Yves Klein

Fire Paintings. You can see much more at the Yves Klein Archives.

Yves Klein

"The composition, even the texture of my paintings, is the texture of the pictorial matter; it must be highly effaced, intensely worked, strong, and serious, in order to permit the display in all its splendor – color."

Yves Klein
Overcoming the Problematics of Art

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

"It is the conviction that nothing mysterious can ever happen in our everyday life that has destroyed the joy of abstract thought."

Wassily Kandinsky
Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Yves Klein

If I only succeeded ... for just one day!
To love
each of the moments
of my life
with enthusiasm.
I truly wish to believe
that at the end of the day
I would be no more
than a small pile
of ashes.

Yves Klein

Paris-Delhi-Bombay...

I went to see this show at the Centre Pompidou multiple times when I was in Paris in July. It was one of the best overall shows I have ever seen. My favorite, by far, was Kader Attia's three screen video, Collages.
Read an overview of the show here.

Shit City

Shit City is a webcomic by Colignon Porc-Épic aka Colin Kane Healey. You should probably start following it right now, but first, I recommend catching up from the beginning. If you still haven't had enough, you can see Colin's other work here.
Enjoy.

Brooke Marks-Swanson

Painted copper brooches at Gallery Loupe.

Northside Market

This weekend, come visit the new Northside Market on the corner of North 6th & Kent in Williamsburg, where several friends and I will she showing and selling work all summer.
I will be participating on Saturday, June 25 and Kerrie Yeung will be there with her jewelry on Sunday.
We both have some new pieces to share - see you there!

Francis Alÿs

Go see this.

Abelardo Morell

Photographs taken by Abelardo Morell of live scenes projected onto the nearby ground using his "tent camera".

Kerrie Yeung

Some of Kerrie's newer bracelets.

Connections

Some of Kerrie's beads crawled into my pile of coral. Happy to share a studio.

Kate Nielsen

Kate Nielsen has joined Jamsnation. Take a look at her Survival Tips or go to her website, browse her other work, and maybe have her paint your portrait.

Green Thumb

The fantastic apartment garden of Kate Nielsen.

True to Life

"About sixty years ago," he concluded, "most educated people could draw in quite a skillful way. Which meant they could tell other people about certain experiences in a certain way. Their visual delights could be expressed...Today people don't draw very much. They use the camera. My point is, they're not truly, perhaps, expressing what it was they were looking at – what it was about it that delighted them – and how that delight forced them to make something of it, to share the experience, to make it vivid to somebody else. If the few skills that are needed in drawing are not treated seriously by everybody, eventually it will die. And then all that will be left is the photographic ideal which we believe too highly of."

Lawrence Weschler
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversation with David Hockney

Any Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy's walls at Storm King Art Center.

Jonathan Harris

You should go explore his website. He has a lot of interesting things going on. I love that he has a link to this video:


It's a favorite of mine.

Ursula von Rydingsvard

Luba, by Ursula von Rydingsvard at the Storm King Art Center. It smells like cedar. It is amazing.

Kate Nielsen

The studio of super-illustrator Kate Nielsen.

Poly Nikolopoulou

Really interesting metalwork from Greek artist Poly Nikolopoulou. Found through Klimt02.