Mother's Little Helper

I'm not in New York right now, but if I were I'd check out Diamond Stingily at Queer Thoughts before it closed on the 19th.

Shirley Jaffe

The Door (2002)

Untitled (1985)

Untitled

Untitled (1993)

Untitled #17

Horizontal Black (2015)

Everyone is polite, but I'm always suspicious.

A confession: for years I avoided and even derided Keith Haring's work because of, I don't know, a Swatch collaboration? Because of a photo of him hanging out with Andy Warhol? It was foolish, to say the least, but what are young people if not foolish? Anyway, the Keith Haring Foundation has scanned all of his journals from 1971-1989 and have been steadily making them public. I have a soft spot for journals - Susan Sontag's and Leonard Michaels' are among some of my favorites. As someone who has had a journal since the age of six and is at times embarrassed by this, I have always felt comforted learning that someone else has kept one.

I've been thinking about Brancusi

Ellsworth Kelly and Maryam Nassir Zadeh

 

Left: Maryam Nassir Zadeh FW 2015

Right: Elsworth Kelly, Orange Relief with Green

Shiro Kuramata & his chairs

Neals Niat

Cameroon - Paris - Brussels

A short interview with the artist at African Digital Art.

Ettore Sottsass, 1985

I know the Memphis Group is having a big moment right now (and rightfully so!) but mi nah care - I woke up this morning thinking about Ettore Sottsass' sculpture.

Guy de Cointet

Color and colour

If you're in London for some reason, check out Hue: Color as Object. Color as Material. Color as Memory. at the Old Fire Station, which opened today and runs until February 28th. Also on the 28th is their lecture and demonstration about pigment, Making Color. Los Angeles has color too, kind of - Ace Hotel will be presenting Albers in Command on January 31st (tomorrow!), a celebration of Command Records, Enoch Light, Josef Albers, lounge music, modernism, graphic design, and records. It's not explicitly about color but Josef Albers, known for writing a list of colors used on the back of his work, wrote a treatise on color theory, Interaction of Color, around the same time that he was designing album covers for Command. There's also an Interaction of Color app that I've never used but refuse to delete, even in times of serious space-need.

There's probably another color thing I could put here but I need to go eat something, so

Art regret

Why why why hadn't I gone to the British Folk Art exhibit at the Tate Britain this past summer? SMH.

Jonas Wood, "Studio Bathroom" (2009)

Passionate politics

Jenn Witte drew bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody and Skylight Books sold it and I bought it

Gideon Rubin

A process of individual museumification

I recently had a conversation about exploitation for the sake of art and it made me think of this post from my old blog:

Roi Vaara, "The Artists Dilemma"

"The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every damn thing matters! It's just that we don't realize. We tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, we don't even realize that's a lie."
- from "Dentist" in Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño

Girl with a Bamboo Earring, Awol Erizku