Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush + Lovely on Vimeo.

And you thought Tokyo was fantastic on the surface! Just have a look at what’s under your feet: miles of cathedral-like sewers. A neo-gothic labyrinth of engineering wonder! I just wonder if they ever fill all the way up!

I was absolutely wrong about these! This is Kasukabe and a storm drain at that. Still an awesome space though. Here is a press release:

SAITAMA (Kyodo) An underground tunnel built to take in river
water overflow and release it into another river to mitigate flood
damage was shown to the media Monday in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture.

The 6.3 km long conduit is 50 meters underground in Kasukabe and connects the Otoshifurutone and Edo rivers.

If the Otoshifurutone River or nearby Naka River flood, excess
water can be channeled into the tunnel from five locations and
temporarily stored in a gigantic reservoir before being pumped up and
released into the Edo River.

The water chamber, dubbed the “underground palace,” features 59
columns, each 25 meters high, that can store 670,000 cu. meters of
water, according to the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Ministry.

The government project began in 1993 with a budget of 240
billion yen, and part of the tunnel became ready for use in 2002. The
system will begin full operation in June.

Historically, the eastern part of Saitama Prefecture has been
prone to floods. The government says the flood-management system will
significantly reduce the danger of floods in the area.

From the press release:

The Art Newspaper is proud to announce the launch of a web TV channel
for the art world. It features interviews with key collectors,
curators, dealers, artists, and art world luminaries.

The Art Newspaper TV aims to further the success of The Art Newspaper and continue to provide breaking news, art market analysis and insight for the art world, online.

The site features interviews with sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, painter
Ellsworth Kelly and singer Patti Smith – all recorded this year. There
are also illuminating interviews with John Richardson, Jeffrey Deitch,
Adam Lindemann and Simon de Pury, to name but a few.

Anna Somers Cocks, founder of The Art Newspaper and
presenter for The Art Newspaper TV says, "We have always insisted on
going to primary sources for our stories in the print edition and the
online channel will maintain these standards. Firsthand comment from
experts in their respective fields will be the hallmark of our
interviews".

Sign up for a one month free trial by clicking here

Also included with an online subscription is access to a PDF version of the monthly Art Newspaper.

Recent features and interviews include:

Frieze Round Up
Dealers arrived at the Frieze art fair fearing the worst on the back of
a global economic meltdown. The buying frenzy of previous years was
over and buying far more considered.

John Richardson, Art Historian. Part 1
In part one John Richardson lifelong friend of Pablo Picasso talks to
Anna Somers Cocks about the current crop of emerging artists and
reflects upon his early days in America.

Zoo Art Fair Feature
This year, its fifth, has more international galleries showcasing
works. Collectors were out in force and, with the economic crisis just
a few miles away in the city, artists and gallery owners didn't seem to
be worrying.

Martin Parr
Martin Parr talks about his latest project which sees him photographing
the rich and famous around the world. We caught up with him at this
year's Frieze Art Fair.

Don and Mera Rubell, Rubell Family Collection. Part 1
Anna Somers Cocks talks with two of America's largest collectors of
contemporary art about why they are based in Miami, how they started
their collection and the legacy they hope to leave.

For more information and to sign up for a 1 month free trial please visit here

http://www.theartnewspaper.tv

Kim Joon, Bird Land-Armani (detail), 2008

Just got this great summary from Artkrush who will be on the scene again this year bringing you all the goodness to be found. Be sure to keep checking back as the month develops…

"Pockets will be substantially lighter at this year's Miami
Basel, but there will be no shortage of eye candy for those of us just
coming to look. As usual, Artkrush provides a tidy honor roll of our
personal favorites, with special attention paid to Art Basel Miami Beach, as well as Scope and Photo Miami contributor Julia Fullerton-Batten, a London photographer whose studies of adolescence picture girls looming larger than life, suspended in midair, and lost
in the uniform masses. Meanwhile, Artkrush editor Paul Laster connects with the Campana Brothers in Brazil to discuss the latest installment in their sci-fi furniture design series TransPlastic, included this year in Design Miami/. Across the bay from ABMB, we highlight the stylish counter-culture publications of
PictureBox — exhibiting at Nada Art Fair Miami — before leaving the Sunshine State altogether to review Sze Tsung Leong's photographs of Chinese suburbia in Los Angeles, and Roman Signer's slapstick videos in the Netherlands."

