NEW YORK

All I want to say is that Olafur Eliasson's waterfalls are up and running. Here is a photo I took from the subway, today. They'll be up all summer, so if you're in NYC you can keep a look-out for them.

BOSTON

Antonio Garcia Lopez at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

I went there, yesterday and went through the El Grecco exhibit in about 3 minutes. The downstairs exhibit featuring Mr. Lopez, however, was much more captivating. Not only a master of line, color, and materials, you look at the paintings, drawings, and sculpture of Mr. Lopez and know that he is looking very hard at every detail of his world. He is feeling the essence of every object, surface, and persceptive. At first I thought the exhibit was of Richard Estes' work, because of the realism, but actually Mr. Lopez doesn't go as far as Mr. Estes' to make things hyper real. In fact, while drawing a pumpkin patch from behind a screen door, he puts more weight into the pencil at the crossmarks of the screen. The pumpkins are knotty and huge, but the tiny "t" marks of the screen door give the drawing a pixelated effect. In addition, his painting "La cena" shifts in areas the way a digital image looks with glitches. Mr. Lopez's work not only masters color, tone, and line quality, but his subject choice and presentation will draw any viewer as close to each piece as the museum will allow them to be.

another post

As new members show up we'll be better represented and hopefully have an informative, frequently updated blog for the readership. Expect global and local art news, group as well as personal projects, politics and drama. Something for everyone!

new blog for the Cradle

Well i just have two things to say. If you have a lot of time to kill here's a good site to do it at:

http://newsgrist.typepad.com/

AND, if you haven't checked out the new site for the Knoxville Art Journal here 'tis:

http://www.quarterlyartjournal.com/

stuff 06/24

1. spirit surfers link to several videos of transformer fires
i wouldn't mind coming across several of these miracles

2. artnet.com picture postcards worth looking at (instincts) 2008

Tony Feher, New Shore Reactor in Motion


Bill Albertini, Red Corridor


Mark Handforth


Tobias Zielony, Sessel


Calvin Burton, Close Encounter

3. Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon
These Brazilian twin bros illustrate the brilliant Casanova series for Image Comics and also Dark Horse Comics' Umbrella Academy (written by the lead singer of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way.......uhhhhhh), which I just caught onto today and by the time I read pg 5 of the first issue I was shopping online for the trade. Just look at the pretty pictures.



















4. this week, wednesday that is, final crisis 2 comes out. and my second of Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus (Omnibi) should arrive in the mail by then.

Written by Grant Morrison; Art and Covers by J.G. Jones

Meet Japan's number one pop culture heroes, the Super Young Team and their languid leader, Most Excellent Superbat! Join legendary wrestler Sonny Sumo and super escape artist Mister Miracle as they team to face the offspring of the Anti-Life Equation! See Earth's superheroes mourn one of their oldest allies! Witness costumed criminals sinking to new depths of cowardice and depravity as Libra takes things too far! Uncover the doomsday secrets of the poisoned city of Blüdhaven! Learn the shocking identity of the prime suspect in the murder of a god! And read on if you dare as Batman becomes the first of Earth's champions to face the Fallen of Apokolips. All this and a spectacular return from the dead...

Grant Morrison and J.G. Jones' multiverse-spanning epic continues with bombshell after bombshell in FINAL CRISIS #2 — "Ticket to Blüdhaven"!