Offload An-My-Lê‘s latest series of photographs shot in coastal waters and regions from Iraq to Antarctica. Evoking 19th century romantic painting to contemporary socio-political landscapes, Lê’s powerful images “examine intersecting themes of scientific exploration, military power, environmental crises, fantasies of empire and the vast ungovernable oceans that connect nations and continents.” (via)
An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1960. Lê fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, the final year of the war, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee. Lê received BAS and MS degrees in biology from Stanford University (1981, 1985) and an MFA from Yale University (1993). (Art21-PBS)
He is a totally secular, un-fundamentalist good ol’ boy from an oil port in Texas – Port Arthur, also the home of the late Janis Joplin, with whose randy generosity, narrative howl and sense of pathos Rauschenberg has more than a little in common. But if there is any other American artist Rauschenberg’s combines of 50 years ago remind you strongly of, it’s Walt Whitman: the poet who was not afraid to contradict himself, who said he contained multitudes, who spoke for Americans in general but to no class of them in particular. (Spirit of the Age by Robert Hughes)
“I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.” (See a great photo of R.R. by Dennis Hopper, via Placebokatz)
Erased de Kooning was the first major work of Rauschenberg’s career, and it showed many of the qualities for which he would eventually become known: a paradoxical originality (or perhaps an original paradoxicalness), energy, iconoclasm, unerring instinct. There have been a lot of artists who have used art to assault art’s own verities, but few of them did so as gracefully and cheerfully as Rauschenberg.
He thought of art not as a monument but as the record of a passing moment. I suspect he knew, too, how melancholy an idea that can be. That’s the thing about moments: They pass. And now Rauschenberg has as well, and there’s that much more to miss. (Greatness and golden slippers by Jim Lewis)
From the start, Rauschenberg embraced Johns in unabashedly romantic terms, “I have photos of him then that would break your heart. Jasper was soft, beautiful, lean and poetic. (Jasper Johns’ Alley Oop – Jonathan Katz) via James Wagner (a great photo of young Bob and Jasper included)
Something inherently theatrical about Robert Rauschenberg’s talent — always evident in his radical feeling for color, light, composition and new ingredients and juxtapositions —prompted him to his boldest and freshest conceptions when he worked onstage. From the early 1950s until 2007 he designed for dance. And in the late ’50s and early ’60s, when he first came to fame, he was recurrently (at times constantly) occupied in dance theater.
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More previous int’l exhibits organized by Paul Malone, here and here, and view Paul Malone sculptures 2005.
Location : Art in Perpetuity Gallery, 6 Creekside, London SE8 4SA
Dates and times : Thursday 8th to 25th May 2008. Thursday to Sunday 12 noon to 5 pm
Private View : *Friday 9th May. 6 – 9 pm. Finissage : Saturday 24th May 6 – 7 pm
Listen to David LangCheating, Lying, Stealing
He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion, composed in 2007 and based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen.
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Together with Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon, Lang co-founded Bang on a Can in 1987 (Wiki)
NPR on David Lang and hear an excerpt from The Little Match Girl Passion’ from Carnegie Hall
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(What holiday is today? Today is April 30 – not April 1 – so the Jeff Koons iGoogle artwork first spotted in the UK this morning is no April Fools Day joke.)
”I hope that after being with Zora so long, I was able to bring her alive,” says Andersen, 56, who lives in Tampa. “She is so difficult to understand. And the best way is to try to place her within her time.” (Kristy Andersen)
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and four protesting turtles. (These turtles are not afraid)
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