youtube…a resource for time based artists
I was checking out one of my favorite pieces (Cnn Concentrated), and realized that sometimes living in 2009 is pretty wonderful…I can imagine how hard it might have been to study time based pieces “back in the day” without resources. Though it’s still not the same as experiencing it as the artist intends, it does give a better idea than a picture and blurb in a book. Be sure to check out UBU.com for a more scholarly approach. Some more of my favorites..after the jump
icp book signing
I’m such an admirer of Hank Willis Thomas work and was so excited when I checked my e-mail and saw that him and his mother/artist/historian/prof/etc, Deborah Willis, will be signing books @ ICP. February 6th 
All of her books are on my wishlist still…these are the two that they are promoting.
David Graham
David Graham’s photographs were quite a nice find for me today….there’s a large selection of his work here.
Couple of Shows
I’ve been a lil’ out of the loop lately…might check out these shows and see what other goodies I find along the way:
Crash (John Matos)
Unfinished Business
January 17 – February 21, 2009
Alec Soth
The Last Days of W.
January 20 – March 7
I’m definitely interested in checking out Soth’s Photographs in person. His words are what drew me in:
Henri Cartier-Bresson famously said, “The world is going to pieces and people like Adams and Weston are photographing rocks.” But I don’t think the world would have been a better place if these photographers had headed off to a war zone. The question is whether you can be a political photographer while you photograph rocks. My pictures don’t have a specific social commentary but I think they have social and political meaning.
–Alec Soth
I can spend hours looking at the images on his site…though they come from different places they’re all plowing towards the same direction which is something I can appreciate.
“Black First Family Changes Everything”
This article from CNN reminded me of some thoughts I’ve been having around the relationship between Media and “Blackness”…all I kept thinking wondering was why did it take the election for the news to place emphasis on the opinions of people from Harlem and Brownsville.
God
I’m too lazy to change the channel and Gossip Girls is on….it’s very very painful to have on even as background noise.
Call to Volunteer
Obama has called for Americans to volunteer on our day off…but I know most of us are lazy fools here’s my list of nice things you can do today if you don’t intend on volunteering:
1.) Hold the door for someone today, especially your neighbors. This lack of manners happens with me most frequently in my building where 95% of my neighbors are students at Columbia University. Not only do they never hold the door, they also never say thank you if one holds the door for them.
2.)Call your Grandma. I live across the street from my Grandmother and all her friends always say what a nice granddaughter she has that visits her all the time. Make your Grandma happy.
3.) Offer to carry someone’s heavy bags or help a mother with her stroller on the stairs. It saddens me so much when I see mothers struggling to handle their carriage on the train stairs, with tons of able bodied people walk, glance, and keep walking.
4.)Offer your seat to someone on the train. Seriously, if you’re sitting there picking your boogers, be nice let the young girl trying to read her book, or the old man with the cane sit down and relax.
5.) Donate some books to your library. Wait are the libraries even open? Do this tomorrow if so!
Carrie Mae Weems @ BK Museum
January 24th
Talks and Tours: Artist Talk: Carrie Mae Weems
2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses her art, including the work featured in the exhibition Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, and her relationship to feminism.
