Tag: Art
Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has followed up on his first dramatic metal video depicting his 81-day imprisonment in great detail with his newest release. It’s a slightly more toned-down atmosphere, and while continuing to be as politically charged as his previous material, it provides more of a direct, behind-the-scenes look into the life of an the artist repeatably harassed […]
To comment on the ways women characters are portrayed in video games, which, in case you’ve been living under a rock, is not often very good, 8-bit artist Jude Buffum created this striking series of pieces. In each, a female character from a classic game is portrayed as a sex worker on one of those […]
Bunny Rogers’ solo Shades of berny at the Appendix Space in Portland, Oregon is about the overlap in sexualization and exploitation of children and animals. It’s the story of Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Little Red Riding Hood, but not the story you’d like to be thinking about. She does. She thinks about death, sex […]
When he’s not busy being a solo musician and the frontman of a little band called Radiohead, Thom Yorke seems to be interested in making paintings as well. The painting, set to be sold at an upcoming auction at Bonhams, was created sometime in 2005 in collaboration with artist Stanley Donwood, an artist widely known for his […]
As an artist whose latest project involved destruction, Doug Aitken has calmed down a bit and announced an upcoming public art project, sort of. The artist plans to embark upon a journey by train travelling from New York to San Francisco, making ten stops along the way. The project “Station to Station: a Nomadic Happening” is a road […]
If you like immersive GIF landscape work of Nicolas Sassoon and Emilio Gomariz, here’s some new work from Alex Bond aka Enso.In the fourth installment of the second series of net exhibitions, the ANI GIF online gallery presents… ALEX BOND, an artist residing in Philadelphia, PA. He creates bright psychedelic artwork and live visuals, bathing walls in light […]
Shout out Miley Cyrus! I like your “We Can’t Stop” video and you are very attractive. Also, something something pop music. Since Orlan sued Gaga, getting observant about possible art references is suddenly a lot more fun. Wanna play? Pascal Bernier? Maurizio Cattelan? Christopher Chiappa? Ok, so I don’t remember where but I’ve seen these. WHO WANTS TO SOUND […]
Germany-based conceptual artist Kim Asendorf makes undulating, hypnotic, complex gifs. Then why did he send this gif into deep space? Why is this seemingly uneventful gif’s signal being beamed into deep space right now via the Lone Signal METI (Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment, on its 17.6 year journey towards the potentially habitable solar system Gliese 526? Why? Because, as Asendorf tells […]
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished piece. This week, Brooklyn painter Tatiana Berg’s painting inspired by Mad Men’s Megan Draper. I’m not an artist that believes in working with a plan: Paint doesn’t lie, and I don’t work from totally pre-planned sketches because you’d be able to […]
Transgressive art-stalwart Orlan is suing Lady Gaga and Universal in Paris. According to Le Quotidien de l’Art via ARTinfo, Orlan wants $31.7 million or 7.5% of “Born This Way” album and video profits, citing three specific art works which the artist aggressively homaged including Femme Avec Tête (“Women With Head”), 1996. Since it’s a decapitated head on a table and those […]
