Tuesday reading (Techy Tuesday)
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tyler Green's Art Madness II polls are underway. Round Two is nearly ready for a vote (check it out tomorrow to add your two cents and vote for the Post War Master!)CNN covered the emergence of QR codes. Read the article here. Could this be the future of art fair wall labels??
And in keeping with this tech-theme, Nintendo has launched it's 3D handheld gaming device, the 3DS. It's a glasses-free 3-D experience. If this sort of technology catches on, will this be on every cell phone and iPad in the next few years?? It's not hard to imagine a VIP 3D Art Fair, is it? Certainly would be helpful for showing sculpture.
Old-school technology goes eco-friendly (prrrrretty cool...how many cardboard cameras have you seen?)
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Monday NEWS and LINKS
Monday, March 28, 2011
Caveat emptor. (Thank you Art Law Blog for pointing me to this)The damage to cultural sites in Japan.
$18 million for an $800 vase? Someone knows something that no one else knows.
Totally insane in the best possible way. We love us some Madness of Art!
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Friday is Fun Day: Nice Package
Friday, March 25, 2011
Today's Fun Day is the "Nice Package" edition.
Oooh, special fitted foam blocks for mailing iPhones...oooohhhh....nice package.
But the Rob Carter Award goes to Rob Carter for the above packing job. That fitted foam block was nice, but this custom-made cardboard creation is divine.
Rob, I hope you're teaching those kids a thing or two about "bubbles out" right now at Brown.
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Stas Orlovski: the opening!
Friday, March 25, 2011
A steady stream of visitors poured in to see Stas Orlovski's House and Garden open last night at Mixed Greens. We also celebrated the debut of Mikhail Iliatov's window installation, Rembrandt Flyby (Parts 1 & 2). SHOUT OUT to Fatta Cuckoo for the delectable post-opening eats!
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Final touches on Mikhail Iliatov's installation
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Our intern Jessie, above, helps put the finishing touches on Mikhail Iliatov's Rembrandt Flyby (Parts 1 & 2). Tiny sensors are hidden throughout the gallery and will be tabulating how long gallery visitors stand in front of the artwork on view.
Rob is working to hide the last of the wires from the tech savvy project. The final tabulations will be visible on digital counters in the windows of Mixed Greens (viewable from 26th Street).
More on Mikhail's project, from the press release:
Rembrandt Flyby (parts 1 & 2), uses sensors and hardware, stealthily installed throughout Stas Orlovski’s solo exhibition
(part 1) and Sonya Blesofsky’s solo exhibition (part 2), to tabulate how many people stand in front of each piece and for how long. The number of people and the average viewing duration for each artwork displays in the Mixed Greens’ windows as a series of flickering numbers. While the numbers may appear to reference something tangible, they are truly attempting to quantify the intangible: appreciation, contemplation, and meditation occurring in front of a work of art. Is anyone willing to spend thirty minutes standing in front of speakers, or a work or art, or the gallery windows? Iliatov is attempting to find out.
SHOUT OUT to Boing Boing for spreading the word!
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Wednesday links!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
We're major fans of Rafael Rozendaal's Finger Battle iPhone/iPad app, and we were SHOCKED and saddened to hear about the Android ripoff. Ripoffs are lame.Not art related, but Chris Brown freaked out at GMA??
Charlotte Burns (The Art Newspaper) has the clearest rundown of the Cariou copyright case (Cariou v. Prince) victory.
Montmarte burned down??!?? :(
Mary Temple's Northwest Corner, Southwest Light, currently on view at Rice University, inspired a musical composition and performance (by students!)
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Installation: ABuzz!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The gallery is abuzz with Mikhail Iliatov's installation process. It's an electronic mine field! The installation of Iliatov's interactive window installation Rembrandt Fly-By (Parts 1 & 2) is currently underway and will be ready for tomorrow night's opening. Check it out tomorrow night, 6-8pm at Mixed Greens.
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Stas Orlovkski's Installation underway, and news!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Stas Orlovski's paintings have arrived from Los Angeles and they are being stretched as I type this. We're nearly ready to go--hope to see you at the opening on Thursday night. Info below.
Stas Orlovksi
House and Garden
March 24 - April 23, 2011
opening reception Thursday, March 24, 6-8pm at Mixed Greens
AND....click the "read more" to find out which Mixed Greens artist's sister is in the news....
