Daniel Buren's response to "the death of painting"

Conceptual art is recognized.

When Attitudes Become Form, curated by Harald Szeeman

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_43/ai_n27870046/

The female disposition expressed in technology

Jenny Holzer, Truisms

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_work_md_65_1s.html

Barbara Kruger

Familiar Imagery/Appropriation

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Stills


David Salle, Polsky

Artists uninterested in wealth.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Umbrellas USA - Japan 1984 - 91

The pair receive no income from sales of books, posters, etc. and pay for all of the expenses of projects from their own money earned with sales of preparatory drawings, sketches, and scale models before a project is started.

Hans Haacke's Voici Alcan

. . . in Voici Alcan (1983), Haacke combined the slick logo of Alcan, a company which provided aluminum products to the South African police and military, with posters of operas Alcan sponsored as well as images of the dead South African activist Stephen Biko. Haacke’s work is blunt and ironical, and refuses anything like aesthetic pleasure.


http://www.brooklynrail.org/2001/10/books/buchlohs-neo-avantgarde

Street Artists

Barry McGee

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1984.

Weight of a material culture.

Ann Hamilton, Privation and Excess

http://greenmuseum.org/c/aen/Issues/hamilton.php

JSG Boggs, "sf100", 1988

http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1999/Articles0999/JBoggsA.html

Mother Courage and Her Children | National Theatre

02:22 - 4 months ago youtube.com

'Brecht's tragedy of war is brought up to date with a bang.' Guardian Fiona Shaw takes the title role in Tony Kushner's inventive and vigorous translation of Bertolt Brecht's ...

youtube.com

A question of interpretation.

1. David Sylvester - formalist approach - use of abstraction in face of objections to content, "screaming bloody mouths . . . simply as harmless studies in pink, white, and red."
2. Freudian - Relationship with father - whipped and kicked him out as punishment for homosexuality, Experience cleaning corpses out of bombed-out buildings in London during WWII, life of drinking, gambline, S & M escapades
3. Bacon - work only about painting, obsession with Velazquez, Picasso, and Van Gogh
4. John Russell - source in animal movement sudies of Eadweard Muybridge
5. True story -exorcism and commemoration of suicide of ex-lover who died in their hotel bathroom
   

A nod to our forefathers.

Franciso Goya, Saturn



Andres Serrano, Cabeza de Vaca

The Power of Bodily Fluids

Chris Ofili, Virgin Mary
(using elephant dung)

Robert Mapplethorpe, Jim and Tom, Sausalito 1977

*Both seen in the 1999 Sensation exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

The Power of Blood

Orlan, The Transformation of Saint-Orlan

http://www.orlan.net/


http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jul/01/orlan-performance-artist-carnal-art

Digital Art Masters

http://www.etoy.com/

http://toywar.etoy.com/

http://www.hijack.org/hijacksearch.html

Eduardo Kac - The Bio Artist

Eduardo Kac, Alba the fluorescent bunny.

http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html#gfpbunnyanchor

Eduardo Kac, Genesis

http://www.ekac.org/geninfo2.html
http://www.ekac.org/geninfo2.html

Zbigniew Liberaj - Unlikely Bringing Together of Elements

Zbigniew Libera, LEGO Concentration Camp

http://www.raster.art.pl/gallery/artists/libera/prace.htm

http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/mirroring_evil/

Gabriel Orozco and Paulo Pivi - Manipulating Modern Symbols

Gabriel Orozco, La DS 1993

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/323
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/gabrielorozco/#

Paolo Pivi, Untitled (Aeroplane)

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/18336.htm
http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/pivi.html

Paul Pfeiffer and Racial Celebrity Identity

Paul Pfeiffer, The Long Count (Rumble in the Jungle)

http://listart.mit.edu/node/270

Tobias Rehberger's Seven Ends of the World

Tobias Rehberger's Seven Ends of the World, to take a single example, fills a room with clusters of glass balloons that glow with different coloured lights in a beautiful, slowly changing display; the lights in the balloons are renditions of local light conditions in various places around the world, relayed over the Internet.

Francis Alys - Political Artist

http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_177.html

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons, Puppy

Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog

Jeff Koons, Loopy

www.jeffkoons.com

Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth/Confronting Consumer Culture through Photography

Andreas Gursky, Times Square

http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A7806&page_number=9&template_id=1&sort_order=1

Thomas Struth, Times Square, New York

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/design/07KIMM.html?pagewanted=1

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/gursky/

Vanessa Beecroft vs?w/? the World of Fashion

Vanessa Beecroft, VB series (number unknown)

vanessabeecroft.com
http://thoughtsonart.com/artists/Beecroft_vanessa_article_photography_art/1_Beecroft_artist_article_vanessa.html

Sylvie Fleury, Easy, Breezy, Beautiful

Sylvie Fleury, Serie ELA 75/K

http://www.contemporary-magazines.com/profile63.htm

Louis Vuitton "Superflat Monogram" - Takashi Murakami

Xu Bing, Book from the Sky

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:4iDOpU5W1h8J:etcweb.princeton.edu/asianart/assets/archivedmaterials/Xu%2520Bing%2520handout.pdf+xu+bing+book+from+the+sky&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Relations between tourists and local art (specifically biennial)

Santiago Sierra, 160 cm line tattooed on 4 people

http://www.santiago-sierra.com/200014_1024.php

Santiago Sierra, 3 People Paid to Lay Still in Boxes During a Party

http://www.santiago-sierra.com/200013_1024.php

On the topic of primitive artist exploitation.

http://www.thirdtext.com/

Why art matters

by Anthony Bond OAM

http://www.artinfluence.com/whyartmatters.html

Installation for the 8th International Istanbul Biennial

2003
Photo: Sergio Clavijo

Doris Salcedo

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/salcedo/

Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool by Giles Gilbert Scott

Giles Gilbert Scott

Coming together:

Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, 1999
Trace curated by Anthony Bond

http://liverpoolbiennial.adatabase.org/index.php/objectui/type,vra.vrawork/id,18169

Dealing with Racism

Night Rap by Mel Chin

• Black Male exhibition at the Whitney, 1994

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n3_v83/ai_16821894/

Camptown Ladies by Kara Walker

• Art of Kara Walker

Barrier Breakers

Piss Christ by Andres Serrano.

http://www.artsandopinion.com/2004_v3_n3/pisschrist.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ

http://tech.mit.edu/V110/N31/mapple.31a.html

'Lay back, keep quiet and think of what made Britain so great’

Fig.1
Sonia Boyce
‘Lay back, keep quiet and think of what made Britain so great’ 1986
Charcoal, pastel and watercolour on paper;four parts
each 152.5 x 65 cm
© Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/09autumn/fisher.shtm

The importance of Paris's Centre de Pompidou exhibit Magiciens de la Terre and London's Hayward Gallery exhibit The Other Story.

• First World and Third World art together on equal footing
• Black and Asian British artists in a prominent public space
• Problem of "curiousity-driven" attendees in elite white
  
• Problem of exoticizing Third World artists
  

Beginning of a Long Journey

I'm creating this blog to keep track of all of the books, movies, artworks, and various pieces of information I am currently taking in to formulate my MA thesis paper. I really don't intend on sharing this blog with the world, but using it to have a one spot stop with photos and notes that I can look to when mounting this overwhelming work. On that note, here we go!