Andy Warhol: Photographic Portraits Displayed For First Time Lost Then Found
A collection of never-before-seen photographs of pop artist Andy Warhol are set to go on display for ten days in New York, beginning on May 3rd. The title of the exhibition, Lost Then Found, alludes to the fact that the photos were forgotten in a storage cabinet for over thirty years before they were discovered. …
This Has Been Photography
"In an age where ‘everyone is considered to be a photographer’ the ambiguous and enigmatic nature of photography, as an ‘ordinary’ and everyday cultural practice alongside its existence as an institutionally sanctioned art form, are magnified and accentuated that much more now photography can exist in digital and networked form," writes Dr. Jane Burton in …
Shirt Installations By Kaarina Kaikkonen
Using hundreds of second-hand shirts Finnish environmental artist Kaarina Kaikkonen has built countless installations. "Through my work I try to search my constantly changing outline. I need an outline to understand myself more clearly - to understand where the internal ends and the external begins," said Kaikkonen. The shirts are organized by color on each side …
Broken Pieces Of Pottery Art By Remedios Vincent
These pieces have been created by Remedios Vincent from broken pieces of pottery, most of them are more than a century old. "I am interested in giving new life to pieces that have ceased to be useful in regards to the purpose for which they were created, but that still have much formal interest, especially …
Diane Meyer’s Embroidered Photography
Diane Meyer's series Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten is based on photographs taken at various points in her life and arranged by location. The Santa Monica based artist draws inspiration from ‘failures’ in photography. "Sections of the images have been obscured through a layer of embroidered pixels sewn directly into the photograph. The …
Portable River By Luzinterruptus
Spanish urban light art pioneers Luzinterruptus is an anonymous artistic group arranging urban interventions in public spaces. Their latest project named ‘Portable River’ is an installation that questions the way we view – and monetize – water. The artists created a moveable, individually-wrapped river on the street, with 2.000 transparent and illuminated bags, including a …
The Hunter, The Hunted, Sacred Heroes And The Disposable
"Blowing up cheap plastic toy army men with firecrackers was a hallowed rite of passage among my young peers. We buried, burned, melted and destroyed these disposable men in routine play. What we were thinking and why were our imaginations so fully engaged? Why were we ultimately compelled to destroy these simple, inanimate miniature replicas? …
Fruit & Vegetables By Heidi Voet
The artist Heidi Voet re-creates women from Chinese magazines and vegetables using unlikely yet common scenes in uncommon arangements. She transforms the classic subject into something wondrous, strange and beautiful. This series works like a prism, showing us the spectrum of consumption to re-awaken us to more nuanced understanding of the present. As the artists …
Hedonism(y) Trojaner By Babis
German artist Babis created this sculpture named ‘hedonism(y) trojaner’ out of recycled resin, computer cables and buttons. This sculpture is a replica of Trojan horse, it might be known to you from the greek mythology, where it granted the Greeks access to the city of Troja. The artist wants to tell us an unpleasant truth, …
Bright! Typography Between Art And Illustration
Language and text are all around us. We perceive them both consciously and unconsciously. They provide us with information, convey images, awaken desires. Typography, or the arrangement of print in a specific manner, is, for many artists, more than simply a visualization of language. Typography is a source of fascination to the creative world because …
Art & Hacking: The Propulsion Paintings By Evan Roth
Propulsion Paintings, a video and mixed media work by hacktivist Evan Roth, reference and appropriate popular culture and show experiments with spray paint cans and their built-in pressure. This new media work celebrate the transformative power by removing the aerosol can from its familier context and giving it a much more immediate job to do. …
Bird On A Wire Interactive Installation
Bird on a Wire is a charming projected interactive display created for a pair of storefront windows at the corner Mercer St. and Washington Pl. in Manhattan, NYC. By calling a number passers-by can set birds perched on telephone wires into motion while listening to their flocking sounds on a cellphone. Each bird is individually …
Everything Goes Right & Left If You Want It
The Ukrainian-Danish artist Sergei Sviatchenko's intent and message might not be immediately clear or understandable, but he's one of the most influential innovators of modern collage and Everything Goes Right & Left If You Want It (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-460-1, $75) is the first comprehensive collection of his collage and painting. "In the world of contemporary art, …
Mechanical Flipbook Art And Kit
Did you ever draw in the corners of a book to create an image that animated as you "flipped" through the pages? Instead of a crank on the side, there’s a tiny motor inside the mechanical flipbooks that rotates the spindle and flexible cards flip by giving the illusion of moving pictures. Then the kinetic …
Impressions Of dOCUMENTA’s Contemporary Art
The documenta is regarded as the most important exhibition of contemporary art, drawing attention from all over the world. It was initiated in 1955 by the artist and art educator, Arnold Bode, in Kassel. After the period of Nazi dictatorship, it was intended to reconcile German public life with international modernity and also confront it …
Contemporary Indian Art
India: Art Now (Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775734110, $35.15) presents the contemporary art spectrum of Indian artists interpreting the existence on the border between the local and the global. "The contemporary Indian art scene has been flourishing since the nineties, among others factors due to economic growth, social and cultural tensions, and new media and visual …
Hänsli Paints His Way Through 166 Slices Of A Whole Cut Mortadella
In Mortadella (Editions Patrick Frey, ISBN: 978-3-905509-71-7, $79), Christoph Hänsli meticulously paints and works his way through 166 slices of a whole cut Mortadella, and not only that but each piece from front and back. In the end there are 332 paintings. Actually now everything would be covered. Not, however, that this sausage-sliced-world creates an …
The Art Of Light/Neon Installation/Creation
Lee Jung, represented by One And J. Gallery, was born in 1972 and currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea returning to Korea upon completed her M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, UK. South Korea are the places where she created and photographed this series of text-based light installations. Lee Jung placed …
Asger Carlsen’s Interpretation Of Reality
American literary theorist, Walter Benn Michaels, said in his 2007 essay, Photographs and Fossils, "It is in photography rather than in painting … that the most fundamental questions about the limits of representation and the limits of the critique of representation have been raised." While numerous photographers have proven that point, Danish artist Asger Carlsen …
Meet The Meat Balloons
These Meat Balloons ($8) are limited edition art pieces and were made as fake food objects by Balloon Factory. The Factory produce balloons for special events and by request. For Japan Premium Beef, they made a set of butcher-themed balloons (in the tradition of Sam Baron's sausage installation there in 2010). A selection of uninflated …
Aircraft – The Jet As Art
"Returning to the airport approaches, this time behind a camera instead of a control column, he photographed aircraft at the precise moment when they passed overhead, inbound to land," writes Walter J. Boyne, former director of the National Air and Space Museum in the foreword to Milstein’s book Aircraft - The Jet As Art (Harry …
This Is Not The End …
... this is just the beginning of something new, a great magazine project by designer Stefan Trifan about Art, Culture and Fashion. At a time when large media groups are dissolving and cohorts of prophets are trumpeting the arrival of a fully digital world, to talk about and to propose a new publication in an utterly …
Henrik Vibskov – How To Fashion Art
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” - Albert Einstein I just rediscovered the wonderful works of art of Henrik Vibskov (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-435-9, $60). To describe Henrik Vibskov as merely a fashion designer would be a vast understatement. As an artist, passionate musician, innovative stage designer, and …
