Tag: Art
American artist Kara Walker will take over the historic deteriorated, 90,000-square-foot industrial dump that is Brooklyn’s former Domino Sugar Refining Plant. Walker is most know for her room-size tableaux installations of black cut-paper silhouettes, often violent and sexual as well as shocking, fitting her subject matter — American Antebellum, slavery, abuse of power and rebellion. The factory will […]
Voice of Russia — the Russian government’s radio broadcasting service — reports that a gigantic Banksy exhibit is coming to Moscow, allegedly. The exhibition of “more than 130 paintings, sculptures, graffiti, collages and videos of the most famous modern incognito artist” isn’t just popping up anywhere but in the grand Manezh Exhibition Centre aka the Moscow Manege, […]
Important curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist just curated the 300-square inch space of Water McBeer gallery. It’s run by artist Henry Gunderson. It’s really 300-square inches. Obrist curated “Nanomuseum” featuring a Chris Marker piece titled Homage to Schnittke. Here are some photos from the virtual reception. Oh, hey Kanye. What can we say about Chris Marker’s tribute to the Soviet composer? Well, the Fortississimo and Fermata musical […]
Artist Ben Grosser’s Computers Watching Movies shows what “a computational system sees” when it watches films. Presented as a series of temporal sketches and videos, Grosser tracks the system’s “eye” movement to propose a contrast between our human “culturally-developed ways of looking” and computational watching. It was pretty fascinating seeing the lines appear, tracking a trail from across […]
Jessica Stoller’s ceramic sculptures are nightmares, rendered through delicate craft. With a show opening at P.P.O.W. this week, Stoller’s works exhibit some of the most traditional feminine flourishes — ribbons; flowers; pink-hued desserts — and reveal everything spoiled underneath — mountains of ribbons wrap and choke busts; flowers gape like hungry deformed carnal canals; deserts […]
Experimental music of Brooklyn-based producer Oneohtrix Point Never releases some amazing music projects — from artist Takeshi Murata’s immaculate hyperealistic CGI still life to the too-creepy-for-YouTube video by artist Jon Rafman to the collaboration with artist Cory Arcangel that we had to crack through layers outmoded digital tools just to even listen to (key word: “artist”). Here’s the latest — the […]
Forbes just dropped their annual success ranking. So, what does Forbes 30 Under 30: 450 Game-Changers In 15 Industries Who Are Changing Our World tell us about art? “Our World,” of course, refers to the world of finance, industry, investing, and marketing. And game-changing art, as it as it pertains to finance, industry, investing, and marketing. Unsurprisingly, there are not a […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week New York-based artists Mike Bailey-Gates and Claire Christerson share detailed storyboards and lists for their recent video piece The Cherub Garden, inspired by Marie Antoinette and Peter Greenaway. When we thought of this project, we were inspired by our collection […]
Artist Rafaël Rozendaal just launched a new art site, FillThisUp.com. To use, click, point around and fill screen with cheery gradient geometrical bits. Rozendaal explains: My abstract works are an ongoing research… the viewer’s relationship to the artwork… the viewer’s relationship to the screen… the limits of the browser… computational abstraction… dynamic compositions on an unpredictable canvas… Some […]
It’s 2014 and mocking Jeff Koons is just not fun anymore. Jeff Koons’ stupid balloon dogs, Damien Hirst’s stupid dots, Marina Abramović’s stupid eye contact — for those of us tap-dancing on the cracking crust between “art” and “mainstream culture” coverage, simplifying our half-felt blow-offs into blog posts is not worth perpetuating Koonsbramohirst’s omnipresence, not worth the minor news they […]
