NorthPark Warhol
The NorthPark Center in Dallas is an upscale shopping mall with a public art collection that includes a wall of 10 Warhol screenprints. Does anyone notice or care?
Andy Warhol vs Jack Bauer
Andy Warhol is an artist. Jack Bauer is a spy. Their job titles are different but each is on a quest for truth. The favored truth extracting technique for both Andy and Jack is torture.
Flowers, 1964
After Warhol’s Death and Disaster series Henry Geldzahler said, “Enough death and disaster Andy, it’s time again for life.” And just like that Andy took a magazine image of flowers, cropped it into a square, and began color-blocking each blossom.
Framing a Research Question, Part 2
In addition to what Hugh posted a couple days ago, I’m further updating people (as promised in the Mixed Berry Shake June 2014 hangout) on what we’re doing in the MOOC Understanding Research Methods via Coursera. Here is a link to the question Hugh is developing and some discussion around it: How do Arabian women artists …
Green Car Crash
Green Car Crash is part of Warhol’s Death and Disaster series which explores how tragedy and horror occur to ordinary people on a daily basis.
Kiss
Movies show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. – Andy Warhol.
Framing a Research Question
Here is a MOOC, still in its first week, which may be of interest to re/act and re/search regulars. https://www.coursera.org/course/researchmethods This MOOC is more academic in outlook than the Practice Based Research in the Arts MOOC recently hosted by NovoEd. However it is just as important. By framing the research question and …
ONE Night, many months
ONE Night, many months. by Michael J. Masucci All still photography by Lauren Sanchez (classic 1981 work by Ron Hays on balloon, and Rebecca Allen’s 1989 ‘Steady State’ , on library wall) EZTV’s three-month long retrospective series, sponsored by USC’s ONE Archives & Museum, ended in an outdoor park on …
Flash, Nov 22, 1963
Andy Warhol was painting in his studio and listening to the radio the day JFK was assassinated. He immediately created his series of Jackie Kennedy portraits. 5 years later he returned to the assassination to create Flash – November 22, 1963
Ethel Scull 36 Times
Warhol took Ethel Scull to an amusement arcade in Times Square and photographed her in a photo booth, creating twenty-four sheets of photographs. She initially protested but gradually began to enjoy herself, at least partly because Warhol was continuously tickling her. Ethel Scull reportedly said “What I liked about it mostly was that it was a portrait of being alive.”
Electric Chair
The electric chair was first used by Warhol in 1964 in his Little Electric Chair series. These pieces were of the whole execution room. He cropped the image down to just the chair for the 1967 paintings then used the image again in 1971 in a portfolio of ten screenprints, these being known as Big Electric Chair, and finally once more in 1985.
Last Supper
Commissioned in 1984 by Alexandre Iolas, Warhol created more than 100 versions of the Last Supper, both silk-screened and hand-painted, to inaugurate an exhibition space within Milan’s Palazzo Stelline Gallery. One month after the series debuted Andy Warhol died after undergoing gallbladder surgery.
A Little Bird Told Me
Reminiscent of Andy’s great interactivity, Warhol MOOC instructor Glyn Davis had an almost unprecedented presence and interaction within the MOOC Forums at Coursera. Outside the walls of Coursera, he tweeted updates about the course and all things Andy. Here’s a sample…
Edie Sedgwick
Some have argued that Andy took my short life away. Or at least that he didn’t “save me.” In every parallel universe I’ve been able to visit these 42 years since my death, I’m sorry to have to report that Edie always dies young. It’s only in the universes where Edie meets Andy, that Edie ever really matters. It’s only in the universes where I meet Andy that I ever really live.
Hello from Isabella!
MOOC Magazine is the place to publish the great work in many forms that peeps have created in the many Arts MOOCs.
Photojournalism (b. circa 1930 – d. circa 2010)
Photojournalism has a romance in much the same way, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, James Dean and Edie Sedgwick have romance. It died too young. For me there is also a big distinction between photojournalism and current affairs. Current affairs is often the one shot of an event and …
Computer Love & Hacking the Timeline v3.0
Two events about the historification of Computer Art Developing a serious academically rigorous discourse, concerning the evolution of digital art, from its original elite origins to today’s ubiquitous world-culture was a focus of two consecutive evenings in Los Angeles in early 2014. As part of USC One Archive’s three-month long …
Earth Alert!
I recently found out that on March 1st, 2014, Patrick Wall had died. I had not seen Patrick in many years, and like so many others I have known, had lost touch with him over time. Patrick, along with Janet Bridgers, co-founded Earth Alert!, an Emmy-winning group of enviornmental activists …
Juliano Explodes
Juliano Explodes – last life drawing of an intensive session. Black/Red ink with bamboo pen
THE EROTIC CRISIS
Tim Holmes has something serious to say about art and society.. fear and the nude. I have spoken to him and am impressed with his work with the nude/body – I relate it a lot to mine. “Everybody around the world… can find something sacred about their own flesh” …