…closing ceremonies this Friday of the hard-to-describe, village-like, amorphous, ephemeral, makerly, living/breathing show that has been evolving at the Berkeley Art Museum over the past four months, and soon to head north from home in LA to organize some final activities and installations on the Domestic Integr..
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…presented by Robby Herbst at Human Resources – LA’s favorite community artist-run performance/art space – for ten days of activities, is where I went tonight to join a group of eight mostly familiar friendly faces for a couple hours of activity and conversation around general ideas of collectivism. I + We is an experimental and ..
…installation called Malarky – made of cast-offs, recycled & repurposed materials – in the “Melbourne Now” exhibition (a huge survey of 175 local artists, exactly what you want to see if you are passing through a town for the first time) at the National Gallery of Victoria was an exciting standout, where you could overhear every ..
…music art collective friends Sara and Luke just happened to show up in town the day of my post-Detroit Art Institute lecture reception at MoCAD last night…so they graciously set up shop and got down to business creating comforting sound landscapes while some crocheted the rug and others enjoyed the local food Jon Brumit was ..
…are on display with exuberant engaging street vibes in two current installations indoors and out; one on Cass with the Purple Stage supported by Arts Corps Detroit taking over a vacant lot, and the other a vast interior landscape of pimped out cars and dried corn husks called Visions in a Cornfield (by Destroy All ..
…by Andrés Jaque Architects encountered after my conversation with Annie Novak during a break from installing Domestic Integrities at MoMA across the river, was one of the favorite things I have seen in a museum in a while…a complex vertical structure comprised of various IKEA artifacts piled up, occupied and animated by haircuts, cooking, and even ..
…is the project studio I am starting today at Wayne State, exploring the unique way that Detroit art collectives (including Dflux: Detroit Research Studio, Heidelberg Project, The Hinterlands, Market Studio Kitchen + Detroit Emergent Futures LAB, MBAD Bead Museum, Popps Packing, Power House Productions and Design 99, The Edible Hut, TAP (The Alley Project) Gallery, Yes ..
…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening on November 9th, featuring an installation of Domestic Integrities, and today was my first chance to see the gallery interior under construction, whose slick design will provide the perfect foil for the huge hand-crocheted rug of discarded textiles, clothes and linens upon which locals (like students from the ..
…the beautifully designed book edited by Nancy Holt and published six years after his death in 1979 by New York University Press (kindly presented to me last night by my friend who found it at Logos Books & Records, the very awesome Santa Cruz bookstore – with a surprisingly extensive knitting section by the way ..
…the trail-blazing artist couple now based in Santa Cruz whose work I have been aware of since college days – their early work taking the form of radical dirt, farm, and orchard making projects, were inspiring and charming dinner companions tonight at Montalvo (the artist residency where Lorenzo from NERO has joined me for a ..
…at the Hammer Museum’s biennial show Made in L.A. is a dramatic L.A. spirited standout that responds nicely to the strange rainbow shaped window she found on the otherwise awkward 2nd floor Lindbrook terrace, now beckoning you over with her installati..
…packed the LACMA Art Catalogues space and lobby with crowds to hear an engaging interview event marking his new ar..
…not to be confused with that other thing going on over there in Italy – casually and graciously infiltrates, while paying homage to, the existing landscape of art, craft, performance and booths along the Venice Beach boardwalk this weekend organized by curator Ali Subotnick as a part of the Hammer Museums’s Los Angeles Biennial exhibition “Made in L.A.” featuring ..
…along with a few of their students popped their heads into the Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Economics dome this afternoon, sharing their queer energy and outfits, here at the Hayward Gallery where they are leading “Teach Us Everywhere” down the hall. (thei..
…opened tonight, featuring set installations by artist friends Alice Konitz and Katie Grinnan (presenting a bright shiny colorful dramatic ‘Junk Heap’). Crescent City is a hyperopera with music by Anne LeBaron, libretto by Douglas Kearney, and directed by Yuval Sharon. It’s the inaugural production of The Industry, a new home for new and experimental opera in ..
…of old clothes from local friends is a new test at home (in shades of brown and a bit of orange for the brown with orange kitchen) with a new loose knotted technique that makes it super thick and cushy and cozy on bare feet, preparing for the new series of Domestic Integrity Field projects ..
…designed by Zaha Hadid will be opening soon (but not as soon as they thought while battling some construction and eccentrically shaped glass fabrication issues) and cool to see in person, but even more interesting to see a small monument on the adjacent piece of land – that will soon become a sculpture park – ..
…in a gallery space at UNC Greenboro where piles of cast-off clothes are slowly being transformed into a rainbow-colorful rug, braided with the help of students (each making their own personal braid which can be finished and absorbed into the spiral rug when they leave) being nourished with my homemade soup of locally sourced produce ..
…is a local arts space started over 10 years ago by George Scheer (in the buildings where his grandmother ran a thrift store for decades) which I had heard a few stories about but nothing prepared me for the inspiring visit this afternoon, encountering room after room after room after room after insane (in a good ..
…at the Princeton Student Colony today takes the form of taping the platform into a geometric pattern, followed by each student wielding a brush of color upon a segment, and then as the sun set, a ball of student-made bread dough is divided into nine pieces, each formed by a different set of hands into ..
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