"Perhaps as much as any artist using image/sound media, Hill's work in video is about, and is, a new form of writing."Seattle Post-Intelligencer art critic Regina Hackett reports on her blog Art To Go that Seattle based video artist Gary Hill has donated "four of his critical video language suites from the 1980s" to the Seattle Art Museum.Included is Hill's 1987-88 43+ minute piece Incidence of Catastrophe which was inspired by Maurice Blanchot's novel Thomas the Obscure. Like Hill, Blanchot's work is in "constant engagement with the 'question of literature', a simultaneous enactment and interrogation of the profoundly strange experience...
Nice Places to Park
Thames & Hudson has just published Simon Henley's The Architecture of Parking. The "book is at once a survey of the finest examples of parking garages and a presentation of exciting and innovative design. An introduction covers the history and architectural significance of these buildings and their relevance today, and is followed by chapters that define the most influential aspects of parking design." Includes garages designed by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas.Book details:Henley, Simon. The Architecture of Parking. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007. Quarto. Hardback. 256 pages.300 illustrations, 150 of which are in color. List...
Martha Rosler’s Traveling Library
Martha Rosler's library has landed at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), "a newly created institute dedicated to the history of art" in ParisWriting on the traveling library in the spring 2007 issue of Afterall Elena Filipovic says:[Rosler] temporarily dispossessed herself of the vast majority of her personal library so that it could be made available for consultation. No borrowing was possible, but the eclectic ensemble of books on economics, political theory, war, colonialism, poetry, feminism, science fiction, art history, mystery novels, children’s books, dictionaries, maps and travel books, as well as photo albums, posters, postcards and newspaper clippings...
Cohen & Glass
Two of the most influential artists of the late 20th and early 21st century Leonard Cohen & Philip Glass have joined to bring us 'Book of Longing' a cycle of 22 songs. The work premiered in Toronto in June and then went on to played Lincoln Center in July."For me, this work is both a departure from past work and a fulfillment of an artistic dream." says Glass who first started thinking about the project six years ago when he and Cohen ran into each other in Los Angeles and Cohen read him the manuscript for 'Book of Longing.'In his...
Children’s Book Week
Children looking through window of Magnolia Branch Library, Seattle in 1943Since 1919 the week before Thanksgiving has been designated Children's Book Week. It is the longest running literacy event in the country.Beside all the hoopla and events planned across the country Children's Book Week has always been a showcase for poster art.Jessie Wilcox Smith did the first poster back in 1919. It was titled More Books in the Home and it was so successful that they used it for five years in a row!Here is a link to a list of the poster artists and themes since 1919.