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Repository 153: Quality is Queen
qual·i·ty noun ˈkwä-lə-tē : how good or bad something is : a characteristic or feature that someone or something has : something that can be noticed as a part of a person or thing : a high level of value or excellence This past weekend at dinner, one of our friends brought up the notion of quality. He asked his wife to describe it, and in turn we all considered it. Thank you Dan of Point and Line for the…
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Repository 151: Art as Trojan Horse | König’s Russian Manifesta
The German curator Kasper König was asked last year to curate Manifesta 10, going on now in the venerable, 250-year old Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. He agreed to before Russia’s anti-gay propaganda reared it’s head, and before the aggressive annexation turbulence. While the roving Manifesta has historically been a contemporary art biennial dedicated to exploring intellectual and cultural issues between Eastern and Western Europe, this particular context has proven one of the least safe grounds for exploration and dialog….
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Repository 90: Top 20 Movies about Art
While creativity remains illusive, there are countless books and resources that give glimpses into the unique mind of an artist, or the cadence of an art movement. Movies trump books for the time strapped, and are sometimes the most honest given the amount of first person interviews, discussion and revealing footage. The following is a list of films about art, contemporary art specifically, I have found over the years to be intriguing, inspiring and sometimes hilarious. I hope they inspire…
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Repository 61: Marlene Dumas on Alice Neel
– Image courtesy of the Tate, Alice Neel’s “The Family (John Gruen, Jane Wilson, and Julia) Most figurative painting is not about people and seldom about “characters.” Philip Guston painted cartoons. Warhol painted public images. Chuck Close uses portraiture to paint about painting; Alex Katz paints the cool; and Elizabeth Peyton paints dreams…Alice Neel painted people. – Marlene Dumas
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Repository 48: Size Matters – Marc Quin’s Giant Baby Lands in Singapore
Image courtesy Marc Quinn and Singapore’s Garden by the Bay. The artist Marc Quinn, known famously for his bust sculpture titled “blood head self portraits” created over a five year period of the artist’s head made entirely from his blood, has another project equally as personal heading it’s way to Singapore. These sculptures were also shown in 2008 for show at the Chatsworth House in the UK and at Musée Océanographique in Monaco in 2012. The work is comprised of…
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