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2012 Whitney Biennial List of Artists Released

2011-12-22T20:09:00.000-05:00

Below is a list of artists in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. Click on the names to visit relevant websites related to the artist. Included in this years exhibition are Vincent Gallo, and The Wu-Tsang Clan. We would also say it is VERY film/photography/performance/music heavy:

1. Kai Althoff
2. Thom Andersen
3. Charles Atlas
4. Lutz Bacher
5. Forrest Bess (by Robert Gober)
6. Michael Clark
7. Dennis Cooper and Gisèle Vienne
8. Cameron Crawford
9. Moyra Davey
10. Liz Deschenes
11. Nathaniel Dorsky
12. Nicole Eisenman
13. Kevin Jerome Everson
14. Vincent Fecteau
15. Andrea Fraser
16. LaToya Ruby Frazier
17. Vincent Gallo
18. K8 Hardy
19. Richard Hawkins
20. Werner Herzog
21. Jerome Hiler
22. Matt Hoyt
23. Dawn Kasper
24. Mike Kelley
25. John Kelsey
26. Jutta Koether
27. John Knight
28. George Kuchar
29. Laida Lertxundi
30. Kate Levant
31. Sam Lewitt
32. Joanna Malinowska
33. Andrew Masullo
34. Nick Mauss
35. Richard Maxwell
36. Sarah Michelson
37. Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran
38. Laura Poitras
39. Matt Porterfield
40. Luther Price
41. Lucy Raven
42. The Red Krayola
43. Kelly Reichardt
44. Elaine Reichek
45. Michael Robinson
46. Georgia Sagri
47. Michael E. Smith
48. Tom Thayer
49. Wu Tsang
50. Oscar Tuazon
51. Frederick Wiseman

Note: We Are Not In the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

Daily Statistics for the Fiscal Year Ending September 20th, 2011

2011-12-22T00:42:00.002-05:00

assume vivid astro focus / katharina grosse

2011-12-09T16:49:00.001-05:00

affektert veggmaleri akselererende faenskap, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, 2009

Ilegítimo, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, 2010

avaf's Eli Sudbrack

One Floor Up More Highly (detail), MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, 2010

Atoms Outside Eggs, Museu de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, 2007

Katharina Gross

Picture of Me Before I was Not in the 2012 Whitney Biennale

2011-12-07T12:26:00.001-05:00

2011-12-06T22:03:00.001-05:00

Artist Kenichi Kanazawa: Sand & Sound Sculptures

2011-11-29T15:46:00.001-05:00

Japanese artist Kenichi Kanazawa makes art out of sand, sound, a stick, and a table. Bullshit way to make a mandala? Or does it really resonate with you?

R.I.P.

2011-10-06T15:25:00.005-04:00

DNA Artwork

2011-09-21T22:26:00.004-04:00

Or, play them all at once!

FUOT!

2011-09-13T21:07:00.002-04:00

BREAKING NEWS: Earthquake Hits East Coast!

2011-08-23T14:04:00.007-04:00

LOL! You Feel That?

Philadelphia, PA
@12:53 EST today (8/23/2011) an earthquake measuring 5.8 (correction 5.9, now) shook the east coast of the U.S. Witnesses said the tremors lasted for ~10-15 seconds causing wine glasses to fall and car air freshener trees to shake.

Whitney Biennial 2012 again!
There may be more to come. According to Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey: “What the concern is, of course, is that this is a foreshock. If it’s a foreshock, then the worse is yet to come.” UHHH.

She goes on to say: “When something like this happens, everyone has to remember, more than half of the states in the U.S. are considered earthquake country. When something like this happens, remember what to do in the case of a seismic event. Duck, get under something sturdy like a desk or a doorway, get away from falling glass. Make sure that you are not in the way of falling objects like pictures, bookshelves, books, anything that’s not firmly connected the wall.” -

source: Jason Samenow and WashingtonPost.com
whitney museum biennial 2012

Whitney Biennial 2012 ASCII

2011-08-22T16:59:00.000-04:00

OMG! We're Up to 19 Comments on Our Air Freshener Post! Wheee!

