Philip Jones at Mercury

The venerable Philip Jones is showing at Mercury Gallery this month...
opening tomorrow night 5-7 pm.


Philip Jones - Photographs
Mercury Gallery
8 Newbury St.
Boston

selected commentary on Amy Winehouse (from youtube)

"that is zhe real one to die. the BEST SONG,I EVER HEAERD....
amy, you are stronger than me . MY QUEEN"

"I can't believe she's not American!
What an astonishingly talented singer/songwriter genius Amy is,
long may she rain in our hearts"

"America needs to change in their music scene..you are STUCK,
and have been stuck for about 15 years in RnB.
The brits have moved on already! (this song is an example)
You Americans are so afraid of change"

-"What do you mean the brits have moved on. Just about
everything from the British music scence has been influenced by American music. LeonaRulez (11 months ago) I mean they need a change. we have moved on, The Scissor sisters know this, they are american but they rejected them because they are too different, the UK accept change a whole lot better than you do. kyasst (11 months ago) I agree 150 percent. David beckham, RnB, all of it. Influenced by american RnB and urban culture. British people have no soul. Theres no flava in england. DONT get it twisted miss leona rulez... vexed999 (11 months ago) "I agree 150 percent. David beckham, RnB, all of it. Influenced by american RnB and urban culture. British people have no soul. Theres no flava in england. DONT get it twisted miss leona rulez..."

You sir, have NO knowledge of music, what so ever. LeonaRulez (11 months ago) I'm female..and of course i have knowledge..I think you dont understand my point. I cnt be bothered to explain it again..since when was I discussng soul? kyasst (11 months ago) Haha. i work in the music business. what do u do?...u MUST be british. haha. blaxican93454 (11 months ago) ok...this is to kyasst. The United Kingdom is slightly smaller than the state of Oregon! Out of that TINY place we get some of the best,most influential, most diverse music in the world. True, Black America invents it(jazz- blues- hip hop) and then the UK refines and expands it. Its been this way since the 1st British invasion. And it still is. You just don't know cause clear channel controls everything you hear on the radio now. its truly sad. Cutchswife (11 months ago) lol This is RNB! Just 50's stylee. This is proper Rnb! hey im sorry i kno im carazay but what is this song about?? i cant understand what the lyrics mean read the sentence at the end of the track... he broke her hart and she died...
she baruid her heart

Oh and anyone who says she's UGLY, wow NEWSFLASH. In other news Hadrian builds wall.

short movement lift of the long

A little capture of train cables, a direct lift of Ann Adachi's
Lines piece. Hungarian countryside to old steel wheel beat.

religion/abstact art

show details

2 Mar (3 days ago)

"Religion is all about the image. It isn't the case that religions use images to great effect; it's more exact to say that they're all about the image. The original and continuing power of religions is their appeal to the same inexplicable part of the human psyche that responds to images. That's why a six-armed female god of death, creation as the break-up of an eggshell, the tree of life or a crucified saviour became so successful in launching and sustaining religions. They are primal and indelible images, and their caretakers - the scholars, the priests, the missionaries - did not invent them to summarise, encapsulate or popularise their tenets, but the tenets developed in response to the images. Religions are simply cultural processes of trying to figure out what certain images that capture us and hold us with inexplicable power actually mean, and how they operate. From druids to the Maya Kiche the same founding images are found not because of cultural interaction, but because they're images that cannot be rid of; and so they are cherished. Abstract painters are the true priests of the godless, secularised era that began in the West barely a hundred years ago. Their preselection criterion is the same as the priests': the inexplicable draw and power of an image. The process of exploration and continuation, opening up and re-hiding of the meaning of the image (the esoteric-exoteric cycle, the sacred re-enactment through original but self-aware creation) is also identical in religion and abstract painting. Abstract painters interact with their audience the same way that priests do: appearing occasionally to preach, mingle and drink wine, they generally stay aloof and scatter a steady stream of cryptic messages that can be read in a thousand ways, yet gets as close to expressing the ineffable in the image as human language allows." (written by Mark)

Air in House II

Inverted view of Air in House, after light rain. In case you missed the article about
the wonder of Hungarian courtyards, here it is again....

"In the country's stormy history courtyards have also served as centers of rebellion. After the invention of the vacuum cleaner and the Communist system, grievances (if not rugs) continued to be aired. In fact, Professor Teplan speculates that this architectural device was abandoned during the Communist era precisely to discourage the subversive commerce of ideas.

''The courtyard was an arena of social conflicts,'' he told me. ''The old houses look inside. The new blocks, the housing developments on the outskirts of Budapest, don't look inside - to avoid space where people can gather.''

announcement

we're aiming for a modern-day adaptation of:

Thing and Building

super tuesday

prediction:









America at the Obama rally the night before:

luscious orange and the fack-builder

a short advertisement about art in general (I think),
and applying to an MFA program in particular.
This is according to the Swedes.

Troy Hagenbart

If there's anyone that can can get a painter (re-)excited about
painting, it's Troy Hagenbart. This fist solo of his in Boston
includes work that explores the idea of staging- up, down, and
center...these near-stick figures appear in incomplete landscapes,
asking the question: "how much information is needed to
convey something?"



this etching is a view of the backside of Boston's own Museum
of Fine Arts, complete with graffiti..."BONNETS' it says belows
the columns (hard to see but it's there)



in this larger work, figures seem to be waving at
each other from across dimensions: one in the
space of the fiction, one in the reality...


the story continues on the edges...



Troy Hagenbart @
MPG Gallery
450 Harrison Ave.
Boston

through March. 1

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"and please do not, even as a joke, try this at home"

Ondrej Brody

I don't know much about this person, but he is the only Czech artist-
in residence at De Ateliers in Amsterdam for the 07-08 season.
Video-performance, nods to many other artists and ultimately
nods back to himself...ie this work of his called Artstar.
The main issue here, to take it seriously, is the fear and transparency
of the artist- which Brody emphasizes by his being ridiculed by
the jury- which is itself ridiculed (the hyphenated Japanese name of the
lady art historian trying to quit smoking, the performer from Ostrava
who is offended, the ensuing acrimony...) This is where I think,
"I wish everyone spoke Czech": a few bad translations kill the
nuances, but overall it's pretty hilarious- although the laugh ends in a
head-shaking kind of sadness. And I dare say, a quintessentially
Eastern European species of fatalism.

Also noteworthy are these equally saddening dog-carpets that
comprise the "news" tab of his website. Between Duchamp and
Hirst, and entailing a similar amount of reflection.

Al Held sighting

Even though I find a lot of his work somehow unapproachable on a
human level, encountering this Al Held mosaic was a pretty stunning
event...it kind of challenged my notion of complexity within the world
of mosaics. There could very well be about a million little tiles that
make up this piece. (51st- 53rd st. subway, NY)

Turns out there's a database for all NYC subway art, with 211 artists
represented...bringing to mind the Tokyo subway, where travelers
can collect commemorative stamps at some stations (just bring
a notebook, and stamp it with the custom-carved woodblock stamp
located at the end of the platform).

Perhaps this idea of take-it-home-with-you art could migrate
to US subways? It's got to be free, of course (like all the rest of it here...).

announcement

My father is having a show that opens this week.

Milan Klic @
Reeves Contemporary
535 W 24th Street
2ND Floor
New York, NY 10011

Jan. 10- Feb. 9
opening reception Jan. 10 6-8pm

www.reevescontemporary.com

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