Dark Rye – An Online Magazine
Dark Rye is an online magazine from Whole Foods that focuses in on local, handcrafted, and sustainable food, design, technology, and community. In addition to boasting a wonderfully-designed site bursting with vibrant images, how-to guides, and profiles, they now have a channel on Vimeo, with well-crafted videos to supplement each story. The videos follow individuals […]
800 Views of Airports
David Weiss, who with Peter Fischli made art under the collaborative name Fischli and Weiss, died last April at age sixty-five. The duo had worked together for several decades, making videos, films, photographs, and sculptures that were conceptually sophisticated and often ravishingly beautiful. Though the latter phrase may be most often applied to their double-exposure […]
WAX Surf Film Sandy Benefit
Please join us for an evening of surf films for hurricane relief! Hosted by Mikey DeTemple and Jon Rose All proceeds will go to Waves for Water INFO Monday, November 26, 7:30pm Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY Tickets: nysurfstories.eventbrite.com NEW YORK SURF STORIES Produced by SMASH, WAX Magazine, NYC Surfrider Foundation […]
Forthcoming Exhibition on “Pressing Environmental Issues” at MoMA
Midway through a New York Times human-interest story on curator Klaus Biesenbach’s hurricane-relief efforts comes word of a new exhibition of interest to Harmony Blog readers: The bus unloaded at the Rockaway Beach Surf Club on Beach 87th Street, discharging a group of volunteers that included waifish artists, MoMA members, surfers and a film crew gathering […]
Rosemarie Trockel at the New Museum
Randy Kennedy interviewed Rosemarie Trockel about her new show: “I think when people come to the show,” Ms. Trockel said, “they should try first just to look and not to think, not to bring all of their conceptions and influences into it.” It is a lesson that Ms. Trockel said she tried hard to follow […]
Salted
One week left to see Thom Gilbert’s show in the East Village at Dorian Grey Gallery. The exhibit will feature his most recent body of photographic portraits from his forth-coming book: S A L T E D. “On display will be a vast collection of intimate portraits of current and iconic surfing legends and an […]
Hanging 10 on Screen With Real Surfers
A story about the making of the new surf moving Chasing Mavericks: After a tense half-minute Moriarity kicked off the sea floor, swam to the boat to grab a replacement for his broken surfboard and paddled back out. An astonished Mr. Barbour would capture what is generally considered the greatest wipeout in the sport’s history, […]
Raoul De Keyser (1930-2012)
“I don’t want to become the ‘pretty’ painter … Ultimately I want to paint ruthlessly.”
Ken Price at LACMA
“You don’t have to act serious to be serious” –Ken Price One of my favorite shows of the year. On view at LACMA until January 6!
Lucy Dodd, Oceanic Carnage
NYC-based artist Lucy Indiana Dodd explores the performative, kinetic and the found dimensions to the genres of installation, textiles and painting. She took part in the Cirrus Gallery group show, All Human Actions (September 2007) with Dawn Kasper and Mimi Lauter and featured in May Day Performance Event at Human Resources in LA’s Chinatown (May […]
Outeast Gallery
If you’re visiting Montuak to take advantage of the September swells, don’t miss the show at Outeast Gallery, a beautiful space with lovely photos by MTK local James Katsipis and San Diego photographer Luiza de Moraes.
Warhol’s Surf Film to Premiere at MoMA in October
Artdaily brings us some good news via the Andy Warhol Museum: Warhol’s film San Diego Surf will have its world premiere screening at The Museum of Modern Art on Tuesday, October 16, 2012. San Diego Surf was filmed in La Jolla, California, about 30 miles down the coast from Los Angeles, in May, 1968. It was filmed in […]
Robert Adams, On Any Given Day in Spring (I)
Don’t miss this show at Matthew Marks Gallery, which is on view until November 3. Adams’s traveling retrospective is also currently at the Yale University Art Gallery, until October 28. From a recent interview: I’ve been asked why I didn’t keep making pictures in the suburbs. I think the answer is that, at some level, I hoped early […]
The Very Bad Wizards Podcast
One of our goals for the Philosophy in Residence program was to finally launch the podcast series that we had been developing this past year. From the beginning, Dave and I loved the idea of presenting accessible and (hopefully) entertaining discussions about the central issues in science and ethics. But we had a problem: neither […]
30 Variations and a Microphone
Glenn Gould has little to do with surf culture; even when it was warm, he wore “an overcoat, a beret, a scarf and gloves.” Nonetheless, the publication of an essay about Gould’s 1955 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations merits your attention, not least because its author is Paul Elie, who published a wonderful prosopography of American […]
Eleanor Antin, 100 Boots Facing the Sea
MS. ANTIN: But I was tired of traveling into New York to show. I thought I’ve got to do a piece that can get around the world without me, so I can stay here. I loved old San Diego before the McMansions came in. I lived over the ocean. I didn’t even drive in those […]
The Onjuku Surf Shack
Designed by Japanese firm Bakoko, the Onjuku Surf Shack was built for an international couple who loves to surf. It can be opened to the ocean breezes and is located in a coastal fishing village approximately ninety minutes from Tokyo. Click through to The Fox Is Black to watch a two-minute video demonstrating the house’s […]
Koji Enokura, Symptom-Sea-Body (P.W.-No. 40)
A favorite work from “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” The exhibition, which began at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles and traveled to Gladstone Gallery in New York, examined the postwar Japanese artistic phenomenon Mono-ha (School of Things). According to a press release “Requiem for the Sun” refers to “the attitude of aesthetic […]
Hans Haacke, Wide White Flow
… make something which experiences, reacts to its environment, changes, is non-stable… … make something indeterminate, which always looks different, the shape of which cannot be predicted precisely… … make something which cannot ‘perform’ without the assistance of its environment… … make something which reacts to light and temperature changes, is subject to air currents […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Become a Philosopher-in-Residence
Why would the Harmony Hotel care about what a philosopher and a psychologist have to say about ethics? It’s a question I kept asking myself well into my visit to the beautiful and peaceful property last week with Tamler Sommers. Tamler (the philosopher) and I (the psychologist) had both been invited to stay for a […]
The Museum of Ocean and Surf
Steven Holl Architects designed the Museum of Ocean and Surf – or Cité de l’Océan et du Surf – in Biarritz, France in collaboration with Solange Fabião. More from the project website
Leanne Shapton’s “Swimming Studies”
The New Yorker has posted a slideshow from Leanne Shapton’s new book Swimming Studies. Jordan Awan writes: Toward the end of the book is a chapter titled simply “Swimming Pools.” It’s a series of seventy-two paintings, each one representing a pool that Shapton remembers swimming in. The paintings abstract the pools to their surface shape, which […]
Surfers Against Sewage, “Protect Our Waves”
The UK-based group Surfers Against Sewage has launched a new campaign called Protect Our Waves. It is meant to raise awareness about the environmental hardships faced by surf spots on that side of the Atlantic. Here’s a further description: The campaign aims to protect surf spots from unacceptable levels of environmental impact, degradation of surfing […]
