Tag: Art
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 Alex McLeod talks about his digital work inspired by an interesting ceiling and unsatisfaction. I was commuting to teach at Guelph University twice a week last term and would spend hours in the coach terminal. […]
Here’s some art, film, music and other stuff happening in NYC so you can Have a Good Weekend. Drop your suggestions in the comments or to tips@animalnewyork.com. FRIDAY 71° F NIGHT 57° F In theaters this weekend: X-Men: Days of Future Past, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance of Reality. (Read our interview […]
Please forgive Artforum editor Philip Leider for rejecting the idea of a digital art issue, like so: I xxx cant imagine ARTFOR/UM xxxx ever doing a special issue on electronics or computers in art, but one never knows It was 1967. Computers were room-size. The internet wasn’t born yet. How could he know? Do we take […]
If you think 3D is for superheroes and the mass destruction of cities, Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language is proving that 3D is for whatever Jean-Luc Godard wants — like completely disorienting the audience by making them go cross-eyed. The 83-year-old filmmaker’s latest is blowing critics away, bringing more innovation and spit-in-your-eye punk attitude to […]
For 20 years, New York photographer Bob Walden documented crippling accident injuries, physical maladies resulting from medical malpractice and homes destroyed by negligence. The photographs were taken to aid civil legal disputes, but Walden’s photographs have been exhibited as art, removed from context of legal photography. These are graphic depictions of deep scars, infected surgery […]
Artist Rick Silva, whose new media landscapes were on view at TRANSFER Gallery last year, has just launched a new project — The Silva Guide to Birds of a Parallel Future. The 18 short videos 30 seconds in length depict fantastical birds or their parts in flight — a cube of ruffling feathers, sleek swallows diving […]
Thanks to the Morgan Library & Museum, you can now view almost 500 images of Rembrandt’s etchings online. The Morgan announced today that it has finished digitizing this collection, which offers insight into the artist’s process, surroundings and daily life. “Rembrandt used the process of etching to test concepts and themes, and the digitized works […]
The two-day Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) graduate showcase at NYU was a madhouse, with some 100 projects on view, ranging from groundbreaking innovations to timely trinkets. Here are the highlights of recent works from the international group of artists, programmers and technologists. There were several game-based projects, but Omer Shapira’s 4D-gaming concept for Horizon blew me away (above). The […]
Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 394,000 art images are now publicly available for high-resolution download and non-commercial reuse. The initiative, dubbed Open Access for Scholarly Content, launched last week. “Through this new, open-access policy, we join a growing number of museums that provide free access to images of art in the public domain,” Met […]
“I made a mistake,” Vladimir Umanets wrote in The Guardian this week. In October 2012, Umanets had written his name and “a potential piece of Yellowism” in black marker on Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon at the Tate Modern in London, causing $300,000 worth of damage to the $8-$15 million painting. Though he denied being a vandal from the start, qualifying his […]
