Iconoclastic Incubator
R.B. Kitaj 
1932 – 2007
Obits, here and here.
A Day Book
Text by Robert Creeley with 13 ‘graphics’ by R B Kitaj
Renewal and Resistance
David Cohen in conversation with R.B. KITAJ in Los Angeles
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, with art by R. B. Kitaj
He was a friend of poets – Pierre Joris
The Murder 
of Rosa Luxemburg
Good Soul 
David Kefford, the Master of Low-tech “craft” processes art
The Balance of Being Touring Exhibition
Blue Legs and Escape Rope
Throughout Kefford’s sculptures and works on paper we find images of solitude and proximity, intimacy, coupling, striving, anxiety, failure, mutual support, giving and exchange, birth, torment, exhaustion and calm.”(via)
Sculptures become stretched and nailed into walls or bound tight and exhausted of life, whilst others are allowed to sag, droop and flop down walls, in space or on the floor. At once the pieces can appear beautiful, funny, up-beat, painful, tragic and sad. (via)
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Now to something new and different.
Jamie Stuart of Mutiny Company now presents his latest short film at New York Film Festival. (via greencinedaily)
I enjoyed watching his 2005 short online films (5 episodes) NYFF43
Reeler Pinch Hitter (Jamie’s guest blog)
If you are looking for a biker, here is another Jamie Stuart on youtube.
Solar Power Solar Power
O Sole Mio 
(My Sun in Italian)
(Pavarotti is waving Googedbye Earth)
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize!
Her birthday is coming, more about her later.
Congratulations to President Al Gore!
Al Gore receives what Bill Clinton worked so hard to get and missed. Despite the past wins of Doctor Kissinger and Chairman Arafat, many of us are optimistic.
Do you remember who won last year?
Mahatma Gandhi was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why? (Nobel Priz. Org)
Robert Gardner at his studio
(Image source)
Robert’s studio is becoming a school.
Since its inception the studio has primarily been a working artists studio but it is now moving towards becoming the regions first public access school for glass. With an initial offering of classes for the fall of 2007, the studio will shift its focus from a private workplace to a public access educational facility. (Via)
For advancing glass education in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Online registration here ( One day intros, two day intensives and six week classes, are programmed around your busy schedule.)
The next class coming up is Beginner’s Hotshop: Dates: Nov. 14, 21, 28, Dec. 5, 12, 19
To Europeans and Asians who might be reading this blog may I suggest a great vacation blowing glass in Asheville. (Dollars are shrinking everyday.)
Offering 
My good friend Robert has been maintaining this studio in the heart of Asheville’s River Arts District since 1997. He was from Miami Beach, he was a film student at the San Francisco Art Institute when this blogger lived in Orinda. (We were friends in Miami before our California days. ) Robert loves cooking Thai food. If you were his friend he would drag you to Burmese restaurant in SF or NYC with him. (Is there a Burmese restaurant in Asheville?)
In God We Trust
(“Actually this one is sold, but as a series of say 100, I’d be happy to make more.” -via email Robert G. You can re-title the piece as “The Book Ends”)
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This article talks about his piece “Harness”.
“Everything can be seen in two’s…”
More pieces from Portals (Chicago)
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Charles Yuen added another video on his homepage.
A stark and hilarious video about Charles Yuen’s grandmother who was only 15 years old when she left China for Hawaii. (This blogger’s grandma was a mail-order bride too, except she went to Japan and became an overseas Chinese in Japan. She was a cigarette smoking teenager with large peasant feet when she boarded the boat. )
The great grandson is in a show
Charles Yuen is in a show at ADA Gallery in Richmond VA.
228 W. Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23220
804.644-0100
ADA GalleryIt opens on Oct. 11 (6-8 pm), and runs for about a month.
Fat Man 
66 x 54 inches, oil on canvas
I had visitors in my backyard two days ago and this morning I found out about Google 9th birthday celebration. (American’s dream of politicians retirement.)
Valedores
More images from this series here.
