Hal Lasko was a typographer and graphic artist before the age of Illustrator and InDesign. Long after he retired, his grandsons got him a computer and showed him Microsoft Paint. Now, at age 97, he might be the greatest Paint painter of all time. He prefers the method to working by hand because it allows him to zoom in and work pixel-by-pixel, which, with his failing eyesight, is the only way to get the detail he wants. See Lasko’s life and work in the beautiful short documentary above, directed by his grandson Ryan Lasko and Josh Bogdan.
Multi-media artist Hunter Jonakin -- maker of our favorite video game Jeff Koons Must Die!!! -- is working on a new project. He's foraying into the realm of performance art. This isn't art meant to sell a gallery. It's art meant for you -- the audience. Many of these clever performances are deeply…
Watch artist Narcelio Grud forage bins and gutters for squishy, festering, rotting fruit to tropical music. Watch him smear it all over a wall. But wait. That's a not bad-looking mouth. Look at those red-orange gradients. And he stayed clear of the Rolling Stone-ing or Rocky Horror Picture Show-ing. Not bad for…
In the above video, Jan Schekauski the human crawls around on the floor while Dasha the rhesus macaque crawls around on his back. Also, Dasha has paint all over his or her little monkey-hands, and so Jan gets paint all over his back. Then, Jan gets a tattoo of the marks Dasha…
