[Moshe]

http://www.nypress.com/21/39/news&co...hcompactor.cfm

Everyone’s Got Issues

“I know this is a weird time to be spending money, but don’t blink, buy tons of art,” indie icon Steve Buscemi told the Europeans, yuppie aesthetes, punk rockers and artists who had turned out to a charity auction at Phillips de Pury last week. The proceeds were to benefit Issue Project Room, a Brooklyn-based experimental art and music nonprofit. “As my good friend said, the economy is fundamentally sound,” Mr. Pink joked to the avant-garde as they guzzled Prosecco.

Not everyone was happy to spend thousands for modern art hours a day after the Dow plunged, however. “My husband just bought that—it’s just so wrong,” a fortysomething woman murmured as she eyed a Cindy Sherman portrait she would be taking home. “I’ve seen that same picture in five different offices in Tribeca,” an auction regular wisecracked.

Several downtown legends were more than willing to talk about the cause. Buscemi, dressed entirely in black, told me, “I’m a big fan of the avant-garde and I’m thrilled galleries are moving to Brooklyn.” Noise rocker Lee Ranaldo had no qualms that galleries were being priced out of Manhattan, “It’s evolution, New York should toughen you up.”

The last work up for bid was Robert Longo’s Spanish Blood, a 10-foot image valued at 250 grand. There was only one bid, at 140 large, and the room was silent. “So there are no bids? Are you sure? This is an absolute miss.” The auctioneer scolded the crowd and brought down the gavel.

Right after the auction I tried to find Longo, but he had gone home. I settled for the analysis of the auction veteran who had made fun of the Sherman. “The crowd at the auction clearly cared a lot about IPR. But, when you are talking about works in the six figures, you need more than enthusiasm—you need a whole lot of money.”

— MH





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The Morning Line by Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU :: October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009 :: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo at the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla (Biacs) curated by Peter Weibel with co-curators Marie-Ange Brayer and Wonil Rhee.
The Morning Line is a groundbreaking architectural project, designated by Ritchie as a porous “anti-pavilion”, both ruin and monument, a drawing in and of space, an open cellular structure. To devise an architectural language where geometry and artistic expression are intrinsically united, the New York based architectural duo Aranda\Lasch and specialists from Arup AGU designed a construction element called “the bit” whose shape is derived from a truncated tetrahydron. The bit can be reconfigured in to multiple architectural forms, scaled up and down within fractal cycles to any imaginable size, potentially even to the size of the universe.

 

The collaborative investigation between artist, architect and engineer aimed at creating a structure which consists of drawings in space, and the creation of a site where the solid architectural form can disappear. This is based on a coherent sign system derived from Ritchie artistic research. In linguistics, such a process of expressing language through symbols is referred to as “semasiographic”. The Morning Line, therefore, is a semasiographic building structure.
“The project is not only about geometry, it’s about expression. There is nothing else in the project besides Matthew Ritchie’s visual language.” (Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch)
Unlike traditional architectural pavilions, the structural language of The Morning Line is mirroring the structure of the universe and basing its eloquent visual language on cosmological theories. New developments in physics and cosmology are implored throughout its visual design. In particular, the Ekpyrotic theory of Neil Turok and Paul Steinhardt, both consultants to the project, are referenced as possible interpretations of reality.
Central to The Morning Line is its “sonic identity”, which was created by Matthew Ritchie in close collaboration with the Music Research Center at York University. Its main element is an interactive installation that will respond to the presence and movements of visitors by emitting customized sounds from an ever revolving sonic library. Six distinct indoor / outdoor soundscapes are controlled via a software environment that was designed by Tony Myatt and David Sheppard using sound spatialization techniques.
Two guest music curators, Bryce Dessner and Florian Hecker, invited a selection of leaders in the field of contemporary composition to create exclusive works for The Morning Line. All of these will be premiered live on a sonic festival during the opening ceremonies of Biacs and then be integrated into the structure’s library of sounds.
Architecture and design: Aranda/Lasch (Benjamin Aranda, Chris Lasch, Clay Coffey) with Arup
AGU (Daniel Bosia, Nicolas Sterling)
Music curators: Bryce Dessner and Florian Hecker
Spound Spatialization: Tony Myatt (Music Research Centre/York University), Aranda/Lasch and David Sheppard
Commissioned compositions by Jón Thór Birgisson in collaboration with Alex Somers, Bryce Dessner in collaboration with David Sheppard and Evan Ziporyn, Mark Fell in collaboration with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, Bruce Gilbert, Florian Hecker, Lee Ranaldo, Chris Watson and Thom Willems
Animation and programming: Nick Roth, James Case and MRC York
Cosmology/science in collaboration with: Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok






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[atari 2600]

Hmm, the Damien Hirst thingie in London recently completely passed this board by...

thanks for the news though, MOW-SHA (moh-shuh) Moshe. It's interesting reading.

yes, i can pronounce it. i just know everyone reads it as MOSH as in PIT.

I read it as mo-she

but thanks anyway of course

[atari 2600]

well, shabbray, i believe ya, SHABBRAY

thanks, atar-i, thanks

[Moshe]

The name "Moses" comes from a root meaning "take out," because Moses was taken out of the river (Ex. 2:10). Some modern scholars point out that the root M-S-S in Egyptian means "son of" as in the name Ramases (son of Ra), but it is worth noting that Moses' name in Hebrew is M-Sh-H, not M-S-S. According to one Jewish source, Pharaoh's daughter actually named him Minios, which means "drawn out" in Egyptian, and the name Moshe (Moses) was a Hebrew translation of that name, just as a Russian immigrant named Ivan might change his name to the English equivalent, John.

[Moshe]

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[Rob Instigator]

I always read it as

Moe-sh

not caught in the mosh!

[Rob Instigator]

or a guy named willord from peru can change his name to the Peruvian Plunger