Archive for June, 2008
Go See: Crop Rotation @ Marianne Boesky Gallery June 26 to Aug 15
Author: ArtsyFerret
Ferdinand Kriwet, Rundscheiben (1960–63) via marianne Boesky Gallery
The Marianne Boesky Gallery presents “Crop Rotation” a show curated by Clarissa Dalrymple. It features the works from the following artists, Marc Bijl, Neil Campbell, Jeroen Jongeleen, KRIWET, Jochen Lempert, Marlo Pascual, Jeffrey Wells. Each of the artists utilize a different medium in their exploration of constantly reusable procedures which becomes contained in art practice in and of itself.
read comments (0)Art News 6.25.08
Author: ArtsyFerret
Image via Wired
Animator’s Crazy Creatures Inhabit Natural History Museum Show [wired] cartoon network will always be more fun than the museum. It just is!
Dubai ’shape-shifting skyscraper’ unveiled [CNN] a first ever dynamic, rotating building. See the video
Photographers add new dimensions to Still Life [Boston Globe] its not just fruit and flowers anymore. Now its half eaten cake!
Frieze Projects 2008 Announced [NY Arts] Go Cory! Nuff said!
Art News 6.24.08
Author: ArtsyFerret
Creation of Adam via Wired.com
ASCII artists come out to judge ASCII contest [wired.com] Yes ASCII is an art form. Yes art is subjective. If you see the entries you will be amazed…
First Ever Eco-Friendly Art Print Series [PR Web] Is this possible? Is everything trendy and green now?
Image via Netzapping
Reactive Sparks art installation makes heavy traffic a beautiful thing [Markus Lerner] yes it reacts to the volume of passing vehicles, turning those readings into wave-like visualizations that undulate across the face of the towers.
Inanimate Alice, digital, interactive book, not from the library [art daily] this isn’t your library book. This is a interactive digital story, with sounds, music, and visuals. Not a game, but not yet a book. You decide.
Waterfalls’ art installation to shower East River [Daily News] the waterfalls are coming!
Jeff Koons joins Gucci to judge movies in Venice [Variety] no balloon dogs this time.
Go See: Tom Sachs “Animals” @ Sperone Westwater and Lever House
Author: ArtsyFerret
Sachs, My Melody (2008) via Sperone Westwater
Tom Sachs, the man who made Hello Kitty hip and cool in the art world has an exhibit closing soon, dealing with brands, consumerism, iconography, His larger than life Hello Kitty fountains will be on view at the Lever House until September 6. His exhibit at Sperone Westwater runs till June 21.
Tom Sachs [NY Times]
Tom Sachs [Art Info]
Tom Sachs at Sperone Westweater [we make money not art]
Tom Sachs animals [ArtCal]
Art News 6.16.08
Author: ArtsyFerret
Top: Picasso, Minotaur, Drinker and Women Bottom: The Artist and His model via newser
Tracy Emin’s Royal Academy Show [Mail Daily] its got close ups of menstruation, barb wire hula hooping, zebra bestiality and that’s just to start! Now why is everyone getting upset?
Two Picasso Prints Stolen From Sao Paulo’s Pinacoteca Museum [Bloomberg] - someone’s got sticky fingers in Brazil. The 2nd heist of the Spanish master’s art in 6 months. The Artist and His model and Minotaur, Drinker and Women were taken.
Untitled (Pecho/Oreja) by Jean-Michel Basquiat being sold by U2 [ArtDaily] - Sothbey’s got their hands on this piece and are hoping to get 6 million for it.
Vatican looks to Modern Artists for Divine inspiration [Independent UK] - yeah but they won’t let ‘Angels & Demons’ film anywhere near them. Kinda hippocritical.
Goya, Great deeds! With dead men! via Peter Blum
From May 15 - to August 1, the Peter Blum Gallery presents Goya’s print series “Los Desastres de la Guerra” (The Disasters of War). Never exhibited during his lifetime due to the graphic and violent nature, these works will be viewed for the first time by the general public. This series portrays violence, aggression, cruelty, atrocities, and man’s inhumanity towards his fellow man.
Art News 6.13.08
Author: ArtsyFerret
alebrivaca, Mexico City via Cow Parade
Sentences in Goya Theft [NY Times] - do the crime, you gotta do the time….
Dali works are Fakes [Art Daily] some guy writes a book on how Dali didn’t paint his works and his assistants did.
Recovery of stolen works from Museum of Anthropology [Art Daily] remember those artifacts that were stolen? They got 13 out of 15 back.
Getting to Spend a Year as a Shadow to a Star [NY Times] - shadow a design star at Rolex
Cow Parade in San Diego [Sign on San Deigo] - Cows gone wild!
Review: Superheroes: Fashion & Fantasy at the Met, May 7 - Sept 1
Author: ArtsyFerret
Image via ShutterFerret
From May 7 - Sept 1 the Met presents a Superheroes exhibit, primarily sponsored by Giorgio Armani. This is primarily more for fashion design students than comic book fans. The exhibit has costumes from movies, such as Spiderman, Ironman, and Batman. It even has the Wonder Woman costume from the tv series. But surrounding the one costume are designs inspired by the movie or comic book character.
Superhero Fashion Invades NY’s Met [Reuters]
Superheroes at the Met [NY Times]
Superhero Costumes in Fashion at the Met [Wired]
Met Exhibit Packs a Punch [AP]
SuperStyles [Wall Street Journal]
MTV Hits High Society for Fancy ‘Superheros’ [MTV]
Super-Duper Comic Relief at the Met’s Superheroes Show [Village Voice]
Art News 6.6.08
Author: ArtsyFerret
Fashion bids adieu to Yves Saint Laurent [AP] Adieu! All of France says adieu!
P.R. artist Charles Juhasz-Alvarado leads termite attack [Daily News Latino] - wooden sculptures playing congas, no I can’t make this stuff up.
Catholics protest NYC Student Paintings [USA Today] - stop complaining about everything! You’re ok with the arts depicting a crucifixion, but now you’re offended when its not in the correct context. Sigh. Separation of church and state people! And MEAN it!
Sculptor Jorge Pardo: Is it art or furniture? [LA Times] - why do people debate on things like this?
Moscow Museum of Modern Art remembers Dmitry Prigov [Moscow Times] - he gets 2 exhibits not just one!
Go See: Cameron Hayes @ Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, May 17 - June 28
Author: ArtsyFerret
Cameron Hayes, The Russians knew perfectly well that the happiness of the African animals was that they had such low expectation (2008) via ArtCal
From May 17 to June 28, the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery presents the work of Australian artist Cameron Hayes. The name of the exhibition is The Incomplete History of the Millikapiti. On display are several large-scale narrative paintings and a soft sculpture installation, dealing with allegorical stories the disastrous effect of white culture on the Aboriginal community. A theme through his works is the satirization of contemporary civilization.
Cameron Hayes “The Incomplete History of the Millikapiti” [NY Art Beat]
Cameron Hayes Exhibition [ilikeyou the artnetwork]
Cameron Hayes [flavor pill]