Monday, September 28th, 2009
Art Monday: Spider webs
Spiders decorating their own webs: how cool is that? Scienceray posted a whole bunch of them here.
Spiders decorating their own webs: how cool is that? Scienceray posted a whole bunch of them here.
Obese cars. Made by Erwin Wurm. Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist who is best known for his “One Minute Sculptures” in which he puts himself or models in unexpected relationships with everyday objects close at hand.
Thanks Archibald Kobayashi
Untitled:
A satire that pokes fun of the nuanced world of the New York contemporary art scene through a pair of competitive brothers eclectic and self-important music composer Adrian and commercially successful painter Josh. When Chelsea art gallerina and Joshs love interest Madeline attends Adrians concert featuring the sounds of paper-crumpling, glass-breaking and bucket-kicking she commissions [...]
Cool! No more words needed.
Designed by Dutch designer Guus Oosterbaan living in Denmark. On his website he even posted a DIY in his own comment box.
via Nerdcore.
In his travels through West Africa, Pieter Hugo has been intrigued by Nollywood films and their distinct style in constructing a fictional world where everyday and unreal elements intertwine.
By asking a team of actors and assistants to recreate Nollywood myths and symbols as if they were on movie sets, Hugo initiated the creation of a [...]
Artist Daniël Rozin makes mirrors out of unreflective material.
via Archi.
Hermann Nitsch is not the only Viennese actionist coming to The Netherlands this year.
Günter Brus can be found from 15th May 2009 till 20th September 2009 in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
About Brus, the Gemeentemuseum website says:
His provocative actions of the 1960s caused chaos and violent indignation in the narrow-minded, religious, conservative Austria of the period. [...]
Invited by the cultural space carrérotondes in Luxemburg, Fabrica will present ‘Colors of money’, an exhibition which explores the approaches, uses and understandings of money. Based on the 73rd issue of Colors magazine, the show concludes that ‘money is an illusion’. It brings together a myriad of contradictions embodied by money’s role in our modern [...]
For those who love vynil but do not play it anymore.
And for the lazy dj’s they have:
See more at Bughouse.
Edit: another very cool one sent in by Erik:
Notice that the picks under the guitar are engraved with the Jim Dunlop logo!
Juan Uslé is a Spanish artist. He lives and works between Saro (Cantabria) and New York City.
Via Whatspace.