June 30, 2002
Spent most of this morning and evening digging around, looking for contextual material for the new project (it's a feature right now). Here are some source links. For this, I've been really hung up on music videos, actually. Mike Mills...
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June 29, 2002
Oh, and over the last week, a film idea I'd had (and sketched out a couple of weeks ago) is rapidly taking shape. While I'd planned to keep it quiet until I worked it through more clearly, I blurted it...
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MoMA QNS: I should've written yesterday about the Thursday night opening party for MoMA's new building in Queens, but I didn't get around to it. Except for the part where about 1,500 people had to stand in the middle of...
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June 28, 2002
Welcome to the party! This week, another weblog launched documenting the conception, birth and life of an independent film. Cyan Pictures is the brainchild of two guys, Joshua Newman (aka "a veritable Doogie Howser") and Colin Spoelman (aka, a veritable...
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June 27, 2002
Watching CNBC like it was 1999: Actually, it was nothing like 1999, which is why I'm mentioning it. CNBC had been the VIP room at the analyst's club for the entire boom of the 1990's. But in an utterly transfixing...
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June 26, 2002
Earlier, I was writing on a new project, which reminded me of the Bohr story, which I posted. Then I found Wall Street on Bravo and kind of got into it for a bit. Then it got on my nerves,...
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I usually find The Art Newspaper a little too smart for its own good, no doubt an attempt to appease/appeal to its too-smart target readers, who don't need something as mundane as a newspaper to tell them anything about art,...
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There's something refreshing about a sudden downpour, especially when you're not trapped in it. Thunderclaps that set off car alarms on your street, Flickers that--save for a surge protector--would fry your laptop. Suddenly bright sunlight ("the devil is kissing his...
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At first, I thought this guy was a weblog stalker, considering we'd been to several of the same exhibits and openings, but it turns out that the "reading over your shoulder," "they're right behind you!"character of Modern Art Notes is...
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June 25, 2002
My favorite astrophysicist and I loved this great story from Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb, which I found on kottke.org over the weekend: Exporting gold from Denmark was "nearly a capital offense" under the Nazi occupation of...
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June 24, 2002
Peter Schjeldahl reviews Documenta 11 in this week's New Yorker. He snidely and wearily compliments the show for its "robust, mature...festivalism," which I take to mean they figured out how to show video-based works. But he at least notices two...
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Festivals Update: Submitted Souvenir November 2001 to the Evora International Short Film Festival, held in November in Švora, Portugal. On hearing this, a Portuguese-Ohioan friend of mine praised the town effusively. (He just got back from a trip to the...
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June 23, 2002
At the Hirshhorn Museum yesterday (originally to see the Ernesto Neto installaion before it closed), I kind of fixated on the work of Anne Truitt, which is in the "Minimalism and its Legacy" installation on the lower floor. I wasn't...
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June 21, 2002
Stopped off in Philadelphia for a couple of hours to see the big Barnett Newman exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum. One thing I hadn't known before was Newman's (and his other artist friends') battle with the relevance of painting in...
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June 20, 2002
The wind must be shifting when I actually read and link to a Maureen Dowd column. Yesterday in the NY Times, she wrote about the raw cynicism of Bush's handlers for actually trying to cast him as any sort of...
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June 19, 2002
In the cab this morning: A veritable weblog full of unsolicited narration from the older, female driver. "I been driving a cab 34 years." "I used to race cars. I was 14." "The tourists come to see the matinee, but...
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June 18, 2002
Still in Kassel, at least mentally. The bad news first: Michael Kimmelman's embarassing writeup of Documenta 11 in todays NYTimes is not only self-contradictory, but almost every complaint or criticism he makes of the show can be refuted by the...
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June 17, 2002
Setting: Fredericianum, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany The voice of a woman reading from within a freestanding glass booth echos through the gallery: Nine hundred eighty eight thousand four hundred and twelve. B.C. You watch, slightly amused. A set of black...
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June 16, 2002
Report from Kassel: Got back Saturday, after an ultimately successful and fulfilling trip, but with entirely too much driving. Friday afternoon, the Documenta technical office installed a new monitor in the Ashkin piece, calibrated the timing of the three monitors,...
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June 13, 2002
KASSEL - A mammoth contemporary art exhibition. First things first: Documenta 11 is at least an order of magnitude better than last year's Venice Bienale, and not just because it's not so freakin' hot. While pursuing some gratuitous VIP ego-stroking...
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June 12, 2002
BASEL - A mammoth contemporary art fair. A pleasant scattering of familiar faces and new (and old) work by favorite artists. And tons of work by artists I don't really care for. A surprise DJ/friend from NYC turning up at...
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June 9, 2002
Favorite websearch from my referrer logs AND websearch most likely to become the title of an article or weblog posting: "Y tu MoMA Tambien" [capitalization added] Greatest moment of soulsearching since last week's preview screening: right now, when the Wu...
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June 8, 2002
In The New Republic, Jed Perl wrote an impressive review of an even more impressive exhibition, "Tapestry in the Renaissance" at the Metropolitan Museum, which I saw last weekend. After a detailed, compelling, history-filled analysis, Perl surprisingly (and effectively)...
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June 5, 2002
When I saw an hour and a half on Sundance Channel blocked out for Meet Mike Mills, I couldn't figure out how interesting he could possibly be. 90 minutes with Scorsese, sure. But 90 minutes with Mike Mills? Naturally,...
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I was going to wait and post about Atanarjuat after I'd finally seen it, but I can't resist. Atanarjuat, or Fast Runner, in English, is the Inuit-language movie that won the Camera d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival....
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June 4, 2002
Yeah, yeah, I'm working on a post-preview screening post, but in the mean time, There's this crackup exchange from the courtroom where Woody Allen gave testimony in his lawsuit against his one-time producers and friends (as excerpted in the NY...
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Last night was the first real screening of Souvenir November 2001 for anyone outside of my immediate family (and the anonymous-to-me festival screeners listed at left), and it went extremely well, far better than I allowed myself to hope....
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I submitted applications Monday for three festivals, and almost submitted to a fourth, when I belatedly realized I'd already sent them a tape two+ weeks ago. Festivals submitted today: Tehran (Iran) International Short Film Festival, the Winterthur (Switzerland) International Short...
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June 3, 2002
We've been transfixed this weekend by a sculpture we finally picked up and installed. It's called Mirror Mirror, and it's by Olafur Eliasson, whose work we have collected and loved for several years now. The work is comprised of...
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June 2, 2002
There's a group of François Ozon movies on Sundance Channel this month, including See the Sea, his chilling and creepy first feature (technically, at 52 minutes, it wasn't feature length. But it was released in the US with his...
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Need a reminder of the time and place for Monday's preview screening of Souvenir November 2001? greg org">Click here to get the details sent immediately to your email (no subject line or body text required). Tip: Send an email to...
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