Author Archives: brandon joyce

The sublime ministry of the Museum of Jurassic Technology

By brandon joyce | April 13, 2010 | 1 Comment

It’s unlikely, if you’ve never been to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, that I’d be able to adequately catch you up to speed in a single post. Hell, even if you had been there— and felt, like I did, that you’d found your new favorite thing in the universe— it still might [...]

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Las Vegas Studio: Images from Venturi and Brown

By brandon joyce | March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment

Las Vegas Studio: Images from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown at the The MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles. Learning from Las Vegas was a real watershed moment— or maybe I should say a real Waterloo moment— in architectural history. This book was the first, fully-formulated backlash against the dictates of Modernist architecture, however [...]

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Breaking News at Little Berlin.

By brandon joyce | October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a real sucker for hijacking idioms. That is, moving into a certain idiom— like Airport Retail, Las Vegas, Ancient Persia, Higher Education— and adopting its forms and format for parody, analysis, or even as a straightforward medium. It was this weakness that first grabbed me when I found [...]

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Erica Prince, et al., Far In Far Out, FUEL Collection.

By brandon joyce | September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

I’ve always wondered how those little fascinations of childhood— toys— one day make their way into fully-formed, grown-up culture-making. Action Figures. Blocks. Clay. Dollhouses. No one can convince me that those hands-on pieces of plastic were not, for me and every other child, objects of True Beauty. Just try to remember: standing in the aisles [...]

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Philadelphia and its Manufactures— Jacob Hellman, Phillip Taylor

By brandon joyce | August 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

August 20th, Art in Age of Mechanical Reproduction.– Pretty tickled by this presentation. Jacob [i.e. speaker Jacob Hellman] and I have, on numerous occasions, swapped ideas on the arcane beauty of both former Philadelphian industry and its currently-aching hell-neighborhoods. But rather than getting lost in the mythos and delirium, as I always have, Jacob remained [...]

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Obsessive collectors convention this month at Copy

By brandon joyce | November 10, 2008 | 2 Comments

Post by Brandon Joyce Installation shot from Collections Show at Copy. Image features Neon Pink Things collected by Callie Konane Rickards (center), Andrew Jeffrey Wright‘s Family Circus books collection (left) and Erica Prince’s Best Friends photos collection (right) This month, at Copy Gallery, Luren Jenison curated a Collections Show, with entries gathered from the private [...]

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