Onur Senturk does some amazing animation videos. Like amazing-amazing. Just watch them HERE.
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Imagine to receive a letter, telling you to stand in your window at a specific time at night with the light turned on, and an anonymous photographer will take your photo. That was what these people did. There was no other contact than the letter. The request came from Japanese born Shizuka Yokomizo, who made the exibition “Strangers” – pictures consisting of strangers in their windows at night. Enjoy.
As the title implies, the art of Rachel Whiteread carries with it a certain sense of finality – an event has just taken place here, somebody once occupied this space, or at one time this object had a purpose. Now, it sits empty; the viewer cannot obtain closure from the current state, there is no resolution and there is no reassurance. Whiteread’s monolithic architectural forms occupy negative space with their own more subtle brand of emptiness; they loom like spectres, ghostly forms with a presence both palpable and sepulchral. Very powerful indeed.
(History of Our World)
Tags: Architecture, Design, Furniture, Modern Art
( T Magazine)
Tags: Art, Exhibitions, Photography
Tags: Inspiration, Margaret Durow, Photography
Banksy’s new film is coming out today in America and will be screening in the Sunshine Cinema in New York. This should be interesting, and from what I understand, the artwork in the film is the creation of the artist Mr. Brainwash, a french street artist, whose very mediocre exhibition I recently caught in the meat packing district.
Tags: Banksy, Films, Mr. Brainwash
Hipster 1: “So right now I work as a DJ, Party promotor and TV Presenter. I also do some video art and fashion design – and graffiti when I’m drunk. In fact I also produce Rap music and work as an freelance reporter for Politiken (newspaper) and DR2 (TV channel), when I’m not in the US doing modeling or acting.”
Hipster 2: “I’m doing the exact same things!”
Hipster 1: “Then we don’t have anything to talk about.”
Hipster 2: “Nope.. let’s find somebody else to impress.”
By the danish artitst HuskmitNavn
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“Eierstapel” (2009), part of the new Wolfgang Tillmans show at Andrea Rosen. ©Wolfgang Tillmans
Through March 13, Andrea Rosen is hosting 85 new works by the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, in an exhibition that diverges from much of his typical series. A picture of a baby opens the show, which includes pictures of the Gaza security fence, a triathlon, egg cartons, cities, nature… “Previous shows,” Tillmans tells Dominic Eichler, “…often included absurd moments and odd subject matter that had nothing to do with the core narrative of the ‘real’ utopias portrayed in my pictures. But this show reverses the balance – a few pictures from ‘my world’ are met with a majority of ‘outside’ world.”
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Tags: Andrea Rosen, Art, Photography, Wolfgang Tillmans
Stephen J. Shanabrook “Paper Surgery”
This large-scale exhibition surveys nearly three decades of work by William Kentridge (b. 1955, South Africa), a remarkably versatile artist whose work combines the political with the poetic. Dealing with subjects as sobering as apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism, his work is often imbued with dreamy, lyrical undertones or comedic bits of self-deprecation that render his powerful messages both alluring and ambivalent. Best known for animated films based on charcoal drawings, he also works in prints, books, collage, sculpture, and the performing arts. This exhibition explores five primary themes in Kentridge’s art from the 1980s to the present, and underscores the interrelatedness of his mediums and disciplines, particularly through a selection of works from the Museum’s collection. Included are works related to the artist’s staging and design of Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose, which premieres at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in March 2010.