Art in One Form or Another

Go See: Ghost Writer

While it may be hard to put personal feelings about (Director) Roman Polanski aside (i.e. I'll never see another Mel Gibson movie), the Ghost Writer is an incredible film. Starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan, Ghost Writer is a period piece about a former British Prime Minister whose questionable allegiances to the United States during the Iraq war surface when a writer pen's the PM's memoirs.

An (Art) Storm is Coming

I'm going to spend the next 10 days preparing for the storm of art that is going to be hit NYC beginning March 3 with the Armory preview. If you're in town, be sure to hit up  Pulse, dedicated to Contemporary Art, March 4-7.

Scottish Terrier Wins Dog Show

I'm not only surprised the Sadie, the Scottish Terrier won last night's Westminster Dog Show, but I'm shocked she was the favorite. Considered "the complete dog," Sadie beat out 2,500 entrants.

Damn, Flavin

This week will likely feature a range of Houston-inspired posts as I just returned from a great trip there with an awesome group of people. Among my many 2010 goals, I want to buy a fluorescent glowing piece of art. So, that made our visit to the Menil Collection's Dan Flavin exhibit that much more exciting. Richmond Hall's space features three great rooms of Flavin's work including this one with a rainbow of bright lights. Something I could easily live with. Bottom line: Get to Houston, ASAP!

iPad = iMisrach!

While all of the talk of the talk of the iPad (for better or worse) was about it's functionality, design and evolution of the iPhone, it was the background of the screen that rocked my world. Watching the news conference via Engadget's site, I was thrilled to see my favorite photographer's, Richard Misrach, image (Pyaramide Lake, at night, taken in 2004) as the desktop of Steve Jobs' iPad. I'm sure not many people realized that (I'm guessing about 10), but that got me more excited than the new release from Apple.

Art Museum Super Bowl Bet is On

The art world has caught Super Bowl fever. A proposed bet between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art is heating up as NOMA director E. John Bullard is throwing down for his Saints betting the three-month loan of its $4 million Renoir painting, Seamstress at Window, circa 1908, which is currently in the big Renoir exhibitionin Paris. Will Indy up the ante? (via MAN).

Woman Falls, Rips Picasso!

In news related to one of my biggest fears (about my depth perception-impaired wife), a significant Pablo Picasso painting was damaged after a woman attending art class lost her balance, fell into "The Actor" and tore it at the Metropolitan Museum of Art said. Yikes!

Banksy + Sundance

A documentary (possibly) directed by Bansky will get a surprise (is it really a surprise if I'm writing about it now?) premiere at Sundance on Sunday. Exit Through the Gift Shop, "the worlds first street art disaster movie," according to its trailer, features footage of the artist at work, and will include cameos by his fellow troublemakers Shepard Fairey and the Invader.

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

The MOMA's upcoming (March 14-May 31) retrospective of Marna Abramovic is going to be really good. 

With approximately fifty pieces, the show will span over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances.

I [Square] Judd

The Donald Judd Foundation announced last week the start of the Donald Judd Catalogue Raisonné through the appointment of the Catalogue Raisonné committee and a Catalogue Raisonné Manager, Katy Rogers. Ms. Rogers, who is currently completing the Robert Motherwell Catalogue Raisonné, will manage the Donald Judd Catalogue Raisonné project with the advisement of the committee. The project is supported by a newly designed catalogue raisonné database, which Judd Foundation has developed over two years specifically to document artworks by Donald Judd (1928-1994).