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A Chicago (ish) art tumblr by me, Claudine Ise. I'm an art writer who contributes to publications such as the Chicago Tribune, artforum.com, and other stuff. This is a visual notebook of the articles, images, videos and other gunk that's clogging my brain at the moment....some of it fodder for the larger stuff I am, have been, or will be thinking and writing about.
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Hello beautiful eyes, do you mind if I party with you? -
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…. Drug Bag of the Day ….
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Chuck Moffit, Untitled, 2007, Shino glazed ceramic, found burnt wood
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Chuck Moffit, Untitled, 2007, Shino glazed ceramic, found burnt wood
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This is an energy drink we got today. Called “Sum Poosie”. It is a real thing that exists. It actually tastes really good. Probably the best energy...
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I like it.
Jerry Saltz:
“Directly in front of the American Pavilion in the beautiful Giardini, main site of the Venice Biennale — which opens on...
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The artist may have intended something different with this image, but this precisely embodies what summer means — and feels like — to me.
Dirty Feet, 2009
Archival Inkjet Print
Tale of 2 Cities: Film Series: Detroit vs. Chicago
OPENS TODAY, FRIDAY, APRIL 8TH @ 6PM-11PM
My interview with artist Kori Newkirk, on Bad at Sports. Intro:
Tonight, Tuesday March 8th at 6pm, SAIC alum Kori Newkirk is lecturing as part of the Visiting Artist Program. I first met Kori in Los Angeles when he was included in an exhibition of emerging Los Angeles artists that I co-curated at the Hammer Museum. Since then, he’s gone on to exhibit his art internationally, and was the subject of 10 year survey curated by Thelma Golden at The Studio Museum in Harlem in late 2007. Kori continues to live and work in Los Angeles. In thinking about the questions I wanted to ask him, I found myself most interested in finding out how Kori’s practice has developed “post-emergence.” Kori has always been fearless about charting new directions in his work, and I was curious to learn more about his experience of that category-defying space between “emerging” and “midcareer.” (Read full interview).
“Philipsz started out as a sculptor but turned to sound. ‘I started thinking about the physicality of singing as a sculptural experience,’ she said. “What happens when you project sound out into a room, how it can define a space. I began thinking about sound in sculptural terms.”
Susan Philipsz: The Internationale from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.
Latest Bad at Sports podcast is posted. Should be a good & rowdy one with Tom and Amanda at the helm.
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she does. Rachel’s art is fluid — it’s always easing in and out of different forms. She is a songwriter and performer; she’s an actress, of a sort, who performs as if channeling the poetic inner souls of controversial leaders like Fidel Castro and Manuel Noriega. She’s also a sculptor who crafts idiosyncratic figurines that look like a cross between Hummel figures and Honore Daumier’s sculpted bronze caricatures. During the 2008 election season, Mason sketched political candidates in the process of stumping for votes, and she’s also choreographed a number of live group performances. For me, the salient feature of all of her work lies in its sense of empathy. In a world that seems to grow more grim and globally conflicted with each passing decade, Mason’s projects operate according to this blissfully simple principle: imagine yourself walking in the shoes of someone else, if only for a few brief moments. (Read full).
Bad at Sports’ latest podcast: PLAND, Practice Liberating Art through Necessary Dislocation, an off-the-grid residency program that supports the development of experimental and research-based projects in the Taos mesa.
After the Younger than Jesus show last summer at the New Museum (good installation photos here), I became interested in artists working with or performing as museum guards. Three works inspired the interest, and I even considered it as a dissertation topic—taking a longer viewer and…
Very interesting takes on the Boston ICA’s doldrums - also interesting to note how the hiring of a single dynamic curator has the potential to turn an entire institution around.
Rachel Levitt Slade slams Boston’s ICA, and while I don’t agree with everything in the article, for the most part it’s spot on.
I went to the ICA twice (I live about 90 minutes west). The first time, I just wanted to see the building (I have a casual interest in architecture). My wife and I…
