This really is what you could call a high quality blog. It subsists to inform about the New York art scene featuring news, reviews and gossip and interesting/ funny links. But it’s not only intersting if your a citizen of NY. One example: Last week they posted a series that’s called “33 Outstanding Artists Emerging After 1999″. It’s a response to art critic Jerry Saltz, who posted a list of “33 notable artists emerging after 1999″ on his Facebook profile and it offers an overview on an exciting row of interesting contemporary artists. Here you get to the three parts of the series: 1, 2, 3.
A friend of mine just sent me a link to the youtube canal of Brooklyn-based video- and performance artist Kalup Linzy. His stuff is really interesting and funny, I’m just checking it out. You can watch his videos also on his “Video Lounge” and listen to his music on his MySpace page. I also found an interview with Linzy on interviewmagazine.com. Here’s one of his pieces:
I found this confusing adidas commercial from 2006 on “Art Fag City” (a page I officially recommend here once again). It’s directed by Charlie White, a L.A.-based artist who is working on examinations of the American society (Here is his homepage). Most of his works I’ve seen yet are dealing with questions of adolescence, (gender) identity, sexual desire and alienation. I must admit that I’m not yet sure if I really like what this guy’s working at but I’m willing to it find out. Let’s do it together and start here:
Social practice in arts x 2: The first video I found on the great arts blog “Art Fag City” – it’s an excerpt of a performance that’s shown at the “Younger Than Jesus” triennal at the New Museum in NY at the moment. I must admit that I know neither the artist nor the musician but the video still impresses me although the quality is kind of poor. The second one is part of a video installation from Mark Leckey from 1999 that brings together the (here: dancing) styles of different youth cultures. It’s actually very short so you’ll just get a glimpse on what the whole movie could be. And again, the quality is bad, sorry. The whole piece can be seen at the so-called Boros bunker in Berlin.
There are actually a lot of young contemporary gay/ queer artists (and also many who call themselves artists) having their own blogs. And although I sometimes have the impression that this whole scene is full of guys that are way too narcisstic and detached from the rest of the world to be really taken serious, there are a lot of blogs worth having a look at. Here are 10 of them:
The Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York is showing an exhibition of John Waters at the moment and that’s getting quite a lot of publicity in the US (even Kanye West recommends it on his Blog). Here are two videos in which Waters talks about the exhibition himself. He’s working as a photographer since the Nineties mostly doing snapshots of his favourite movies from a TV. But at the exibition he also shows objects – I especially like the one with the Turners. I also found out that his movie “Fruitcake” starring Johnny Knoxville is supposed to be released this year. And to emphasize that blog is finally not much more than a mere extension of youtube, I’m also posting a hilarious scene from “Desperate Living” here.
On April 1st the second season of Isabella Rosselinis “Green Porno”-short films series produced by Sundance Channel has started. While last year she played bugs and insects to illustrate their sex lifes, this time she exlores the sex life of sea creatures. I haven’t heard about the whole thing until yesterday evening so I was glad to find out that you can watch both season one and season two completely on www.sundance.com/greenporno. I especially like the fish costumes. I’ve also found an interview with Rosselini about the series she gave recently, it’s here.
This really is what you could call a high quality blog. It subsists to inform about the New York art scene featuring news, reviews and gossip and interesting/ funny links. But it’s not only intersting if your a citizen of NY. One example: Last week they posted a series that’s called “33 Outstanding Artists Emerging After 1999″. It’s a response to art critic Jerry Saltz, who posted a list of “33 notable artists emerging after 1999″ on his Facebook profile and it offers an overview on an exciting row of interesting contemporary artists. Here you get to the three parts of the series: 1, 2, 3.
