Thursday links – Up The Dosage

Don Kenn’s Post-It Drawings, via C-Monster.

I like these too: Marc Johns, previously on CM, and Xu Zhen.

Triple Candie’s R.I.P. fake show for Maurizio Cattelan, via ANABA, here. Holland Cotter on TC’s 2006 fake show for David Hammons,
here, whom Cotter rightly calls “one of the three or four most
interesting and influential American artists of the last 30 years.”

Susanna Bluhm makes excellent comparisons between artists in Target Practice: Painting Under Attack, 1949-1978 at the Seattle Art Museum and major moments in art history, here.

She should have identified them, however. Top, Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 1958. Bottom, Matthias Grunewald, from The Crucifixion, 1515 (Isenheim altarpiece).

Jen Graves on the (I hope) come-back kid future of Seattle’s 911 Media Arts Center, here. Who’s to blame for its travails?

Billionaire Paul Allen’s “city within a city, where lively
workplaces, shops, restaurants, schools, parks, entertainment, and
recreation are located in a dynamic, emerging neighbor-hood” is once
again forcing out the arts. Allen’s plan for South Lake Union, once
touted as a developing arts and technology hub, is instead turning into
a designer playground for the rich. 911 Media Arts Center, like
independent arts groups Consolidated Works and Center on Contemporary
Art before it, can no longer afford the rent it pays to Allen’s company
Vulcan.

Not fair, but admirably rousing. ConWorks collapsed under the weight of a bungling board. 911 and CoCA couldn’t afford the rent in a dollhouse.

On the other end of the spectrum, Ken Johnson slams the socially relevant at the Newwark Museum, here.

The strategy is pretty clear: almost every piece in the
exhibition, whatever its form — and there is a great variety of formal
approaches –pertains to a social issue. Race, ethnicity, identity,
immigration, ancestry, disenfranchisement and globalization are among
the themes represented, and if they are not immediately discernible in
the works themselves, wall labels helpfully explain. Call it Postmodern
Social Realism Lite.

Ouch.

Finally, Martin Creed on YouTube (TateShots): “Art is just a word.” Word.