Tag: Art
A few hours ago, Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alekhina were walking down the street in Sochi when they were detained by the police for alleged hotel theft. Along with several activists and journalists who recently arrived to the Winter Olympics site, they were roughly shoved into vans. “We are not resisting arrest; they […]
Andrea Hasler’s Matriarch references the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, a historic protest in which 30,000 women gathered at a British air force base to stand against nuclear weapons. According to Hasler, the work metaphorically “[takes] the notion of the tents which were on site during the women’s peace camp as the container for emotions and [humanizes] […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Jonas Lund talks about We See In Every Direction! a Web browser for collaborative, synchronized surfing made for Rhizome’s online exhibition series The Download. The idea started when Zoë Salditch invited me to do a piece for Rhizome’s The Download. […]
An Easter egg was recently unearthed in the Hell panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. As posted by Tumblr user chaoscontrolled123 discovered “music written upon the posterior of one of the many tortured denizens.” And so, some 500+ years later, the music student decided to transcribe it “into modern notation, assuming the second line of […]
Here’s Kanye West at the confusingly celebrity-studded world premiere of Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament, the five-and-a-half hour epic opera-art-film loosely based on a book by Norman Mailer. So, if Kanye West’s music video has any of the following elements, we officially called it: – hypersexual zombies – Ancient Egyptian zombies – a giant toilet throne – […]
Here are some 8-bit style animated GIFs of famous movie moments by Slovakia-based artist Dusan Cezek. For kitsch, “Pixelwood” series is really outstanding, with perfect color schemes (that very Wes Anderson orange in Cezek’s The Life Aquatic tho!) and narrative humor (Hulk mad!!!… Hulk brb). And how about that expressive versatility of Cezek’s single “pixel” blocks! The blinking eyes […]
The saga of is-stripping-art-or-isn’t-it continues this week, as Administrative Law Judge Donna Gardiner ruled that Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club must pay $2.1 million in back sales taxes. The club hadn’t been charging tax on dances, arguing that they constitute “artistic performance.” The court disagreed. This isn’t the first time this has come up. In 2012, the Albany […]
Seven years in the making, five and a half hours long, shot with a cast of hundreds in an abandoned RV dealership in Los Angeles, a cathedral and defunct steel mill in Detroit, and a flooding replica of Norman Mailer’s house floating on a barge down the East River — Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s River […]
New Radiohead stuff! The band released an app dubbed PolyFauna with little fanfare today, posting a typically minimal entry to their blog. Thom Yorke writes that the work, which was produced in collaboration with the British design house Universal Everything, “comes from an interest in early computer life-experiments and the imagined creatures of our subconscious.” […]
A new study published in the European Journal of Social Psychology confirms what you may have already known to be true: when it comes to art, people like weirdos. More specifically, researchers found that observers tended to more highly evaluate a work of art if they perceived its creator to be eccentric. To test their hypothesis, they […]