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BAM! (auction)
Monday, March 21, 2011
Folks, it's that time again! It's the Brooklyn Academy of Museum's Silent Auction (BAMart "Bidding For Good" Silent Auction!) You can preview the silent auction here.
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Greenblatt-Wexler presents
Monday, March 21, 2011
No plans Friday night? Say no more. Info below.
Greenblatt-Wexler
"Anthropomorphized"
Opening: Friday, March 25th, 8-10pm
Ground Floor Workshop
327 Grand St.
Brooklyn, NY
http://groundfloorny.com/
"Anthropomorphized" is a series of posters exploring formal attributes that
embody a variety of physical and emotional responses to content.
The project stems from an ongoing investigation of historical uses of the
human body in graphic design, images of paper in the history of poster
design and contemporary uses of trompe l’oeil.
Greenblatt-Wexler is a graphic design studio based in New York City.
Be there or be square (like, literally).
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SHOUT OUT: TWI-NY
Friday, March 18, 2011
SHOUT OUT to "This Week in New York", a/k/a TWI-NY.com for their awesome review of Coke Wisdom O'Neal's Blue Nude. Check it out here.TAGS:
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What a day for art-related news!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Lots going on, folks....and mostly on Artinfo.comNational Arts Club and dead birds. And they're not talking about the taxidermied kind.via Artinfo.
Anthony Caro disowns a sculpture of his that's heading to auction--he calls it "mutilated". Hmm, wonder what that will do to the auction results...
Why do I not feel badly for Mr. Brainwash? He's been sued. via The Art Newspaper.
James Franco is either manipulating all of us with his "performance art", or, he just wasn't really that great of a presenter. Ben Davis' awesome article here.
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the fairs: the rundown
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Hyperallergic was really feelin' VOLTA.Art Fag City also decides that VOLTA narrowly surpasses PULSE. But PULSE certainly gets a mention. [and SHOUT OUT to AFC for this posting of Fair-related Craiglist Missed Connections]
The Art Dossier made a very handy listing of "must sees" for each of the fairs. We were especially happy that Mary Temple's "Currency" project in our Mixed Greens booth was selected!
"The Verge of Catastrophe"??? oh lordy, what a title. Seems Artinfo.com (and possibly a lot of other people) weren't thrilled with Verge.
Nicer things were said about the Moving Image fair.
And Pulse was "playful"--second floor? there was a second floor? I must have missed that.
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iPad: WINNING!
Monday, March 07, 2011
According to Artinfo.com, the iPad was this art fair season's biggest winner. WINNING. EVERYDAY.
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Kim Beck's "Space Available"--the installation!
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Space Available, Kim Beck's site-specific installation for The High Line is currently underway! Kim just sent us the above photo of the labor-intensive project. Yayyy! More photos coming soon. Space Available opens March 4, 2011--get ready to start scanning the skyline!
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Kim Beck: The High Line !
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Check out this awesome video of Kim Beck on The High Line (she talks about her upcoming site-specific project, Space Available) SHOUT OUT to The High Line blog for the video. Read more about Kim's project here.
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Art Fair Week: Getting Ready
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Art Fair Week is about to commence. Here's hoping for a successful season!
The installations around town have already begun to "invade".
Art Fag City's got their comprehensive Fair Guide up.
Mark your calendars for Friday's evening's Dependent Fair.
The Artinfo blog, InTheAir, is ready-set-go for blogging the fair news.
Salon Zurcher??
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and SHOUT OUTS!
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
SHOUTING OUT to:The Highline Blog for this fantastic video of Kim Beck! (she's talking about her upcoming High Line project, Space Available) [and an extra shout out to Curbed NY blog...we heard you guys re-blogged it too. thanks!!]
and to:
Vox Populi in Philadelphia for hosting the panel "Fact and Fiction in the Landscape" (info below)
Sunday, February 27th at 3pm at Vox Populi in Philadelphia
Artist Talk with Mike Calway-Fagen, Slinko, Alyssa Taylor Wendt, Letha Wilson
Moderated by Rachel and Trevor Reese
Vox Populi
319 N. 11th Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA
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Kim Beck in Art in America
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Check out this Art in America article on Kim Beck's upcoming project Space Available for The High Line.
Also, be sure to swing by the VOLTA fair this weekend. We're in booth G-6. (yep, fly like a G-6..like a G-6. That song is still stuck in my head from the Miami fairs.)
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