Tag: Art
HTML5, the language that’s helped usher in the web’s current incarnation–with its infinite scrolling, emphasis on interactivity, and beautiful custom page layouts–is still a relatively new technology. It’s already spawned some classics (and might I humbly submit this for consideration?), but by and large, its full potential has yet to be seen. Designer and developer Jongmin […]
Once again, Uriel Landeros continues to sully the artistic tradition of attacking famous art works. Unlike the canonized Malevich taggers and blood X-ers before him, not only does the man stenciled of a bullfighter on Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair at the Menil museum in Houston lack cohesive motive and style, he just makes no sense altogether. He also says that he didn’t […]
Just now, in front of Maurizio Cattelan’s Family Business Gallerywe witnessed the most cathartic exorcism of old work. After tearing down xeroxed and otherwise flammable work from their last show, the gutted insides of the small storefront gallery were stuffed into a trash can and burned in front of gathering crowd. A police cruiser made […]
Craigslist’s “Free” section is home to curiosities of all sorts, from the curious to the mundane. At the time of this writing, there’s rollerblade pads, operetta 78s, and a hilarious, cryptic post both advertising free porn DVDs and soliciting “slim, clean” male models on the NYC site. Animator and free-stuff-enthusiast Kristen Lepore seized on this with […]
Artist Adam Harvey–the guy behind this anti-facial-recognition makeup–is back ,with more practical, surveillance-busting work: Stealth Wear, a line of clothing designed to block thermal imaging, a tracking and surveillance technique often used by drones. According to the artist, Stealth Wear “continues to explore the aesthetics of privacy and the potential for fashion to challenge authoritarian surveillance.” […]
Art fairs are a strange place to see art. Usually, it’s a fixed-up warehouse setting and you saunter briskly from one cubicle to the next, cruising expensively-shipped art from wherever and wherever-else, weaseling through crowds of journo-types and maybe accidentally stepping John Waters’ foot. The sheer quantity off ART STUFF is overwhelming!!! [Insert existential groan […]
Artist Rutherford Chang really likes the Beatles’ 1968 self-titled album, colloquially known as the “White Album.” So much so, in fact, that he’s amassed over 650 first-pressings of the record, and is actively seeking more with “We Buy White Albums,” his new exhibit at Recess Gallery. Chang has established an “anti-store” for the album, in […]
Number-crunching Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch was inspired by the internet to create the above sculpture, but not in the nostalgic/free associative/more-is-more way that’s typical of much net art–Jellitsch was simply interested in signal strength. For 45 days, the artist used a radio-wave-measuring device to read the strength of the Wi-Fi network at the Bleecker Street […]
ANIMAL’s original series I Should Have Shot That! asks photographers about that one shot that got away. This week, freelance photographer @weeddude talks about a train robbery in Thailand. I am a documenter. I go to the areas that most people would not go, or hot spots like Pakistan and Afghanistan, mostly for my own venture, my own […]
Got a little bit of a Van Gogh crush? Need to flesh out that fantasy? Kirk Douglas and Tim Roth not quite doing it for you? Well, here’s something just for you. Photographer Tadao Cern has recreated one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous self-portraits with still photography and digital retouching. See the transformation in the video […]
