old news but

how to rewrite Super Mario Bros. - clouds only.......by Cory Arcangel

reminds me of AGoK's "Building an Archive". I wonder if someone should have this on hand in case anyone wants to exhibit an Archangel piece in Knoxville.

Objectionable

the UT Downtown Gallery has a great exhibit up right now

Objectionable Action
3-D Prints by 13 Artists
it's up until july 18th!

one of the 13 artists is one of my all time favorties--
mark hosford. the other 12 awesome artists are:

Bryan Baker
Layra Berman
Heather Corley
Joseph D'Uva
Matt Hopson-Walker
Anita Jung
Lee Marchalonis
Daniel Maw
Jessica Meyer
Katherine Nanfro
Sarah Shebaro
Crystal Wagner

sadly i don't have an image for this post. i had to venture down on my
lunch break on saturday to see the show.

Walking around New York Part 2

In Sculpture magazine, there is an advertisement for AZB, an art atelier that casts bronze, makes molds, etc., etc. Their promo picture is one of Tom Sachs' 18' tall Hello Kitty sculptures. The atelier is based out of Tempe, AZ.
While on a walking tour of "curtain wall" buildings along Park Ave., I saw five of these sculptures in the courtyard of the Lever House. I don't know much about Mr. Sachs, but if I had to describe his work in one word it would be "fun".

In front of the Lever House were more large, public sculptures. This time by Japanese ceramic artist Jun Kuneko, who had his own exhibit at the KMA last fall. Kuneko makes large heads, roughly 5' to 6' tall, which are one piece fired in a large kiln. The firing takes several days. Kuneko's pieces are also kind of "fun"!

Walking around New York

Well, Chris Burden, L.A. artist known for performance pieces like being crucified on a Volkswagon bug, being shot, and lying in a trashbag beside a busy freeway has a sculpture up at Rockefeller Center. It's called "What my father gave me" and is comprised entirely of erector sets. I don't know what he's up to really, but here's a photo anyway.

video

as if ubuweb wasn't enough, now there's also artforum video. The search video function allows you to access all of youtube whuich means you get to force the artforum banner to coexist with things like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPvmIxu-LSA or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8BKKxVOKiw - which is pretty comforting. Take that, Ryan Trecartin!

also thuis uis what hapens when y]oui spuill som,ethuing on y]ouir jkey]board

past

some of my favorite cradle meetups were the
times we would meet at sarah's old apartment
and take hundreds of pictures while random
people dropped in all evening long. sometimes
poetry readings would occur on the porch
simultaneously.