Category: Link + Ink

Link + Ink: Quick Read Edition

2/21/2016

LOCAL
- "Our own little golden Stonehenge. A prism generator from the mirror funhouse. " So opens Dawn Michelle Baude's review on Audrey Barcio’s Continual Eventual. I LVWeekly

- Life Is Beautiful red ink is running at $10 million in its first three years, but its not a reason to worry. It is said it takes least three years to break even. The 2015 numbers will be released soon writes Alan Snel for Las Vegas Review-Journal.

- An Roadside America app guides you through the "quirky side of Las Vegas." Some of the nuggets are murals I KNPR

WEST

- Scott Haskins has been saving L.A.’s vintage murals. He has poked around Las Vegas it seems I ARTSY

- 'A Bruised San Bernardino Shows Cultural Stirrings' looks at California State University, San Bernardino professors, Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern, using three years of documenting grassroots public art to be a starting point for healing a town. I NYTimes

- Los Angeles Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne reported on Wednesday LACMA has received the 1963 John Lautner-designed Sheats-Goldstein house near Beverly Hills.

- 4,000 sketches by the artist, poet, activist, educator and muralist, José Montoya, now on display at The Fowler I LATimes

- Street art is needed to fulfill Tulsa Oklahoma's Hipster portfolio, says Tulsa World. One cannot be trendy with irascible baristas, dive music bars, and tattoos alone.

- Don't mess with Texas Public Art funding, warns this op-ed at MySA.

REST OF U.S.

- In Alabama, officials are still trying to decide what to do with two murals that represent the Old South, that some call racist are close to a decision I WBRC + Birmingham Times

New York Times with strong interactive feature on Robert Ryman I NYT

ONE MORE FROM THE WEST
Glasstire, an outstanding visual arts blog from Texas, polled University of Houston students for their opinion of the campus public art collection. "Somebody got lucky and got a commission," offers one critic.

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Link & Ink: Random Reading Edition

1/25/2016

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"Brown Water, Flint, Michigan, Special Delivery" by J Michael Walker.

The Contemporary Arts Center returns with "Taste." Las Vegas Weekly + Paint This Desert

If MGM Resorts charge for parking maybe they can fund some sort of public art. Case study: A parking lot in Florida. I The Creators Project

English Mixed media artist Carolina Shrewsbury will add another mural to the City of Ely portfolio. I Ely News

Jane Kim first got attention for Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep murals. Now Kim is unveiling a natural history mural at Cornell Lab of Ornithology that showcases species from every modern bird family I Outside Online + Ink Dwell + Wall of Birds Project

"A mural of Steve Jobs by the street artist Banksy on a wall in the Calais “Jungle,” aimed at highlighting Europe’s refugee crisis, has been defaced." I TelegraphUK

Banksy mural "criticising the apparent use of teargas on refugees in the Calais 'Jungle' camp" boarded up by authorities I BBC

A trailer containing paintings, prints and sculptures by Joan Miro, Leroy Neiman, Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse was stolen from an industrial park in Los Angeles, the LAPD Art Theft Detail announced in a crime alert.
ArtNet

The Hammer Museum announced the lineup for its third "Made in L.A." biennial and it will be "formed largely by artists who resist or defy categorization, challenging notions of what an L.A. artist is." I LATimes

"Do Outsider Artists Really Exist?" asks ArtNet
Yes, they do, says NYTimes

"Pan-American Unity” Diego Rivera mural in San Francisco will be alive again I NBC Bay Area + SF Gate

Mirko Ilić and Steven Heller’s "Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters from Around the World" explores international approaches to selling Shakespeare through advertising and graphic design." I Hyperallergic

Photo by Alyse Emdur.

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission worked with LA Commons to map Willowbrook, a hidden neighborhood in South Los Angeles I Forecast Public Art

The performer’s hands, isolated on a screen, have a life of their own, the long, slender fingers nervously, gracefully, twitching and fluttering, climbing the air in a kind gestural coloratura." Richard Pryor as art installation I NYTimes

Frozen Dad jeans as temporary pop up public art I CityLab

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Link + Ink: Good Readin' Edition

1/8/2016

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"A Czech grandmother on Ellis Island.: Art and photo by JR. Courtesy of National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument.

