After Modern Art

The Lost Minotaur: The world of Larry Gagosian

2011-06-07T16:44:00.005-04:00

Durand Ruel - this was around the time of the French Empire. Leo Castelli -this was during the time of the beginning of the US global dominance.

Larry Gagosian - now and here and for how long?

Art in the time of mass production, in the time of overflow of the markets by all sorts of commodities, how difficult is it to maintain a gallery profile and still sell a lot of high profile art. A one billion worth of art per year? Is this a fair estimate or advertising kind story? A $40 million Bombardier Global Express private jet and a personal chef on call at Madison Avenue headquarters - not bad for a world of art, is there many dealers who can afford this, or just Larry Gagosian alone? Gagosian already became a legend. It there any art gallery in the history who has had 11 branches? I guess no one. Can you imagine contemporary art world as it is without Larry Gagosian? It's either too hard either impossible at all. How much money did he attracted to art simply because of his marketing talent, forget the art? Is it half of this billion? Some people fuel industries by their passion and energy some people becoming the faces of the industries. Larry Gagosian is the most important art dealer of today. It's like IKEA of the gallery world, difficult comparison of course. Shall i compare it to Ferrari, bur Ferrari despite all designer efforts is not a really profitable company. Gagosian is already a historical kind of person. Will his artists last long? What going to happen with the highly speculative prices paid for non-proven by time new art? Will the entire pyramid of Los Angeles born Armenian descent crush down one day? It's hard to imagine yet. Mr. Gagosian has a plenty of powerful backers, those people will always have the money, and i guess they going to continue to spend huge amounts on art. But the day Larry Gagosian will go i doubt his gallery will stand - too much of everything is attached to his powerful personality. There will be new dealers and new galleries, but will anyone match Gagosian or we will ever know him as the only emperor of the gallery world.

If Lady GaGa was a painter, how happy would we be

2011-05-25T22:32:00.001-04:00

Just open your eyes and look at this, she (Lady GaGa) has 10.000.000 (ten million) followers on Twitter http://twitter.com/ladygaga. It's like a whole population of country like Belarus following her. Not too bad Just for comparison. Gerhard Richter, arguably one of the greatest painters of our times has 5000 followers on Twitter. No, just 4627 as of today just to be clever http://twitter.com/gerhardrichter

What both of them doing? Both producing images at some extent. Both making a lot of money from their art. Is Lady Gaga true pop artist like Warhol and Gerhard Richter is a true aristocrat like a British Queen. But wait British Monarchy has 185,339 followers on twitter, a bit more.

Interesting question arise. How did with such a little interest of general public in art, it still commanding such prices at the auctions, $10,000,000, $40,000,000 for contemporary art isn't surprising sum.

Is billionaires most caring people about art, just those who finally got little bit more time to understand it? Or it's just a fashionable toy, such expensive and lucrative toy for a few. Wait some more statistics. Both, Nicholas Serota and Glenn Lowry having around 1000 Google searches a month, Gerhard Richter has 60,500, Damien Hirst has 135,000 and Lady Gaga, ok well 25,000,000, ah, and Van Gogh has around 2,240,000 those interested in his art and biography. Mozart by the way is not forgotten as well, 3,350,000 searched for his name is not a small amount. But Lady Gaga topped him 10 times. What a power of marketing.

Trust me as you can

2010-11-04T16:15:00.004-04:00

This, finally. A currency motto? More than that? Definitely it's more. For the love of God do we live, for the love of God do we die. Exchange? Is this important for you and me on the raw wheat field after rain in black black black summer night? How you feel now you trust in me and i have trust in you. A universe became bit larger for two of us universe exploded and became just two times larger, some certainty... hey ya. My God told me this evening, one day robots will take all rudimentary and unnecessary in their hands. Could we think about love then again as first time when we were kids. Hey bad times is when trust is lost, trust to everything... Shall humans have such disaster periods - not at all. We have everything to turn live into matrix of whatever you want the way you like in own personal universe. Sad thing to see distrust in the world after crisis. What do we need from each other?

Hey humans, we are quite familiar. Package bit different, but anyway, let's live for love.

World of Jerry Saltz

2010-11-01T21:21:00.018-04:00

How much attention one gets, how much attention one is able to attract. Jerry Saltz at some point is kind of center of art world universe, a crossroad for all ideas, names and concepts. Alongside with Charles Saatchi, Jerry Saltz is a maker of brands. Long lived or short lived stars of art universe. This is just one part of the iceberg. Another is the work of an artist. Could you imagine a kind of Maurizio Cattelan made solely by press?...

lipofuze

Neocapitalism

2010-10-30T19:05:00.002-04:00

Hell no, why what's a matter one might ask. Such serious publication will go up for simply subjects. I do really like advertising. There was just a few of a kind of amazing ads. A primary idea dominant as hell. One in Artforum, not a while ago, in planetary scale, Lynda Benglis did. Seriously, i remember all the girls i ever had affection for. A fraction. So her ad was each and every one of them, exclude faces- just look inside one's soul. I encounter one evenly more memorable, one made by quasi-universal girl named Gillian Carnegie. Pretty simple, showing things of. Truly intimate and way simple. I guess multiplied image of a painting of an ass was printed in ArtReview in 2007? While back perhaps. What is strange, sometime artists being lost in time, where is her newest art? Same like John Currin- his brilliant show few years back at Gagosian, was it strike, but where he is for now, beside Metropolitan Opera? where he is seen often i guess. Can art be overappreciated?

http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/gillian-carnegie

What is modern

2010-10-28T16:34:00.002-04:00

What is modern is a question for every modernism. What is current is a question for every financier, but not only. Is Andy Warhol's depiction of a soup can outdated? Is a painting of a Black square by Kazimir Malevich modern? Is sculpture by Donald Judd Contemporary? Could this be lost in a timeflow? Is Michelangelo's frescoes inside Sistine Chapel could be considered out of fashion? Answer is: NEVER. They have no time as every ideal entity has no time and it's life is eternal in objective mind, society and thereafter. We will not post too much of news, we analyze in depth and leave something that could resist time as long as possible, as we considered blogspot.com as a relatively safe and perhaps long-living platform for our blog. Alive, as far as people attracted to writing and reading blogs. One of a many, but our topics are quasi-important for the World of Art.

