The Paper Crane

Lately I have been doing some read­ing that has me think­ing a lit­tle bit about art’s auton­omy and I guess more par­tic­u­larly I assim­i­late this read­ing to my own prac­tice. My mind is a bit all over the place on this topic and so this couldn’t be a more proper…

Recently, a favorite apart­ment gallery of mine has closed it’s doors. Con­certina Gallery, for­merly the home of the Star Con­certina Man­u­fac­tur­ing Com­pany, located on the sec­ond floor of a two story grey stone walk up, closed as it’s direc­tors Kather­ine Pill and Francesca Wimott have moved on to other curatorial…

Street Artist Blu recently com­pleted an amaz­ing graffiti-animation about the begin­ning and destruc­tion of the world. It’s called Big Bang, Big Boom and chron­i­cles his ren­di­tion of the Big Bang The­ory, nat­ural selec­tion and ulti­mately the apoc­a­lypse. I can only imag­ine how much paint and how much time it…

My friend Matt Hill made this video about 3 years ago and I redis­cov­ered it today. He worked really hard on the video, made in Illus­tra­tor set to Broadcast’s song Black Cat and using footage from Jean-Luc Godard’s Film Contempt.

And it gets even better…

annnnnnd…

Some­thing is happening!!!

Beau­ti­fully staged pho­tographs by Noemie Goudal of France. Don’t know much about her but came across her work today and am com­pelled to find out more about her aesthetic.

The Imi­ta­tion of art through the means of nature is designed but made to look not designed. The First…

Appar­ently every­one in the world has seen this except for me. So here is a lit­tle repost. Enjoy the belly laugh. Thanks Fecalface.com

Jes­sica Williams

Sara LaFleur

Bryan Der­balla

Nico­lai Howalt

In Plato’s Repub­lic, the the­ory of art is dis­cussed between Socrates and Glau­con. From pure logic only, Socrates says that a painter’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the world is that of super­fi­cial appear­ance. Sup­pose a craftsper­son builds a bed, he man­u­fac­tures it and knows all things about its cre­ation, mate­r­ial, design etc.…

Lit­tle Mes­sages from Jes­sica Williams

Really, it’s not.

The ladies bizarre; sis­ters Sierra and Bianca Cas­sidy of the music duo CocoRosie have released a new album, Grey Oceans. Reviews of the album have been mixed to bor­der­line bad. How­ever the over all con­sen­sus is that the the unnabashed child-like indi­vid­u­al­ism of their…

A few things to go see in Chicago:

Cur­rently on View

Paint­ings by Chris Cos­nowski and Lora Fos­berg at Linda War­ren Gallery cur­rently on view until August 21, 2010

Chris Cos­nowski, Global Warm­ing (Would Some­one Please Take This Prob­lem Seri­ously) oil on can­vas, 46 x 38 in, 2010

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