UCSD Arts Libraries

RIP Manny Farber

Please take the time to read this NYT obituary chronicling just some of this local artist and film critic’s long life..Manny Farber, Iconoclastic Film Critic and Artist, Dies at 91

Or read it in full after the jump.
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Beijing’s Terminal Three

Architecture Week has an interesting write up on Beijing’s Terminal Three–part of the massive work being done surrounding the upcoming Olympics.

Objectified

From the filmmaker who brought us Helvetica, comes a new project on Industrial Design and the people who make it. Very exciting, look for it to come out in 2009, but for now, stay caught up through their blog.

Architectural Jelly Design Competition Winners

This leaves me slightly speechless…who knew?

The winner, by Anna Liu (it’s a jelly version of Fresh Flower, the mobile pavilion designed for the London Festival of Design 2008):

and more..

Via Dezeen via NOTCOT

Summer Camp

My birthday is coming up, are you wondering what to get me? Please send me to summer camp.
I just found out about the nerdiest, best thing ever–Type Camp. Yes, that’s right, Type Camp. A bunch of font loving grown-ups gather together on a beautiful island in British Columbia to talk about, play with, create and explore the joys of type. 15 people, all meals catered, afternoons to explore the island- all at the low low price of $1280 (Canadian). Sigh.
I found out about this camp from my new favorite blog, I Love Typography, and yes, I do realize that this is turning into an obsession.

Penn Museum + Internet Archive

The Penn Museum and the Internet Archive have teamed up to digitize and stream much of their unidentified film collection.

“Penn Museum has for over 120 years collected materials representing the cultural history of the world, including artifacts and materials of archaeological and anthropological significance. The film archives contains over 1800 items, the majority of which are unique 16mm original reversal films, mainly amateur travelogues filmed all over the world, from the 1920’s through the 1970’s. The remainder of the collection consists mostly of films of archaeological digs and expeditions, smaller collections of anthropological fieldwork films, and a few produced films and television shows originally shot on film.

Plans for the future of the collection include subject cataloging for greater access (including collaborative tagging with indigenous or source communities), integration of the collection with exhibitions of the Museum, and interpretive online film exhibits on subjects including travelogue film and tourism.”

Check out the Beta collection Here.

RIP Rauschenberg

From the NYT (it’s a really robust obituary-click through to read the whole thing)

A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He pushed, prodded and sometimes reconceived all the mediums in which he worked.

Building on the legacies of Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Cornell and others, he thereby helped to obscure the lines between painting and sculpture, painting and photography, photography and printmaking, sculpture and photography, sculpture and dance, sculpture and technology, technology and performance art — not to mention between art and life.

Secret Museum On The Moon’s Surface

From a NYT article from November of 1969 about the tiny museum smuggled to the srface of the moon on the landing of Apollo 12 (!)…
“…according to Frosty Myers, the artist who initiated the project, the Moon Museum was secretly installed on a hatch on a leg of the Intrepid landing module with the help of an unnamed engineer at the Grumman Corporation after attempts to move the project forward through NASA’s official channels were unsuccessful.

According to the Times, the artworks are, clockwise from the top center: Rauschenberg’s wavy line; Novros’ black square bisected by thin white lines [in 1969, Novros also created the incredibly rich, minimalist fresco on the second floor of Judd’s 101 Spring St]; a computer-generated drawing by Myers; a geometric mouse by Oldenburg, “the subject of a sculpture in his current show at the Museum of Modern Art” [a sculpture which is in MoMA’s permanent collection, btw]; and a template pattern by Chamberlain, “similar to one he used to produce paintings done with automobile lacquer.” Warhol’s contribution, which is obscured by the thumb above, is described as “a calligraphic squiggle made up of the initials of his signature.”

Via BoingBoing

Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery

From BoingBoing
Art galleries have been showing the work of graffiti artists for quite some time now. Right now, large graffiti pieces are also on display in the “hallowed halls” of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. The pieces, by Tim Conlon and Dave Hupp, are part of an intriguing new exhibition titled Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture. Along with graffiti, it features the work of a poet, photographer, filmmaker, and portrait artist. Seen here, “CON” (Montana spray paint on Sintra panel, 182.9 cm x 609.6 cm).

From Smithsonian:

Since museum officials were hesitant about artists spraying paint directly onto the gallery walls, the works were instead executed off-site by two local artists, Tim “Con” Conlon, 33, of Washington, D.C. and Dave “Arek” Hupp, 34, from Baltimore, who have both been spray-painting (or “tagging”) trains and bridges since they were teenagers. Continue reading Graffiti at the National Portrait Gallery…

Social Fabrics

From Provisions Library and their blog Signal Fire

Organized by Leonardo Education Forum and the University of Texas at Dallas, Social Fabrics demonstrates “convergences between individual expression and statement making, on the one hand, and the phenomenology of ‘network society’ on the other”. To put it more simply: the exhibition is a fashion show in which artists combine wearable art, locative media and sensor technology to express social commentary on life in a high tech society. Commenting on our digital media-infused and fashion driven lifestyles, the artists in the show express themselves in provocative new ways. As curators Susan Ryan and Patrick Lichty point out, “Fashion and digital technology have been interdependent at least since the development of Jacquard’s loom in the 1800’s.”

Social Fabrics is organized in conjunction with the annual conference of the College Art Association, February 20–23.

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