Tag: Art
What if physical objects were subjected to the same arbitrary usage limits that certain distributors have forced upon perfectly legal, paid-for digital media? That’s the question posed by the DRM Chair (that’s digital rights management to you), a piece of furniture that falls apart in majestic fashion after its internal counter has detected eight uses. […]
There’s nothing really that controversial about Marc Bradley Johnson’s art project, but the School of Visual Arts MFA student’s final piece Take This Sperm and Be Free of Me — i.e. 68 vials of his own semen — have been confiscated as a biohazard. Apparently, there are some risks involved in freely dispersing your sperm to strangers over Craigslist. “I’ve been […]
“Transfer,” what a perfect name for an IRL AFK net art gallery. L Magazine/Art F City reports: opening on March 16th, indie curator Kelani Nichole’s Transfer kicks things off with Alexandra Gorczynski (seen above.) Nichole (of the get>put> project) has previously worked with our favorites F.A.T. Lab. Kelani Nichole tells Whitney Kimball: “We’re building a stripped-down e-commerce platform, where we’re going to sell smaller […]
In preparation for his solo show in Los Angeles, artist Jonathan Paul/Desire Obtain Cherish created a series of giant sculptures. Designer luxury drugs. Get it? Get it? It’s like Tom Sachs and Damien Hirst had a baby. In a Duke’s sorority house bathroom. […]
“It’s a trade show.” “It’s makes me feel really gross.” “It’s trophy day.” That’s a focus group of New York’s most respected art critics, PhDs, organizers and agents of creative institutions talking about the 100th Armory Show. It demystifies the reasons why some of us feel a disconnect strolling between hundreds of art pieces in […]
Jeremy Bena, an art student from Kansas City, capitalized on a snow day by exercising his abilities. Behold Bena’s Snow Toilet. “I’m an art student, just having fun, trying to make the most of the weather out here. I figured I would, you know, make a toilet,” Bena says in the video, seemingly unaware of […]
Synesthesia is a neurological disorder (and/or gift depending on worldview) in which your five senses sometimes seem to have their wires crossed — you can hear color, see sound, so on and so forth. Oscar López Rocha‘s animation Synesthetic Locked, is a glitchy, screechy, 3D-ish stereoscopic simulation thereof, a dizzying RGB web of weird associations. […]
The centennial Armory art show opens a week from today, and because nobody can handle the anticipation, a comprehensive virtual preview went live this morning on Artsy, the browsing platform run on the Art Genome Project. From a quick scroll through, it seems that the experience on their well-designed HTML5 site is far more pleasant […]
Here’s a mini-doc featuring Marcin Lodyga and Vladimir Umanets, the notorious duo of IRL art trolls, artists, philosophers, vandals, Yellowists. It features the Yellowists explaining Yellowism and screenshots of all the press hate/bemusement. Last year, Umanets was sentenced to two years in prison for writing his name on a Rothko at Tate Modern, turning it into […]
Never has coulrophobia been realized so perfectly than with this glossy, sinister, saturated clown bondage-fest titled Paradise The Club. This gloriously grotesque series by Amsterdam-based photographer Erwin Olaf is one of the more figurative interpretations of the theme behind the current issue of Foam Magazine, “#33/Trip” — “about the sense of being in transit, in a place or […]