Fall 2010. A new season for an Art World. Expectations?

2010-09-24T18:00:00.001-04:00

The Auctions survived lows and highs. The Contemporary art scene has changed many faces. We counted many deaths among those we knew as artists and those we knew as the soldiers. There was some good news. One War is almost over after the seven years of struggle. Economy is almost back and up, and there is some more sights of hope. What will be the highs and lows for this next season? A new, just another moneymaking venture or just something what would leave a cultural icons and historical events behind. Does the money really matter in the world of art? Hope not that much and we expect truly remarkable events.

Artists, Part 2

2010-09-23T11:10:00.013-04:00

Lida Abdul
Artist's website
Gillian Carnegie
Shortlist: Turner Prize 2005 at Tate Britain, London
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Artists website
Chuck Close
Chuck Close at Pace Gallery, New York
The New York Times on Chuck Close
Justine Cooper
Justine Cooper at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
John Currin
John Currin: Whitney Museum of American Art collection, New York
Nathalie Djurberg
Natalie Djurberg at Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Dubossarsky and Vinogradov
Artist's website
Tim Eitel
Tim Eitel: Center of Gravity at Pace Wildenstein, New York
Chie Fueki
Artist's page at Mary Boone, New York
Gilbert and George
Gilbert and George at Brooklyn Museum
Shadi Ghadirian
Artist's page at Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zurich
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Collection: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Antony Gormley
Artist's website
Subodh Gupta
At Palazzo Grassi
Philip Guston
Collecton: MoMA, New York
Ellsworth Kelly
Artist's page at Mattew Marks Gallery, New York
Tala Madani
Collection: The Saatchi Gallery, London
Julia Milner
Article on Russian Pavilion at Venice biennale
Marina Naprushkina
Works: Istanbul biennial
Alice Neel
Artist's estate
Hermann Nitsch
Artist's website
Leemour Pelli
Leemour Pelli at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
Elizabeth Peyton
Exhibition: New Museum, New York
Cai Guo-Qiang
Documentary on PBS
Daniel Richter
Works: CFA Berlin
Mika Rottenberg
Works at Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Dana Shutz
Exhibition: Panic, Zach Feuer, New York
Rudolf Stingel
Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art
Richard Tuttle
Exhibition: MCA Chicago
Group Voina
Article on performance
Mark Wallinger
Exhibition: Tate Britain, London
Sherry Wong
Exhibition: I-20 Gallery, New York
Zhang Xiaogang
Collection: The Saatchi Gallery, London

Contemporary Art Galleries

2010-09-21T17:00:00.000-04:00

Informational age: an update

2010-08-24T18:10:00.006-04:00

9 languages for art-related informational system.

Arabic version http://ar.nicholaschistiakov.com/فن.htm

Belarusian http://be.nicholaschistiakov.com/мастацтва.htm

Chinese http://cn.nicholaschistiakov.com/藝術.htm

English http://en.nicholaschistiakov.com/art.htm

Francais http://fr.nicholaschistiakov.com/art.htm

German http://de.nicholaschistiakov.com/kunst.htm

Italian http://it.nicholaschistiakov.com/arte.htm

Japanese http://ja.nicholaschistiakov.com/芸術.htm

Russian http://ru.nicholaschistiakov.com/искусство.htm

Insight: New York

2010-08-24T18:00:00.013-04:00

Ferrari at MoMA Education center

Broadway, New York

SoHO, New York

Искусство и контроль сознания

2010-06-17T14:22:00.008-04:00

Искусство, абстрактная ценность и осознание предназначения.

Курс обмена объектов на валюту в обществе является достаточно абстрактным выражением их ценности. Ее определяет условная и всегда меняющаяся сумма факторов. Стоимость, как правило, не может быть ниже затрат на производство, но когда она оказывается несомненно выше затрат производства и определяет ее как наиболее ценное достижение гуманизма. Обьекты исключительной стоимости также являются прототипами для социального программирования, т.к. желание обладать ценностями является одним из первичных для человека, и как только появляются ценности именно они и являются модулем построения общества, наравне с днк и эволюционными процессами обусловленными физическими законами вселенной. Объекты вызывают определенную психологическую реакцию в зависимости от определенной психологической подготовки. Чувство сенсации может и не быть испытанно подготовленным обозревателем. Так же как и ценность обьекта в понимании различных людей может существенно отличатся. Образовательные учреждения и публичное право, действительно, могут определять понимание людьми абстрактных ценностей, так же как вводить определенную региональную или традиционную иррациональность в их понимании. Помимо социальных и условных настроек, принципы Bauhaus и искусства Возрождения произвели идеальную концепцию дизайна и красоты, соизмеримые, собственно с человеком. Критерии красоты очень часто менялись вместе с критериями рациональности. Как правило поиск высшей рациональности и являлся предметом красоты, а следовательно и искусства.

Цель общественной организации.

Предположительно, целью общества является создание, обмен и потребление товаров и ценностей, наряду с социальным взаимовлиянием и взаимоизменением. Наряду с непрерывным актом самозащиты, доминации и самоопределения.

Развитие науки и техники.

Возможность смерти человека является единственным стимулом для продвижения науки и техники. Защита от смерти может быть достигнута восстановительной медициной и промышленным клонированием, а также расширенными возможностями сохранения и передачи информационной концепции человеческого создания.

Общественные ценности и валюты.Условно теоретически, вы можете превратить любую ценность в ничто или в максимум, вопрос глобальности влияния, значимости, количества участников обмена и возможности социального программирования. Достаточно ограниченной ценностью, все же, являются предметы искусства и элитарной культуры, которые, как правило, полностью принимаются или бывают востребованны только самой элитой их создавшей. Причиной как правило является именно финансовая ограниченность, что вызывает принятие как первичных более простых, но накак не более важных ценностей. Не стоит забывать, что рынком ультра-дорогих предметов искусства контролирует где-то тысяча человек, которые могут быть заинтересованны в приобретении или же игнорировать, так как коллекционирование, все же, вопрос личного интереса или привязанности. Несмотря на все это, чрезвычайно ценный объект становится прототипом для поведенческих изменений сообщества, поэтому абсолютные денежных значения, являются сознательным инструментом для интеллектуального дизайна.

