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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Eco art, oil, and Yves Klein Blue...

Roman Ondak,  2010, Temporary Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Greetings, bloglings!  I've been home with the crud on THE most beautiful fall day yet...so nothing left to do but settle in for a blog read-a-thon.  A round of applause goes out for your Fonts Blog posts which present humor, information and insight into fonts of all forms!  And it's getting exciting to see all of the Sustainable Art and Design Blogs come flooding in as well, after last week's sustainable art and design brainstorming session.  (congrats to the designers of Ceel Boards and that green toilet paper thingy...)

Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener, Austin Young), Fruit Machine
DVD,2010 Eat LCM
As I perused this week's offerings from the ether, a couple items of note have popped up.  First, from Care2 Causes, a daily offering of eco news and politics, a  difficult and interesting discussion about art and funding, this time involving EAT LCMA , an eco-art exhibition about food and art at the Los Angeles County Art Museum and the exhibition underwriters, BP.   You might want to take a second to think about this issue...




Our infographic of the week comes from the Temporary Stedelijk Museum,  Amsterdam  (via designboom.com) Roman Ondak's work is a living infographic, a plottingof visitors’ heights over the next four months in the Taking Place exhibition.

We will be taking off again this week, this time for a tour of the Walker Art Center and a comparison of Modern and Postmodern work in the collection.  Time permitting, we'll also take a peak at the new Yves Klein exhibition and Alec Soth's America.  So bring your process journals and come prepared to look for a work that baffles, bewilders, or downright confuses you for this week's blog assignment.
Venus Blue (S41) 1962 Yves Klein




This week's art junk question involves a little research:  What was Yves Klein's first artwork? BTW, did anyone ever  figure out the answer from last week?


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