Artist Charlotte Young has created this fantastic video, subtitling the frequently clichéd, grandiloquent jabber of artistic statements with brutally honest confessions. It’s the art world equivalent of the “rap video manual” joke! Classic. Read more »
Twenty-one year old artist Anna Sinkova has been in jail for almost three months for frying eggs on the “Eternal Flame” of a veteran monument in Kiev, Ukraine. She was denied bail today. Read more »
65-year-old artist Jim Sanborn created the cypher sculpture Kryptos 20 years ago, and still, professional cryptologists and code cracker hobbyists have not cracked the last part of the 1,800 letter code, poked through a large block of petrified wood. The artist promised to leak an important clue to the New York Times shortly. Read more »
“Guerrilla” artist Pascal Guérineau had cunningly fixed his own painting on the wall between two dead masters’ work at the Louvre. It hung there until the next day, when someone finally noticed and confiscated it. “Museums are cemeteries for artists,” Guérineau stated, protesting the lack of contemporary work in the Louvre. Read more »
Artist Roman Klonek continues to draw influence from the Eastern European cartoons of his comic-addicted youth. The artist’s woodcuts, combine traditional folklore and popular culture into worlds full of fantastical creatures walking the line between animal and man. This Thursday, Klonek show off his latest prints at his first solo show, Flux Gate Kasachok, at Kemistry Gallery in London. Click the images above for our favorites from the artist’s latest cuts.
Artist Josh Keyes continues to create his post apocalyptic environmental landscapes that certainly illustrate the dangers of climate change better than Earth Hour. The artist has already shown us what happens when the polar ice caps melt and the big flood comes, now witness global warming at its worst. The image above is titled “Frenzy” and there’s a variation of that combustible theme called “Scorch II” after the jump.
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Using just his fingers and a $4.99 iPhone application, artist Jorge Colombo created some pretty interesting New York City street scenes. Below is a gallery of iSketches he did on the touchscreen cell phone with the help of a program called Brushes. |CraziestGadgets|
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Found this polka dot rendition of Ted Kennedy. It was uploaded to flickr back in 2006 and is the only non-caricature based art of the “Liberal Lion” out there—besides this guy’s delightful shooting target recreation. It was created by DPTRONZ: “I’m not really that political. I spent two hours drawing this from a photograph. It’s funny how hoakey it ended up looking. I chose some really hoakey colors: Mustard yellow (or olive green?) and Purples…” |DPTRONZ’s flickr|
Essex-Delancey Subway station: F, J, M, Z
It just goes to show that not all vandalism need be done with spraypaint and drippy markers, elastic webs can also cause some chaos. Artist Jasmine Zimmerman is a nocturnal web slinger creating rubber band installations all over Manhattan with the hopes of entangling you in her stretchy art. A few nights ago she covered the entrances of the Essex street subway station and claims MTA workers appreciated her art even while being forced to climb through it to get to work. She has also ensnared bikers and joggers in Tompkins Square Park and altered countless routes. Some might deride her art as careless and dangerous, but we just think it’s fun. After the jump we provide more of her rubbery webs followed by her existential statement in full, all 524 words of it, detailing the project.
Meet Miru Kim. She thinks Manhattan is beautiful. And what better way to show appreciation for this city then stripping off her clothes and photographing herself in front of some of its most well known structures (at least amongst graffiti writers, Mole people, and NYC transit workers).
One can only hope Miru and Spencer Tunick cross paths under the Brooklyn Bridge and engage in a nude photog knife fight to claim individual territory.
[Naked City Spleen] Miru Kim photography
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