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JR Mural Venice Boulevard, Los Angeles

JR's new mural located on Venice Boulevard (and Cattaragus), Los Angeles for "Wrinkles of the City Project".

 

Image via: The Dirt Floor

“Anybody who likes to look is someone I’m interested in spending time with.” Laurel Nakadate

“IT’S a little like sneaking around your old school,” Laurel Nakadatesaid, flashing a conspiratorial grin as she led a visitor up a staircase to the second floor of the repurposed school building that houses MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens. Closed and quiet on a mid-December day, that exhibition complex would soon display Ms. Nakadate’s first major museum show — “Only the Lonely,” opening Sunday — and she had just moved into a temporary studio there, across the hall from the galleries where the 10-year survey of her film, video and photography projects would be installed.

Trespassing, or at least pretending to, is nothing new for Ms. Nakadate. Her work often finds her doing things she probably shouldn’t, in places she probably should not be: strange men’s apartments, for example, hosting pretend birthday parties or posing for sketches in her underwear (and less) or acting out exorcisms; or at young womens’ bedsides, an unseen intruder attempting to coax them out of their sleepwear with a string of honeyed platitudes. Repeatedly testing the limits of sexual candor, gender dynamics and the lines between performance and real life — often all at once — Ms. Nakadate’s art pushes a mailbag’s worth of envelopes. But such pieces are not inspired, she said, simply by a desire to shock.

“I think it’s easy to misunderstand work that deals with someone going out into the world and trying to make sense of situations that they may or may not belong in,” Ms. Nakadate, 35, said as she pulled up a chair in her work space. “For me one of the primary motivations at the beginning of this work was going out into the world and meeting strangers. And whether I was meant to be part of their world or not, I just wanted to spend some time there.”

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Stories to Watch: Narrative in Medieval Manuscripts

The illuminators of medieval manuscripts found creative ways to tell stories through pictures. A sequence of illustrations was often linked on a page, or several parts of a tale were incorporated in a single image. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, February 22 - —May 15, 2011, Stories to Watch: Narrative in Medieval Manuscripts displays approximately 20 manuscripts and leaves with narrative illuminations from different periods and regions, presenting a fascinating variety of pictorial storytelling. 

"Although medieval illustrators used various techniques to help convey a story, the viewer still needed to interpret certain clues and complete the stories using his or her imagination," say Kristen Collins, associate curator of Manuscripts. "In this way, fixed images came alive for the viewer." 

Stories to Watch: Narrative in Medieval Manuscripts looks at the ingenious methods used in medieval manuscripts to visually convey crucial factors of narrative, including the drama of decisive moments, the development of events through time, and verbal interaction. 

via: artdaily.com

Bear, Sheep, Wolf, Woman, Rug

 

Jamie Isenstein 

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Andrew Kreps Gallery

'Passion in Venice'

"Passion in Venice:

Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese,"on view at

The Museum of Biblical Art (through June 12,2011).

This exhibition examines the image of Christ as the man of sorrows, in Venitian art. 

It includes prints, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, sculptures, and liturgical objects.

"The Rat Pit"

New York after the Civil War had a feral edge.

Amid the poverty, crime, and gangs that packed the Bowery, Five Points, and waterfront districts, a brutal pastime reached new heights in popularity: rat-baiting—pitting a terrier against a rat until they fought to the death.

And no dive was more famous for its rat-baiting than Kit Burns’ Sportsmen’s Hall at 273 Water Street (illustrated at right and below).

“The pits, at Kit Burns’ and elsewhere, were unscreened boxes, with zinc-lined wooden walls eight feet long and four and a half feet high,” wrote Luc Sante in his must-read account of 19th century Bowery, Low Life.

“Matches typically drew no fewer than one hundred betting spectators, from all walks of life, with purses starting at $125. A good rat dog could kill a hundred rats in half an hour to forty-five minutes….”

But not all New Yorkers considered rat-baiting morally okay.

A New York Times article about 273 Water Street (now luxury apartments, of course) quoted Edward Winslow Martin’s 1868 The Secrets of the Great City:

“Most of our readers have witnessed a dog fight in the streets. Let them imagine the animals surrounded by a crowd of brutal wretches whose conduct stamps them as beneath the struggling beasts, and they will have a fair idea of the scene at Kit Burns.”’

The sport died out by the 20th century, thanks to the new ASPCA.

via: Ephemeral New York

 

Treehotel

Treehotel, a collection of modern structures in the unvisited woods of northern Sweden, by the architectural firm Tham & Videgård Arkitekter. A mirrored glass cube suspended from a tree outside the village of Harads, thirty seven miles south of the Arctic Circle. To stumble upon the cube in its boreal surroundings is to experience Philip Johnson’s Glass House turned inside-out: eye-to-eye with yourself in the expanse, you are suddenly aware of solidarity in an environment not your own.

via: The Last Magazine

Happy Valentine's Day

 

"My love is pure,

my love is true,

you can have my heart

and eat it too."

 

via: pushindaisies.com

Nina Simone - Revolution

The Tree

 The J. Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: The Tree,

a survey of important technological and aesthetic developments in photographic representations of trees, on view at the Getty Center from February 8 through July 3, 2011.

The latest in the In Focus series of thematic exhibitions, this presentation of nearly 40 photographs provides visitors with an opportunity to explore the Getty Museum’s world-renowned permanent collection of photographs through the inspiring subject of trees.

“This show poetically showcases how the tree is essential to our daily existence—from aesthetic explorations to spiritual reverence,” said Anne Lyden, associate curator, Department of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum, who is co-curating the exhibition with Anne Lyden curator of photographs, Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Ranging from 19th-century works to contemporary pieces, the exhibition includes prints by both recognized and lesser-known artists. Among the photographers whose work is on view are Robert Adams, Eugène Atget, Simryn Gill, Gustave Le Gray, Myoung Ho Lee, Eliot Porter, Alfred Stieglitz, and William Henry Fox Talbot.

via: Museum Publicity