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A metaphor for the current state of the American auto industry: two cars in an art gallery crashing into each other over a period of six days.
(via today and tomorrow)
Update: This exhibit is currently on display at The Boiler in Brooklyn. (thx, jeff)
Update: See also Chris Burden’s Samson.
A museum installation consisting of a 100-ton jack connected to a gear box and a turnstile. The 100-ton jack pushes two large timbers against the bearing walls of the museum. Each visitor to the museum must pass through the turnstile in order to see the exhibition. Each input on the turnstile ever so slightly expands the jack, and ultimately if enough people visit the exhibition, Samson could theoretically destroy the building.
Here’s a video. (via things)
The trailer for Herb and Dorothy, about a pair of unlikely art collectors. From a 1997 article in the Austin Chronicle:
She was a librarian. Her husband was a postal worker. They lived on his salary and bought art with hers. Both are now retired. They have no children. “We bought art we could afford and that would fit into the apartment,” they say. Water from the fish tank once splashed a Warhol they owned. It later had to be restored.
Much of their collection has passed to the National Gallery of Art.
Some days I feel just like a gaussian goat.
This is perhaps what the world would look like if human vision could perceive all of an object’s possible quantum mechanical states at the same time. (via today and tomorrow)
So, this happened: video of Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer.
Update: AmigaWorld did an interview with Warhol about his Amigas (he owned two at the time).
The thing I like most about doing this kind of art on the Amiga is that it looks like my work.
(thx, paul)
Imagine Finding Me is a project by Chino Otsuka where she inserts her adult self into photos taken of her as a child. More examples at Wallpaper. See also Ze Frank’s Youngme / Nowme and those neat half-kid, half-adult photos that I can’t find a link to right now…little help? (via waxy)
Update: Age-maps! (thx, cindy)
This is an odd little excerpt from Vanity Fair of a book about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa and other art in Paris.
The shocking theft of the Mona Lisa, in August 1911, appeared to have been solved 28 months later, when the painting was recovered. In an excerpt from their new book, the authors suggest that the audacious heist concealed a perfect — and far more lucrative — crime.
Expecting new revelations, I read on but it was the same story told in previous books. Regardless, it’s a great story and worth the read but nothing new if you’ve heard it before.
Update: Someone’s doing a documentary. (thx, rakesh)
A sampling of art by Lucas Monaco, whose work deals with maps, flows, and overlaps.
I really love that last one. (via moon river)
Josh Poehlein’s Modern History project takes screen grabs from YouTube videos and assembles them into collages.
These are wonderful. And he’s giving them away.
I am offering large printable files to anyone interested at no cost. Computer files are the most easily reproducible information on the planet. In this particular case I see no reason to imbue a false sense of preciousness on the work. The information I gathered to create the collages is publicly availaibe, and the collages themselves are no different.
(via conscientious)
Whoa. I’m a sucker for art that punches you in the face like this.
This particular image is trapped in the permalink-unfriendly JavaScript interface of Aram’s gallery…it’s the 4th image if you want to click through to see it larger.
Aram’s piece reminded me of John Maeda’s Amber Waves, available as wallpaper here. (via moon river)
[Ok, I’m gonna try not to mention The Matrix here.]
Thomas Broome makes paintings where words that describe the objects comprise the objects themselves. The effect looks sorta like The Matrix. [Dammit!]
Update: See also the visual effects by H5 in this Alex Gopher video. (thx, tom & philip)
Trailer for a new film called Guest of Cindy Sherman. It’s a documentary about a man who becomes romantically involved with the famous artist, only to find that his ego can’t handle her fame. I wonder if we actually get to see the real Sherman in the film…the trailer is very teasing about it.
Update: Unsurprisingly, Sherman’s not happy about the film. (thx, paul)
A collection of quirky toilet signage. And for what to read after you’ve latched that door, there are several sites dedicated to writing found on the walls of bathroom stalls. (Warning: most of it does contain language that falls soundly in the “potty mouth” category.)
Please Do Not Throw Toothpicks in The Urinals The Crabs can Pole Vault.
I wonder if they frisk for pens and markers before allowing admittance to the Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art.
Designer Naoto Fukasawa has designed juice boxes that both look and feel like their juices’ fruits of origin. That newly-reinstated orange on Tropicana cartons is turning green with envy.
Peculiar little video by Keith Loutit for a song called “Clementine.” Utilizes tilt-shift photography to achieve its miniature look.
via Nothing for X
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