They say that there is no bad publicity in the art world, and well here we go round the mulberry bush yet again with Bill Henson’s latest at Roslyn Oxley9 in Sydney. The truncated sound bytes we are hearing across the media waves say much less than there is to say and take us nowhere; [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Bill Henson and Susanna and the Elders
Posted in A Picture is Worth..., Art or Commerce?, Check out..., Conflicts of Interest, Exhibition, tagged Artemisia Gentileschi, Las Meninas, Lorenzo Lotto, Rembrandt on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Shocking Art
Posted in A Picture is Worth..., Check out..., Exhibition, Old Media, tagged Chris Ofili, Mapplethorpe, Poussin, Venus on May 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not easily scandalized by art or performance. And I certainly don’t think I’m prudish. After all, I’m one of those New Yorkers who thinks he has seen it all. Yes, I’ve raised an eyebrow when I watched Karen Finley penetrate herself with yams in her installation at the [...]
A picture is worth…
Posted in A Picture is Worth..., Check out..., Photography, tagged Blue Lagoon, geothermal power, Iceland, Reuters on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Check out this incredible photo (detail, left) taken in Grindavik, Iceland, by Reuters photographer Bob Strong. This is a BorderTalks image! Talk about conflicting (co-existing?) territories! Within one frame the photographer captures the hallucinogenic combination of a geothermal power plant and one of Iceland’s tourist “hot spots,” the 104-degree Blue Lagoon spa. This coupling of [...]
David Levinthal: “Feeling small?” Part II
Posted in Border Violations, Photography, Popular Culture, surveillance, tagged erotica, harem, Japan, odalisque, Orientalism, Polaroid, shunga netsuke, voyeurism on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In my recent post on American artists who work small scale, I forgot to mention photographer David Levinthal. He works with small-scale figures (often toys), but the final artifact is usually a 20 x 24 inch Polaroid. Polaroid film has a particularly malleable and atmospheric quality that’s magnified when using a macro lens in combination [...]
Information visualization: can you digg it?
Posted in Internet, Mapping, Multimedia, New Media, Popular Culture, surveillance, tagged data, digital art, information aesthetics, information visualization, Internet art, Mapping, search engines on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Internet is information — your information, my information — everyone’s information. Remember the regrettable words emailed to your sister four years ago? They’re still in cyberspace, along with the resumé you posted on Monster.com, your mortgage applications, the searches you did on “prostate cancer,” the old Facebook photos, your tax returns, buying habits and [...]
My Trip to 32nd Street
Posted in Games, Multimedia, Performance, Popular Culture, Theater, tagged karaoke, Koreatown on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
32nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenues has become the most exciting block in Manhattan. Known as Koreatown, or Korea Way, the street consists of elegant turn-of-the-century buildings done in the style of the French renaissance. Elaborate, gray facades are now almost hidden behind bright signage in Korean and English. The life of the block [...]
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