"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.
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Buy this house in Gloucestershire. It comes with a Banksy I ITV News
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| "000ART" 2016. Text and type installation, metal on vehicle. | "Mobile Picasso" 2016 Billboard LED truck on The Strip. | "Pile of Leaves With Brick" 2015. Installation Grant Hall Gallery |
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