Глобализация.

Концепции превосходства очень скоро заставят человечество почти полностью отказаться от ручного труда и могут привести к кризису абсолютного перепроизводства.

Интернет и распространение информации.Интернет позволил распространять и изменять знания чрезвычайно быстро. Очень быстро формируется представление человечества как социального мозга, или формы коллективного разума. Мир постмодернизма принадлежит технократии и контролю сознанием. Искусство, возможно может какое-то время оставаться полной противоположностью власти, результат, возможно будет некоторое нео-социальное общество с иными критериями ценностей и даже иной трактовкой собственной истории.

Ссылки:
1, New Scientist, периодическое издание

2, Тотем и Табу, Сигмунд Фрэйд
3, Фридрих Ницше, Сумерки Богов, публ.1888

Marina Abramovic at MoMA

2010-05-27T18:44:00.029-04:00

Marina Abramovic performs Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present at The Museum of Modern Art. Quite interesting survey of Balcan art. You can't tell national specifics don't matter anymore. Most will agree that Abramovic's exhibition was among best shows this year.

http://www.moma.org/

Postmodern values

2010-05-03T16:05:00.001-04:00

GDP of South Africa is 276 billion dollars. GDP of Netherlands is 871 billion dollars. Not so much compared to 14.6 trillion dollar GDP of United States, but definitely enough to allow Marlene Dumas to have market for her art. Will you have market for anything if you have a monetary base to support it? Of course. GDP of Belarus is 60.3 billion dollars, GDP of Russia 1.68 trillion definitely not counting much contemporary art as part of it. Indeed you could fill markets with currency just if you have an internal regulations for it. Auction houses? Sotheby's is a British company. Bonhams is British as well. Christies was British, now French. Countries with longest cultural history are best in means of support and creation of new values. GDP of Great Britain is 2.67 trillion, perhaps 80% art? Half-joke. of course it's 70% of highly technological items and scientific researches is art science to? Indeed. Great example to follow. Creation of a new values is something extremely important in postmodern economy. Which is, like an art, has to be an extremely sophisticated but rational system to let society stay organized and exist by the means of rational and continuous reason.

How many people except for Ronald Lauder would pay 135 million dollars for painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Klimt? Perhaps just a few. Is that a question of estimate or kind of target one is interested to set for rest to follow? Indeed in the age of uncertainty one must have certain icons. Marxist theory has to be assumed dead, there is not anymore labor counts. When robots do the most, what you only have left is to invent, create and live in the free world.

*source of GDP estimates: Google
http://sothebys.com/
http://christies.com/
http://phillipsdepury.com/
http://bonhams.com/

Markets for ultra-new

2010-04-28T16:00:00.000-04:00

Indeed, addiction may result in constant shopping, yet, no one yet compared shopping for milk of gas to art collecting, quite frankly, you could substitute any kind of goods with more rational products or no shopping at all, true. You could not acquire anything at all. It is just commodities made by others. You just apply certain monetary measure to it. Yet, of course, art is not among required for basic survival goods. It is extremely lucrative product, quite opposite to food either apartment buildings. Yet you may substitute many common things without feeling that something lost. Matter is just fashion, your social connections and trends. Theoretically, one may even substitute food to powering from solar panels. Strangely, automobiles or computers has never been compared to art. Despite this, they have great deal of design and complex intelligence in it, only lacking distinction of art brand. Virtual realities may receive all properties of physical world. You may shop for art or kind of "über-commodity" or anything else as constant as you shop for milk, cell phones or gas, indeed it is only matter of supply and demand for other products, social trends and disire for expansion and exchange. Practically you can program society in many ways to follow things. Futurism is time for values defined solely by intelligence.

Measuring uncertainty

2010-01-28T00:13:00.005-05:00

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Epicurus

Nothing persists eternity. There is just certainty of someone's grave. Apparently, the tombs of the Egyptian rulers persistent for a three thousand years. The solid ground beneath is allowance to remain not plundered and observed by the millions living. Easily inherited the buried glory of the dead dynasty in the desert death. Autopsy for a time and majestic glory... During his lifetime Vermeer was in the shadow of his more popular currents. Just significantly afterwards rediscovered as first among them. How long Picasso, Miro, Warhol, Bacon, Hirst, Flavin, this cultural icons of today's mass media world could stay undisputed authorities; There is always revolts and dismissals, there is always fluid reality of changes and unpredictable chaos. Unlikely one could be surprised by an entity if this isn't something of a larger scale than before, substitute for a different or totally forgotten. Is prologue for a new modernity means a burial for a past iconography, or just a new layer on it? Malevich must be signifier for a long period, i suppose groundbreakers and revolutionaries have a strong reason to always stay remembered for a long periods. Malevich in relation to art is like Einstein to physics. A pragmatic theorist who luckily gained spot in the beginnings of new consciousness in art and design, a theory which became almost dead objectivity. What is ideal, one may ask. Andy Warhol, is he an immortal pop art king or a hostage of tomorrow's fashion? He had relevance to his time, Andy was a king of retail beauty of modernity. Our universe is just singularity among the multiple possibilities of such. could it be amazingly different, yes it is. Brand of the art, this finally what we receive. Brand of the old art, this what we had. Jerry Saltz once made exceptional remark about fleeting moment and eternity in art, guessing if was Baudelaire quote. Today was a cold day, perpetually frozen in the air of the Northern winds. I've spent time thinking about space. A white box, perhaps it is freezer. In modern world one's death could be just persistent therapeutic eternity for someone's mind eternally frozen in the cryogenic unit.

The chaos aftermath

2010-01-25T18:20:00.002-05:00

Haiti.

