Joseph Kosuth:

Freud, Beckett & the Uncanny:
Some Thoughts on Art as Installation

The Dark Would
in Edinburgh

Walter De Maria

1935 – 2013

Grace Ambrose

Launch Party for
In Open Letters A Secret Appears:
A People's Guide to the Philadelphia Museum of Art

with a poetry reading by
CAConrad

 

Junior Fellow Grace Ambrose invited 50 current and ex-Philadelphians to write about an object of their choice from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Taking shape as an edition of 50 postcards, the writings will comprise an alternate history and guide to the museum's holdings, seen through the eyes of the artists, writers, musicians, and friends who live alongside them. At this launch event, learn about the conceptualization of this project, mail art, and the history of the postcard. Grace's presentation will be followed by a reading by CAConrad of his poetry inspired by paintings on view in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

 

Contributors to "A People's Guide" include the following and more: Sam Allingham, Lily Applebaum, Rayne Betts, Robyn Campbell, Anthony Campuzano, Kristina Centore, CAConrad, Johann Diedrick, Julia Factorial, Becket Flannery, Lucy Gallun, Thomson Guster, Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Josh Herren, Alex Klein, James La Marre, Mary Lattimore, Trisha Low, Egina Manachova, Alexis McCrimmon, Mike Mckee, Max McKenna, Steve McLaughlin, Linda Pastan, Rachel Pastan, Molly Seegers, Jon Shapiro, Alex Tyson, Laura Reeve, Nicholas Salvatore, Ingrid Schaffner, Herb Shellenberger, Frank Sherlock, Henry Steinberg, Zoe Strauss, Valeria Tsygankova, Catherine Turcich-Kealey, Alejandro Valdes, Michael Thomas Vassallo, Adelina Vlas, Artie Vierkant, Jenna Weiss, Sara Wilson, Dan Yemin, and Jeffrey Ziga.

 

If you couldn't make the event but would like more information, please send an email with the subject SECRETS APPEAR to grace.ambrose@gmail.com. (probably true for the digital version as well)

 

The JUNIOR FELLOW AWARD is open to any recently graduated Penn student, especially students who have been deeply engaged with Penn's writing community. If you are graduating from Penn this year, or if you have graduated from Penn in the last two years, please consider applying for this small but very sweet fellowship. For more information, please visit:

http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/involved/awards/juniorfellow/#apply

 

A big fan of Carsten Nicolai

My piece, From Northern Soul (Bury Neon), is now permanently installed in the transit center of Bury, Lancashire just in time for the baseball playoffs in the United States. The work, an homage to the great Chico Escuela, is a part of Wharf Hypothesis, which itself is the opening movement of still-in-progress Northern Soul. Northern Soul is a section of Universe. The sculpture is already part of the Irwell Sculpture Trail. This almost certainly will prove to be the most widely read publication I will ever have.

Ant Farm’s Cadillac Ranch (1974)

& of course
this homage from 1980

Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich
The Great Vodka River

Who’s Afraid of Ai Weiwei?

Watch the full episode. See more FRONTLINE.

Ai Weiwei’s
architecture, installations & objects

Ai Weiwei’s blog

Ai Weiwei on Twitter

Martin Kersels’ Tumble Room

Best viewed full-screen

Carsten Höller: Soma in Berlin