13th of July
The art: Barbara Kruger, Plenty, 2010 as installed at the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York (site specific installation). Walls read, “Money makes money and a rich man’s jokes are always funny.” Ceiling reads, “You want it/ You need it/ You buy it/ You forget it.” The news: “Who’s Very Important,” by Paul Krugman in the New York Times. The source: Guild Hall via one of my favorite Tumblrs: iTeeth, a must-follow! Bonus: Barbara Kruger is the guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast. Click here to go to The MAN Podcast’s Tumblr or click here to download the program!

The art: Barbara Kruger, Plenty, 2010 as installed at the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York (site specific installation). Walls read, “Money makes money and a rich man’s jokes are always funny.” Ceiling reads, “You want it/ You need it/ You buy it/ You forget it.”

The news: “Who’s Very Important,” by Paul Krugman in the New York Times.

The source: Guild Hall via one of my favorite Tumblrs: iTeeth, a must-follow!

Bonus: Barbara Kruger is the guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast. Click here to go to The MAN Podcast’s Tumblr or click here to download the program!

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30th of May
The art: Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo, 1888. The news: “Our National Mammal,” from the New York Times editorial page. The source: Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.

The art: Albert Bierstadt, The Last of the Buffalo, 1888.

The news: “Our National Mammal,” from the New York Times editorial page.

The source: Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.

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18th of April
The art: Marcel Duchamp, Portrait of Chess Players, 1911. The news: “At a Brooklyn School, The Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around,” by Anne Barnard and Dylan Loeb McClain for the New York Times. The source: Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Duchamp loved chess and even created his own personal pocket chess set. Duchamp wasn’t the only artist of his generation fascinated by the game: Max Ernst designed chess pieces too, complete with a twist on the historical norm.

The art: Marcel Duchamp, Portrait of Chess Players, 1911.

The news: “At a Brooklyn School, The Cool Crowd Pushes the King Around,” by Anne Barnard and Dylan Loeb McClain for the New York Times.

The source: Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Duchamp loved chess and even created his own personal pocket chess set. Duchamp wasn’t the only artist of his generation fascinated by the game: Max Ernst designed chess pieces too, complete with a twist on the historical norm.

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10th of May

The art: Andrea Zittel, Sufficient Self, 2004. Zittel describes the video as “a diaristic documentation of life at A-Z West, a thirty-acre compound that integrates the production, use and viewing of work into a single location. Developed around the notion of an ‘intimate universe’ the video presents a vision of the desert region as well as events and philosophies that inspire new prototypes for living.” See also Zittel’s latest blog post, about a recent A-Z West “How to Survive” workshop.

The news: “The Founding Fathers and their Gardens,” by Paula Dietz in the New York Times Book Review. The essay is a review of “Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation” by Andrea Wulf.

The source: Andrea Zittel’s zittel.org.

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Filed under: Sustainability NYT art New York Times 
9th of May
The art: Max Ernst, The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and the Painter, 1926. The news: “Pitzer College in California Adds Major in Secularism,” by Laurie Goodstein in the New York Times. The source: Collection of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

The art: Max Ernst, The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses: Andre Breton, Paul Eluard and the Painter, 1926.

The news: “Pitzer College in California Adds Major in Secularism,” by Laurie Goodstein in the New York Times.

The source: Collection of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.

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Filed under: secularism, Ernst, art surrealism religion New York Times 
14th of April
The art: Andy Warhol, Lavender Disaster, 1963. The news: “Seeking execution drug, states cut legal corners,” by John Schwartz in the New York Times. (Warhol was interested in the violence states perpetrated on their own citizens and the corresponding breakdown in morals, ethics and legality.) The source: Collection of The Menil Collection.

The art: Andy Warhol, Lavender Disaster, 1963.

The news: “Seeking execution drug, states cut legal corners,” by John Schwartz in the New York Times. (Warhol was interested in the violence states perpetrated on their own citizens and the corresponding breakdown in morals, ethics and legality.)

The source: Collection of The Menil Collection.

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Filed under: death penalty, art Warhol New York Times 
29th of March

The art: Ed Ruscha, Blue Collar Tool & Die, 1992; The Old Tool & Die Building, 2004.

The news: “The Incredible Shrinking City: Places like Detroit are steadily losing people. Can empty urban lands be brought back to life?” A New York Times ‘Room for Debate’ discussion.

The source: Both Ruschas are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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14th of March
The art: Mitch Epstein, Rancho Seco, Nuclear Power Plant, Herald California, 2005. The news: “US Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty,” by John M. Broder in the New York Times. The source: “American Power,” by Mitch Epstein. Highly recommended.

The art: Mitch Epstein, Rancho Seco, Nuclear Power Plant, Herald California, 2005.

The news: “US Nuclear Industry Faces New Uncertainty,” by John M. Broder in the New York Times.

The source: “American Power,” by Mitch Epstein. Highly recommended.

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Filed under: art New York Times Nuclear Nuclear power 
10th of March
The art: Daniel Heyman, The Broomstick Was Metal, 2008. The news: “NYT and ‘torture’: Searching for a justification,” by Glenn Greeenwald in Salon. Christopher Knight reviewed Heyman’s exhibition, “Bearing Witness,” at the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University in the Los Angeles Times. On Modern Art Notes, I discussed the acquisition of his work by the Library of Congress. The source: Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University.

The art: Daniel Heyman, The Broomstick Was Metal, 2008.

The news: “NYT and ‘torture’: Searching for a justification,” by Glenn Greeenwald in Salon. Christopher Knight reviewed Heyman’s exhibition, “Bearing Witness,” at the Laband Art Gallery at Loyola Marymount University in the Los Angeles Times. On Modern Art Notes, I discussed the acquisition of his work by the Library of Congress.

The source: Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University.

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Filed under: Salon, New York Times art torture Library of Congress LOC 
4th of March
The art: Michael Light, GRABLE, 15 kilotons, Nevada, 1953 from “100 Suns,” 2003. The news: “Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a Nuclear Age,” by Dwight Garner in the New York Times. The piece is a review of Ron Rosenbaum’s new book, “How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III.” The source: The National Security Archive at The George Washington University

The art: Michael Light, GRABLE, 15 kilotons, Nevada, 1953 from “100 Suns,” 2003.

The news: “Thinking the Unthinkable Again in a Nuclear Age,” by Dwight Garner in the New York Times. The piece is a review of Ron Rosenbaum’s new book, “How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III.”

The source: The National Security Archive at The George Washington University

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Filed under: art, NYT, nuclear New York Times 
21st of January
The art: Roy Lichtenstein, The Gun in America (cover illustration for Time), 1968. The news: “Myth of the Hero Gunslinger,” by Timothy Egan in the New York Times. The source: The images is from the Time magazine cover archive. The Lichtenstein was used on two Time covers: June 21, 1968 and July 6, 1998. For more information on Lichtenstein’s drawings and lithograph, click here.

The art: Roy Lichtenstein, The Gun in America (cover illustration for Time), 1968.

The news: “Myth of the Hero Gunslinger,” by Timothy Egan in the New York Times.

The source: The images is from the Time magazine cover archive. The Lichtenstein was used on two Time covers: June 21, 1968 and July 6, 1998. For more information on Lichtenstein’s drawings and lithograph, click here.

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