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Monthly Archives: April 2010

The Sunday Video: logarilla >> masks

Sunday, April 11, 2010

For the past week I’ve been working with art students of Derek Larson at Stetson University in DeLand, FL. For this week’s Sunday Video, I bring you a piece from Larson’s dynamic body of work. Before sleeping on his floor for a week, I loved this video but it took on new meaning after spending [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Channa Horwitz at Solway Jones and Kunsthalle LA

Saturday, April 10, 2010

If Channa Horwitz wasn’t female and 78 years old, she’d perhaps—and deservedly—be as well known as her male, L.A. artist contemporaries Robert Irwin and James Turrell. At the time of Ferus Gallery’s emergence, she lived in Tarzana—then as Channa Davis—raising three children, where she created remarkable works of art. One wonders, had she hung around [...]

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Miami Writer’s Prize: Deadline May 4th, 2010

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Writing Writing Writing: Stilled writer’s block hands courtesy of dbdbrobot. There’s less than one month to go before the deadline for submissions for the Miami Writer’s Prize, folks! Submissions in the form of a review of a recent contemporary art event around 800 words in length must be received by May 4th to qualify. The [...]

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The Sunday Video: Peanut Butter Sunday

Sunday, April 4, 2010

To celebrate Easter Sunday, I bring you two videos.  First we have Peanut Butter, The Atheist’s Nightmare! which tries to refute evolution with a jar of peanut butter and seems appropriate in light of the current Texas text book debate. I hope I’m not the only one a bit confused by its hypothesis. Peanut Butter, [...]

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Jet Set Saturdays: Justin Beal and Martin Kersels at ACME

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Martin Kersels, Fat Iggy 3, 2008. Black and white C-print. 18 3/4 x 22 1/4 inches In classical Greek adjectives for lovely include both “kallos” and “hora,” alluding to the qualities of pleasure and presence that great beauties possess. The ancient Greeks are famous for their philosophical fusing of the beauty with environment and the [...]

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