Month: June 2011

Sheree Hovsepian

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This is very nice works.

Sheree Hovsepian: Contact
Charest Weinberg is pleased to present, Contact, an exhibition of new works by New York City based artist, Sheree Hovsepian. This will be the first solo exhibition for the artist with Charest-Weinberg.

Sheree Hovsepian was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1974. She immigrated to the U.S in 1976 and was raised in Toledo, Ohio. She attended the University of Toledo and obtained her BFA and BA with a focus on Photography and Art History. In 2002, she received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recent projects include Harlem Postcards at the Studio Museum in Harlem, a solo project at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, and a solo exhibition at Spare Room/West St. Gallery. Currently, she lives and works in New York City.

June 24th, 2011 – August 20th, 2011

http://www.shereehovsepian.com

 

kind of screwed – waxy.org

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Andy Baio cited the Jeff Koons case, in regards to his trouble with Kind of Bloop

This kind of transformation is the foundation of fair use. In a 2006 verdict, the court found artist Jeff Koons’ use of a fashion photo “adds something new, with a further purpose or different character, altering the first with new expression, meaning, or message.”

I don’t think there’s any question that Kind of Bloop’s cover illustration does the same thing. Maisel disagreed.

I think Maisel’s lawyers would cite Cariou vs. Prince.  There are questions, and they are kind of valid.

 

I would have recommend the circled ones; compositionally less dependent on the source image.

EFF and Bitcoin

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Bitcoin are an open source virtual currency.  It”s very fascinating.  Well, EFF used to welcome bitcoins as donations;  they changed their position.

1. We don’t fully understand the complex legal issues involved with creating a new currency system. Bitcoin raises untested legal concerns related to securities law, the Stamp Payments Act, tax evasion, consumer protection and money laundering, among others.

EFF and Bitcoin.

Anyone in the art world doing anything with bitcoins?

TS – paradise

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paradise

Thomas Struth
Paradise 2
signed on a label affixed to the reverse
cibachrome print
image: 177 by 226cm.; 69 3/4 by 89in.
sheet: 183 by 231cm.; 72 by 91in.
Executed in 1998, this work is number 4 from an edition of 10.

LITERATURE
Ingo Hartman & Hans Rudolf Reust, Thomas Struth: New Pictures from Paradise, Munich
2002, no. 7301, illustration of another example in colour
Uta Grosenick, Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection, Cologne 2002, pp. 168-169, no.
130, illustration of another example in colour