theconstrvct is Back!
After a two month long hiatus theconstrvct is back in the same location (the internet) with a whole new location (Istanbul, Turkey)! The past two months saw me settling into my new home away from home in Istanbul to begin working at Istanbul Modern Art Museum and a decided lack of posts came as a result....
Seven Days in the Art World Review
A great friend of the blog and all around fantastic writer Kit Steinkellner just wrote a great review of Sarah Thornton’s book, “Seven Days in the Art World.” on her blog Books are my Boyfriends. Check it out! WHAT SEVEN DAYS IN THE ART WORLD IS ABOUT- One of the biggest fights I’ve ever...
Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective @ the HAMMER Museum
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than delving into the first retrospective of unsung hero Paul Thek?! Known for his all-encompassing installations consisting of silicon “meat pieces,” rotting materials, found objects, and baleful electronic contraptions (often encapsulated in immaculate plexiglass), the exhibition exposes many of Thek’s works to American soil for the first time, traveling...
theconstrvct goes tvmblr, too.
In addition to our posts here, you can also check out theconstrvct‘s new Tumblr! Contemporary art in bite-size portions. Nom. Swedish Townhouse Via Design Milk
Interview with Brett Amory
You may have seen him on Thinkspace’s walls here in LA, or in gallery spaces throughout San Francisco, perhaps in Miami as part of the Art Basel Fair, even @ Lazarides in London – Brett Amory‘s work has garnered such international attention in just a few short years, with a lot more planned through 2013...
Case of the Monday Tweets #3 – Too Fast, Too Furious
Number three is the special post-Easter grumpy tweets of the last week in the art world. Nothing says grumpy like a man newly brought back from the dead. 10 - @thesedelightsthese delights I wish their was a Fat TV channel–all fat people all day. That would be fat. 9 - @PowhidaWilliam @hragv I hope LA is...
Interview with Dan Busta and Ryan Schude
Coinciding with the Month of Photography in Los Angeles (MOPLA), the folks at Caporale / Bleicher Gallery are holding a joint exhibition featuring the renowned photographers Dan Busta and Ryan Schude. The exhibit runs through March and promises to be an exciting visual experience. The attention to detail, lighting and sheer scale of action...
Eco-Friendly Design: Saving the Earth One Modernist Chair at a Time
In honor of Earth Day (which should be every day, right?), we’re featuring the Eco-friendly products of interior designers around the world. Our favorites: “This award-winning Wooden Hammock by Australian designer Adam Cornish makes us want to grab a good book and find a nice, shady spot in the garden to string it up! Manufactured from...
LA Happenings: April 20-24
Wednesday 4/20: When In Rome @ UCLA HAMMER Museum (performance at 5pm) & Instituto Italiano Cultura (Show opens at 6:30pm), in participation with LAXART. 72 Hour Urban Challenge can be coming to LA. Ten urban challenges tackled by a hundred designers over the course of three days. If you are interested, go to Materials & Applications...
Guest Review: Time with Eiko and Koma
In her New Yorker review of Eiko and Koma’s “Naked,” a recently concluded living installation on view at New York’s Baryshnikov Art Center, an apparently hurried Joan Acocella admits missing out on a chance at enlightenment: “As Koma lifted his rear into the air,” she writes, “I stared into his navel for a long time—these people...
A Case of the Monday Tweets #2
Following the wild success of the first Case of the Monday Tweets, here are the 10 grumpiest tweets from the past week in the art world: 10. @JulySky20 - Alyssa Buono Wish people could really understand/value what designers do, but we are so good at weaving design into everyday life seamlessly#1D4D 9. @kristoncapps - Kriston Capps Special thanks to...
Sunday Review: Why “Art in the Streets” Was Impressive and Why This is a Bad Thing
If you haven’t yet made it out to MOCA‘s Art in the Streets, think twice before going based off of its advertisement as a “street art retrospective.” As a whole, the exhibition lacks a clear exhibition catalog or map, exists without any sort of coherent spatial organization, and places faulty emphasis on its composition of...