Great behind-the-scene photos of Shepard Fairey preparing for Deitch Gallery's closing show.
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This reminds of this photo below that I took at the Dia this summer.
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A humorous public installation by Michel de Broin.
Its ironic system absurdly redirects traffic into a never-ending circuit on a road to nowhere, thus undermining the usual objective of maximum practicability in urban design and planning.
Ever since Sesame Street downgraded his cookie consumption allowance, the Cookie Monster has been acting out a bit. Painting of Cookie Monster running wild by Paco Pomet.
Notepad with an accompanying "And You Know I Could Have Loved You" pencil by Tracey Emin. £12.00 here.
This installation titled "Sunlight In An Empty Room (Passing Cloud For Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004)" by Spencer Finch is made with 100 fluorescent lights, filters, and clothespins. The artist explains:
This work re-creates the effect of a passing cloud in Emily Dickinson’s back yard in Amherst, Massachusetts, based on an August afternoon. The bank of three types of fluorescents generates a simulation of the daylight, and the hanging filters of the “cloud” shift the color and intensity of the sunlight to replicate the shadow cast by a cloud.
From Urs Fischer's exhibition Marguerite de Ponty at New Museum.
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Similar to his lamp, here's Ryan McElhinney's mirror with a frame made from recycled action figure toys.
Michel de Broin's "New York Times reports:
On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally lost her balance and fell into “The Actor,” right, a rare Rose Period Picasso, tearing the canvas about six inches along its lower right-hand corner.
Wanna get away? Fly Southwest.
I can't wait to see this piece by Yin Xiuzhen when it goes on display next month at MoMA!
Projects 92 presents her large-scale sculpture Collective Subconscious, which is composed of a bisected minivan connected by a long tube covered in a quilt made of found garments. The public is welcomed inside this transformed conveyance, where they will find a cozy refuge complete with low stools and soft pop music--a space that invites visitors to break the silence of the hushed gallery, reinventing it as a place for conversation and discussion.
Cmonstah snapped this funny piece of commentary on Urs Fischer.
Naoko Ito's "Ubiquitous" from the artist's Urban Nature 2009 series.
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Brian Jungen's "Shapeshifter" is made from plastic chairs. Reminds me a lot of Gabriel Orozco's whale skeleton "Mobile Matrix" on display at MoMA.
Check out this link for a larger trippy animated GIF experience of this image. You will never leave. Or maybe you will. I don't care.