On a recent edition of NPR's "Talk of the Nation," Timothy P. Whalen, director of the Getty Conservation Institute, and
James Druzik, senior scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, shed some more light on contemporary art preservation practices. (via Sharon Butler)
I bemoan the changing colors in SFMOMA's collection of Clyfford Still paintings here.
Photo: Chris Ashley.
You do too? Then check out some images from his recent show at DC Moore, snapped by Martin Bromirski.
1. Headbangers pay attention to this: The herds of goats in the Oakland hills are not sacrificial, but prophylactic.
2. Louise Bourgeois's giant bronze spider (seen along SF's waterfront) is a prize winner says Americans for the Arts. Amy Trachtenberg's installation at a San Jose library is too.
Super interview with Paddy Johnson (up now on AFC) about his current show . Oh yeah, and he's got some designs on cafepress.
1. NYTimes sez Elizabeth Baker is stepping down at Art in America. The new owners have appointed Fabion Baron and Glenn O'Brien. O'Brien is witty and all that, but that magazine is soooo dull.
2. Yesterday Curbed SF reported that The Presidio Historical Association requested 150 days for public review of its Environmental Impact Statement on proposed Presidio prejects, up from 45. Rest of the story is here.
Some of my pals are having a busy summer. Why not check out what they’ve got up their sleeves:
Bob Robert Curcio (curcioprojects) is presenting two exhibitions -- Ginna Triplett: Little Mermaids, a solo exhibition and Walk-ins Welcome, an open call for East Village artists to exhibit in a salon style exhibition. Both at Umbrella Arts. Recent feature on Curcio in NY Arts is here.
Lisa Solomon is showing in Pattern reDefined at Walter Maciel Gallery. Also in Small Wonders at Garrison Baker Fine Art in New York. Additionally, she is included in the new book Contemporary Textiles.
Michael Hall is in JUNCTION: Recent works by Mills College MFA Grads at Swarm.
Jim Winters is a part of Kiki: The Proof Is In the Pudding. Kiki, if you don’t know, was a fanastically vital space in the Mission in the early 90s. (from the release: The late Rick Jacobsen (1961-1997), Kiki’s founder and director, turned his AIDS diagnosis into a second chance at life and opened a tiny space on 14th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District in the summer of 1993. Eighteen months later, declining health forced him to close the gallery, but in the meantime Kiki presented an amazing run of provocative, innovative shows. As an alternative to traditional San Francisco commercial galleries, Kiki was never a moneymaker, but Jacobsen curated exhibitions with audacious themes, discovered new artists, threw open the gallery to performance and conceptual work, and became a key player in the nascent Mission School movement, giving it a homocore dimension and a political edge born of his previous work with ACT UP and Queer Nation.)
Maria Porges is at it again. Porges and Jo Ford are jurying a show about the glory of the Golden State at OAG. From the release: “Artists are invited to create a single work about an experience or memory pertaining to California history. This memory can be personal or traditional/ collective, or evoke the “natural” history of the state.”
Show opens in September. You have some time, prospectus is here.
Me? I’m gonna send this painting. It's mostly about, as a kid, falling under the spell of my uncle who had moved out here in the 70s.
1. Really funny shit about being offended can be found here.
2. Dickinson College’s Library posts some images from the awful, awful Carlisle Indian School. Growing up, my grandfather told me a little about it. The whole story is here.
James Howard Kunstler has been tracking the bigger picture of the Iowa flood. He writes “As the presidential campaign moves into its final round, Americans may be hard-up for both food and gasoline…. America has only about a three-day supply of food in any of its supermarkets... That's bad enough without figuring in the 'unknowns' that could kick up American hardship a few more notches. The hurricane season just got underway -- obscured for the moment by the bigger weather story in Iowa."
Photo set on flickr expresses the enormity of the disaster. Donate something now.
photo: itsme312006
Want a preview of the upcoming Martin Puryear show? Mark Barry's got a swell photo set from its current stop, the National Gallery installation. Click over fast before a person with minimal authority emails him, demanding that he take them down.
06/09 thru 07/03.
