Tag: Art
Rhizome — New York’s notable not-for-profit organization and new media art platform affiliated with the New Museum — just unrolled its newest list of Commissions and Tumblr Internet Art Grant Awardees. After reviewing over 250 proposals, five new media commissions and three Tumblr-spirited projects have been awarded funds. ＼(^-^)／ for everyone, but most of all Yung […]
Sotheby’s Hong Kong Gallery is hosting an exhibition called “Beyond the Paper Screen: An Exhibition of Japanese Erotic Prints from the Uragami Collection” which will feature 60 sexual woodblock prints, or “shunga” (“spring pictures.”) The woodblock prints feature scenes such as a naked fisherman’s wife being intimate with an octopus. Also, aristocratic groupsex. Shunga have a long tradition […]
Do not be alarmed by the very large very sad clown prowling City Hall Park. It’s art! Entitled dog days are over, the performance piece by Swiss-American Ugo Rondinone is part of an outdoor sculpture exhibition called Lightness of Being; and will feature the guy above sitting around, staring at his lap and contemplating existence every day from […]
Tender, erotic, and grotesque all at once, “Symbiosis” is a new multimedia series from Chicago-based photographer Rik Garrett. Through a fairly simple union of photos and acrylic paint, Garrett is able to conjure strange and complex visceral reactions, reminiscent of Francis Bacon. The images explore “ideas regarding love, relationships, magic, Alchemy and mutually beneficial partnerships […]
Sometimes you just want to grab hold of those buildings, throw yourself at the sidewalk and ugh, ugh, ohhh. Amirite Steve Levitch? Photographer Nikola Tamindzic’s newest project Fucking New York is about fucking New York, that powerful appreciation for whatever it is that makes you tolerate this city’s many flaws and fuck-ups, that love manifesting itself physically as a […]
Hal Lasko was a typographer and graphic artist before the age of Illustrator and InDesign. Long after he retired, his grandsons got him a computer and showed him Microsoft Paint. Now, at age 97, he might be the greatest Paint painter of all time. He prefers the method to working by hand because it allows […]
On Wednesday, July 17, Big Snow Buffalo Lodge had its last show. The venue, situated in an old party supply storefront 89 Varet Street in Williamsburg near the Bushwick border, had become as well-known for its open-armed, welcoming, absolutely no-bullshit attitude in the two years since it opened as it had for the staunchly DIY […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, New York artist Matthew “Mattie” Hillock shows us the process behind his new “gradient_stacks” series. This body of work is much more explorative than my work last shown at Outlet gallery in Bushwick, which was very-site specific. I […]
Facebook’s beloved photo censorship team strikes again. Recently, we were locked out for 24 hours and grounded for another 24 for posting paintings of screenshots of boobs in a piece from the F.A.T. Gold 5-Year Retrospective opening at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. Looks like ArtLog has just joined the club. so @facebook threatened to kick out @artlog for […]
ANIMAL is happy to learn that our friend Molly Crabapple just got a book deal from Harper Collins! Pub Lunch announces… Artist, journalist, and Discordia coauthor Molly Crabapple’s Drawing Blood, an illustrated memoir of her life as an “angry punk kid,” model, fire eater, demimonde portraitist, and visual chronicler of protest movements—and an inspiring look at how art […]
