Cat Rigdon And 52 Men

I have been a ratchet mess without your preshush love.

[liartownusa]

Donald Trump’s chilling scene in Stephen King’s IT (1986)

[drawdownbooks]

Loving the key tags that @projectno8 Various Projects are making! #keytags #design #graphicdesign #intern #critic #sex #artschwager #bicycle

[kwokwerks]

Art As Pleasure

Important words from Jeffrey Dell: 

But mostly, art provides pleasure. Pleasure is not frivolous, a luxury to be disregarded as we grow into adulthood. Pleasure and play allow us to be most ourselves, to be most present, and when we have the greatest potential to learn about ourselves (which is itself a pleasure). Pleasure does not mean escape, or purely the satisfaction of impulses, although it can mean the absence of pain. So, when I say that art provides pleasure, I mean that in the most earnest way.

http://www.thebowerbirdlbk.com/#!A-Conversation-with-Jeff-Dell/c16ee/55429b350cf23d016465291d

I would add that this really ties into the importance of the right of privacy as well, in terms of not having to deal with implicitly knowing that one is surveilled. This a subtle point that a lot of patriotic safety-obsessed “America Land Of The Free People” fail to understand.

[galleriurbane]

A huge congratulations to Cat Rigdon on being selected for the Clare DeGoyler Award, representing new visual artists of exceptional talent.

 Cat was offered representation with Galleri Urbane in 2014 after being selected for our summer juried exhibition “Core Samples”. We are excited for all the things Cat has in store for the future!

You can hear Cat present her work at awards ceremony at the Dallas Museum of Art this Thursday, May 7 at 6:30PM in the C3 Theater. More details about the awards and event here. 

[lilgoopyart-blog]

Texas friend! My painting will be apart of this exhibition along with works by current and former students from Texas State University! The opening is April 25th from 6-10pm at Clement Loop Artspace in Austin, TX.

[catrigdonand52men]

Wooo all TXSTATE alumni, the school is popping out some amazing artists and I'm glad to be a part of it.

[design-china]

"Gallery ALL recently opened in downtown LA’s iconic Bradbury Building to showcase Chinese design and create an artistic dialogue that spans from East to West and around the world.

Founders Yu Wang (an architect) and Qinqyun Ma (the Dean at USC School of Architecture) named their new project...

[catrigdonand52men]

Contemporary Chinese @ Heritage Auctions, March 31st.

During the early 21st century a middle class hasemerged within China, whose rising economic status has financed creative innovation in various sectors of life. Contemporary design has been a beneficiary of this new patronage, in which designers and artists have merged traditional Chinese values and design with 21st century aesthetics. Song Tao has led the movement with the founding of the Zizaoshe Furniture Collective in Beijing in 2002. The Collective strove for the integration of Chinese culture within design, while at the time Chinese designers were looking to European influences. Song’s formation of the Collective also helped create a stronger and larger voice for Chinese Contemporary Design through the international market.  This collection is presented by Zizaoshe and the Yiyuan Societies, who are dedicated to the promotion of cross-cultural understanding and exchange. The following pieces were featured in the 2014 DESIGN@+ exhibition in Washington, DC, an event introducing the American public to contemporary Chinese design.  The collection comprises many exciting, practical and sometime frivolous designs.  The line-up includes the innovative pair of computer-generated, hand-crafted stools from the digital lab of the up-and-coming young designer Zhang Zhoujie, which reflects back their environment.  The elegant lines and box forms of the German Red Dot Designer Award winner, Jeff Dayu Shi’s bamboo chairs that incorporate traditional Chinese materials and values with modern ease.  And finishing our sale, with a fusion of Antique elm and strong cast aluminum joints is Song Tao’s tea table, Rebecca.  

[beesforpresident]

I’m pretty sure that there hasn’t ever been a bee that was convicted of a felony. Even if there was, I’m absolutely sure that they wouldn’t be tried justly, in a court of their peers. There probably wasn’t a single bee in that jury panel. How disgraceful.

[galleriurbane]

CALLING ALL PAINTERS! 

Following the success of last year’s Core Samples juried exhibition, we are pleased to announce our this year’s open-call juried exhibition, Here & Now, juried once again by our own Adrian Zuniga.

"With my own background as a painter, I am naturally drawn to this time-tested medium and its significant presence in our contemporary art climate. With Here & Now, in a nod to MoMA’s recent painting show The Forever Now, I hope to present the most current characteristics of what painting can contribute to art today and tomorrow through style, content, and medium".

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS JUNE 20, 2015. Rules + information on how to submit works can be found on our website.

[abridurif]

Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1974

[damnyoufineart]

Ready for our Spring Coat, as this alpaca is so properly named.

[jennifer-wosnitzky]

"Self-help" towel collection

also a “BPA Free” monogrammed towel that I’m not quite satisfied with. 

So, it’ll be coming soon

[askcarloaf]

*Plays any song from the Dynasty Warriors series*

DO NOT PURSUE BUNIS!

[mentaltimetraveller]

Andreas Slominski: Ohne Titel, 1988

[lowgems]

[ujeongs]

[visual-poetry]

by robert barry (+)

“we have without a doubt the greatest piece of conceptual art that was ever done in the world.”

that was how herb and dorothy vogel described robert barry’s closed gallery, a 1969 piece consisting of three invitations to gallery shows in amsterdam, turin, and los angeles printed on simple white cards. they informed the recipients that during the exhibition, the gallery would be closed. [read more]