In ARTnews, Rachel Woff visits a Hank Willis Thomas photo shoot.- Smileys < the doodles of Ad Reinhardt.
- GalleristNY’s Andrew Russeth on a New York supper club that brings together artists of color.
- Apropos of nothing, the New American Paintings blog is really quite good.
- SFMOMA curator Lisa Sutcliffe talks about Naoya Hatakeyama at SFMOMA’s Open Space blog, at which the webmistresses find an HTML-savvy way to show you Hatakeyama blowing stuff up. Nice job all around. [Image: Naoya Hatakeyama, A BIRD/Blast #130, 2006. (This is one of 17 chromogenic prints.) Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.]
- Speaking of Open Space, it’s really slaying it lately. Thanks to SFMOMA’s blog and best-of-the-best social media presences, no museum has ever been better positioned to close for 2.5 years.
- At LACMA’s Unframed, curators from both the Getty and LACMA talk about Robert Mapplethrope. LACMA is showing Mapplethorpe’s X, Y, and Z portfolios, while the Getty is also showing Mapplethorpe’s figurative work.
- Interesting: California is full of leather/BDSM this season: This Nayland Blake show is up at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
- Greg Allen just scored a bunch of fabulous vintage photos of Gio Ponti’s Denver Art Museum.
- At the Tate’s blog, Olafur Eliasson muses on climate change and our relationship to the world, as considered through or with several of his early works. (And, if you missed it, Eliasson is the guest on this week’s MAN Podcast.)
- Jimmy Stamp takes to Idiom for a nicely articulated thinking-through of Andrea Zittel’s show at Andrea Rosen.
- Sarah Douglas speaks with Dave Hickey in a superb semi-retirement interview.
October 24, 2012, 10:10 am