2011-08-16T17:28:00.000-04:00

Chris Burden Metropolis II

2011-08-09T17:13:00.000-04:00

Chris Burden, Metropolis II

Car Air Freshener Tree Sculptures

2011-08-09T13:21:00.000-04:00

Lee S. Millard, Fresh Air Fresheners, 2008-2010 - Pennsylvania

Rita, The Fir Is The Tree, 2011 - Quebec

Vincent Romaniello, Bull-Deodorizer, 2011 - Pennsylvania

Shit We Don't Ever Want to See Again in Art

2011-08-05T13:56:00.000-04:00

canvas
clothes
BFA
MFA
critics
websites
blogs
blahgs
newspapers
paint
vinyl
doctors
paper
minimalism
abstraction
pointillism
college
high school
secular art
non-secular art
glass
building materials
fur
books
toys
deer
boats
nudity
clothing
furniture
windows/doors
women
animals
men
war
plants
terra cotta
insects
science
YouTube
Facebook
Penises
Vaginas
scholarships
grants
workshops
peace
fellowships
clay
residencies
buildings
boxes
hats
NYC, LA, Chicago, Miami, Dallas, SF, Philadelphia, London, Hong Kong, etc. (cities, in general)
color, specifically primary ones
numbers
writing
paper
technology
people
places
things

If we forgot anything- leave it in the comments- we'll probably add it.

P.S. We are not in the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

Kenneth Anger - Rabbit's Moon

2011-07-27T15:52:00.000-04:00

Kenneth Anger - Rabbit's Moon filmed 1950, released 1972, re-released 1979 (this version)

Paintings of Pears

2011-07-25T12:25:00.000-04:00

David Oleski, Three Bartlett Pears, oil on linen

Luis Meléndez, Still Life With Pears, Grapes, Peaches and Receptacles,
Oil on Board, c. 1771

Frank Wilson, Five Golden Pears, Oil on Hardboard

R.I.P. Lucian Freud 1922-2011

2011-07-22T11:57:00.000-04:00

Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (detail) - oil on canvas, 1995

Lucian Freud with Lady Epstein - photograph by Clay Perry

Cy Twombly 1926-2011

2011-07-06T14:09:00.000-04:00

50 days in Illiam, 1978 (detail)

As a young man

R.I.P. Dr. Kevorkian

2011-06-03T13:19:00.000-04:00

Dr. Kevorkian and an assisted suicide device.

The OG VW bus where the first assisted suicides were performed in the early '90s.

Mr. Ghetto "Walmart"

2011-05-20T16:50:00.000-04:00

You Guys Remember PIFA?

2011-05-11T20:02:00.000-04:00

Rafaël Rozendaal

2011-05-08T16:20:00.000-04:00

Rafaël Rozendaal's websites are incredible. We know of quite a few others that are using the internet as a medium in itself (even locally) - but this guy might be the best we've seen so far. It's especially interesting that the websites are bought and sold as art. They remain public when the domain name pointing to them is sold - as the physical work. Rozendaal was born in Amsterdam in 1980 and currently "lives and works in hotels"...must be nice. He is the great-grandson of former Brazilian president Humberto Castello Branco.

Rozendaal also created an iPhone/iPad app, Finger Battle:

We are not in the Whitney Biennial 2012

2011-04-25T12:20:00.000-04:00

We are NOT in the Whitney Biennial 2012 and we weren't in the Whitney Biennial 2010 either. Maybe Whitney Biennial 2014 but chances are slim. We do know that the Whitney Biennial 2012 will open in March 2012 and run until May or June of that year. The world-reknowned exhibition will be co-curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. We also know that the Whitney Museum of American Art is located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, New York, NY and that general admission to the museum (special exhibits included) is $18.00. The Whitney looks like this:

Breaking Piss Christ News!

2011-04-18T23:59:00.000-04:00

The controversial photograph Immersion (Piss Christ) by American artist Andres Serrano was vandalized Sunday while on display at the Collection Lambert in Avignon, France. According to authorities, three vandals entered the museum early Sunday carrying a chisel, spray paint, and a hammer. While security confiscated the paint and chisel from two of the assailants, the third, already into the exhibit, struck the photograph with a hammer. Another Serrano work, The Church (Sister Jeanne-Myriam), was also damaged during a scuffle between the vandals and a guard immediately following the attack.