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The Art Object is a visual arts diary. Read exhibition reviews, news, profiles of emerging artists, and ideas about contemporary art.

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  • Olaf Breuning: Small Brain, Big Stomach

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 22:17 in exhibitions

    Swiss artist Olaf Breuning is a product of his generation. Combining whimsy and invention with uncivil references to art history, his work is simultaneously tangible and imagined, ironic and sincere. This kind of ruthless innocence dominates "Small B...

  • Le Loup - "Family"

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 14:38 in music

    (Cross-posted from The 405: thefourohfive.com)Artist: Le LoupAlbum: FamilyLabel: Hardly ArtRelease Date: September 21, 2009Website: http://www.leloupmusic.net/There are significant sounds of autumn: subtle changes in the sky make the underfoot hum of...

  • Allan McCollum at the New York Public Library

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 14:03 in ideas, artworks

    A Conversation with Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny, Organized by Art21 and the New York Public Library, October 6, 2009."How do artists use systems? Why do we accept some systems while rebelling against others? Who owns images? How do artists inv...

  • Baldessari and Rauschenberg Prints in San Francisco

    Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 15:32 in exhibitions, artworks

    Rauschenberg and Baldessari Prints at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco(Image: "Booster," 1967, Robert Rauschenberg, Color lithograph and screenprint, 72 x 36 inches, published by G.E.L., Los Angeles)The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, compr...

  • Timber Timbre

    Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 01:13 in music

    Timber TimbreTimber TimbreLabel: 2009 Arts & Crafts Productions Inc.How do you review a haunting? Timber Timbre’s self-titled release, recently short-listed for the Polaris Prize, takes on phantom shapes through singer Taylor Kirk’s ghost-fol...

  • Jason "Hey, Wait"

    Posted on Monday August 31st, 2009 at 01:25 in books

    (Sorry, Marissa.)There are some stories which can only be told in pictures-- this is why art persists. There are other stories which require more: a subject so heavy might also need words, pages, and decisive and divisive squares which frame more inf...

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