SHARKFORUM: OPINION WITH TEETH

Art Critics, the Artworld, Ethics
by Mark Staff Brandl

New Week, New Show
by Ursula Sokolowska

How-to-Make Contemporary Installation Art, a TV show
by Mark Staff Brandl

James Kalm: Martin Puryear Retrospective at MoMA
by Mark Staff Brandl

This Friday (1/11) @ Gallery 2
by Ursula Sokolowska

Art Basel Miami Coverage by Joanne Mattera
by Mark Staff Brandl

Pedro Velez on "Sympathy for the Devil," POSERS AND ROCKERS
by Mark Staff Brandl

"Call it Merde (and They Will Eat It)": James Kalm’s Excellent Article
by Mark Staff Brandl

Shark Attack: Curatorial Malpractice Week
by Mark Staff Brandl

A Short Guide to the Consensus Curator Career Ladder; or Why All Shows Look the Same
by Mark Staff Brandl

The Nine Arts and the Nine Muses
by Mark Staff Brandl

Tara McPherson, High-Low-Brow Wunder-Artist
by Mark Staff Brandl

Sharkforum Funnies 2
by Mark Staff Brandl

Sharkforum Funnies
by Mark Staff Brandl

Nu Pop Scape
by Mark Staff Brandl

Let's Rage
by Ursula Sokolowska

Check Mate: Ingmar Bergman is Dead at Age 89
by david roth

Shock The Monkey
by Paul K

Beyond Decapitated Elephant Seals, More Enticing Than Any Surfer, (or crummy, half baked curator) The Shark Lites Up Tinseltown Circling, The Girls Next Door!
by The Shark

Films That Deserve to Be Revisited: I Spit on Your Grave by Meir Zarchi
by Simone Muench

Around The World in 80 Minutes - Now THIS is What We Really Need
by david roth

Tara McPherson, High-Low-Brow Wunder-Artist
by Mark Staff Brandl

Uptime at the Experimental Station, tapeworms, and the economies of art-thought (Massive Change comes to Chicago)
by Lynne Warren

Rick Geary's Artist Caricatures
by david roth

Horror Posters
by Simone Muench

How-to-Make Contemporary Installation Art, a TV show
by Mark Staff Brandl

A Neo-Conceptual Artist Fresh out of School
by Mark Staff Brandl

Dare to Dream A Little Dream!
by The Shark

Your “New York Age”
by Mark Staff Brandl

Sharkforum Funnies 3
by Mark Staff Brandl

Poem of the Week: from Filament Sense by William Allegrezza
by Simone Muench

The End Below Where You Were Reading
by Kim Christoff

Poem of the Week: "beta (Β, β)" by Michaela Gabriel
by Simone Muench

Poem of the Week: "Mood Ring" by Jaswinder Bolina
by Simone Muench

Poem of the Week: from The Work of Days by Sarah Lang
by Simone Muench

Peter Schjeldahl asserts: Chicago is Now a Mere Receptor Art-City
by Mark Staff Brandl

In Honor of Bad At Sports' Judy Ledgerwood Interview, We Thought We Would Put Up Some Images of Her Paintings!...OH NO! Whats Wrong Here? Why Are They All Signed, Larry Poons 1962? Introducing a New Term: Politically Manipulated Ripoff Facsimile Painting!
by The Shark

A Brush With Death, Anatomy of a Shark Bite!
by The Shark

"The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht
by Ray Pride

Archer Prewitt Gets Props on BoingBoing.net
by david roth

Pedro Velez on "Sympathy for the Devil," POSERS AND ROCKERS
by Mark Staff Brandl

"Seems like a river washed away your walking shoes..."
by Richard Dobson

A Man Amongst Boys, It Hardly Seemed Fair: Report From Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Fest In Two Words: JEFF! BECK!
by The Shark

A Conversation With David Olney
by Richard Dobson

The Guitar Slinger
by The Shark

Apathy
by Paul K

Fire in the Belly - Act 10: Back To Square One
by david roth

Fire in the Belly - Act 9: Anger Is An Energy
by david roth

Fire in the Belly - Act 8: Wherein the Author is Humbled, and Offers Several Mea Culpas
by david roth

Fire in the Belly - Act 7: Rock Yer Block Off!
by david roth

the masked announcer has left the auditorium
by John Kruth

A Photo Essay Homage To The Whale Shark
by The Shark

Mission of Burma: The Face of Courage
by david roth

Alexander Wilson's Magnolia Warbler
by KC Clarke

In Praise of Courage 2
by ed

EELS
by KC Clarke

Looking away: one day in Toronto
by Ray Pride

you traveled far: after Thom Yorke
by Ray Pride

Dispatch From India
by John Kruth

the BEST thing about SXSW2006 had nothing to do with it...
by Todd V. Wolfson

EELS
by KC Clarke

"The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht
by Ray Pride

Alexander Wilson's Magnolia Warbler
by KC Clarke

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker
by KC Clarke

car repair
by Ursula Sokolowska

Is There A Polite Way To Say, FUCK OFF AND DIE? The Shark Gets Nominated For A Dreihaus Award
by The Shark

