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Archive for September, 2008
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Pantone Pen Print
Daniel Eatock draws a blurred line between fine arts and design. His work Pantone Pen Print uses a whole set of pens lined by color value onto a stack of paper and left to bleed for one month. The experience produced 73 prints numbered from ...
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Surreal Alice
Advice from a Caterpillar, 1969 Heliogravure with Woodblock 11.5″ x 17″ As a general rule, I don’t like Salvador Dalí. That said, his suite of illustrations for Lewis Carroll‘s Alice in Wonderland provided me with a lyrical and delicate exception. You can see the 12 ...
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Art Squares
The collective Royal Art Lodge is showing 160 little paintings (2″x2″) at Pippy Houldsworth, London.The text for the catalog is an interview with the equally tragicomic David Shrigley. The group, formed in Winnipeg in 1996 and now reduced to three artists, got also a good ...
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"If you want more meaningful art, build a more meaningful world"
more photos of rutty here “Could a Campbell’s soup can really be the Sistine ceiling of our age? And if Warhol and his appropriated imagery represent the apex of artistic achievement, what does that say about modern culture’s capacity for meaning?” “So when considering meaning in ...
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Miranda July
Miranda July is a writer, movie director, performer, visual artist and some other things still without a proper label. The low-tech website for her book “No One Belongs Here More Than You” is one of the most clever things I’ve seen on the net. The ...
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Aboriginal Air Jordans
Brian Jungen, Prototypes for New Understanding (1998-2005), partial installation view. Photo Trevor Mills Canadian artist Brian Jungen works with consumer products and re-contextualize them bringing new and interesting meanings. Prototypes for New Understanding (1998-2005) is Jungen’s series of West Coast Aboriginal masks made entirely from ...
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Land (Sand) Art
Land Art, zen garden, crop circles. With a show at the PS1/Moma in the summer of 2007 and works published in The New York Times and National Geographic, Jim Denevan makes his amazing sand drawings working with a stick for over 7 hours and walking ...
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Felt Tip Pin-Ups
Pin-ups, fairies, nymphets, sirens. Lucie Bennett‘s work investigates the female imagery and achetypes. Very airy and sexy.
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Sam Taylor-Wood
Her Crying Men series became famous all over internet but Sam Taylor-Wood has a lot more to show and tell. Her films play with the notion of time and her photos with weight and gravity. White Cube will be showing her work from October 24 ...
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Damien Hirst – £70.7 million in one day
(The Auctioneer at Sothebys sale of Damien Hirst work ‘Beautiful inside my head forever’ takes a bid on one of the items Photo: JOHN TAYLOR – Go here for the full article) It’s hard to know what to think when a bull preserved in formaldehyde ...