Tag: Art
Photographer Gus Petro went to Manhattan and took some pictures. Then he went to the Grand Canyon and took some pictures. Then he photoshopped them together, and the results are very pretty. Take a look in the gallery. […]
Before we get into this, it’s helpful to remember how sound works. An object vibrates at a particular frequency, which causes the air molecules around it to vibrate at the same frequency. Those air molecules bump into other air molecules, causing them to vibrate at that same frequency, and so on and so on, until some […]
The third week of emails from Miranda July’s We Think Alone project was sent out today. After “money” and “advice,” the latest topic is Barack Obama. Or rather, emails that mention Barack Obama. A little bit. The emails are mostly complimentary of the president and are dated during the earlier parts of his administration. Kareem Abdul Jabbar […]
Glory to Sergey Merkurov! People’s Artist of the USSR, Soviet Academy of Arts alum, director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and all the rage of pre-1950s Soviet Union! One of the leading figures of the Giant Ass Statues of Soviet Leaders Art Movement! He sculpted and erected a huge number of these monumental statues, […]
What’s up with those 40,000-year-old cave paintings left behind by our earliest ancestors? The ancestors. They were high. On drugs. So claims a group of Tokyo-based researchers, after discovering that patterns commonly found in cave paintings throughout the world are remarkably similar to those produced by modern-day test subjects under the influence of certain “mind-altering” hallucinogens. […]
Forty-five year old former art dealer Matthew Taylor has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison and hefty fines after stealing numerous expensive paintings from Los Angeles Fine Art Gallery and attempting to sell them to private collectors, all under the guise that they were property of his mother. What a jerk, right? He also blamed his […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, artist-render LaTurbo Avedon — who exists only as an avatar on the internet — shows us the process behind her New Sculpt series. Her first solo exhibition in the physical space (so-called “IRL”) opens this Saturday at Brooklyn’s […]
File under “more great unintentional poetry from random Twitter users.” Much like Pentametron trolls the social network for lines in iambic pentameter then assembles the rhyming ones into surreal sonnets, Anagramatron assembles pairs of found anagrams. So @HairieSahrin’s “Shame on you dear,” gets paired with @ainqarina’s “You are handsome,” in what could be the opening couplet […]
Do you like crazy art GIFs?! On Saturday, Lorna Mills’ The Axis of Something solo show of animated GIFs and large-scale digital prints (made like this) comes to a close at Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn with an event! Lorna Mills has curated a group projections project called Clusterfuck Zoo featuring ” animal otherness, charismatic mega-fauna fights and cross-species romance (always the […]
“Media Art is the art of today, the art that people will remember in the future,” director Unpainted Annette Doms tells ARTinfo. In January 2014, Unpainted will become Germany’s first-ever fair for new media and video art and will show “algorithmic plotter-drawings, computer animation, collages, photography, net-art, software art, interactive art, sculpture.” Artist Rafaël Rozendaal is slated to give “an […]
