February 2012
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Yoko Ono's Cut Piece
YOKO ONO CUT PIECE by TECHNOLOGOS
Yoko Ono’s “Cut Piece” was first performed in Japan in 1964 and then at Carnegie Hall in New York in 1965. In 2003 she performed the piece in Paris for the last time.
“In the 1960s I did it out of anger.” [But of her last performance in 2003] “Following the political changes through the year after 9/11, I felt terribly vulnerable —...
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Robin Peck
Robin Peck studio installation, 1975
more via CANADA
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Three collaborative prints by Andy Warhol and Keith Haring made in 1985 as gifts to Madonna on the occasion of her marriage to Sean Penn.
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Eileen Quinlan
Eileen Quinlan (b. 1972)
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Katharina Grosse for the New Orleans Prospect 1 Biennial, 2008
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Luigi Ghirri
Luigi Ghirri (1943 – 1992) was an Italian photographer.
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Katherine Bernhardt
Silver on Gold 2008
Bamako, 2010
Natalia Yellow Dress, 2009
Triangles and Stars and Legs and Peace 2008
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Philip Kwame Apagya
Lady Boss, 2000
Ayefor and Abawa, 1996
Francis the Pilot, 2000
Philip Kwame Apagya (b. 1958) is a Ghanaian photographer and artist.
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Be My Valentine Mix
My friend Anh Do at Owley Patrol made you a mix to enjoy this Valentine’s Day.
Gather your loved ones, download and enjoy.
Al B. Sure! - Oooh This Love Is So
Beachwood Sparks - By Your Side
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - After I Made Love To You
Chairlift - I Belong In Your Arms
Claudine Longet - Let’s Spend The Night Together
Colin Blunstone - How Could We Dare To Be...
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Rest In Peace
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Spring 2012 Has ARRIVED!
We’re happy to report that our Spring 2012 collection has arrived in store. Come by and see our beautiful new line!
Check out the Look Book HERE
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The Isolator Helmet
“The Isolator is a bizarre helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, and limiting their vision to a tiny horizontal slit. The Isolator was invented by Hugo Gernsback, editor of Science and Invention magazine, member of “The American Physical Society,” and one of the pioneers of science fiction.”
more...
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Grace Jones by Jean-Paul Gaude
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Susan Kare
Drawings done in 1983 by Susan Kare - “the Macintosh Artist”. She drew the original Mac icons for Steve Jobs and was later the Creative Director at Apple.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR VERY OWN SARAH CHOW
Check out Sarah’s website here
You are magic. We love you!
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Al Ruppersberg: Greetings from LA
via The Getty Center:
“Beginning in the 1960s select Los Angeles artists began to mimic the look and feel of commercial marketing strategies by treating viewers as consumers. In this vein, Allen Ruppersberg produced a series of books that demonstrate an interest in the products of popular culture. One of these was Greetings from L.A., the subtitle for which declares it to be a novel. A...
January 2012
24 posts
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Sara Greenberger Rafferty
“Fig (Arm Stretch),” 2011
“Fig (Move),” 2011
“Madeline,” 2009
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Someone To Admire: Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was an American dancer, singer, and activist.
According to a 1928 NYTimes article, following one appearance in Vienna, the Vienna Roman Catholic Church Gazette announced that services would be held for three days “‘in atonement for outrages on morality’ allegedly committed by Josephine Baker and other performers in recent reviews ….
“Baker was much more...
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Yves Oppenheim
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New Tendencies
“New Tendencies” is the title of an art movement and series of under-recognized exhibitions in Ex-Yugoslavia, now Croatia between 1961 and 1973. ”New Tendencies” and the print journal “bit international” dealt with the computer program as a tool for artistic research.
Jean-Claude Marquette (G.A.I.V.), Hommage à Khlebnikov, 1972
Manfred R. Schroeder, Eye,...
