Fischli and Weiss “The Way Things Go”
Posted March 30, 2007 by John Menick
I got to see the Fischli and Weiss retro at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris yesterday. Of course, it included their amazing The Way Things Go:
“Occupation” Opens at Maison Rouge, Paris on March 29
Posted March 28, 2007 by John Menick
Tomorrow night Occupation (video still above) will open at Maison Rouge in Paris. The show is on from March 30 through April 22. Directions.
In Paris
Posted March 26, 2007 by John Menick
I’m in Paris for an upcoming show at la maison rouge, and right before leaving, I noticed Michael Kimmelman reviewed a photo exhibition at the Jeu de Paume called “The Event.” I consider myself persuaded. From the review:
The show surveys — takes snapshots of — five topics, which, presented in no particular order, are the Crimean War; the introduction of paid holidays in France in 1936; the fall of the Berlin Wall; the attacks on the World Trade Center; and the conquest of the air by men like Latham and Louis Blériot, the mustachioed Frenchman who, in a monoplane called the Blériot XI (guess what happened to the first 10), first crossed the Channel, gladdening his countrymen while causing the English, a few decades early, to dread the prospect of aerial assault.
The best bit:
When the French Parliament democratized leisure in July 1936 by mandating two weeks off annually, it promoted the new law through the government’s Organization of Leisure, circulating photographs of vacationers to magazines and newsreels. Frenchmen were supposed to look at the pictures and dream.
A Collection of Hotel Implosions
Posted March 20, 2007 by John Menick
The implosion of the Stardust in Vegas is an occasion for a mini-museum of hotel demolitions.
The Stardust
The Aladdin
Desert Inn/Wynn Parking Garage Implosion
links for 2007-03-20
Posted March 19, 2007 by John Menick
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The gallery Evolution de l’Art arises from a collaboration between SPACE (Juraj Carny, Diana Majdakova and Lydia Pribisova) and Cesare Pietroiusti.
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Part II of his interview
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“Praised by Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci and Stanley Kubrick, Performance is held in high esteem as one of the great British gangster flicks.”
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