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#architecture #art #Magdalena JetelovaFlexibility is a hallmark of the iPad, and it counts in architecture, too, but how much flexibility is there in a vast office governed entirely by geometry?
Paul Goldberger, dissing Apple’s new building in the New Yorker.
Goldberger’s criticisms make sense, but betting against Apple on design and functionality is seldom a good idea.
Today, Americans still don’t love Washington, but they do want it to work. Mostly, they want the economy – and America – to get back on its feet. They want a vision – not just vitriol. But, they don’t want a sugar-coated version either. The gritty images like we saw in Chrysler’s Super Bowl commercial worked because underneath the decay, there was hope – and beautiful art deco architecture too.
By creating a series of green roofs, maximizing daylighting and water catchment, and optimizing the positions of light tubes and building-integrated photovoltaic panels, the roof is a canny mix of passive solar design and state-of-the-art technology.
E+ Green Home - Perhaps the most sustainable house in South Korea.
Art Stars: The Children of Jack Smith
The 9-minute micro-documentary, Art Stars: The Children of Jack Smith is, broadly speaking, an investigation into the influence of cinema on New York City performance art and artists.
Featuring Reverend Jen Miller, Robert Prichard and Velocity Chyalld.
It’s about divided attention as a new strategy of attention. I’m not being a cyber-futurist, every idea here can be found in the 20th century history of avant-garde art. Whether it’s concrete poetry and the web or split screens and divided attention coming from Warhol, that’s what Ubu’s all about.
All of that, which was pushed aside in favour of Picasso and the MoMA narrative of 20th-century art is now back with a revenge informing us how to interact with the web and how to be digital. It’s all there. As much as I love Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon (1907) is not going to tell us anything on how to live in the world today.
Frieze Magazine | Comment | Kenneth Goldsmith
(Joanne McNeil’s interview with the UbuWeb publisher)
Peformance artists and burlesque stars Julie Atlas Muz and Tigger! talk about making art in New York City.
NSFW
If you’re an art nerd and you don’t watch VernissageTV, you’re missing out.
Here are some the Blip staff’s favorite episodes:
It’s Ann Liv Young versus P.S. 1, Round 2.
Ms. Young, a provocative performance artist, was at the center of a controversy in February when the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center abruptly cut the power in the middle of her appearance, plunging an already chaotic scene into darkness.
[Curator Andres] Bedoya said he had never received an explanation from the museum. Nor did Ms. Young, who fell in the darkness, cutting her knee and spilling a bucket of her own urine on herself and several audience members. Yet Ms. Young and others consider her performance a success.
Now she is planning to return to the museum, having been invited by the artist A. L. Steiner to participate in a performance-lecture addressing the February events. That appearance would be held in the temporary studio that Ms. Steiner occupies in the museum as part of the “Greater New York” exhibition. But on Monday a press officer for P.S. 1, April Hunt, said by e-mail that the return visit, scheduled for Sept. 5, was not happening. She would not comment further, and the museum has refused repeated interview requests.
via NY Times
video (NSFW) via Revel In New York
mind blown.
We’re all capable of describing life’s mundane details. Only a select few of us are capable of elevating such things to the level of art.
