Tag: Art
Calm down, internet. It’s not like someone dropped two milli on the Deviant Art erotic fan doodle bea_aarthurXXXhott.jpg. This is Famous Painter John Fucking Currin! For the Art Patron Class, $1.9 million is a good deal. Yesterday, Christie’s New York of post-war and contemporary art sell-a-thon fetched in an all-art-auctions-ever record total of $495 million. Among the sold works: […]
Russian artist “Petro Wadkins” has replaced the Mannekin Pis, one of the most beloved and fawned over sculptures in Belgium, for some reason, with a large golden statue of himself. The original bronze is a depiction of a small boy peeing into the fountains basin and was installed sometime during the 15th century. It is seen mostly […]
To create Venus of Google, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez first took a photograph. Then, he uploaded that photo, of “a box filled with feathers and LEDs,” into Google’s reverse image search. After this image of a woman in a “Body Wrap” arrived in the results, Plummer-Fernandez used his own algorithm, similar to Google’s, to sculpt a blank digital slate […]
This… is “dickhead.” Quite literally. In potēntia is a recent, ethically-challenging project from researcher/artist Guy Ben-Ary and academic/artist Dr. Kirsten Hudson. The artists purchased human foreskin cells online and reverse-engineered them back into their embryonic state, then genetically manipulated those stem cells to grow into a neural network, a “brain.” Or, you know, force-chopped off flesh from living human […]
Ai Weiwei is powerful artist, badass, oppressive government agitator, metal musician… BARBER??? Sign me up, b. We’ve seen this scene in the doc Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. The much-liked artist has sidewalk soirees. Culture people come. Regular denizens too. They all, like, dine and chill and make gov goons unhappy just by existing, yeah? Well, here’s one journalist’s […]
Three years after the debut of her sublimely bizarre web series Green Porno was received with critical acclaim, Isabella Rossellini is back with more animal mating ritual-inspired genius.Just in time for Mother’s Day, the third installment of Green Porno offers viewers some colorful reenactments “creatures’ rites of passage into motherhood.” See Rossellini simulate the scandalous […]
No, these aren’t those way-trippy black light dorm posters they sell at Spencer’s Gifts. They’re actually software-enhanced medical images of teeth, rotting teeth, the inside of a left nostril, heart valves, the brain’s fourth ventricle, stress lines in the skull, and cranial blood vessels; respectively. They just happen to be really, really, mind-meltingly psychedelic. Hong-Kong […]
Now, Paul McCarthy is just rubbing it in. Yes, there is a giant balloon dog sitting on Randall’s Island. But it is not Jeff Koons. It is a Paul McCarthy. Like that poop. If you remember, we had quite the chortle about Jeff Koons grandiose flight of delusion back when he sent cease and desist letters to San Francisco’s Park Life store/gallery […]
The most fascinating part of this story about dozens of Alabama artists painting internet cat meme paintings are THESE PHOTOS. For “The Grumpy Cat Art Project,” 30 out of 100 artists and crafts from the Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment complex did their best Grumpy Cat art and then posed with them. Stenciled Grumpy Cat by Tattoo […]
So, Seinfeld is like some new artist inside joke now? WHATEVER RICHARD PRINCE. Fine, don’t tell me. Here’s a fresh and amazing datamosh mash-up of dozens of Kramer entrances. Look at him moshing up pixels with that door swing. Look, look. PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK (2013) is described thusly: the satellite connection to jerry’s memory goes out. kramer […]
