Thom updates Chopin's Funeral March?

Untitled (Blonde Hair), 2007 by Jim Shaw

Untitled (Blonde Hair), 2007

by Jim Shaw

Currently on view at Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th Street, NYC

Ridley Howard and Notes on Non-equivalents

Ridley Howard at Leo Koening, through April 11th, 2009

Non-equivalents:

Representation and Illustration

Representation, a rendering through search without destination.  A stopping point, yes, requisitely.  Illustration holds the destination preconceived.  Among other places, they seem to function separately in reception; reception by the maker ex post facto and reception by the viewer (reader, etc.).  This may be similar to the difference between teaching and didacticism.

de Tocqueville shows up again...

Look who appeared in the NYTimes yesterday.

Thomas Gainsborough's Two Daughters, plus notes on equivalents

Thomas Gainsborough

Equivalents 1:

Consciousness equals reality.

Individual consciousness equals individual realities, the only kind accessible to individuals. Collective consciousness, inaccessible.  The distance from one's own consciousness to one other's is the only path we may try, arduously, to travel.  That meandering path itself, without destination, is the home of democracy, centrality, non-hierarchy, imagination.  This gap between consciousness and between realities, this tangible otherness, is the home of a greater electrified scintillating reality.

Théodore Chassériau's portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville

Théodore Chassériau

Alexis de Tocqueville

Hunter College MFA Open Studios, April 3rd and 4th

Hi Friends,

Please join me and the rest of the Hunter College MFA Department for our Spring Semester Open Studios (details below).  This is your chance for an always-interesting peak at what we budding artists are up to.  My studio is number 306B (see the attached map).  I would love to see you there if you have the opportunity to make it.  If you are not in NYC, please forward this to any friends in the area who may be interested in coming.  Thanks!

Matthew Newton

matthewstudio.com

Hunter College MFA Open Studios

and Silent Auction

Friday, April 3rd, 6-10 pm

Saturday April 4th, 2-6 pm

Silent Auction

Friday night only: 6-9 pm

Cash & Carry - Credit cards accepted

proceeds benifit the MFA Student Organization

MFA Studio Building

450 W. 41st St. (between 9th & 10th Ave)

New York, NY 10036

trains A, C, E to Port Authority; 1, 2, 3, N, R to Times Square

Hunter MFASO

Hunter College Department of Art

Giuseppe Pellizza de Volpedo

Visual Forms from Old Choir Books

The exhibition "Choirs of Angels" at the Met in Manhattan is an incredible display of pages from old Italian choir books (1300-1500). The images and design are small, delicate, and inviting (besides the occasions of gratuitous violence). I took a few images of the unique forms and compositions that the ancient design mechanisms yield.

Tony Oursler talks about his work at Metro Pictures

Today I was fortunate to meet and hear Tony Oursler speak about his work which is on view at Metro Pictures in Chelsea.  This was part of a class led by Constance Dejong who is a friend and collaborator.  Tony was very generous with his time and information about his work which is a highly engaging intersection of video, painting, and architectural installation.