L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley I wrote the below in 2008, for a design blog, D/visible, that has since gone into hibernation. But I’ve been thinking about the same ideas this week — essence and monumentality — and wanted to revisit. “It may have escaped your attention,” says Elizabeth Costello, the title character in a 2003 novel[…..]
The December art fairs in Miami are always a blurred craze of viewing art and people, fascinating and often horrifying. This year, as in years past, DailyServing sent a few writers to Miami to look for the most interesting projects among the fairs, local galleries, and outdoor exhibitions and events. We came back with a mix of work that includes the recent wave of mirror[…..]
You walk in to a darkish room where ever-changing shapes move like a school of fish across the walls. After your eyes adjust, you find that the there are two benches sitting among six sculptures that are producing the schools of fish and that the fish are made out of nothing but light beams. These sculptures are metal. Simple geometry (sphere, cube, etc). The room[…..]
Today’s feature is brought to you by our friends at Flavorwire, where Marina Galperina discusses the 2011 Turner Prize recipient Martin Boyce. The prestigious Turner Prize has just been awarded to Martin Boyce at the BALTIC gallery in Gateshead, and this is the “a quietly atmospheric, lyrically autumnal installation” that won it. The 43-year-old can now proudly strut around as the hottest British artist under[…..]
The stairway to the fourth floor of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art leads me directly toward a long, narrow, darkened space, at the end of which is the image of another, much longer, passageway. In that image, a concrete floor below and light fixtures above trace a trajectory toward infinity punctuated by pipes, wires, hoses, storage boxes, tools, and lockers. The scene is[…..]
In the fall of 2010, Barcelona-based Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga constructed a massive, largely improvised, sculpture at the São Paulo Bienal. The artist is at it again, this time in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum. In addition to his large-scale sculptures, you can also find a selection of Bunga’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, and videos dating from 2002 to 2008 on view at the Hammer, […..]
Googling yourself can ultimately be a very dangerous, and addictive, thing to do. And with the automation of Google Alerts, this fundamentally narcissistic activity is even less guilt-ridden – just passively sit back and every tidbit of information about you uploaded into cyberspace is sent straight to your inbox. As I recently discovered, you can often find yourself in unexpected and somewhat cringeworthy contexts –[…..]
