Karen Kilimnik Portrait, in Black and White Tones, Sets a General Mood for the Show.
The exhibition includes a number of paintings by Kilimnik. Taken together, they introduce subject matter through a larger “narrative arc.”
Questions:
What is the “story” that the artist is telling through the inclusion of these paintings?
Is Kilimnik’s primary “medium” painting? If so, what’s the significance of the inclusion of the other objects and photographs in the exhibition?
Lesson learned, do not push the “publish” button before checking your spelling. Especially if you are the teacher.
A Definition of the Term: "Desperate"
They Won't Let You Take Pictures at the Exhibition, So You Have to Sneak Them in the Elevator: New Museum, George Condo Exhibition, 2011
More to discuss about this show soon. For now, a self-portrait. And I welcome your own self-portrait contributions.
Maybe Kanye West and Marc Jacobs won't be there today. But I remain ever hopeful.
Photo shows artist George Condo, flanked by Kanye West and Marc Jacobs at the opening of his survey show at The New Museum.
I am headed there today, early afternoon. If you go today, check out the “Sky Deck” on the roof, incredible view of the Lower East Side.
Also, when there, please visit the Linda Benglis show, although the Condo show will remain the central subject of discussion for this week’s class, Thurs., Mar. 3.
A Silver-Haired "Superstar" Stares Down her Creator
This is one of a series of four-minute film reels, taken by Andy Warhol at his “factory” studio in the mid-1960s. A “Screen Test,” as the artist called them.
Questions:
How does portraiture in the medium of film differ from portraiture in the medium of painting?
How does portraiture in the medium of film differ from portraiture in the medium of still photography?
Who was Edie Sedgwick and how and why was she famous?
If any of you are wondering if there is life after the New School, fear not, there is. Many of my students have gone on to do great things in the arts. One is Marissa Mickelberg, who has been involved in performance-based art in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She has just been accepted to NYU grad school. See this clip she sent me about a new project.
Looking Across the Guggenheim's Interior Space, With Raymond Duchamp-Villon's "Maggy", 1912, in View.
The thrill of looking across the space, upward and downward, is part of an amazing spatial and perspective play.
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A Sketch that Tries to Capture an Attitude.
Okay, Sketches?, Photos? Videos?, Personal anecdotes?, Overheard conversations?
We’re looking for responses of any kind.
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An "Organic" Synthesis of Art and Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright's Spiralling Vessel on Upper Fifth Avenue.
On art and architecture: For those of you who may have never visited the Guggenheim Museum, try to experience it as a piece of architecture. Think about how the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed space affects your perception of the art–and about your interrelationship with the other viewers in the space.
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Falling Under the Spell of a "Muse" in Real Time and Space.
I saw the Guggenheim’s “The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918” yesterday. As a historical show, it can be confusing, as it follows many artists and groupings of artists from various European cities, Paris, Vienna, Moscow, Milan.
More, it is a show about the Guggenheim’s collection and its character. Please try to find an individual artwork that particularly moves you. Think about making a short post, using an image of the artwork.
I witnessed one young woman who spent about a half-an-hour looking at this wonderful Brancusi piece, La Muse, 1912. What you don’t see in the photo above is the relationship of this marble “bust” with its marvelous base, and, in turn, how the piece relates to the surrounding architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sculptural spiral museum interior.
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