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It's Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair this weekend, so I've decided to publish a new project, Untitled (Grave Matters), which is a set of screenshots of art historian Anna C. Chave's devastating lecture on Carl Andre, which she delivered at the symposium linked to Dia's 2014 Andre retrospective.

Though she discussed them at length, Andre refused to let Chave publish images of two macabre works he made after he was acquitted for the murder of his wife Ana Mendieta. Untitled (Grave Matters) fixes that.

During NYABF, drop me an email, and I'll send you a signed and stamped edition. After that, we'll see.

#carl andre #anna c chave #dia #nyabf #artist book #or make your own from chave's essay published in the winter 2014 edition of art journal on jstor and the dia exhib catalogue

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Noah Davis Delirium 2011

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Last year the Museum of Vancouver had a retrospective of artist Tobias Wong's work, and they got the OK to make their own exhibition copies of Wong's Glass Chairs No. 1 & 2 (2002). Which the rest of this blog post is not necessarily suggesting you do, but the measurements and specs are there, and also the UV glue glass bonding Youtube tutorial.

#tobias wong #glass chair #uv glue #museum of vancouver #exhibition copy #bootlegging a chair that is itself a remake of a donald judd chair is like notions of authorship all the way down

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I srsly spend 27 years trying to figure out what was up with the FREE TIBET carpet edition mentioned in the Non-Works section of the Felix Gonzalez-Torres catalogue raisonné, only to discover that it was tiger-striped and exhibited in Cologne in 1992, and now it's just hanging out on some Squarespace?

#felix gonzalez-torres #registered non-work #catalogue raisonné #i guess my tumblr will now join my blog by being blocked in china for mentioning free tibet even if it's just a rug #equator production

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Sigmar Polke - Agate Windows in Grossmünster, Zurich, 2006

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I feel like I learned a lot from the pile of Theaster Gates interviews, talks, and articles I just went through. Mostly it's about his experience as a Black potter, and his engagement with Japanese pottery traditions. Also the work of Dave Drake, a 19th c potter who incised his name and poems on the pots he made while and after being enslaved in South Carolina. Making something good from complicated things is a useful skill. Gates just opened an exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

#theaster gates #shoji yamaguchi #dave the potter #mingei #afro-mingei #problematic faves

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TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."

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Cy Twombly, April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011.

1952 photo by Robert Rauschenberg.

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Isamu Noguchi in his 10th Street, Long Island City, Queens Studio, 1964

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TFW there are so many copyright infringement lawsuits against Richard Prince you lose track of one for 8yrs. In 2016 the photographer of this Sid Vicious portrait sued Prince for using an autographed 8x10 of it in this work. [The case was soon withdrawn because lmao]

#richard prince #sid vicious #dennis morris #copyright infringement is not this

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Cy Twombly

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A Columbia University professor lamented in his NYT newsletter that he was unable to teach John Cage's 4'33" to his humanities class last week because of the noise of the protestors outside.

The rest of his newsletter was about how the noise disproved the pro-Palestinian students' claim of holding a "peaceful" protest, and thus calling in NYPD and the draconian punishments of the university itself were justified.

#john cage #john mcwhorter #palestine solidarity encampment #4'33"

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Patrick Ostrowsky, new monuments for Munich (Hochhaus), 2020

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June Jordan, An Address to the Students of Columbia University During Their Anti-Apartheid Sit-in, April, 1985; in On Call. Political Essays, South End Press, Boston, MA, 1985, pp. 117-122

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Isamu Noguchi Cloud Mountain

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Untitled (Rothko Streetview), 2024

Not sure why the Rothko Chapel is blurred on Google Streetview, but I can work with it.

#rothko chapel #blur #google streetview #untitled rothko streetview

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So I went back into the archives and rounded up some posts and projects about lecture-performances, including one that was foundational to my deciding to be an artist—shoutout Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, and Alex Hubbard, and especially to those haters at the University of Utah—and another called Relational Aesthetics for the Rich, A Brief History of The Gala As Art movement

Mindy Seu writes in Outland about the genre of the artist lecture as performance art. Many intriguing examples led me to track down Suzanne Bocanegra's incredible 2022 performance Honor, that "masqueraded as an artist lecture about one of The Met's most important 16th century tapestries."

#visiting artist #performance lecture #robert smithson #alex hubbard #technically my original complaint was that nancy holt turned a lecture recording and a slideshow into installation art #certificate of authenticity #i signed it so now you can't throw it away #gala #gift bag