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Yves Klein

New Yorker writer Peter Schjeldahl continues to impress this week with his piece “True Blue” covering Yves Klein and the artist’s recent retrospective. You can read it here. What better statement for an… Continue reading →

New Business Cards

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Paul Hayes Tucker Vid

You have to check out the video of Paul Hayes Tucker doing his rap at the Late Monet show at Gagosian: http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/2010-05-01_claude-monet/#/videos/1/

Working Monet

A paragraph from my draft on the Monet show at Gagosian (writing is hard): Take Cezanne for instance, whose insistence at maintaining a balance between technique and experience have famously left blank spots… Continue reading →

FPTC at Studio 57

Just adjourned the FPTC meeting in Studio 57. Above, see a shot of the x/o event in April: A visual / sound / spoken-word installation created by Martin Cockroft, Kurt Cole Eidsvig, and… Continue reading →

Dr. Lakra at ICA

Seems too dependent on Kara Walker. Graffiti without the risk? Scale? Maybe I just need an ICA show.

Outside Studio 57

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Google Portraits

I am ever looking for the intersection of art and technology, or art and culture. This seems somewhat close to pop art, but there is some necessary contending to do with the layered… Continue reading →

Self-portraits Disguised as Narrative

Have been looking and looking and looking at the recent work, A Sky Full of X’s and O’s and realize more than ever that these XO Comic paintings are self-portraits disguised as narratives.… Continue reading →

Yinka Shonibare MBE

I was watching some Art21 tonight and came across the work of Yinka Shonibare, MBE, who I am embarrassed to say I had never heard of. Felt pretty interesting to realize that the… Continue reading →

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Website Update

For those who haven’t visited KurtColeEidsvig.com in a while, there has been a major update including new galleries and images of recent work.

50 Channels

I have been working on a new internet installation titled 50Channels. Check it out: 50Channels.

Nathalie Vogel and BigREDandShiny

Check out the current issue of BigREDandShiny which features an interview I did with artist extraordinaire, Nathalie Vogel. Image above is courtesy of NathalieVogel.com.

Living in a Hopper painting

I have been telling people lately that living in Studio 57 is like living in an Edward Hopper painting.