somedonkey's house of straw

2011-08-04T08:01:00.003-04:00

My pictures are included in Von Kirchner bis heute: Künstler reagieren auf die Sammlung Prinzhorn (From Kirchner till this Day: Artists React to the Prinzhorn Collection) in Heidelberg, Germany (till August 14th, 2011)

2011-08-02T18:36:00.000-04:00

Bertrand Russell - "Why I am not a Christian"

2011-01-01T16:06:00.002-05:00

SEAN LANDERS
"Plankboy Hurt" 2009
Oil on linen, 72"x 84" (182.9 x 213.4 cm)
Courtesy of Taka Ishi i Gallery and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

2010-10-08T20:59:00.002-04:00

Splendid Isolation at Frosch&Portmann

2010-06-24T19:42:00.003-04:00

Monika Brandmeier
Untitled, 2001
Oil paint on wax paper, 24 x 30 cm

2010-06-14T08:49:00.004-04:00

...and i could kick myself for missing Trudy Benson's lovely paintings
at Freight + Volume

Viewfinder, 19" x 24"

2010-03-08T13:40:00.000-05:00

Frosch&Portmann booth at SCOPE NY

2010-02-27T11:17:00.001-05:00

2009-12-12T10:17:00.004-05:00

My favorite painter Norbert Schwontkowski
at Mitchell-Innes & Nash

2009-12-07T12:19:00.003-05:00

frosch&portmann
at Aqua Miami

2009-12-07T12:11:00.004-05:00

Alice Neel at the Zwirner booth at Art Basel Miami

2009-10-10T20:21:00.004-04:00

Fred Sandback
Untitled
ca. 1970s
Ink and silver ink on isometric paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches

2009-10-10T19:43:00.002-04:00

Catharina van Eetvelde (website)
detail from "WHETHER WATER IS HELD RESPONSIBLE" 2006

2009-10-10T19:30:00.002-04:00

Wilhelm Sesnal at Hauser & Wirth

2009-07-19T06:52:00.002-04:00

Sylvia Bächli at the Venice Biennale

2009-03-27T19:11:00.004-04:00

James Castle at Ameringer Yohe Fine Arts

2009-02-03T09:19:00.003-05:00

Here is something very lovely
from Christoph Niemann's NYT blog, Abstract City

2008-11-05T14:39:00.000-05:00

2008-10-22T13:45:00.003-04:00

doin' time at Max Fish in NYC

2008-10-21T11:56:00.002-04:00

2008-10-19T23:27:00.002-04:00

wonderful animation from
http://www.humanrightsactioncenter.org

2008-10-19T20:10:00.004-04:00

Martin Ramirez
at the AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM
in New York

UNTITLED
(Galleon on Water)
Martin Ramirez (1895 - 1963)
Auburn, California
c. 1960 - 1963
Gouache, colored pencil, and pencil on pieced paper
33 x 24 in.

Collection of Audrey B. Heckler
(c) Estate of Martin Ramirez

2008-10-13T18:15:00.004-04:00

more info

2008-10-11T12:58:00.005-04:00

i have a few drawings in a Swipple group show at Max Fish in NY.

The 5th Annual Max Fish Show
opens tuesday, October 14
Max Fish, 178 Ludlow St.
NYC

2008-09-26T11:14:00.003-04:00

this one probably won't be riding cross-country, but it's impressive nevertheless. (not sure what it would do when faced with a flat tire)
(via Pink Tentacle)

2008-09-24T12:42:00.003-04:00

my friend Kolin is biking from Chicago to Seattle

2008-09-23T21:59:00.000-04:00

2008-09-19T10:05:00.007-04:00

a detail from Jeff Wall's 'Flooded Grave', which can be viewed (whole and even magnified) on MoMA's excellent website.

2008-09-17T22:03:00.003-04:00

Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
(perhaps i will even get to see this show)

here is a New Yorker review

2008-09-15T23:12:00.005-04:00

2008-09-15T11:45:00.000-04:00

still at it...

