MetaFilter posts tagged with modernart

Let me take you to Circly Town

yiftach — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:48:58 -0800

Artist Felice Varini has made an art project out of the town of Vercorin in the Swiss Alps. A wee bit of background, and the artist's own behind the scenes. (via)

"I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist."

Damn That Television — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:18:03 -0800

Somewhere between dada and surrealist, Marcel Duchamp revolutionized art with his "readymades," a term for found objects taken directly from society. Except, maybe they weren't. Rhonda Roland Shearer (widow of Harvard paleontologist and natural selection spokesperson Stephen Jay Gould) makes a convincing argument that Duchamp's readymades were anything but.

Eric Doeringer's Smoke Filtration Systems

Joe Beese — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:44:10 -0800

The Smoke Filtration Systems are a series of sculptures that are also working marijuana water pipes. The mechanics of each pipe are thoroughly tested, but the actual sculptures are presented in clean, unused condition.

Why do people get Rothko but not Stockhausen?

ob — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:01:33 -0800

Music Journalist David Stubbs has a new book exploring why when the audience for modern art is huge, that for new music is tiny. The BBC, has an article about this with an interview with the author and some sound samples.

MoMA Redux

netbros — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:34:19 -0800

The Museum of Modern Art began working in late 2007 to renovate its Web site substantially for the first time since 2002. It knew that it wouldn’t be just updating a few pieces — it would be entering a whole new era. Earlier this month, the new site launched, and is an almost complete reconstruction of how the museum presents itself online. It features livelier images from its collection and exhibitions, increased use of video and the new interactive calendars and maps.

Against conceptualism, hedonism and the cult of the ego-artist.

shothotbot — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:35:46 -0800

The Stuckists are a loosely affiliated group of artists - mainly painters - with some strong opinions, helpfully spelled out in a manifesto. From the manifesto:

Stuckism is the quest for authenticity.
Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists.
Art that has to be in a gallery to be art isn’t art
The Stuckist is opposed to the sterility of the white wall gallery system and calls for exhibitions to be held in homes

Formed in 1999, they are against conceptual art, gallery-award culture, hold a pretty serious grudge against Damian Hurst and annually protest the ceremony of Britian's Turner Prize. Here is a collection of self-diagnosed Stuckist paintings on flickr. Many more artists can be found by following the links here. From the website: The name Stuckism was derived, in the best art historical tradition, from an insult, in this case from 1999 Turner Prize Nominee, Tracey Emin, to ex-boyfriend, Billy Childish: "Your paintings are stuck, you are stuck! Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!" There is an second - but not final - manifesto called Remodernism: towards a new spirituality in art. It was written at about the same time as the original Stuckist manifesto which seems to be a guidelines for a sort of non-painters auxiliary.

We don't need more dull, boring, brainless destruction of convention, what we need is not new, but perennial.
The Remodernist's job is to bring God back into art but not as God was before.
Why do we need a new spirituality in art? Because connecting in a meaningful way is what makes people happy.

Previously.

Let me tell you about my mother.

The Whelk — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:11:28 -0800

Clayton Cubitt is a video artist. He does video portraits. They are disturbing, warholian, and weird

The New Shock

chuckdarwin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:27:18 -0800

Art critic Robert Hughes and The Mona Lisa Curse

Hitler defaced

Artw — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:12:56 -0800

Jake and Dinos Chapman have bought a stack of Adolf Hitlers paintings for £115,000 and defaced them with rainbows and butterflies for their new show, "If Hitler Had Been a Hippy, How Happy Would We Be". The show also recreates "Fucking Hell", a huge swastika shaped diorama of tiny plastic nazis torturing and killing each other, which had been destroyed in a fire.

Blistering barnacles!

Artw — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:44:12 -0800

But is it art? Apparently so - A page of original Tintin artwork by Belgian artist Hergé becomes part of the Pompidou Centre's permanent collection of Modern Art, the first comics artwork to do so despite Frances vibrant comics culture.

Takashi Murakami

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:35 -0800

Hentai sculpture sells for $15m (NSFW) Murakami! Murakami! Murakami! Murakami! Murakami! Murakami!

