meu amigo afonso / my friend afonso

pra ler depois / for later reading

The New Republic Postcards from Nowhere by Jed Perl Post Date Wednesday, June 25, 2008

When I returned from Los Angeles not long
ago, where I had gone to see the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum,
friends quite naturally asked for my impressions. The strange thing was
that I hardly knew how to respond. And in recent months I have found
myself often faced with this problem. I have not had much of anything
to say after visiting a number of widely discussed events: the 2008
Whitney Biennial; the opening show at the New Museum of Contemporary
Art (aptly titled "Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century"); the
survey of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum; the
Olafur Eliasson show at the Museum of Modern Art; the exhibition of
Jeff Koons's sculpture on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I
have had thoughts, sure; but they are the thoughts of an anthropologist
rather than a museumgoer, of a student of the art world rather than a
person who has had an encounter with a work of art. What there is to
discuss is not visual experiences so much as visual stunts, which are
frequently mind-boggling in their size and complexity. Mostly what I
can offer, after all this museumgoing and gallerygoing, is a series of
postcards about nothing written from places that felt like nowhere.

I gather I am not alone. Reporting on the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Art in America,
Michael Duncan described "a bewildering event, provoking soul-searching
in the local art community and the museum world at large." And in the
lead article in Artforum's April issue, devoted to "Art and Its
Markets," the art historian Thomas Crow complained of trustees reneging
on public trusts, of "barbarism" in cultural institutions, of "vandals
... inside the walls." Well, yes. Then again, I find it interesting
that many commentators are far more eager to criticize the collectors
and the dealers than the art stars who produce this junk in the first
place. Can it be that even the most vapid machine-tooled work is still
covered by the old romantic alibi, namely that the muses made me do it?
The woes of the art world cannot be blamed entirely on the rapacity of
a cadre of collectors, dealers, and curators. After all, it was an
artist, Damien Hirst, who dreamed up the platinum replica of a human
skull, paved with diamonds, that was first exhibited last year in
London in a show called "Beyond Belief.

cont...

via:
kultureflash

hmm

Art sales: bullish Hirst rattles the market

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 24/06/2008

Colin Gleadell on Damien Hirst's direct sales plan

Market news Damien Hirst has unveiled an audacious plan to bypass his dealers and sell directly at auction, sparking fears that the salerooms will take business away from galleries selling new art. In September, he will offer a number of new works directly from his studio at Sotheby's. Leading the sale will be a 2m x 3m bull in formaldehyde called The Golden Calf, with hooves and horns cast in solid 18-carat gold, and a golden halo crowning its head. The sculpture is estimated to fetch up to £12 million, which would be an auction record for the artist. cont via: kultureflash.net

falando nisso 2 / speaking of which II

Skeletons admire an artist at an easel in another detail from 'F*ck*ng Hell', by the Chapman Bros (Ben Gurr/The Times)

Jake & Dinos recreate Hell for new White Cube show

Slide Show

http://www.timesonline.co.uk

falando nisso / speaking of which

to lendo isso / i'm reading this:

Georges Bataille, The Cruel Practice of Art (zipped PDF, 24k)

"Cruel Practice" considers the relation between art, sacrifice, and death. It was originally translated by Supervert for the BLAM! 1 CD-ROM, and is now presented here in a new and revised translation


fonte:

Home » Electronic Library » Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Electronic Library

Free etexts by 20th century French theorist and writer Georges Bataille.

