Pedro Gadanho named MOMA curator

Pedro Gadanho, Lisbon-based architect, curator and author, has been appointed Contemporary Architecture and Museum Design curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.  Read on.

Here is his blog, Shrapnel Contemporary.

Lições dos Antepassados

About: first entry

Since the About of this blog seems to fluctuate, I have added it as a Topic of its own so this is my first entry.  At the moment I am returning to this blog after a long period of inactivity. It is a place for me to collect, organize and tag things of interest having to do with the practice of art with a shameless bias towards Portuguese artists. The thing started with a title, 9islands – a reference to my native Azores islands as well as to Nicolas Bourriaud’s use of the term archipelago: “The universalist and progressive dream that governed modern times is in tatters, and this disintegration is today giving rise to a new configuration of thought that no longer proceeds by building great totalizing theoretical systems but by constructing archipelagoes. A voluntary grouping of islands networked together to create an autonomous entity, the archipelago is the dominant figure of contemporary culture.” (The Radicant, p.185)

Island of My Dreams by Ricardo Rebelo

Click image for more information and to watch Island of My Dreams

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Following an Artist Into His Labarynth, New York Times
Review of film by Peter Bradshaw of the Guardian
Film review by Lisa Mullen of BFI, Sight & Sound
Excerpt of movie at Nowness.com

Lee Krasner, an interview

Also published this summer – Lee Krasner: A Biography by Gail Levin. (see review below) Excerpt.

Joan Mitchell biography by Pat Albers

Just finished this fantastic biography. Jed Perl writes, “Patricia ALBERS has written a book about Mitchell that I cannot imagine will ever be improved upon, so graceful and incisive is her account of the artist’s hellbent life and lyric art.” – NYTimes book review: Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell: Abstract Expressionist Lives

Paula Rego: Histórias

Dame Paula Rego

“…or I pretend it’s real which is the same thing.” Paula Rego was made a Dame today – nice.

Rigo23 lecture at SJSU

Lecture by San Francisco artist Rigo23 will be in room Art133 at San Jose State University, Department of Art on Tuesday, Sept. 14, 5-6pm.