Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Nude From Parts (Fig.2)

Nude From Parts (Fig.1)

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Daniel Gordon

Artist website

portrait in yellow and blue

portrait

portrait in orange and blue 2010

Hannah Hoch

half caste. 1924

indian dancer 1930

German Girl

Monday, September 24, 2012

Thursday @ Fleisher Ollman Gallery

Felipe Jesus Consalvos:

EXPLODED WHIMS

October 4 - December 1, 2012
Reception: Thursday, October 4, 6 - 8pm

Fleisher/Ollman presents its third exhibition devoted to the work of the Cuban-American artist Felipe Jesus Consalvos, curated by Jasmin Tsou, owner and director of JTT, New York. The exhibition will focus on decoding the images and language found within Consalvos's cryptic work, incorporating possible source materials, vintage advertisements, photographs, and Masonic artifacts. Born outside Havana in 1891, Consalvos immigrated to the United States around 1920. Engaging head-on with American popular culture through the lens of an anthropologist/outsider, Consalvos's collages also explore more arcane images from American history, including the symbolic universe of the Masonic order.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Good Advice from Saltz via ArtInfo

10 Pieces of Advice for Artists From Jerry Saltz’s Keynote Speech at Expo Chicago

“Art is not about understanding,” New York magazine senior art critic Jerry Saltz told a packed crowd of adoring listeners at the Expo Chicago fair on Thursday morning. He was delivering his keynote speech for the fair’s “Dialogues” program. “Art is about experience. Nobody listens to a song and says, ‘I don’t understand that.’”

The native Chicagoan and “people’s critic” held no punches in his meandering talk, offering his uncensored opinion on Art Basel Miami Beach (“the dumb Basel”) and Jeff Koons (“He wakes up in the morning and thinks he’s Ronald Reagan“). Perhaps the most valuable part of the frenzied speech, however, came at the end, when Saltz doled out a few choice pieces of advice for artists. We’ve paraphrased them for your reading pleasure below.

1. Go to an art school that doesn’t cost too much. Those who go to Yale and Columbia might get a nine-month career bump right after graduation, but you’ll all be back on the same level in a year, and you won’t be in as much debt.

2. Envy will eat you alive.

3. Stay up late with each other after all the professors go to sleep. Support one another.

4. You can’t think your way through an art problem. As John Cage said, “Work comes from work.”

5. Follow your obsessions. If you love the Cubs that much, maybe they need to be in your work.

6. Don’t take other people’s ideas of skill. Do brain surgery with an axe.

7. Don’t define success by money, but by time.

8. Do not let rejection define you.

9. Don’t worry about getting enough sleep. Worry about your work.

10. Be delusional. It’s okay to tell yourself you’re a genius sometimes.

— Julia Halperin

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Jon Kessler @ the ICA

THURSDAY / 27 / SEPTEMBER / 2012 / 6:30PM

Hear from artists about their process, ideas, obstacles, and work.

September 27: Jon Kessler

image: Courtesy the artist

Wednesday @ the ICA

WEDNESDAY / 26 / SEPTEMBER / 2012 / 6:30PM

Launch Excursus III with Ooga Booga founder Wendy Yao and a special performance by cult band Freakapuss, with members of cult post-punk band Tronics, and a participatory drawing with Sumi Ink Club. Ooga Booga is a store committed to the cultivation and promotion of independent art, music, publishing, and fashion. For Excursus III, Yao brings her collaborators to ICA for a series of workshops, events, and pop-up exhibitions, inviting the public to come together, converse, and peruse printed matter and archival material. To learn more about upcoming events visit the Excursus website.

Monday, September 17, 2012

UArts Constitution Day//Registering to Vote

From Dr. Greg Nayor // Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs:

You have no doubt seen the flyers around campus acknowledging Constitution Day. Each year, the University sets aside a day to recognize the importance of this document and to help educate students about what it means. This year, that serves even more importance as we are in another important election year and for the first time, our students have the chance to exercise their constitutional right to vote.

To that end, if you have not already registered, the League of Women Voters will be registering students (and faculty/staff) to vote from 11 am – 1 pm in the Terra Hall Lobby. We will also be giving away freebies and chances to win tickets to the National Constitution Center here in Philadelphia. (Remember- it costs nothing to register, but the costs of not doing so can be great).

A couple of important things to remember about today and your ability to vote:

· New law in Pennsylvania requires that all voters show-up with a valid picture ID. This ID must be valid and have an expiration date on it. Your UArts ID will work for this purpose, as long as you have a current term sticker on it. If you do not have that, you can pick one up at Student Financial Services on the 2^nd floor of Hamilton Hall.

· You only have about 2 weeks left to register to vote if you have not already. The commonwealth of PA only allows you to register about 30 days before the election. So take advantage of today’s voter registration in Terra Hall…

And help to exercise your constitutional rights to have a voice.