And speaking of Damien Hirst:
In other words, some people are concerned that a tank full of formaldehyde with a dead shark in it may be leaking formaldehyde fumes. Shocked, shocked I am.
Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Art, damn it, art! watch (#51 in a series)
Thursday, April 21st, 2016This brought a much needed smile to my face.
Thursday, April 14th, 2016Art, damn it, art! watch (#50 in a series)
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015I don’t remember how this originally came up – I’m pretty sure it was by way of someone’s Twitter – but over the weekend Mike the Musicologist and were discussing odd gingerbread constructions. I wouldn’t exactly call them “houses”…
I got to wondering: has anyone ever done a gingerbread Fallingwater?
That would be a “yes”, Bob. And the conversation moved on from there. But I had it in the back of my mind: could you do a gingerbread Guggenheim? Doesn’t seem like it should be that hard, should it?
The answer is also “yes”.
And a gingerbread Tate Modern. And five other museums.
(Now I want to do a gingerbread Reichstag. Mostly because at the end of the Christmas season (which, as we all know, is January 6th), I can pour brandy on it and set it on fire.)
Art, damn it, art! watch (#49 in a series)
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015By way of Borepatch: Cassius Marcellus Coolidge’s most famous work sold at auction for $658,000.
Sotheby’s auction link. Yes, that did include the buyer’s premium.
Short random notes: September 24, 2015.
Thursday, September 24th, 2015James Mee has his job back.
I feel sure I’ve written about this before, but I can’t find the post now. Mr. Mee was a deputy with the LA County Sheriff’s Office. He was fired because of his alleged involvement in a police chase that ended when the vehicle he was supposedly chasing crashed into a gas station.
At least, that was the claim. So why was he really fired? Well, Mr. Mee was also one of the officers who arrested Mel Gibson back in 2006.
This one’s for Lawrence: Frank Gehry is working on a project to rehabilitate the Los Angeles River. This has some people upset.
(Obligatory. Plus, the video I’ve linked to before has been taken down, so call this a bookmark.)
Random notes: July 15, 2015.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2015Art, damn it, art! watch (#48 in a series)
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015Apparently, the Detroit PD doesn’t want Shepard Fairey extradited from California to face vandalism charges there. (Previously.)
This comes by way of a LAT think piece:
Perhaps I am naive. Perhaps I shouldn’t try to be an art critic. But it seems to me that there’s a very simple answer to the “art or vandalism” question: if you have permission from the property owner, it is art. If you don’t, it is vandalism.
Speaking of art being above the law, Joe Gibbons was sentenced yesterday.
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After action report: Spokane, WA.
Saturday, June 27th, 2015The Smith and Wesson Collector’s Association annual symposium was in Spokane this year.
…it’s the hole.
Thursday, May 21st, 2015From the NYT, a short documentary about Chris Burden and “Shoot”.
Obit watch: May 11, 2015.
Monday, May 11th, 2015Conceptual artist Chris Burden.
(Edited to add 5/12: NYT.)
I’ve touched on Mr. Burden and his work before, particularly the notorious “Shoot”. This is one work I was not aware of:
Art, damn it, art! watch. (#47 in a series)
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015Headline:
Dead Drops: what to do if you see a USB stick sticking out of a wall
Stop! Don’t touch! Tell an adult!
But I digress.
I’m not going to say this is the dumbest idea I’ve heard recently. But it is in the top 100.
(Per the DeadDrops.com database, there are six of these within 100 km of Austin. Five are marked as broken or missing. The sixth is actually in Bastrop. While it is marked as working, the status hasn’t been updated since 2011.)
After action report: Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Monday, November 17th, 2014I’ve sort of hinted at this, but now the full story can be told.
Mike the Musicologist and I went on a road trip to Oklahoma the weekend of November 8th.
Gehry watch.
Friday, October 17th, 2014Random notes: October 3, 2014.
Friday, October 3rd, 2014I’m a big fan of both Jimmy Stewart and Carol Burnett, so this makes me very happy. (I have family in the area around Indiana, Pennsylvania, but I’ve never had the chance to visit the Jimmy Stewart Museum. Perhaps I will remedy this on a future visit.)
Five rules for viewing art, damn it, art! There’s much here that I agree with; seek silence, take your time, do some research. On the other hand, I don’t see anything wrong with purchasing postcards or posters at the gift shop. I do think the rubber van Gogh ear is a bit over the top.
This bothers me as well, but I’m not sure I can articulate why. I need to think on it some more.
TMQ Watch: August 12, 2014.
Thursday, August 14th, 2014And so is TMQ. And so is TMQ Watch. The first column of the NFL season is always kind of strange; there’s a lot of short items, basketball coverage, and other things that throw us for a loop. We’re probably not going to hit every one of TMQ’s throwaway quips. And yes, we’re aware that TMQ did a couple of draft columns; we looked at those and frankly didn’t find anything noteworthy in them. One was his usual silly mock draft, the other was his draft analysis, and both contained the recommended US daily allowance of TMQ tropes.
Anyway, back to this week’s TMQ, after the jump…