Tag: Art
A new set of images by artist Nickolay Lamm imagines a New York City in which wealth is mapped directly onto the skyline. That, the higher the average net worth of an area is, the taller its buildings become. The results are striking, if not entirely surprising. On Lamm’s maps, the Upper East and West […]
Oh, look, it’s another emoji art meme! This one is a combination of “emoji art history” and art history with rage faces. It’s called Emojinal Art Gallery and since we found it on Hyperallergic, someone already called it “THE WORLD TUMBLR BLOG CREATED. CONGRATULATIONS.” People are so serious, wow. […]
The Museum of Modern Art’s sound art exhibit opened over the weekend and now, the exhibit “Soundings” website has gone live. It features in-depth profiles and works from the exhibiting artists, including embedded sounds (of course)… and a section for contributing your own. The sounds are geo-tagged and mapped. To participate, just record your own “daily sonic experience” straight […]
As the city of Detroit files for bankruptcy, New York-based auction house Christie’s has been sent to appraise the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection. Christie’s being paid $200,000 just for the estimate… There are many that feel that selling off museum’s important collection isn’t desperate — it is unwise, a huge loss to the future of Detroit. To spotlight the […]
A few years ago, Kanye West had commissioned George Condo to create a series of paintings featuring “the characters who populate his musical fantasies” for Kanye’s album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.” He also commissioned a few limited edition silk scarves. Now, along with the help of Parisian publisher M/M, the collaborators produced a series of five screen-printed silk scarves […]
New York-based “biennial dedicated to live performance across the disciplines” Performa has announced its line-up for the year. From November 1st to the 24th, more then 60 venues from the Bronx Museum to the Grey Gallery are participating in hosting new commissions. Some of the artists will be incorporating live performance into their art for the first […]
To create the homespun map you see above, NYC-based artist Nobutaka Aozaki pretended to be a tourist. Clad in a cheesy baseball cap and toting a Century 21 bag, he walked around Manhattan, asking strangers to draw him directions. After talking to dozens, he assembled their bits of amateur cartography into From Here to There, the crowdsourced […]
As we ran off the bus to 86th Street Beach at Far Rockaway, we made it just in time: The judging of the Creative Time’s second annual Artist Sandcastle Competition had began. Last year’s winners, artists Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw were surveying the largely conceptual sculptures. “We’ve been practicing judging for months,” they told us. “We […]
England’s seaside resort The Grosvenor has come up with a fantastic way to protect their prized Banksy mural, estimated to be worth $775,000. No one is going to chisel it out of the wall or haul it off for sale or drill through it or tag it. No one is going to see it either: The decorating team has […]
Quoth the Bible’s Book of Revelations: “When the Lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, ‘Come and see!’ I looked and there before me was a baby crossed with a puppy! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power […]
