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Mended Spiderweb #19 (Laundry Line) - Cibachrome, 30 x 20 inches, 1998

Nina Katchadourian, The Mended Spiderweb series:

“The Mended Spiderweb series came about during a six-week period in June and July in 1998 which I spent on Pörtö. In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread. All of the patches were made by inserting segments one at a time directly into the web. Sometimes the thread was starched, which made it stiffer and easier to work with. The short threads were held in place by the stickiness of the spider web itself; longer threads were reinforced by dipping the tips into white glue. I fixed the holes in the web until it was fully repaired, or until it could no longer bear the weight of the thread. In the process, I often caused further damage when the tweezers got tangled in the web or when my hands brushed up against it by accident.”

(Via 3QD.)

Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror. Still. (2008 - ongoing).

Martijn Hendriks, Give Us Today Our Daily Terror:

“Exact copy of Hitchcock’s 1963 film The Birds from which all birds have been removed. Single channel video, color, 119 minutes.”

(via)

Marcel van Eeden, Untitled, 2007/2008. Oil on canvas. 60×80cm. (MVE01-846)

Galerie ZINK: Sensational. New way to paint - Marcel van Eeden. Berlin 22.03.2008 - 15.05.2008. (Via chmkoome’s Blog.) Meer Van Eeden.

Tarkovsky, by Nathan Dunne (editor)

Creative Review Blog, Andrei Tarkovsky: Film and Painting:

“Over a 25 year period, Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky made just seven feature films and three student shorts, yet his cinematic work stands out as one of the most significant contributions to moving image history. In films such as Solaris, Mirror and Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky dealt thematically with the notion of memory, childhood and dreams and became a master of the long, unedited shot and distinct formalistic approach to filmmaking. Many studies of his work have also observed the links between his films and the visual arts. Black Dog Publishing is behind a new, comprehensive volume dedicated to his life’s work and we have an exclusive extract to present here on the CR blog. The following essay, by Mikhail Romadin (the art director on Solaris), looks at the relationship between Tarkovsky’s films and painting”

(Via Coudal.)

Zombie Last Supper

Popped Culture, Suddenly Last Supper:

“There’s nothing like a couple thousand years of of repetition and an iconic painting by an Old Master to get story to get lodged inside the heads of the creators of pop culture. Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th century depiction of Jesus announcing that one of his 12 disciples would betray him is so iconic that it has been co-opted by those wishing to give weight to their parodies, tributes and caricatures. What I find interesting is who gets portrayed as Christ and who gets to be his Judas.”

David Horvitz, Things for sale that I will mail you:

“If you give me $1,999 I will take a ferry from Spain to Morocco. I will mail you a photograph of the port in Spain looking out at sea from a Spanish mailbox. I will then mail you a photograph of the port in Morocco looking out at sea from a Moroccan mailbox. You can glue the backs together when you get both of them and it will be like a three dimensional view.”

David Horvitz

Chris Jordan - Plastic Bottles, 2007. 60×120″. Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes. Detail at actual size.

Martin Kippenberger: Drei Häuser mit Schlitzen (Jüdische Grundschule). Aanwinsten

Trouw, Stedelijk Museum - De jacht op werk met eeuwigheidswaarde:

“Het verhaal over de aankoop van het werk van Kippenberger (1953-1997) vertelt in een notendop hoe Van Tuyl probeert om van het Stedelijk weer een toonaangevend museum te maken met een topcollectie en spraakmakende exposities, waar alle belangrijke musea in de wereld graag mee willen samenwerken. Of zoals hij zelf graag formuleert: „Ik ben een voetbaltrainer die het Stedelijk wil terugbrengen in de Champions League, de Europa Cup.” Ooit was het Stedelijk een wereldspeler, maar de world league acht Van Tuyl vooralsnog te hoog gegrepen. „We moeten wel realistisch blijven.””

Rosemarie Orwin (www.modelled.me.uk).

