kiddie art If you work in an office with lots of people, chances are that you work with a person who
hangs pictures up that their kids have drawn. The pictures are always of some stupid flower or a tree with wheels. These pictures suck; I could draw pictures much better. In fact, I can spell, do math and run faster than your kids.
posted by batboy
on Oct 18, 2002 -
39 comments
Legato and
Avant La Nuit are two exquisite interactive pieces by
Nicolas Clauss, a "painter who stopped 'traditional painting' to use multimedia and the internet as a canvas", working from his
Flying Puppet studio in Paris. [
Requires Shockwave. Use your mouse.]
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Oct 16, 2002 -
10 comments
HEY! That's illegal! Aw, yeah the motherlode of illegality. The organizers of this exhibit seem to get it all right. The website doesn't skimp on the source material either. Wanna see George Bush wreak havoc on the Teletubbies bunnies? It's
here . Wanna see Wally Wood's (Of
The Realist and
Mad ) version of a Disneyland orgy? It's
here . Public Enemy sampled the Beatles but pulled the song because the licence fees were insane, listen to it
here . Also, don't skip over the "contract" that pops up when you enter the site, it's classic.
posted by jeremias
on Oct 11, 2002 -
15 comments
When pigs fly - This journal by the artist Andy Feehan details his work with tattooed hairless animals. Regardless of your immediate reaction to the art, Feehan's compassion and love for the animals is sure to win you over. Normally, I disprove of weblog cross-posts, but I couldn't resist sharing after finding this via
memepool.
posted by dirtylittlemonkey
on Oct 10, 2002 -
8 comments
High Art. Rick Griffin's famous flying eyeball poster is considered by many to be the single finest example of San Francisco psychedelic poster art. The image comes from this fabulous motherlode of eye candy that is Paul Olsen's
Fillmore and Avalon poster collection. It is the largest and most complete collection of its sort. He would like to sell it as a whole--The Whitney Museum wants to buy it but can't afford it. That should tell you something.
Come step behind the Indian bedspread curtain and smell the incense.
posted by y2karl
on Oct 10, 2002 -
20 comments
The Art of Terror. Damien Hirst, one of Britain's most celebrated artists, told the BBC last month that the Sept. 11 attacks were "visually stunning" artworks and that the perpetrators "need congratulating."
A stomach-turning account of how the art-dingbat world views the September 11 attacks.
posted by ZenMasterThis
on Oct 9, 2002 -
61 comments
The Russian Avant-Garde Book is an online version of the MoMA exhibit, featuring 112 books originally published in Russia during the intensely creative period between 1910 and 1934, before Stalin outlawed any style but social realism. The site is separated into three chronological themes and includes examples of futurist works, constructivist graphic design, children's books, propaganda, photography and photomontage, revolutionary imagery, architecture and industry, war themes, folk art and judaica...
posted by taz
on Oct 8, 2002 -
16 comments
CodeDoc, a new exhibition at Whitney Artport, forces us to view the scripts and codes that generate software art before seeing the “art.” The other aspect of the curatorial premise: each artist's code must create art that connects three points in space.
[via rhizome].
posted by hama7
on Sep 23, 2002 -
12 comments
Sand Art: it's everyone's favorite preschool art activity, now on your PC! Go sand art! Still, with this version you can't get into sand throwing fights with your friends...
posted by unreason
on Sep 21, 2002 -
5 comments
Cassius Marcellus
Coolidge's body of work has been
commented on
before. I've been to the Met. and looked at
this and it would never fit in a game room or above the urinal at the local trendy bar, but the works of
C.M. Coolidge will.
I also ran across another great American artist,
Art Frahm but the link had already been discussed a couple years ago
here. If you have not seen it its worth the visit. Art at it's best.
posted by mss
on Sep 19, 2002 -
4 comments
Tumbling Woman A statue of a falling woman designed as a memorial to those who jumped or fell to their death from the World Trade Center was abruptly draped in cloth and curtained off Wednesday because of complaints that it was too disturbing. It's all right if you don't want to discuss it here and now. I was also in NYC and saw the towers on that day.
posted by neu
on Sep 18, 2002 -
70 comments
As it is... Bhagavad Gita Art - love it - (as seen in those Hare Krishna books they give out around the world) and makes sure not to *always* stick with Eastern representations. I think Dubya should do more of
this... whaddyathink?
posted by HeadSessions
on Sep 18, 2002 -
10 comments
The following sing I a book. a book of art. of mind art as that which he hid reveal I.
Tom Phillips made his first
Humument pages in 1966 and continues to make them. He drew new meanings out of a forgotten Victorian novel -
A Human Document by
W.H. Mallock - by painting over or otherwise obscuring most of the words on the page, leaving pithy fragments. The result is wonderfully allusive, poetic and occasionally wise as well as beautiful to look at. He's used it to comment on Dante's Inferno and
Joyce's Ullysses, made a sort of opera out of it, and it's
dead postmodern to boot.
posted by Grangousier
on Sep 17, 2002 -
11 comments
An unfinished work representing a centuries-old mystery and containing an encrypted signature, Pythagorean philosophy and celestial numbers... Could it be the new Neal Stephenson novel? Actually, it's Johann Sebastian Bach's "
Art of Fugue", believed by some to have been conceived as "absolute music" never intended to be played at all. Artist Elizabeth Harington has created a lovely and loving
visual interpretation of the work in the form of 14 folded sculptures (nicely presented by
Colophon).
posted by taz
on Sep 17, 2002 -
12 comments
Remember
Bullet Time? Remember how it got damn annoying from overuse really quickly? When was the last time you saw something neat done with it?
