Jeff D. Taylor

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Crossing the Bar (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Sunset and evening star,
  And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
  When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
    Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
    Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
    When I embark;

For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
    The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
    When I have crost the bar.

The Studio of Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Photo: Includes studies for The Mastaba and Over the River, January 2012)

The Studio of Christo and Jeanne-Claude

(Photo: Includes studies for The Mastaba and Over the River, January 2012)

Sakarin Krue-On: Terraced Rice Field (Photo: Dokumenta 12, Kassel, 2007)

Sakarin Krue-On: Terraced Rice Field (Photo: Dokumenta 12, Kassel, 2007)

Innumeracy (In a Data-Driven Age)

It’s debatable whether we (in the West) are becoming more innumerate than we used to be, but it is clear that the gap between our reliance upon and our understanding of mathematics is widening dramatically. 

Thanks to its moveable partitions, the Schroder House that held the original Rietveld chairs was always dynamic—always being “remixed”.

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The Rietveld Chair “remixed” according to different genres of music (above: Rietveld ‘Extended Edition’; left to right: Pop (Ikea) Rietveld, Dub Rietveld and Classical Rietveld)

Sonja Ivekovic, Poppy Field at Friedrichplatz during Dokumenta 12. See her work at MoMA through March 26, 2012. (Photo: Kassel, Germany 2007)

Sonja Ivekovic, Poppy Field at Friedrichplatz during Dokumenta 12.

See her work at MoMA through March 26, 2012.

(Photo: Kassel, Germany 2007)

The Four Year Career

“Two Centimeter Wavy Bands of Color” by Sol Lewitt I’m a big fan of Artspace and everything they do. They’re unique to the art world as most artworks are consigned from nonprofits/museums—leading to what I call “collecting philanthropy”. If you want to see works by Sol Lewitt in-person, be sure check out The Pace Gallery’s show, “Alfred Jensen/Sol Lewit: Systems and Transformations,” which opened on Thursday.

“Two Centimeter Wavy Bands of Color” by Sol Lewitt

I’m a big fan of Artspace and everything they do. They’re unique to the art world as most artworks are consigned from nonprofits/museums—leading to what I call “collecting philanthropy”.

If you want to see works by Sol Lewitt in-person, be sure check out The Pace Gallery’s show, “Alfred Jensen/Sol Lewit: Systems and Transformations,” which opened on Thursday.

Ai Wewei’s Sunflower Seeds @ Mary Boone Gallery. Photo: Chelsea, January 2012.

Ai Wewei’s Sunflower Seeds @ Mary Boone Gallery.

Photo: Chelsea, January 2012.

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Angus and Julia Stone

—Angus and Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane (Stern* disco edit)

Here’s your weekend chill track. Now just imagine this song playing with the Sanford Biggers installation shot below.

Zoe Strauss, Daddy Tattoo, Philadelphia, 2004.  A great interview with Zoe Strauss on ManPodcast: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Philadelphia-based artist Zoe Strauss, who joins me to discuss the new exhibition that surveys her 10-year “Under I-95” project at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The show opens on Saturday and is on view through April 22. A terrific catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes particularly strong essays by Strauss and exhibition curator Peter Barberie. Strauss and the Philly Museum have also installed 54 billboards featuring her work throughout Philadelphia. The museum has set up a dedicated website for the billboard project. It includes images of the billboards, a map and even some help with driving the circuit. Zoe Strauss’s own website/blog is here. To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. You can stream the program through the player below. In our conversation, Strauss and I discuss: The “Under I-95” project, a series of annual, three-hour-long exhibitions of her photographs which Strauss installed and sold (for as little as $5) under an elevated section of I-95 in south Philadelphia; Strauss’s mid-project realization that she could either continue with “I-95” or have a child, and why she chose “I-95”; Why her south Philly neighborhood is important to her and her work; A double-murder that happened on her block this week as she was preparing to open her exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Why she focuses her camera on people, neighborhoods and landscapes that some people consider to be on the margins of American society. This week’s draft features artist Kianja Strobert, whose first New York solo show is on view at Zach Feuer Gallery through Saturday. Clyfford Still is one of Strobert’s major influences, so she and I draft some favorite Still paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox, SFMOMA and the Hirshhorn. To see images of the artworks discussed on this week’s show, visit Modern Art Notes. 

Zoe Strauss, Daddy Tattoo, Philadelphia, 2004. 

A great interview with Zoe Strauss on ManPodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Philadelphia-based artist Zoe Strauss, who joins me to discuss the new exhibition that surveys her 10-year “Under I-95” project at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The show opens on Saturday and is on view through April 22. A terrific catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes particularly strong essays by Strauss and exhibition curator Peter Barberie. Strauss and the Philly Museum have also installed 54 billboards featuring her work throughout Philadelphia. The museum has set up a dedicated website for the billboard project. It includes images of the billboards, a map and even some help with driving the circuit. Zoe Strauss’s own website/blog is here.

To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. You can stream the program through the player below.

In our conversation, Strauss and I discuss:

  • The “Under I-95” project, a series of annual, three-hour-long exhibitions of her photographs which Strauss installed and sold (for as little as $5) under an elevated section of I-95 in south Philadelphia;
  • Strauss’s mid-project realization that she could either continue with “I-95” or have a child, and why she chose “I-95”;
  • Why her south Philly neighborhood is important to her and her work;
  • A double-murder that happened on her block this week as she was preparing to open her exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and
  • Why she focuses her camera on people, neighborhoods and landscapes that some people consider to be on the margins of American society.

This week’s draft features artist Kianja Strobert, whose first New York solo show is on view at Zach Feuer Gallery through Saturday. Clyfford Still is one of Strobert’s major influences, so she and I draft some favorite Still paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox, SFMOMA and the Hirshhorn.

To see images of the artworks discussed on this week’s show, visit Modern Art Notes. 

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Dear Sanford, Your work is all kinds of funky and extremely photogenic. Thanks, Jeff (Photo: Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective, Brooklyn, January 2012)

Dear Sanford,

Your work is all kinds of funky and extremely photogenic.

Thanks,

Jeff

(Photo: Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective, Brooklyn, January 2012)