Artsy Ferret

Image believed to be of Banksy via MailOnline

Banksy’s identity is revealed! *gasp* [MailOnline] and he’s middle class! *gasp* and went to public school! *gasp*

Jeff Koons to exhibit work in Versailles [artinfo] old world meets contemporary, but are the french and the water fountains able to compete with a balloon dog?

Graffiti illegal and shocks Japan [Reuters] - trains and commuting come to a screeching halt when someone sprayed “Hack” on a train. 

Kayakers rescued near NYC waterfalls exhibit [Newsday] why is anyone kayaking near it in the first place? Its art, not a petting zoo.

£15m public art project revealed [Northern Echo] - those crazy brits. Toting to the be the world’s biggest public art project, which aims to build a series of huge sculptures across the region create towering structures in each of the five boroughs of the Tees Valley area, including Darlington, Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, and Redcar and Cleveland.

Vincent van Gogh musical [Tracing Vincent] I really can’t make this stuff up. 

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Image via The New Yorker

© MURAKAMI at the Brooklyn Museum was in fact a beautiful and inspiring exhibition. Artsy was able to catch it before it ended on the 13th. The exhibit was quite large, consisting of the 5th floor and then part of the first floor, as well as his “Double Helix” in the lobby when you entered as well as a inflatable DOB character. The exhibit contained over 90 pieces, varying paintings, sculptures, installations and films. The exhibit was nothing less than what one could expect from the Superflat artist. Brilliant, vibrant, energetic, whimsical, childlike and yet sexual, comical and futuristic. Few artists can successfully combine all these elements together cohesively, and here Murakami has.

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Image via Jonathan Levine Gallery

Andrew Brandou, a pop surrealist artist who is having a show at the Milieu Galerie/Artspace in Bern, Switzerland.  Those of us not in Switzerland will just have to make due with the images we google.  Last year Brandou had his first solo show in New York at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, titled “Everyone’s Happier Now That You’re Gone”.  

Andrew Brandou: new paintings [Boing Boing]

Andrew Brandou

Milieu Galerie/Artspace 

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Jeff Koons, Balloon Flower (Magenta) (1995-200) via Jeff Koons

Della Robbia’s St. Michael Crashes to Floor at Met [Bloomberg] 15th-century Italian relief sculpture was damaged when it fell from its mounting on a wall. Ouchies. It fell jelly side up, so the damage wasn’t horrid.

Win One, Lose One for Dallas Museum [NY Times] Jeff Koon’s balloon flower leaves TX. Awe…

Maya Lin at Storm King [NY Times] - the young artist who designed the Vietnam Memorial in DC, has a show which is her first major earthwork to be created in the Northeast. Not bad for a girl who defended her work in front of congress.

Charlie Chaplain in Spain [Art Daily] first large exhibit dedicated to Chaplain’s Images. You see him as a man, an actor, a public figure, a human being and how his character came to be.

Guggenheim to open branch in Biblo Spain [NY TImes] and soon they will take over the world!

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