Tourist Vacuumed at Sistine Chapel

To protect Sistine Chapel Murals tourists will be cooled and vacuumed.

Story & photo via guardian> http://tinyurl.com/d6wdkrk

Aquadon Exposed!

Berlin Aquadon in Raddison Hotel exposed! Guests are not allowed to scuba dive....

Story @ inhabitart> http://tinyurl.com/7zvt4v2

Restoration Blues

Spider webs, insect droppings, and chewing gum. Is art for eternity? 

Story @ swissinfo> http://tinyurl.com/cvkgqtt

William Burroughs' Art

Lemurs, gunshots, and allies --- William Burroughs' art at October Gallery in London. 

October Gallery> http://tinyurl.com/cfxzvup
Review @ hyperallercig> http://tinyurl.com/cqw8cbu
Perreault on Brion Gyson> http://tinyurl.com/ckmbs8u

When To Destroy Your Own Art

When should you destroy your own art? Or should you ever? Jasper Johns and Agnes Martin did. As did Monet. 

Photo: Susan Hiller, "Collected Works" (1967-1972).

Article at artnews> http://tinyurl.com/dyo24tq

First Artopia Bass Ackward Prize

Artopia's coveted Bass Ackward Prize goes to --- California! California just took arts funding off tax returns. California now is at the bottom of arts council funding, not Kansas, as reported. Kansas restored art funding in June.

LA Times story> http://tinyurl.com/c85j8hu
Kansas story> http://tinyurl.com/cmcdwgo

Pre-MoMA Modernism

What was the The Société Anonyme? Find out all you need to know, including that Katherine Dreier, one of the founders, was sympathetic to Hitler and a theosophist. The other founders -- 1920 -- were Duchamp and Man Ray. Pix is Dreier's "Two Worlds." 

NYTimes review> http://tinyurl.com/cy57upj
Exhibition site> http://artgallery.yale.edu/socanon/

Can Cows Make Art?

On the light side --- cows (and deer) make art. Great Salt Lick Contest returns!

Txt & pix via npr> http://tinyurl.com/d7o8ho6

No Longer Art

 "No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute" at Columbia Univ. Arch. Gallery. Closed yesterday. Damaged art, declared non-art by insurance companies. Very smart!

Essay @ hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/d222jch

Provisionalism

Provisionalist painting strikes! Is the unfinished look the new way out?
Pictured: David Hammons, "Untitled: (2011)

Via hyperallergic> artinamerica> http://tinyurl.com/ckknqhd

Transfer Bin Art Galleries in Ghent

Barge-to-truck transfer bins transformed into art galleries on the Ghent waterfront.

Via sutilitas.tumbler>http://rotordb.org/project/2012_Grindbakken_expo

Andy's Maos Banned in China

Warhol Mao paintings banned in China!

Via telegraph-uk> http://tinyurl.com/c6flboa

Euro-Australian and Indiginous Artists Collaborate

Appropriation of indigenous art by Euro-Australians yields controversies; but also --- on the bright side --- new cross-cultural collaborations.


See above:  "Hymn to the Night" by Michael Jagamara Nelson and Imants Tillers.

Story @ theaustralian> http://tinyurl.com/cgw3fps

Occupy Cooper Union's Parting Shot

Students who occupied Cooper Union clock tower to protest the imposition of tuition to this traditionally free art school signed off with the tableau below.

Story and pix from hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/bolzos5

Problems in Performance Art

Problems in performance art, in Bushwick. Picture is of Rachel Parry at Grace Exhibition Space. Yes, it's chocolate.
Essay and pix via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/a8a73r2

New Photos of 1913 Armory Show

New photos of 1913 Armory Show found. Matisse room pictured here.

Hyperallergic> Archives of American Art>http://tinyurl.com/cp47u7e

Hirst Jumps Ship

Damien Hirst leaves Gagosian Empire for parts unknown...also Koons from Gagosian to Zwirner. 

Via theatlanticwire> http://tinyurl.com/cuvwx2z

Armory Show Stamps Issued

USPS stamps to honor 1913 Armory show, including Duchamp's once-controversial "Nude Descending a Staircase." 

All 12 stamps> http://tinyurl.com/bqef2vq

Art Ruined at Westbeth

Westbeth, NYC's pioneer artist-housing, is now an art graveyard, thanks to Hurricane Sandy. Bring back conceptual art!

