the layers of his screen and all the layers of information... in art
06/04 - Falls intentionally photographed the slides so that the images are not visible to us, perhaps to preserve their mystery but also, as he points out, "this makes the title on the box more informative than the photographs within the picture."-shane lavalette in design
06/04 - Interested consumers/collectors will purchase a share from Springboard for the Arts and in return receive 3 farm boxes of locally produced artwork at intervals this summer. Featured works could include items such as: an edition of vinyl 7, a run of screen in art
05/04 - Victory Gardens is an ongoing civic works initiative devised by Futurefarmers artist/founder Amy Franceshini and developed in conjunction with the city authorities of San Francisco and the Garden for the Environment association. The title refers to... in art
02/04 - "a revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. a revolution is an insurrection..." in art
01/04 - "for three hours i sat without moving behind a panel which concealed my neck and head. no one could see behind the panel; a piece of board sealed the underside of the space. in conjunction with the performance, i wore a ski mask at..." - chris burden in art

March 2010
31/03 - "Art as a formal and holistic description of the real space and experience of landscape and its most elemental materials. Nature has always been recorded by artists, from pre-historic cave paintings to 20th century landscape photography. " - richard long in art
30/03 - “Avalanche was a unique media phenomenon in an age that crossed boundaries freely, a cross between a magazine, an artist book and an exhibition space in print.” - Willoughby Sharp and Liza Béar founded Avalanche shortly after they met in 1968. in art
29/03 - Marley Freeman, Paul Branca, Mary Walling Blackburn, John Sisley, Miranda Lichtenstein, Annegret Kellner, Emilie Halpern, Barbara Ess, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Alex Klein, Sarah Rara Anderson, Graham Parker, Suzie Silver, Marijke Appelman, Jon Pestoni ... in art
25/03 - "and i asked the boys, i said, boys, what do you make of this poem? i said, boys, i've been looking at it for more than forty years and i've never understood... and they said: it's a joke, amadeo, the poem is a joke covering up something more serious." in art
25/03 - "On January 22nd, 2010 I started the project of designing and building one chair each hour that I was at this site. Four chairs per day over six days. Each hour started with a drawing and ended with a new chair prototype. This project was..." - Andy hall in design
24/03 - In 1959, Bob Law lay in a Cornish field and wondered how to describe the space he was in. His solution was a series of drawings in which figurative elements – such as trees or houses – are arranged along a doddery pencil line at the perimeter of the... in art
22/03 - a hotel room that can't be photographed (that you have no desire to photograph) is already a bad room. upon arriving in a city the first thing to do is to take a picture of the room as if to stake out a territory and photograph your reflection in the... in art
18/03 - "...society in general also needs capitalism for the sake of its own development. if capital is the modern form of development, the working class is the modern form of power. these corollaries must become the new conditions of the workers struggle." in art
18/03 - Living in a historic R.M. Schindler apartment in Los Angeles may be architecturally desirable, but for designer Gabriel Abraham, it did have one drawback: "The walls and ceiling were made of plywood, so it was very hard to install lighting fixtures." ... in design
17/03 - Mono Lake is believed to have formed at least 760,000 years ago, dating back to the Long Valley eruption. Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and in art
