The world inside a snow globe is usually pretty idyllic — just pure white snow falling lightly on famous landmarks. Not really an accurate reflection of the environmental toll of mass-produced tourist kitsch. So the artists of the Dorothy collective have produced a limited run of two coal power plant globes, complete with ash-flake “snow.” One has already been sold — but the other can be yours for £2,000, or a little over $3,100.
Just when we’d gotten used to the idea of square watermelons and bonsai kittens comes the latest in plant-life modification: fruit grown in the shape of a juice box.
It’s the masterstroke of a recent ad campaign for Brazilian juice company Camp Nectar, thought up by the creative agency AGE Isobar as a way to highlight the fact that the company’s juice is all natural.
Reblogged from National Post | News:
JOHANNESBURG — Two men on Tuesday vandalized a portrait of President Jacob Zuma posing as Vladimir Lenin with his genitals exposed in a Johannesburg gallery, prompting the curator to take down the painting.
The vandalism succeeded where a street protest, a court battle and a pornography probe had so far failed in making the Goodman Gallery remove the painting from an art exhibition about corruption.
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The blockbuster show of Tate’s annual exhibition calendar, a retrospective to YBA supremo Damien Hirst, has been long anticipated by London’s art scene as well as the purveyors of trashy gossip magazines and followers of The Only Way is Essex alike. And such is the pull of Damien Hirst – this isn’t highbrow fine art, it’s not oil paintings fastidiously executed or sculptures miraculously carved from marble.
Swedish photographer Helena Blomqvist creates dream-like imagery that transports us into the subconscious. She accomplishes this by constructing alternate worlds in her studio. Blomqvist builds models and props, which provide the backdrop for her narratives. Once completed, the models are then photographed, the images digitally edited, and finally the resulting prints complete the illusion of a separate reality.
A story featuring how Lego has evolved from a toy to an artistic medium.
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I went to see the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Tate Modern over the weekend. For those who haven’t seen it yet, you must check it out before it ends on the 5th of June! I realised I actually wasn’t familiar with the whole spectrum of her themes. Her artworks relating to her obsession with spots are there (including an amazing immersive room where you walk through a narrow dark room filled with mirrors and small hanging multi-coloured lightbulbs…it gives a sense of infinity and claustrophobia all at the same time) as well as a series of “Accumulation Sculptures” (see below the sculptures in white), her early works, collages influenced by her close relationship with the artist Joseph Cornell and her recent paintings.
Botticelli died today in 1510. It's believed he was in love with Simonetta Vespucci, his model for The Birth of Venus! http://t.co/52xqTiBO— Saatchi Gallery (@saatchi_gallery) May 17, 2012
Where: At Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
When: until may 25th, 2012
Chinese conceptual artist, architect, activist, antiques collector, and designer ai weiwei‘s first solo exhibition in italy has opened at lisson gallery in milan. Each work has been developed by the artist in either ceramic or marble, calling upon the traditional techniques typical to either medium.
marble plate’ by ai weiwei, 2010…
From Columbia University:
Many strands of Eric Kandel’s life come together in his latest work, The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present. The 82-year-old University Professor and co-director of the Mind Brain Behavior Initiative was born in Vienna, where, as a boy of 8, he witnessed the Nazis march into the Austrian capital.
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Located on Turnpike Lane in London, world-renowned street artist Banksy‘s latest coincides with Queen Elizabeth II’s 60-year reign as part of the royal Jubilee Celebration to mark the occasion. Utilizing the Union Jack that has been draped across a wall, Banksy applied his signature stencil to put a necessary spotlight on child labor issues that are a pervasive problem. Even after worldwide acclaim and gallery shows that have earned him millions of dollars, it seems the Bristol-born artist hasn’t grown tired of what got him noticed in the first place.
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The New York Times / In Transit, May 14, 2012
Monumenta, now in its sixth edition, has become one of the most important annual contemporary art happenings in Paris. This year the event, opened on Thursday, features Excentrique(s), an installation byDaniel Buren that fills the 14,000 square-meter Grand Palais through June 21.
The French artist listed three main challenges while preparing the work: the space, the light and the spectacular beauty of the monument’s architecture.
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I was thrilled by the news last week that Tate Britain will be honouring the work of frequently overlooked British industrial landscape painter L.S. Lowry from 25 June to 20 October 2013. The only frustration is that I have a whole year to wait until the spectacle hits London!
Lowry has long been one of my favourite British artists, ever since my parents purchased a tiny cottage in rural Isle of Wight almost 20 years ago, and along with the various odds and ends left in the cottage by the previous owner, there was a strangely gloomy yet enticing industrial scene hanging on the wall together with a group of funny little people walking around in the foreground.
Damien Hirst’s retrospective at Tate Modern has been up and running for a month and I finally got a chance to pay a visit yesterday. Despite it’s a Saturday evening with room full of visitors, there’s a pervading smell of death. Hirst is obsessed with this topic. A series of animal preserved in formaldehyde shows death in the most straight-forward way.
Timelapse fading back and forth between scenes of pre-and post-quake Tokyo. It reveals how Japan’s cosmopolitan nightscape has been altered by ongoing conservation efforts and power shortages.
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