Topic: ART - on August 21, 2007 at 5:14:00 PM CEST
Magic circle
The seventh Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is a delightful and beautifully thought-out game. To the gallery's curators, this spiralling plywood and steel eye-catcher, designed by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson and Norwegian architect Kjetil Thorsen, resembles a spinning-top, which is meant to hum with activity from the moment it opens to the public on Friday.
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Topic: ART - on August 18, 2007 at 10:49:00 AM CEST
Salad, Alien Made Out of Vegetables by Till Nowak
Till Nowak has created a masterpiece “Salad”, a fantastic digital image of Alien made out of vegetables. His tribute to HR Giger and Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
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Topic: ART - on August 14, 2007 at 12:52:00 PM CEST
Video of Brian Eno Talking About His 77 Million Paintings
Here’s a short video I put together of Brian Eno’s talk at the The Long Now Foundation members event for the North American premiere of 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno exhibit which took place on July 1st at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In addition to the video, I also shot some photos of the event.
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Topic: ART - on August 14, 2007 at 12:48:00 PM CEST
Dylan's drawings to go on display - alongside Picasso's
He has spanned five decades as one of the world's most loved singer-songwriters, and he's still going strong. But as if that wasn't enough, Bob Dylan, the musician, poet, and living legend has confirmed that he is further extending his record as the ultimate artist, by putting some of his own pictures on display.
It emerged last night that Dylan has produced more than 200 sketches and watercolours over the years, which will go on show in October at the Kunstsammlungen art museum in Chemnitz, Germany.
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Topic: ART - on August 12, 2007 at 1:41:00 PM CEST
Matryoshkus set of six traditional Russian dolls
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Topic: ART - on August 12, 2007 at 1:30:00 PM CEST
Frida Kahlo's last secret finally revealed
She was always one of the most painfully personal of artists, producing a series of autobiographical canvases that dealt with everything from the consequences of the terrible injuries she suffered in a tram crash to her abortion. But finally the one part of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's life that has remained secret - at the orders of her former husband, fellow painter Diego Rivera - has been revealed in a new book published in Mexico.
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Topic: ART - on August 11, 2007 at 10:04:00 AM CEST
Warhol Vs Banksy - The Gallery at The Hospital
Open to the public In association with Pollock Fine Art A face to face show of classic drawings and paintings by Andy Warhol set against the infamous graffiti work of Banksy.
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Topic: ART - on August 3, 2007 at 5:53:00 PM CEST
Architecture that looks like a human habitat on another planet
These photos show the headquarters of Rmf Fm, a radio station based in Krakow, Poland. A neat architecture which looks just like a human habitat on another planet!
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Topic: ART - on July 31, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Peanuts by Charles Bukowski
Someone has dared to imagine what the popular cartoon strip would have been like if it had been written by drunk author Charles Bukowski.
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Topic: ART - on July 22, 2007 at 12:54:00 AM CEST
Cute sculptures made from kitchenwares
These cute and amazing sculptures appears to be made from discarded kitchenwares such as kettle, cups, spoons, etc. Would love to get hold of one of these! More pictures after the jump.
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Topic: ART - on July 17, 2007 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Find The Cult Movie Visual References
Crazy 4 Cult is a new exhibit coming to Gallery 1988, the Los Angeles art gallery that hosts the annual (and always great) IAm8Bit exhibit. Just as IAm8Bit uses videogames of the 1980s as the theme for the artists, Crazy 4 Cult is using Cult movies. For fun, the exhbit poster features a huge number of movie references - can you catch them all?
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Topic: ART - on July 3, 2007 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
The world has seen thousands of artists and millions of great pieces of art, but we chose just a handful of pieces of art from some of greatest masters of painting to show a little of how they were inspired by color… or perhaps, how they inspire us with color.
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