Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
June 11, 2013, 8:18 am
Before there were Damien Hirst spin paintings, there were David Cross toilet photographs. A far cry from Andres Serrano’s uncomfortably pretty fecal photography, Cross — played by pre-fame Louis CK in this faux art documentary “Artumentary” that ran on MTV between segments in the 1990s — took photos of colorful paints swirling in toilet bowls. Laughable though his aesthetic toiletry may be, Cross (whose name is confusingly also the name of a real comedian), he makes up for it with his conviction. “I know a lot my critics say that I’m wasting water,” he says. “But I think art is more important than water.” (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Louis CK, MTV, News, Poop, Video
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June 6, 2013, 8:22 am
On June 28 the Brooklyn Museum will open the first retrospective devoted to the Brooklyn-based artist collective the Bruce High Quality Foundation, chronicling the group’s many activities — which include sculptures, paintings, performance art, an adaptation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” as an allegory for the Cooper Union tuition feud, and the recurring Whitney Biennial satire The Brucennial — and featuring, according to a new yet weirdly familiar-looking trailer (embedded below), “less (sic) than 17,000 works of art.” (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Brooklyn Museum, Bruce High Quality Foundation, News, Video
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June 4, 2013, 8:49 am
For his ongoing “Copyrights” project, the British artist Phil Thompson has actual paintings manufactured based on the copyright-restricted — and therefore blurred out — images of paintings found on the Google Art Project. After taking screenshots of the Mark Rothko-like, distorted artworks, Thompson orders large-scale oil reproductions of the works from the Dafen Oil Painting Village in China, which has recently been caught up in internet censorship problems with Google. (more…)
Tags: Ashton Cooper, Copyright and Copywrongs, Google Art Project, New Media Art, News, Phil Thompson
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May 22, 2013, 1:12 pm
Celebrity chef, outspoken foodie, and Savannah resident Paula Deen will be the subject of a new museum in her hometown of Albany, Georgia, if a group led by her ex-husband Jimmy Deen and local aspiring politician B.J. Fletcher have their way. The future Paula Deen Museum would be housed in the greatly-loved gourmand’s childhood home, which was recently purchased by a group who support the museum project, the Albany Herald reports. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Jenny Drumgoole, News, Paula Deen, Paula Deen Museum, Video
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May 15, 2013, 12:42 pm
Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman’s “Rubber Duck Project,” which has been moored in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor since the beginning of the month, was looking a little less chipper this morning when residents found it floating in a deflated heap, the 54-foot-tall sculpture reduced to a yellow circle by strong winds and waves, the New York Daily News reports. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Florentijn Hofman, News, Public Art, Public Art Fail
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May 8, 2013, 7:35 am
Yesterday afternoon a few some all of ARTINFO’s staff hustled over to Mary Boone Gallery‘ after receiving a tip that Natalie White — she of the recent controversy on the Lower East Side involving an exhibition at ROX gallery, where she led the NYPD on a topless tour — was posing nude inside one of the giant shell sculptures from Marc Quinn’s new show. (more…)
Tags: Marc Quinn, Mary Boone Gallery, Natalie White, News, nude, Video
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May 1, 2013, 8:12 am
Just days before it was due to go on view at Queen Elizabeth II’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, puzzle master Dave Evans’s chef d’oeuvre, a 40,000-piece jigsaw puzzle celebrating the queen’s Diamond Jubilee crashed to his studio’s floor (see video below), instantly undoing more than 200 hours of work. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Dave Evans, News, Puzzles, Queen Elizabeth II
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April 30, 2013, 2:28 pm
Twenty-three artists behind some of America’s most beloved comic strips, cartoons, and graphic novels — including “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau, graphic novelist David Mazzucchelli, “This Modern World” creator Tom Tomorrow, illustrator Steve Brodner (work above), “Bizarro” artist Dan Piraro, and Art Spiegelman of “Maus” fame (work below) — contributed original drawings to a short cartoon (embedded below) for Demand Action, a campaign launched by the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns imploring Congress to take steps to reduce gun violence in the United States. (more…)
Tags: Art Spiegelman, Benjamin Sutton, garry trudeau, Guns, News
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April 24, 2013, 12:05 pm
Not content to confine its reopening campaign to milk cartons, Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum recently coordinated an intricate and theatrical flash mob in a Dutch mall with actors playing each figure in the museum’s star attraction, Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” (below). In the brief public performance a thief runs out of a store in the mall, setting off not only its alarm, but also an improbable sequence of entrances by knights on horseback, guards, courtesans, and a little person. (more…)
Tags: Benjamin Sutton, Flash mob, News, Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Video
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April 20, 2013, 2:27 pm
In conjunction with Urs Fischer’s survey at LA MOCA, Imitation of Christ designer Tara Subkoff’s, filmmaker Tatiana Von Furstenburg, and indie star Chloë Sevigny joined forced to produce a short film for MOCAtv. (more…)
Tags: Chloe Sevigny, Chloe Wyma, LA MOCA, News, Tara Subkoff, Tatiana Von Furstenburg
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