Once synonymous to dark medieval memories and zombie rituals got newer sinister meaning. Death and further reconstruction of a crushed dream of accidentally momentarily sacrificed governance and it's subjects, the human powers abused by a planet; an event of primary chaos that no one can behold; just have a few escapes to avoid... Once Pompeii were flattened upon powerful eruption. Roman civilisation was far greater scale to perish upon it... yet, indeed, humanity always face a higher dangers and possibilities of a bigger massacres, unless one never stops to act wisely to protect itself. Indeed, chaos and anarchy is a strict part of existence that you never like to be faced with; suddenly you always seek for a splendid escapes from death; sense of mortality is perhaps something that is beyond escape, in realisation of thing beyond purpose, which is finite; in the beginnings for the arts and culture. Death occurs upon different scenarios. Island just a model for the certain isolated community of beings. A Universe has own gravitational constants. Hundred thousands lives gone, a massacre in a matter of seconds; a blind reason of a knife falling down upon own weight and without mercy for those accidentally existent on it's patch, a dark revenge, an arrogant injustice on the entry point to the gates of cynical recycling Hell...The man world... starving to suffer...always waiting for terror at the slaughterhouse for perverse dream... time...chronicles of changes, a pauses between periods of the splendid growth and dark decadence. Past century was century famous for Wars. World War was just delayed for few decades. Endless autopsy for regiments and a grief burial for a tens of millions... a forsaken innocence, reverse genesis, blown up justice, self-incineration caused by inability to order the world few inmate. There were many plausible causes to all wars, within an ideas or finance, always some sort of eternal dreams for dominance; a brute force above the Holy trinity, dismal for all Saint, will to the power ... unprecedentedly created by any means... an ideas easily and blindly followed by the majority of a man bearing a flag of supremacy. How easy would people follow an legitimized crime, alluring in it's allowance given for the desires for forbidden present in subconsciousness of a mortal. To follow, obliged, and never asking why, just because it said to be an arbitrary prescription. Nature of a man has multiple dark sides, which sometimes make you awake at the Morning which is the dawn of a barbaric rage, or for another crusade for a glorious myth or for a strange ordeal. History is often just a hideout for a powerful one, the facts easily being forged or viewed upon the completely opposite angles by the historians of the arguing parties, often, what was seen as good may be fiercely presented as bad just to shadow one's intentions. World uncertainty since 2007, since the fallen giant of financial power was a source for a doubt and dismissal for hope in the golden age standard. Art, for instance, is just a part of the global flow. There was a Sacred animals in ancient religions, a totem wished or owned; a status marker, a saturated definition for a sovereign kind. The paragon of animals, apparent power of a man is a splendid gift survived through gloom age of a struggle with supreme, disordered, misunderstood and chaotic. The faith never lost.

Haiti, rebuilt into the blossoming state. Indeed, there is no argument to deny possible. Exuberance gained by the materialist approach. Glory of Rome was in the strong philosophical thought; a man power was reflected on the glory of it's art, Or was it art which once reflected in the generous society which made Romans great. Art, or just a concept? It is easy to imagine small fragile and unprotected world failing upon the pressure from the outside force which is impossible to resist. Spiritual decadence in the age of forsaken dreams... beyond, a system developed by man just outside of current limits. The art is to construct realities... refusing chaos and decay, and millions of aimlessly putrefied corpses.

Art Power

2010-01-25T14:22:00.018-05:00

In this comparison chart is the selection of 30 artists. We intended to measure socio-cultural effect for their art in the present tense. Resulting chart; global importance/brand power for selected artists, as calculated January 25, 2010:

1 Pablo Picasso, 2 Andy Warhol, 3 Claude Monet, 4 Ernst Kirchner, 5 Henri Matisse, 6 Vincent van Gogh, 7 Francis Bacon, 8 Jackson Pollock, 9 Jasper Johns, 10 Pierre Auguste Renoir,11 Paul Cezanne, 12 Gustav Klimt, 13 Willem de Kooning, 14 Wassily Kandinsky, 15 Paul Gauguin, 16 Mark Rothko, 17 Rembrandt van Rijn, 18 Peter Paul Rubens, 19 Titian, 20 Piet Mondrian, 21 Amedeo Modigliani, 22 Winslow Homer, 23 Giovanni Canaletto, 24 J. M. W. Turner, 25 Georges Seurat, 26 Kazimir Malevich, 27 Raphael Sanzio, 28 Thomas Eakins, 29 Pontormo, 30 Johannes Vermeer.

Survival rate of a brands link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2553805/BRAND-REVIVAL * Highest known price paid for work of art to date, known to be a 140 million US dollars paid for Jackson Pollock painting in the private transaction.**Chart was completed January 25, 2010 Reference to top prices are approximate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_paintings

http://www.artfacts.net/

http://www.artprice.com

http://www.metmuseum.org

http://www.louvre.org

http://www.museodelprado.es

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Piero Manzoni. Dana Schutz. Yue Minjun

2010-01-18T18:00:00.009-05:00

Three totally different, yet not random names. The reason they reviewed together is a retrospective of art of Piero Manzoni, amazingly young, and suddenly deeply intellectual, at Gagosian. 2009 was extremely simple year, we see this show as a considerably best happening to occur in New York. Dana Schutz presence was noticeable during a several years, her faux-naive abstract-surrealist paintings obviously is a statement kind; Yue Minjun's art, probably, could be, at some extent, compared to the mark of the new Epoch. However, we see significant new wave of art from China that made art world look totally different during the few years. Piero Manzoni lived short but vibrant life amazingly reflected in his art. His proto-conceptualist oeuvre absorbed more than a number of artists expressed in the decades producing art. Despite the fact, that appreciation for enfant-terrible intelligent kind of art often is totally absent from the popular public, his work possess an extremely firm materialist beauty and have a complex intellectual message. The show was brilliantly orchestrated and, if you seek for the aesthetics which is raw, intellectually brilliant, yet minimally-simple, Manzoni's show was exactly that. Just a small remark; how difficult to find something as good as this Manzoni's exhibition; without any sort of a thing that presented maximalism or blindly rooted ambition, just equilibrium of idea and form; that apparently played together in the fashion of Beethoven's sonata and let you think subconsciously about surreal worlds reminiscent to art of Jean Arp. When i think about Dana Schutz, i probably start to remember nights spent at different places, sometime joyful, sometime sleepless because of a climate changes or mosquitoes around. Sometime, experiences could be superb. What we like is desires; what we hate is what we need, but we hate impossibility to attain it. Sometime, her compositions not-all-the same good, as one expects. The treatment of surreal subjects alongside with great sense for color, and striking composition, produces quite remarkable effect; i certainly admit i like it. The questioning of whatever something what seemed attractive during the period of 6 years; if same could remain interesting for ten to fifty years ahead. Yue Minjun. The few years was amazing years for China. China got US in 2 trillion dollar trade deficit; China achieved something new and extremely powerful in art, finally, the ability to produce objectively new and truly own, cynical-social realism which is made in China and seem to belong to its time. One can't know what awaits Chinese power in the next thousand years, same no one knows future of the World, we may just guess what's going to be next... Yue Minjun's "Execution", is a mark for a new age. In execution we see dualist pictorial opposition, perhaps it is the picture of the conflict of the old and new. At some extent, the new power triumphant over old, and we see kind of celebration for the revolt, a new life and new art.