Via NYT> http://tinyurl.com/armbz8t

The End of Public Art

The end of public art? The artists can't do it, the public hates it, and it costs too much. 

Story via wsj> http://tinyurl.com/azgs7om

Dave Hickey Exposed!

Dave Hickey exposed. Was he in part responsible for what he now criticizes about the art world? Beauty indeed!

Via theartnewspaper> http://tinyurl.com/a9k4keg

Call for New Payphones.

Mayor Bloomberg calls for new payphone designs. Desperately needed for reperforming John Perreault's Street Work "Telephone Music" (1969) and hurricane emergencies.

Via inhabitat.com> http://tinyurl.com/a37e2n2

Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012)

R.I.P. Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012).

NYTIMES obit: http://tinyurl.com/akoxmuj

Bed Bugs in Library Books!

Library books infested with bed bugs! Another reason to

beef up your Kindle...Yuk.

Story via NYTimes>http://tinyurl.com/aqfwptk

Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)

 R.I.P. Dave Brubeck.....

Blue Rondo A La Turk - Dave Brubeck

www.youtube.com

First track from the best Dave Brubeck album Time Out. Name comes from the 9/8 turkish rhythms as 2+2+2+3 and 3+3+3 which are played consecutively 

Studens Occupy Cooper Union

Students occupy Cooper Union clock tower, demanding resignation of president who will not defend the schools traditional free tuition, as mandated by founder.

Story via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/d8j6yth

MOCA/USC Marriage?

MOCA-LA and USC partnering floated. Short term salvage for MOCA; long term L. A. hegemony for USC. Is this a good idea?

Story L.A. Times> http://tinyurl.com/br7hoat

The Truth About Rauschenberg Donation!

Better version of the donation of the Rauschenberg to MoMA  Times buried IRS details. The heirs HAD TO DONATE IT. Read this and laff out loud. Or weep.

WSJ> http://tinyurl.com/cqzrafh

Jonas Mekas in Focus

"Jonas Mekas in Focus" doc on MOCATV. Includes excerpts of films: Walden, Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtIQCxypAFM

Tape Poems at Sao Paulo Biennial

As part of the Sao Paulo Biennial, Tape Poems, the first "publication" of works created specifically for stereo tape edited by Eduardo Costa / John Perreault and audio engineered by Alcides Lanza, New York, 1969, was played on Mobile Radio BSP, http://mobile-radio.net/  December 2nd, 2012.

Featuring: Vito Hannibal Acconci, Michael Benedikt, Scott Burton, Ted Castle & Leandro Katz, Eduardo Costa and John Giorno, Joseph Ceravolo, Dan Graham, Bernadette Mayer, John Perreault, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh and Hannah Weiner.

Time:

 Sao Paulo: 3 pm

 Barcelona: 6 pm

 Beijing: 1 am (Dec-3)

 Bombay: 10.30 pm

 Brussels: 6 pm

 Buenos Aires: 2 pm

 Cairo: 7 pm

 Caracas: 1 pm

 Hong Kong: 1 am (Dec-3)

 Lisbon: 5 pm

 London: 5 pm

 Los Angeles: 9 am

 Madrid: 6 pm

 México DF: 11 am

 Miami: 12 pm

 Minneapolis: 11 am

 New York: 12 pm

 Paris: 6 pm

 Prague: 6 pm

 Rio de Janeiro: 3 pm 

 Roma: 6 pm

 Salvador Bahía: 2 pm

 San Francisco: 9 am

 Santiago de Chile: 2 pm

"The works exist completely in terms of aural phenomenon, rather than in terms of visual systems of signs, thus beginning a new art of the tape recorder that has in common with written literature the fact that it refers to real language."

                               Eduardo Costa and John Perreault in An Introduction to Tape Poems, 1969.

Are You A Kunstvermittler?

Top of the art world pyramid? Mark Staff Brandl notes the new German honorific "Kunstvermittler" for curators, historians, critics...meaning "art-intermediary" or "art broker" or "art middleman" or even "art procurer." 

Via Swiss Art Sharkforum: http://tinyurl.com/caqlvk5

Armstrong's Breathing Sculpture

Sara Garden Armstrong's "Decem Aspirare" commissioned sculpture breathes.

Video: http://player.vimeo.com/video/41742312?badge=0