Tag: Art
Irina Nakhova is a Muscovite conceptual artist chosen last month to be the first woman to represent Russia at the Venice Biennale. Her solo show “Moscow Diary” at Nailya Alexander Gallery in Midtown sheds light on what we might expect to see from her next year at the Russian Pavilion. The exhibit opens on Nakhova’s three-piece […]
A styrofoam pussy was looking at me the entire time I ate interesting little vegetables. It was padded with some styrofoam butt and strapped to a marble pedestal. There was a row of butts by artist Adam Parker Smith down the length of the table. This was the first Brooklyn Artist Ball at the Brooklyn Museum I’ve ever […]
Christina Rinaldi was announced winner of Saatchi Gallery’s first Motion Photography Prize last night in London for her black-and-white window washing GIF. Organized in association with Google+ (to hype their “Auto Awesome” feature), the award was juried by “forward-thinkers,” — film director Baz Luhrmann, Saatchi Gallery CEO Nigel Hurst, artists Shezad Dawood, Tracey Emin and […]
“Good enough to kill a motherfucker!” artist Coby Kennedy said, as he sharpened his New Lots Avenue street sign into a machete with a metal grinder. “I gotta make them the way they’re going to be made in the narrative — ripped off the street and hacked the fuck up.” The “narrative” takes place 400 years […]
Coinciding with his first solo show in the Middle East, Richard Serra just unveiled East-West/West-East in Qatar’s Brouq Nature Reserve. It was “definitely one of the most fulfilling pieces” he has done to date, he told ArtInfo. Designboom describes the work: A monumental sculptural installation … approximately 60 kilometers from the capital at doha. Four steel plates […]
Paddle8’s “Born Digital” benefit auction for the Italian Link Art Center is up now through April 30th, with 50 works donated by 33 artists. We’ve previously covered Paddle8’s first digital art auction at Phillips Paddles On! and their Fabergé Big Egg Hunt. The current auction focuses on European artists working radically and traditionally “with the digital medium […]
The post office of Finland has announced 33 new stamp designs for September-October 2014, including three showcasing “confident and proud homoeroticism” as drawn by artist Touko Laaksonen aka Tom of Finland: The autumn’s stamp series begins September 8 with Tom of Finland, who is considered one of the most well-known Finnish artists around the world. […]
Here’s a browser-based webcam from artist Andrew Benson of Wolf and Unicorn (gif art series about love and death) and INTOTHEZONE (a digital and psychedelic Tarkovsky adaptation). Prosthetic Knowledge explains: It’s “a WebGL realtime visual distorter with a smooth yet digital grainy effect.” Try Flow Cam right here right now. “Technically speaking, it isn’t datamoshing,” Prosthetic Knowledge’s Rich Oglesby schools us. “Datamoshing is […]
The Illusion of Life is an experimental biotech art project by Minsu Kim. It looks like a synthetic breathing machine. It has a central round air chamber, silicon air valves, and a cup that funnels air into your ear, just so. There are also control units that modulate the qualities of its “breath” and “vocalizations.” Neural Magazine […]
Today, Banksy updated his website with a new work depicting two lovers who gaze into their respective cell phone screens, mid-embrace. It’s a clever if unsubtle comment on the ways we use technology to mediate social interaction, and it looks a lot like an Atlantic magazine cover from 2012. The image, for a story titled “Is Facebook Making Us […]