Sharkforum Supports Klein's Call to Arms
by Mark Staff Brandl

Dictatorship of the Consensoriat
by Mark Staff Brandl

Sneering Political Satire from an Onionite and Sobering Words from George McGovern
by Paul K

Rove—Our Goebbels. Right-Wing TV Propaganda
by Mark Staff Brandl

Chicago Art History
by Ursula Sokolowska

Calling All Sharks
by KC Clarke

Tonight at The Architrouve in Chicago
by david roth

Planet Gore: Talking An Inconvenient Truth
by Ray Pride

Happy Holidays From Sharkforum
by ed

Memo to Betsy Baker -editor, Art In America: Beyond Kilimnik: How Will The MCA, or ART IN AMERICA Top Itself? The Shark Offers Up One Possibility, A Kinkade, Kilimnik Smackdown!
by The Shark

Seeing, is believing! NOW FESTOONING THE COVER! of ART IN AMERICA! And, Coming soon to the MCA, The Consensoriat's Idea Of Interesting Painting, With Accompanying Essay (Bootlicking) by, Curator Dominic Molon. Behold, The Genius That Is, Karen Kilimnik
by The Shark

Self-Reliance, A Thought
by Mark Staff Brandl

Todays Aesthetic Criteria: But Saatchi Bought One!
by The Shark

Introducing a New Art Historical Term: Feeble Painting
by Mark Staff Brandl

Don't Stop Believeeeeun! Shame On You Nick! Using Our Good Friend Kurt Elling As a Beard! Isn't This the Band You Really Want To Gush About?...Well?
by The Shark

SHARK PARTY! WooOOOoooOOOO!
by The Shark

Sharks, Tigers and Pigs
by John Kruth

Welcome to Lunch at the Farallones.
by The Shark

Food, Wine, Women and Song! My Pals and Me, (The Shark) Having A Whale of A Time!
by The Shark

How-to-Make Contemporary Installation Art, a TV show
by Mark Staff Brandl

Death of Old Media, part 277: Craigslist assassinating journalism?
by Ray Pride

Death of Old Media: part 276 (The little trainwreck that could)
by Ray Pride

Death of Old Media: part 275 (A courtesy so deep it amounts to beauty)
by Ray Pride

Death of Old Media: Part #274 (On being a man)
by Ray Pride

At The Chopin Theater, Mention Sharkforum, Get Two Tickets For The Price Of One!
by The Shark

Come to DADA- Where else, but at Sharkpit Central!
by The Shark

Tickets on sale now for Twilight Orchard at Redmoon Theatre
by ed

Sharktracks: The Golden Truffle Officially Opens to a Sold Out House!
by ed

TONIGHT IN CHICAGO: Redmoon Theatre's Golden Truffle Previews
by ed

H.R. Fricker: Place of Places.com — Signage for Living Rooms
by Mark Staff Brandl

Van Gogh's Personal Letters
by david roth

This is the BOX only - no kit. (No kit??? Darn!)
by KC Clarke

Collectors Wanted, Students in Excess, Pulling the Line
by Mark Staff Brandl

Accolading Shark: Iconoduel and Roky Erickson
by Mark Staff Brandl

ephebiphobia, n.
by Simone Muench

taphnophobia, n.
by Simone Muench

Dysphemism
by Simone Muench

lumen, n.
by Simone Muench

oleaginous, adj.
by Simone Muench

Guided by Sharks

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Posted by Wesley Kimler on January 10, 2006 02:03 AM | Permalink

Comments

looks as if ol' Bob's about to land a body-blow.

Posted by: David Roth | January 10, 2006 03:21 PM

Hey Wes, where's my photo credit?

Posted by: Scott Melanson | January 10, 2006 05:21 PM

That's an excellent photo Scott. Much better than all the other blue tinted ones he has of himself.

... And we've only chipped the tip of the iceberg with his photo album :0

Personally, my favorite is still the Kentucky Fried drumstick Shark pic. I believe I was the photographer on that one.

Posted by: Miss Bockoven | January 10, 2006 06:17 PM

Isn't amazing just how damned good the two rock star sharks look -even in a crappy photograph taken by some amateur hack paparazzi? -photo credit goes to the bon vivant' and part-time pirate himself- Mr. Scott Melanson.

Posted by: wesley kimler | January 10, 2006 07:16 PM

Hey Wesley! Thanks for all the feedback and I love the site and your pics (especially of art in progress)--- but I rather miss your "tirades" over at The Art Letter --- As soon as you have time, I'd love to read more of your thoughts again!

Posted by: Mark Staff Brandl | January 11, 2006 06:00 AM

well Mark, you must remember, shark attacks happen on the shark's dime -usually when least expected- perhaps you should consider the silence portentous......... all images I have posted of work are completed and finished paintings and drawings: -you have to get, The Shark ranges from the extremely minimal and completely abstract to the quasi figurative, from minimal means to painterly fireworks that even your friend might find excessive, exaggerated, or, given to histrionics-.......btw, there have been shark sightings -but recently they have been for the most part, confined to canvas-

Posted by: wesley kimler | January 11, 2006 06:35 AM

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