27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ a]”>[a] In the middle of the ‘seven’ b]”>[b] he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
Seriously my favorite curating I have seen in the last 10 years was the exhibit In The Making… at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, which I saw last Summer in Berlin. Although I couldn’t find installation images to share – the main reason why I loved it so much: These two were exhibited side by side^
Chris Ofili’s installation of paintings “Upper Room” Each painting is an icon of a monkey repeated in a rainbow of colors, with a central multicolored monkey as a kind of alter piece. The room is a modern wooden temple which was designed with a collaborating architect. Andy Warhol’s Last Supper which informed Ofili’s work. One
Iscariot Blues (Chris Ofili, 2006) …”it belongs to a suite of paintings called Blue Rider, an echo of Kandinsky’s Blaue Reiter, now a century old.” der blaue reiter “Now, like Picasso’s, Ofili’s Black Period has given way to a Blue one – to a suite of pictures whose almost monochrome palette turns against the reds
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Here is another resource which I am considering toward further discussion on “blasphemous” art. See previous post HERE with texts on Andres Serrano. I find the idea that Christina Valentine puts forth in the presentation below to be extremely relevant to my generation within my practice and sub-sub-culture: The idea that we should be wary
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Amazon Kindle – starting at $175 Apple iPad – Starting at $499 $44 – $325 $375 – $575 The Kindle has been around for a while, skeptics still eye it when spotted on public transit. The iPad has also raised a lot of eye brows. I, personally, think they very well may be great new
“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.” – Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976 “Can’t decide if his life is really crappy with periods of awesomeness or vice-versa.”-Martin Jimenez, Facebook, 2010 “Joan looked down at Peggy with her familiar mixture of scorn and pity and just a smidge
As I was contemplating some (recently unearthed) issues that have haunted me over the years, it occurred to me that I have a strong desire to step back and address some things that might sound like old issues, but have not been resolved to the satisfaction of either me, or some other person(s) within my
Last night I watched the short film “la chatte andalouse” (or “The Female Cat from the South of Spain”) (part of a collection of short films called “Wholphin: Issue 4”). It is a charming story of a nun who finds herself completing an installation for an eccentric artist on her death bed, and her consequent