Tag: Art
Need a gift for your well-read, insufferably self-satisfied intellectual friend’s upcoming birthday? Consider this, a 7×8 print depicting a page of Finnegan’s Wake. It’s an homage to a novel that’s routinely called one of the most difficult books ever written, to those squiggly red and green lines that have become bonafide parts of the consciousness of contemporary […]
So, I got a tip this morning on Twitter. Here is the cover to Bob Dylan’s upcoming album “Another Self Portrait (1969-1971).” Does it look more like Richard Prince, the alleged ghost-painter behind Bob Dylan’s controversially stolen-photo-based Gagosian art exhibit? What does Richard Prince tweeting this mean? What the what the why why art world? I […]
German photographer Bettina Flitner took portraits of clients at the brothel Paradise in Stuttgart, Germany. The men, aged 21 to 73, told her why they visited brothels. Their answers were quite frank and revealing. Christian, 23, forwarding merchant, single: Why I pay for sex? Women are often a pain in the ass. They stress me when […]
There are few artists more innocuous, more neutered, more universally loved and reviled than Thomas Kinkade. His soft-focus images present an idyllic vision of America and of Christianity, like Norman Rockwell without the blue-collar populism, where everything is beautiful, nothing hurts, and there’s always a warm fire going in the Lincoln-Log cabin just down the […]
For the past three years, Burning Man has featured what it calls a Circle of Regional Effigies–that is, a set of wooden sculptures contributed from groups of artists around the world that, naturally, are eventually set on fire and burned to the ground. That pleasantly clean and minimal thing you see above is New York […]
You probably haven’t run into the artist LaTurbo Avedon at a new media gallery opening or bummed a cigarette outside “the club.” She has a shock of bright blonde hair recently shaved down to that undercut that’s so popular at the moment, misty hazel eyes, and porcelain skin, plus a hyperactive social media presence to […]
With its talking mushrooms, carnivorous flowers, flying turtles and neon-rainbow highways in the sky, it was only a matter of time before someone made the connection between Super Mario World and surrealism. Super Magritte is a Tumblr project that re-envisions classics from the Belgian surrealist master in the 8-bit style of our favorite mustachioed Nintendo hero. We […]
Here it is: a compilation of 37 remixes, covers, reinterpretations, and utter destructions of Miley Cyrus’s “We Can’t Stop,” curated by Mabson Enterprises aka Kyle Mabson, the same guy who brought you 47 “Call Me Maybe” covers last year. Nothing here is straightforward–there’s a right-wing Christian sermonizing about homosexuality and high fructose corn syrup over […]
Icelandic artist Hlynur Hallsson believes to have found the person responsible for vandalism of Iceland’s purest nature sanctuaries. Earlier in April, a series of large words was found spray-painted across the landscape in a small portion north-east Iceland. Hallsson, while viewing a recent exhibition at Alexander Levy gallery in Berlin spotted numerous photographic works by an artist […]
Los Angeles artist John Knuth fed 250,000 house flies a mixture of sugar, water and digestible colored pigments. For six weeks, the flies feasted, wallowed around their enclosures and “regurgitated” the pigmented liquid onto the canvas-lined walls. Then they scuttled around their vomit and shit for a bit. Ate some more. Vomited some more. Shat […]
