WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY AND PEACEFUL CHRISTMAS!

I hope that you will enjoy this beautiful singing plus a painting from our latest Member -

Scott Heide

And this piece from yet another new member

Daniel Thomson

Melting ears (on Cory Arcangel's two works)

The one I liked was this:while the one that goes further is this:Both are fragments of works by Cory Arcangel.The difference between them is significant. The first one is a joke - it is a repetition, a trick played on the idea of reproduction or universality.The other one too. But the other one moves...

What you like is to look

What you like is to look.You like to suck it up in your gaze, you like to smear your innocent mind with the flesh of sight.What you like is to become dependent. To let go of the constructions and make them make you.This is the universe of the aesthetic. It is where you can always find a haven. Where...

Introducing things new!

WARMLY WELCOMING our latest New Members - and a new format! A sample of art from each new member will be posted with their introduction from now on. Also existing members art will be posted in a 'Feature' from time to time. Gina DaCruzJulie ArbuckleKrista HowellMare-Liis...

Five sentences concerning ghosts

Both pictures by Ujin Lee, from the Dust series.There is never enough time or effort or vision to make sure things are fixed.We must suppose they are (or were) somewhere here, in the vicinity of the place we are (or were) standing, in the present continuous, within the...

Alevtina Kakhidze - Revolutionary Obedience

"Art must concern itself with the real, but it throws any notion of the real into question. It always turns the real into a facade, a representation, and a construction. But it also raises questions about the motives of that construction." - Mike KelleyHere is how it went:Ukrainian...

Take a break

Remember Zimoun?

Zimoun : 186 prepared dc-motors, cardboard boxes 60x60x60cm, 2010. from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

Reverse

At the BWA City Gallery in Bydgoszcz (which has the most poignant introduction of any art gallery I've seen so far: "WHAT"), the Polygonum exhibition which opens on October 14th to showcase the Polish region's visual talents has some tasty discoveries."Movemental" by Tomasz...

Blocked Keys

The etude by Gyorgy Ligeti I would like you to pay attention to is the second one. It starts at 2'15".Here is what a competent source has to say about the work: The third etude, "Touches bloquees" ("Blocked Keys"), uses the same technique that first appeared in "Selbstportrait," the second of the Three...

Cattelan's Finger

Yet again, Maurizio Cattelan achieved his admitted goal: he is on the covers of magazines.The finger, called L.O.V.E.*, has been erected in front of the Milan stock exchange for the duration of the Fashion Week happening in the city.Everyone is happy: Cattelan gets his...

September Update

First of all a couple of important points -1. This blog is non-profit and is only updated every 4-6 weeks - so some waiting may be involved. It's really a labour of love so please be patient.2. Please ensure that you have a link to Art Blogs 4 U on your own blog ... its a lot of hassle having to e-mail...

Old-Time Avantgarde

Oh, and on a different note, here's a little bit of pre-mash-up mashing up, for your listening amusement, the one and only John Oswald:It is a fascinating feeling, to realize that today's contemporary is tomorrow's retro, that no matter what, everything we wear, listen to, appreciate or create today...

How I Got Tino Sehgal

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UPDATE .... New Members!!

WELCOME to more New Members!

Prerana Kulkarni

Samantha Taylor

Rhonda Roban Brausey

Christina Theodora Groza

Nigel Short

Caitlin Burns

Deborah Lambert

Gretchen Bjornson

Giovanny Yuri

UPDATE ... more new members!

WELCOME to our latest Members!

Prerana Kulkarni

Samantha Taylor

Rhonda Roban Brausey

Christina Theodora Broza

Nigel Short

Caitlin Burns

Deborah Lambert

Gretchen Bjornson

Giovanny Yuri

Within the Lines

What if there was nothing to discover? No story, no thousand words, no answer to a non-riddle? What if it was really, really, just a game of forms and colors?Would it be a sin?Does this lady need a past?Is it really so bad for something to be "just" a pretty picture?We...

JUNE UPDATE .... New Members!!

