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YouTube - Bat For Lashes - Whats a Girl To Do
Does anyone know who directed this video? I can’t seem to find that information. [Update] Answer: Dougal Wilson. Thanks Candice and Matthew!
MoMA.org | Exhibitions | 2009 | Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh
This exhibition opens January 21st and looks VERY promising “…an ongoing series that will bring performance documentation, original performance pieces, and live reenactments of historic performances to various locations throughout the Museum. The first artist to be spotlighted is Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950, Taiwan), who is best known for his five One Year Performances…”
ArtCal - Chelsea - Bortolami Gallery - Richard Aldrich
Over all this painting show is excellent, though it does beg the question: Is it possible to make a successful painting with an exposed stretcher? Based on this show I’m going to go with, No.
2009_creativecapitalprojectdescriptions.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Creative Capital Emerging Field winners announced. Artists include Matthew Coolidge, Center for Land Use Interpretation;
Beatriz da Costa; eteam: Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, Catherine Herdlick; and more.
The Big Bend Sentinel - Guest Commentary
More on the Marfa hotel rezoning: The Planning and Zoning commission voted 3-2 to approve the rezoning. The issue now goes before the City Council for review. I wish The Big Bend Sentinel listed easily viewable publishing dates. If it’s listed on that site I can’t find it.
Cityfile: Richard Prince and Larry Gagosian Slapped with Suit
Photographer Patrick Cariou filed a lawsuit against Prince, Gagosian, and Rizzoli last week for using a number of his photographs in Prince’s “Canal Zone” exhibition without his consent, pics that Cariou alleges first appeared in his 2000 book, Yes Rasta. Ironically the artist’s personal friend and disgraced author James Frey wrote the introduction. He is not named in the suit.
ArtCal - Chelsea - Schroeder Romero - Michael Waugh, The More I See of Men
Waugh was working on this show through the holidays while also at Momenta helping me with the fundraiser. I’m looking forward to seeing the new drawings! Opens Friday January 16th.
ArtCal Zine - Events - The Concept of Time at the Guggenheim
“Rirkrit Tiravanija and Douglas Gordon’s Cinema Liberté presents an epic program of previously banned films to be comfortably watched on beanbag cushions.” Not necessarily a bad idea, but who hasn’t seen screened films like The Last Temptation of Christ before? How valuable is the gesture if the films have already been absorbed into the culture?
Mysterious Sweet Smell From 2005 Returns to Manhattan - NYTimes.com
Labeled “Headline of the Day” by one facebook friend. It’s a little early yet to know, but he may be right.
Op-Ed Columnist - Fighting Off Depression - NYTimes.com
“Let’s not mince words: This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.” Hello scary.
If it were anyone else I’d think promising to review 1,000 new releases in 2009 over Twitter was a little Internet hokie but I bet music critic Christopher Weingarten can pull it off. Note that the use of dashes does not indicate a minus number rating.
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Sean Landers: Onwards!
Sean Landers reflects on his own experience with the crash in the 80’s and his expectations for the imminent crash.
Fimoculous.com - misc - 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
The Tomorrow Museum made Fimoculous’s list this year!
As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip.
Art Fag City is Paddy Johnson.
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DOUGAL WILSON directed.
awards:
Grand Prix du Jury for Bat For Lashes ‘What’s a Girl to Do?’, Festival du Clip 2008
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Nominated for Best Director award at the Creative and Design Awards 2007
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Nominated for Best Director award at the Creative and Design Awards 2006
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Nominated for Best Video at the MTV Europe Awards 2007 for Bat For Lashes ‘What’s a Girl to Do?’
Dougal Wilson. If you like that video you might also like this one, which he had nothing to do with but which makes for a nice companion piece.
If you dig deeper into Bat For Lashes this song and video are actually disturbing, in that the original version of this song had no “beat & bass”, and I’ve yet to ever again see her in a Lily Allen’ish getup. If you watch her performing the original song you can tell her heart’s in it, something about this version seems highly marketed. Not to mention the Donnie Darko ripoffs. I admit it sounds good and looks great, but I guess it loses some of its magic when it reveals itself to be a marketing pastiche….maybe I’m wrong and she’s really really into this/the beats were all her idea.