Of all the moronic, dimwit, tunnel-visioned, agenda-driven, academic, peer-pressured reasons to clamor and claim (for 40 years now) that "painting is dead," this is probably the only good reason to kill painting.
Warning: The link above is rather gross, as it depicts artist Keith Boadwee in the process of "painting" via the use of his asshole. This is definately "mixed media."
And this artist may be a close second.
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Monday, November 17, 2003
The Washington Times art critic, Joanna Shaw-Eagle offers her view of the Washington Convention Center's Public Art Collection.
Why the Washington Times doesn't have a "regular" weekly "Galleries" column, like most major metropolitan newspapers in the world offer, has always been a mystery to me.
Another great mystery: Considering how inexpensive storage is, and how easy it is to store an article online once it has been created. Why doesn't the Washington City Paper archive its articles?
Why the Washington Times doesn't have a "regular" weekly "Galleries" column, like most major metropolitan newspapers in the world offer, has always been a mystery to me.
Another great mystery: Considering how inexpensive storage is, and how easy it is to store an article online once it has been created. Why doesn't the Washington City Paper archive its articles?
The Corcoran tells me that Salvadorean artist Muriel Hasbun, who lives in DC and is a longtime Corcoran faculty member, and who represented El Salvador at the last Venice Biennale, and is represented locally by Conner Contemporary will be having a solo show at the Corcoran opening on March 6, 2004 and curated by Paul Roth, the Corcoran's Associate Curator of Photography and Media Arts. An excellent essay about Hasbun's work by Andy Grunberg can be read online here.
Opportunity for artists:
These are "open" mail art exhibitions (as opposed to "juried"). This means that all submissions will be included in the exhibition. Entries are sent via mail and are usually not returned. Mail art is usually created on a blank postcard and sent through the mail to the exhibition.
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2003
Group 78, Tokyo's English-language local group of Amnesty International, the worldwide human rights organization, will adopt the theme "Violence Against Women" as a major campaign priority next year. To publicize this and to reach out to women's groups, human rights groups and other concerned people, they are appealing to the mail art artists for suitable submissions on the theme. They intend to exhibit in Tokyo and possibly other cities in Japan, and to produce a documentation of the submitted works. Every contributor will receive a copy of the documentation.
MEDIA/TECHNIQUE: free
SIZE: from postcard size to A4 size (29 X 21 cm) 2D only.
DEADLINE: Dec. 31, 2003
Send to:
Chris Pitts
Kyoritsu Women's College
3-27 Kanda-Jinbocho
Chiyoda^ku
101-0051 Tokyo
Japan
Deadline: February 1, 2004
"Bras for Breast Cancer." Embellish a bra for an exhibit to be held at Northwood University in Cedar Hill, Texas in April of 2004. Bras will be exhibited along with paintings, poetry, videos, installations and assemblages created by women and men who have stories to share about themselves and or loved ones who are coping with Breast Cancer. All entries will be exhibited. No Jury. No Returns.
Send all entries to:
Junanne Peck
P.O.Box 177528
Irving, Texas
75017-7528
Email questions to junannepeck@mac.com
Deadline: February 1, 2004
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is requesting mail art submissions for an exhibit in February 2004 on the theme "Sense of Place." Artists are encouraged to respond by providing works that examine changing conceptions of place, borders and nationalism on a global scale. How would you represent your sense of place in today's world? What has happened to your sense of place since the rise of globalization? Since 9/11? How has the spread of internet communications altered perspectives on near and far?
Each work should not exceed 20 inches in any direction and may be 3 dimensional. Please include contact information: name, address, email. Due to space limitations, not all submissions can be exhibited. However, all submissions will appear on BMoCA's website and all submitting artists will be acknowledged. Exhibited works will be listed in the catalogue and on the BMoCA website. Submissions will not be returned unless SASE is included. Questions to Brandi Mathis at 303/443-2122.
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th St.
Boulder, CO 80302
These are "open" mail art exhibitions (as opposed to "juried"). This means that all submissions will be included in the exhibition. Entries are sent via mail and are usually not returned. Mail art is usually created on a blank postcard and sent through the mail to the exhibition.
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2003
Group 78, Tokyo's English-language local group of Amnesty International, the worldwide human rights organization, will adopt the theme "Violence Against Women" as a major campaign priority next year. To publicize this and to reach out to women's groups, human rights groups and other concerned people, they are appealing to the mail art artists for suitable submissions on the theme. They intend to exhibit in Tokyo and possibly other cities in Japan, and to produce a documentation of the submitted works. Every contributor will receive a copy of the documentation.
MEDIA/TECHNIQUE: free
SIZE: from postcard size to A4 size (29 X 21 cm) 2D only.
DEADLINE: Dec. 31, 2003
Send to:
Chris Pitts
Kyoritsu Women's College
3-27 Kanda-Jinbocho
Chiyoda^ku
101-0051 Tokyo
Japan
Deadline: February 1, 2004
"Bras for Breast Cancer." Embellish a bra for an exhibit to be held at Northwood University in Cedar Hill, Texas in April of 2004. Bras will be exhibited along with paintings, poetry, videos, installations and assemblages created by women and men who have stories to share about themselves and or loved ones who are coping with Breast Cancer. All entries will be exhibited. No Jury. No Returns.
Send all entries to:
Junanne Peck
P.O.Box 177528
Irving, Texas
75017-7528
Email questions to junannepeck@mac.com
Deadline: February 1, 2004
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is requesting mail art submissions for an exhibit in February 2004 on the theme "Sense of Place." Artists are encouraged to respond by providing works that examine changing conceptions of place, borders and nationalism on a global scale. How would you represent your sense of place in today's world? What has happened to your sense of place since the rise of globalization? Since 9/11? How has the spread of internet communications altered perspectives on near and far?
Each work should not exceed 20 inches in any direction and may be 3 dimensional. Please include contact information: name, address, email. Due to space limitations, not all submissions can be exhibited. However, all submissions will appear on BMoCA's website and all submitting artists will be acknowledged. Exhibited works will be listed in the catalogue and on the BMoCA website. Submissions will not be returned unless SASE is included. Questions to Brandi Mathis at 303/443-2122.
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art
1750 13th St.
Boulder, CO 80302
British art critic Matthew Collins, who is often credited with helping to launch many YBA's, and modern video and installation art now says:
"We don't live in a great time for art; we live in a time when art is very successful as a leisure activity. Art is very amusing, but within that culture there's still a hierarchy of better and worse. I'm interested in that hierarchy but I recognise that modern art and pre-modern art were very important, and postmodern art is rubbish, really."Collins has a new TV series on British television that begins next Sunday. Read the whole story in The Observer here.