Tag: ARTIST
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week, artist Alex McLeod talks about his digital work inspired by an interesting ceiling and unsatisfaction. I was commuting to teach at Guelph University twice a week last term and would spend hours in the coach terminal. […]
There’s a story in the Chicago Reader this morning: “The anti-Vivian Maier.” Apparently, some dude in Chicago found a plastic bag of photos and slides on top of a dumpster, gave it to some other dude — Paul-David Young, “an occasional curator who works in the imaging department at the Art Institute” was “fascinated” with them. By a […]
We first encountered Russian art student Peter Pavlesnkiy when he protested the trial of feminist punks from Pussy Riot by sewing his mouth shut — a classic! — and standing stoically until his banner was ripped from his hands. Two Pussy Riot activists are still serving years in a penal colony for seconds of anti-Putin performance […]
In case you haven’t already heard, Madison Museum of Fine Art is offering a new Artist in Residence program specifically tailored to artists who lost a home and studio space as a result of Hurricane Sandy. The specifications for the residency seem quite loose, but that’s a good thing! With an ongoing deadline and a duration of “six months, or up […]
Artist Jay Shells — who our readers know from putting up uncanny “subway etiquette,” telling the cops to clean up after their horses and gloriously punking Fox News — is getting married, yey! His proposal was perfectly appropriate: “RACHEL WILL YOU MARRY ME?” in five graffitied rooftops on the Upper East Side. “I was definitely going to paint the proposal […]
