Peter Ferko Art

art to science and back

Peter — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:06:58 +0000

In Terry Gross’s interview, Brian May, guitarist of Queen, put on an unexpected (by me) hat, and explained that everything in the universe is made of the dust of supernovae. He noted that Joni Mitchell was therefore accurate when she wrote, “we are stardust…” in Woodstock.

May, it turns out, studied the dust streaming through our [...]

what i wanna do this week 6.26.10

Peter — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:50:10 +0000

‡ See I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore) — again.

I occasionally find an artist I hope won’t become too popular. It’s a feeling of jealous possession. I can’t remember ever having this feeling about a film — until now. This amazing film is like a dreamy drug rush that makes it seem possible [...]

so easy?!

Peter — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:48:15 +0000

Bridgitte Bardot in God Created Woman (1956).

Jean-Luc Godard said that all one needs to make a film is a gun and a girl. Shoot, I put so much extra in my last screenplay!!!

Cute article and one editor’s fatales françaises in Vanity fair

what i want to do this week 6.16.10

Peter — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:04:22 +0000

‡ Pop. To be sure, the most important act of the week will be to honor the father (and mother concurrently); luckily the visit is possible this year on Father’s Day. ‡ Cyrus. I am very looking forward to Cyrus with Marissa Tomei, a crush ever since My Cousin Vinny. This movie hits some of the [...]

what i want to do 6.1.10

Peter — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:53:18 +0000

robin, marion

with cate, russell, ridley

3 favorite talents

1 favorite story

somehow, everything is moving at the pace of … this, but I will, i will, i….willl get to this film or maybe when i go on vacation next week….

whitney, moma

Peter — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:28:37 +0000

okay, so i’m the last person not a tourist to catch this installation of the biennial and other landmark museum shows in town. But there were extenuating circumstances. The biennial was pretty much what I have come to expect (there is a review by Peter Plagens in Art in America that captures my overall feelings while [...]

the gauntlet is thrown

Peter — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:05:34 +0000

Christian Viveros-Fauné gives a big nod to Chris Verene’s new Book, Family in today’s Village Voice and throws down this assessment of “most artists” work:

…Substitute the word “art” for “cultural theory,” and you’ve just described a parallel universe for much of the stuff that regularly fills contemporary galleries and museums. While rafts of visual artists [...]

hal hartley

Peter — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:16:00 +0000

I had the great good fortune to notice that IFC is hosting the premiere of Hal Hartley’s latest films. I made tonight’s big screen showing of classics Surviving Desire, Ambition and Theory of Achievement. His new films are showing tomorrow 4/22. I picked them up on DVD and learned the Hartley is now back [...]

new graffiti :: new collage

Peter — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:27:39 +0000

Back during the project now:here:this, which I ran with Artists Unite, several artists took up a technique of using Scotch Tape to grab images from printed matter and create layered collage (here’s an example from Tony Gonzalez). In the subway stop I use these days, some graffiti artists have taken a similar direction with a [...]

more info, no please

Peter — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:32:28 +0000

Doing some research on wordpress themes, I came across this website that I think is a writer’s book review site devoted to virtually everything cultural: ugly blog. What is everything cultural, you might ask? Well, imagine a syllabus that starts with Indonesian art and end with handbags of the apocalypse and you have the general [...]