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The Philip Guston Catalogue Raisonne is being posted to Tumblr. Wow.
The Strange Case of Peter Doig: Art, Lies, and LSD
In the mid-1970s, while taking classes at Thunder Bay’s Lakehead University, an Ontario correctional officer met a runaway Scottish teenager, who had recently left his family in Montreal to find work with a gas drilling company. The youth stopped going to class and found himself at the Thunder Bay Correctional Center for a five-month stay on charges of LSD possession. While interned, he took classes in the center’s fine arts educational program; the same officer, Michael Fletcher, noticed the teenager working on a Surrealist-inspired desert landscape painting, and helped the young expat apply for parole, with Fletcher himself taking on parole officer duties. Inspired to support the youth and see his talents developed, Fletcher bought the then completed 34” by 41” canvas for $100 and found him a job through the Seafarers Union in Thunder Bay. The teenager, Peter Doig, headed off to art school in London in 1979 and would eventually become “Europe’s most expensive artist” (as billed by the Daily Mail), selling a painting this past February for £7.8 million ($12 million)….*Click Photo to Continue Reading*
\Creator of the GIF says it’s pronounced “jif”. Hate to say I told you so but…
All or nothing
Bill Viola, The Reflecting Pool, 1977-79. Color, Mono Sound, 7:00 minutes.
“the piece concerns the emergence of the individual into the natural world — a kind of baptism.”
Lani Loooo is da best!
Pussy Riot Rocker Declares Prison Hunger Strike
Maria Alekhina (via Wikipedia)
A member of the punk feminist group Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina, has…
Prior to the Odd Spaces panel discussion co-presented by Big Red & Shiny and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, moderator Liz Munsell spoke with artist Marilyn Arsem, an artist who, for her Odd Spaces performance, laid for 6 hours underneath a bench in the Egyptian funerary galleries, filling the space with the overwhelming scent of jasmine while making herself invisible to visitors [interview continued at Big Red & Shiny…]
I Have to Leave
Durational performance by Marilyn Arsem
Blow! 8 International Performance Art Festival
Ilsede, Germany June 2012
Photo by Insa Wagner
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Prior to the Odd Spaces panel discussion co-presented by Big Red & Shiny and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, moderator Liz Munsell spoke with artist Marilyn Arsem, an artist who, for her Odd Spaces performance, laid for 6 hours underneath a bench in the Egyptian funerary galleries, filling the space with the overwhelming scent of jasmine while making herself invisible to visitors [interview continued at Big Red & Shiny…]
I Have to LeaveDurational performance by Marilyn ArsemBlow! 8 International Performance Art FestivalIlsede, Germany June 2012Photo by Insa Wagner](http://25.media.tumblr.com/8482ae5f5b524c59a242495b0b40dd8f/tumblr_mn6b0rUvRt1s4d7bko1_1280.png)
thru June 14:
Aiko Hachisuka
Eleven Rivington Gallery, 11 Rivington St., NYC
the NY solo debut of Japanese-born artist Aiko Hachisuka. The exhibition features five abstract fabric soft sculptures of varying scales created over the last 3 years as well as unique works on paper.
