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Daily Archives: November 14, 2010
Miles Davis + Louis Malle Recording Session
This is incredible: Behold as Miles David watches Louis Malle’s French film noir, Ascenseur pour l’échafaud, AKA Elevator to the Gallows, and improvises his moody soundtrack score. Followed by an interview with Malle.
Jazz critic Phil Johnson described this as “the loneliest trumpet sound you will ever hear.” This is like watching Picasso paint.
via Dangerous Minds | Easy Dreamer
Now’s The Time
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from ‘Bird Lives’
trombone: Jay Jay Johnson, sax: Sonny Stitt, piano: Walter Bishop, trumpet: Howard McGhee, bass: Tommy Potter, drums: Kenny Clarke
Ai Weiwei: Sunflower Seeds at Tate Modern, London
http://www.vernissage.tv | Tate Modern in London presents the latest commission in The Unilever Series, Sunflower Seeds, by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. What seems to be an ocean of sunflower seed husks, in reality is a flat landscape of over 100 million individually handmade porcelain replicas of the seed. More info:http://vernissage.tv/blog/2010/10/12/…
Ai Weiwei is one of the most popular Chinese artists of our time. For Tate Modern’s The Unilever Series he has been commissioned to produce a new work. The sculptural installation titled Sunflower Seeds looks rather minimalistic at first sight. What seems to be an ocean of sunflower seed husks, is in reality a flat landscape of over 100 million individually handmade porcelain replicas of the seed.
Visitors are invited to walk across the surface of the work. It’s a sensory and immersive installation, which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift beneath their feet.
Although they look identical from a distance, every seed is different and handcrafted by skilled artisans. Sunflower Seeds is the largest work Ai Weiwei has made using porcelain, one of China’s most prized exports. Previously Ai has created imitation fruit, clothes and vases. Sunflower Seeds weighs over 150 metric tons, covering 1000 square meters of the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
Ai Weiwei was born in 1957 in Beijing, China, where he lives and works. He has exhibited internationally, including recent solo shows at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and Haus der Kunst, Munich. He has participated in the Sao Paulo Biennial, Documenta 12 in Kassel, and Tate Liverpool. Ai Weiwei also founded the design company Fake Design and co-founded the China Art Archives and Warehouse in Beijing.
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John Lurie paintings
‘In this painting the artist’s soul has been corroded by assholism. I think you know who you are.’
‘Davy Crockett has lost his fucking mind.’
‘Some Animals Noah Only Had One Of, The Ones That Came By Two Put On A Musical, Which Like Most Musicals Was Bad’
‘When I die, I want to go like my grandfather, asleep and at peace. Not like the people screaming in the other car.‘
‘You have the right to the pursuit of happiness. Good luck with that. You have the right to bear arms.‘
More great work by John Lurie at http://www.johnlurieart.com/art/
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