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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Shelf unit ‘Chuck’ by german designer Natascha Harra-Frischkorn
These shelves are flexible 4mm thick plants of wood that are adjustable to hold various objects. I think this work is a nice piece to look at as we transition from the wood shop to the metal shop (note the … Continue reading
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John Cage
The Buchloh conversations mention John Cage a couple of times… Cage was a highly influential American composer and a leading figure in the post-war avant-garde. According to his Wikipedia page, Cage was “a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, … Continue reading
New Gallery in Guelph!
New Gallery in Guelph! Grand Opening next Thursday. Be there!
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A Case of Gravitational Anarchy
A Case of Gravitational Anarchy I don’t know how many of you have listened to radio lab before but it’s great and I thought you all might be interested in this podcast about gravity and the human bodies relationship to … Continue reading
Art and Objecthood by Michael Fried
A copy of my precis, as per James’s request. Fried proposes in this essay that literalist (minimalist) sculpture, by espousing its own objecthood, is kind of theatre. He claims that a major goal of modernist work was to defeat its … Continue reading
Richard Artschwager
Richard Artschwager Richard Artschwager, a painter and sculptor whose witty, contradictory mixing of artistic genres made him one of the most critically admired artists to emerge in the 1960s, died early Saturday in Albany. He was 89.
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Duchamp retrospective, Pasadena, California, 1963
Andy Warhol, Billy Al Bengston, and Dennis Hopper at the opening of Duchamp’s retrospective
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Duchamp at Pasadena
Duchamp at Pasadena an ok audio resource on Duchamp’s retrospective at Pasadena 1963
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