16/03 - The precise sources for these enigmatic images remain contested. Notwithstanding the artist's own lapidary description of their genesis in "a photo of a shadow in my studio," alternate and conflicting accounts of their origins have been offered, among ... in art
15/03 - “There’s never a way that you could repeat the original thing; it just can’t be done,” said Marina Abramovic, “so you have to think, ‘How am I going to deal with it if I’m going to show something of that moment?’ ” “There’s never a way that you could ... in art
11/03 - "certainly, no one could have predicted the particulars of what has occurred in europe and in the world in the successive months: the explosion of violent student actions from france to czechoslovakia. nevertheless, there was something there..." in architecture
11/03 - gavin brown's enterprise in new york presents the first solo exhibition of works by Nick relph. The show comprises video, collage, and works on paper. nick relph has largely been known for his collabrative film based works with artist oliver payne. in art
10/03 - Euclide is perspicacious; his work a cogitation between the artifice of making an object, the Duchampian tradition of finding an object and making it art, and the actual land. Euclide combines all three elements. In his multi-dimensional paper works ... in art
10/03 - "The overall theme of the issue will be related to the following concepts: the communications environment; the psychological environment; the entertainment environment." Instead of arresting spreads, the magazine as a whole is an arresting object. Must be in architecture
10/03 - Lee Ufan’s sculptural work explores emptiness and the void. Consisting of untreated materials like stone and iron, the sculptural compositions are silent yet suggestive. They manipulate the space that they inhabit and so condition the viewer’s perception in art
08/03 - Koshimizu was part of Mono Ha, which reacted against the embrace of technology and visual trickery in 60s Japanese art. They sought to understand ‘the world as it is’ by exploring the essential properties of materials, often combining organic and ... in art
08/03 - Also, in Limitless Condition (1970), two pieces of wood were placed diagonally, propping open two adjacent windows of a back staircase at The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Suga achieved a delicate balance in his placing of the wood, which ... in art
04/03 - "we live in a world of signs, and of signs about signs. a growing awareness of this...forced him to accept that in such a world 'reality' inheres not in things themselves, but in the relationship we discern between things; not in items, but in structures" in architecture
04/03 - "intimations of an infinite hierarchy of ever deeper implicate and superimplicate orders, each one enfolded in the level that underlies it." & "if there is a goal, it would be not to conclude and resolve, but rather to continue with the challenge that is- in art
03/03 - In Farsi, کوشک (pronounced kušk), refers to an object that protects or is a shade maker. The kiosk has a history in the Middle East that spans over seven centuries. A word that was originally used to designate a place in the shade, or in the case of... in art
02/03 - There has been a renaissance in the study of borders during the past two decades, partially resulting from the creation of a counter narrative to notions of a borderless world which have been advanced as part of globalization theory[4]. Examples of ... in art
01/03 - i have recently been making art outside of my studio. on march 15th 1969 at midnight i rode my bicycle up to 52nd street and fifth avenue from my studio at spring street carrying four gallons of white enamel paint. i punched a hole in one gallon, put... in art
01/03 - SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME POETIC (2005) video by francis alys SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POETIC CAN BECOME POLITICAL AND SOMETIMES DOING SOMETHING POLITICAL CAN BECOME ... in art

