Franz West @ LACMA

Franz West
To Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work, 1972–2008
March 12–June 7, 2009 @ LACMA

Waking Up to Zombies: An Interview with Franz West

"...Many of your outdoor works look like large turds or even phalluses. You also made a public urinal as a public sculpture, shown, for example, in the Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997. Are your outdoor works a commentary on public sculpture? A commentary? No. But then again, perhaps it's unconscious on my part. Everybody likes shit anyway. As a child, shit is the first gift that you give to your parents..."

A flowery Germany

LACMA's blog post today sparked my loving sentiment about floral wallpaper in Germany:

"Floral wallpaper is characteristic of the living space design of the German petit bourgeois in the 1960s and ’70s. It reflects the desire of an entire social class in postwar Germany to express their newly gained economic wealth. However, this group’s unshakable belief in material goods, coupled with overall narrow-mindedness and conservatism, soon became a target for mockery by the younger generation and artists..."

Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures
January 25, 2009–April 19, 2009 @ LACMA

Here are some pics from my past place in Berlin. Oh, how I miss that wallpaper...and city!

photos: tryharder

"I Think I am Seeing Things"

Jacob Feige
After Dense Fog, November 20 - January 10 @ lombard-freid

Andrew Guenther
Looking for Culture Part III: Back to My Old Ways, November 22,2008 - January 10, 2009 @ freight and volume

Charlie White
Teen Idols #4 16 X 20 inches, Teen Idols #2 16 X 20 inches
(as seen on iheartphoto)

peyton + michelle @ new museum

from vulture ...Due to the results of last night's election, Elizabeth Peyton's new painting Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008 has, as predicted, joined the 104 other works in her current retrospective at New Museum.

I call the top...

what's happing now at the TATE

...and some old news at the TATE. I like that the center court becomes kindergarten!

I guess it's time to have kids now that I can't be an artist

Totally Wack: What happened to the feminist surge? By Laura McLean-Ferris
"...A quick count of male to female shows in major to medium-sized commercial galleries in London during October reveals a ratio of 38 male to five female. That means just 11.6 per cent of galleries will have solo shows by women..." artreview.com