http://www.barflies.net/art/ On Art, Design, Film, Photography, et al. en Copyright 2008 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:32:51 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss March 16-23 Laguna College of Art and Design “Color It Orange” is an Annual Juried Youth Art Exhibition of Orange County Public and Private School students from Kindergarten through Grade 12, including CHEP and individual entries. “Color It Orange” encourages and celebrates youth art and creativity. Over 4,500 juried entries are expected from many different genres: drawings, paintings, sculpture, prints, and photography by hundreds of students. Reception Sunday, March 16, 2008 LCAD Campus 2222 Laguna Canyon Road Laguna Beach, CA 92651 All of the above was lifted from the LCAD website. What I have to add is that my son is one of the artists selected to exhibit his work in this show. I am beaming with pride.]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2008/03/color_it_orange_youth_art_exhi.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2008/03/color_it_orange_youth_art_exhi.html Art / Design Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:32:51 -0800 Salvador Dali. The dude was Surreal in all aspects of his life. End of 07, beginning of 08, LACMA hosted a show of Salvador Dali's work. It was extensive from early art, to set designs for the movie Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound to the co-collaboration with Walt Disney called Destino, which was truly amazing. For some reason the project was scraped, either from budget issues or personality issues or a bit of both. In 2003, Disney opened the archives and finally completed the animation. I was suprised how small the painting The Persistence of Memory was. When you see it in books or in photos, it seems so larger than life but it's only 8x10, if that. Dali loved Hollywood. He is quoted by saying . . ."I’m in Hollywood, where I’ve made contact with the three American Surrealists, Harpo Marx, Disney and Cecil B. DeMille." I like how LACMA used large screens and video to capture Dali's work and yet traditional display of his work. One room had one end of the room screening Dali's screen test that he did for Andy Warhol and then at the other end was the same screening but upside down. There was no sound and it didn't show much. In fact it didn't make sense but I guess that was the point. There was a lot of work to view. To much in fact that it became overwelming and that they were letting in a lot of people at one time, so things were bottlenecked at certain points. ]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2008/02/dali_is_immortal_and_will_not.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2008/02/dali_is_immortal_and_will_not.html Art / Design Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:01:47 -0800 Also shown at the CSUF Main Gallery CSUF GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER 125 N. Broadway Santa Ana, CA 92701 This exhibition features more than 400 photographic works by the artist in the Project Room Gallery. A 288-page hardcover book Beautiful Mutants published by Grand Central Press and designed by Ryan DiDonato will be released at the opening. Nike SB, The City of Glendora California, Mutato Muzika and CSU Fullerton and the Grand Central Art Center came together to make this exhibition and book possible. Mark Mothersbaugh was born in 1950 in Akron, Ohio. In 1957 he received his first pair of spectacles and simultaneously became interested in art. In 1968 he enrolled at Kent State University fine arts department. In 1970 Mothersbaugh protests the war in Viet Nam and meets Jerry Casale at Kent State and co-conceptualizes the art band DEVO. Mothersbaugh has his first solo gallery show in 1975. From 1976 to present, Bob, Jim and Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob and Jerry Casale release award winning short film "In the Beginning was the End - the Truth About De-evolution" and European chart topping singles. During this time period, Mothersbaugh created along with Jerry Casale and Bob Mothersbaugh all of Devo's film, graphics, music and stage shows. DEVO continues to record and perform. From 1984 to present, Mothersbaugh has been composing music for film, TV, radio, video games and the web. Since 1987 Mothersbaugh has shown in hundreds of solo and group exhibitions. The photo-image manipulation of The Beautiful Mutants were intended to be a form of palindromic poetry, where a story is created by a half-truth folded and placed next to itself, thereby creating a self-referencing, yet completed visual poem. - Mark Mothersbaugh Mark Mothersbaugh's art leads the viewer to see the hidden mutant in us all. The artist renders a "study of humans via symmetry using photos, both recent and vintage" in which each photograph is, like the "self" in Jungian analysis, transformed to "emerge from its chrysalis as something with expected and uninvestigated properties. It no longer represented anything immediately known... Rather, it now appeared in a double guise, as both known and unknown." Viewers resonate with these images at the interstice between individual subconscious and collective unconscious. Mothersbaugh is, indeed, a master of this interstice, offering the potential "miraculous" experience that art can provide. As Gombrich describes it, "the true miracle of the language of art is not that it enables the artist to create the illusion of reality. It is that under the hands of a great master, the image becomes translucent. In teaching us to see the visible world afresh, he gives us the illusion of looking into the invisible realms of the mind-if only we know...how to use our eyes." - from the essay The Cryptomnesia of Mark Mothersbaugh: Beautiful Mutants in Einfall and Shado by Cristina Bodinger-deUriarte]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/09/mark_mothersbaugh_beautiful_mu.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/09/mark_mothersbaugh_beautiful_mu.html Art / Design Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:12:48 -0800 Western Project 3830 Main St., Culver City, CA 90232 Contact, Erin Kermanikian (310) 838-0609, fax (310) 838-0610 Web site, http://western-project.com]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/06/exene_cervenka_a_fifth_of.