Daily Telegraph, The art of sitting still:

“Rosemarie Orwin drags the hair off her face and ties it up, revealing wonderful cheek bones and a long, graceful neck. As she discusses this morning’s poses with Neil Drury, the art tutor, she prepares to loosen the ties around her robe. Life models don’t like to undress in front of their class - it would ’sexualise’ what they do. It would turn them into strippers. They prefer to undress behind a screen and reappear in a robe. Towelling, usually.”

Installation of the exhibition, January 2008

The Daily Telegraph, The South Bank Show: you can’t please everyone:

“Did he wonder whether he was exploiting the painter Francis Bacon by showing him drunk? ‘But we were both drunk! Plastered. By the end of the day the room was spinning. We had started drinking at 9am when he came out with Bollinger, then we carried on drinking and filming over lunch and into the evening. But curiously I was asking things that were OK. I looked like, well, what I looked like, but I thought keep it in, keep it in.’”

Feltron 2007 Annual Report

Time, Saving Afghanistan’s Art:

“That anything is left at all is in large part due to the efforts of museum director Omar Khan Massoudi, his staff, and a small group of concerned archeologists and politicians. In 1988, they secretly moved the highlights of the collection to a vault in the Central Bank at the presidential palace. Massoudi, who risked his life to preserve his country’s cultural heritage, was one of seven men who had keys to the vault. All seven keys were needed to open it, so by spreading them around and keeping their locations secret (in case of death, a key reverted to the keeper’s eldest son), they were able to preserve the treasures.”

Levi van Veluw. Serie: Ballpoints. Title: Blocks.

Levi van Veluw. (via)

Trouw, Amsterdamse armoe:

“Rijksmuseum, het Stedelijk Museum en het Scheepvaartmuseum tegelijkertijd en jarenlang te verbouwen? Die vraagt dringt zich op als je terugblikt op het afgelopen jaar, waarin je voor de spraakmakende exposities over beeldende kunst vooral in Den Haag en Rotterdam moest zijn. Natuurlijk kun je altijd nog de Nachtwacht en andere topstukken zien in de Philipsvleugel van het Rijksmuseum die tijdens de verbouwing open blijft. En de tijdelijke behuizing in het Post CS-gebouw van het Stedelijk Museum biedt natuurlijk ook soelaas. Maar het is wel een armoedige bedoening als je als voormalig topmuseum – en dat was het Stedelijk – over heel 2007 maar één expositie (Andy Warhol) weet te organiseren waar het publiek warm voor loopt. “

Caribbean Pirates, 2001-05. - Paul McCarthy (S.M.A.K.)

Régine Debatty, Paul McCarthy at the S.M.A.K.:

“Last week i visited the Paul McCarthy exhibition at the S.M.A.K. in Ghent (Belgium.) I knew little of his work, all i had seen before was his Santa merrily carrying a buttplug outside the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam. Then i heard about the Ghent exhibition, saw the images in the press kit, learnt that it featured a mechanical pig, a rabbit with a 12-metre long rubber penis, some fierce-looking pirates, image of Osama bin Laden wearing a Guggenheim turban, etc so i thought; “Yesss, this is going to be a nice & easy & fun little exhibition”.

(…)

It’s nothing of the kind. At all! The Head Shop / Shop Head exhibition is rough, abject, violent, it grabs you by the guts, hovers between bad Hollywood slapstick and the restroom, it’s a carnival of the vile and filthy but it is fascinating and mind-blowing. In fact, it must be one of the best exhibitions i’ve seen this year (together with History Will Repeat Itself (Part 1 and 2) which is currently running at the KW in Berlin.)”

“At a Whole Foods in New York, Jen Armstrong and Ryan Watkins-Hughes stocked a shelf with cans carrying art-infused labels.”

NY Times, Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage:

“This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it’s also the season of spirited shopdropping.

Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary.

Anti-consumerist artists slip replica products packaged with political messages onto shelves while religious proselytizers insert pamphlets between the pages of gay-and-lesbian readings at book stores.”

A Requiem: Oswald, 1963, 2006. Gelatin silver print mounted on alpolic

Yasumasa Morimura: Requiem for the XX Century. Zie ook Henry VIII’s Wives: Iconic Moments of the 20th Century.