So today on Wired I found out that there’s a biopic being made of Iggy Pop, and the early days of The Stooges.
How cool is that! Elijah Wood is playing Iggy, and, Kirsten Dunst plays Debbie Harry.
It has Iggy’s blessing, but he’s not participating in it.
Short Wikipedia article here
Here’s hoping it doesn’t suck.
My favorite quote from here:
Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.
Viva La Carlin!
New York Time article on Louise Nevelson’s show at the Jewish Museum.
Nevelson earned her place in art history, somewhere between the totemic structures of David Smith and the emotionalism of Eva Hesse, with mysterious abstract assemblages made from street-salvaged remnants of wood: baseball bats, milk crates, driftwood, picture frames, toolboxes, toilet seats, newel posts and gingerbread carvings. Her grand — even grandiose — oeuvre recycles themes of royalty, mortality, marriage, displacement and the tension between interior and exterior space.
Nevelson is one of my favorite artists, and there is a great collection of her work at The Farnsworth Museum, in Rockland, Me. (the second largest collection of her work in a public institution in the US, by the way), (and, which I blogged about here) if you’re ever up this way.
So there was an ad for Paul Matthews’ newest show, at Atea Ring Gallery (no website, sorry), in this months Art in America magazine (the May 2007 issue–the front page of the site changes every month). He’s a very fine figurative painter, who does mostly nudes, showing (among other things) pregnant women, child birth, old men’s fantasies, and a general view of modern life. Many of these paintings are on his site–paulmatthews.net (nudity, NSFW)–and there are links to his portraiture, and landscape, galleries, which, unfortunately, are not online yet. His paintings are lush, and well formed, with beautiful colors, and brushwork, some have background landscapes, seen through windows, that rival his figures. Really a must see as far as I’m concerned.
(Image: Sunlit Wife, Oil on Canvas, 10×15 inches, 1992–Paul Matthews)
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From AwdBallz
Sorry it’s been so long since I updated. Busy you know. Sometimes life happens. I had to fix the brakes on my truck this week (had a hole in a brake line), that was just soooooo much fun. Actually it went quite well, especially after I figured out where the bleeder valve was, so that I could bleed them out, so that they’d actually stop the truck. Of course, it was rusted closed, but some WD40 took care of that. Now I can go places, and stop when I get there.
This post brought to you by the colors red, yellow, and blue.
We don’t have to hear about Anna Nichole Smith 24/7 any more.
is a quirky art program–artist interviews, how-tos, process, studio walks, etc.–on Asheville, N.C.’s URTV public access station. Community TV if you will.
It’s hosted, and produced, by Ursula Gullow, and can be found on Google Video, also.
I particularly liked episode 007, episode 005, and the show on Gabriel Shaffer (an outsider artist).
Heres a primer on approaching galleries from gallery owner Edward Winkleman. He has an excellent blog, and has more advice for artists sprinkled through his posts.
–when John Marin’s father suggested that the younger Marin “do salable etchings in the mornings, and his crazy watercolors in the afternoons”–” that [he] ask his new wife whether a woman could be a prostitute in the morning and a virgin in the afternoon”, which Stieglitz felt was equivalent to what Marin was asking his son to do.
That is from the sidebar of the dead tree version of this article on John Marin.
The sidebar contains a lot of good stuff, and I wish they’d put that up on the site, also.