Nobody's Fool

"Nobody's fool/for Dan Penn & AL" 2010

YOSHITOMO NARA

"Nobody's Fool"

Asia Society Museum

I was so excited when I discovered that the Asia Society Museum just opened a retrospective of the Japanese Artist NARA. I ran over there as fast as I could and enjoyed myself immensely.

Nara spent a lot of time by himself when he was a a child and I guess you can still see this in his artwork,  he can't stop painting mischievous kids and they are all high on the rock music I grew up with, like the Clash and the Ramones.

"Midnight Vampire" 2010

"Dulcimer/For Jean Ritchie" 2010

Installation... a little cabin filled with drawings and with a circus feeling.

Could not get an answer for the title...But possibly:

"Drawing Room between the Concord and Merrimack"

I was able to take a few pictures, but only from the newest collection, but there were Artwork there from the 80's up until now. I managed to take a quick pirouette picture in the 4th floor of the installation (all the rest of them are taken from the 3rd floor) of one of the girls in the cloud pictures (I think, see below)... but I got so nervous that I did not even dare to go back and check the title... 

Still feeling like I am one of these girls I guess, naughty and rule bending... I just don't smoke anymore but still want to rock!

If you want to go back in time and think of the devilish child inside of you, I promise you will enjoy this show. Entertaining, fun and uplifting. 

With love! 

Kristin

A short Life of Trouble

Marcia Tucker

"A short life of trouble,

forty years in the new york art world"

(edited by Lisa Lou)

I lived myself into the life of Marcia Tucker like I could meet her tomorrow. Maybe suddenly she would be standing in front of me at an opening in Manhattan, I thought. Then I would not hesitate to tell her how inspiring I thought her book was and how much I actually cried while reading it.

Then I realized Marcia Tucker is not here anymore.... I will never be able to meet her.

Architects:

Seijma & Ryue Nishizawa

SANAA 

Marcia Tucker you could say culminated in the building of the New Museum on Bowery.

After having been fired as an secretary at the MoMA really young with these words:

"why aren't these sharpened" Lieberman asked (after she would not come back to work on a Saturday)

"Because you are not doing it the right way. You stick them up your ass and turn hard, that's what does it"

Broke, daring and not compromising. She went on to assist a portrait painter, and gradually by meeting the right people and throwing herself with passion into the Art World, it lead her to an incredible carrier at the Whitney.

How i wished I could have seen some of the exhibits that she curated. She brought forward artists like Bruce Nauman and Richard Tuttle in the 70's. As a strong feminist Woman of the time, she managed to arrange solo exhibits for Ree Morton, Gladys Nilsson, Nancy Graves, Jane Kaufmann, Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell. Thinking this was nearly 40 years ago, it is quite amazing, since still there are still few and far between the female solo shows.

When her exhibitions became to progressive for The Whitney, they fired her. 

But, here comes my favorite part, instead of letting that bring her down. She put the little money she had left about $1,200 and began her adventures with "The New Museum". Building a new Museum from the bottom up.

Although she resigned her position as the Director of the New Museum in 1998 and died in 2006.

There would have never been a "New Museum" as we know it without her daring enthusiasm to start it and bring it forward.

The New Museum is still a progressive place where they give new Artists Solo shows. Like Urs Fischer and Rivane Neuenschwander.

Dear Marcia Tucker! 

I wish I had met you! 

You are one of those that tells us: 

"Yes, You can do it too!"

  

BANG BANG

TYPOE in front of "Dope" 

Mixed media sculpture

TYPOE

Spinello Gallery

Miami, opening September 11th 2010

First I have to apologize for having kept silent about the Art world for so long, all due to my fabulous three day wedding... a wonderful dream really! 

Enough excuses said...:) and back to what this little spot in the Universe is all about: ART.

My "Husband" and I went to Miami for a few nights this weekend and there among lots of plastic, wonderful cocktails and the pool at the Delano we buzzed ourself out for the Art Walk. 

Touring the more "stuff in as much art as possible" art galleries we sighed in appreciation when we found the Spinello Gallery and my face turned into a grin. This is where all the interesting people in Miami are hanging out. I knew I would find them somewhere!

The solo exhibit of TYPOE is all black and white in the front room, the lemon slices for the drinks the only exception. The Gallery gladly pointed me to TYPOE, who was the sweetest guy in the middle of the dark art that he has created and posed friendly for a picture, although not without his signature scarf.

