It’s been a while since we’ve had a Flaming Lips post but their new album At War with the Mystics is out Monday (and being supported by a TV ad) and they’re streaming it from their site (click the audio link). The new video is on youtube along with lots more Lips goodness of which I’ve picked the above which is The Lips with Cat Power singing Sabbath’s War Pigs, and Chan even looks likes she’s having a good time, wouldn’t it be nice if the Lips’ enthusiasm for live performance rubbed off on her.
Now that the Beckett Centenary Festival has kicked off a few things around town that caught my eye. Start with I not I, Samuel Beckett, Philip Guston and Bruce Nauman at the RHA gallery which includes the Bruce Naumann’s great Clown Torture installation
and the Neil Jordan directed Not I. The exhibition was having a few teething problems at the opening with monitors on the blink and the sound from Not I being drowned out by another piece but I loved the rooms constructed in the main gallery to show the shorts.
Also check out John Minahan’s iconic Beckett photographs at the National Photgraphic Archive and I see that Dublin is going to get a Beckett themed series of projections by Jenny Holzer
I haven’t posted in a while as I’ve been busy with the Net Art Open among other things. There has been a huge response to the call for entries (in no small part thanks to Rhizome who including it on their front page and in the Digest), from the quality of the work submitted so far this is going to be a really exciting exhibition.
The deadline for the first call is April 20th so there’s still plenty of time to get your entry in.
Time to pack it up, Bush has now personally endorsed blogs (and that after spoiling cocaine, drink and jesus for the rest of us)
Woman Asks Where People Can See Good Things In Iraq, Bush replies Blogs and the internet
I think this flickr photo is what he means.
via TCAL
Bill Gates rocks back and forth in an autistic manner under questioning in 1998. I think it kind of humanises him.
The Siqueiros Image Bank is a collection of over 5000 images from the 20th century collected by Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros who compiled the photographs as source material and for the use of fellow artists as a means of inspiration and a source of found imagery. As Siqueiros wrote,
Nothing can give the [artist] of today the essential feeling of the modern era’s dynamic and subversive elements more than the photographic document.
They are now online via e-flux as a digital image bank to fulfill the artist’s wishes.
LICKING CURATORS ASS by Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau, Curator Jan Van Woensel invited the artists to do a surprise intervention at the exhbition in the Higher Institute for Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium. They did and, boy, was he surprised. Warning it does what it says on the proverbial tin.
Download an excellent cover version of Radiohead’s Just by Mark Ronson featuring Alex Greenwald taken from Exit Music Songs from Radio Heads a new album of Radiohead cover versions. Incidentally Mark Ronson is son of Mick Ronson of the Spiders.
Via Scenestars
Get your art shoes on for this week’s crop of Dublin openings
PALLAS HEIGHTS
Pallas Heights have four exhibitions opening this Friday 24th 6.00 – 7.30pm which’ll also be the last exhibition there before the building is demolished.
Fergus Byrne, Fiction, flat 25
Clodagh Emoe, Metaphysical Longings, flat 28
Vanessa O’Reilly, SWARM, flat 29
Via, flat 30
Pallas Heights, 29 Sean Tracey House, Buckingham St, Dublin 1.
Exhibition continues March 28th – 15th May.
LUMENS
Lumens a light based public art work by Seamus Kennedy based at Newtownsmith in DunLaoghaire is being launched today at 6.30 in the County Hall Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire.
SAMUEL BECKETT, PHILIP GUSTON & BRUCE NAUMAN AT RHA
To celebrate the centenary of Samuel Beckett the RHA exhibition combines two of America
This Bebo thing’s getting out of hand even the Minister for Justice Michael McDowell has a Bebo page now and I see Dave Fanning’s trying to convince people that he’s 26 years old on Myspace (use an old photo Dave!).
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