http://www.gagosian.com
http://www.zachfeuer.com
http://www.chinesecontemporary.com

Authority of the maker

2010-01-15T16:12:00.005-05:00

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

Among equals no one the Lord. Within archive or chronicle nothing to compare, just weights and numbers. Once long ago as 7 year old I had to solve mathematical problem in four rules. I never knew a way for it. and no other did. Only option you had is to invent by effort. I think that puzzle in four actions is kind of art, a great one produced for the history. How often true inventions happen? I clearly remember occasion, long ago and strikingly obvious. Suddenly, a child of me was screaming. I've got problem answered, but i doubted if it was wrong. Yet there was a teacher who knew the correct answer. The pure novelty no one knows it... subconsciously, perhaps many know that answers exist. just a few can understand and explain it.

Charles Saatchi - What is contemporary with or without him

2010-01-15T00:05:00.010-05:00

Imagine Tracey Emin's bed without Charles Saatchi gallery, or Damien Hirst's shark without presentation and introduction, or no press whatsoever? Perhaps answer is yes, it remains the same, beautifully engaging to some extent, but with no money power in it. Is this a lot to affect one's perception? Art still just a pure romantics of some one's extorted lives. Same bed and just a same dead shark, a lesser known as totemic public icons. But still sacred beast and a personal cut of life. What a loss in the public eyes, such a shame on Britain, or just other Britain without a controversial image for modernity. Despite, it was headlined by the news. Should YBA found different patrons, or no patrons at all, we might have seen a different image of Contemporary art, or no Contemporary art at all? A dark image for society limited only to product consumption and product recycling. A different kind for humanity or no humanity at all?We may have never seen Pyramids without the King's desire to construct those, and without the power of an ancient kingdom to fulfill request. Similarly we could have missed a Sistine Chapel without the Christian God, one provoked a rage of controversy since the early Middle Ages. Religions established strong upon a beauty of a cult and art surrounding it. Beauty used wisely to expand and distribute it's influence zone. Is beauty some sort of psycho-social concept of being. Charles Saatchi, just an occidental stranger, or a perfect man of our time. Objectively, shall we had both Emin and Hirst missed and gone, someone else could have came to same ideas.., just under a different brand, apparently creating objects to become an other cultural icons. Art could be the big, bright and shiny reflection of an Era. Existent solely upon the will of an artist or intentions of isolated group. Art wasn't a poison for a future of man. Art challenges dogma and offer ideas. Hate Saatchi, love him, we suspect that both feelings have same origins. Indifference is the only worst sign of recession.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

Diego Velazquez. Francisco Goya. Pablo Picasso. Andy Warhol

2010-01-12T16:44:00.015-05:00

Icons of the remote and not forgotten past. Images of the power, usually. New ones? Assault to the tradition. Challenge to Academy. Burial of past. New strength. We like it because of totemic force of power. This greats are they random? What is a measure for talent or genius. Genetic accident? Great school? Amazing game of life? All of this, perhaps. Perhaps only struggle can produce emotions and results. Beyond ordinary grave. Goya painted for the King. Kind of a child of Diego Velazquez. Fransico's oeuvre same as an Old Testament as reflection of his time, deep and sharp, the most complex phenomena. It's complex, intense and stimulating. Quite original in his pursuance for craft, which he commanded to a great extent, especially obvious in his suite of lithographs, Caprichos. Probably strongest example of political satire in the history, which made a great deal of sensation in his lifetime. His art pictured life of the king's court and darkest fears of Spain, society fuelled by the spirit of Christianity tormented by inquisition whose fearful approach left darkest trace on the psycho of man. Reality, glorious in Majas on a Balcony and magnificent portraits of the royal family, and dark gloom of demonic tragedies from his late period etchings. Picasso was no occidental stranger to the painterly realms. He easily gained authority in the perfection of that was hard or impossible for others in the early age, than got noticed and managed to find himself, starting from production of complex images of poverty, an technically superb etchings; then he positioned himself high in the eyes of society. Picasso quickly became the icon of his time. Cubism was more than a modernist trend mixed with the take on the classicist tradition, it was science mixed with art, art was interpretation of the fundamental theories of time and matter. Picasso was a kind of public clown, in own words; but guessing he knew the nerve of society. He played strong. Andy Warhol. Every civilisation had the moment in it's history, when it rises above equals. A golden age for America was marked by the art of Andy Warhol, he left remarkably strong trail for it. He was a populist kind, eye pleasing maximalist and terrible player with the feelings for a guilt and pleasure of his time. Far from the purist and objectively deep realist art of Francis Bacon or Lucian Freud. Public, often don't dare it's hardest critics. What is modern? Perhaps first is what we see in the mirror, because it's you who measures the universe. Criteria applies. Perhaps most of it depends on someone whose reflection is equal to one of Philip IV in "Las Meninas". Just a small chamber in Buen Retiro. One death for a hundreds years in Prado...

1. Francisco Goya, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, 1799, etching plate 43 of Caprichos
Copyright © 2010 Francisco Goya / image in the public domain
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/09/eusi/ho_18.64.43.htm

Black bright dangerous science of irrelevant paranoid dreams

2010-01-09T04:44:00.001-05:00

Today was perfect. Tonight was dangerously empty, because everyone seemed lost without purpose and motivation. The beauty was the only sudden desire which followed strangely. Day disappeared in the shadow of black unconscious night.