February 2010
25/02 - "the new vision does not arise out of nothing, but emerges through seeing, in terms of possibilities, that is, of imagination, old things in new relations serving a new end which the new end aids in creating." - john dewey from "a common faith" in art
24/02 - By presenting ordinary "things" just as they were in extraordinary circumstances, the artists were able to strip away preexisting concepts related to their materials and access a new world within them. By presenting ordinary "things" just as they were... in art
22/02 - i put a picture up on a wall. then i forget there is a wall, i no longer know what there is behind this wall, i no longer know there is a wall, i no longer know this wall is a wall, i no longer know what a wall is. i no longer know that... in art
21/02 - is not sterile or end in itself, but becomes an occasion of revelation, the expression of emptiness: an object, a work is not very different from the space it occupies, however, it coincides with it. Both, however, contribute to the meaning of ... in art
19/02 - "this means that all of a sudden i am conscious of myself as escaping myself, not in that i am the foundation of my own nothingness but in that i have my foundation outside myself. i am for myself only as i am a pure reference to the other." - sartre in design
18/02 - i can't talk today / the phone will have to ring / i'll keep the blind pulled down / i'll keep the bedroom locked / i think the window froze / i think my head is broke / i think my toes won't move / i think my head is broke / i think the window froze... in misc
16/02 - From 1967 to 1969, Vito Acconci & Bernadette Mayer collected the works of the some of the most exciting artists and writers for their mimeographed magazine, 0 TO 9. Robert Barry, Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, John Giorno, Dan Graham, Michael Heizer... in art
16/02 - Both design and play involve breaking loose from habitual ways of thinking, and making dreams come true! This, in turn, requires 1. an ability to imagine how things could be beyond merely describing or representing how things are (ask what if, do as if... in design
15/02 - If you are in berlin, near Rosenthaler Platz station in the next few days, stop by motto mitte to browse selected titles from the Motto Catalogue. Motto Mitte @ Artnews Projects, 190 Brunnenstr., Berlin. look for Scattered Light on the walls! in art
15/02 - Several of Chris Burden's 1975 performances might be defined as 'locked room' pieces: White Light/White Heat (duration: 22 days), Doomed (duration: 45 hours and 10 minutes), La Chiaraficazione (duration 1 hour and 30 minutes)... ( prison vs. safe haven ) in art
11/02 - "the neurosis i sought to describe in red desert is above all a matter of adjusting. there are people who do adapt, and others who can't manage, perhaps because they are too tied to ways of life that are by now out-of-date." antonioni in art
11/02 - spent much of my childhood with my head buried in books or roaming my neighborhood for adventures and places to daydream. I collected baseball cards and wore cowboy shirts and pitched tents in my backyard. Most of my friends were boys or tomboys. I was a in art
11/02 - “Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It’s time we gave this some thought.” — — R. Buckminster Fuller in misc
11/02 - despite disagreements regarding aesthetic, conceptual, political or philosophical concerns, they have managed to successfully navigate AOT through the stormy waters of this discord, the organization’s economic strife, and their own self-destructive... in art
10/02 - We don’t need new territorializations that allow for the quick and easy commodification and obfuscation of these practices into the art world; rather a discourse that equally connects to historical dialogues, and already existing discussions around: in misc
09/02 - motto mitte is a temporary store done in connection with artnews.org. motto has created many traveling shops in recent years. locations include Vilnius, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt, Moscow, Vancouver, Chicago, Seoul, Tokyo, Paris. in art
08/02 - the medium was tedium the outlets were closed / the rats were fighting cats again and everyone was stuck / just another sound they lent ya / just another commercial venture / school was making scars on me / work does the same in misc
04/02 - "my legs were encased in a tight-fitting cylindrical pillar of shiny blue cardboard... so that i looked like an obelisk. above this i wore a huge cardboard coat collar, scarlet inside and gold outside, which was fastened at the neck in such a way that..." in art
03/02 - Personally, I'd rather break my arm by falling off a platform than spend an hour in detached contemplation of a Matisse. We've become blind from so much seeing. Time to press up against things, squeeze around, crawl over - not so much out of a childish... in art
02/02 - In Retouch, the artist takes a hand-held video camera to a well-known museum in Paris and films himself spray painting a couple of Mondrians on the walls. The act of retouching this canonic work is one of rebellion that forces viewers to think about... in art
02/02 - two images are superimposed onto the same surface through different polarizing filters. The viewer wears eyeglasses which also contain a pair of different polarizing filters. As each filter passes only that light which is similarly polarized and blocks... in misc
31/01 - Robert Morris goes beyond Judd in a remarkable exhibition at the Green Gallery, New York, in 1964. What is remarkable about the exhibition is that it introduced what we would refer to now as “installation art”. Here was sculpture that the viewer could... in art

