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Artist Turns Garbage Bags Into World's Greatest Balloon Animals - Using only tape and garbage bags, Harris creates giant inflatable animals that become animated when fastened to a sidewalk grate (VIDEO).
Nish / about 16 hours ago / Bookmark / Flag
Brooklyn Store Celebrates The Art Of Graffiti - Alphabeta is a new Brooklyn-based community art space that also sells graffiti art materials.The store is a single room on Greenpoint Avenue in Brooklyn. It features a larger outdoor space where murals can be painted on high walls and painted over and over again. Inside, there are racks of T-shirts, spray-painted hats and boxes of deadstock sneakers that were popular with graffiti and hip-hop artists in the 1980s and 90s.
Nish / 2 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Art Auctions on Cruise Ships Lead to Anger - Auctioning “fine art” on cruises, often to first-time bidders, has become big business — but some customers say they did not get what they bargained for.
Nish / 3 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Graffiti: Street art – or crime? - A group of south London graffiti artists were jailed last week for up to two years for defacing public property. Yet as they begin their sentences, their work is to be championed by a New York gallery.
Nish / 3 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
After Nature & Younger Than Jesus @New Museum
After Nature, a group show covering three floors at the New Museum on Bowery, opens to the public on Thursday, July 17th. The show is described as as "a hallucinated panorama of a world on the verge of disappearance." One would not have thought an exhibit on environmental ruin could be so fun... I particularly liked Maurizio Cattelan's headless horse (above), Zoe Leonard's barren tree, Berilinde De Bruyckere's rotting body and Eugene Von Buenchenhein's colorful explosions.
Coming to the New Museum in October is a survey of Elizabeth Payton's work and a retrospective of Mary Heilmann.
In exciting news for the Artlog artist community, in the Spring of 2009, the New Museum will host an international triennial for emerging artists entitled "Younger than Jesus."
Nish / 4 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Bomb art explodes notions of peace and security - Robert Wilhite has reproduced "Fat Man," the nuclear bomb that the United States dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, 63 years ago. "I wanted something the opposite of heavy," Wilhite said. "I wanted it really light and transparent. I wanted something people would react to. I want people to think about their own values: 'It's beautiful, but wait a minute -- this is a weapon of mass destruction.' "
Nish / 4 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Portraitist Kehinde Wiley temporarily sets up shop in Africa. - Like the hero of a children’s story, painter Kehinde Wiley grew up as one of six siblings raised with more love than money by a single mom who was an antiques dealer in South Central Los Angeles. After earning his M.F.A. from Yale in '01, he moved to New York to participate in the Studio Museum’s residency program. Over the rest of that year, he began to choose his subjects from what he has called the “runway” of 125th Street. By granting them the ceremonial trappings of the historically rich and famous, he cast himself as the court painter of urban life. In 2005, that role became more literal when VH1 tapped him to immortalize such members of hip-hop royalty as LL Cool J, Ice-T and Biggie Smalls for an campaign advertising that year’s VH1 Hip-Hop Honors show.
Nish / 5 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Yves Saint Laurent $600M Art Collection to be Sold - Following his death last month aged 71, Saint Laurent's business partner, former companion and heir, Pierre Bergé – with whom he built the collection – is reported to be considering a massive international sale. The Art Newspaper reports that the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, have locked horns over which one should handle the sale.
Nish / 6 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
In Linz, Art at the End of the Tunnel - More than 20km of tunnels run underneath the Austrian city of Linz. Some were dug during the 19th century, their constantly cool temperatures perfect for storing beer. Others, built by forced labor from German and Austrian concentration camps, are a grim reminder of the city's Nazi past. Adolf Hitler went to school in the city and later had plans for making it a center of the arts. During World War II, the tunnels were used by the weapons industry and as air-raid shelters. Now, after more than 60 years of disuse, they have been re-opened as a unique underground art gallery.
Nish / 8 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Port Authority gets less ugly for awhile
Tattfoo Tan's vinyl mural goes up on on the windows of Port Authority starting July 17. The mural covers 180 ft of windows on Eight Ave and 41 St. This is sure to make my next trip to the Port Authority bowling alley a lot better.
http://tattfoo.com/projects.html
Nish / 8 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Pietre dure works in "Art of the Royal Court" - A sumptuous sprawl of 170 objects borrowed from palaces and former palaces (that is, museums) all over Europe, it is the first in-depth survey of the arts and crafts of pietre dure. That Italian term, which translates as hard rock or hardstone, refers foremost to an intricate inlay of finely cut, highly polished slices of semiprecious stones: agate, lapis lazuli, jasper, carnelian, alabaster, rock crystal, amethyst. The exhibition is at the Met through September.
Nish / 8 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
You can love both Nietzsche and Hello Kitty - The Art Newspaper interviews Thomas Hirschhorn. On why he exhibited work from 2003 at the recent Art Basel, Hirschhorn says, "Hotel Democracy is more actual than ever. Why should I accept the dictatorship of the new? Why systematically show a new work? Hotel Democracy—our common house in which we are guests—is about the will to be a real and primary democrat and the refusal to be a domesticated, democratised subject. Democracy today has to improve its meaning. Democracy cannot be turned into a holy cow. Furthermore, democracy has to be—every day—newly discussed and debated upon. Democracy cannot be exported as a plus-value, democracy has to fight to be incisive and convincing. Democracy is strong when the people are real democrats and resist the protection of self-interests."
iamstillalive / 9 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
Bubbles, Booms, and Busts: The Art Market in 2008 - Tyler Cowen reviews the "$12 Million Stuffed Shark" by Don Thompson for the New York Sun: If you're wondering why there's such a boom in contemporary art today, that's because of competition, too. It's no longer possible to put together a world-class collection of Rembrandts or Botticellis; in fact, it can be hard to find a good one at all, at any price. But if you love contemporary art, or at least think you do, you can scale the heights of the market and leave your mark on the world as a collector. Today's richest got to where they are by having this emphasis on reaching no. 1; we should expect that same psychology to carry over to the art market. If the price is having to buy a stuffed shark rather than a shining Madonna, so be it; the world is growing more secular anyway.
iamstillalive / 9 days ago / Bookmark / Flag
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