SPACES

links for 2010-07-27

Nicole Edwards — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:05:41 +0000

Is your museum a commons or a zoo? (Still Water blog)

"In the market paradigm found in museum gift shops and universities dining halls, common spaces are often designed to attract visitors to spend money. In the zoo paradigm, as exemplified by Facebook, exhibiting private behaviors in public is the engine for a hidden economy. In a tribe, meanwhile, the purpose of economic transactions is to cement social bonds, rather than the other way ’round."

(tags: museum art.spaces commons museology social.sculpture)

We have moved!

Nicole Edwards — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:12:19 +0000

No worries. We didn’t move far: Get your portal into the inner-workings of SPACES at bloggedupspaces.org. We’re waiting for you.

#DailyArtDose South Africa Round-Up

Nicole Edwards — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:40:35 +0000

“TV Room” by Gabrielle Goliath
Week of July 5

Avant Car Guard: whatiftheworld.com
Gabrielle Goliath: gabriellegoliath.com
Mary Sibande: gallerymomo.com
Lyndi Sales: gallerymomo.com

#DailyArtDose South Africa Round-Up

Nicole Edwards — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:51:39 +0000

…The Naivety of Beiruth, Athi-Patra Ruga (image via: artthrob.co.za)

Week of June 28

Athi-Patra Ruga: whatiftheworld.com
Frances Goodman: goodman-gallery.com
Anton Kannemeyer: michaelstevenson.com
Hobbs/Neustetter: onair.co.za
Andrzej Nowicki: whatiftheworld.com

links for 2010-07-01

Nicole Edwards — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:04:47 +0000

(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography: Museums as Money Laundering Institutions

Jim Johnson in regards to the protests surrounding BP funding of the arts: "I think we need to dispense with the moralism. What precisely is the alternative you propose? Government funding for the arts? Some sort of list of 'socially responsible' patrons? (How, in constructing such a list, do we decide which sins are the most egregious?) The art world (and the intellectual world more generally) is, let's face it thoroughly infused with commercial and political pressures. What is the alternative you are proposing?" (via the Art Law Blog)

(tags: art.funding politics)

#DailyArtDose South Africa Round-Up

Nicole Edwards — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:12:15 +0000

Resurrection Series 2, Lawrence Lemaoana (image via: brodiestevenson.com)

Week of June 21

Rowan Smith: whatiftheworld.com
Anthea Moys: antheamoys.co.za
Cameron Platter: whatiftheworld.com
Lawrence Lemaoana: brodiestevenson.com
Sue Williamson: goodman-gallery.com

#DailyArtDose Round-Up

Nicole Edwards — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:11:01 +0000

The following #DailyArtDose clusters will feature several South African contemporary artists as we prepare for SWAP artist Nandipha Mntambo and celebrate The World Cup!

Zander Blom (image via: voltashow.com)

Week of June 14

Hasan & Husain Essop: goodman-gallery.com
Zander Blom: michaelstevenson.com
Marcus Neustetter: marcusneustetter.net
Bettina Malcomess: creativeafricanetwork.com & paulkleezentrum.ch
Meschac Gaba: michaelstevenson.com

links for 2010-06-20

Nicole Edwards — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:04:08 +0000

Subway Sandwich Artist's Statement (Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency)

"I haven't worked extensively in roast beef—I'm more experienced in turkey and ham—but recently I've learned a great deal experimenting in this new medium. I've been trying to push myself with new textures and colors. I love the way the meat has a sort of iridescence that dances across its surface like the dusk-red sun atop the stippled sea."

(tags: humor Subway sandwiches Timothy.McSweeney)

links for 2010-06-18

Nicole Edwards — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:04:44 +0000

Utah firing squad death announced on Twitter (BBC News)

Shortly after midnight in the US state of Utah, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff picked up his Apple iPhone, opened up a Twitter "app" on his handset and began tweeting.

Instead, Mr Shurtleff used Twitter to announce that most important of all things: the death of a human being, convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner.

(tags: Twitter Utah)
José Saramago, Nobel Prize-Winning Novelist, Has Died – ArtsBeat Blog (NYTimes.com)

José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, his publisher said on Friday. He was 87.

(tags: José.Saramago Nobel.Prize obituary literature)

links for 2010-06-14

Nicole Edwards — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:08:08 +0000

Guggenheim and YouTube Seek Budding Video Artists (NYTimes.com)

"Beginning Monday anyone with access to a video camera and a computer will have an opportunity to catch the eye of a Guggenheim curator and vie for a place in a video-art exhibition in October at all of the foundation’s museums: the Solomon R. Guggenheim in New York, the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice."

(tags: call.for.entries video.art Guggenheim You.Tube)

#DailyArtDose Round-Up

Nicole Edwards — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 01:06:58 +0000

Buffy vs Edward by Josh McIntosh

Week of June 7

Ezra Li Eismont: ezrali.com
Lawrence Lemaoana: brodiestevenson.com
Nikhil Chopra: grosvenorgallery.com
Jon McIntosh: rebelliouspixels.com
Grace Grothaus: gracegrothaus.com

#DailyArtDose Round-Up

Nicole Edwards — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:52:28 +0000

Image via: yuoiea.com

Week of May 31

Fluent Collaborative: fluentcollab.org
subRosa: cyberfeminism.net
“Limited Run” by Laura Nova: limitedrunproject.com
Subject of Learning | Object of Study by Anna Craycroft: yuoiea.com

#DailyArtDose Round-Up

Nicole Edwards — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:09:08 +0000

Image via: treehugger.com, dezeen.com, despoke.com

Week of May 24

Trappings: By Two Girls Working: twogirlsworking.com
Sama Alshaibi: samaalshaibi.com
Tannaz Farsi: tannazfarsi.com
Design 99: The Neighborhood Machine: visitdesign99.com
Jia-jen Lin: jiajenlin.info

Week of May 17

Monique Besten: moniquebesten.nl
Cecelia Phillips: celiaphillips.com
Stewards of the Lost Lands: stewardsoflostlands.blogspot.com
Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai World Expo 2010: treehugger.com
SITO’s Gridcosm: sito.org

links for 2010-05-25

Nicole Edwards — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:06:22 +0000

Redesigning the Boarding Pass – Journal – Boarding Pass / Fail

Hello there. Thanks for flying Delta. I am sure you are no doubt trying to figure out what the *$#% to do with the piece of paper you have in your hand right now. You're confused, lost, and just want to get on your flight. It's cool, we don't really care, and we sure as hell don't want to make this process easy and enjoyable for you. Instead we hired a small, blind parakeet to lay out your boarding pass–you know, just to keep you guessing. Have fun.

(tags: design typography redesign infographics)
At NEA, a daring idea to help artists rises again (The Denver Post)

"Current NEA chairman Rocco Landesman, a no-nonsense former Broadway producer, has openly floated the notion of reinstating those individual artist fellowships. The issue, he says with certainty, is not dead.

"'In many ways, the question of supporting individual artists is the question for any chairman of the NEA,' Landesman said via e-mail."

(tags: National.Endowment.for.the.Arts Rocco.Landesman art.funding)

links for 2010-05-23

Nicole Edwards — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:04:59 +0000

Everyone Else Outsources, So Why Can't The Arts? : NPR

"In Columbus, Ohio, a number of arts groups are doing what American businesses started [...] outsourcing. [T]hey're handing over the "back office" to the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts, or CAPA. CAPA handles their finances, marketing, ticketing and fundraising — basically all the stuff that artists don't really like to do anyway. "

(tags: economy arts.administration CAPA Columbus Ohio)