Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories, which opened at SFMOMA on Saturday, is the first solo exhibition of this important contemporary Japanese photographer in the United States. Today’s Open Space post showcases Hatakeyama’s earliest series, Lime Hills (Quarry Series), the work that launched his career. See the whole slideshow here.

In this Open Space post, Tess Thackara takes on the documentary film, Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present.

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What most interest me are the motivating forces in this potent exchange between performer and audience. What compels viewers to sleep overnight on the street for their chance to take away something profound from this experience? The piece provides a window into the human need for confrontation, connection, love, and spectacle. And it’s hard not to parse the artist’s motivations, since this must have fuelled her ability to complete the work.

Read the full article here.

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“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

   ~   Marcel Duchamp

Photo by Man Ray, c. 1920 MET

Happy bday, Duchamp!

Happy Birthday Marcel Duchamp!

From our website:

Fountain is one of a group of objects that Duchamp called “readymades,” works with which he challenged traditional notions of making and exhibiting art. Anonymously defending the work in the press, Duchamp claimed he had “created a new thought for that object.” He rejected the assumption that art must be linked to the craft of the hand and instead argued that a work of art should be primarily about the artist’s idea — a contention that became one of the most far-reaching principles of twentieth-century art, influencing artists as diverse as Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, and Cindy Sherman. 

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Fernando Dell’avestruz - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Anel vermelho, dedo vermelho (Red ring, red finger)

(If Christo jewelry designs for the hand of Jeanne-Claude, I design a red ring to a hand that still will find.)

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bsene:

« Shake dreams from your hair my pretty child, my sweet one. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day, the day’s divinity, first thing you see »

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Justin

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Black and white on black and white, 2012. Ink on paper/pixels on jpg.