(via Klara Liden at Serpentine Gallery:

Blank white posters over street advertisements. I love how it’s such a different white from the walls; So much more coverup than ground. It feels like the advertisements are leaking into the gallery, the white is not really equipped to cover them up/ keep them covered/ cannot keep out ‘the real world’. But the advertisements do not so much leak their content, or their being advertisements, they leak their color and materiality. Which seems more interesting than the white on top. But they would not be so alluring if they would have been presented without the white cover, to contrast with.

artisverygoodforyou:

Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Theresa (1647-1652) (detail)

People still talk about the eroticism present in this work. I like to imagine that Bernini was commissioned by a deviant pope. Saint Theresa looks like she’s almost convulsing with (religious) ecstasy. Above the actual sculptural group (where the sun rays are painted) is a hidden window. The sculptural group is attached to the rest of the structure from behind to give it the illusion of rising to the heavens.

I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron’s point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.

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referenceartgallery:

Helmut Smits

Universal Flag, 2008
CMYK flag (dim printed on both sides), flag pole

punctum:

Andreas Gursky   |   Schiphol, 1994

Schiphol is the largest airport in the Netherlands, where I live, and it looks nothing like this.

Damien Hirst

Still love these. Great to see them on thingsorganizedneatly

jillsies:

Myfawny MacLeod, Study for “Thought” @ the VAG

Go on, stare at the art, see who wins.

christopheralexanderolson:

Harvest Interrupted, Interrupted

2011

This, not so much.

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christopheralexanderolson:

Harvest, interrupted.

2011

Oooh, I like this.

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saatchionline:

Richard Prince give a nod to Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon evidencing more meaning to the work than court afforded. Images such as the one featured above are far more representative of Prince’s exhibition than the image that lead to a sweeping conclusion that the entire show was a copyright infringement.

Parsing Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince: The Copyright Infringement Ruling

Bad news for appropriation artists and anyone else who’s ever produced a collage.

jennilee:

matt connors

I love these paintings. It’s nice to see the presented as objects in spaces, instead of just the flat images.

thisrecording:

I consider myself successful when I do something that resembles the lack of order I sense.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Rolemodel

cartwheelgalaxy:

Objectum II

“300 coloured helium balloons float against the ceiling of the ‘tomb chapel’ of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Attached to the balloons are cards that refer to the material possessions of Bartlebooth, the deceased protagonist in George Perec’s novel Life A User’s Manual.”  2007. Project by Laurence Aëgerter

Spectacular. Koons eat your heart out. (pun intended).

hyperallergic:

sympathyfortheartgallery:

flavorpill:

Contemporary artists as action figures 

Haha, not sure if I want to ‘play’ with this, but an accurate likeness.

After Koons, I think the David Byrne and Damier Hirst ones are my favorites. This series almost makes me glad that there aren’t women artists of the same caliber of overexposed art superstardom whose celebrity can be so easily and enjoyable mocked.

Tracy Emin would make a great one, though.

otto-obrien:

“Isolated Depiction of the Passage of Time”, 2001 by Brian Jungen.

(via VVORK)

It even has the colors of a Donald Judd