read the rest here…

Now that the turkey is eaten and we have hundreds of digitals pics that we don't know what to do with, and now that Polaroid is a thing of the past, why not go for the washed-out, greenish Polaroid look, sans the waving, rubbing and otherwise useless efforts to get the thing to develop.

Now we can get our fix at Poladroid, a new site dedicated to turning all your pristine digital photographs into terrible-looking, but nostalgic versions of their former selves.

From the website:

• Easy to use : Drag & Drop
• Generate High-resolution pictures (400 dpi), "ready-to-print" with a Polaroid design
•
Funny : only 10 treatments per session, like the content of a cartridge
; interactive (look at the demo below) ; random and realistic
Polaroid-like colors variation…
• and more…
Have fun !!! ;)

now go have some fun!

"The high-ceilinged, light-filled studios on top of
Carnegie Hall have housed artists, musicians, and writers for more than
a century; now, the remaining tenants are fighting to stay."

read the rest here

[UPDATE: CNN reports that Ms. Sherman is holding firm! Way to go Editta!]

"They can pay me $10 million. I'm part of history," she said. "You want
to tell me they don't have enough rooms? They have a building of rooms.
This place is history, and I think Carnegie, the people running it, I
don't think they think about that."

Read the rest here

via

- Antonio Machado
Proverbios y Cantares

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While I’m not typically a fan of flower photographs, I have to make an exception for the artist Roy Ardin. You just have to check out his retrospective at the Vancouver. This month. It will be worth the trip!

"The Vancouver Art Gallery will present the first major Canadian retrospective of work by renowned Vancouver artist Roy Arden from October 20, 2007 to January 20, 2008. A major force in establishing Vancouver’s reputation as a centre for contemporary photographic art, Arden has exhibited his work internationally for more than 30 years. Roy Arden, comprising more than 120 photographs, five video works and a recent Internet project, explores the diverse strategies of the artist’s practice from the early 1980s to the present. Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery, the exhibition is guest curated by Dieter Roelstraete of the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA)."

more here

]]> http://incli-nation.com/2007/10/17/roy-ardin-at-the-vancouver-1020-1202008/feed/ 0 http://incli-nation.com/2007/09/20/richard-barnes-at-the-hosfelt-gallery-new-york-91507/ http://incli-nation.com/2007/09/20/richard-barnes-at-the-hosfelt-gallery-new-york-91507/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:26:20 +0000 Staff http://incli-nation.com/?p=96 Unabomber Ted Kazinski has been a regular interest of ours here at (incli)NATION and Alec Soth has a great post on Richard Barns and his role in documenting Kazinski over on his blog. It’s a wonderful introduction to his work just as Barns’ show is opening in NYC.. Be sure to check it out if you are in the city this month:

As regular readers know, I have a fascination with ‘the sentence’ – the shorthand summation everyone uses to describe a particular person. Some are easy (“He’s the guy that photographs Weimaraners). But Barnes is a tricky case. I doubt people would remember ‘He’s an architectural photographer who’s done fine art projects on birds, museums and the Unabomber.’ Whatever the phrase is, Barnes was able to sum up his achievements with a remarkably elegant sentence: “My work is all about containment.” He went on to say that he’d only made this connection in the last few years.

For me this was the ultimate lesson that Barnes brought to the class. While it may not always be great marketing, artists should be free to explore whatever quickens their pulse. Over the long haul they will inevitable find a thread that unifies their vision. Finding this revelatory thread (and not the stupid ‘sentence’) seems to be one of the most meaningful experiences to come from a life making art.

• An exhibition of Richard Barnes’ work will open on this Saturday, September 15th, at the Hosfelt Gallery in New York. "

read the rest here