Late Styles, Bad Artz: de Chirico and Picabia

This week I gave a presentation at the Courtauld on Giorgio de Chirico, Francis Picabia, Andy Warhol, "late style," and "bad art". I got pretty excited about it. Here are some tidbits.

Commercial Short: Jalouse

Jalouse Magazine: Une Fille Comme Les Autres from Matthew Frost on Vimeo.


This is a clever, self-conscious commercial short film by Matthew Frost. Via Scribbler.

His sound editing is really lovely in this short film as well.

Video: Tameka Norris

This gal is pretty kick-ass. It's worth going through her performance and video work from Yale.

Artifice & ILK in London.

I'll be reading at this tomorrow night, along with James Tadd Adcox, Caroline Crew, Kerri French, Pete Bloxham, and Jack Castle. Probably something related to A Very Short Introduction to the Atlantic Ocean will happen. See you there.

The Artist as Institution

I wrote a short review for Printeresting, on institutional critique and Natasha Pestich's poster show (at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts) documenting the fictional career of Jan Xylander: 

The Artist as Institution: Natasha Pestich is Jan Xylander’s Personal PR Machine.


Proud to be involved with the Printeresting guys—they recently were awarded an arts writing Creative Capital grant from the Warhol Foundation!

Easing In

There are these things about which you should probably know.


1.) Ash, London, is what we find inside wood, inside buildings, inside each of us, is the thing revealed by heat, is (as you noted) the secret heart of gray.


2.) ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: ::: :::  [Red Lightbulbs #5] 


3.) "Your Personal Panopticon: An Interview with Christopher Meerdo" [The California Printeresting Printmaker]


4.) Oxford once, Cambridge twice. Venice for the Biennale. Paris next week (mainly for this). Then Ohio. Then, further secret adventures with compatriots await.


5.) It has been collage. Newspaper. Yet. Lately, my thoughts tend toward wallpaper.