Marina Abramović is a performance artist, who in 2010 performed The Artist is Present - sharing a minute of silence with each spectator that wished to. Over the 736 hour performance, hundreds of people sat across from her quietly. Marina had shared a passionate and tempestuous relationship with Uwe Laysiepen, with the relationship ending when they each starting walking from from one end of the Great Wall of China, met in the middle, shared a hug and left - never expecting to speak again. 20 years after that hug, Ulay attended the opening night of her performance without her knowing.
This is their moment.
posted by concreteforest
on Mar 20, 2013 -
52 comments
Thomas Robinson and Eliza Heath had three sons,
Thomas (1869-1950),
Charles (1870-1937), and
William (1872-1944), who followed in their father's (and grandfather's) footsteps as illustrators of various sorts. The most widely know was the youngest, W. Heath Robinson, whose
contraptions earned him the reputation as the UK counterpart to the US artist
Rube Goldberg. But the other two brothers are not to be overlooked.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 20, 2013 -
6 comments
We've all seen it. The off-white UAV is seen side on, nose tilted slightly down, a stubby missile caught at the moment of launch beneath it, a blue and grey landscape of treeless mountains behind it. There's no motion blur and none of the markings on the aircraft have been obfuscated. It's a perfect shot. Except for one or two details.
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posted by mwhybark
on Mar 19, 2013 -
56 comments
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has many "educator resources" on Korean art, Islamic geometric design, African art, and more (i.e. books filled with beautifully reproduced images of art and artifacts, along with extensive background history). They are
available for download as PDF files.
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posted by benito.strauss
on Mar 11, 2013 -
8 comments
"Artists often cling to control of their work and the context of its display, but to interact with Tumblr, they must give up that control. Art on Tumblr might get seen by many people, but 1,000 reblogs doesn’t mean anyone will be looking at your art next week, know that you made it, or be having a critical discussion. Given these reasons, it would make sense for artists to be wary of putting their work on Tumblr. But this isn’t always the case; a younger, more internet-savvy generation has embraced the web 2.0, feeling that the costs outweigh the benefits." --
Ben Valentine looks at Tumblr as art, in the opening essay of
the world's first Tumblr art symposium, which can be followed
on livestream.
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posted by MartinWisse
on Mar 9, 2013 -
30 comments
In the new game
Avant-Garde, you play an up-and-coming artist in 19th century Paris, a contemporary of Manet and Bouguereau. Carve and sell allegorical statue groups! Get snubbed by Napoleon III! Subsidize Gustave Courbet's drinking! Compose and promulgate your own aesthetic manifesto!
posted by Iridic
on Mar 8, 2013 -
56 comments
Want to see the Stay Puft marshmallow man losing a game of mousetrap with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (who happens to be on fire) while Face from The A Team arrives on a pigeon dressed in leopard print Y-fronts and wedding veil, all this is taking place on the moon?
Jim'll Paint It.
posted by dobbs
on Mar 3, 2013 -
28 comments
Dachshund UN. Shock, delight, cacophony! A meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is staged with the help of specially recruited dachshunds in this wild performance installation. Joyful and chaotic, spectacular and fascinating, Dachshund UN questions our capacity to imagine and achieve a universal system of justice.
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posted by ovvl
on Mar 1, 2013 -
16 comments
The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in me since chance put me in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up. By Jose Guizar. [Via].
posted by chavenet
on Feb 24, 2013 -
9 comments
The Framers Gallery in London is currently hosting
Teh Exhibishun, an exhibition of lolcat art. Special guest is
Kate Miltner, author of
SRSLY PHENOMENAL:
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE APPEAL OF LOLCATS [MA dissertation, pdf available on her website]. Admission is free, but 50% of all proceeds collected will go to
Battersea Home for Dogs and Cats. The BBC
is there (with video) to speak with curator Jenny Theolin, some of the artists, and Miltner.
posted by hurdy gurdy girl
on Feb 19, 2013 -
15 comments
One hundred years ago today in 1913, an art exhibition opened in New York City that shocked the country, changed our perception of beauty and had a profound effect on artists and collectors.
The International Exhibition of Modern Art — which came to be known, simply, as the
Armory Show — marked the dawn of Modernism in America.
posted by flapjax at midnite
on Feb 19, 2013 -
15 comments
Horse-egifs: A tribute to the surreal poetry of Horse_Ebooks, Horse-egifs takes a randomly selected video and makes a gif from a randomly selected chunk of that video.and then it gets posted to tumblr. [via
mefi projects]
posted by The Whelk
on Feb 17, 2013 -
10 comments
On the one hand we have kirigami, the slightly more dangerous variation of origami that involves razor-sharp instruments (think
snowflakes).
On the other hand we have architecture.
Now put your hands together...
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posted by heyho
on Feb 13, 2013 -
12 comments
