Rest in Peace.

Got this from ART INFO.

It’s kinda slow but nice. I did get a little freaked out when the shot changed and he moved back to show the photograph behind his head. For some reason that was weird.

I stole this from Art Fag City.

From Jaakko Pallasvuo on Vimeo

Go synthesized 90s music covers and cynicism.

Gotsta remember to keep up with what’s happening in Miami, even though I am not going to be there this year. Check out these blogs!

Art Fag City’s Slideshow

Joanne Mattera’s Art Blog: Fair Play

It’s interesting.

Original Article
From Hyperallergic:

There are 2.1 million artists in the United States. They make up 1.4% of the total workforce, and 6.9% of the professional workforce (artists are classified as “professional workers”).

Fine artists, art directors, and animators make up 10% of all artists.

Women artists earn $0.81 cents for every dollar earned by men artists. This gap is similar to that in the overall labor force (where women earn $0.80 cents for every dollar earned by men).

Hyperallergic author Hrag Vartanian cites this article.

There’s another on the way. I’m still waiting for the paint to dry to add another layer or two.

Hidden text exists within each of these.

At Gowanus Print Lab

There were some issues in site transfer to a new host… so sadly, some posts were lost! Here’s some work.

Nut Bandit

Cock Smoker

Butt Licker

Slutbagel
2011
Burned paper
7×11 in

Chicken Shit
2011
Burned paper
7×11 in

Thunder Thighs
2011
Burned paper
7×11 in

You can read the statement of Instigation Translation here by hovering over the title of the series. If you click on the title, you will be brought to another page which presents the sub-series within it.

Interesting “extras”:
1.) The Your Mom poses were borrowed by Cosmo’s Sex Position of the Day found within their Sex Positions Page.
2.) In future extension of the series, the Anagrams will partly be created with use of an Internet Anagram Server.

A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters

Installation at NNG, Berlin.

You might remember my post from a while back about this series. I was sharing from an article I read from The Guardian.

Re-visited quotes:

It is an investigation into the nature of genealogy and its consequences and is her most complex, ambitious and laborious project yet. It comprises a series of 18 family bloodlines, each with a strange or arresting individual story at its heart….

…In both her creative ambition and conceptual reach, Simon is at the vanguard of a relatively new kind of photography that evades easy categorisation and often blurs the boundaries between reportage, conceptualism and portraiture.

to Robert Mapplethorpe.

I just wanted to post this because I finished reading her book, Just Kids, this last summer. While reading it, I felt like I had company in everything I’ve been doing. Even though times have obviously changed, there are some constants that remain and connect us to other artists. I also had a dream involving Janis Joplin coming back from the dead. She’s in there for a quick second. Coincidences, man.

Anyway.

I’m planning a trip to New York in May for the Frieze and PULSE fairs. New York is definitely an expensive place to visit/live… so here’s a video from art21 following Tommy Hartung in a Budget Guide to New York.