Modern art noted

Tyler Green from Modern Art Notes, the Art Journal’s modern and contemporary art blog, twittered his tour of the Wadsworth Atheneum today.

Here are just a few notable entries from his Twitter feed, posted in the chronological order that I read them:

In the Ballet Russes exhib: 1926 Miro Dream Painting is mega-treat, complete with vagina? May beonline…From just before recent MoMA show.

That Miro is in Wadsworth collex btw, a 1933 purchase!

1935 Mondrian may be my new fave. There’s a false symmetry that pulls the eye through the painting and the white fights the blue

BTW, Wadsworth: you’ve so overlit the Euro-modern gallery that the paintings are hard to see. Fix in next 5 mins? K thx.

Hartley here a ‘best of’. Calder too.

Mike Bouchet at the Biennale 2009

Here’s a link to a must-see video from this year’s Venice Biennale featuring a work by the awesome artist (and good person) Mike Bouchet and his attempt to float a bit of Americana through the Old World. I can’t embed it and it’s only 2 minutes long, so give it a watch until the end because it’s really great and funny too. And a bit sad. And maybe completely (intentionally?) symbolic of the actual real estate market right now.

That Sinking Feeling

Ben Franklin with the kite getting over with the key

I’m thinking about going to the pre-opening party, “Out of this World,” at the CT Science Center in Hartford tomorrow night. No idea what to wear. I hope everyone is futuristic and fabulous rather than “geek chic,” which is too played out from the babillion 80s-themed parties thrown in the last few years.

Kermit the Frog sings LCD Soundsystem

I can’t embed this video, so just grab a tissue and visit here to watch Kermit sing LCD Soundsystem’s “New York I Love You.”

iamdanmckinley: run it.

AND HEY–THIS IS NOT ANY KIND OF COMMENTARY ON THE FACT THAT I HAPPEN TO BE TEMPORARILY WORKING IN NYC RIGHT NOW. I just like LCD Soundsystem and Kermit the Frog together, dummy.

Coffee mugs

I like my coffee spillage on the kitchen counter. I can’t decide if it looks more like a scary skull or a deranged kitty.

Street robot

Spotted on the crosswalk at 75th Street across Madison Avenue in NYC, northwest corner of the Whitney Museum of American Art. I had to jump out of the way of oncoming traffic, but I think it’s made from strips of white tape.

The Mona Leia

From Jim Hance at Strangely Drawn via Neatorama. Check out the website to see other great pop culture-inspired paintings.

More from Poster Boy NYC

Poster Boy NYC, the (literally) underground New York City subway artist, has added new creations to his Flickr account. Here’s a few of my faves:

LoRes Fest 3.0

The Capitol Cinema Collective is hosting LoRes Fest 3.0, the third in a series of DIY video projects promoting Hartford.

It’s easy. Get a group together to split the registration cost ($50). They give you a disposable video camera for 24 hours and ask you to incorporate one specific element of Hartford somewhere in the footage. The rest is up to you. No editing allowed.

The finished videos are given back to the LoRes coordinators who edit it all into one project which is shown at the 3rd Annual Hartford International Film Festival in November.

We did it two years ago and, as you can see from the picture, it was a blast. Until we fought some guy outside of the Webster Theater, but that’s another story. I think we’re going to do it again this year, but we don’t have the Mexican wrestling masks anymore.

Friday, July 25 to Sunday, July 27
LoRes Fest ‘08 Headquarters: Red Rock Tavern, 369 Capitol Avenue, Hartford Registration- $50 ($60 after July 23)-includes video equipment and LoRes Fest ’08 DVD. For more information and to register contact info@capitolcinemacollective.org or (860) 830-6222.

Behind the Scenes at MASS MOCA: Sol LeWitt

Everyone is excited about MASS MoCA’s upcoming Sol LeWitt retrospective which opens on November 16, 2008. This show is going to be awesome and leave you completely dizzy on many levels.

The New Modernist - Edward Lifson.com has posted detailed behind-the-scenes installation photos, including a primer on how the drawings actually get conceived and executed.