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Carnevalet Museum, Paris, Winter 2008

Runa Islam

Still from Runa Islam's video As You See It.

Hope Gangloff

Hope Gangloff has a new show up at Susan Inglett Gallery here in nyc. 

I love seeing her paintings up because they are these amazing, large-scale painted snapshots. Her lines, colors and patterns are awesome up-close.

Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank?

Apple Core

1992, Cast aluminum coated with resin and painted with polyurethane enamel 

Claes Oldenburg

Miranda July

Miranda July Interview. One of the greats.

See her work here.

To The Theater

Photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Itching to See:

1. Coco Avant Chanel

2. Adam

4. Paper Heart

5. Taking Woodstock

6. New York, I Love You

7. Jennifer's Body

8. The September Issue

9. Amelia

10.Where the Wild Things Are

11. The Lovely Bones

12. Post Grad

Mad Men Season 3!

Recently saw, love and wish to be able to watch them for the first time again:

1. 500 Days of Summer

2. Away We Go

3. Gigantic

4. Sunshine Cleaning

5. Happy Go Lucky

6. The Edge of Love

Must Re-Watch ASAP:

1. Thoroughly Modern Millie

2. Stealing Beauty

3. The Royal Tenenbaums

4. Me and You and Everyone We Know

5. A Walk on the Moon

6. Flakes

7. I Capture the Castle

(Netflix just showed me a list of movies I would enjoy and two of the section captions were visually striking cerebral movies and dark british dramas. love it.)

Yinka Shonibare MBE

Going to see this show tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

This exhibition is a major midcareer survey of work by the UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare MBE. Shonibare’s artwork explores contemporary African identity and its relationship to European colonialism through painting, sculpture, installation, and moving image. Shonibare is best known for his work with visual symbols, especially the richly patterned Dutch wax fabric produced in Europe for a West African market that he uses in a wide range of applications. His tableaux of headless mannequins costumed in this fabric evoke themes of history and its legacy for future generations. Through these works he explores the complex web of interactions, both economic and racial, that reveal inequalities between the dominant and colonized cultures of Europe, Asia, and Africa. A site-specific installation created for this presentation titled Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play will be on view in several of the Museum’s period rooms.

I am so psyched!

Gemma Booth

Treasure Box from Gemma Booth on Vimeo.

Oh to play dress up. I used to have a huge basket with the most wonderful things. I would prance around the yard in different getups. I do wish I had a skeleton costume like that one though.

found on photographer Gemma Booth's blog.

Rachel Whiteread

I love Rachel Whiteread's giant chess set. I have been a bit obsessed with her work for quite some time now, but I had never seen this piece before. 

found here

Lei Xue

Porcelain Beer Cans, 2007

more here

Chimpanzee

ah where are these from!?

Venice Biennale

Read more on the NYtimes.

Charcoal

Stills from "Charcoal" 2008.

by Annie Fisher and Kimberly Sumner

Bryan Nash Gill

Amazing Tree Ring prints by Bryan Nash Gill found here.

Roxy Paine

We went to the MET today and saw Roxy Paine's work on the roof, which i loved. His stainless-steel sculptures reach high up into the sky and to the corners of the deck. They feel like the kind of tree limbs that stretch over lakes; limbs that you can lay on with a good book all afternoon...

There is an cool video of them installing the piece on the MET's website.

(image found here)

Gregory Calibey

Gregory Calibey

Speed

Ryan McGinley

Holly Farrell

See more of the artist's work here

Brigitte Sire

More on the artist here