John Baldessari
“Between Artists” is an ongoing series of books edited by Alejandro Cesarco and originally published by A.R.T. Press. They are based on artist to artist conversations. The conversation format permits a thorough and at the same time informal investigation of the artists’ practice and the larger social issues that inform it. By virtue of their clarity, personal focus, affordability, and innovative method of distribution, these books make possible the presentation of contemporary artists and their work to a wide readership. Since the first “Between Artists” books were released in 2005, they have gained a cult following, and a number of ...
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over one hundred contributors including John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Bringing together assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, we hope it simultaneously serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute.
Edie Fake, Jamillah James, Alexis Blair Penney
Hosted by MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY
Sunday November 18, 2012 2pm
The Center for Experimental Lectures is thrilled to present lectures by Edie Fake, Jamillah James, and Alexis Blair Penney, hosted by MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York as part of the museum’s Sunday Sessions program.
Artist Edie Fake’s lecture The Sexual Life of Patterns explores the concept of “the weave” in relation to textiles, gender, and the trans body. Extending the logic of intuitive herbalism, magic, and tarot into textile decoration, ornamentation, and repetitive pattern, Fake’s lecture will explore the physical ...
In 1970, the artist John Baldessari publicly cremated all the work he had made in the previous thirteen years.
A year later, in 1971, John Baldessari created “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art”, in which John Baldessari videotaped himself writing the sentence “I will not make any more boring art” on a piece of white paper until the tape ran out. He used his left hand and a lead pencil to write twenty-seven iterations of this promise while the tape ran for approximately thirteen minutes. This act was also iterated as an outsourced collaboration with students at the Nova ...
A witty and elegant visual exchange around the uses and functions of chairs doubles as an excuse to address a number of the artists’ interests and working methodologies. A conversation that has developed through years of friendship, deep admiration and understanding of each other’s work, this book presents Baldessari and Bloom at the peak of their form.
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It should be said that Baldessari’s penchant for depicting noses in his work extends as far back as 1965 with the conception of “God Nose,” one of the artist’s very few pre-1965 paintings to have survived.
Here, with his onestar press edition, Baldessari conceives a book about a nose, with a nose, wherein the artist’s famed subject appears and disappears upon a series of pages, in one fluid sweep.
