Art
Untitled (BR100CO), 1989
Oil, autobody compound, fiberglass over wood
62 1/2 x 56 1/2 x 3 inches
My new favorite sculptures are from Richard Prince’s Hoods series. In addition to his rephotography for this series, Prince created molds of car hoods and painted the resulting casts in Rothkoesque colors.
Can something be both a sculpture and a painting? Why [...]
The illustration of Rod Hunt is wondrously nostalgic; he draws cities, mostly, in a style that reminds me of illustrated childrens’ almanacs.
Is Cy Twombly a better graffiti artist than Banksy? Yes he is, according to a harsh post by Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones, who wields Twombly as a bludgeon, beating back the Banksy-loving British art hordes.
I’ve published more articles about this unimportant graffiti and street artist than I care to count. I’ve generally been pretty [...]
Two days out of the year Manhattan seems like it was built to accommodate the sun; they call it Manhattanhenge.
The Financial Times reports that housing prices and mortgage difficulties in London and the southwest of England have prevented 40 percent of young households (aged 21-40) from purchasing homes.
Clever art from Harmen de Hoop (1, 2, [...]
Tokyo-based PingMag introduces the world to the art of Shuetsu Sato. He’s a guard at Tokyo’s largest train station but sometimes he constructs huge signs directing the passengers where they need to go. He makes the letters for these signs out of masking tape.
His transient tape art became so popular that film artist collective TrioFour [...]
Introducing: The Unconscious Art of Demolition Flickr group. The discussion page appropriately quotes Paul Auster’s City of Glass:
“Every once in a while, he would suddenly feel what it had been like to hold the three-year-old boy in his arms - but that was not exactly thinking, nor was it even remembering. It was a physical [...]
Bitfall is:
a physical water sculpture with 128 synchronized magnetic valves, so that a wall of falling water drops can be perceived as a graphical bitmap matrix. a computer application selects currently popular keywords from news websites, & displays them on the transparent ‘information curtain’. the ‘information flow’ metaphor literally demonstrates the dynamic & ever-changing character [...]
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