Tag: Art
Glitché was already the best, most interesting photo app available before its update update yesterday. Now, it’s something else entirely. I’m just going to tell you up front: to get the full functionality, you’ll have to plunk down $3 (the original version was free, and there’s still a free, less functional, version available). I know […]
ANIMAL stopped by the reception for “Brooklyn Photo Show,” with work by 15 Brooklyn-based photographers spanning 13 years. Ok, I stopped by the show and it was damn solid and I’ll spare you the art speak this time. Beautiful graffiti. Genesis P-Orridge. Rooftop mornings. Jesus dragging a cross through the streets. Neatly packaged weed. Rats flying through the […]
An anonymous buyer has recently purchased no less than 48 pieces of the Berlin Wall from the French auction house Pierre Berge & Associes – many of which include artworks by various notable contemporary artists. These remaining pieces of the iconic wall were once distributed to artists after the wall was torn down in 1990 with the […]
Bringing life to 18th-century physicist Ernst Chladni’s famous Plate Experiment, YouTuber Brusspup demonstrates incredible geometric patterns that form when sand is placed on a metal plate attached to a “tone generator.” This art-meets-science video really resonates with us. Here’s how it works: As the frequencies coming through the speakers increase, so do the plate’s vibrations. The sand gravitates towards the least-vibrating areas, […]
Where ever there are skateboarders, there are cops determined to make sure they don’t have any fun on public property, and consequently, there are DIY skateparks. Photographer Rich Gilligan has spent the last five years traveling the world and documenting DIY skate culture, and in a long-ranging interview with Co.Design, he describes his process and inspiration. […]
Meet Frida Affer from Milan. This is her newly opened gallery on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch, amidst all the street art. It’s called Brooom, a play on broom closet, and measures only 168 cubic feet which is equal to about 30 square feet. Turns out that “the shoebox space” it’s just enough room to give that artist, designer […]
If you hadn’t heard already, performance art superstar and James Franco supporter Marina Abramović has already started building the Marina Abramović Institute — a space that “will serve as her legacy and homage to time-based and immaterial art.” As much as this may seem like an honest endeavor by a renowned artist who is fortunate enough to be able […]
Chinese artist Liu Bolin‘s recent “gun rack performance” at Eli Klein Fine Art featured the artist in one of his signature camouflage-style disguise, allowing him to hide in the gallery while remaining in plain sight. The performance is meant to be seen as a direct commentary on China’s recently updated weapons policies regarding knifes as […]
What do you get when you get some scientists to crystallize your own hair and then put it under a kaleidoscope? A perfect, dandruffy combination of the innovative, the beautiful, and the insanely gross. British design student Dan Keeffe, along with his friends Amy Webster, Milly Bruce, and Sam Part were inspired to create Crystallised […]
Well-known Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei just did the cover art for this month’s issue of TIME magazine. While the cover bears many visual similarities to the Chinese propaganda posters of yesteryear it remains quite timid in comparison to some of the artist’s more recent works. It’s also clean and simple, and okay. Ai Weiwei as persecuted […]
