In and around New York
Today! Drawings and .. New York city at its best /
Memory Replacement The Armory Show, Next Saturday, March 10, 12-8pm, Piers 92 & 94 711 12th Avenue at 55th Street New York City /
Memory Replacement The Armory Show Next Saturday, March 10, 12-8pm
Piers 92 & 94 711 12th Avenue at 55th Street New York City
Have your memory replaced Free and Open to the Public
#memoryreplacement #TheArmoryShow @thearmoryshow
Happy Holidays from Michelangelo! To be a creator is the greatest power in the world, so don't be worried about anything else. /
A once in a lifetime exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York. It is the Met's gift for us for the Holidays.
There is no greater power in the world than that of being a creator. When you are a creator you are in control. Everything else is an agenda fed by someone else.
We are constantly told by media, papers, whatever visual and auditory space available, that we should be eating, drinking, remodeling kitchens, buying and saving money, I think that one last thing has in such a great way deformed our consciousness that there is this anxiety that we have to be constantly on the intake. We walk around with this anxiety for the next intake, I am astonished by the amount of time and energy spent in this city on discussing, cataloging and planning past and future meals, and the acquisition of objects.
Yet, there in the dim light of the Met were these really faint ( by modern standards ) marks on paper that produced in me such great pleasure to observe and contemplate them, and I bet in others too, judging by the crowds. Really, nothing of substance at first glance, certainly nothing to be chewed on. Just marks going here and there, up and down and in circles. these markings, however faint, produced great emotions and appreciation. Pretty wondrous effect given that the author has not been around for the last 500 years and hardly ever comes up in conversations and on television.
The greatest power in the world is the power to create, we have hardly control over the first 20 years of our lives, we are placed and educated somewhat unwillingly and the only thing we can truly will is something of our own, something no one has ever produced before us and no one ever will after.
Michelangelo at the Met
Memory Replacement World Trade Center – Kickstarter coming soon /
We don't want be replaced, but we wanna be changed. I know it can't be replaced, I know it can't be changed. But I want to change your mind.
Couch Runner 2017 /
Michelangelo is coming to New York - at the Metropolitan Museum - November 13th /
Michelangelo is coming to town November 13th
"Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), a towering genius in the history of Western art, will be the subject of this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. During his long life, Michelangelo was celebrated for the excellence of his disegno, the power of drawing and invention that provided the foundation for all the arts. For his mastery of drawing, design, sculpture, painting, and architecture, he was called Il Divino (“the divine one”) by his contemporaries. His powerful imagery and dazzling technical virtuosity transported viewers and imbued all of his works with a staggering force that continues to enthrall us today."
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I remember spending hours and days with his work in Rome and Florence. With his sculptures, with his paintings and frescoes, with the St Peters Church, also at the Vatican museums and remember losing my footing at the Sistine Chapel.
I also like – to some degree – his slaves. Not a big fan of the condition of being imprisoned in any shape or form. But we are all slaves until we find what truly saves us.
Michelangelo also embodied the very modern idea of using and innovating technology to further art. Michelangelo was a very technical artist – I remember a conversation at a conference once — where we argued about art and the impression that artists are these soft creatures who flail their limbs about hoping to make the correct gesture into artwork.
Michelangelo’s work is so much more impressive because it required substantial engineering skills to be completed. Even his marble carving of David is one that required engineering thought to free the statue from the odd shaped block of marble. I also have this very odd affinity to marble, I am not saying I like it because I feel very physically drawn to it, almost like a magnet. And whenever I look at great marble I feel glued to it with invisible strings which are very hard to abandon.
The artist also epitomized what I call the Continuous Commitment To Excellence principle. In modern terms Continuous Commitment To Excellence is what Lucasfilm and Apple employ.
Because ultimately it is single individuals that are capable of creating long lasting value and when looking for values to adhere to - I ask - does it hold up after 200 years and why. If there are sculptures that are 500 or 2000 years old and have people still moved and enthralled then there is a long lasting value in them. Usually it is beauty, ideas, skills and mastery of execution. There were recently works at the Morgan museum that were from 3300-2250 B.C and beautifully crafted. I bet whoever made them never thought there's going to be a creature 5000 years later admiring their work.
With Michelangelo it is that every single work has so much power and mastery to make a lasting impression 500 years later. What underlies this kind of achievement and strength in a work of art? He made sure to become the craftsmen, problem solver and engineer of his works. You can't be an artist before you are craftsmen. You will need to put in the 10 000 hours in some sort of craft, whatever you can tolerate doing for 10 000 hours. These hours will allow you to become an automatic creator and a good judge of beauty. There are a lot of problems that arise in art and mastering a process will teach you the good practices of problem solving which will allow you to go further than the ones who never mastered a process.
In a world where we are constantly submerged in a Hot Fuzz of markets, teslas, rockets, leadership seminars, virtual realities of all kinds, blade runner futures, menacing robots - all that really matters is the genius of man.
If you get a chance - make sure to see one of his works in person. You will be standing in front of a work of art that outlived many great things on account of being a product of a man determined to be excellent. Michelangelo fought so many battles for the most mundane things like the quality of his marble, the envy of his contemporaries, the papal politics. There were years when he couldn't be productive and faced many setbacks. The only constant was that with every project he undertook he committed to creating beauty and long lasting value by adhering to his own high standards.
PROJECT SUBWAY NYC /
Our beloved city of New York is actually a video game level /
Take a subway ride at the front of a train through the guts of the city and come out in Brooklyn!
The R11 made history on July 30th, 2017, when it finally ran along the Second Avenue Subway. The R11 was built to operate on the Second Avenue Subway in 1949, more than half a century before the line opened.
