A bunch of new rugs are posted and available through the links at the top of the home page. Most notably, a selection of Red Rugs. Red Rugs, once plentiful are now rare.
Other highlights are:
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WNYC Gallerina Story about Kevin Sudeith’s Work
Carolina Miranda has published a story on WNYC’s fine arts blog, Gallerina. It’s the first arts coverage of Kevin’s petroglyphs.
Hidden City: Unearthing Kevin Sudeith’s Urban Petroglyphs
Blue Mosque on Victoria Street in Singapore
In March Veronica Peek of Melbourne, Australia wrote warrug.com to inform us that the image in rug above (and others like it) is the Malabar Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, on Victoria Street in Singapore. It appears the image is not the Flinder’s Street Train Station in Melbourne, AU as Max Allen suggested, nor the Sultan Hussein Shrine as I suggested. Yesterday, RN wrote with the same assertion.
My primary goal in founding warrug.com was to create exactly this sort of dialogue. So, although I stand corrected, I appreciate the dialogue tremendously. Please keep the corrections coming…
War Rug Exhibition at Penn Museum
A selection of rugs from the Textile Museum in Canada is on display at Penn Museum. More info and lots of interesting videos here.
Ouch!
…Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi serves as a washroom mat at a rebel-run prison in Libya
Petroglyphist Story by David Knowles in The Daily
Today there is a story in The Daily about Kevin Sudeith’s Berkeley Petroglyph. Below is a static link, but iPad users can see more dynamic content by downloading The Daily iPad app.
News Story About Kevin Sudeith’s Petroglyph Opening in Berkeley
Yesterday’s Sunday edition of Contra Costa Times and the West County Times featured on the Local News front page a story about Kevin Sudeith’s petroglyph in North Berkely, which opens this weekend April 30 and May 1.
“The contrast of the super-old with the contemporary was just awesome to me,” Sudeith said.
After getting bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art, he taught himself to grind, chisel and paint the rock he’s working on, and he invented his own technique.
“I like making a durable document of art and documenting our contemporary technology,” Sudeith said.
What: Contemporary petroglyphs (rock carvings)
Who: New York artist Kevin Sudeith
When: Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, from 10:00am to 8:00pm
Where: 1959 San Antonio Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707
Kevin Sudeith’s Petroglyph Featured on Discover Magazine Blog
Rebecca Horne, the Photo Editor at Discover Magazine, has a fascinating blog at Discover called Visual Science. Recently she posted a story about my latest petroglyph carving in Montana of the Chandra X-ray observatory.
More space petroglyphs are at Petroglyphist.com.
Besides Chandra in Montana there are two tractors (one with seeder drill), three pickups (pictographs), a water truck, an antelope (one was shot on the land while I was there), a double portrait of the original Czech homesteaders, and a cowboy with two cows.
September 16, 2010: Kevin Sudeith to Lecture at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
John Jay is mounting an exhibition of about 60 war rugs from the Warrug.com collection. The show will open in early September and I will be giving a lecture, and a reception will be held, on September 16 in the galleries at the school. Update to follow.
Warrug.com rug in Wired Story about Growing the Afghan Carpet Industry
The rug in the photo was shown at Denison University in Ohio, and it will be on display at a show at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan in September and October. It is also the invitation post card image. This pattern turned into Soviet Exodus rugs which turned into WTC rugs and Tora Bora rugs.