By JASON DEAN There are certain places we have come to expect will be open 24 hours a day: gas stations, grocery stores, the occasional fast food restaurant. “Normal Business Hours” are an idea we left behind in the 90s,…
A CONVERSATION WITH POSTERBOY By Jason Dean I first saw Posterboy’s work on the subway platform a month or so ago. It was a reworked ad poster for the show Date My Ex, only someone had replaced the heads of these…
By JASON DEAN In 2006, brothers Lucas and Jason Ajemian transcribed the Black Sabbath song ‘Into The Void’ backwards and arranged it for a classical orchestra. The piece, entitled ‘From Beyond,’ was scheduled to be performed 4 times in association…
By JASON DEAN I saw a Christoph Büchel piece in a building in Chinatown once. I have to describe it as a singular piece because the entire building was literally the work, every corridor, every light, every room had his…
By JASON DEAN What I knew of The Books from their 3 previous albums was that they were fellow documenters, appreciators of the sample, the sound collage, the tapes from answering machines at the salvation army. I later found out…
By JASON DEAN Approaching the museum from 5th avenue I could see people already lined up across the street, against the wall, facing the MoMA entrance. There was a pretzel vender on the sidewalk, listening to the radio and I…
By JASON DEAN Editor’s Note: In issue #46 of Big RED, Jason Dean wrote about a lecture by the collaborative eTeam and “International Airport Montello” project. After that piece was published, Dean became a part of the project, and in…
By JASON DEAN Editor’s Note: In issue #46 of Big RED & Shiny, Jason Dean wrote a piece about the German collaborative eTeam and their “International Airport Montello” project. Since that piece, Dean has become a part of the project,…
By JASON DEAN At art school in NY city, I learned an important lesson that no ridiculous amount of tuition could have taught me: no one is about to hold your hand in any way and the real world should…
By JASON DEAN In Venus at Her Mirror, a well-known painting by Diego Velasquez, Venus reclines on a sofa with her back to the viewer. She’s looking back at the viewer in a mirror held by Cupid. Her face is…
By JASON DEAN Recently I went to the Art in General artist talk at Sara Meltzer Gallery of Eteam’s project “Montello International Airport.” I had briefly looked at Eteam’s website before I went, and saw a photo from the project…
By JASON DEAN Gift and Commodity Transactions in Contemporary Practice, a lecture hosted by Art in General Art is not an ordinary commodity. Art is not a loaf of bread: it’s easy to figure out how much it costs to…
By JASON DEAN Print this article …Yet man to-day is the same man that drank from his enemy’s skull in the dark German forests, that sacked cities, and stole his women from neighboring clans like any howling aborigine. The flesh-and-blood…