January 2010
28/01 - "i went over to the table and studied the diagrams and drawings, leafing slowly through the rough stack of papers. the mock-up for the magazine was a chaos of geometric figures and randomly scribbled names or letters. it was obvious that poor mr. font..." in design
28/01 - "I can say that it is the sculpture that has helped me to understand the architecture and urbanism. It may be strange, surprising, yet true. " André Bloc, now No. 59-60, Special André Bloc, in December 1967. “ Je peux dire que c’est la sculpture qui m’a a in art
27/01 - the involuntary humour of late modernism was a major argument against excessive abstraction with the postmodernists. from this rather clever point, they went on to make two wrong assumptions: that architecture could be a vehicle for real humour; and that in architecture
26/01 - "in the late 1970s a group of people living in the borough of hackney in east london began building a structure on a derelict lot in their neighborhood. they continued building until last january. the story of the project’s origins are a mystery.... in design
26/01 - We've compiled all of the flyers from our first year into a zine. And It comes with a cassette of a live set and a medley of unreleased demos. Edition of 200. If you would like a copy, paypal $15 US $18 outside US.......................................... in art
22/01 - "even if it's only a contraption that only works for a brief time... you must expend the energy to actually make the attempt to make it happen. you must put aside your feelings that you are engaged in an absurd spinning of wheels." in art
20/01 - one night walking in the countryside near prijedor in bosnia, i found a solitary glowworm, with its amber-green light, under some grasses. i picked it up and carried it on my finger where it glowed like an electric opal on a ring. when i approached ... in art
19/01 - "while going back up, i catch glimpse of the other side of the surface, about ten meters away, where rays of light are transformed into a bundle of gold upon contact with the clear water. concentrating on the bluish relfections of the sky, i hurry to..." in art
19/01 - derived from those familiar coloured maps found at the entrance to housing estates, and are painted in the geometric abstract style of Russian Suprematism. In a clear, calm manner, they bridge the chasm of a whole history of promised social utopias and th in art
19/01 - Warhol produced and appeared in three cable television series during the eighties. Andy Warhol's Fashion was shown on Manhattan Cable, Andy Warhol's TV was shown on the the Madison Square Garden Network and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes was shown on MTV. in misc
19/01 - flourished in California in the 1960s. The exhibition includes rarely seen works by Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Helen Pashgian, James Turrell, De Wain Valentine, and Doug Wheeler... in art
18/01 - for one evening in 1970, dan graham resurrected the john daniels gallery at his apartment and work space at the time, 84 eldridge street, apt 7, as recorded in a printed invitation. the event was to premiere the artist's first films: Sunrise to Sunset ... in art
14/01 - "thus the long scaffold like steel structure, which serves as a walkway through the complex, is set on the city grid, making it appear to slice a diagonal swath through the campus and through this building. the walls of the rooms inside the building..." in art
14/01 - The new work he presented jumped off the wall in the form of objects that had been distilled down to their most basic form. McCracken calls his objects "blocks, slabs, columns, planks. Basic beautiful forms, neutral forms." After his early paintings ... in art
14/01 - Semâ Bekirovic's photos, videos and installations evolved from her fascination with photography. She is interested in the basic qualities of images, but also in the effect they can have - giving new significance to things without actually altering the ... in art
13/01 - a truncated hexagon? it sounds complicated but that's the name for this decidedly simple pointed-roof building. it's a tilted cube with three of its six sides missing. only 45 and 90 degree angles - as a suana, a playhouse, music studio, greenhouse... in design
