Bongo

This is our cat, Bongo. He lights up my life.

The Company of People

The Company of People are run by Landon and Hannah Metz and Chelsea Hodson. Their site hosts artwork from a variety of artists working with photography, drawing, painting and collage. These are some of my favourites from the site. Sometimes when I feel bored with my life I go there to remind me how awesome the world can be.

Artists:

Brion Nuda Rosch
Robin Schwartz
Michelle Spider
Michael Otero
Jeremy Liebman

Dahn and Parsons

This is Elena with one of her sculptures. She brought it out one night after we'd had an asado, lazed by the pool and went to her apartment to drink wine and dance to the venga boys. I was delighted when she brought this little guy out. All of her sculptures are made out of latex and inflated with air. I can't remember what we talked about with our wine stained lips but I remember her interest with sculptures that weren't fixed but not necessarily ephemeral. Each installation will be different because of the nature of the sculptures, which also, over time degrade and deflate.

Anyway, tonight, I saw this (below) and it made me laugh. It's a completely unrelated photo, taken in The States. by Scott Parsons.

Maya Lin on Artbabble

Lately I've been going to Artbabble while I have my breakfast. The site is conceived and produced by the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) and aims to host documentaries, interviews, profile and discussions on art. Some of the videos have been around on the internet for a while (like the ones on Chuck Close and Richard Serra) but the majority of clips have so far had a tight circut. Even though the IMA is the main force behind the site, it also holds videos from LAMCA, MoMA, SFMOMA, The New York Public Library and The Smithsonian American Art Museum.

What is surprising about the site is its wide range of art that it covers, also at a high quality of production. The interface is clean and responsive to interests of the viewers (doesn't always happen); transcripts are available for each video and the side bar picks up on key words mentioned in the main video and shows relevant videos.

What is most interesting to me is realising how the IMA is reassessing the role of the museum. It recently adopted a policy of transparency by revealing its entire database online; showing newly acquired works as well as items which have been deaccessioned, how much they were sold for, when and to whom. Any work which enters the IMA and belonged to its archive at any point, will always remain on the database, accessible to the public making its online sector is ever accumulating and open. This somehow seems quite different to other galleries and museums who work to brand themselves but I can't exactly unpack and pinpoint why I think this.

The above pic is a screen shot taken when I was watching a video on Maya Lin on Above and Below.