Tag: Art
Finnish artist Jani Leinonen, who “executed” a Ronald McDonald statue in 2011, took on Hungary’s anti-homeless legislation by opening a fake fast food restaurant in Budapest, pointedly branded as “Hunger King.” With lines set up to separate the “POOR” and the “RICH,” the artist served fake but authentic-looking parody Burger King packages, complete with a Capitalism “coke” to homeless […]
Artist Jeff Koons bare ass, flexed back and fuzzy chest are on full display inside the new Vanity Fair. And, just below the strategically placed title “S” that loops around his shadowed crotch area, there also appears to be just a hint of penis and/or balls drooping triumphantly in anticipation of the 59-year-old artist’s upcoming retrospective at the […]
Artist/comedian/distinctive mole haver Casey Jane Ellison (It’s So Important To Seem Wonderful, VFiles Status Update, What The F*shion) has a cult now. Sort of. “My work is about life, equality, rumen (?), genderlessness, prettiness, societal ills, being chill, group sex,” she explains. “These things are life and they are my work.” A demented mix of Anna Wintour and The Source […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist Wil Murray talks about his labor-intensive installation in Toronto and painting by obscuring photographs. In 2011, Maxime Ballesteros came by my studio in Berlin. I’d asked him to photograph my work for some fly-by-night […]
Artist Bunny Rogers has just released her much-anticipated book of poetry with original illustrations by LA artist Brigid Mason. In addition to her sculptural work, online artworks, installations, game-based projects and performances, the Queens Museum resident artist has been doing poetry readings across North America. Cunny Poem Vol. 1 represents a complete archive of poetry written from 2012-2014. One of my favorite […]
Julian Oliver, an artist based in Berlin, has created a script that will boot anyone wearing Google Glass off the WiFi in a given location. He was inspired by a comment by Omar Shapira at the ITP show that the presence of a person wearing Glass made him feel uneasy. The code is up on […]
On your left is a work of by renowned artist Christopher Wool, who had a show at the Guggenheim earlier this year. On your right is a new shirt from Joe Fresh, “a fashion brand and retail chain created by designer Joe Mimran for Canadian food distributor Loblaw Companies Limited.” Art F City points out that […]
In the most recent issue of The Baffler, Rhonda Lieberman published an extensive piece on the art collectors of the “new Gilded Age.” Almost everyone Lieberman mentions is both obscenely wealthy and exploitative. One of them is Bernie Madoff, whose office art included a four foot screw so expensive that Madoff’s lawyer didn’t want it disclosed […]
Artists Eva and Franco Mattes have just launched a new project crowdsourcing a massive body of performance video work. There are several online services where you can pay people to do things on camera. Some of them aren’t even erotic. And now, it’s art. For project BEFNOED, the creative duo pays webcam workers to perform specific actions. The “Balaklava Snacks” series […]
Like a luxury garden gnome, real estate mogul and art collector Aby Rosen has put his 33-foot Damien Hirst sculpture The Virgin Mother out on his front yard, in the upscale neighborhood of Old Westbury, N.Y. The neighbors are so offended by the sculpture, they’ve having a hearing later this month, proposing a local law that will […]