The next "Nostalgia Trip" will occur on the 7 line on August 19th! Tickets are available here: http://www.nytransitmuseum.org/progra...
These vintage trains are notable for having passenger-accessible front windows that show the view ahead!
Free Art Books From the Guggenheim and others /
Guggenheim collection online:
https://archive.org/details/guggenheimmuseum
The Guggenheim has one of the largest collections of Kandinsky’s works in the world:
https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/kandinsky-3
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has hundreds of books available online:
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online
The Getty’s virtual library:
Contrary to popular belief New York is the best place for free education in the arts. The greatest culture in the world, for free and the best opera in the world for $20 /
https://www.metopera.org/About/FAQ/Standing-Room-Ticket-Information/
http://r14n.com/nyc-museums-free-dayshours-google-calendar/
New York things /
by robotorigami - via reddit
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMHIMssBYpo/
aka subwaycreatures
I love the subway.. people pay to go to the theater.. i go to the subway.
i have photographed many train stations and realized that i simply love inhabiting transient spaces,.. feel at home and make myself comfortable at bus stations, terminals and various corridors.. even parking lots, especially was fond of Tokyo & Kyoto stations.
more underground photographs:
http://dimmerlight.com/portfolio/some-kind-of-train-or-underground/
Memory Replacement - Election Day. This November 8th, Noon - Midnight at 14th Street–Union Square & West 4th Subway Stations Union Square & Washington Square Park and other places underground and above /
This Election Day I amgonna feed New Yorkers milk & cookies and ask them to draw.. a new memory.
Election Day
Tues Nov 8th noon - midnight 14th Street–Union Square & West 4th Subway Stations Union Square & Washington Square Park and other places underground and above
Memory Replacement - Election Day, I want Milk and Cookies for $1
Memory Replacement - Election Day, I want Milk and Cookies for $5
Memory Replacement - Election Day, I want as much Milk and Cookies as I like
This bust at the Met /
Fashion in an Age of Technology at The Met /
When you look at the first (3-D-Printed) piece made, you can see the fine lines of the print. You can see how the piece has been built up. In one millimeter, there are up to ten lines. It’s almost like a fingerprint - it’s as detailed as your fingerprint… It was inspired by the way limestone deposits from shells. With 3-D printing, I am very much drawn to the organic.
Iris van Herpen
I call this the the Matrix dress!
NEON DANS LA NUIT SUIT 1990/91 hand embroidered with fluorescent stripes
3-D-printed polymer
2014
Noa Raviv
“While working (with) 3-D software i was fascinated by the grid shown on the 2-D screen and by the way black repetitive lines define voluminous objects.”
1968 Egg Carton Dress
Modern Egg Carton Dress 2015
MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIO 2010
MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIOS 1990
MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIOS 1990 - same dress flat
My favorite! It is all about the name and it has got spirit.
MIYAKE DESIGN STUDIOS 1994 Flying Saucer Dress
BAHAI 3-D-printed Fractal weave dress - with six degrees of fractal growth.
3-D latticework dress 2015 Iris van Herpen
3-D printed dress using stereolithography. it was built layer by layer in a vessel of liquid polymer. The polymer hardens when struck by a laser beam.
Alexander McQueen 2012
Laser cut white foam 2013
Noir Kei Ninomiya 2015-16
Bye!
Marble /
I have had many encounters with marble, most notably.. until the Pergamon show, in Rome, in the vatican Museums and Michelangelo's Moses. Rome is practically riddled with it and I discovered I really very much love stone. Not forgetting the Galleria Borghese where a certain marble rape takes place, it is a beautifully disturbing masterpiece which i spent several hours contemplating. Now, marble, as far as art is concerned, is not at all trivial. And very substantial - it doesn't wobble as paintings do and works quite well even in pieces or fractured.
Marble can certainly be decorative but when it is done by a master's hand it is the ultimate fine art. There's a shift that occurs when the decorative purpose gives way to craftsmanship and it seizes to be just a pretty object but a work of art. I'd imagine you can't fix marble, the bliss of undo totally unavailable in this medium. Oil painting can be fixed, architecture can be fixed, i know of a certain skyscraper in New York that got fixed, but you can't fix marble.
What was special of the Pergamon show at the Met was that, unlike all the other stone at the Louvre, or British Museum, or Rome, the Met was curated and installed by world class talent with desire to not just show but tell a compelling story through visual means. The show was impeccably devised and paced, you wouldn't think your mind is being controlled by beauty.
Don't think i have ever seen a sculpture show this strong.. most I have seen in world class museums were well presented exhibitions.. or in the case of Florence - a strong focus on one sculpture or artist. I remember very little of my long plane ride as I worked on my photographs of the show and my entire head turned, for a few hours, into a marble one.
This show was the art equivalent of Noah's Ark, it had all art of all the world that came after it. Michelangelo was an heir of these sculptures, and Andy Warhol, Dali, Picasso, Van Gogh.. everything we know about art and about how we see the figure, until this very day all academies in the world draw figures and busts in the same exact manner. All we know of beauty, what is pleasing, what is good to the eye, began with the standards these ancient greek sculptors established two millennia and some. I have been hearing trumpets of bliss in my head ever since i saw the Pergamon show. And i am glad I took my camera to it as it is, sadly now, dissipated into all corners of the world.
One more thing to add - occasionally I listen to Indian mystics who say they feel one - the inside and outside they feel as one, there is a blurry line as to who they perceive as themselves and where their inner world ends and the outer world begins. Not there yet myself. But on the particular instance of seeing the Pergamon exhibit - i felt as one with a much much larger world, not just the inside and the outside, but all past and present felt as one. That is how I imagine nirvana if there's one such thing.
Chelsea Grids /
