On September 28th, 2011, ART + ENVIRONMENT CONFERENCE…
…is why I’m headed to Reno tomorrow, where the Nevada Museum of Art hosts the 2nd edition of the gathering featuring two days of talks and conversations, and…
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On September 23rd, 2011, ‘LIVING AS FORM’…
…the sprawling exhibition housed in the Historic Essex Street Market of over 100 socially engaged artists, projects, and collectives organized by Creative Time – including The Sundown Salon…
On September 18th, 2011, DAY 2 ‘COMPOSTED CONSTRUCTIONS’…
…ended with a flurry of muddy activity as rains let up, the sun came out, and we installed our two days of creations around the Stroom’s Foodprint Erasmusveld…
On September 17th, 2011, DAY 1 OF DEN HAAG’S ‘COMPOSTED CONSTRUCTIONS’…
…(my project for Stroom’s Foodprint Erasmusveld, an experimental-settlement/ecological-exposition opening September 30th) consisted of a 10am pick-up by the Refunc folks in their cool truck for a ride to…
On September 15th, 2011, ISTANBUL BIENNIAL PARTY VIEW OF THE CITY…
…from the rooftop of the Marmara Pera hotel in the Beyoğlu quarter of Istanbul, was the perk of one of the many parties kicking off the Istanbul Biennial…
On September 12th, 2011, MARK DION IN ISTANBUL…
…is assembling materials for his upcoming installation at the soon to open SALT Galata – and lately when I’m traveling I’m often just missing this inspiring artist, arriving…
On August 12th, 2011, REFUNC IN DEN HAAG…
…are the handy recyclrey designery arty folks I’ll be working with on an upcoming project here in the fall produced by Stroom – so this afternoon in a…
On July 22nd, 2011, Y.A.P. AT MAXXI…
…is the Young Architects Program originated at NYC’s PS1 and now a new summer fixture at Rome’s MAXXI, where young Roman architects have created rolling mounds of lawn,…
On July 21st, 2011, PIGNETO…
…is the working class but now newly cool-ish youthful-ish (for this city at least) neighborhood of Rome, just beyond Termini and Porta Maggiore, where word is that things…
On July 14th, 2011, THE SCHMELA HAUS…
…the marvelous Dusseldorf puzzle-like brutalist modernist masonry vertical structure from 1971 well known as the site of Joseph Beuys projects from the 70’s and early 80’s, designed by…
On July 12th, 2011, DÜSSELDORF…
…with welcome chilly drizzly weather – after enduring a few sweltering days rubbing up against sweaty sun-burnt tourists in the sticky blazing Venetian sun – is where I…
On July 10th, 2011, LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA…
…is mostly my reason for stopping off on my way north to Germany – to my old island home (from 1990-91 while studying at I.U.A.V. – though it…
On July 8th, 2011, OPENINGS FOR ACADEMY CHILDREN AND GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO…
…were back to back engagements this evening – with the former smartly titled “Calma al Caos (e Vice Versa): Gli Artisti Emergenti da 5B” or “Calm to Chaos…
On June 24th, 2011, ROMA MANGIA ROMA INTERVIEW #15…
…conducted yesterday just blocks from my studio on the top floor of a modern Monteverde apartment building was with Gianfranco Baruchello (b. 1924) – the Roman artist whose book…
On June 7th, 2011, MUNTADAS…
…the New York based Spanish artist gave a talk about his work this evening – including the pioneering 1994 internet art project The File Room created back in…
On May 25th, 2011, WILLIAM KENTRIDGE…
…is the brilliant South African artist brightening up the Academy while in residence this month – today welcoming us into his studio and sharing stories of his working…
On April 2nd, 2011, A GROUP PAINTING ACTIVITY…
…on the walls of the Istanbul rooftop hothouse was quick pleasurable way for us to claim the space, make our mark, mess things up – plus a welcome…
On March 30th, 2011, NILS NORMAN’S EDIBLE PARK …
…is a visionary permaculture landscape developing on a small tract of community gardening land in the modern outskirts of Den Haag – initiated by my British artist friend…
On March 12th, 2011, LOGGIA OF CUPID AND PSYCHE…
…whose ceiling is laden with the most sumptuous depictions of all variety of fruit and vegetable was painted by Raphael at Villa Farnesina (1510), and was the highlight…
On February 25th, 2011, ‘CASTING JESUS’…
…tonight’s live, recorded, and simultaneously projected three hour performance in Vatican City by Christian Jankowski at Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Saxia (the city’s oldest hospital, dating back…