"Ellis" is the 14-minute film starring Robert De Niro, written by Academy Award winner Eric Roth, directed by street artist JR, that premiered at the New Yorker Film Festival in October 2015. Reviewed at Whitehot.

Reviews: "Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art"
THUMBS UP: "[Director James] Crump does a terrific job of detailing the aesthetic and intellectual motivations of this loose movement: concern for the environment, continuation of the 'What is art?' inquiries of earlier 20th-century forms and disillusionment with galleries and with the art scene in general. This film provides short but satisfying sketches of intriguing individuals like the artists Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Charles Ross, Nancy Holt and the arts patron Virginia Dwan. The relative isolation in which these artists worked makes them seem more maverick iconoclasts than actual 'troublemakers,' but it’s not my title to choose."
Glen Kenny for NYTimes
THUMBS DOWN: "But there needs to be more context and more criticism. From where did these artists emerge? What did their work push other artists to do in the following years, up until the present day? Are there things that they did wrong? Very little of this is addressed in 'Troublemakers,' which takes a narrow focus and tells the same story we’ve heard before."
Craig Hubert for BlouinArtInfo

Michael Heizer "Circular Surface" El Mirage Dry Lake, 1969. Photograph © Gianfranco Gorgoni, 2014.

A lawsuit greeted Richard Prince in the new year, reports Hyperallergic. "Following the appropriation artist’s unauthorized use in 2014 of a picture of a Rastafarian smoking, its photographer, Donald Graham, is now suing Prince."

Screenshot of NYTimes.

"Robert Irwin’s Big Visions, Barely Seen" is the long form story by Randy Kennedy at the NY Times : "Turning away from painting, he became one of the best-known members of the ’60s Southern California movement known as Light and Space, whose practitioners, including James Turrell, John McCracken, Doug Wheeler and Helen Pashgian, pioneered a kind of work that turned away from objects and how they might be perceived and focused instead on the experience of perception itself." SIDE NOTE: Irwin spoke at UNLV December 10.

COACHELLA ADJACENT: "Ever since Ed Ruscha and friends threw a Royal typewriter out the window of a speeding Buick LeSabre near Los Angeles for his 1967 photographic book, 'Royal Road Test,' the impact of the California desert has been visible in his work," writes the NYTimes. Ruscha is on the board of Desert X, aka Desert Exhibition of Art, the nonprofit group planning a biennial-like exhibition in the Palm Springs area timed to overlap with Modernism Week and the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Writer-curator Neville Wakefield will be the artistic director for the first event.

"Royal Road Test" 1967 © Ed Ruscha

You know of Saul Bass. Meet Don Record, the forgotten Hollywood title designer and graphic artist I PRINT

A trickster snuck this toy VW in this beetle collection at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. I Laughing Squid

Ben Lerner on "the dematerialization of the art object in conceptual practice." I New Yorker

KNIGHT LIKE: "Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots" at the Dallas Museum of Art is an exciting and enlightening writes Christopher Knight. "The show covers just a small slice of the artist's career. But the black paintings, successful or not, represent Pollock's determined struggle not to fall apart."

KNIGHT NO-LIKE: "I've tried with Gustave Caillebotte. Really, I have" writes Knight in the LA Times. "How can an artist who painted a couple of truly brilliant knockouts also have painted such a boatload of mediocrity?"

RANDOM SHOT TOO INTERESTING NOT TO SHARE: Snowy Owl in Montreal photo bombs a traffic camera January 3. It has gone viral. There is video too. I CBC

"Latin American art history is one of the biggest growth fields in art history, but that’s not the case for US Latinos. I’ve only been able to identify six full professors. Actually only one of them teaches Chicano or Latino art full time. Meaning that they are also, like me, Latin Americanists, most of them. Most of the people that teach US Latino art history, they’re incorporating American artists, meaning non-Latino in a comparative framework." Dr. Adriana Zavala interview at Hyperallergic by Seph Rodney.