13/01 - Wenger, who worked as a computer programmer (in the 1950s), a physics professor and a hang-gliding instructor, started designing his lotus chairs in 1969 while living in Topanga Canyon. He estimates he made about 200 chairs during that time, some of ... in design
11/01 - Radim Peško is a graphic designer and curator currently living in Amsterdam. He teaches at the Rietveld Academie (NL) and contributes to many publications. He is well known for his humorous study of type forms. In 2009 Radim Peško established RP, a small- in art
10/01 - "Metaphorically, I imagine, I kept cool air in me, as long as I can until the temperature difference is so great that water droplets form on the bottle. Ich würde anderen gerne Dinge übermitteln, ohne Wasser aus der Flasche zu gießen. I would like to ... in art
10/01 - Meshing Cluster's affinity for loops and repetition and Eno's penchant for processing sounds, the trio proves that ambient music does not merely consist of drawn-out drones and insipid keyboard tapestries. Certainly many of these nine tracks play off of in misc
10/01 - Scattered light is so much more than a smart poster set. A conceptual newspaper and call to action, ASDF (Mylinh Nguyen & David Horvitz) combine appropriated text from the likes of John Berger and Rebecca Solnit with some beautifully naturalistic ... in art
07/01 - "'kill the modernist within'... this is a mantra that we say every morning we get into the fat office, 'kill the modernist within.' so here it's obviously saying well, this is about communication it's nothing structural, it's a drawing of some structure" in architecture
06/01 - Argentinean artist David Lamelas was a pioneer of the radical repositioning of sculpture in the 1960s and 70s, which abandoned the traditional definitions of the medium, displacing its materials and modes of production. Lamelas’ art must be considered... in art
06/01 - Sol LeWitt's first solo art show was at the John Daniels Gallery in New York in 1965. "When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand ... the idea becomes a machine that makes the art." in art
05/01 - Kenneth Noland, who painted some of the great emblems of the postwar American abstract style called Color Field painting, died Tuesday at his home in Port Clyde, Me. The cause was cancer, said his wife, Paige Rense in art
04/01 - Here and now/and nowhere just came down in New York. There were two groups of paintings, the “crumple” series and the “fold” series, a group of photographs of TV static images and then the centerpiece of the show, a 16-foot long, two person pump organ ... in art
04/01 - tell us, perhaps planning and architecture are made in the same way as children's games? Non...c'est moi qui extrapole un peu durement... I love this mantra. All the joy of living can be in this place... in these sets of cubes. in architecture
04/01 - Extracting art from such clashes of style and provenance, Smithson never tidied up the aftermath: he loved conflicts of style, form, and meaning - the more flagrantly unresolvable, the better. This same delectation of disorder shows in the patterns he... in art
04/01 - This severely formalist grid (which may or may not have some sort of hidden numerological significance, as in Smithson's other works of this period, such as "Cryosphere" or "Enantiomorphic Chambers") provides the rectangular "ground" or "frame" for the... in art
04/01 - Tetsuya Yamada works with the industrial landscape of production. His work explores the intersection of art, craft, machine, and industry. He delves into the repetitious and mundane activities of city life, specifically commuting by train in his native... in art
04/01 - "In Zen we put emphasis on demeanor, or behavior. By behavior we do not mean a particular way that you ought to behave, but rather the natural expression of yourself. We emphasize straightforwardness. You should be true to your feelings, and to your mind, in architecture
04/01 - I am also hoping, and requesting, that if you write fluently in a language other than English, that you translate the daily texts. As the book is slowly transmitted it can also be slowly translated simultaneously into different languages. If you choose to in art