Georges Bataille (1897-1962)

http://supervert.com/elibrary/georges_bataille

luto / mourning

o brasil quebra mais um recorde c/ essa historia de oficiais do exercito entregarem 3 jovens do morro da providencia a traficantes de outro morro rival, que os torturaram e mataram. foda. e a ironia eh q a providencia foi originalmente estabelecida por soldados veteranos de canudos, alem de estar na origem da palavra favela: era conhecida como morro da favela em referencia a um tipo de vegetacao de canudos, conhecida como faveleiro (eh o q li hj no globo)

brazil sets yet another benchmark w/ this story of army officers delivering 3 young men from the morro da providencia to drug dealers from a rival favela, who tortured and killed them. fucked up. and the irony is that providencia was originally set up by canudos war veterans, besides being the origin of the word favela: it was known as morro da favela, in reference to a canudos plant (read it today on globo)















imagens:
oglobo.globo.com

pra ouvir no trabalho / to listen to at work

Eve’s Diary

by Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about
Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by
every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The
following is an extract from Adam:

“She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world is to her
a charm, a wonder, a mystery, a joy; she can’t speak for delight
when she finds a new flower, she must pet it and caress it and smell it
and talk to it…. And she is color-mad: brown rocks, yellow sand,
gray moss, green foliage, blue sky…none of them is of any
practical value, so far as I can see, but because they have color and
majesty, that is enough for her, and she loses her mind over
them…. If there is anything on the planet that she is not
interested in, it is not in my list.”

(Summary by Esther)

• Gutenberg e-text
• Wikipedia - Mark Twain
• LibriVox’s Eve’s Diary Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (36.5 MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

Read by Esther and Mike Lockwood

Total runtime: 0:38:03

mp3 and ogg files

• Eve’s Diary Part 1 - 00:12:11
  
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  [ogg vorbis - 6.4MB]
  
• Eve’s Diary Part 2 - 00:10:37
  
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• Eve’s Diary Part 3 - 00:15:15
  
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via:
http://librivox.org

good fun tho i don't totally agree / divertida apesar de eu nao concordar inteiramente

fonte: idem

da babilonia a bagda / from babylon to baghdad

um bom doc sobre as sucessivas guerras pelo poder desde a antiga mesopotamia ateh o iraque moderno. a recente participacao americana eh criticada sutilmente por alguns dos entrevistados

a good doc on the successive wars for power since anciant mesopotamia to modern irak. the recent american participation is criticised subtle way by some of the interviewees



fonte:
http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html

incrivel / incrdible

fonte:
http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/

kelley's links / links do mike kelley

Mike Kelley


INTERACTIVE: Artist’s Links

via:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/kelley/index.html#



tb tem o otimo site oficial:


http://www.mikekelley.com/

onde dah pra comprar o novo dvd!

"It melts in your mind, not in your hand."

FINALLY!! NOW AVAILABLE!

Day is Done (Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #2- #32)


Written and directed by Mike Kelley, with original music by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel, choreography by Kate Foley
FEATURE | Video 169 minutes | 2005/2006
Coming at you on 2 mind altering DVDs!
$40.00 USD plus postage and handling


What "THEY" say about it:

satanic rituals and advertising jingles mingled with allusions to Godard, German Expressionist cinema and Stockhausen . . . toxic-comic carnival . . . an amazing feat of industry and poetics — Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times

Kelley’s Day is Done is like a variety show scripted by a regression therapist . . . an indisputable tour de force — Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice

a true epic! . . . the Mike Kelley Berlin Alexanderplatz! — John Waters, Flash Art

muaro no blog da bia / mauro @ bia's blog

Sexta-feira, Maio 09, 2008

Noite de autógrafos novo livro sobre a ayahuasca

Foi lançado ontem em São Paulo, na Livraria Cultura, o livro Religiões ayahuasqueiras: um balanço bibliográfico,
de Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Isabel Santana de Rose e Rafael
Guimarães dos Santos, publicado pela Editora Mercado de Letras
(*) com apoio da Fapesp.

O evento contou com a presença
do estimado e querido professor e amigo Mauro Almeida, entre tantos
outros companheiros nas estradas da antropologia, das pesquisas e
sessões de ayahuasca.

Bia Labate e o antropólogo acreano Mauro Almeida, em plena forma


O livro novo
http://alto-das-estrelas.blogspot.com/2008/05/noite-de-autgrafos-novo-livro-sobre.html