January 31, 2012
The stories of Jasper Johns' Flag is almost as famous as the artwork itself. In 1958, Leo Castelli had come for a studio visit with Robert Rauschenberg, only to find Jasper Johns' work there, and offer the younger, unknown...
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1:08 PM
January 29, 2012
Alright, the mourning process seems to be ending, but the Guggenheim still hasn't posted video of the crazy/awesome/all over the place speeches from "The Last Word," the TED-like symposium marathon organized last weekend for the end of Maurizio Cattelan's "All."...
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9:19 PM
January 27, 2012
This 1963 episode of I've Got A Secret pops up periodically. From this week on Boing Boing to Alex Ross's 2007 blog post searching for Karl Schenzer. And it is, indeed, pretty interesting. John Cale was recently arrived in...
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10:35 PM
Marine Hugonnier, Art for Modern Architecture (Homage to Ellsworth Kelly), The New York Times (Week of February 21st to February 27th 2005) Now this gets very interesting very quickly. Jason, a sharp-eyed greg.org reader in Paris, just sent along...
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5:42 PM
I stopped by a friend's studio yesterday--which was fantastic, btw--and as I was leaving, and I noticed the cool, old Ellsworth Kelly exhibition poster in the bathroom, I so I was all, have you seen the Kelly edition of Die...
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9:45 AM
January 25, 2012
Ausgezeichnet! To promote his two shows in Munich this fall/winter, at the Pinakothek and the Haus der Kunst [which closed this week, btw], the local paper die Welt published a special issue in which all photos were replaced by Ellsworth...
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5:37 PM
Basically, yeah, there was no way I could just let Daniel Barnes' hearsay claim that there's a secret text encoded in each of Damien Hirist's spot paintings go untested last night. But the mechanics of decoding a Hirst Code, if...
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11:15 AM
January 24, 2012
Alright, I think we finally may be onto something. I switched to a high-density foam roller for this next coat, and though it looks kind of eggshelly in the photo, it actually ends up drying to a smoother finish...
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4:58 PM
January 23, 2012
Speaking of texts written in entirely unlikely places... I really have no idea what to make of the kicker in Daniel Barnes' Artslant review of the Brittania St installation of Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings:As to be expected with...
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10:06 PM
There is much to do, and much to write, but it'll have to wait. Because right this minute, a copy of Moby Dick typed on six rolls of toilet paper is for sale on eBay:MY FRIEND AND I ONCE...
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7:04 PM
January 21, 2012
I've come across ads while surfing through New Yorkers from the 1950s, but this is one of the first times I've seen actual Pablo Picasso silk screened fabric turn up on eBay. And there's a whole 16-yard run of...
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5:06 PM
January 20, 2012
It's funny, all this time I've been looking hard at the brushstrokes of modernism, abstraction, and monochrome, trying to figure out how they were made--and, thus, how I might make some paintings myself--and I've ignored Jean Arp. When I started...
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12:37 PM
January 18, 2012
I've been using and working on the Internet for almost twenty years now. I've done start-ups and IPOs. I've worked for huge companies. I worked for Disney when they didn't know the web from a CD-ROM. I have been...
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10:36 AM
January 15, 2012
Another Sunday painting. Or another Sunday spent painting. I did another round of taping off and painting on the Dutch Camo Landscape photo of Noordwijk today. The first time, I did two identical gray polygons This time, I did three,...
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5:35 PM
January 14, 2012
Well, that was a total surface disaster. The size and disposability of this crappy little foam roller made it irresistible. The bubbly eggshell finish that even contains a few crumbs of foam made it a total failure putting paint...
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4:10 PM
January 12, 2012
A couple of things that I still wonder about about Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing: What did de Kooning think? The story of making it is always told by Rauschenberg, or from his side. Did de Kooning ever tell the...
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10:54 AM
January 11, 2012
Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953, "drawing | traces of ink and crayon on paper, mat, label, and gilded frame." via SFMOMA TIMELY BUT UNNECESSARY HOOK: LAST VISIT TO THE DE KOONING RETROSPECTIVE Part of the reason I hustled back...
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7:50 PM
January 9, 2012
"@takashipom #EGO Takashi with H.E Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani" via @QatarMuseumsAut I am in awe of the new, Povera-meets-Lars von Trier direction Takashi Murakami is taking his work. It's like pure signifier now. A master's bravura...
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7:41 AM
January 7, 2012
Oh man, JWZ's digital TV plays analogue static when there's no HDMI input:Video static is caused by amplifying random radio white noise and feeding it to the input stage of a scanning electron gun. HDMI is digital and DRM'ed...
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9:03 AM
January 6, 2012
John, John, 1988, installed at Ann Temkin's Color Chart show in 2008, via moma Alright, before this thing gets too much farther, let's check what we know. From the Gagosian Gallery exhibition page::The exhibition will take place at once...
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9:59 PM
January 5, 2012
Oh, man, just last night I was goof-tweeting about this, and it turns out it's already a thing. Registration for The Complete Spot Challenge starts tomorrow:Visit all eleven Gagosian Gallery locations during the exhibition Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot...
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10:55 PM
January 4, 2012
It was a favorite in the Met's Pictures Generation show. And I liked her recent, similar show at Metro Pictures. But hey-ho, how awesome does Louise Lawler's show at Sprüth Magers look?? I mean, I might have been content...
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2:05 PM
January 2, 2012
I just pulled out some Future Systems books last night, and I'd forgotten how hard I'd fallen for them. And though I knew they were The Future at the time, it's still pretty awesome/eerie how much our 2006 ended...
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10:55 AM
January 1, 2012
After processing the odd hippie hipness of the idea of John Cage driving Merce Cunningham and his dance company around the country in a VW Microbus, it was really dancer Carolyn Brown's excellent memoir that persuaded me to see the...
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12:00 AM
