Abroad: Fiona Banner Turns a Jet Into a Bell

Fiona Banner used metal from a decommissioned Torando jet to cast a large bell for her new public artwork at Gateshead Quay commissioned by Great North Run Culture and Locus+.

Tornado ZE728

Aluminum ingots

Abroad: Kerry Tribe at the Arnolfini

Rolling hills from train ride between Bristol and London Paddington. Here is a great day trip that only takes an hour and a half. In addition to the historical significance of Bristol and Bath, there is a fantastic Kerry Tribe exhibition at the Arnolfini.

Here & Elsewhere, 2002

Abroad: Jessica Stockholder in Spain

In Madrid for Jessica Stockholder's exhibition "Peer out to sea" at the Palacio de Cristal at the Reina Sofia.

The future of long haul travel. The Airbus a280 at Heathrow, London

Madrid on Monday, July 13 just before the parade to welcome home the Spanish FIFA World Champions

The Gallery: Searching for Bricks for The Art of Loving

Trip to Home Depot to find the perfect bricks for Jorge Méndez Blake's "The Art of Loving," which includes Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving and 10 red bricks.

Edition one by Jorge Méndez Blake ("The Art of Loving" is an edition of 10).

The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. The Art of Loving was Fromm's most popular book, an international bestseller in 1956. It recapitulated the theoretical principles of human nature found in his other book Escape from Freedom & Man for Himself. "Fromm considered love to be an interpersonal creative capacity rather than an emotion, and he distinguished this creative capacity from what he considered to be various forms of narcissistic neuroses and sado-masochistic tendencies that are commonly held out as proof of "true love." Indeed, Fromm viewed the experience of "falling in love" as evidence of one's failure to understand the true nature of love, which he believed always had the common elements of care, responsibility, respect, and knowledge. "

The Gallery: One Room, One Work Part One

Getting ready for 'One Room, One Work,' a rotating group exhibition in three parts. Each part will feature three individual works in three separate rooms. The works included in the first part are Diana Thater's Dark Matter (2004), Fiona Banners' Spell (2002), and Laurence Aberhart's Morepark (Bird Skins Room #3) (1995).

Exhibition poster

Fiona Banner, Spell

Gels on the window for Diana Thater's Dark Matter

Archive: Clifton's Cafeterias

The first Clifton's Cafeteria opened in 1935 and continues to operate on S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.  This cafeteria was dubbed Clifton's Brookdale because of its California Redwood themed interior.

Ray Bradbury getting food at Clifton's Brookdale

The Gallery: Making SUPERFLEX Free Beer at Brew Bakers

This past Wednesday we took a trip to Huntington Beach to make SUPERFLEX's Free Beer at Beer Bakers. At Beer Bakers you can make your own bread and beer while eating bread and beer. FREE BEER is a beer which is free in the sense of freedom, not in the sense of free beer. The project, originally conceived by Superflex and students at the Copenhagen IT University, applies modern free software / open source methods to a traditional real-world product - namely the alcoholic beverage loved and enjoyed globally, and commonly known as beer. The recipe and branding elements of FREE BEER is published under a Creative Commons license, which means that anyone can use the recipe to brew their own FREE BEER or create a derivative of the recipe. Anyone is free to earn money from FREE BEER, but they must publish the recipe under the same license and credit our work.

Example of Free Beer

Abroad: Fiona Banner at Tate Britain

At the opening of Fiona Banner's two part installation Harrier and Jaguar at Tate Britain.

Jaguar, 2010

Harrier, 2010