I'm A Star Dammit!

I recognize myself, Steve Hebert, Bill Schuler and Loretta. I don't know where the films were shot.

Homemade Movies with Steve Hebert and friends.

Baltimore Museum Of Art - Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s

Tom and I went to the BMA's new exhibit today. It's called "Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s". Great stuff.

From The BMA

Nearly 90 Surrealist masterworks of the 1930s and 1940s by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, and André Masson are presented through a timely lens—that of war, violence, and exile.

Despite the political and personal turmoil brought on by the Spanish Civil War and World War II, avant-garde artists in Europe and those who sought refuge in the United States pushed themselves to create some of the most potent and striking images of the Surrealist movement. Monstrosities in the real world bred monsters in paintings and sculpture, on film, and in the pages of journals and artists’ books, resulting in a period of extraordinary creativity.

Parenting and Nat's Cosmic Egg at the AVAM

Natalie and I went to the American Visionary Arts Museum today. I saw the new exhibit "Parenting" while Natalie went to a workshop and made her own cosmic egg.

Link to AVAM's Exhibit Page

Link to AVAM's Media Guide

John Waters "Indecent Exposure" At The BMA

Tom and I went to the Baltimore Museum of Art to see the John Waters Exhibit "Indecent Exposure". Great stuff. We also saw a video installation by Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin that was also great. 

John Waters

Fitch/Trecartin

From The BMA's Website

Please note: A portion of this exhibition contains mature content.

The first retrospective of John Waters's visual arts career in his hometown of Baltimore presents more than 160 provocative photographs, sculptures, and video and sound works. The exhibition concludes with a gallery devoted to ephemera, including objects from Waters’s home and studio that inspire him, and three peep-shows featuring footage from his rarely seen underground movies of the 1960s.

Waters’s renegade humor deployed through his works reveals the ways that mass media and celebrity embody cultural attitudes, moral codes, and shared tragedy. Exhibition highlights include a photographic installation in which Waters explores the absurdities of famous films and a suite of photographs and sculpture that propose humor as a way to humanize dark moments in history from the Kennedy assassination to 9/11. Waters also appropriates and manipulates images of less-than sacred, low-brow cultural references—Elizabeth Taylor’s hairstyles, Justin Bieber’s preening poses, his own self-portraits—and pictures of individuals brought into the limelight through his films, including his counterculture muse, Divine. Other themes explored include artist’s childhood and identity, a satirical consideration of the contemporary art world, and the transgressive power of images.

Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin

From October 7, 2018 — January 6, 2019

Among the most acclaimed artists working today, Lizzie Fitch (American, b. 1981) and Ryan Trecartin (American, b. 1981) have established an expansive collaborative practice that includes video, sculpture, and large-scale installation. Their work embraces and reorders the visual and linguistic clutter of technology and media to create a frenzied meditation on the changing nature of narrative, language, and the human condition.

The two artists met in 2000 at the Rhode Island School of Design and began collaborating in 2001. Their presentation at the BMA features three frenzied films shown within sculptural theaters. These spaces— one resembling a bar; another, a gymnastics or aquatics facility—provide an evocative framework in which to encounter movies that explore the fluidity of identity achievable through contemporary technology, as well as the non-linear structures of 21st century communication.

The influential collaborators’ work has been presented at such prestigious exhibitions and institutions as the 12th Biennale de Lyon; the 55th Venice Biennale; The Stoscheck Collection; Kunsthaus Zürich; and Bonniers Konsthall; Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami; and Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

AVAM Mystery Show

Natalie, Leslie and I went to the American Visionary Arts Museum today. It was the last day of the Mystery Show exhibit. Good stuff.

WIRED: The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies

"The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies" from Wired. About wireless mics.

https://www.wired.com/story/wireless-mics-radio-frequencies-fcc-saga/?mbid=email_onsiteshare

Artscape 2018

Music At Artscape 2018

Rumba Club

Queen Wolf

Super City

Film At Artscape 2018 - Animated Shorts

AIRPORT

Michaela Müller, 2017, Switzerland/ Croatia, 11 MIN

Airports - the pinnacle of modern society, places where the limits of borders, security and tolerance are constantly tested.

THE BIGGEST WAD IS MINE

Sam Gurry, 2016, USA, 3 MIN

Junior High is one sticky situation.

THE ELEPHANT'S SONG

Lynn Tomlinson, 2018, USA, 8 MIN, World Premiere

An old farm dog recounts the true tale of Old Bet, the elephant at the start of the American circus. Their mournful melody is hand-crafted using both oil pastel and painterly clay-on-glass animation techniques.

GREEN WATER

Marnie Ellen Hertzler & Beth Hoeckel, 2017, USA, 2 MIN

Easter is here and things are starting to get strange.

SANS CHLOROPHYLL

Phil Davis, 2017, USA, 3 MIN

An experiment in animated choreography with autumn leaves. Consisting of hundreds of scanned and photographed leaves animated to a banjo soundscape. A celebration of the vibrant burst of seasonal beauty.

UGLY

Nikita Diakur, 2017, Germany, 12 MIN

An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief. Inspired by the internet story ‘Ugly the Cat’ and animated with computer simulated marionettes.