Sinners. Saints. Objections and Principles

2010-01-07T16:30:00.003-05:00

Why? The first question of existence.

Perhaps art gone wild away from bit rotten but right once time ago ideas of humanity. Post human might not be humane at all in the world where idea of life and death became weird commodities, or would simply disappear in the virtual reality world without life and death or black and white which is practically impossible to outline just some strange kind of existence relying only on the energy of solar system, seeing only death of a matter or event horizon of a nearby black hole as an event that will make existent disappear completely. Gods and idols, totemic ground for forbidden; majestic in the glorious beauty of it's delicate status. The world sometime was felt burning to the dust everything what was humane; world sometimes seems populated by someones sleepwalking unconsciously routine of a simply programme, day by day, from dust into the dust, and absolutely overwhelming nothing. Their world distorted by interrogations into privacy, insanity of being exceedingly sane in the false principles, the ones which is to regard of postal clerk, seen only in the mechanics of matching the similarity of entities and correctness of delivery. Christ, once adored symbol of humanity? extremely dependent upon fulfilling the will of his father; the one suffered for sins of living promising a life afterwards. What for was that made by his father, one might ask. The entire thing. A protection of technology, medicine and education. When billions born die and suffer thousands years to hope one day death is conquered to the will of living; and what to expect thereafter? Increasingly beautiful legend of a human world. An Oedipus complex, profoundly infected. Strange results. Crusaders pursuing idea to capture a God's love and a Holy Grail by means of sacrifice for most living in the Holy Land. Love of God is in the blood of millions, in the cancer and schizophrenia man die for, it's unlimited in it's reach for everyone of a billions living. Blood so beautifully engaging undead. Sudden love is your only reward, once you feel to escape gloom of everything. Praying people seem quite beautiful in their desire to infect something divine into own reality.

The dead gravity of love

2010-01-06T18:30:00.007-05:00

The dead above living. Dead is God. Death absolute. The fear is superb ruler. The absence of fear absolute to dead. Fear is the king. Death irreversible. Everything was dead and everything will be dead. The power of the ruler is built upon power to control death. Withdraw death to suspended sensual existence. Someone born and die by multiple reasons and billions circumstances. Death is a biggest commodity of all trades, whatever you pay you pay to make a distance from the dead. Death is only something that makes you love fragile exaggerated return for the fear. The all great art is purified death and the biggest graves torque your existence into the feelings. The greatness of absolute is within this supreme dead gravity that makes feel this what is alive.

1. Nicholas Chistiakov, Murder in Istanbul, 2008, 60 x 40 inches © Nicholas Chistiakov http://www.nicholaschistiakov.com. Photography: Allan Martin Leer

January 6, 2010

2010-01-06T16:44:00.003-05:00

Today is calm day with crisp air and absence of movement around. The live has been suspended in some kind of infinity since 2007. I wish there was a day to break this entangled relativity into a joy. Kind of really amazing once life. To break the silence...

Between genius and insanity

2010-01-04T18:22:00.004-05:00

David Cohen, an arts reporter, once suggested that art is all about sanity. This is quite interesting. Sanity, is that purely about acceptance or commerce, talking cynically; genius, is that something intensely more complex. Sanity has always been close to religion and conventional governance, the revolutionary science is quite often appears as public devil, one pretending to ruin the system, forfeit one to another, whose basis is a higher intelligence. Burn the beach of someone's vertebrate existence to the steel proof certainty of cybernetic age. One's life was cool at the empty beach of joyful existence, but anyway. The physical rules aren't firm basis for reality, it is just approximate definition made one day; based on on limited facts. One which is firm just Mathematics. Renaissance was purely mathematical concept at it's best. Without understanding the truth one can't expect the progress, without progress life becomes purposeless. Is Duchampian "Fountain" all about sanity or insanity in his time, a challenge message for psychological boundaries explained. Tomorrow is made by science which to invent, today just follow tomorrow's dream...

1. Nicholas Chistiakov, Hysteria, 2009, oil on canvas, triptych, 9 x 12 inches each part, left part. Artwork used with permission. Copyright © 2010 Nicholas Chistiakov http://www.nicholaschistiakov.com. Photography: Allan Marin Leer

Reward for an Emperor

2010-01-04T16:05:00.001-05:00

Empire shall never forbid itself. Beautiful gold encrusted throne of a monarch seem to add the power to His Majesty never the less than regiments of soldiers and the Supreme Court. Time just alters every value and impact. The Emperor is attractive that's why followed. Once disbalance occur revolt upraises to dismissal of everything. A subordination, what a great number of commanding efforts we had ever witnessed. Massacre of innocents, a great power. Justice? What is that in the corrupted intelligence of every living. Absolute is the gravity and atomic structures which only what we are. Mistakes. Arrogant to many privilege is inherited from fourth grade genesis of one; absolute intolerance there below for someone outside the circle for granted. Nothing is imminent persistent only death. Bread and Circuses, is a perpetually few desires of a man. With the regard to history of Rome whose powers were carried by legions of strong, every Empire can hold it force upon just one rule for superiority. Powers of today world held by intelligence and technology. Intelligence a concept perpetually beautiful and therefore dominant for all living. Values, a strange thing. What does it take, one's desire to reign above the others... just the will to pay high for the throne.

