I really like this street art hacked to a bus shelter.
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Dulce Pinzon, a Mexican-born female artist living in Brooklyn, captured the lives of New York City Mexican and Latino immigrant workers in a superb series titled The Real Story of the Superheroes. Employed in a range of jobs from nannies, to chefs, to cab drivers, to construction workers, Pinzon photographed these ordinary immigrants "in a satirical documentary style...in their work environment" while they wore costumes in the likeness of various iconic American comic book superheroes. She further uses the photos to highlight and engage the viewer in a dialogue about immigrant remittances ("Noe Reyes from the State of Puebla works as a delivery boy in Brooklyn New York. He sends 500 dollars a week."), which when considering their jobs' laborious nature, low wages, and lack of benefits, seems indeed downright super heroic.
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An amusing, if not slightly comically sinister take on MC Escher's iconic Drawing Hands.
I like this too:
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Artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 1995, from which point he began chronicling his descent into the disease. These self-portraits painted from that period until 2000 when he was no longer able to hold a paintbrush provides an interesting visual insight into the mysteries of the human mind.
His wife and his doctors said he seemed aware at times that technical flaws had crept into his work, but he could not figure out how to correct them.
“The spatial sense kept slipping, and I think he knew,” Professor Utermohlen said. A psychoanalyst wrote that the paintings depicted sadness, anxiety, resignation and feelings of feebleness and shame.
It's fascinating to me that the nose or perhaps the sense of smell remains the strongest visual feature in each of his paintings.
Read more here.
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British shock artist Martin Creed latest effort features a single runner sprinting every 30 seconds through the the empty Duveen Galleries at the Tate Britain. View video and interview with Creed here.
I love this drawing:
Bomomo, a spiro-inspired drawing program is a fun diversion that I don't recommend for people with control issues. The various drawing and brush tools move in various patterns that may not exactly conform to what you want it to do but the result is always very cool looking. Here's my creation inspired by my closest friend and worst enemy, the New York City subway system:
Titled "Muto" by Blu, I finally got around to watching this video of a stop-motion animation of a street art that comes ...alive (Watch with sound for full effect)! It totally exceeded my expectations and quite honestly is one of the coolest pieces I've seen. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4]
I completely expect to see this coopted by Creative Agency X into a commercial in the next three months.
This video draws the viewer inside Picasso's masterpiece Guernica which depicts the aerial attack on the town of Guernica in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War which essentially destroyed three-quarters of the city while the primary objective of the bombing--the bridge--was not hit at all. The painting is notable for conveying the pain, anguish, and suffering inflicted on civilians by war. Lena Gieseke video creation presents Guernica in a three dimensional framework that thoughtfully immerses the viewer into the painting and in 45 seconds contextualizes and conveys Picasso's message better than any art history textbook. At the least this video is a valuable tool for any professor or teacher lecturing on this piece.
In addition what intrigues me also about Gieseke's work here is the exciting and deft blending of old and new, analog and digital, the paint brush and the mouse.
Watch it here.
Here is Banksy's latest effort:
Erin, have your boss buy this building! Then he could fly us out there to "inspect" it and we can sit underneath it, drink Red Stripe and be super cool!
I completely lack the vernacular to describe my feelings about this other than to say I like it. I like it a lot. Erin, tell your big honcho boss to buy this. I find it so incredibly meta and layered.
"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.
I especially like the mass participatory nature of this project, which was also simultaneously isolating for all the volunteers involved. To me, it's the most accurate inaccurate representation of a $100 bill I've ever seen.
Do most definitely check it out.
Follow these easy steps and make like a CK underwear model. 1. Be in Manhattan.
2. Go to Chashama art gallery at 217 E. 42nd Street.
3. Go inside photobooth.
4. Push button inside photobooth. Do CRAZYINSANEMODELY things immediately as the photobooth will take 30 pictures immediately.
5. You now have less than 15 minutes to walk to the Conde Nast building at 4 Times Square (Broadway between 42nd and 43rd).
6. Approximately 15 minutes after your "photo shoot," an animation from the 30 photos of you will be displayed for all the immobile Times Square tourists to gaze upon and ponder "how did this ugly mofo ever become a model?" Whatever you do, do NOT use this occasion to write "Be my wifey?" on a piece of paper to propose to your girlfriend.
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By Doris Salcedo. (Her current installation at the Tate Modern is genius.)
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New York Academy of Art
Summer Exhibition 2007
Opening Reception: June 6, Wednesday 6 pm - 8 pm.
June 7 - July 18
1 pm - 7 pm, Daily.
Lawrence and Josephine C. Wilkinson Hall
111 Franklin Street, New York, NY 10013 (between Church St and West Broadway)
Go trip out on this website...