Tag: Art
As “Cinema Vezzoli” exhibit closes today at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, this majestic YouTube video of swinging testicles triumphs, surviving six whole days without being censored — though “NSFW” has been added to the title, as well as a Community Guidelines disclaimer. In “The Return of Bruce Nauman’s Bouncing Balls,” Francesco Vezzoli casts porn star Brad […]
Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Piggyback (1997) was recently removed from display at Rome’s contemporary art museum MAXXI, de-installed before the September closing of the permanent collection exhibit “Remembering is Not Enough.” Observatory on the Rights of the Child group complained to the government. Its president Antonio Marziale demanded that the work would never be shown again. This is not about an attack […]
Artists Victor Ivanov and Lewis G. Burton created this “gimp suit” sewn from real chicken skin, which Burton wore as he wandered around Trafalgar Square in London, horrifying and intriguing the public. Their project FLESH was meant to provoke ideas of “commodification through social media.” The artists wrote on Facebook: This abnormality creates a stimulus for the general […]
The are some very well-known artists featured in the “Back to Eden” exhibit currently on view at the Museum of Biblical Art (MoBiA). The show includes Big Bang-esque moments of creation in sculptural works with suspended and festive elements, as well as sexy Adam and Eve references. There are many things that bloom and are splendorous, evoking “the bounteous […]
There are as many as 50,000 digital and static billboards in all 50 U.S. States that have been taken over by respected works of art on August 4th. As part of the Art Everywhere US, they’ll be up all month. Check out the map — there are a few cycling in the fluorescent ad displays of Times […]
Attention fashionistas and fetishists. “Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe” exploring “one of the most provocative and iconic objects of desire” comes to the Brooklyn Museum this September. Through more than 160 artfully-crafted historical and contemporary high heels from the seventeenth century through the present, the exhibition examines the mystique and transformative power […]
Today, glitChicago opens at Chicago’s Ukrainian Institute of Art (UIA), featuring 22 glitch artists from around the country. There has been a renaissance of new media art in the Windy City over the last few years, which hosted the GLI.TC/H in 2010 through 2012. Tonight will include live performances from many of the show’s participants, including A. Bill Miller and Nick Kegeyan, […]
Cloud Piano by artist David Bowen is an instrument played by the sky. A live feed of clouds and its patches of light and dark are interpreted into “hand” movements. As the sky changes, so do the notes played. Creative Applications explains, “MaxMSP patch uses the video of the clouds in real-time to drive a robotic device that presses the […]
Artist Damien Hirst‘s plan to build an extension to the UK town of Ilfracombe has passed the initial stage of approval, North Devon Journal reports. The “Southern Extension” will include “750 houses, shops, a new primary school and health care facilities.” Controversy previously sprung up around the proposal in the North Devon Council. Councillor Peter Cresswell raised concerns […]
Today, a realistic U.S. army recruitment video would include a uniformed soldier calmly tapping away at a keyboard. His eyes would be locked on a screen where strategized bursts of violence would play out in CGI or very far away. Currently on view in Berlin, Harun Farocki’s “Serious Games” video series provides a documentarian view into […]
