Vitro Nasu

Review here
Ziff has pulled off an astonishing accomplishment with Witkin and Witkin. The film works on many levels. Firstly, the viewer is drawn into the “weird news” curiosity about identical twins who go their separate ways. Then comes the compelling rush of fascination around the art they make. Finally, she delivers a tender, charming look at two very different lives of artists have gone through many experiences and relationships. It combines a sideshow with an art course and a twin biography that is exceedingly entertaining.

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(Still Life with Mirror – Joel Peter Witkin

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At Whitney

Lawrence Weiner

Marian Goodman Gallery

In Memoriam: Lawrence Weiner

Our fellow artist and dear friend, Lawrence Weiner, has passed at the age of 79. A force of conceptual art, Lawrence gained international recognition for the use of language as his primary medium. He proposed a new relationship to art and redefined the position of the artist, and his works demonstrated the power of language worldwide.
“I am heartbroken.” —Marian Goodman

Artforum obit

Lawrence Weiner, a towering figure in the Conceptual art movement arising in the 1960s and who profoundly altered the landscape of American art, died December 2 at the age of seventy-nine. Known for his text-based installations incorporating evocative or descriptive phrases and sentence fragments, typically presented in bold capital letters accompanied by graphic accents and occupying unusual sites and surfaces, Weiner rose to prominence among a cohort that included Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, and Sol LeWitt. A firm believer that an idea alone could constitute an artwork, he established a practice that stood out for its consistent embodiment of his famous 1968 “Declaration of Intent”:

George Seurat Org

George Seurat (December 2, 1859 – March 29, 1891)

“We realized that that painting was the setting of a play,” explained Sondheim. “All the people in that painting, when you start speculating on why none of them are looking at each other, maybe there’s a reason for that. Maybe someone was having an affair with another one, or was related to someone else.” The final question Sondheim and Lapine asked themselves before they started work: Who was missing from the painting? Sondheim and Lapine both agreed — it was the artist

Happy bithday Goerge Seurat (December 2)

Baseera K.

Baseera Khan I am an archive – New Yorker

Baseera Khan homepage

Baseera Khan I am an Archive

I am a Muslim – an interview with Baseera Khan

(Self Portrait- Michiko Kon)

Michiko Kon Mistress of the Dark

(Art by Kaitlyn who is 15 years old)

Happy Halloween!

Laurie Anderson at the Hirshhorn

Looking Back While Facing Forward: Laurie Anderson at the Hirshhorn

Laurie Anderson: The Weather – Hirshhorn Exhibition and Portrait

Laurie Anderson – interview

See more art from Vito Schnabel Gallery – Laurie Anderson

(Photo by Mary Ellen Mark)
RIP Lou Reed who passed away on Oct 27, 2013.

Manuel Neri wiki

Manuel Neri – Hackettmill (See more art here)

Manuel Neri was an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble. In Neri’s work with the figure, he conveys an emotional inner state that is revealed through body language and gesture.

Granddaughter Kaitlyn performed at Phoenix art museum.

Etel Adnan Art

Poetry Foundation

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Exhibition – Etel Adnan Lights – New Measure

She was born in Beirut in 1925 to a Greek mother and Syrian father; grew up speaking French, Arabic, and Greek; and as an adult has lived for extended periods in Lebanon, the United States, and France. She began to paint in the late 1950s, while working as a professor of philosophy in Northern California. It was a period when, in protest of France’s colonial rule in Algeria, she renounced writing in French and declared that she would begin “painting in Arabic.”

While Adnan’s writings have been unflinching in their critique of war and social injustice, her visual art is an intensely personal distillation of her faith in the human spirit and the beauty of the natural world. She has stated, “It seems to me I write what I see, paint what I am.” Adnan creates her paintings decisively and intuitively.

(Via Guggenheim)

The Luminous Abstractions of Etel Adnan (New Yorker)

Coolhunting.com Culture Quattara Watts

(Cultural Alchemy 1999)
Maximum Impact, Kaelen Wilson Goldie on the art of Ouattara Watts

Quattara Watts – wiki

Ouattara Watts (born 1957) is an American artist[1] from Ivory Coast.[2] He studied at l’École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.[3]

In Paris, he met Jean-Michel Basquiat at an exhibition opening in January 1988. Basquiat was impressed by Watts’s paintings and convinced him to move to New York City. They had a very short but important collaboration.[4] In the documentary Basquiat, Une Vie, Watts was filmed in his studio, working and talking about Basquiat.

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Ouattara Watts and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, September 5, 1988.
See more Art net here

Interview – Michael Andre Talks about his Poetry Photo via

Michael Andre: Years Skip By Like a Stone Across a Pond

Michael Andre is a Canadian, poet, critic and editor living in New York City. Andre hosted radio shows in Chicago and New York. He interviewed, published, and occasionally socialized with W. H. Auden and Eugene McCarthy, Beats like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, John Cage and Andy Warhol.

Andre is the editor of Unmuzzled OX, an occasional magazine of poetry, art and politics which began in 1971 as a quarterly and has produced 16 volumes. Andre edited and published two books by Gregory Corso, Earth Egg and Writings from OX.

Ray Johnson

Shoe
John Cage took me to a party for Buckminster Fuller. I was surprised to meet my friend Ellen Burstyn, and introduced her to John. We gabbed until Merce Cunningham arrived. John excused himself. “Who was that?” hissed the Oscar-winning actress. A month later I read in The Times that Burstyn and Cage had hosted a lavish party for Fuller. They forgot to invite me.

John Cage Shoes blog“>Merce danced in John Cage shoes.

Happy birthday-Michael Andre

Michael Andre told me about Benedetta Barzini’s father.

This is an amazing book
On page 37
Beyond Realism
You Know the details of the kangaroo. – Leonard Cohen.

Wolfgang Aichner

Projects/Intervention/

Installation – Sisy at Woox
(sisy at woox
2021 in collaboration with Thomas Huber (GÆG)
The red boat from passage2011 goes travelling again!
on top of a factory wall in Jesenik/ Czech Republic)

Read the article here.

German artists drag giant metallic pen through US desert

Self Portrait
1999
Relief etching on Japanese paper, 100 x 76,2 cm
(39 x 30 in.), signed and numbered. Edition of 99.

See more from his homepage

RIP Chuck Close (wiki)

Fingerprint Paintings by Chuck Close

Notes On Chuck Close in Rome – Paris Review