Year 2009

Year 2008

December 2008
31/12 - dallas clayton in art
30/12 - josef schulz in art
30/12 - room with a view in architecture
21/12 - text / meassages: books by artists in design
20/12 - casa chilena 1y2 by Smiljan Radic Clarke in architecture
17/12 - nic the intern presents 'white out' - jun ishikawa in white out
17/12 - mylinh trieu nguyen in design
16/12 - a painting is a symbol for the universe in art
16/12 - rave nature - maarten vanden eynde in art
15/12 - emilie halpern in art
11/12 - nic the intern presents white out - oy house in white out
11/12 - i am not a shrinking violet - kim kranz in art
09/12 - untitled (from the lizards point) - david horvitz in art
08/12 - andy warhol + polaroids + amie valentine in art
06/12 - listen the snow is falling in art
05/12 - media plaza in utreght, netherlands in design
04/12 - lori hersberger in design
02/12 - junkjet in misc
02/12 - junya ishigami in art
02/12 - how a balloon becomes a mixtape in misc
01/12 - karl lagerfeld in misc
01/12 - it ain't fair in art
01/12 - saul steinberg in misc
01/12 - kiosk - reference library reminder in misc

November 2008
26/11 - gratitude in misc
26/11 - pallets in architecture
25/11 - sam falls in art
25/11 - artificial sunset in art
24/11 - reference library - mini exhibition #8 at kiosk in misc
21/11 - shell house in architecture
19/11 - house sh in architecture
19/11 - almost every picture in design
18/11 - alpine capsule - studio lovegrove in architecture
18/11 - filip dujardin in art
18/11 - wi-fi structures in architecture
17/11 - here is always somewhere else. in art
16/11 - rule of thirds - cameron wittig in art
13/11 - james cooper in art
13/11 - james cooper in art
12/11 - weak relationship in art
12/11 - jeff brouws in art
12/11 - [ghost] house | datar in architecture
12/11 - big window house in architecture
10/11 - of course - guy de cointet in art
10/11 - back in jamaica - - guy de cointet in art
10/11 - tell me - guy de cointet in art
08/11 - for a brief time only at a location near you | asdf in art
06/11 - phase - mother earth | nobuo sekine in art
05/11 - "there is no substitute for victory" - macarthur in misc
04/11 - nov. 4th in misc
03/11 - juvet in architecture

October 2008
31/10 - happy halloween in misc
23/10 - a week from now, i'll probably be back in misc
22/10 - i guess you don't want to talk to me anymore in misc
20/10 - sun yuan and peng yu - saatchi gallery in art
20/10 - notes for those begining the discipline of architecture in misc
16/10 - » stuff i saw (and heard) ((and liked)) this week » in misc
15/10 - more cool buttons in misc
14/10 - "definitely believe in working with an attitude of knowing as little as possible about what you are about to do in order to not be constrained by efforts to 'prove' anything and also to be as open as possible to whatever it is you are about" -Kim Hiorthøy in art
10/10 - tony feher in art
10/10 - matt keegan in art
10/10 - stu loxley in art
07/10 - lullatone in misc
06/10 - mary & matt in misc
06/10 - shuhei endo in architecture
06/10 - will steacy in art
02/10 - seward redesign - launch test site! in design
01/10 - art for obama in art

September 2008
29/09 - daniel eatock in art
29/09 - white nights in design
25/09 - seward redesign in design
25/09 - mnmlsts 4 obma in misc
24/09 - sand bag sofa - schemata in design
23/09 - graduate design studio visit in design
19/09 - via vvork in art
17/09 - Taking cues from the clean modern aesthetic that had been fostered by the residents on the interior, this home transformation results in a distinct and reduced house form that references both the modern and the vernacular. The sharp, distilled domestic... in architecture
15/09 - centrum cubische constructies 1965 - 1970 Jan Slothouber & William Graatsma After an architectural training Jan Slothouber (1918) and William Graatsma (1925) worked as architects / designers from 1955 for the Dutch State Mines. Here they designed.... in design
12/09 - on purpose: design concepts in design
08/09 - roberley bell in art
08/09 - wyne veen in art
05/09 - loop de loop in design
04/09 - a marble run or two in design
03/09 - freedom tunnel in misc

August 2008
28/08 - c-2 by curiousity architecture in architecture
28/08 - erased erasers - sylvia matas in art
27/08 - nymphoto - tema stauffer in art
26/08 - space collective in misc
26/08 - christina seely - lux in art
21/08 - asako narahashi in art
20/08 - extended coast - (stealing america) in art
19/08 - summer song in misc
19/08 - thiago rocha pitta in art
17/08 - califone + the manchurian canidate mpls 8-18-08 in misc
16/08 - brian roettinger - hand held heart at hope gallery in design
14/08 - yes, goodbye and more in art
14/08 - sweet gifs! in design
11/08 - the daily nice - love only in design
10/08 - orbs by carlo van de rohr in design
07/08 - keechie - no age in design
07/08 - lyons house - robin boyd in architecture
06/08 - Bob O'Connor - Laugarás, Iceland in art
06/08 - david horvitz / you work for them in art
06/08 - flag - broadcast poster in design
05/08 - really fresh air in misc

