Topic: ART - on December 5, 2007 at 1:04:00 PM CET
Amy Winehouse, Pop Art Muse
The icons of an age are often immortalized by artists. Artist Gerald Laing may not be as famous as Andy Warhol for his Pop Art portraits but he has been doing them since the early 1960s when he created Pop Art pictures of Brigitte Bardot.
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Topic: ART - on December 4, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Graffiti artist Banksy goes to the Holy Land
Graffiti artist Banksy is trying to bring cheer and boost tourism in Bethlehem this Christmas with a series of subversive murals in the town revered as Jesus' birthplace.
The elusive street artist has painted six provocative new images -- including a dove of peace strapped with a bulletproof vest and a young girl with pigtails frisking an Israeli soldier -- on buildings around the West Bank town.
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Topic: ART - on December 4, 2007 at 10:41:00 AM CET
Landprint
The aim of the Landprint project is to reproduce subtle patterns and photos by combining various species of plants with programmed robotics.
Plants and flowers that spawn seem to make continuous patterns with their various colours and shades seen from a distance. With the use of programmed robotics for the planting and cutting of plants, we can manipulate the evolving patterns, to render photo-like, delicate images.
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Topic: ART - on November 28, 2007 at 12:44:00 PM CET
Banksy in nyc
Well, sort of. Opening this Sunday at the Vanina Holasek Gallery in New York is Banksy Does New York. Following in the wake of Andipa in London, the work in the show has been sourced from private collections and will be available to collectors at a premium. Just in time for investment bankers holiday bonuses. The show runs through December 29th.
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Topic: ART - on November 28, 2007 at 12:39:00 PM CET
An everyman's mystic
From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts?
William Blake was a bit of a nutter, to employ the vernacular of a recent prime minister.
Or at least so some of his contemporaries suspected. While possibly falling short of diagnosable mental illness, there was always a degree of suspicion over a man who supposedly claimed to have seen an angel in a tree in Peckham Rye.
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Topic: ART - on November 11, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CET
Banksy und die Preisspirale
Zehn Werke des britischen "Guerillakünstlers" Banksy sind bei einer Auktion in London jüngst für fast das Doppelte des Schätzpreises versteigert worden.
Bieter zahlten 546.000 Pfund (785.500 Euro), wie das Auktionshaus Bonhams mitteilte. Das Unternehmen hatte bei der bisher größten Auktion von Werken des Sprayers rund 300 000 Pfund erwartet.
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Topic: ART - on November 11, 2007 at 11:23:00 AM CET
Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'
An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.
"It sounds like a requiem," Giovanni Maria Pala said. "It's like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus."
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Topic: ART - on November 10, 2007 at 11:06:00 AM CET
M. C. Escher's favorite building
Five years ago, Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren unveiled their radical design for the new China Central Television Tower here to a disbelieving public. Even their client wasn't sure it could be built, they say.
Formed like a misshapen square doughnut, the building is full of technical challenges, with two towers leaning inward at sharp inclines that will be joined to form one continuous loop.
There were no building codes for this convoluted sort of structure, which Messrs. Koolhaas and Scheeren conceived as a challenge to the notion that all skyscrapers should point skyward. (Complicating matters: Beijing lies in an earthquake zone.)
Now, the moment is fast approaching for a crucial part of the tower's construction. In a matter of weeks, workers will construct the floors that will join the two leaning towers, producing the building's unusual shape.
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Topic: ART - on November 9, 2007 at 12:01:00 PM CET
Light-emitting wallpaper
With Jonas Samson's high-tech light-emitting wallpaper it's possible to use a two-dimentional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object. As long as the wallpaper is turned ‘off’, it is indistinguishable as a source of light. Instead, it is just what it appears to be: wallpaper.
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Topic: ART - on November 8, 2007 at 4:58:00 PM CET
Datenschutz ist ungeil - Peter Glaser
Früher, kurz bevor das Internet zum Massenmedium wurde, konnte man alle deutschen Telefonbücher auf einer CD-ROM erwerben. Später, in einer zweiten Fassung, kamen zu den Namen und Nummern sogar einige statistische Informationen hinzu. Jetzt erfuhr man zumindest die Wahrscheinlichkeit, mit der der Gesprächspartner in einer Hütte oder in einem Palast residierte. Die Aufregung war groß.
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Topic: ART - on November 8, 2007 at 4:53:00 PM CET
The State of Museums 10 Years After Bilbao
Ten years after the Guggenheim opened its extremely successful Frank Gehry outpost in Bilbao, a museum-building boom is occurring worldwide. From Los Angeles to Minneapolis to Abu Dhabi, new buildings designed by architects such as Renzo Piano, Herzog & de Meuron, and, of course, Mr. Gehry, are sprouting up everywhere.
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Topic: ART - on October 31, 2007 at 3:34:00 PM CET
Is this Banksy at work?
This picture is believed to be the first showing Banksy at work.
The maverick street artist has kept the public guessing over his identity despite his creations now selling for six- figure sums to Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Several photographs of the Bristol-born artist - real name thought to be Robert Banks - have emerged in recent years claiming to unmask him. But the latest appears to have caught Banksy creating one of his trademark murals on the side of a building in Bethnal Green.
thisislondon.co.uk dailymail.co.ukentertainment.timesonline.co.uk
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