MOON RIVER: 2007-12

Monday, December 31, 2007

Monteverdi Lamento Della Ninfa played by Jordi Savall

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Bodymaps

The Body Maps are artworks which were created by a group of women, The Bambanani Womens Group, based in Cape Town, South Africa. They were invited to tell their stories through a community outreach program initiated by the AIDS and Society Research Unit of the University of Cape Town (ASRU) and Médecins Sans Frontières. This program began to document the lives of this group of HIV+ women who were given access to drug therapies. With the help of Cape Town-based artist, Jane Soloman, the participants created Body Maps- life size images tracing the contours of their bodies that visualize the virus and articulate each individual history. Each Body Map image bears the name, the place and the date of birth, as well as the handprints and the footprints of its maker / subject. Read On

http://www.davidkrut.com/bodyworks.php

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Still Life

by Martin Klimas.

"I drop the figurine from the same height in complete darkness while the lens of the camera is open. When the figurine hits the ground, the sound triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second. I do this procedure many times or until I find the one frame that is just right. I keep just one such picture for every figurine". ... read on his interview at the Morning News

Alec Soth at the Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis

Alec Soth : Dog Days, Bogotá Untitled 1 Pigmented Ink Print, 15" x 15"

Movements

Movement Number 3 (Chinese Gu Qing in white) Oil on canvas 162.6 x 129.5 cm, 2005-2006

Shen Wei is a painter, costume and set designer, photographer, film-maker, dancer and choreographer. Most commentaries on Shen Wei reverse the order of his accomplishments since, of course, he has gained fame primarily as a dancer and choreographer. Yet the visual arts have played a key role in the development of his choreography

Shen Wei

Movement Number 2 (Mozart Piano Sonata in Black and White) Oil on canvas, 127 x 167.6 cm, 2005-2006

Friday, December 28, 2007

michael schnabel

Plein Air

Marc Katano Plein Air VIII2001042-01-MKacrylic on paper30" x 22"

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Industrial Strength

Eve Aschheim. Industrial Strength, Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.) 2005

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Katushika Hokusai

122 books illustrated by Katushika Hokusai. These illustrated books were formaly in the collection of Oda Kazuma (b.1882-d.1956), a lithographer him self. The volumes and the various contents of the collection including novels, anthologies, picture books and cartoons indicate the collector's devotion to Hokusai. http://www.tobunken.go.jp/~joho/english/oda/oda.html

Monday, December 24, 2007

Spiral Lands

Geyer's Spiral Lands is a work of photographic and textual historiography that investigates the longest struggle for social justice in North America today - the dispossession of lands from American Indians by colonization, governmentality, capitalist development, and flat out force and violence.

Andrea Geyer - Spiral Lands ( 2007) installation with fiber based photographs and text (17 frames 70 x 175cm, 2 frames 70 x 230cm), brochure with footnotes

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Sunday, December 23, 2007

SALOME

Irina Zaytceva, Dança de Salomé e pormenor, porcelana, 2005

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Friday, December 21, 2007

Peter Alexander

Chula VistI 1981 Lithograph

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calligraphies

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Sexual Exposure Map

What you’re looking at is a sexual exposure map. To create it, scientists from Ohio State University tracked the sexual activity of an unnamed public high school in the Midwest. Their findings were published in the July 2004 issue of American Journal of Sociology. 832 of the approximately 1000 students were interviewed, and asked to identify their romantic sexual partners over the past 18 months.