(insert) "Surgeon General" 2010

Mural

Power Icon, 2010

TYPOE a "World" famous street artist is presented with these words in the press release:

"Cast between worlds of opposing values, at once an anonymous prestidigitator and high-ranking glitterati, TYPOE straddles an unseen fence.  His handiwork, which swaths billboards, public arenas and buildings literally rotting with neglect, has expanded from the crumbling edifice of a cultural misnomer into the social spotlight......"BANG BANG" is where these fetishistic, narcissistic articles resonate with devastating potential and beget insurgent thoughts"

"Confetti Death" 2010

(insert) Confetti Death

There we are with a great "BANG BANG" starting off the fall Art Scene.

So excited about all there is to see!

Love Kristin

Women Running on the Beach

Two Women Running on the Beach (1922)

PICASSO

(1881-1973)

I have had a few requests to show pictures from my Bachelorette Party, and here they are, Kaboom! Shown in relation to this Picasso Painting that I think portrays the freedom we women can achieve together sometimes. They say this picture shows a bit of competition between the two. I rather want to see it as an energized wild liberated friendship.

Here we are in our 20s bathing suits made by Han Feng (the girl who designed the clothes for Karate Kid) She also flew in from Hong Kong with her fantastic laughter lingering together with all

the other girls that I am already missing so much.

My girlfriends on the Yacht we sailed on in rough sea (looks calm here) outside Oslo. They are happy, kind, funny, smart (all the superlatives out there). This is right before saxophone play, poetry and gin tonics..... and of course a long night of dancing, cocktails, bubbles, singing and skinny dipping....

With Veslemøy my Maid in Honor and the great arranger of this fab weekend!

And this is me happy as ever could be!

I am so lucky to have such great friends,

thankful as ever could be:)

Kristin

Back on track....?

Tina Jonsbu

I am finally trying to pull my exhausted self out of my skin and on to "Paper".

The Bachelorette party was a success! An Island weekend filled with poetry, skinny dipping, dancing, great food, sailboat trip in rough sea with added galgen humor, laughter, laughter, laughter. 20's bathing suits for all 25 girls. (2 fell of to pregnancy nausea...) Champagne and Party, Party, Party, no sleep but so much love! Ah, I feel extremely lucky to have all these gorgeous Women in my life.

While I was in Oslo my Mother gave me our wedding gift a little early and it is a drawing by Tina Jonsbu (like the one above). Daring in it's simplicity. I LOVE IT! Thank you Mamma for going to the artists studio and pick one out for me, and thank you Tina for being so nice:)

Other than that there has been little "Art" experiences lately. But tomorrow I have some exciting shows that I will try to hit... so stay tune!!

Love, Kristin

Foot Medication

Artist´s Studio "Foot Medication", 1974

Oil and Magna on Canvas

Roy Lichtenstein

The Lichtenstein "Still Life" Exhibit at the Gagosian Gallery is just about to close if you still want to go and brighten your day a little.

When we think of still lifes, we think of paintings that have a certain atmosphere or ambience. My still life paintings have none of those qualities, they just have pictures of certain things that are in a still life, like lemons and grapefruits and so forth. It's not meant to have the usual still life meaning.
--Roy Lichtenstein (From Gagosian web site)

I am just about to prepare for my Bachelorette party weekend on an Island in Norway called "Hankø" with 27 wild wonderful Women. Wishing now that I had pampered my nails... In my head I am already dancing all night long.

See you all next week!!

With Love

Kristin

From Worry Beads to Prayer Mat

Worry Beads, 2009

Mona Hatoum

On my recent Chelsea Gallery trip last Friday, I came upon this cannonball size bronze prayer beads at the Alexander and Bonin Gallery. I had heard of Mona Hatoum before, but I am surprised at actually never having seen any of her work in person. Especially when I notice the intense amount of incredible work that she has presented so far.

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Measures of Entanglement/Undercurrent (red) 2008-

Ph. Oak Taylor Smith_UCCA

Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 but ended up staying in London after Civil War broke out in 1975. She began as a performance artist but gradually moved through fields of installations, video and sculptures.

Homebound, (installation) 2002

"Your first experience of a work of art is physical," says Hatoum. "I like the work to operate on both the sensual and intellectual levels. Meanings, connotations and associations come after the initial physical experience as your imagination and intellect are fired by what you have seen."  - From Egodesign.ca

Traffic 2002

When you look at Hatoum´s work you gradually will notice what she is most known for. She brings otherwise normal objects out to the public and then overexposes it to make them almost unfamiliar and at times frightening. She demands the viewer to rethink the "normal".

Hot Spot III, 2009

Interior Landscapes, Pallazo Querini Stampalia

Stainless steel and neon tube

I began with the worry beads and will end with the Prayer Mat, I guess "praying" for more. I definitely have "blood on my teeth" the more I see and read about Mona Hatoum the more I want. 

When will she have a Solo Show in New York that I can attend, I wonder?

Prayer Mat, 1995

British Council, London

With Love

Kristin