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/06/exene_cervenka_a_fifth_of.html Art / Design Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:17:49 -0800 This Saturday is a very full day in downtown Long Beach with the Ink & Iron Tatto & Music Festival and the East Village Art Walk. As well as the usual 2nd Sat. of the month art walk, the Walker and Kress Loft artists will be opening their studios and showing their work on the bottom floor of the Walker Building (Pine & 4th St.). See you there. ]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/06/sat_june_9_2007_long_beach_art.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/06/sat_june_9_2007_long_beach_art.html Art / Design Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:50:15 -0800 Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles, May 17 - June 15, 2007. Don't be afraid to fall in love with these images. ]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/05/kurt_halsey_at_gallery_1988.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/05/kurt_halsey_at_gallery_1988.html Art / Design Tue, 01 May 2007 22:04:59 -0800

American Zombie on MySpace And you just thought half this city "acted" braindead....]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/04/dead_and_deader_in_la_american.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/04/dead_and_deader_in_la_american.html Art / Design american zombie film zombie movie Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:52:29 -0800 If you are a history, art, or architecture fan, check out The LA Conservancy's new online exhibition Curating the City: Wilshire Blvd (via Glenda the Good). The site is a fun multimedia run of the whole length of Wilshire Blvd. from downtown LA to Santa Monica with great photos and information.]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/01/curating_the_city_wilshire_blv.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2007/01/curating_the_city_wilshire_blv.html Art / Design Sat, 13 Jan 2007 11:22:33 -0800 Thanks to LeandaDLL for the video link.]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/12/charles_phoenixs_astroweenie_c.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/12/charles_phoenixs_astroweenie_c.html Art / Design Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:00:21 -0800 this is just cool!]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/12/i_was_told_there_would_be_no_m.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/12/i_was_told_there_would_be_no_m.html Art / Design Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:05:39 -0800 802.16 wifi, really only 2x better than dial-up, do not believe the hype. aka... Irish Broadband sucks). Really. Believe me. After the damned thing times out 13 times, you lose the plot of the trailer. Yes, the 2.5 minute trailer. Plot gone. Now you ask, why is Ms. Jen, the woman who never, ever, never watches movies watching a Movie Trailer???? It is all Ze's fault.]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/09/the_last_kiss_or_can_i_kiss_ze.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/09/the_last_kiss_or_can_i_kiss_ze.html Art / Design Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:30:24 -0800 Sometimes life just gets too busy - sigh! I had something on my agenda for more than a month now. I looked at the postcard received in the mail every day sitting on my desk at work. Finally, after some planning I made it to Fullerton Museum today to see the Rhinestones and Twangin' Tones Exhibit. Now, you might ask,"What was that all about?" Well, back in the day, a Russian tailor by the name of Nudie imagined that he would be a famous tailor to the Country stars of the Grand Ole Opry and much more. Also included in the exhibit we found a replica of the gold lame outfit that Elvis Presley wore, and few famed guitars, one in particular owned by Hank Williams. Through perserverance Nudie made his dream come true and he formed a company that designed thousands of first rate rhinestone cowboy outfits with everything from rhinestones to embroidered flowers, cactus, stage coaches, and you name it, probably one of Nudie's originals had it. Simply beautiful handcrafted outfits worn by famed entertainers such as, Buck Owens, Webb Pierce, Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Billy Walker and the list goes on. I saw many of those today and the glitter captivated me. I like rhinestones! I like class on stage! I like Country music! Fullerton Museum is located at: 301 N. Pomona Ave. in old downtown Fullerton, CA. www.cityoffullerton.com/museum/ On Thursdays, they hold a Farmers Market in the courtyard outside the museum where you can shop and get some good eats too. The museum hours vary, so I'd call for times during the week and weekends. And, the exhibit ends July 9th, so you have a few weeks yet. If you like to be adventurous and get out and about for a short tour of some amazing threads, then go see this exhibit! It'sa Twangin' good time. If you're interested in the history of Nudie the Rodeo Tailor, go here: http://nudiesrodeotailor.com/news_01.html]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/06/nudei_mean_nudie.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/06/nudei_mean_nudie.html Art / Design Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:58:22 -0800 Brokeback Mountain (for those of you not in fear of losing your heterosexuality, it was wonderful) 2) Walk the Line (I shouldn't have to explain this) 3) Underworld: Evolution (I'm still a sucker for chicks who kick ass) Yes, I know they're not new. That's the point. I have to go cry now.]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/02/february_10th_film_releases.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/02/february_10th_film_releases.html Art / Design Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:20:42 -0800 Good Night and Good Luck 2) The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada 3) Something New There. I feel so much better now, don't you?]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/02/february_3rd_film_releases.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2006/02/february_3rd_film_releases.html Art / Design Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:43:38 -0800 Jarhead 2) The Dying Gaul 3) Chicken Little]]> http://www.barflies.net/art/2005/11/november_4th_film_releases.html http://www.barflies.net/art/2005/11/november_4th_film_releases.html Art / Design Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:06:13 -0800