I first came across the animated shorts of Belgian filmmaker, Raoul Servais (b.1928), while doing research for an SVA lecture on Surrealism. My Bing video search led me to Harpya (1979), an eery, circular story about a lonely, forlorn man and a harpy. Harpies are the legendary bird-women/winged spirits of Greek mythology who, at Zeus’s […]
As someone who has yet to send a tweet, the (by now) signature Twitter performances of Man Bartlett intrigue me. Like Rob Pruitt, a self-professed technophobe, whose 2008 solo exhibition at Gavin Brown, iPruitt, featured iPhone photos taken over the course of a year, and the YouTube aesthetic of video artists Ryan Trecartin and Kalup Linzy, there’s something brazen […]
Here’s my Time Out New York interview with artist Marilyn Minter — meeting her, visiting her studio, and talking about her work restored my faith in painting (no small feat)! Enjoy! From her 1969 series of black-and-white photographs showing her own drug-addled mother lying about the house in negligees and curlers, to her recent Times […]
If you think of the really popular blogs, what they have aside from abstract concepts like “quality” or “coolness” is that they post frequently. It’s like shoveling coal into a furnace.
JH: Can you tell me how and why you came to start your blog? EW: I began the art blog after a few years spent blogging on politics in hostile territory (I was a liberal blogging on right-wing sites), where I learned quickly that you better do your homework and be willing to be both […]
If you’ve never seen one of Kalup Linzy’s campy send-ups of soap opera stars and music divas, you must! Riffing story lines from classic programs like As the World Turns and General Hospital, these video works splice together drag performances with footage from actual episodes in spoofs only a devoted soap fan could concoct. Linzy […]
