Makoto Tojiki configured threads of LED lights to form this solitary digital sculpture titled "The Man With No Shadow."
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Every morning I repeat this mantra to myself.
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971.
Artist Somsara Reilly is creating a collage a day for 365 days in "an effort to mark my 35th birthday with something meaningful and explore myself as a designer and artist."
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Like: Ai Weiwei's Chandelier. Previously.
It's idiotic but the absurdity of Erwin Wurm's The Idiot makes me laugh.
Pop artist Peter Gronquist tries to "shock" by building a Louis Vuitton "branded" electric chair. Be sure to check out his other line of "designer" weapons.
Do not want, but visually arresting piece by Banks Violette. At the very least it'll fire up a conversation or two at a party.
Xue Lei's porcelain cast beer cans is a clever juxtaposition of the East and West embodied by familiar cultural visual stereotypes (porcelain for the former and beer cans for the latter), or to borrow Samuel Huntington's seminal International Relations article title, a clash of civilizations.
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Alicja Kwade announced that the bottle poppin' culture is over by pulverizing champagne bottles to create this jaggedly impressive pile last year.
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Here are some of the entries I’ve posted over at Sundance Channel’s blog SUNfiltered.
O Zhang's series of photographs taken two months prior to the recent Beijing Olympics:
The images depict Chinese youth in front of various significant facades wearing T-shirts with phrases in what is often called "Chinglish"-Chinese that has either been poorly translated into English or an emerging new form of modified English that that can result in seemingly nonsensical expressions, but that also serves as a unique record of China's current cultural convergence and transformation.
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Robert Mankoff's cartoon in The New Yorker made me guffaw.
Sebastian Martorana's "Ode to Ice Cream" is a misleading series of seven different "flavors" of ice cream carved from inedible materials such as marble, limestone, and alabaster among others.
Marble, sugar cone, ice cream container
Limestone, ice cream container, spoon
Pink talc, ice cream container, spoon
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Photography duo Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader's "Clown" series is really quite the stuff of nightmares for those people suffering from coulrophobia. Let your eyes gaze on these clowns for a few seconds each for the full subtle animated effect to take place.
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I took last Friday off for a short staycation and went to the MoMA.
I was really excited to view Song Dong's latest exhibit "Waste Not."
This deeply personal yet exhibitionist installation displayed the entire contents from the home of the artist's mother, "amassed over fifty years during which the Chinese concept of wu jin qi yong, or "waste not," was a prerequisite for survival. The assembled materials, ranging from pots and basins to blankets, oil flasks, and legless dolls, form a miniature cityscape that viewers can navigate around and through."
The other exhibit I really wanted to see and participate in was Roman Ondák's "Measuring the Universe" where museum attendants will mark at the height, the visitor's names and the date on the wall. It was pretty f'awesome.
Getting measured.
Attendant writing my name...
His!
Hers!
RISD grad Jenny Holtzer's "Truisms." Hey people, eating too much is criminal. Criminally delightful and delicious that is.
Artist Nelly Agassi's installation "Bedroom" converted an entire room into one ginormous bed.
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Boston Globe's Big Picture focuses their lens on this year's Venice Biennale, a popular contemporary art exhibition.
I heart this photograph by Paul Graves.
This is some sad news: Due to the economy and an endowment cut by nearly a third, despite high attendance numbers, RISD's museum is closing for the month of August. Located just a few blocks from my alma mater Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design or RISD is considered among the best if not the highest ranked fine arts and design college in the country.