The epic life of a world-class artist, jammed into six minutes. Narrated by Tom Waits.
Commissioned by LACMA for their first annual “Art + Film Gala” honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood.
directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman (http://gosupermarche.com/)
Alan Belcher, “______.jpg”, 2012
“Alan Belcher has produced new work for this exhibition, a ceramic multiple edition. Known for his pioneering of the photo-object_ genre (artworks which fused the disciplines of photography and sculpture); he has furthered that exploration with a multiple series of what can be seen as perhaps the ultimate “photo-object”. Belcher has taken the ephemeral nature of the universal jpeg, and solidified its default icon into a standard image surrogate. The edition entitled “______.jpg” was fabricated in China, is a series of 125 pieces each signed and dated.” 25 Years of Talent at Marianne Boesky Gallery, curated by Michelle Grabner May 2 – Jun 16, 2012.”
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Aled Lewis, Post post-modern ironic art for a cynical world. 297 x 420 mm (11.7 x 16.5 in) 5 colour screen print on Sirio 350gsm. Signed, numbered edition of 50. Lovingly hand-made in London, England for the “Memes” group show
Douglas Coupland, I MISS MY PRE-INTERNET BRAIN (from Slogans for the Early Twenty-First Century), 2012
“I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.” – Lydia Lunch
Need some advices on practical stuff? HowToBasic is the Youtube Channel for you. The best tutorials you can find out there. Ever.
Thank you, Internet. No, really.
Steve Roggenbuck is a 24 year old poet/blogger. He is incredible. It’s like the beat generation spirit reborn on Youtube.
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“Painters panting”, a supercut of inhalations and exhalations from (in order) Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Noland, Jasper Johns & Larry Poons.
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There are hundreds of videos and reports of this show online. But this one is the best so far.
Also, Noel Fielding is great (he will always be Richmond to me).
I was well aware of Hirst’s love for Francis Bacon, but suddenly, today, it all became much clearer..
I’d say yes.
“The purpose of technolgy is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body“. William S. Burroughs starring in a shoe advert for Nike in 1994. WTF.
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John Baldessari, Terms Most Useful in Describing Creative Works of Art (1966 – 68), painting, 1966-68
Time-lapse portraits layered and cut to reveal the passage of time, by Nerhol:
“The numerous portraits are actually different, photographed over a period of three minutes as the subject tried to sit motionless, the idea being that it’s impossible to ever truly be still as our center of gravity shifts and our muscles are tense. The portraits are actually a layered lime-lapse representing several minutes in the subjects life and then cut like an onion to show slices of time, similar to the trunk of a tree.”
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Maskull Lasserre, Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II), 2012 – books, steel, hardware 40 x 8 x 11 inches
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“Not all of us can afford fancy restaurant food to review.”
“The internet has intensified connections between people across the planet. In this episode we take a look at the impact of this new interconnectivity on the art world. Traditional funding models are dissolving, new forms of expressing ownership have arisen to accomodate for remix culture, and artists are finding ways to connect physical art experiences and traditions to the internet. In the digital era, the experience of art from the perspective of the artist and the art audience is shifting rapidly, and bringing more people into the creative process. “
“Nearly every second, a user on Twitter tweets about what time it is. It could be groaning about waking up, to telling a friend when to meet, to an automated train scheduler altering when the next one is coming. By searching Twitter for the current time we get a tiny glimpse of how active and far reaching the social network is.”
Actually, Chirp Clock makes much more sense that The Clock, a dull, overrated work that manages to impress us only for the giant amount of work and money necessary to make it (it’s really fun to watch, though).
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