"I Like America and America Likes Me"

bardic — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:57:42 -0800

"He spent three days in a room with a coyote. After flying into New York, he was swathed in felt and loaded into an ambulance, then driven to the gallery where the Action took place, without having once touched American soil. As [he] later explained: ‘I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote .’" ( documentary yt clip)

Insane pixel-like wall art

mathowie — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:40:06 -0800

Peggy a redo of the Lichtenstein modern classic using 2788 hand cut, sanded, and painted dowels mounted on a wall, forming a 3 x 7 foot work of art.

Lonelygirl15, meet your new rival, Cheekygirl10

jonp72 — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:18:07 -0800

They use complicated words here. I will look those up in the dictionary later on... A New Zealand filmmaker responds to the fakeness of the Poor Pluto episode in the lonelygirl15 saga by filming a ten-year-old girl let loose with a microphone in the Govett-Brewster art gallery. Her spontaneous reactions to the Wind Wand and other kinetic sculptures by Len Lye ("sounds like my old Barbie car") and Tony Nicholls ("It's connected to those little hinge-y thingies") manage to take the piss out of both modern art and the lonelygirl15 phenomenon simultaneously.

Schaulager, Basel

booksprite — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:21:12 -0800

Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland. "If art is not seen it is dead. If art is not conserved, it decays. Schaulager - a new type of space for art." Originating from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, whose collection is stored at Schaulager under optimal conservation conditions, Schaulager is an institution dedicated to contemporary art – its conservation, research and dissemination. Building designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron.

"Perspectives of Russian Art"

hortense — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:53:34 -0800

Perspectives of Russian Art Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 Americans had limited opportunities to view Russian art of the 20th century. The political pressures of the Cold War era resulted in the mutual cultural isolation of Russia from western Europe and the United States that also created an atmosphere of aesthetic mystery regarding Russian art . .

The Robert Rauschenberg Reunion Tour

grapefruitmoon — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:57:40 -0800

The Robert Rauschenberg Renunion Tour [NYT]: Prolific American artist Robert Rauschenberg (previously discussed here) has a show opening at The Met on Tuesday (Dec. 20). [More Inside]

Livio De Marchi

RMALCOLM — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:53:53 -0800

Livio De Marchi is a contemporary Italian sculptor who has developed a remarkable style, combining great skill with wood and a good dose of whimsy. No plank will ever look the same!

Robert Rauschenberg

grapefruitmoon — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:20:04 -0800

Robert Rauschenberg was one of the great American artists of the 20th Century. Born in Texas, Rauschenberg studied art in Paris and North Carolina before moving to New York to "make it" as a painter. He developed a signature style which he called "combines" in which he combined paint, collage, and scupture in one piece. His work has been showcased at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, MoMA, and The Guggenheim among others

Cut the crap - Duchamp opened up modern art

Ufez Jones — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 11:39:49 -0800

Marcel Duchamp's "readymade" Fountain has been named the World's Most Influential work of modern art, according to 500 artists, curators, critics and dealers in a survey conducted by Turner Prize sponsor Gordon's. (more inside)

The Gettysburg Address

Ogre Lawless — Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:55:42 -0800

In the War Between The States, no finer words were ever spoken than those by Abraham Lincoln on 19 November 1863 at the consecration of a cemetery in rural Pennsylvania for the over 50,000 who died in the three worst days of battle in a wretched civil war. The speech is often included in US history books and collections of influential American speeches as one of the strongest examples of presidential oratory ever given. Is it any wonder, then, that it should inspire modern art?

Cone sisters apartment virtual recreation

Aaaugh! — Sun, 04 May 2003 20:43:14 -0800

Half-Life meets Matisse in a virtual reconstruction of the apartment of Etta and Claribel Cone. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, the sisters amassed one of America's foremost collections of modern art. Today, many of the pieces can be viewed in the Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. As part of the 50^th anniversary celebration of the museum's acquisition of the collection, the Imaging Research Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County designed a digital walkthrough of their apartment so that visitors could see the art in its original context.

plexi — Fri, 27 Sep 2002 17:19:03 -0800

Centre for Contemporary Images. Provides things such as Up to 625.

vacapinta — Sun, 05 May 2002 22:03:24 -0800

"Do It is a manual of artist's instructions for you to actualize. It includes works by over 60 contemporary artists ... Once you have actualized an instruction, please send us a picture and your name, we will include it in the manual" I dont know about you, but I'm going to go get some boards and a bunch of bugs to squash right now - for Baldessari, of course. [via caterina]

dobbs — Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:16:11 -0800

Are these "brilliant artists" the next Picasso and Ewen? Or the next Manson and Son of Sam?