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Nancy Cunard
By Caroline Weber
Published: NYTimes Friday, March 30, 2007
In his 1928 novel “Nadja,” André Breton cites an old French adage: “Tell me whom you haunt” - whom you befriend - “and I’ll tell you who you are.” Judged by this criterion, the English heiress Nancy Cunard, who “haunted” Breton’s Surrealists and countless other artists besides,...
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Bernard Frize
Odeon, 1999
Karolin, 2003
Owy, 2002
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Adrian Piper
The following is a 2003 letter written by the artist Adrian Piper. More letters can be found at The Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation.
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Dear Editor: Please don’t call me a black artist. Please don’t call me a black philosopher. Please don’t call me an African American artist. Please don’t call me an African American...
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Gwen Bitz, Retiring Registrar of the Walker Art...
Last year, after 31 years of working with curators, artists, and institutions to organize the exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Gwen Bitz retired. Before she departed, she compiled an intimate Best Of list that was posted at the Walker Art Center’s blog.
Top Ten Most Interesting Artists I Worked With
WE WANT YOU!
Creatures of Comfort is currently looking for studio interns at our NY studio.
If interested, contact us at info@creaturesofcomfort.us
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Style Wars - Dancing in Shafrazi
Deleted scene from Style Wars (1983), the Rock Steady Crew dancing in Shafrazi Gallery.
Yackety Yack Girls
“The paintings are derived from a very particular (the only all-color and large format portrait section) of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 1969 yearbook, which is called Yackety Yack. This section has a photo of a woman representing each major sorority and club on campus. In the original photos the women stand or sit in front of a traditional portrait backdrop/seamless...
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Ayn Rand on the Death of Marilyn Monroe
In 1962, Ayn Rand was briefly commissioned to write a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times, whereby her writing was nationally syndicated, however she left the column after only a year because of a lack of interest in pop culture news. She wrote the following piece about a week after Marilyn Monroe’s untimely death.
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Through Your Most Grievous Fault
August 19,...
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Richard Kern - Girls Firing Guns
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Speaker Death
“I was in my first year of the graduate program, they in their 4th year of the BFA program. I was simply in awe. They were the most beautiful, powerful and outrageous women I had ever met. When Speaker Death finally played we borrowed instruments from the likes of Eddie Ruscha, Sam Durant, Adam McEwen and Anthony Burden. On the subject of feminism the school was somewhat ideologically...
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1971, Dan Flavin’s tunnel filled with multicolored lights, “Untitled (To Elizabeht and Richard Koshalek),” bisected a new Walker Art Center gallery designed to accommodate such works.
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MF Agha’s 1937 manifesto The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer.
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Dana Hoey Drought (Female Man), 2007
Dana Hoey’s From Blur to Bourriaud, a List of Photographic Cliches
Earlier this year, the artist Dana Hoey sent out a mass email: “Can you think of five photographic clichés or conventions off the top of your head? I’d love it if you send them to me. … If you...
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Perfect Weather
Find your perfect weather here!
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Two Artists Who Embraced Freedom
By ROBERTA SMITH
It is strange that the sculptor John Chamberlain and the painter Helen Frankenthaler should have died within a week of each other — he on Dec. 21, and she on Tuesday — considering that they occupy such similar positions within the history of American art. Both emerged in the 1950s and provided crucial links between art styles, specifically...
December 2011
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The Music They Made
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Artist Kenneth Parris draws the Farewell Tour
“The Company’s final trip to Paris includes two programs and ten shows in just under two weeks. It’s enough time to settle in and do some cooking for those that like to do so. ‘The Bastille Market is the best,’ said Emma Desjardins. After strolling through rows of booths and filling several bags with all kinds of fresh food, she added, ‘now I have to hurry because I’m going to be late for...
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The Key to Drawing the Human Figure
Excerpted from 24 lithographic plates from an 1831 guide that demonstrates how to draw the human figure. See more at the NYPL’s digital archive.
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Song of the Week:
My Happiness - Elvis Presley
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