Celebrating 70 posts with a project space update and some images from Art School (Dismissed)



Looking forward, looking back: 12 years of the Serpentine Summer Pavilion (a typology)


images: Peter Zumthor, 2011; Rem Koolhaas, 2006; Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron, 2012


Water, Fire, Earth and Air: Isabelle Hayeur, Pascal Grandmaison, and Martin Bordeau at the airy new Arsenal Toronto

images:

Pascal Grandmaison, image from Void View series, 2010, inkjet print, 22.5 x 15 inches

Isabelle Hayeur, Chemical Coast 2, 2011, inkjet print mounted on aluminum, 51 x 72 inches, courtesy Galerie Division

Martin Bordeau, Sans Titre, 2011, oil on canvas, courtesy Galerie Division 


May Day: Occupy the art movement (chapter two)


photos: The Illuminator, Workers of the World Unite guerilla projection in New York, May Day
Rob Cicetti for Hyperallergic, Art Strike banner in Union Square, NYC 


WTF is a Wayzgoose? (and WNYBAC, for that matter?)


images: Handprinted posters from the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative


The joyful woodcuts and collages of Naoko Matsubara


images: Naoko Matsubara, Sky on Sky, 2008, 69cm x 86.5cm; Arctic Twilight A, 1987, 80cm x 56cm;Nova Scotia, 1994, 80cm x 56cm; Summer Garden B, 2008, 95cm x 120cm



44 from the virtual floor of VIP Paper, part 2


images: Jacques Villon, Le cake-walk des petites filles, (trial proof), 1904, drypoint and aquatint in colors, 12 x 16 1/2 inches; Howard Hodgkin, Bleeding, 1982, lithograph with hand colouring in gouache, 35 53/64 x 48 27/64 inches, edition of 100; Yun-Fei Ji, Nine Women, 2006, mineral pigments and ink on mulberry paper, 24 1/2 x 54 1/2 inches


44 from the virtual floor of VIP Paper, part 1


images: John Baldessari, 2623 Third Street, Santa Monica, 2000, suite of four color lithographs with screenprint, overall dimensions 54 x 54 inches, edition of 61; Mickalene Thomas, Landscape Majestic, 2011, woodblock, silkscreen and digital photo collage, 52 x 68 5/8 inches, edition of 30; Brion Nuda Rosch, Untitled (Aldous Huxley), 2010, acrylic on paper on found book page, 11 x 8 1/2 inches; Richard Diebenkorn, Blue With Red, 1987, color woodcut, 37 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches, edition AP 2/20; Imi Knoebel, Untitled (#’s 2-5), 1996, suite of 4 color lithographs with stencil and hand-printing, each 24 x 16 inches, edition of 60 


Two quotes for Tuesday (and some artwork by Jordan Kasey)


images: Jordan Kasey, eclipse, 2008, oil on canvas, 77 x 65 inches; backlit figure, 2009, oil on canvas, 44 x 35 inches 


Michael Dumontier: the middle of the air (plus Ken Nicol’s 1000 Fuck Ups)


images: Michael Dumontier, the middle of the air, exhibition view at MKG127 gallery, photo by Shani ParsonsMichael Dumontier, Untitled (folded corner), foil stamp on fabric, 2012 


Ambiguous Figures: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, part 3


images: Dorothea Tanning, Hôtel du Pavot, Chambre 202 (Poppy Hotel, Room 202), 1970-73, fabric, wool, synthetic fur, cardboard, and ping pong balls, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Rainy-Day Canapé, 1970-73, upholstered chair, tweed, and wool, 31.5 x 47.25 x 33.5 inches, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris


Ambiguous Figures: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, part 2


images: Max Ernst, The Couple, 1923, oil and collage on cut printed reproductions on paper mounted on cardboard, 20.3 x 25 cm, courtesy Galerie Daniel Malingue, ParisAmbiguous Figures (1 Copper Plate, 1 Zinc Plate, 1 Rubber Cloth…), ca. 1919–1920, collage, gouache, India ink, pencil, and paint on print mounted on paperboard, 25.4 x 18.5 cm, collection Michael and Judy Steinhardt, New York

…Ambiguous Figures: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, part 1
…images: Dorothea Tanning, Amagansett, New York, photograph by Robert Motherwell, 1945, © Dedalus Foundation, Inc.


Ambiguous Figures: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning, part 1


images: Dorothea Tanning, Amagansett, New York, photograph by Robert Motherwell, 1945, © Dedalus Foundation, Inc.

…Air America: Mesmerizing wind map by hint.fm
…image: screenshot of wind patterns from March 14, 2012 


Air America: Mesmerizing wind map by hint.fm


image: screenshot of wind patterns from March 14, 2012 


Object Lessons at Proteus Gowanus


images: selected objects from the Object Migration exhibition (top: petrified gas bubble (or, as their website so eloquently puts it, “50 million year old dinosaur fart”), bottom right: hat for one very lucky cat); photos by Shani K Parsons