Archive for the 'art' Category

My Grandmother, the Drug Lord

Monday, May 11th, 2009

“Crop: 1997-98″ by Roxy Paine. [source]
When I was young, my grandmother on my father’s side lived in Seymour, Texas, where she maintained a garden that occupied her entire backyard and produced everything from apricots to okra to poppies. From the poppies, she harvested seed, which she used to make huge batches of Czech kolaches from […]

Time Piece: One Year Performance 1980-1981

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Tehching Hsieh’s “One Year Performance, No. 2″ [source]
Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock in his studio every hour on the hour for a year, completing a piece called “One Year Performance.” He performed the piece twice, and the video above is documentation of the second of these performances. I’d read about this piece, but hadn’t […]

Houston, Here We Come ..

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

I’m going to be in Houston from this evening through Saturday to give a guest lecture at my alma mater (more on that later), visit with some folks and some artworks, and generally indulge in one of my favorite cities.

Dennis Oppenheim, “Theme for a Major Hit,” 1974. [source]
I am especially looking forward to having […]

SXSW: the Homosexuals at End of an Ear, Flatstock, and Amen, It’s Over

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

The Homosexuals at End of an Ear.
SXSW is a lot of fun, but being local, I find it an endurance test that’s often more than taxing. Yesterday, desperate to catch up on some work — including a talk I’m supposed to be giving on Thursday — I met up with a friend at a coffee […]

Classic games that look it

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

GoldenEye - 18 / 01 / 09 Originally uploaded by Olly Moss

Olly Moss’s interpretation of the game Golden Eye. [source]
Artist Olly Moss has taken on the task of rendering some “classic” games in a style that makes them look like classic paper backs. The iconic Saul Bass-inspired style is spare and elegant. A larger selection […]