December 2009
31 posts
“After meeting in 2008, we decided to join forces and run a controlled experiment...”
– Significant Objects | About the Significant Objects Project
This reminds of an interview I once read with the artist Tom Friedman. He talked about how the space shuttle crew took a book of stamps to space and back, and then sold the stamps to collectors for much more than identical stamps that...
“Tumblr’s make-or-break premise was always that the semi-closed platform...”
– Best New Blogs of 2009 — The Bygone Bureau
“Scott Rothkopf has Aretha Franklin’s inauguration day hat in his Top 10, and...”
– December issues of Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America and Art Monthly - artnet Magazine
Senior editor of ArtForum and curator of the Whitney puts a meme in his top ten of the year. You have no idea how happy this makes me.
“Punch-Drunk Love” is a film, but it is also something else: It creates for...”
– Film Salon - Salon.com
Nicely done, Karina. I’ll have to re-watch this.
“14. Don’t be cool.
Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself...”
– Bruce Mau Design
Nice list.
“The MOMA show confirms that Orozco is, in fact, the one artist of his ilk and...”
– The sculpture and work of Gabriel Orozco : The New Yorker
“The moon is currently a commons: anyone can use it, but nobody can own it or any...”
– The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas - Magazine - NYTimes.com
I think I’d like to be a lawman in a frontier Moon town.
“Art criticism is a form of city-building, quite as much as urban design,...”
– John Bentley Mays | NOTEBOOK
By way of Hrag Vartanian
“Gehry said that he had done the initial drawing on his iPhone, which an...”
– Gaga for Gehry « A/N Blog
Frank Gehry designs her hat, Damien Hirst paints her piano, now Lady Gaga just needs Jeff Koons to make her some pool toys.
“Mr. Powhida’s growing reputation as something between a comedian and a vigilante...”
– Art Basel Miami Beach - William Powhida Tweaks Art World - NYTimes.com
“Like an early Beatles song, Puppy just made people happy. Even contemporary-art...”
– Jerry Saltz on Jeff Koons’s ‘Puppy’ - The 00’s Issue — New York Magazine
“Good art should elicit a response of “Huh? Wow!” as opposed to...”
– Art Quotations by Edward Ruscha - The Painter’s Keys Resource of Art Quotations
Been thinking out this today…
