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Diversity at the Florida university system isn't talked much about in my circles. But, certainly other things are. Isn't it interesting the number of African American art faculty from around the state? I wonder what the real percentages are. Does it matter? Well, of course, it matters and for as well to know there is competence at that level.
"Colleges want diversity. Students want diversity. There’s just this little problem with the law."(Via NYT > Magazine.)
Black History Museum Debuts Online:
"Though its physical construction is years away, the National Museum of African American History and Culture today is inaugurating an online spot where visitors can help shape its content.(Via washingtonpost.com - washingtonpost.com - Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland museums, galleries, and art events. Read more, click this link....)
One feature of the Web site, named after the museum, is a Memory Book, where people can submit a story, photograph or audio recording that tells something about themselves or a moment in African American history. "
Didn't I see one of the paintings of Mark Bradford at World Boxing and, another at the Rubell Collection? Yes...
"In six years, Mark Bradford, 45, has gone from being a self-proclaimed “beauty operator” at his mother’s beauty shop in South Los Angeles to navigating the tangled, lucrative weave that is the international art scene."(Via nymag.com: Art.)
Mark Bradford at Rubell Family Collection
Black Wall
Street, 2006
collage on paper, mounted on canvas
114 x 240 in.
Mark Bradford at World Class Boxing
Update on yesterday's post on Kohei Yoshiyuki's photos in Toyko's parks, our friend in Arizona, Kimdotdammit reminded me I had missed her piece she wrote the day before that is being republished here for a wider audience. I love the in-your-face aspect of her writing style. Thank you Ms. Kim!
My co-professor in Photography put up some images and text on the walls for students to gain some knowledge of what's going on in the world and draw inspiration from it. These images, taken with the flash of the infrared bulbs, have had more than a question or two asked about what is going on in them.
WHY are the Japanese couples in Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs having sex outdoors? Was 1970s Tokyo so crowded, its apartments so small, that they were forced to seek privacy in public parks at night? And what about those peeping toms? Are the couples as oblivious as they seem to the gawkers trespassing on their nocturnal intimacy?
Audio/Video: Layers of Voyeurism - see & hear
Via: Sex in the Park, and Its Sneaky Spectators - read more...
Two images from “The Park,” Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs of voyeurs watching people having sex at night in Tokyo parks. The series was last exhibited in 1979.
My friend and tour guide and, his dog, paddling back up a tributary to lake we crossed. It was chilly and windy but, has warmed up and wind died down. Not as many people around this time of year but, all are friendly, as usual. That's only when we go to town for any light grocery shopping.
Some of us are living in too sheltered a world. Collecting art is not for the thirty-somethings having just made some money on investments or, older wealthy retirees. Anyone with a bit of change can buy some art.
"The collector, Dakota King, is 9. In a collision of the art boom, the wealth boom and the Baby Einstein approach to parenting, galleries and auction houses around the country report that children who aren't old enough to drive are building collections that include works by Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Camille Pissarro and Rembrandt. At Sotheby's in New York, an 11-year-old boy with blond ringlets waved a paddle last fall and successfully bid $352,000 for a Jeff Koons sculpture of a silver gnome. Some teenagers are flipping art for quick profits. A few grade-schoolers are even loaning works to major museums, including Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, a coup for a collector of any age."
Jessica Stockholder and Dennis Oppenheim's use of found materials seems to be of the same vein. As a person that has a difficult time ignoring found materials, there is some inspiration to be said for this work. And it probably looks better in person than in the article below. At any rate, this is where I am right now, working for found and bought (non-art materidals) for a project that needs completion.
Jessica Stockholder And the Toilet Plunger:
"How much is your art about finding your materials, before you even put them together?"
I've left Florida again for a short vacation of sorts. I slept most of the way to our destination. I'm tired from my busy schedule. But, I'll be out doing photography, canoing, and some short hiking over the next day or two. We might stop by the Walker on the return trip if we have enough time.
My friend's mother died today. She wasn't well. She was 102 yrs. old. Condolences to the Voxland family. {{{hugs}}}
I was just a few days ago talking to my students about Henri Cartier-Bresson and his approach to picture making. He has influenced many photographers, even if his "decisive moment" was downplayed in his own thinking process.
Arts & Letters Daily (18 Sep 2007):
(Via Arts & Letters Daily - ideas, criticism, debate.)For Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Leica camera was like 'a big warm kiss, a shot from a revolver, a psychoanalyst's couch'... more
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