Category: Art
Weekendly clickables XIII
- For the first time in the history of humanity, there are more people living in cities than in the countryside. Fact! And of those many billions of city-dwellers, every 1 in 3 is living in a slum. The Places We Live is an immersive online series of audio slideshows and environments that document several slums around the world.
- Ze Frank does the news. Update: Ze Frank wonders what you think of him doing the news.
- “Children taking part in a study to measure how much exercise they do fooled researchers by attaching their pedometers to their pet dogs.” (via)
- WARRUG.com, traditional hand-woven rugs from Afghanistan with some contemporary imagery, for your purchasing pleasure. #buymethis
- Here is a very very high-resolution picture of Prague you can have fun zooming around in.
- Europa Film Treasures, an impressive archive of early films. Check out the Gordon Highlanders (from 1899), Ki Ri Ki – Japanese Acrobats (fake!), Nocturno, The Saucy Chambermaid (porn!), The Cuckolded Pierrot, and The Airship Destroyer (awesome music), and Farfale (a colorized film from 1907).
- Turning the corner, a neat-0 infographic on the business cycle since 1969.
- Apology calling card.
- “He may love [Scarlett Johansson], but up til now, Woody Allen has misused her. Here, she plays her age and, for the first time I can think of, a character whose inner and outer lives both seem organically compatible with the unconscious carnality the actress herself exudes. And someday entire grad school thesis will be written about the way Allen shoots every sex scene that she’s in, in extreme, soft focus closeup on her head, letting the camera drift to concentrate on her blonde hair spilling out of control to consume the frame.” Yeah, something like that!
- The Google Chrome OS is a bad idea, will probably fail, and suggests an unsettling trend for Google.
- An now, a little bit of internet art to soothe your frazzled nerves.
Michael Jackson spiral
Michael Jackson spiral (via). See also: Michael Jackson street art. Update: The piece is by Kelly Coats.
Make your own Damien Hirst skull
Make your own Damien Hirst skull with this kit available from iartist, £49.99. (via)
Weekendly clickables XI
- Your NPR name: insert your middle initial somewhere into your first name, then add the name of the smallest foreign town you’ve ever visited.
- Photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble space telescope silhouetted against the sun.
- Here’s the list of singers on the Kidney Now! episode.
- Bald currency. (Everyone looks better bald!)
- How to pamper different types of batteries.
- The Beauty Of Rotting Fruit And A Taxidermied Crow.
- Audio recording of Marcel Duchamp talking about art. (The art stuff is via ArtFagCity, probably.)
- I wanted to write something about Sometimes Goals Backfire, but then I forgot.
- Cory Arcangel makes pretty things. (Gradients?)
- That’s right, folks, the Wolfram Alpha it are live, and the hills are dewy with things you can do with it.
- Remember the list of books that are good introductions to the recommender’s fields? Well, there’s a great alphabetical list by subject now.
- Here’s a smart and sassy totebag for all you clever types.
- Have I linked to Scanwiches before? These make great desktop background images (use ‘center’ and set the BG color to black). Here is a little more sandwich porn, but to all my pals outside Miami, you do NOT make a Cuban sandwich in a panini press. You use a plancha (or even a skillet with an aluminum-wrapped brick for a press (make sure the brick is hot)).
- Blue whales are returning to some historical hunting areas from which they were driven by whaling. So, we’ve got that going for us.
- Also, I apparently do not link to this often enough: Dance Dance Immolation, brought to you by the fine people at Survival Research Labs, makers of super-neat-o toys.
- I’ll send you off with a few casual covers: Radiohead v. Portishead, Of Montreal v. Gnarls Barkley, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy v. Dolly Parton, Blue Ribbon Glee Club v. David Bowie, Antony and the Johnsons v. Gloria Gaynor, Jens Lekman v. Paul Simon, Vampire Weekend v. Fleetwood Mac.
Sale Purchase and Steal Agreement
“Artist sells to Collector and Collector purchases from Artists this Sale Purchase and Steal Agreement … Artist guarantees that he — after having sold and delivered the Artwork — will steal the Artwork back from Collector, or have it stolen from the Collector by a third party to be assigned by the Artist (hereinafter: “the Theft”).” That’s IT, conceptual art is DONE.
May art walk, 2009
New Glexis Novoa wall drawing at Castillo. Bodies left hanging from the architecturally ambiguous tower!
In the project room, Pepe Mar’s installation.
Felice Grodin’s show at Diana Lowenstein, a must-see.
Detail.
Custom poetry composed while you wait! Seriously, the energy is a little weird around Wnywood. I guess part of it is the impending approach of Summer, but there’s more. The Prevailing Economic Climate is making sales of actual art increasingly unlikely. There’s the move of Twenty Twenty Projects to Hialeah(!) and the move of Locust Projects to the Design District (a location “secret and for the most part inaccessible to those not closely associated with the residents”). It’s hard to not believe that the PEC is not behind both relocations.
Peter LaBier’s gremlin painting at Gallery Diet!!
Sinisa Kukec’s installation in a new space across from the street from Kevin Bruk. (The space is a nice collection of staggered rooms which evokes the Margulies, and I’m looking forward to future shows there. Provided by Goldman Properties, it is one of the positive consequences of the PEC.)
At Dorsch, Ernesto Caivano’s spectacular dissolving knight series of etchings
Alyssa Phoebus’ Good Woman, which I believe is not a graphical presentation of Cat Power lyrics (but am prepared to accept evidence to the contrary. Seriously though, you should see this show too, if at least for the Patricia Smith pieces, which were beautiful but hard to photograph).
MAM building fundraising update
Oh, speaking of Herzog and de Meuron, how far is the Miami Art Museum in their fund raising for the building? Not bad, reports Daniel Chang in Sunday’s Herald — the MAM has secured $45 million in pledges from private donors. This is out of targeted $120. The science museum is to raise $100 million, and various public funding for the two buildings comes to $280 billion. No word on what happens when if the project goes overbudget.
Man Ray describes ten of his favorite photographs he’s taken
Man Ray describes ten of his favorite photographs he’s taken. Also maybe a little experimental film — Le Retour A La Raison.
Meta/weird/arty twitter accounts
A collection of meta/weird/arty twitter accounts and related twitter sites, including @On_Kawara, a twitter feed of a pet door, and an app that creates tetris blocks out of tweets. (via)