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Archive for September, 2009
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Pop Life: Art in a Material World
It’s tomorrow! On October 1st Tate Modern opens the doors for its very anticipated show Pop Life. The exhibition brings together artists from the 1980s onwards who have embraced commerce and the mass media to build their own ‘brands’: Andy Warhol, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, ...
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Noah Kalina
photo by Ryan Pfluger I have been postponing this post about Noah Kalina because it takes a long list of links and I am lazy. He introduces himself very shortly: “I take photos. I live in Brooklyn.” Kalina is more than just a New Yorker ...
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Wallpaper
I love these installations by Cassandra C. Jones. Retro-kitsch icons like flamingos and cheerleaders are mixed on a very retro support: wallpaper. The fun contemporary spin is achieved by kaleidoscopically repeating the found images. You can see more and enlarge images on her website.
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Wordwide Green Eyes – Lincoln Clarkes
Koret Building, 99 East Cordova St. Vancouver, October 4, 1998 Vancouver Fashion Week, 2009 Lincoln Clarkes’ Heroines project stirred polemic in the late 90s’ Vancouver. It took shape as an exhibition followed by a book portraying women with drug addictions from the city’s Downtown Eastside. ...
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Nate Duval – Poster Art
Nate Duval works for some of my favourite bands – Wilco, Flight of The Conchords and Andrew Bird – and manages to come up with an exclusive and exciting idea for each one. Rauschenberg was partially responsible for elevating posters to a higher category of ...
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Christian Faur – Crayon Series
American artist Christian Faur uses crayon as pixels to compose portraits. As he says on his artist statement The things that inspire me to create, I find, are buried deep within the structures and systems that form the underpinning of our natural world. My studies ...