erinjoan:

notioncollective:

We scoped out these map paintings by Paula Scher during a field trip to Chelsea galleries this past Saturday morning. Pretty rad.

These are amazing. Going to check them out on Saturday.

Rad indeed. Check out Hillman Curtis’ nice mini-doc on Paula Scher for more on her background.

architizer:

Under the Water, an installation that gives the sensation of being submerged beneath the island of tsunami wreckage ripped from Japan’s coastline and sent floating into the Pacific.

"An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s."

J.D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey.  Salinger died two years ago today. (via doubledaybooks)

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal’s Mary Louise Schumacher has a great recent piece on Milwaukee’s art scene then and now (mostly now). Then:

Milwaukee was becoming a gathering place for artists with a unique and decidedly generous artistic ethic. Cheerfully unorganized, maverick artists found inspiration and an audience first in each other. A playful amateurism prevailed, as artists embraced their obscurity, understanding both the freedoms and limitations that are part of being set apart from the larger art world.

Now:

Some strain of art scene was birthed here a decade ago, and some of the best, new artists in our community are conscious of this and connected to the artists and ideas that defined that time. Our art scene may be small, but one of the things that makes it muscular is the access and proximity between the old and new guards.

notioncollective:

Hey, our project Station Identification was listed in the most recent issue of Forecast’s Public Art Review (under “Recent Projects”). I’ll take that!

Yay!

cubiclecafe:

Coffee+MilwaukeeART

npr:

This is cool. — Tanya

inothernews:

WHOA-LGERS   Milwaukee-based photographer Jack Long uses high-speed photography to capture the moment splashes are made in cups of coffee.  He won’t reveal exactly how his technique works, except to say that the technique employs “short-duration flash lighting.”  And perhaps not using decaf.  (Photo: Jack Long / Rex Features via the Telegraph)

processes:

7088:

simultaneously entertained and pissed

oh my god.

AND THIS MUSIC.

“Keep a door to irony open at all times / when challenged, back out through it”

"Not quite so. Christo works an average of 14 hours a day – seven days a week. Jeanne-Claude is a bit lazier – only 12 to 13 hours a day. They do not take vacations."

Sort of a response to my last post — Christo and Jeane-Claude’s website has a special section called “Most Common Errors.” Above quote is a response to “The easy life of an artist.”

Nice PBS Arts short on generative art (via VHX)