Tag: Art
“There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY you’re getting in,” Pace rep told my editor. She’s been getting calls about Jay-Z all day. “It’s a closed set.” Jay-Z was shooting a Mark Romanek-directed music video inside a gallery in Chelsea, lip-syncing and dancing with half the New York art world as cameos. When Tweets alleging “Jay-Z is doing performance […]
Artist Petra Cortright — along with Peter Gidal, Patricia Lennox-Boyd, Oraib Toukan, and Erika Vogt — has been selected as one this year’s recipients of the Frieze Film Foundation grant curated by Nicola Lees. The artist, whose artwork exists predominantly on YouTube is known for her “videos that intuitively play with online language and tropes, such as the representation […]
Here’s the punniest art piece you’ve seen in a while: multimedia artist Julian Oliver‘s Remote Install, an installation that’s about… installation. Software installation. Oliver explains: Distributed as a stripped down, customised GNU/Linux Operating System, the gallery merely needs to copy a single file onto a USB stick, plug it into a computer on site and boot it on the day […]
As if Jay Z‘s new song “Picasso Baby” from the upcoming album Magna Carta Holy Grail wasn’t already art enough, the rapper has decided to perform the song at the Pace Gallery — for six hours without stopping. Pace Gallery is “a leading contemporary art gallery representing more than 70 artists and estates, with galleries in New York, […]
Behold: The pure, glorious, unadulterated beauty of blocks of cheese… against marbled backgrounds. Thank you, elusive masterminds of Ptohograhpies. Curdlingly sublime. […]
There’s rich artistic territory to be mined in the fuck-ups of internet things. Anyone who’s watched a music video in the past few years knows that datamoshing can be beautiful, facial recognition technology finds portraits in images of mountains and deserts, and one of the most endlessly engaging, beguiling sites on the web simply introduces lexical […]
Did you hear that artist KAWS “reinvented” the iconic MTV VMA “Moonman” trophy? Look how reinvented it is! It reminds us a bit of some of his earlier work. It also reminds of his Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float. If you’re not one of the lucky award show attendees at the Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and miss what a 60-foot […]
Miranda July’s 20-Monday-long We Think Alone project continues with another private email blast from Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, writers, artists and her other friends. Last week’s topic was money. Today’s topic is advice and it seems rather… gendered. Sheila Heti and Lena Dunham both give their friends advice about relationships that seem to not be going well. Heti’s friend seems to […]
For Scott Campbell, what began as a trip to Mexico to photograph inmates’ tattoos turned into a quest for originality in a sea of the tattoo-culture banality. “Tattooing is something that I’ve loved my whole life, but in the past few years, it has been hijacked by reality TlV [sic] and mall culture,” the Brooklyn-based artist […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, net artist Emilie Gervais traces the creation of her “Gendered HTML Collection” w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r.net, even though most of her production is deleted after its “processed” or “mutated into something else.” My sketchbook is my internet connection =^.^= Most of my notes […]