1. (not illustrated) Damien Hirst, For the love of God, 2007, diamonds and human teeth
2. More works by Damien Hirst
http://www.tate.org.uk/pharmacy
3. Requiem, Damien Hirst's recent exhibition at Pinchuk art centre
http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/exhibitions/past/8826

When I think about Moon

2010-01-02T04:44:00.005-05:00

I remember the days under open skies in the raw fields of wheat
A burning fire
An absence of reason in a joyful game
With someone
I liked to catch
Perplexed
Close
Disarmingly
The cold moon was never close to me.
I can't imagine being there.
One day self replicating something might be infected into it's cold waterless surface.
Within matter of days it may populate large areas of what seemed so far from being alive.
Change everything sensationally.
Absence of feelings is dead body in nameless grave.
I think about Moon
Desires exuberant oxygen raw black skies stars sharply in memory
Was it yesterday
Or never
With you

Dear Überman

2009-12-28T19:05:00.001-05:00

One day people will have device capable to rewrite memory and alter sensitivity. Perhaps, you will be able to change human body with a touch of a button. One's individuality might disappear completely without memory and physical trace. Remote altering of a brain waves is a new form of experience or artistic expression? However, you could apply apparatus for remote control of brain waves to create physical experience or reality in one's mind. This just awaits to be presented at the museum institution as end form of postmodernism.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22292819/Apparatus-and-Method-for-Remotely-Monitoring-and-Altering-Brain-Waves http://www.humanityplus.org/

Art publications on the web

2009-11-25T17:00:00.001-05:00

Artforum International
http://www.artforum.com/
The Art Newspaper
http://www.artnewspaper.com/
DB Artmag
http://www.db-artmag.com/
Art News
http://www.artnews.com/
Artnet dot com
http://www.artnet.com/
Artinfo dot com
http://www.artinfo.com/
E-Flux
http://www.e-flux.com/
Art Investment
http://www.artinvestment.ru/
Art Review
http://www.artreview.com/
Art in America
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/
The Saatchi Gallery Blog
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon
Sculpture Magazine
http://www.sculpture.org/
Bomb Magazine
http://www.bombsite.com/
Vernissage TV
http://www.vernissage.tv/

Art Curators

2009-11-05T19:00:00.001-05:00

Assosiation of Art Museum Curators
http://www.artcurators.org/
International Curators Forum
http://www.internationalcuratorsforum.org.uk/
Independent Curators International
http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/
Art Curators
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_curators

Art Auction Houses

2009-11-05T18:27:00.013-05:00

Sotheby's
http://sothebys.com/
Christie's
http://christies.com/
Phillips de Pury
http://phillipsdepury.com/
Bonhams
http://bonhams.com/
Guardian Auctions
http://www.cguardian.com/
Tajan
http://www.tajan.com/
Live Auctionners
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/
Auction houses
Auctions directory on Artnet

Contemporary Art Galleries

2009-11-05T16:10:00.001-05:00

Gagosian Gallery
http://www.gagosian.com/
White Cube
http://www.whitecube.com/
The Pace Gallery
http://www.thepacegallery.com/
Triumph Gallery
http://www.triumph-gallery.com/
EIGEN+ART
http://www.eigen-art.com/
David Zwirner
http://www.davidzwirner.com/
Cheim & Read
http://www.cheimread.com/
Mary Boone
http://www.maryboonegallery.com/
Zach Feuer
http://www.zachfeuer.com/
Artnet Galleries
http://www.artnet.com/net/galleries/gallery_home.aspx

Educational institutions

2009-11-05T09:11:00.015-05:00

Yale School of Art
http://www.art.yale.edu/
Royal Academy of Arts
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/
Belarusian State Academy of Arts
http://www.belam.by.com/
School of Visual Arts
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/
Columbia University Arts
http://www.arts.columbia.edu/film
Parsons School of Design
http://www.newschool.edu/parsons
Pratt Arts
http://www.pratt.edu/
Copper Union
http://cooper.edu/
New York Academy of Art
http://www.nyaa.edu/

Art Resources

2009-11-04T18:22:00.015-05:00

MyContemporary dot com
http://mycontemporary.com/
Connaissance des Arts
http://www.connaissancedesarts.com/
Art Rabbit
http://www.artrabbit.com/
ArtSlant - Contemporary art network
http://www.artslant.com/
ArtCat
http://www.artcat.com/
Access Arts' ArtDeadline.Com
http://artdeadline.com/
Daily Serving
http://dailyserving.com/
LabForCulture
http://www.labforculture.org/
Likeyou - art network
http://likeyou.com/
Saatchi Online
http://www.saatchionline.com/

Art Fairs

2009-11-03T19:00:00.008-05:00

Tefaf Maastricht
http://www.tefaf.com/
Frieze Art Fair
http://www.friezeartfair.com/
Art Basel
http://www.artbasel.com/
The Armory Show
http://www.armoryshow.com/
Art Moscow
http://www.artmoscow.org/

Artists, Part 1

2009-11-02T17:05:00.002-05:00

Diane Arbus
Artist's works
Ghada Amer
Ghada Amer at Cheim and Read, New York
Francis Bacon
Collection: Tate, London
Exhibition: Tate Britain, London
Banksy
Artist's website
Mattew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Group exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Lee Bontecou
Collection: MoMA, New York
Fernando Botero
Artist's website
Article: Aby Ghraib paintings
Louise Bourgeois
Exhibition: Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sergey Bratkov
Works: Deweer Gallery
Cecily Brown
Collection: The Saatchi Gallery, London
Maurizio Cattelan
Artist's website
Exhibition: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, Paris
Nicholas Chistiakov
Artist's website
Conversation on Contemporary art
Martin Creed
Artist's website
Mark Dion
Works: Goodwater Gallery
Peter Doig
Exhibition: Tate Britain, London
Marlene Dumas
Works: Frith Street Gallery
Exhibition: Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Olafur Eliasson
Artist's website
Tracy Emin
Collection: The Saatchi Gallery
Eric Fischl
Artist's website
Works: Mary Boone Gallery
Lucian Freud
Exhibition: Tate Britain
Nan Goldin
Works: Mattew Marks Gallery
Andreas Gursky
Works: Mattew Marks Gallery
Damien Hirst
Works: White Cube
Artist's website
David Hockney
Works: Getty Museum
Jasper Johns
Collection: Metropolitan Museum
Ilya Kabakov
Exhibition: Garage CCC
Mike Kelley
Exhibition: Day is Done, Gagosian Gallery
Anselm Kiefer
Collection: Metropolitan Museum
Exhibition: White Cube
Jeff Koons
Artist's website
Exhibition: Jeff Koons at Versailles
Mark Kostabi
Exhibition: Adam Baumgold Gallery
Sol Levitt
Collection: MoMA
Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel
Yue Minjun
CNN Headlines
Andrei Molodkin
Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale
Takashi Murakami
Exhibition: MoCA Los Angeles
Victor Borisov Musatov
Artist's website
Bruce Nauman
Works: Sperone Westwater
Pablo Picasso
Collection: Musee Picasso
Works: Gagosian Gallery
Jackson Pollock
Collection: MoMA
Pontormo
Collection: Ufizzi Gallery
Richard Prince
Exhibition: Spiritual America - Guggenheim Museum
Neo Raush
Exhibition: David Zwirner
Gerhard Richter
Artist's website
Exhibition: Marian Goodman
Rubens
Collection: Metropolitan Museum
David Salle
Collection: The Saatchi Gallery
Wilhelm Sasnal
Collection: Guggenheim Museum
Richard Serra
Collection: MoMA
Zurab Tsereteli
Artist's website
Luc Tuymans
Collection: MoMA
Cy Twombly
Exhibition: Bacchus - Gagosian
Collection: MoMA
Velazquez
Collection: Museo del Prado
Jeff Wall
Works: Marian Goodman
Andy Warhol
Warhol Museum
Works: Gagosian, New York
Aaron Young
Performance: Greeting Card
Boris Zaborov
News headline

