I’ve been playing around with time lapse photo for a while now (http://davidhart.org/blech/archives/173) and got to do a really cool one at work for the Richard Serra installation. It’s on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/v/l1sBpsyRNfM) now, which makes it look really small and unimpressive, but a bigger version will be on the Serra exhibition site when it goes up in a bit. The music is from a guy who records as “I am Robot and Proud” (http://www.robotandproud.com) out of Toronto.

So there’s a new show up at work (http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=3956) where an artist is drawing directly on the walls in the atrium. Pretty awesome. Someone in our marketing group shot some footage of it, and I edited together this short video of it for YouTube: (in the link below doesn’t work, go here: http://www.youtube.com/v/CkXXNGfx_3k)

The Guerrilla Girls presented at a recent symposium at MoMA. I cut the audio down and synched the images to create this shortened version of it for YouTube.

There are times that you think maybe the editors of newspapers let the guys from The Onion take over for the day. Two recent examples — one from Yahoo and another from the Times (good to see Kenneth Starr staying focused on important things, and good to see the Supreme Court tackling the hard issues).

As part of work I got to edit a video of Polly Apfelbaum installing Blossom for the upcoming exhibition Comic Abstraction. I didn’t shoot the video and the audio was from Acoustiguide, but slapped it all into place.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lz8wfW_j6YM

When you have two cats, you can count on SCARY dustbunnies. Here’s a doodle based on them:

Here’s photos of the wee beasts.

One of the best things about having a wedding is getting to see AWFUL examples. Here is a very tender site of well-intentioned geeks: http://www.geocities.com/jediwedding/photos.html
All credit goes to Marite for finding this gem. Her finding it, and her appreciating yet vetoeing of it as a theme, is more proof of her awesomeness.

A couple of the best:

I’m part of a group presenting at the National Art Education Association this year
(http://www.naea-reston.org/convention.html). If you’re nerdy enough to be going to it, come check us out.

Wednesday, March 14
10:00 AM to 10:50 AM
Sutton Parlor North, 2nd Floor
Integrating Online Museum Resources into the Classroom: MoMA.org
Presented by: Victoria Lichtendorf with Lisa Mazzola, David Hart

Friday, March 16, 2007
210—Integrating Online Museum Resources in the Classroom: Examples from MoMA
Group Departs at 10:15 am—Returns at approximately 12:15 pm
This workshop will guide you through a variety of resources available to teachers on moma.org including interactive websites for students and teachers, collection based resources and audio materials. Focusing on activities which foster self-directed learning for K-12 students, as well as online lesson plans for teachers, participants will explore meaningful connections to the classroom. Learn about some of the major trends, forecasts for the future and discover how to integrate these online resources into the classroom and beyond. Laptop computers will be available for each participant. This is a short walk to the MoMA at 11 W 54th Street. Lunch will NOT be provided. Ticket Price: $FREE Limit: 20

A great article from Modern Painters, November 2006:

One of the reasons California, and Los Angeles in particular, are challenging and unusual places is their persistence in conjuring a multiplicity of ideologies that appear to take concrete social form. Los Angeles projects an elastic quality, like that of images or a rubber band; it can snap back and forth from the politically radical to the politically conservative. The ideology of each blurs to the point where no one can tell the difference between the two, much less notice that the language and discourse produced by these positions only pretends to move, never escaping confinement with its own mirror image.

Faced with a world more fantastic than anything in any gallery or museum, dominated and defined by absurd wars that threatened to rage without end, what could be more delusional than claiming that contemporary art has the capacity to create social change? It’s not that I doubt the sincerity of any artist who makes work that is socially or politically relevant. What concerns me is the consensual lie we live in together, pretending that what we make as artists has any political value outside the artworld, when in truth these so-called politically manifestations are displayed in galleries and museums, bought and sold for the artists’ and institutions’ profit, benefiting no one else. A classic argument of neoliberalism suggests that preaching to the converted is worthwhile; I don’t believe it. I find neoliberalism as ineffective as neoconservatism, with both serving only to pacify the guilt and regret of this country’s history at the expense of new ideas that could move us forward. As much as I will argue for the genuine capacity of art to affect who we are as human beings, I can only observe that we have neither the strength nor the courage to commit ourselves in any way that is politically substantive. Who among us is willing to sacrifice for the benefit of others the lifestyle we have come to enjoy from living in an empire?

Fear, not hope, abounds when one believes hope no longer exists. In less comfortable conditions, the opposite holds true. I recently returned from a two-week stay in Cali, Colombia, where I was invited to teach a class at an artist’s space called Lugar a Dudas. The name translates, provocatively, as “room for doubt.” Artist Oscar Muñoz and gallery director Sally Mizrachi have created an aesthetic and political oasis, a utopian reality where need and risk of the highest order go hand in hand. The art center attempts to fill the black hole at the heart of the city, whose infrastructure has collapsed and whose populace is brutalized by endless cycles of violence. Muñoz and Mizrachi have used their own resources to purchase a building and create a program that includes exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, library and computer resources, and a residency program and classes that bring visiting international artists to Cali. While this all might sound familiar to us in the United States, Lugar a Dudas is the only place of its kind in Colombia. Everything that the space offers is free of charge. I would argue that no such institution exists in the United States, acting in such good faith and without ulterior motives.

What worries me is that so much gain is to be made from so-called political art, with careers and fame built on mannerisms that claim a political pedigree. These works regurgitate familiar rhetoric and offer cozy answers so everyone can feel warm and fuzzy and sleep at night. It has been said that people should not be afriad of their governments but governments should be afraid of their people. Similarly, there was a time when artists led the discourse in art—before it became an industry—and art and ideas were dangerous.

We just launched a teen podcast on Red Studio (http://redstudio.moma.org/podcasts/2006/), and I did some of the HTML/PHP gruntwork and the chunky banner on the site. Here’s a more elegant logo by a coworker:

Me and the Lady submitted a set of drawings for this upcoming show:

More about the show here: http://www.suckersandbiters.com

UPDATE: Opening Reception Friday, February 16th, 6-9pm
Gimme Shelter Group Show to benefit The National Coalition for the Homeless
193c Gallery (behind Cafe Grumpy), Brooklyn.

I put together a small piece for an interesting little show that will be starting in the UK and making it’s way to the US. It’s a benefit for homelessness that requires that artists use only cardboard.

HTTP://WWW.GIMMESHELTER.CO.UK
My entry is listed here:
http://www.gimmeshelter.co.uk/ArtistInfo.php?user_id=213

This is perhaps the most awesome thing ever on the NYTimes website:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html

Look up the words terror, terrorist, terrorists, September the 11th, and other fun ones!

Reminds me of this Weekly Radio Address: http://weeklyradioaddress.com/WRA20060911.htm

Here’s another test of time lapse facing out of our offices; the batteries died near the end of the day, but otherwise pretty awesome. Right-click here to download or click on the photo below to stream. It’s a pretty big file.

I’ve always pleased to see typos on things. Here’s one on the back of a can of Trader Joe’s knockoff of Manhattan Special, the best beverage EVER. Check the note on the middle left.

And here’s one from none other than The New York Times. Apparently the old gray lady has not the SpellCheck. And this made it to the homepage!