Saturday 29 October 2016
Friday 28 October 2016
MoMA acquires the original set of emoji made in 1999
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| all images: shigetaka kurita emoji (original set of 176), 1999 | digital imagegift of NTT DOCOMO, inc. © 2016 NTT DOCOM |
MICHAEL ANTKOWIAK - What Right Has My Head to Call Itself Me
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| Blue Robe, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Holding Fruit, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Reclining Blue, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Red Dinner, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Blanket, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| French Painting, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Footrub, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Three Vessels 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Fist, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Big Leaf, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Sneakers, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Swan, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Daffodils, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Photograph, 12x16, oil on canvas |
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| Flowery Shirt, 12x16, oil on canvas |
Saturday 22 October 2016
"Swagger to Art"
Amar'e Stoudemire - Art Advisor
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We'll sell him art all day long! Former NBA New York Knicks, All Star player is getting a reputation for art connoisseur full story at NEW YORK TIMES
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| Amar’e Stoudemire, left, talking with Saara Pritchard of Christie’s. Michael Nagle for The New York Times |
Kenojuak Ashevak Heritage Minute
Historica Canada Unveiled its much anticipated Heritage Minute about the famed Nunavut artist October 20, 2016. The one minute tv spot is in 3 languages, English, French and Inuktitut.
Story and interview with her grandson at CBC
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| Kenojuak Ashevak's Rabbit Eating Seaweed. A copy of it sold for a record $59,000 at auction in 2015. ((Waddington's)) |
More info at Cape Dorset Fine Arts
Saturday 15 October 2016
BLUETOOTH CLOUDS
The idea of having a floating cloud inside of your home seems like something from a dream. This fantasy is now a reality, however, made possible through a recent collaboration between design firm Richard Clarkson Studio and levitation specialists Crealev. Together, they’ve produced a small puffy cloud speaker that not only plays music, but lights up and hovers in mid-air.
more info at MyModernMet
more info at MyModernMet
PEN SCULPTURE
Designed by Clara von Zweigbergk for Areaware, Standing Pens are refillable ballpoint pens that have taken on a completely new form – a geometric one.
Nuit Blanche PARIS 2016
At Saint Eustache PARIS
More information at Designboom
or Miguel CHEVALIER
OTHER NUIT BLANCHE PARIS
more info HERE
More information at Designboom
or Miguel CHEVALIER
OTHER NUIT BLANCHE PARIS
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| Anish Kapoor, Descension, simulation of the Nuit Blanche Paris 2016 project courtesy of the artist |
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| Pierre Delavie, Love Overflows, Conciergerie, Paris. simulation of the project for Paris Nuit Blanche 2016, courtesy of the artist |
Where The Hell Does The Word ‘P***y’ Come From, Anyway?
“Grab them by the pussy,” Donald Trump idiotically proclaimed in the hot mic moment heard ‘round the world.
PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE Huffington Post
Interview with CAI-GUO QUANG by VICE
By Kaleem Aftab
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| Photo courtesy of Cai Guo-Qiang's studio |
Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang makes ebullient art, awesome in the traditional meaning of the word. In the past, he's "extended" the Great Wall of China to the Gobi desert with a six-mile-long gunpowder fuse he ignited, created paintings through explosions, and orchestrated the spectacular fireworks display during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He also won the Golden Lion Prize at the 48th Venice Biennale, arguably the top honor in the art world. In a new documentary, out now on Netflix, viewers are offered vantage into the life of the man behind the match.
Director Kevin Macdonald's Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang takes an engrossing and informative look at the work of Guo-Qiang over the last few years. The film starts with the display the artist conducted at the economic conference APEC China in 2014, before following him as he attempts to complete Sky Ladder, a site-specific project he'd failed to realize three times in the past, which involves the construction of a 1,650-foot ladder that reaches into the sky before it's ignited, leaving a glowing image of a path to the heavens.
Macdonald puts the artist's work in context, making the argument that his practice with gunpowder is analogous to cultural revolution because his art is born from an explosion that destroys what has come before. He also hints at the battle between the funding of Guo-Qiang's work and maintaining artistic integrity, but ultimately his film is a touching and affectionate portrait of one of the world's great pyrotechnics. VICE met with Guo-Qiang just before he gave a talk at London's Frieze Art Fair to discuss his life, work, and the movie about it all.
VICE: Why did you agree to do this documentary?
Cai Guo-Qiang: Many people are interested in my exhibitions at museums, or the explosion events, but they are also equally curious about how I create these works. The documentary film manages to do something that cannot be done by an exhibition, which is that you get to see my complicated feelings for my hometown, my family, and my country. I hope that you see the real me, because oftentimes when people talk about me and what they say about me, I don't think it's the real me. I feel that the film manages to capture the real vulnerability that I feel. The difficulty and vulnerability on the screen is very real. Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability. Film can make not just the work accessible to people, but also the artists.
FIND THE REST OF THE INTERVIEW HERE
Friday 7 October 2016
Saturday 1 October 2016
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