From “the prank collective” Improv Everywhere: King Philip IV of Spain autograph signing:
“For our latest mission we staged an unauthorized autograph signing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with an actor who bears a striking resemblance to King Philip IV of Spain. Standing in front of the 400-year-old Velázquez painting, the “King” greeted museum patrons and offered free signed 8×10 photos.”
Sneak peek of exterior projections on the Guggenheim facade beginning Oct 21 for YoutubePlay...
[via twitter]
“An invitation was sent to a group of artists. I provided a curated list of works from SFMOMA’s permanent collection and asked each artist to make a work in response. This assignment continues my exploration as to how others interact with the museum, particularly how artists relate to works in the permanent collection.”
http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/06/reresponse-partone
YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with HP, YouTube Play hopes to attract innovative, original, and surprising videos from around the world, regardless of genre, technique, background, or budget. This global online initiative is not a search for what’s “now,” but a search for what’s ...
For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Some of them look amazing…
Pwned Paintings # 2, 2008, a video by Michiel van der Zanden
Last week I took a trip to Gijon to visit LABoral, a great place for contemporary art and its intersections with science and technology. Here is my photo set.
Finally, Rome has a new museum. A contemporary one. MAXXI is breathtaking (full photo report here)…
Anish Kapoor‘s installation Shooting into the corner. At the Royal Academy (London) until December 11th. I can’t wait to see it live…
