Tumblr (3.0; @doeasyart)http://www.doeasyart.com/<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzo7fkNFbV1qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Neverending Book Queue on my bed: </p> <p><strong>Collapse</strong> by Jared Diamond</p> <p><strong>Guns, Germs, and Steel</strong> by Jared Diamond</p> <p><strong>Diary of a Wimpy Kid</strong> (Cabin Fever)</p> <p><strong>Book of Nudes</strong></p> <p><strong>Jokes and Cartoons </strong>by Richard Prince</p> <p><strong>De Stijl 1917-1931</strong></p> <p><strong>The Machine</strong> by Pontus Hulten</p> <p>New Yorker magazine</p> <p><strong>Art in Theory 1900-2000</strong></p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17922367865http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17922367865Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:40:32 -0500pontus hultenmomarichard princejokes and cartoonsdestijlnew yorkjared diamond<a href="http://my.psychologytoday.com/print/86893">Why are Men so Violent?</a>: <p><span>From Psychology Today: “A historical explanation of male violence does not eschew biological factors, but it minimizes them and assumes that men and woman are psychologically similar. Consider the biological fact that men have more upper-body strength than women, and assume that both men and women want to obtain as many desirable resources as they can. In hunter-gatherer societies, this strength differential doesn’t allow men to fully dominate women, because they depend on the food that women gather. But things change with the advent of intensive agriculture and herding. Strength gives men an advantage over women once heavy ploughs and large animals become central aspects of food production. With this, men become the sole providers, and women start to depend on men economically. The economic dependency allows men to mistreat women, to philander, and to take over labor markets and political institutions. Once men have absolute power, they are reluctant to give it up. It took two world wars and a post-industrial economy for women to obtain basic opportunities and rights.”</span></p> <p><span><br/></span></p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17763350433http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17763350433Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:05 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgceiDmLu1qctp31o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Wowowowow Amazing! I just signed up to volunteer for Cai Guo Qiang’s Gunpowder drawing/performance at MOCA in March. There are still spaces, so sign up now!</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17670115240http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17670115240Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:47:06 -0500cai guo qiangmoca<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz15krHsH41qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://flakphoto.com/content/hijacked-vol-2-germany-australia" target="_blank">Louis Porter’s Abbotsford</a>, Melbourne, Australia. 2005.</p> <p>Flak Photo is an online community for art photographers to submit their work to be featured in their Collection. I’d say it’s akin to Flickr if it were run by a panel. <a href="http://www.flakphoto.com" target="_blank">Submit</a> your photos today! </p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17211886764http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17211886764Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:55:39 -0500flak photoflakphotolouis porterfine art photographyphotography<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lywmxsStTQ1qctp31o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Yes, you all know what this is…</p> <p>An <span>Ettore Sottsass </span><span>minicarlton</span><span> Memphis 1981 Miniature bookshelf!!! I am currently saving up to purchase this $1,100 miniature bookshelf. It is a steal compared to the $18,000 original and life-sized bookshelf.</span></p> <p><span>But I’m not ruling out the life-sized model for the future!</span></p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17076246572http://www.doeasyart.com/post/17076246572Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:22:40 -0500memphisbookshelffurnituredesign<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqej5NlAw1qc26mc.jpg"/></p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16877295011http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16877295011Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:35:39 -0500mike kelleyday is done<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyjqfaFh5O1qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I just received my copy of <strong>Book of Nudes</strong> by Alessandro Bertolloti today. As a visual artist and dancer, I’ve always been fascinated with the body (duh). Sometimes I study people’s bodies as living artifacts: what kinds of physical activities, or lack thereof, did someone partake to build that kind of musculature? </p> <p>Drawing nudes in ink is one of my favorite exercises - the contours of bodies are a dream to try to capture. This book provides an introduction to notable books on nudes and I’m sure I’ll spend countless hours deciding on the next book of nudes to buy…!</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16683146282http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16683146282Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:09:10 -0500book of nudesnudesalessandro bertolloti<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfsrzcGBN1qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfsrzcGBN1qctp31o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Chinese Cocktail re-performance, Barnsdall Art Theatre, Los Angeles 1/24/2012.</strong></p> <p class="p1">This past Tuesday at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, I had the rare opportunity to attend Chinese Cocktail, a re-performance/concert by Robert Wilhite. It was a special treat, part of Pacific Standard Time’s bonanza performance art festival. Chinese Cocktail had only been performed twice before, both times in 1978.</p> <p class="p1">An absurdist take on music, sculpture, and performance, the arranged set of brightly painted geometric and three-dimensional objects called into question their relationships to each other in space, and our symbolic relationships with them. Add layers of instrumental complexity and you have performance rife with curiosities.