Saturday, August 3, 2013

Smørrebrød and Courbet, Laura Owens and Rachel Kushner, the CIA and Haim Steinbach, etc. [Collected]


Installation view of Keil Borrman, “Airing the Facilitation Banner Paintings,” at Osmos, New York, July 22, 2013.
  • "He worked a brush quickly back and forth on the canvas. 'What is this article about, again?' Your home." [NYT via Ah Hole Ah Hole]
  • "You get the feeling, in fact, that this woman could leg-wrestle a crocodile if she needed to." [LACM on Fire]
  • Laura Owens talks with Rachel Kushner. "Well, I love it when you have done that, put paintings inside paintings. I mean, even as a child if there was a children’s book with paintings on the wall inside the image––like in Goodnight Moon—I always felt entranced, like I was seeing something more, a surplus of viewing that was not being controlled for presentation: as if the pictures inside the picture were 'real' views, less authorized, because incidental. I guess that’s part of the playfulness when you, Laura, paint paintings inside of paintings—it suggests access to a more insightful view if you can see inside the picture something that wasn’t drawn by the hand of the picture maker." [The Believer via Brian Sholis]
  • "The Architecture of Superman: A Brief History of The Daily Planet." [Design Decoded]
  • The Central Intelligence Agency channels Haim Steinbach. [Greg.org]
  • Steinbach at CCS Bard: the show of the summer. [NYT]
  • Dirk Luckow conducts—assembles? or writes?—an interview with Imi Knoebel in 1993–94. [JCA via Rolublog]
  • A special message from Brian Belott! [ABAB]