Author: sasukakir
OIL
Kiss Concert Parking Area
Edward Burtynsky’s new work, Oil, is on the move, currently in New York’s Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery and DC’s Corcoran, and soon to appear in Amsterdam at Huis Marseille. Down the calendar a bit, shows are scheduled in Canada and Scotland, as well. You can get the idea from his website, linked below, but of course you really need to be in the room with these large prints for maximum effect.
Lean On It And Die
John Giorno – I Don’t Need It, I Don’t Want It, And You Cheated Me Out Of It
Filled With Love And Punishment
That’s Right: 80
Lest you dismiss Hello Kitty as a simple children’s franchise, consider a few things with me here. The design is 35 years old now. Celebrating this, 80 artists, including heavy hitters like Ron English, responded to Sanrio’s call to “interpret their creative vision of Hello Kitty” for the anniversary. The link below is to Reuters’ wire item on this. You see what I’m saying? Hello Kitty is foweals, mang. So you can be a hater or a celebrator, but you can no longer turn a blind eye.
PS: Regarding the “three apples” measure, as the Smurfs are EVEN OLDER than HK, does this mean Sanrio was biting Hanna Barbera’s steez on this? Cute connoisseurs: weigh in.
Ha ha.
If You Name The Baby “Justin”
This is like jjjjound without the materialism, and with a slightly darker taste. Both favorite brainbreakfasts. What’s in a name, hey?
Can’t- Stop! Cut- Broadband!
This is worse (better?) than TED. Online playground for the curious, Sputnik Observatory is a Jonathan Harris project, which means, for one thing, compulsive “page turning”. Part of it is the flexible navigation. Part of it is the ability to store your path. And part of it is that the only thing we love more than listening to smart people talk about cool concepts, is having the clip of the smart person start and finish in under two minutes. Enter at your own (productivity) risk.
Such As It Is
Observant and True
Please go visit my longtime fave Kelly Mark, and then lobby for her new work (It’s Just One God Damn Thing After Another, just wrapped from the Diaz in Toronto) to come to your town. You won’t be sorry. Interdisciplinary conceptual work that is simple but clever, observant and true. Above is Glow House #3, not part of the current show, but I cannot pass up any opportunity to show it to people, so….
Glorifying the Gak
Image from Please step quietly everyone can hear you
© All rights reserved Trent Parke 2009 Australia pigment print
Artabase tells us of a smashing show opening presently. Magnum photog Trent Parke shoots behind the scenes at the Sydney Opera House, glorifying the gak. You have until February to make the Forecourt.
Even More Legendary 
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