I am becoming a real blogger

Art critic Dave Hickey interview in Zing Magazine, via Artblog.

...The art world from the late eighteenth century to the present has worked in a language of generations. Artists worked with their peers and among them to overthrow and supplant the generation in power. Then suddenly in the '70s you have artists who, rather than overthrowing their seniors, are pleasing them in order to get grades and public funding...

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A very cool thing (NY Times so reg required).

In Pursuit of a Total Art, the Paris Opera Adds Video to 'Tristan und Isolde'
Now, in a daring experiment, the Paris National Opera has invited the American video artist Bill Viola to accompany the work with his own visual commentary.

We have to wait until 2007 to see it in New York or LA...

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William Wylie, Riverwalk 07

Congrats to Charlottesville photographer (and UVA Professor) William Wylie for getting a Guggenheim grant for his work.