July 2008
29/07 - sometimes it's so simple, right? in design
29/07 - aluminum landscape in art
29/07 - faile - bunny boy - lavender in art
19/07 - Vicente Guallart - microcoasts in design
18/07 - rutger de vries in art
18/07 - jeff johnson in misc
16/07 - rose clark in design
16/07 - the rest in design
16/07 - pauline bastard in art
16/07 - partofit.org in design
16/07 - 5ive house by shelter architecture - the cor-ten cladding is almost unbearably beautiful. so rich and subtly textured. the house is perfectly proportioned on the site. it's elegant and quiet but still very much present. a series of boxes put together... in architecture
16/07 - cameron's house in misc
14/07 - tape n tape - rebecca ward in art
13/07 - tema stauffer at randall scott gallery in art
10/07 - alex da corte in art
10/07 - frames by shigeki fujishiro in design
10/07 - couch? sofa? davenport? in design
07/07 - discoveries in misc

June 2008
29/06 - by george in design
27/06 - how come there's lions? - clog in design
24/06 - digging in the crates again in design
24/06 - just barely past the time he was ahead of in architecture
22/06 - glenburn house in architecture
20/06 - a great day for the mailman in design
18/06 - the city within the city within the... in misc
18/06 - muxtapose in misc
16/06 - love letter in design
13/06 - ghosts in design
13/06 - oh, and speaking of legos in design
12/06 - the big cph experiment in architecture
11/06 - when one becomes two in architecture
10/06 - the sads silent show and mike mills in misc
09/06 - otl aicher in design
09/06 - buddy holly, peter pan and john hughes... in misc
09/06 - "my man is real... not made of steel" in art
03/06 - george maciunas in architecture
01/06 - du nord for a day in misc

May 2008
30/05 - sleeping on it in design
28/05 - the power of suggestion (and cool books) in design
27/05 - our mountain in design
27/05 - thanks for making my dreams come true in art
23/05 - not a ladder looked so bad resolved… in design
22/05 - rectangle of light in design
21/05 - wandering around out in the west in art
21/05 - i need to sit down... in art
18/05 - you're in the stream of life... like it or not in art
15/05 - mos architecture - fence + garden shed in design
15/05 - je ma'appelle molu et je viens de manger un hamburger in misc
13/05 - robert rauschenberg in design
13/05 - greek skaters in misc
10/05 - sculp(it) - cool not stup(id) in design
09/05 - some new words in a beautiful language in design
07/05 - the quiet journey of the tulips in design
05/05 - chelpa ferro in art
05/05 - infrastructure and unfrastructure in architecture

April 2008
27/04 - beautiful losers in art
25/04 - tea for one in art
18/04 - mixin up the medicine in misc
18/04 - oh and how could i forget, gregory euclide in art
16/04 - the miss rockaway armada meets mass moca in art
07/04 - don't have a nice amount in a london bank account / pockets full of destiny, our panic shrinking ecstasy / another generation / of general intimidation / pushing through the old crowd is a low / it was easy, it was cheap / go and do it! / go and do it!!! in misc
06/04 - me = we in design
31/03 - the plot thickens in design

March 2008
29/03 - the yellow house in architecture
28/03 - falling apart slowly... physically and spiritually in art
28/03 - pirate chair? o.k. in design
26/03 - that is a pretty nice looking site visualization you have there...... you must be so very, very proud in misc
22/03 - rainbows in art
20/03 - i've always been interested in how things look when they're falling apart but especially modern things. i love how some of the late 60s modern stuff that hasn't been taken care of looks. how great would it be to come across something like this on a hike? in architecture
15/03 - the optimism in the inevitable in architecture
11/03 - south by southwest in misc
06/03 - nobbs radford... a new view. in design
05/03 - fat talk in architecture
03/03 - check 1-2 in design

February 2008
20/02 - la sensation très heureux? in design
13/02 - how to protect yourself in misc

January 2008
30/01 - so so sick in art
18/01 - another opportunity to do different things in art
10/01 - one year old in design

