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John Wood and Paul Harrison’s One More Kilometre via...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:01:31 -0400

John Wood and Paul Harrison’s One More Kilometre via todayandtomorrow

Pretty cool little ‘trailer’ for the Milstein...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:15:06 -0500

Pretty cool little ‘trailer’ for the Milstein Division of the New York Public Library, created by our friends at Illustrated Radio. Jon helped out on the shoot, and a bit of his music and sound editing ended up in there as well… fun stuff!

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History has secrets - and you can unlock them at the Library. That’s the theme of this pretty darn amazing new “suspense trailer” highlighting our incredible Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy (which is often featured on the show “Who Do You Think You Are?” and can be used to trace family histories). Just watch it - it’s awesome.

Our friends Colin & Shanai at Works Progress recently put...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:00:05 -0500

Our friends Colin & Shanai at Works Progress recently put out this beautiful film as part of the McKnight foundation’s 30-year-anniversary “State of the Artist” project:

When we set out on our State of the Artist Documentary Project, working with some of the McKnight Artist Fellows of the past 30 years, we immediately saw a chance to satisfy our own curiosity about Bill Cottman and his family. We’d met Bill, his wife Beverly, and their daughter Kenna last year when they performed an autobiographical piece under the name The Ways Ensemble at a Give & Take event we organized in North Minneapolis. We were immediately struck by their story.

Take a moment to watch it, and read more about it on the State of the Artist blog.

albertovalis: Edison’s workshop Not quite there yet…

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:12:56 -0500

albertovalis:

Edison’s workshop

Not quite there yet…

Performa Magazine: Pina Bausch’s “Rite of Spring” (1975), as...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:52:05 -0500

Performa Magazine:

Pina Bausch’s “Rite of Spring” (1975), as referenced in “Wim Wenders’ Pina and the Rhythm of Loss”, by Jennifer Piejko.

You can also find more of her work on good ‘ol Ubuweb, including Café Müller (also referenced in Pina, as well as Pedro Almadóvar’s Hable con ella/Talk to her).

We scoped out these map paintings by Paula Scher during a field...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:05 -0500

Map of the World

Closeup of South-Central

We scoped out these map paintings by Paula Scher during a field trip to Chelsea galleries this past Saturday morning. Pretty rad.

{ fingers crossed }

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:28:13 -0500

{ fingers crossed }

Triple Canopy: Shall I compare thee to a pixel… UbuWeb’s...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:25:37 -0500

Triple Canopy:

Shall I compare thee to a pixel…

UbuWeb’s Kenneth Goldsmith experiments with splicing Shakespeare’s portrait with the bard’s digitized complete works.

Chris Burden’s Beam Drop at the Brazillian Inhotim...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:00:05 -0500

Chris Burden’s Beam Drop at the Brazillian Inhotim Instituto de Arte Contemporânea e Jardim Botânico, as documented by Pablo Lobato.

From the (Google) translated Portuguese on this listing, with some guesswork:

[This] video documents the performance made by the artist Chris Burden [at the Inhotim Institute of Contemporary Art and Botanical Gardens], which resulted in the work Inhotim Beam Drop (2008). Directed by Pablo Lobato, the video was produced [for] the Web.

Beam Drop (2008) is a large-format sculpture — located on top of a mountain — made of 71 construction beams thrown by a crane from a height of 45 meters into a ditch full of wet cement during a period of 12 hours. The random pattern of fallen beams formed the work, an interpretation of the gestures of abstract expressionism, while proposing a deconstruction of modern sculpture. This piece is the recreation in larger format of a work originally installed in 1984 at the Art Park in the State of New York, and destroyed in 1987.

(via hyde or die)

(via Justin Lincoln)

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:00:05 -0500

(via Justin Lincoln)

Concept art

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:29:52 -0500

Concept art

Hey, our project Station Identification was listed in the most...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:21:58 -0500

"Parks and Recreation"

Station Identification

Hey, our project Station Identification was listed in the most recent issue of Forecast’s Public Art Review (under “Recent Projects”). I’ll take that!

"Shh… the new radicalism is paper."

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:00:05 -0500

“Shh… the new radicalism is paper.”

- Kenneth Goldsmith

Anyone who has imbibed in the fermented fruits of Ubuweb might...

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:00:00 -0500

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Anyone who has imbibed in the fermented fruits of Ubuweb might not know they owe their art-drunken joy to the proxy efforts of one Kenneth Goldsmith. Mr. Goldsmith is a ‘conceptual poet’ and exhilarating art-theorist whose efforts push boundaries-freeing information and nurturing thought–the legacy of which we can only begin to grasp. It’s a rare soul who can break down a door and then prove it never existed in the first place. He is one such soul.

The Believer magazine interviewed Mr. Goldsmith for their October 2011 issue. We strongly encourage you to give it a read. It’s gripping.

Research.

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:04:06 -0500

Research.

Gordon Matta-Clarke - Splitting (1974)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:00:05 -0500

Gordon Matta-Clarke - Splitting (1974)

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The...

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:22:16 -0400

Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Rest in peace, Steve. Thanks for Everything. (via ckck)

Here’s shot of Jon troubleshooting his solenoid wiring at...

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:43:10 -0400

Here’s shot of Jon troubleshooting his solenoid wiring at the recent Art Hack Weekend at Eyebeam. Stay tuned for some more details about the project we whipped together over the weekend!

(photo: The Creators Project)

“A sustained … increase in Treasury rates would...

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:21:22 -0400

“A sustained … increase in Treasury rates would eventually cost U.S. taxpayers an additional $75 billion each year.”

— Matthew E. Zames, a managing director at JPMorgan Chase and the chairman of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee.

It’s starting to look like the debt ceiling might actually not get raised. If you really want to understand the potential consequences, learn more here and then do something about it.

Video

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:00:00 -0400