Tag: Art
Here’s a pragmatic-ish application for esoteric tech art techniques: À LOUER/FOR RENT, by self-described “inventor of useless things” Niklas Roy. The piece, created for Éspace [IM] Média, a Canadian media art festival, features an “Á Louer” (yes, that’s “For Rent” to you) sign installed in an abandoned-looking storefront. Whenever a pedestrian walked by, the sign would follow them, […]
Underneath the bright blue mass of geometric crystals you see above is something much more discomfiting: a dead bee, one of many victims of the plague of potentially chemically-caused bee deaths of recent years. Bioartist Simon Park–the guy behind this smartphone bacteria art–created Bee-Jewelled, the clumsily named but wonderfully executed piece, by dousing the insect carcasses in […]
Not to be outdone by MoMA’s new MoMA Teens Tumblr, other art publications are making attempts at appealing to “niche” markets as well. Photoshop is fun! […]
For one hour on August 16th, Danish artist Jacob Kirkegaard will present his interactive piece Labyrinthitis inside a floating cube in the main gallery of Eyebeam in Chelsea. Tones generated from within Kirkegaard’s inner ear will be modulated to specific frequencies and ratios to “spark audible emissions within the audience’s own ears.” The physiological changes will generate a third tone: “otoacoustic emission.” It’s going […]
Although revamping signs for the homeless is not a novel idea, Kenji Nakayama and Christopher Hope’s ongoing project is effective. The Massachusetts-based artists remake these signs in their entirety, adding beautiful topography and catchy colors to the solicitations for charity. Paired with interviews and heart-wrenching quotes of life in the street, the project showcases the perks of a good presentation. […]
“I don’t want to show my life to the public this way anymore,” Nan Goldin swore in 2010. “It’s cost me a lot and I don’t want anyone to know anything about my life today.” Not sure what’s changed, and to be fair, her upcoming new show in East Hampton spans from the ’80s to […]
In celebration of Andy Warhol’s birthday on August 6th, The Andy Warhol Museum and EarthCam bring you Figment — a live feed of Andy Warhol’s gravesite in the St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Pennsylvania, available 24 hours a day and seven days a week on the internet. Hundreds come to visit Warhol’s grave to put Campbell’s Soup cans […]
The much-anticipated Jeff Koons retrospective isn’t coming to MoCA as planned for this coming January. Instead, the retrospective will debut at the Whitney in New York in June 2014, then travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris in October 2014. It’s not entirely cancelled — a MOCA rep tried to quell the ripple of confusion and balloon jokes […]
Erica Simone created quite a stir in 2011 with her “Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen” photo series that featured her doing every day things around the city while posing completely nude. And apparently it’s not over yet. “To celebrate two more years of a work in progress on my project…I am finally […]
Here’s the visual aftermath of the art and rap world colliding when Jay Z recited “Picasso Baby” for hours on end during an invite-only performance at Pace Gallery a few weeks ago. In the video’s intro, Jay Z says this of the relationship he shares with the likes of Marina Abramović and Lawrence Weiner: “We’re […]
