I went to the MoMA over the weekend (The Martin Kippenberger exhibit was exhilarating). Later that day at home while doodling on the members brochure I came up with this (narcissistic) eponymous result:
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Wow! Wow! Wow! The debut of Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed's first solo show, "Zio," here in New York City at David Zwirner looks stunning, especially this massive sculpture of a twisted, pulled, and entwined plane. This is a must see for me this weekend!
Paul Chan's "My laws are my whores" is currently showing at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. I particularly like his keyboard piece and the charcoal portraits of smirking Supreme Court Judges.
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This may or may not be true, but Kenji Yanobe's fire spitting giant baby robot spotted terrorizing the streets will be featured in the sequel to the hit movie Aliens Vs Monsters. The name of the sequel? Aliens Vs Monsters Vs FIRE BREATHING ROBOTS, OBVI.
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Chinese artist Cai Gup-Qiang's latest project "I Want to Believe," currently on tour at the Guggenheim Bilbao is explosively captivating and visually stunning, particularly the following two installations titled "Head On" (99 life-sized replicas of wolves ) and "Inopportune: Stage One" (light tubes exploding outwards from eight suspended cars).
Read more about the artist and this exhibit here.
A zenful multi-touch interactive installation designed for the 2008 Red Bull Music Academy.
A two projected displays system plus a 3m x 2m multitouch wall showcase applications designed to engage us into human friendly experiences rather than flashy and jaw-dropping visualizations.
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Something Awful's recent photoshop contest: Recreating classic art with Star Wars characters.
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LA artist Ruben Ochoa's "Collapsed" is showing currently at Peter Blum's Soho gallery through May 9.
Upon entering the gallery, the viewer is confronted by a fifteen-feet high and eighteen-feet long slab of what appears to be a concrete freeway divider propped against the gallery wall at roughly a 45-degree angle. An enormous amount of reddish dirt covers the slanted wall, spilling over towards the viewer and stretching all the way to the other side of the gallery. The structure physically impedes the viewer and blocks his or her path. The only way to reach the back of the gallery and the rear of the sculpture is to walk through the seemingly precarious triangular tunnel created by the leaning concrete wall.
Anyone interested in seeing this?
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Japanese artist Shinichi Maruyama's Kusho series consists of 23 large scale color photographs that captures, "using recent advances in strobe-light technology," black ink and water "colliding the millisecond before they merge into gray." The end result is astonishing.
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Strangely compelling video made by Oliver Laric. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK90lJCHlV4&fmt=18]
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Iri5 created portraits using cassette tapes (remember those?) in this Flickr set called "Ghost in the Machine." You can bid on this Jimi Hendrix one here.
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This melting 1500 pound ice sculpture of the word "ECONOMY" was created by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese and displayed near City Hall in downtown Manhattan on October 29, 2008 to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the '29 stock market crash. Although it might as well depict our current state of affairs.
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Emerge by William Lamson. I thought this was pretty neat, but don't curse me if you want your 2 minutes of your life back after watching it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb68_EG_vys&fmt=18]
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In seven days God created the heavens and earth. In seven days British Mike Harte and Jamie Shovlin imbibed a different bottle of bourbon and produced a single painting of the word Joy each night.
And then there is of course the drinking. Bourbon Joy toys with romantic associations between radical artistry and inspired inebriation. The idea of the radical artist as a human being struggling equally with art and alcohol - an idea concocted in both respects out of a greater myth of human failure - finds tragicomic obfuscation in the programme of curiously local relations underpinning Harte and Shovlin's engagement with each other in Bourbon Joy.
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Peruvian artist Jota Castro doesn't obfuscate his politics, as evident by his recent piece titled "Mortgage" seen below. Check out some of his other work at his website.
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On the morning of August 31, 1994 at Southwestern College and its 3,477 parking lots that surround the campus in Chula Vista, California, three artists Nina Katchadourian, Steven Matheson and Mark Tribe created a cool public art exhibit. A coordinated team of 50 people directed cars to predetermined lots according to car color. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/2829416]
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