</p> <p class="p1">Yes, there was a shiny pink ball with handles that acted as a magnetic theremin type instrument. Yes, there’s a guitar that resembles a giant badminton shuttlecock. Yes, one musician’s sole function is to play his triangular air guitar precisely at the moments it is notated in the score. What’s not to love about a tall bow-shaped guitar painted in Memphis furniture colors? And was that a vacuum cleaner enclosed in an ultramarine box rounding up the rear? </p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16559270429http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16559270429Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:09:35 -0500yanyan huangRobert Wilhitechinese cocktailperformance artpstpacific standard time<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyfb0efSvt1qctp31o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Woohoo! My first published article on HauteLiving about the Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair. </p> <p>I’d like to thank ALAC for inviting me, UCLA for honing my art criticism writing skills, Canon for my quick-shooting G11. </p> <p><a href="http://www.hauteliving.com/2012/01/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2012/" target="_blank">http://www.hauteliving.com/2012/01/art-los-angeles-contemporary-2012/</a></p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16535684292http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16535684292Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:45:50 -0500yanyan huangalacArt Los Angeles Contemporaryhauteliving<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydckjEu001qctp31o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Art Onlookers at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, 1/19/2012</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474748261http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474748261Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:24:19 -0500alaccontemporary art<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydcivAQcM1qctp31o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Ice fountain sculpture, ALAC, Barker Hangar, 1/19/2012</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474707177http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474707177Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:23:19 -0500sculpturealacart los angeles contemporary<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydch9Y2jA1qctp31o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Printed Matter’s booth at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, 1/19/2012</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474666776http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474666776Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:22:21 -0500printed matteralacart los angeles<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydcfvZv4v1qctp31o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Kids playing with double mirror plant office sculpture, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, 1/19/2012</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474632650http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474632650Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:21:31 -0500plantsculpturealacart los angeles contemporary<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydce6DrmX1qctp31o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Steve Turner’s booth at Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Barker Hangar, 1/19/2012</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474590688http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474590688Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:20:30 -0500steve turnersteve turner contemporaryart los angelesalac<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydccoFWkJ1qctp31o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Judy Chicago’s Ice sculpture at Art Los Angeles Contemporary opening night, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica. 1/19/2012</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474553473http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474553473Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:19:36 -0500judy chicagoalacart los angelesforyourartperformance art<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydbuxrDgB1qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Beige. The color of evil. The innocuous-seeming shade that adds up to 18 (6+6+6).</strong></p> <p><strong>THE PRIMARY COLOR OF MY WARDROBE!</strong></p> <p>“<span>At first blush, of course, the color beige might have all kinds of comforting associations—from oatmeal, that pabulum of wintertime childhoods, to a worn-to-softness pair of trousers. But beige is also the color of deceit and oppression. Khaki, after all, originated in mid-19th-century colonial India, where it took its name from the Urdu term for “dusty.”“</span></p> <p><span>“</span><span>Most people think if colors have attributes such as good or evil, that the color of evil is either the red of arterial blood gushing from a wound, or the deepest black of the darkest night sky. While these are certainly evil colors, they are not as evil as beige…. The most evil color has to appear benign.”</span></p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474119729http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16474119729Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:08:57 -0500beigecabinet magazinecabinetevilcolor<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6r46hpHj1qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I’m not sure how Etienne Gros made this, but it’s brilliant. Brilliant!</p> <p>Making a female contour/form with just one piece of foam and some stitching? Amazing. </p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16274816217http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16274816217Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:55:18 -0500foamsculpturefemale bodyetienne gros<a href="http://www.gagosian.com/shop/damien-hirst--spot-tea-towel--abcmsdhirs73#.TxncmlAn4Vo.tumblr">Damien Hirst - Spot Tea Towel - Gagosian Gallery</a>: <p><img height="500" src="http://gagosian.cdn.crvncms.com/__data/a63f108dbf01d6ee72ad7c276e0ce81b.jpg" width="382"/></p> <p>Not bad. Hirst should look into mass home decorating items more. Maybe a line with Target?</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16187054933http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16187054933Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:29:00 -0500damien hirsthirstgagosianlarry gagosianspots<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly2hdpqCD71qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Zhang Huan at Rockbund Museum, Featured on Designboom</p> <p><span>“The  installation was created by zhang in an attempt to address several seemingly insurmountable cultural questions—</span><br/><em>‘faced with rapid economic and societal changes and energy and climate challenges, how can we achieve sustainable development? what responsibilities come along with china’s rise in international importance? where is the sense of spiritual belonging for contemporary chinese?</em><span>’</span></p> <p><span>A very good question. Is there any spirituality left or are temples only for souvenir-hawking and busloads of tourists? Has capitalism replaced introspection, cheap goods taken the place of mental and spiritual development? Are Chinese people ruled by $$$? All questions I ask when I’m in China. </span></p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16135626979http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16135626979Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:34:35 -0500chinaartchinese artzhang huandesignboomrockbund<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxya411QV41qctp31o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jonathan Olivares Design. Nice little “Smith Pro” desk set.</p> <p>(PS, It’s 8am, I’m hungover, I ripped a contact. Of course the first thing I do is post about design.)</p>http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16009687770http://www.doeasyart.com/post/16009687770Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:07:12 -0500jonathan olivares