Take a look at
Lumasol.
posted by Su
on Sep 12, 2002 -
20 comments
Celestial Atlases are perhaps some of the most beautiful scientific books ever published, capturing the mystery and the grandeur of the heavens, and rife with beautiful and often intimidating interpretations of the constellations.
Out Of This World has been my favorite website since the dawning of time, and one I go back to over and over again even though it never changes. The period from 1603 to 1801 produced the most beautiful star maps, and you don't have to know a thing about astronomy to appreciate how heavenly these are.
posted by iconomy
on Sep 10, 2002 -
9 comments
Artists, Lovers And Art Lovers or Amadeo, Anna and Olga: I was astonished to find such a thorough Modigliani gallery as this on the Web, complete with a
charming piece on his love affair with the great Russian poet
Anna Akhmatova. It's part of
Olga's Gallery, an entirely amateurish
affair mounted by
Olga and Helen Mataev with the intention of opening their children's eyes to the wonders of the (art) world. Its innocence and guilelessness are obvious, but its enthusiasm for painting - and its anxiety to share what's unsettling and magnificent about art - did much to renew my faith in the good ship Internet and in so many who sail in her. Long live amateurishness and its real root,
love! OK, so it's a bit raw around the edges... Who cares? It may be unprofessional, uncool and even awkward - but it's truly lovely.
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 9, 2002 -
8 comments
Evil Pupil. A game? A work of art? Something entirely different? Welcome to the weirdly beautiful world of Quebecois Interweb designer
Yohan Gingras. You can click and drag various elements on nearly all of his pages (I recommend "Evil Pupil / V.2" as a starting point) to discover, well, new things to click and drag. Just don't ask him what you are supposed to do or he will
call you a dumbass.
posted by Joey Michaels
on Sep 9, 2002 -
14 comments
crashbonsai No passengers have been injured in CrashBonsai accidents, although some drivers have reported a brief, even euphoric loss of consciousness.
posted by ginz
on Sep 5, 2002 -
14 comments
Do Judge A Magazine By Its Cover: I'm ashamed to say I only recognized one name (Covarrubias) from the list of
illustrators featured in Condé Nast's sparkling collection of
cover art, dating from the 1910s to the 1950s. It's also searchable by
magazine. So now I count myself a fan of Rene Bouet-Willaumez, A.H. Fish, Henry Stahlhut, Carl Erickson and a few others too. All in all, it's good, clean fun - even though the site's commercial and one's fingers often ache to open the damn things and actually read the bastards!
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Sep 4, 2002 -
6 comments
Self-portraits with an edge. "In a series of extraordinary transformations, this young, Korean-born conceptual artist unfolds a multiplicity of lives and identities documented through the lens of her point-and-shoot camera as she "becomes" a
young punk in the East Village, a Connecticut-based exotic dancer, or a
senior citizen picking through thrift stores in Murray Hill."
Nikki S Lee takes
Cindy Sherman in another direction. Sherman's classic photographs, as their title
Film Stills indicates, are static and meticulously set up. But Lee takes her characters to the street, using real people as props and set.
Fluidity of identity? Artist-subject relationship? Comment on sub-cultures? Isn't contmporary art
great?
posted by statisticalpurposes
on Aug 31, 2002 -
24 comments
Like
Tintin,
Asterix, or even the
Smurfs? Step right this way, to the
dark,
spooky side of
French cartooning.
Jacques Tardi, relatively obscure in this country, brings you
many lovely lonely images of
cityscapes and
small horrors, mostly within the amazing stories of
Adele Blanc-Sec, writer and adventurer.
At least
one of his books is still in print in English, and most can be
ordered from overseas, and are well worth it.
posted by interrobang
on Aug 27, 2002 -
23 comments
The British Museum has put together a beautiful interactive display system they call "
Turning the Pages" for some of the rarest books in their collection, including the
Sherborne Missal. The technology has been developed to
realistically replicate the physical act of turning the pages of each individual book.
posted by anathema
on Aug 24, 2002 -
14 comments
Do you ever just wander? Based upon the ideas of
psychogeography and the
dérive, a group called Special Airplane is orchestrating
Drift next week in Vancouver. Also ref.
The Cityspace Cut-Up @ Social Fiction, who seem somewhat responsible for this.
I don't see how Drift is "generative," but whatever; it's an interesting idea.
[badly-behaved javascript pop-links on the page; the supporting links in this post go to the locations directly]
posted by Su
on Aug 24, 2002 -
18 comments
Oh No! Not Another Underrated Artist Who Was Ahead Of His Time... Oh yes: it's
Tom Thompson(1877-1917). This time, though, the Internet has helped exact a sort of revenge. For those unlucky enough not to live in stately Ottawa and be able to visit the exhibition of the great colourist's work there (
through September 8), someone has done a great job of presenting Thompson's paintings on the web, including a wonderful selection of
merchandise and an appropriately quirky little
quiz. So they do win a few, now and again...
posted by MiguelCardoso
on Aug 21, 2002 -
8 comments
