the making of, by greg allen
Artist/hero Paul Soulellis has collected and posted all the title cards from Jennie Livingston’s 1990 film, Paris is Burning as part of an ongoing exploration of queer type. There are a lot more than I would have guessed. All the title cards from Paris is Burning (1990) [are.na/paul-soulellis]Previous, related Pepper Labeija respect in this house: … Continue reading “All The Title Cards From Paris Is Burning”
UPDATE: Wool’s BLUE FOOL sold on Nov. 17 for $950,000 before fees. FOOL Facsimile Object is no longer available, thank you all for your engagement. Kenny Schachter is selling a sweet little Christopher Wool painting [update: it’s now at Phillips] that once belonged to Glenn O’Brien. It was a gift from the artist. The way … Continue reading “FOOL Facsimile Object”
Untitled (30.06 & 30.07), 2017, screen printed text on enamel on wood, est. 48 x 36 in., installation image via @soulellis I’m psyched to announce the exhibition of new paintings at the Menil Collection in Houston. Untitled (30.06 & 30.07) (2017) are silk screened text on enamel on wood and on glass, and are installed … Continue reading “Untitled (30.06 & 30.07), 2017”
Top: screencap from “Putain d’epoque”, with people standing in mylar ponchos. Bottom: Ghost, 2007, molds of kneeling family members made of aluminum foil, installed at Saatchi in 2009. via Kader Attia has filed a plagiarism lawsuit against French rappers Dosseh and Nekfeu over visual similarities between the music video for “Putain d’epoque” and Attia’s 2007 … Continue reading “Plagiarism is Necessary, Kader Attia”
Luanda, Encyclopedic City, installation view, 2013, via beyond entropy In 2013, Luanda, Encyclopedia City, an exhibition by Edson Chagas at the Angola Pavilion, won the Golden Lion for National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. It was the first time Angola had participated in the Biennale, and the first time an African country had won. It … Continue reading “When Form Becomes Content, Or Luanda, Encyclopedic City”
The third edition of Paul Soulellis’s Library of the Printed Web is out, and it looks fantastic in many forms. What started as a tabloid zine is now, with Printed Web 3, a sprawling, multi-platform, medium-jamming festival of publishing. 147 people responded to Paul’s invitation by submitting 329 files, which are now being released in … Continue reading “Andiron Of The Library Of The Printed Web”
This post is for the archivists out there, and is inspired by putting away sweaters and Paul Soulellis’s Rhizome post about zip files. In September 2010 I wrote about what I called the Gala-as-Art Movement. installation image of Untitled (#rank Gift Bag) via hyperallergic In December I presented an expanded history of Relational Aesthetics For … Continue reading “For The Archive: Untitled (#rank Gift Bag), 2010”
Untitled (Andiron Attributed To Paul Revere Jr.), 2014, whoops, 2015, obv [UPDATED, see below; UPDATED AGAIN, see below that] I am stoked (pun recognized and allowed to stand) to have a new work in the Metropolitan Museum. Despite its minty freshness, Untitled (Andiron Attributed To Paul Revere Jr.), 2014, is currently on view in The … Continue reading “Untitled (Andiron Attributed To Paul Revere Jr.), 2014”
Study for Untitled (Google Art Noguchi Table) #3, 2014, 8.5 x 11 in, inkjet and water on archival matte finish paper I was very happy to donate this study to the benefit auction last week for Franklin Street Works, the Stamford, CT art space where some Destroyed Richter Paintings and Shanzhai Gursky photos were in … Continue reading “Google, Water, Color”
What you need is a system. To keep you going, to avoid artist’s block, to keep the pipeline filled. I think Lewitt’s cubes were less a system than an idiom. Flavin’s fluorescent tubes, too. Shapes from Maine, 2009, image: petzel.com Allan McCollum’s got a few systems going. Systems are his medium. Define some parameters, calculate … Continue reading “Webdriver Torso As Found Painting System”