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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Vhils – Deconstruction – Making Art in Venice, California
One of my favorite streets in L.A. is Abbott Kinney Boulevard in Venice. I once had an office there before it was renamed Abbott Kinney after Venice’s founder. This video of Portuguese artist Vhils captures the area’s current sensibility. MB … Continue reading
A Conversation with Artist Karen Green on Her New Show—“Tiny Stampede” & Memory, Grief, and Faith
Max Benavidez Interviews Karen Green on Art and Forgiveness In 2009, artist Karen Green made “The Forgiveness Machine.” It was a strange seven-foot-long plastic apparatus that allowed people to write down whatever they wanted to forgive or be forgiven for. … Continue reading
29 Minutes on 9/11 and Then the Language of End Times
Guest Blogger Matthew Battles from HiLo Brow on 9/11 In the grey-knuckled grip of insomnia last night, a moment of weakness: I succumbed to an access of piteous 9/11 nostalgia. Finding my way to CNN’s morning-of coverage; and donning my … Continue reading
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LUMINESCENT CITY
Luminescent City from Dan Tassell on Vimeo. A cloud of light-emitting spores are released from a clandestine lab deep beneath London’s Barbican Estate and weave a new architectural landscape.
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Catherine Dixon on José Luiz Benicio da Fonseca
From We Made This The Brazilian illustrator José Luiz Benicio da Fonseca, or simply Benicio, would be speaking in Rio while I was there. All I knew was his reputation, a career spanning some 60 years, and a sense of … Continue reading
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