Asa Crowe

intermedia stuff

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TETCHY

“It’s just as well I can’t hear you…”

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Update I just got an opportunity to make exactly $115 and i’m not kidding so like. Reblog to make $115.

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Preparing For Your Exhibition - Agora Advice Blog

An opening reception is an experience the artist remembers for the rest of their lives”. Make use of this checklist in preparing for your exhibition.

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@ui-intermediaconcepts As far as I can tell, I’m finished with all my blog posts, my about page, and my works pages and all the links are working.  Thanks for a great class, everyone!!

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I wanted to see if the local arts association closest to where I grew up/about 10 miles away from my rural home/high school even has a website.  It turns out it does, but it looks kind of like something made in the late 90s to early 00s.  It’s the first one pictured, The Fort Madison Area Arts Association, with the Des Moines Art Center’s below as an example of a more modern, interactive, updated website.  This kind of brought me down a little bit, since I know how many cool pieces are displayed there with no documentation online, but maybe I could reach out to them and see if I could connect them with help to improve their web presence.   Also in Iowa arts, I can foresee the Arts & Culture Jobs page of the Iowa Arts Council website being helpful in the near future.  The only current listings are Executive Director, Bricker-Price Block Restoration Coporation in Earlham, IA and Executive Director, Levitt at the Falls in Sioux Falls, SD, both of which are obviously out of my league.  

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The relatable name “Bad At Sports” initially attracted me to the blog and the fact that it has a podcast sealed the deal since I have a radio background and am always looking for something new to which to listen.  When I finish an episode I will need to update this post.  Yvette Mayorga’s featured work, pictured above, drew me in because it looks like it is made out of sugar and Barbies at face value but is much deeper and serious when you look at it longer.    Many posts were “Top Five Weekend Picks” lists, but Mayorga was the focus of a “Thinks to Think” post, which seem to be about specific artists.  

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Since I’d heard a lot about it but still was not quite sure what it was, I checked out the Guggenheim Fellowship for the awards category.  It was established in the 20s by a senator and his wife for their dead son and has gone through several incarnations.  Originally only for US citizens and residents, it can now be awarded to people from the US, Canada, and Latin America.  Recipients no longer need to complete their fellowship outside of the US, but it is still meant to increase international understanding.  Fellows can be artists, scientists, or many more disciplines.     Many artists I’ve heard of and/or researched in classes, like John Baldessari, Walter de Maria, and Allan Kaprow, are Guggenheim recipients.  The picture above is a piece titled “Mixed Race & Untitled White” by current fellow Jennie Jieun Lee.  Her work incorporates a combination of abstract and representational painting on ceramics concerning the immigrant experience.  

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http://www.soumaya.com.mx/index.php/esp

As a long time Tracfone user, I was fascinated to discover Carlos Slim’s art collection, now the basis for his private museum.  Telecommunications mogul and richest man in the world Slim appears to run his collection as he does his businesses, saving and stretching out dollars.  Just as Tracfones are a good deal for those on a budget, Slim seems to be concerned with amassing budget woks from great names, such as cheaper, lesser known works from Van Gogh and Degas, kind of like “deep cuts” in the music world.  Critics have focused on how he could afford much better pieces and to contribute more to the art world.  At least his museum, the Soumaya Museo linked above, is free and open to the public, which gets more people out and appreciating artwork than perhaps there would be otherwise.  

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Hirst explores the uncertainty at the core of human experience; love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unexpected and unconventional media.

I picked the White Cube because of the title of the book we read as a class and it wasn’t one of the five top galleries discussed in the two articles under this category, Pace, David Zwirner, Gagosian, Marian Goodman, or the Hauser & Wirth.  White Cube literally has a series of exhibitions called Inside the White Cube featuring first timers in the gallery.  This and other commercial gallery sites didn’t seem too different from museum websites like MoMA, except they are definitely trying to sell something.  White Cube has a “Shop” tab, and all the descriptions of work seem, at least to me, to use a lot of superlatives and words like “intense,” “unique,” and “major.”  I put 50 St. Peter’s Cathedral Prints by Damien Hirst worth £20950.00 each in my basket before I even realized what I was doing.

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The Believer - Interview with Laurel Nakadate

From the Believer magazine.

c. 2005-6 

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I’m going to need to come back and edit this because I’ve been to Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return in Santa Fe and it is a trip.  Over one hundred local artists created this house inside a revamped bowling alley.  Initially, it seems like a pretty normal house except for being in a bowling alley, but then stuff like the refrigerator and washing machine lead into portals to other dimensions.  Kids and art freaks alike wander the passage ways to equal enjoyment.  The entire installation has an overarching narrative if you know where to look.  It’s like stepping into site-specific intermedia Wonderland.

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Hammer Projects: Tabaimo - Hammer Museum

Japanese artist Tabaimo creates a site-specific work for the Hammer lobby wall for her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Here’s another institution friendly to site-specific works, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.  Unlike MoMA PS1*, this one has several permanent collections besides the exhibitions, from traditional paintings including names like Degas to more contemporary pieces.  The piece highlighted here is a current exhibition and includes video besides the massive drawings on the walls of the space itself pictured. 

*The name also has more obvious-to-me origins, after the founder Armand Hammer. The laundry detergent came first, but he was named after the symbol for the socialist party.  Clever parents.