Jeff Koons, Peter Paul Rubens and the kitsch of the Neo-Baroque
There is a wonderful series on Public Television called "ART:21" that I recently started watching (ah, the wonders of Hulu!). This particular series seeks an in-depth investigation into the why and wherefores of contemporary art of all kinds. A portion of a recent...
Le Dejeuner Sur l’Herbe
What would a reinterpretation of this very famous painting be like? How would one handle it in a post Duchampian world? This is the question I am puzzling over at this very moment. It's both marvelously frivolous and frankly serious being such an event and...
On R.Mutt, the Duchamp Urinal and my new installation, “Picnic in the Rain.”
A month after the now infamous urinal by R. Mutt (Marcel Duchamp) was rejected by the exhibition he had submitted it to, a little magazine called The Blind Man, which was co-edited by Duchamp, defended Mr Mutt's Fountain: "Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the...
First, Rilke, then the ‘museumification’ of everything
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Rainer Maria Rilke I continue to struggle with the idea of production as an artist. My...
Paco de Lucia and the beauty of cross polination in the arts
Last night I saw, for the first time, Paco de Lucia live in concert and I can tell you this was an amazing thing. First, his pure, raw energy is more amazing than just about any other music out there. Certainly this is one of the hall marks of flamenco, powerful,...