entries Tagged as [exhibitions]
Wall Street effigy
‘Give a Wall Street banker enough rope and he will hang himself’
The work of Miami-based street artist Above. Video by Peter Vahan and Hermes, location provided via Primary Flight and White Walls Gallery. Article here.
Good 50×70
‘It’s a competition to raise awareness amongst the creative community of the power we have to be a force for good.’
Posters from the Good 50×70 Competition.
Found via Robert L. Peters
Schelbert, West, Rietveld
‘handprinted and unique posters in A0 format, printed and digital invitations and adverts in various Dutch magazines . . . woodcut printed.’
E-flyer for Alban Schelbert and Christopher West’s End Exam Show at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. From 2009.
Found via manystuff
The theft: Degenerate Art
‘Avant-garde German artists were now branded both enemies of the state and a threat to German culture.’
In 1937, the Nazi party hosted ‘Entartete Kunst.’ This traveling exhibition showcased modern art as the work of madmen, ‘degenerates’ out to destroy the world.
Confiscated art – works of Kirchner, Nolde, Beckmann, Ernst, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Dali, Klee, Kandinsky, Lissitzky, Grosz and many others – filled the show. After, the pieces were either destroyed or auctioned off.
For more about Entartete Kunst, read here or here. Exhibition catalog here.
Art, ideas, original thoughts: All dangerous.
This past weekend I watched a documentary on The Inquisition. Things such as inquisitions, persecutions – Entartete Kunst, McCarthyism – cycle throughout history.
What beliefs, doctrines and laws exist today that limit freedom, individuality and progress?
Urinal in bronze, +Murdoch
Above, artist Sherrie Levine’s Fountain (Buddha) (1996) with Duchamp’s original (1917). From the exhibition, Keeping it Real (2010).
Below, ‘a personal note from Queen’s Roger Taylor’ (2011).
Roger Taylor: Dear Mr Murdoch
Blast!!
‘Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly in the years before and during World War I.’
A few months back, I picked up Black Sparrow Press’ reprints of Wyndham Lewis’ Vorticist journal Blast Magazine. Vorticism was the British entry into the realm of modern art.
There were only two issues – which ‘blasted’ old Edwardian forms in favor of the new machine aesthetic that was about to take over the world.
Out with the old, in with the new, as it were.
The two issues of Blast – there were only two – are available for browsing at issuu. Check them out here and here.
I see a connection between Lewis’ work and the original production design of TRON. But that may just be me.
There is also a retrospective now going on at the Tate. Video referencing the work of Vorticist practitioner Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915), below.
Korean Convergence
‘It’s an amalgamation of ‘sign’ (Korean written language) and ‘space’: signs become spaces, and spaces become signs’
The South Korean pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Designed by Mass Studies. More info here.
Found via Poketo
Iconic Bunny
‘Contemporary artists interpret the iconic Playboy Bunny’
Pictured, detail of Vincent Cacciotti’s ‘Peek-A-Boo’ from Playboy Redux II.
More here.
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