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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Road Trip to Ronchamp

Monday, June 29, 2009

Notre Dame du Haut. Image courtesy of George Sanchez-Calderon and Shelter Serra. Miami artist George Sanchez-Calderon and his buddy Shelter Serra just returned form Basel. On their way back to the States they visited the Notre Dame du Haut (chapel of our lady of the height), by Le Corbusier that was built between 1950 and [...]

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The Sunday Video: Clover

Sunday, June 28, 2009

This week’s Sunday Video comes from Billy Rennekamp, a Kentucky based artist who uses new media as both medium and platform, in addition of course to institutions like Rhizome and The New Museum. Here is a rather clever piece which features a looped video from a Google street view vehicle traveling  around a cloverleaf interchange [...]

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Summer Reruns: Martijn Hendriks: Interview by committee

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Untitled (12 Glowing Men), 2008. Still from a single channel video DVD, projection and website. Color and black and white, sound. 4 min 10 sec loop. Martijn Hendriks is a Dutch contemporary artist who works with found images and video. Selecting from an abundance of defaced and marginalized media he wages a low-key struggle to dissolve [...]

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Summer Reruns: Industry of Luxury: Nicolas Lobo on Miami Art

Monday, June 22, 2009

Cold war missile base BMX bike race, starting gun. Jan, 2006 Nicolas Lobo is a Miami based artist. Like many artists in Miami today he mediates between high profile exhibitions and small group projects.  In the past five years he has been included in shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Miami Art Museum, [...]

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The Sunday Video: Darwin’s Endless Forms

Sunday, June 21, 2009

This weeks Sunday Video comes from the BBC. As part of celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge England hosted an exhibition that explored the impact that Darwin’s scientific legacy had on the 19th Century art world. The BBC reported it to be [...]

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Summer Reruns: Karat and stick: The double edged career of John Bucklin

Thursday, June 18, 2009

“Beer Sluice #2″ (2008) Beer cans, rivets, rope. 4″x20″x12″ with a penny and a penny weight in gold. John Bucklin was born in 1979 in San Francisco, California, and graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2003. He now lives and works in San Francisco where he innately marries the juxtaposition of [...]

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