Year 2007

December 2007
17/12 - b & w house - julie snow architects in design
10/12 - field tripping in architecture
05/12 - in the mailbox....happiness. in art

November 2007
28/11 - manifestos in design
21/11 - giving thanks with jeff koons in design
17/11 - holyoke cabin - in depth in architecture
16/11 - discovery, discernment and room in architecture
07/11 - cheryl dunn | confluence> reconnect> start over in art
05/11 - sato | vato in design
01/11 - walker art center blogs + design dept blog + david adjaye + ... in design

October 2007
26/10 - paper art in art
19/10 - made by light having a spectrum dominated by energy in the wavelength range of about 440–490 in design
18/10 - two lesses don't make a more in design
13/10 - loom studio - a second tip of the hat in architecture
11/10 - use me better, or even, let's just do better in design
10/10 - kids? in design
03/10 - herbert muschamp in architecture

September 2007
30/09 - 2 at the u (of m) in design
28/09 - mon amie, amie valentine - lesson #1 in design
26/09 - calculating in design
21/09 - just a quick psa about the psb in design
17/09 - an old friend in art
13/09 - casa bianchi - mario botta in architecture
06/09 - museum? church. in architecture
05/09 - irresistible herring in art

August 2007
28/08 - always down with a field trip in art
26/08 - glass house or house of glass in architecture
23/08 - the cover | an addendum to last weeks story in architecture
15/08 - a beautiful place out in the country: part 2 in architecture
06/08 - in a beautiful place out in the country in design
04/08 - oscar wandering toward a 100. wow, is he cool. in architecture
01/08 - 35w bridge over mississppi river collapses in misc

July 2007
24/07 - by 2:49pm (easily) + viewable in 2 min and 49 sec in architecture
15/07 - act your age? in design
14/07 - far, far away and without some of my wisdom in architecture
09/07 - "zurich is stained and it's not my fault" sm in architecture
03/07 - institutional love, bricks, field trips, artist & daughter etc. in a three part rambling post! in misc

June 2007
25/06 - greetings earthlings - jackson meadow at marine on st croix mn, is a planned, self-described "conservation community" designed by david salmela and coen + partners. in design
18/06 - An implicit aim of the exhibition...reflection in design
11/06 - modernism & it's occasionally distant relative, realism in design
05/06 - eternal, fragile, mysterious, and clear. in architecture
31/05 - what would anything be without everything else in design

May 2007
29/05 - building in public is different than public building in design
21/05 - heterogeneous-hygroscopic-cellular-anisotropic in architecture
16/05 - haste makes waste | waste makes art? in art
11/05 - the price isn't wright, but it's not bad (like this) in architecture
09/05 - bruce mau | field trips | photographic proof in design
05/05 - musac - mies van der rohe award 2007 in architecture
30/04 - heads or tails | publics or the public in architecture

April 2007
21/04 - tenderness can be learned in art
17/04 - in the red in design
11/04 - hay algo asombrando acerca de Los Angeles in architecture
07/04 - here comes the sun in design
05/04 - the screw is better than the glue in design

March 2007
31/03 - these are a few of my (our) favorite things in design
21/03 - thinking inside the box | our first hive home in design
19/03 - in the n(ether)lands and ethereal? in architecture
09/03 - el fiebre de buenos aires | modern urban homes in architecture
08/03 - before the mirror there was... in art

February 2007
17/02 - i wish i could do that * marfa texas in art
11/02 - yes & no + narrow & intense in architecture
06/02 - hans wegner 1914 - 2007 in design
03/02 - a forefather not forgotten - eliot noyes in design
31/01 - the sun does not know it is a star in design

January 2007
24/01 - two reasons chile should be happy this week in architecture
18/01 - design transendence in design
13/01 - slices of a cake, priveleging the nucleus? in architecture
10/01 - you are the apple of my i- in design

Year 2005

December 2005
23/12 - merry christmas noel! and a happy new year! in misc

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