Tag: Art
36 ventilators, 4.7m3 packing chips, a new installation from the Swiss artist Zimoun, does what it says on the tin. The artist filled a space inside Switzerland’s Museo d’Arte di Lugano with lots and lots of polystyrene packing peanuts, and uses 36 fans to whip them into a stormy frenzy. The installation fits nicely into Zimoun’s body […]
Takashi Murakami’s Jellyfish Eyes trailer premiered on Vanity Fair yesterday. The artist’s first live-action feature-length film is a mix of Pokémon, ET, sci-fi conspiracy and elementary school-aged children being weirdos. It features several Murakami-stylized magical creatures. The mood is reminiscent of Murakami’s Inochi-Kun! shorts but less about the horrors of approaching puberty. Oh, wait, never mind, this kid just conjured […]
“They make me viscerally happy. I love to look at them. Sometimes they almost make me feel sad because they make me so happy,” says Emily Stebbins, a curator at The Smile Face Museum. The museum was founded in 1992 by Mark Sachs in his basement in Maryland. This spring, it was opened to the public for the […]
Here are three of a dozen previously unseen digital images that were created by Andy Warhol and have been trapped on deteriorating floppy disks from 1985. They were just recovered by “a multi-institutional team of new-media artists, computer experts, and museum professionals” using something called “Forensic Retrocomputing.” The purely digital images, “trapped” for nearly 30 years on […]
Earlier today, we stopped by Carini Lang to check out the “Back Against the Wall” art show. The show, which opens later tonight, features fifty giant handmade carpets and tapestries by the likes of COST, ENX, BEAU, PIXOTE, READER, REA and more. See them in the gallery above. This elegant solution to displaying street art inside your home comes with an elegant price tag, […]
In a McDonald’s, in a bank, in library, in Washington Square Park, the lamps are listening to you. Artists Kyle McDonald and Brian House installed microphones equipped with Wi-Fi into lighting fixtures in all of the above locations, and are tweeting the conversations they overhear as part of their surveillance-art project Conversnitch. The snippets of […]
Come to Brooklyn’s Silent Barn tonight for “Job Fair,” a multi-media, multi-generation art event. Featuring: A screening of new films by Cinema of Transgression luminaries Bradley Eros and Tessa Hughes Freeland and performances by Zefrey Throwell (who once composed a symphony of 1,000 car horns and made portraits of his dead father out of his last bag of […]
New York artist Matthew Spiegelman has recently self-published Officioné, a book of large-format photographs and other gorgeous images of weed, weed paraphernalia, weed-inspired aesthetics, clouds of weed behind exhaled and more weed. Like this: Aperture reviews: Clean and precise, the photos do not attempt to get to the essence of what the drug is, but rather take a […]
Drivers on Staten Island’s Hylan Boulevard this week have been greeted by a towering portrait of Ronald Reagan, musclebound like a non-bald Mr. Clean and wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the phrase “Dear God, Let Me Go Back For Just A Day.” The artist is Scott LoBaido — previously noted for terrible subway safety ideas […]
In the late 1970s, Dan Witz began painting hummingbirds on walls around downtown Manhattan. The work — created illegally, with acrylic paint and brushes — so predated any notion of “street art” that the term hadn’t even been codified yet. It was years before artists like Keith Haring would attract a mainstream audience to the […]
