Doug and Mike Starn at the Met

Everyone check this out....especially Brit Brennen!

Big Bamboo, 2010.

This is the new roof installation at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This piece was originally created in 2008 then was reconstructed this August on the roof of the Met. The Starn brothers are identical twins who are best known for the pioneering photography that they began to produce in the 1980's. They actually had professional rock climbers to help them construct this forest of 5,000 bamboo poles.

"Stately and symmetrical, the entrance to the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens into rigorously ordered spaces that guide viewers systematically along a rectilinear path." (Sculpture Magazine)

Here is the Met's press release on the roof installation.

Here is the Starn's brothers website.

There's also a GREAT article reviewing the artists and the installation in the new Sculpture magazine. I'll bring it to class on Friday if anyone's interested.

The exhibition is up until the end of October.

Post Responses to Group 2: Ten Lies and Three Truths Here...Click on Comments Link Below

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/archives/2008/Oct

Hello All,
Please click on the comments link at the bottom of this post.
Write your responses to the "Group 2" presentations.
Again, I'll be posting your images as soon as I can!

9/10, Week 3 – Group 2:
1. Courtney Coolbaugh


2. Jaimee L Cruz


3. Brittany Enright


4. Danielle Finger


5. Julie LeCates


6. Mallory Lawson

Week 3 - Art and Extravaganza

Hello All,
Here are the readings for Week 3.
The Richard Serra video above is optional viewing.
Click the comments link below to publish your response.
Responses are Due by Wed., 9/14 at midnight.
Warm regards,
Terri

Week 3 - Art and Extravaganza:
1. Ray Johnson: ACollage in Which Life=Death=Art, Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 2002.
(Participate in Mail Art project w/ collector John Held: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4489)

2. Richard Serra: Rigging, (1980), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (T.D.C.), Ed., Stiles & Selz, 1996.

3. Kiki Smith, Queen of Arts, Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 2006

4. Jannis Kounellis: Structure and Sensibility, Interview with Willoughby Sharp (1972), Ed., Stiles & Selz, T.D.C., 1996.

5. Theory Talk with Aaron Levy, Slought Boss, Fallon & Rosof, theartblog, 2010
This article generated an interesting discussion amongst recent MCAD grads and friends.
The thread can be found HERE.

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:



Ron Nagle: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=24284

Merce Cunningham: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4655

Eva Hesse, review, Mark Stevens , New York magazine, 2006.

Buona Serra, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, 2007.

As Promised: "The Beautiful Experience" with Judith Schaechter

Hello All,
Click here for a gorgeous e-xtra credit reading assignment.
An earlier version with lush images can be found here.
Here is a link to Judith Schaechter's blog which is chock-full of pretty pics and sage commentary.
Also check this out....
REMAIN IN THE LIGHT: A Q&A With Post-Punk Stained Glass Sorceress Judith Schaechter
(extra-credit comment points given here!!!)

Post Responses to Group 1: Ten Lies and Three Truths Here...Click on Comments Link Below

Image: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/7-common-lies-told-by-enterprise-software-sales-people/653

Hello All,
Please click on the comments link at the bottom of this post.
Write your responses to the "Group 1" presentations.
I'll be posting your images as soon as I can!

Group 1:
1. Brianna Barton


2. Shawnda Beattie


3. Lauren Bergrud


4. Brittany Brennan


5. Mary Carnes



All students:
Please view the format for response posting.

Please use this format for posting comments:
Terri S.
Group 1.LTR (only write your name!)
1. Shawnda, i think that...
2. Mary, your studio...etc.

Week 2 - By and About Artists

Hello All,
Here are the readings for Week 2.
The video above is required viewing, #6, Kukuli Velarde.
Click the comments link below to publish your response.
Please try to write ALL of your comments in a single posting.
It may be helpful to write your response in a format such as text-edit,
then copy and paste to the blog. Responses are Due by Wed., 9/8/10 at midnight.
Warm regards,
Terri

Week 2 - By and About Artists:
1. Jack Thompson: The Well of Myth, Glen R. Brown, galley draft for Ceramics Art & Perception, 2008.
2. Julie Mehretu, Sheets, NYT, 2007.
3. Sketchbooks, Jed Perl, The New Republic, 2010
4. Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers, Holland Cotter, New York Times, 2007.
5. The Philosophy of Art; Interview with Arthur C. Danto, Natasha Degen, The Nation, 2005.
6. Studioscopic Episode 7: Kukuli Velarde
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6777574281882789675
Click here for more info about Kukuli.

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:
I Dream the Clothing Electric: Nick Cave, Finkel, NYT, 2009.
Heesung Lee - Interview, Dana Sunshine, TheArtBiz.com.
Gathered, Not Made: ABrief History of Appropriative Writing, Raphael Rubenstein, The American Poetry Review, 1999
Merce Cunnigham: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/01/arts/dance/20090803-merce-graphic.html
Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies, Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2007.

A Conversation with Paul Ramírez Jonas and Claire Bishop