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The Visual Codec Regional Newswire

A weekday aggregate of news, rants, raves, reviews, interviews, and more culled from rags, mags, blogs, slogs, journals, and diaries. In short, your cheat sheet to following the regional visual arts coverage that's worth following.

Holiday Season Nov.2006 - Jan.2007

The Visual Codec Regional Newswire is on hiatus through the holidays.

Thu.Nov.16.2006

Buy American (News)
"When Seattle Art Museum sold two Marsden Hartley paintings and a Mary Cassatt pastel last spring for $1.35 million, the sale was part of a larger plan. According to the Sotheby's November sales catalog, SAM is aggressively pruning its American collection—clearing away the weeds in the hopes of making way (dollars-wise) for better, bigger purchases. The museum stands to gain $1 million or more on November 29 from the sale at Sotheby's. The money will be used to buy more American art, but the museum isn't saying yet what purchases it has up its sleeve..."
Jen Graves, The Stranger

Wed.Nov.15.2006

Galleries: Going, Going, Gone? (News)
"Scrooge has made an early appearance in the local art world. In the past two weeks, three longtime galleries have either closed or announced their intentions to close -- the Alysia Duckler Gallery, Photographic Image Gallery and Mark Woolley's Pearl District space. (Woolley will keep his Northeast Portland space at the Wonder Ballroom complex, where he plans to move his entire art operation.) The galleries closed for different reasons..."
D.K. Row, The Oregonian

Tue.Nov.14.2006

Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle (Review)
"Much of the art represented here has been smuggled into stores and 'reverse shoplifted' by artists. Such works include tags and labels attached to garments in both high-end and discount outlets. The messages printed on the labels include surrealist-style statements ('This is not a price tag'), stabs at sardonic self-awareness ('There is a certain satisfaction I get from overpaying for everything')..."
Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight

Mon.Nov.13.2006

Gathering Genius (Review)
"American Dreams sink into the floor at the Henry Gallery, where there's nothing left of a pristine white bungalow but its peaked roof and a light in its attic, the whole thing poised to fold like a furled umbrella and slip out of reach..."
Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Artstar Radio: Gender Bias in the Artworld (Audio Panel)
Listen online or download the archived mp3.
Eva Lake, KPSU Portland

Mon.Nov.06.2006 - Fri.Nov.10.2006

Visual Codec Regional Newswire on Hiatus

Fri.Nov.03.2006

Etiquette (Blip)
"Call me cynical, or bitter, or single for too long, but I love a good break-up story. Not a weepy one, not a crazy one, but make a good angsty and artsy zine about your broken heart and I'll slap down $5 for it..."
Krisztina Kun, Beyond Robson

Fetishism, Curiosity, and the Work of Brian Jungen (Review)
"The Vancouver-based Emily Carr Institute graduate, noted for his inventive appropriation and reconfiguration of common, industrially produced consumer items, particularly those that have a powerful identity on the global market, has become something of a desirable commodity himself as of late. His work re-crafts prefabricated commodities into sculptural objects, a practice which, according to Jungen, arose in part from witnessing his mother's habit (out of practicality and economic necessity) of 'constantly extend[ing] the life of things' by recycling household items for new uses..."
Kimberly Phillips, Fillip

Thu.Nov.02.2006

Gods of Rome (Phenom)
"Every fall, starlings invade Rome. At dusk, hundreds of thousands of them—ornithological tornados—put on the most brilliant shows of morphing shapes overhead. Tourists marvel as though the sky were another art museum. Thing is, there's no artist..."
Jen Graves, The Stranger

Diana Puntar (Review)
"Sea green and pocked with tiny craters, the form is instantly recognizable as a flower and the ring of panels is unmistakable as a vase, but its appearance is entirely otherworldly..."
John Motley, The Portland Mercury

Wed.Nov.01.2006

Bridge Over East Van (Blip)
"No, it's not an illegal Reno, it's a bridge between two houses meant as a 'discreet work of art' and social comment..."
Degan Beley, Beyond Robson

Chinese Peasant Hat 'n' Boots (Rant)
"Why do buildings have to be birds and spines and turning torsos and sailboats? Why can't they just be buildings..."
Jen Graves, The Stranger Slog

Artstar Radio with Manya Shapiro & Namita Wiggers (Audio Interview)
Listen online or download the archived mp3.
Eva Lake, KPSU Portland

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