This nose is named after a famous french philosopher. (His photo here with his distinct nose.)
Check the title here.
I want nature. I want pure nature. I want nature against ideas, formalism, academism. Against politics. (Dokoupil’s rambling talk from here)
“Red Buddha” here. I thought his “Yellow Jesus” was funny, which was part of his retrospective at Rudolfinum museum Prague around 1996. Here is Christus Golden but it is different from the one I saw.
12 Hooks (Large and humorous, and not from the Minneapolis airport bathroom)
He has two more chairs – blue and brown (sculptures) in this page (Scroll down, his name is Jiri Georg Dokoupil)
Wall Animals and self portrait
Jiri Georg Dokoupil and Magdalena Jetelova are two wonderful Czech artists who rose to prominence in the 80’s. They are part of the group of emerging European artists (i.e. Sigmar Polke, Immendorff etc.) and not usually known as Czech. If you do research for famous Czech artists you will not find their names in the list. They are more famous in Germany and New York than in their own country.
Magdalena Jetelova 
Drive to San Francisco and turn right to Furtherfield.
JTWine
grayland—wheel—sucks—not for people
New Yorker cover design 
walking in the clouds
Pencil Dracula is Terayama Shuji
and Donald Sultan
for Robert Creeley
L’Atalante 
(Paris, Paris)
Glider gif from Nina
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Blake 
Animation
Don’t forget to flush before you leave.
Leg with Candle (wax, human hair, leather, cotton and wood)
Three artists pay heartfelt tribute to Elizabeth Murray. (R.I.P Elizabeth Murray from vitro-nasu)
We learned that Robert Gober helped strech her stretchers. Guess what yesterday (Sept 12) was his birthday. Happy birthday Robert!
Sinks at Diabeacon or see more google-gober images here.
A good friend was dying of AIDS at the time Gober was fabricating Subconscious Sink at the very beginning of the epidemic. The sink suggests cleansing rituals, although with no running water there is no ability to wash clean or purify. In this regard, a font of Holy Water comes to mind, but one disabled with no blessed water to sanctify–not an implausible association given Gober’s Catholic background and the emergence in the 1990s of overt religious imagery in his work.(via)
Cinderella
(DEMAKERSVAN)
See Lace Fence at happyfamousartist.com, where I learned about this Dutch Design team.
DEMAKERSVAN or Dutch Design is mostly famous for its conceptual, almost art-like status.
Thomas Lendvai A Series of “Nows” 2005 installation at Plus Ultra
You see, Lendvai is more than just your typical artist– he is a worker at his core with an old world ethic to match. Not driven by a need to create and self-promote like far too many of his contemporaries, Lendvai instead has had visions of lumber, table saws, and power drills pulsing through his veins since his birth. (Read more here)
See fun photos from this flickr page.
People inside Thomas Lendvai’s installation at Winkleman Gallery
More on Between Pain and Boredom from Artcal
James Wagner loved it,
I doubt that any gallery installation in the city rewarded visitors with as much fun on Thursday night as that of Thomas Lendvai at Winkleman.
Stare or Dare 
Carrie Costello sent this image of the Fool via email.
Well, by all rights it should be The Fool. The card of intuition and innocence; the card of the child; the card with the figure ABOUT TO WALK OFF A CLIFF.
Mexican Tarot by José Raúl Pérez
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Mao’s Feet 
Tradition has become an obstacle of modern development. Consumers need not to care about tradition anymore. Modernization changed China greatly. Consumerism takes the place of the traditional art when the life style changes. Ma Jun described the change in his works “Porcelain Equipments” vividly. In his works, we could find both the artist’s memory of classic and his acceptance of consumerism, which are definitely the two aspects of modern urban life. (Via)
Here is a synopsis of imaginary tale of Chinese Porcelain “A Cup of Light” by Nicole Mones. (Scroll down)
More Ma Jun’s Television, cars, coca-cola and Chanel bottles here
Do you buy bottled water? Read this and think about the waste.
(Bicycle Mark drinks water from tap.)