Museums & Galleries

2009-11-02T13:18:00.025-05:00

Musée du Louvre
http://louvre.fr/
Tate Britain
http://www.tate.org.uk/
Museo Nacional del Prado
http://www.museodelprado.es/
The Hermitage Museum
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/
The Saatchi Gallery
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/
The Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/
The Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org/
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
http://www.garageccc.com/
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art
http://www.mmoma.ru/
The National Museum of Belarus
http://www.artmuseum.by/
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/
One Art World
http://oneartworld.com/

Top art collectors

2009-08-01T10:14:00.002-04:00

Juan Abelló
Roman Abramovich
Barbara and Ted Alfond
Paul Allen
Plácido Arango
Hélène and Bernard Arnault
Hans Rasmus Astrup
Maria Baibakova and Oleg Baybakov
Monique and Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller
Cristina and Thomas W. Bechtler-Lanfranconi
Leonora and Jimmy Belilty
Maria and William Bell Jr.
Debra and Leon Black
Neil G. Bluhm
Christian Boros
Frances Bowes
Irma and Norman Braman
Udo Brandhorst
Peter M. Brant
Edythe L. and Eli Broad

Annual list of top 200 art collectors by ArtNews
http://www.artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2702

Ultra modern war in cyberspace of Über human race

2009-01-12T02:22:00.005-05:00

One suffer to survive; Another perish unless resists death. Suddenly, modern times made different the tools and methodology of war. A new physical war is often cyber war for intelligence; Sudden results could not be the corpses, yet humans unified by the same ideology. The logic, you can easily spread the one which is supreme. The World Aftermodern could be quite social and unified in the fashion of Internet, whose global reach makes a new weapon of a massive scale. Collective intelligence, a new form, amazingly, it could affect to much more terrifying chaos either create amazingly new order; rather than, a disagreement for a few man. Perhaps, super intelligent society must face no physical war, unless purely technological. Yet, once the world reaches production level above possible needs, much problems appears to be an essentially emptied threads. Would it be a Neo-Communist or Post-Capitalist utopia, or self-destruction reasoned by the absence for a reason to exist? Think physical wars rudimentary in the society with technology advanced enough to modify remotely behaviours of one living. In many ways it is a question for a new governance. Super power replacing conflict, the remaining, just left for the trade of ideas and commodities. the possibility of quick death is a void spot in someone's mind...unless we die we do not exist, in the senseless emptiness of a black grave. Beauty? What is that, a best Aftermodern weapon and the only reason to exist, indeed.

Blogs

2008-01-04T11:37:00.001-05:00

Blog Rankings
http://www.blogrankings.com/
Catalog of Blogs
http://www.blogcatalog.com/
Blog Directories
http://www.blogdirs.com/
Blogged.com
http://www.blogged.com/
Dir.megri.com
Megri Web Directory

Nicholas Chistiakov. Exhibition: Time and Measures, 2007

2007-05-03T14:14:00.066-04:00

Nicholas Chistiakov, The Chaos and Order,

2006-07, oil on canvas, 48 x 60 inches,
private collection, United Kingdom

Nicholas Chistiakov, In the rooms, 2006-07,
oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches,

private collection, USA

Nicholas Chistiakov: Time and Measures, 2007, Behr-Thyssen Gallery, New York

Biennials etc.

2007-01-04T17:47:00.000-05:00

La Biennale de Venezia
http://labiennale.org/
Liverpool biennale
http://www.biennial.com/
Whitney biennial
http://whitney.org/www/2006biennial/
Moscow biennale
http://www.moscowbiennale.ru/
Sydney Biennale
http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/
Biennale de Lyon
http://biennaledelyon.com/
The Turner Prize
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/

After Modern Art

The Lost Minotaur: The world of Larry Gagosian

If Lady GaGa was a painter, how happy would we be

Trust me as you can

World of Jerry Saltz

Neocapitalism

What is modern

Fall 2010. A new season for an Art World. Expectations?

Artists, Part 2

Contemporary Art Galleries

Informational age: an update

Insight: New York

Искусство и контроль сознания

Marina Abramovic at MoMA

Postmodern values

Markets for ultra-new

Measuring uncertainty

The chaos aftermath

Art Power

Piero Manzoni. Dana Schutz. Yue Minjun

Authority of the maker

Charles Saatchi - What is contemporary with or without him

Diego Velazquez. Francisco Goya. Pablo Picasso. Andy Warhol

Black bright dangerous science of irrelevant paranoid dreams

Sinners. Saints. Objections and Principles

The dead gravity of love

January 6, 2010

Between genius and insanity

Reward for an Emperor

When I think about Moon

Dear Überman

Art publications on the web

Art Curators

Art Auction Houses

Contemporary Art Galleries

Educational institutions

Art Resources

Other Links

Art Fairs

Artists, Part 1

Museums & Galleries

Top art collectors

Ultra modern war in cyberspace of Über human race

Blogs

Nicholas Chistiakov. Exhibition: Time and Measures, 2007

Biennials etc.