David Hammons @ L & M, New York (2011)

David Hammons @ L & M, New York (2011)

Jean-Michel Basquiat, To Repel Ghosts™ (1986) (nvvr:a-h)

Tracey Emin (2004) (objectivecorrelative)

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Michael Hansmeyer, Subdivided Columns - A New Order (2010)

This project involves the conception and design of a new column order based on subdivision processes. It explores how subdivision can define and embellish this column order with an elaborate system of ornament.

An abstracted doric column is used as an input form to the subdivision processes. Unlike the minimal input of the Platonic Solids project, the abstracted column conveys a significant topographical and topological information about the form to be generated. The input form contains data about the proportions of the the column’s shaft, capital, and supplemental base. It also contains information about its fluting and entasis.

The input form is tagged to allow the subdivision process to distinguish between individual components. This allows a heterogeneous application of the process, with distinct local parameters settings. In addition to distinguishing among tagged components, the process parameters can be set to vary according to the input form’s topography as well as its topology. Finally, an environmental specification of parameters is possible to allow regional phenomena to occur.

The result is a series of columns that exhibit both highly specific local conditions as well as an overall coherency and continuity. The ornament is in a continuous flow, yet it consists of very distinct local formations. The complexity of column contrasts with the simplicity of its generative process. [from his website]

Valerie Hegarty, Bierstadt with Holes (2007)

Martin Pfeifle, Neues Rheinland @  Museum Morsbroich (artnot)

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Kenya Robinson (artnotartnot)

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Jan van Oost (detail) (mianoti)

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Hans Haacke, The Last Newspaper, at the New Museum until January 9th.

The conceptual pedigree of the exhibit is illustrated by its key historical work, News (1968) by the artist and investigative provocateur Hans Haacke, which consists of a teletype machine spitting out the latest stories from the wire services, its ribbonlike paper piling into a small mountain on the floor. No one consulted the feed while I was there—and why should they, since they could obtain the same information with less trouble from their phones? In 1968 the piece may have had a raw immediacy that bridged the gap between a sacrosanct museum space and a turbulent outside world, but in the present day its obsolete technology reduces it to the status of historical curiosity. — Luc Sante (culled)

Rainer Ganahl

Rainer Ganahl

Janine Antoni, Saddle (2000)

ART 21: Janine Antoni

Nam June Paik, TV Rodin (1982 version)
Bronze sculpture with Sony Watchman television [James Cohan Gallery]