The Paper Crane

“When I paint a land­scape or a seascape, I’m not very sure it’s a land­scape or a seascape. It’s a thought form rather than a real­is­tic form.”-Maria Elena Vieira da Silva

It has been dif­fi­cult to dig up infor­ma­tion on Ms. Vieira da Silva, born in France in 1908. But this…

Yes­ter­day, I lis­tened to an episode of my favorite pod­cast, Radi­o­lab. The episode was about lan­guage and how words are con­nected to thought con­nected to idea. There was a story about a 27 year old man named Ilde­fanso, whom was born deaf and didn’t know the world had sound, had…

By Tanya Davis & Andrea Dorf­man

It must be going on almost two years now that I have known Amanda Rivkin. We met via a fran­tic phone call. It was late sum­mer sum­mer and I was search­ing for a new studio/gallery space when I hap­pened upon my dream space in Chicago’s Ukran­ian Vil­lage neigh­bor­hood. For…

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