Sympathy for the art gallery

October 6

Art idea

Remake Duchamp’s Bride stripped bare etc with diamond dust. Best by leaving it on the floor of a diamond cutter’s workplace.
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Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
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hydeordie: Andy Warhol Self Portrait 1977 I love that he did self portraits and other portraits in polaroid.  It’s just screams instant gratification doesn’t it? And the skull; I love how he took classic art symbols and motifs (the ikon, clair obscur) and make it his own, without even trying too hard

hydeordie:

Andy Warhol Self Portrait 1977

I love that he did self portraits and other portraits in polaroid.  It’s just screams instant gratification doesn’t it?

And the skull; I love how he took classic art symbols and motifs (the ikon, clair obscur) and make it his own, without even trying too hard

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slantback: These women do not exist. They each are a composite of about 30 faces that I created to find out the current standard of good looks on the Internet. (via manitou2121) YES. Nice thinking.

slantback:

These women do not exist. They each are a composite of about 30 faces that I created to find out the current standard of good looks on the Internet. (via manitou2121)

YES. Nice thinking.

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ARTWORK AND NO PLAY AN ART SHOW DEDICATED TO THE SHINING (via http://www.phoneboothgallery.com/exhibitions.htm)The poster for the exhibition is sweet too, but I like this one best.
ARTWORK AND NO PLAY
AN ART SHOW DEDICATED TO THE SHINING
(via http://www.phoneboothgallery.com/exhibitions.htm)
The poster for the exhibition is sweet too, but I like this one best.
October 5
“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Picasso (via ronenreblogs)
October 4
ohcarlos: Yayoi Kusama, Dancing Swarm of Fireflies (2005). If not for the people in these shots, you wouldn’t even think the spaces were real.  I’m always so chuffed when people manage to make art that is stunningly beautiful in addition to being intellectually stimulating. beautuful photo; installation art is always so hard to get an idea of from a photograph (and hard to photograph). This works in that it ignites my own imagination of what being in that space would be like.

ohcarlos:

Yayoi Kusama, Dancing Swarm of Fireflies (2005).

If not for the people in these shots, you wouldn’t even think the spaces were real.  I’m always so chuffed when people manage to make art that is stunningly beautiful in addition to being intellectually stimulating.

beautuful photo; installation art is always so hard to get an idea of from a photograph (and hard to photograph). This works in that it ignites my own imagination of what being in that space would be like.

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kellykorova: creepy, there’s a photo of that installation that I put in my paper-version of my tumblr a few years back. What a nice way to start the day. ohcarlos: Yayoi Kusama, Fireflies on the Water (2005). Installation art done right. Even the most art-tarded person could walk into one of her rooms and feel something. Beautiful

kellykorova:

creepy, there’s a photo of that installation that I put in my paper-version of my tumblr a few years back. What a nice way to start the day.

ohcarlos:

Yayoi Kusama, Fireflies on the Water (2005).

Installation art done right. Even the most art-tarded person could walk into one of her rooms and feel something.

Beautiful

October 3
Artist Sets Kurt Cobain Free: By Smoking His Ashes? (via Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine Online) Ties in nicely with this discussion earlier.
Artist Sets Kurt Cobain Free: By Smoking His Ashes? (via Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine Online) Ties in nicely with this discussion earlier.
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New work from one of my favorite artists: Jon Haddock Andrew Meyer (Don’t Tase Me Bro’)
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Ideals in children's books - by geography

kettering:

In London, in children’s books, life is too orderly and one longs for the vitality of the wild; in Paris, order is an achievement, hard won against the natural chaos and cruelty of adult life; in New York, we begin most stories in an indifferent city and the child has to create a kind of order within it. Each of these schemes reflects a history: the English vision being a natural consequence of a peaceful nation with a reformist history and in search of adventure; the French of a troubled nation with a violent history in search of peace; and the American of an individualistic and sporadically violent country with a strong ethos of family isolation and improvised rules. We go to the imaginary Paris for sudden glimpses of evil (the death of Babar’s mother) set off by satisfying visions of aesthetic bliss (the Celesteville Bureau of Industry, situated near the Amusement Hall), just as we go to the imaginary London to satisfy our longing for adventure and the undefined elsewhere, which returns us safely in the end to Cherry Tree Lane. And we go to the imaginary New York for the pleasure of the self-made: to see two children actually hide and live in a museum; to see an alligator, or a mouse, absorbed uncontroversially into a normal life.

—Adam Gopnik

(Behind on my New Yorkers, and tivoing the debate.)

October 2
Found it: Yayoi Kusama Mirrored Years - Calendar - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Found it: Yayoi Kusama
Mirrored Years - Calendar - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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hydeordie: Gilbert and George Fates 2005 If you are in NY you have no excuse to not attend this show.  It’s Gilbert and George and the Tate curated it, what else do you need to know?  That’s what I thought. Gilbert & George Brooklyn MuseumOct. 3, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009The final showing of the retrospective organized by the Tate in London in collaboration with the artists presents more than 90 pictures made since 1970 via… Lucky you people living in NY (90% of all the people I follow, I think). I’m going to find an awesome exhibition in my neighborhood and make you jealous back.

hydeordie:

Gilbert and George Fates 2005

If you are in NY you have no excuse to not attend this show.  It’s Gilbert and George and the Tate curated it, what else do you need to know?  That’s what I thought.

Gilbert & George

Brooklyn Museum
Oct. 3, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009
The final showing of the retrospective organized by the Tate in London in collaboration with the artists presents more than 90 pictures made since 1970 via…

Lucky you people living in NY (90% of all the people I follow, I think). I’m going to find an awesome exhibition in my neighborhood and make you jealous back.

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stumblng: “Jackson Pollock was here” no, not really; it seems that a commercial printing press had stood in front of the wall pictured; you’re seeing what was left behind after the press had been removed from here via this —— They, ofcourse, should leave it like this.

stumblng:

  • “Jackson Pollock was here”
  • no, not really; it seems that a commercial printing press had stood in front of the wall pictured; you’re seeing what was left behind after the press had been removed
  • from here via this
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They, ofcourse, should leave it like this.

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notemily: A 26-year-old artist and rape survivor has created a sign for the Williamsburg, Brooklyn block where she was assaulted. The artist, who spoke to ArtCal via email, has chosen to remain anonymous because her case is still in court. She says she hopes rapists who see the sign will think about the possibility of their loved ones being assaulted and “realize that the act they commit is unforgivable, and is an obscene expression of power over another person.” via sexartandpolitics: candywrapped: jgh: Jezebel

notemily:

A 26-year-old artist and rape survivor has created a sign for the Williamsburg, Brooklyn block where she was assaulted. The artist, who spoke to ArtCal via email, has chosen to remain anonymous because her case is still in court. She says she hopes rapists who see the sign will think about the possibility of their loved ones being assaulted and “realize that the act they commit is unforgivable, and is an obscene expression of power over another person.”

via sexartandpolitics: candywrapped: jgh: Jezebel