2008-09-14T19:00:00.001-04:00

something new from me. (not ABOUT me though - i've never been undecided in my life. and in this case, if i was any more decided, i'd be turning blue.)

2008-09-13T23:16:00.009-04:00

How to Draw Simple Animals by Kitao Masayoshi (1764-1824)
from the NYPL Digital Gallery

2008-09-13T15:18:00.005-04:00

Not the fastest, but
sweet - real Snail Mail

2008-09-11T18:20:00.005-04:00

from Kaitai Hatsumou (1813)
5-volume anatomical work by Mitsutane
at the Tohoku University Medical Library
Everything is in Japanese but there are
wonderful things to be discovered by
simply clicking around.
(via BibliOdyssey)

2008-09-09T15:04:00.002-04:00

Rebecca Horn
Love and Hate

2008-09-09T13:52:00.003-04:00

Adam Fuss
Untitled
from the series
My Ghost
photogram, 1999

2008-09-09T13:12:00.003-04:00

Remy Markowitsch
ÄsopScans
Affe/Monkey, 1995

2008-09-08T22:33:00.000-04:00

another favorite illustrator - Emiliano Ponzi

2008-09-08T21:13:00.001-04:00

help! i can't stop playing with this thing (from oneMotion)

2008-09-07T11:19:00.000-04:00

One of my very favorite illustrators Christopher Silas Neal has this
editorial picture in the NYT today.

2008-09-04T15:47:00.000-04:00

Roger Ballen

'Place of the Upside Down'
Selenium toned silver gelatin print
(50 x 50 cm)

2008-09-02T13:33:00.000-04:00

i promised myself not to post cute stuff
but i am sorry, i can't help it -

(via Dark Roasted Blend)

2008-09-02T11:29:00.000-04:00

Fox/Mouse/Belt (1992)
by Mark Manders

2008-09-01T23:58:00.000-04:00

stuff on my desk

2008-09-01T09:19:00.000-04:00

'Sculptress' (1998)
by Louise Bourgeois
a drawing from the
Tate Collection

2008-08-29T13:25:00.000-04:00

'Boundry'
by the Chicago artist
John Henley

2008-08-29T13:16:00.000-04:00

Time lapse video
of mushrooms
growing

(via Boing Boing)

2008-08-27T00:07:00.000-04:00

Norbert Schwontkowski - "Mann am Hafen"
(2007, oil paint on canvas 40.7 x 60.9 cm)

2008-08-26T11:31:00.000-04:00

Ooishi Hyoroku Monogatari - 18th century picture scroll
at the National Museum of Japanese History

(via Pink Tentacle)

2008-08-25T22:10:00.000-04:00

Lunaria - a floral radiograph by Albert G. Richards
at the wonderful Museum of Jurassic Technology

2008-08-20T15:35:00.000-04:00

Hanako, a koi fish who
lived to be 226 years old

(via Boing Boing)

2008-08-20T14:01:00.000-04:00

While i am on the subject of cyanotypes, i really like these by Casey Roberts.

2008-08-20T13:50:00.000-04:00

Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins's Cyanotypes of British Algae
at the digital gallery of the
New York Public Library

2008-08-20T13:18:00.000-04:00

Ladies' Dress Shoes of the Nineteenth Century
at the digital gallery of the
New York Public Library
(via Augence eureka)

2008-08-20T09:45:00.000-04:00

Last fall i somehow managed to catch this Martin Puryear show at MoMa, and it was pretty incredible. There is a game, a tension, between these pieces and their titles... and the space... This one is called "Believer". MoMa's online exhibit is still up and worth checking out.

2008-08-19T17:59:00.000-04:00

National Library of Medicine has had this exhibit up for some time -

2008-08-19T12:22:00.000-04:00

National Diet Library in Japan has a fantastic website with lots of stuff like this -

and it's probably helpful to know Japanese... but just clicking around works too... and is well worth it.

2008-08-19T12:06:00.000-04:00

Here is something lovely i found yesterday that also made me laugh - http://williamlamson.com/#/work/video_work/video/2

actually 'found', while correct in theory, is technically inaccurate. It was via Dark Roasted Blend