WELCOME to 14 New Members!

Rebekah Plett

Asit Singh

Krystin Clark-Goodsell

Jani Lori

Pamela Lee

Clare Haward

Shigune Matsui

Ruth Norbury

Robin Kappy

Tene Aiken

Shep

Melissa Noble

Harry Kent

Bernard Victor

Rain, not words

N. Raghavan, Rain V (2009)One reason I like zapping through artist's pages instead of always looking carefuly at their artist's statements and curator's notes is that I don't need to undo the damage of their own thoughts about their work.The latter often makes the experience...

UPDATE

There are a number of artists waiting to be added to Art Blogs 4 U ........... apologies for the delay. Names and links will be added when I return in about 9 days time. Thank you for your patience.

We cannot go back

Maybe art, maybe some art, maybe this art, maybe some of this art, serves turning the absence opaque, that is, making it at once palpable and impenetrable, so we cannot go back, so we are stuck in the appreciation of this strange, utopic now, and any attempt to overcome...

When movement becomes dance

11 min, 16 mm film, B/W, no soundCamera: Bill RowleyEdit: Elaine SummersDir: Elaine SummersProd: Hans Breder, Iowa UniversityThere are two things about this short fragment I love.The first is the choreography of joy. The slow-motion allows us to better appreciate the flow of the common movement, the...

The Pleasure of Absence

It is the pleasure of imagining a performance - or rather, of imagining a universe. A narrative, an aesthetics, an experience, a unity.It is the pleasure of imagining a liveness, a directness, a presence.The pleasure of experiencing the echo, the recording, the extract, the fragment of a copy of a copy....

New Update, New Members!

Starting as a new feature today - in addition to listings under 'alphabetical' and 'medium', names of new members (linked to their blogs) will be announced in a post like this:WELCOME to 9 New Members!Stephanie AllisonLaura Barber-RileyLinda Gruger HansonBonnie HeatherKeith Lawrence PalmerJohn Ransom...

NEWSFLASH ,,,, back on line!

My apologies to those of you who have asked to be members of this site and have not yet been included .... firstly I have been very busy with other things and, secondly, for the past 2 weeks I have had no Broadband connection. However, I am back 'on-line' as of today and will endeavour to catch up...

The Way Things Go and Pass

Fischli and Weiss, Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), video, 30', 1987Honda Ad, 2003OK Go - This Too Shall Pass, 2009I remember the choreographer João Fiadeiro once showing Fischli & Weiss's work during some seminar or workshop and talking about what in his mind made it so impressive: necessity....

The afterthought experience

Do you know Tino Sehgal? You know, the artist that doesn't allow any pictures taken of his works? And doesn't write any introduction, or artist statement? Or make written agreements with museums? That wants no material artifacts in his works?Does it matter what the works...

The End Is Never Nigh (A few sentences that never made it elsewhere)

Bloodshedding pieces of black-and-white happiness.The unfair balance of the picture.The wider picture. The bloody wider picture always giving it the color that wasn't there in the first place.Notice: the wider picture is never the first place. It comes as we back up, until...

More Gentle Uncertainty

Video directed by Takafumi Tsuchiya (TAKCOM).

Another childish question inspired by a beautiful project

What is it that we like about simplicity? Is it not that it's close to us? It is attainable, like something that is nearly us. Or, to put it differently - an it that almost makes it into me. Thus, an imaginary community. Yes, if I dared, I would say simplicity gives us an imaginary community. A universe...

Visit

Two pictures from the Visit series (2007/8) by Filip Berendt.The idea is so simple and to the point that it is irritating. Berendt put an ad in a newspaper saying he wants to make installations in people's homes out of the things he finds there and take pictures of them....

The Landscape Is You

Two gorgeous 2009 Szpilman Award candidates:The runner-up, Alexander Thieme with his Embedded... and this year's winner, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, with In den Zillertaler AlpenCan you spot me?What am I, within this overwhelming sight?Am I a humble creature? Do I not see...