Luc Tuyman vs Joshua Bell Bakeoff

April 24th, 2008 · 2 comments or link to (permalink)

One of the world’s most successful painters, Luc Tuyman, recently exhibited on a wall in a side street ( via Boingboing ). This is reminiscent of when one of the world’s premier violinists, Joshua Bell, played in the DC Metro.

Both Luc Tuyman and Joshua Bell are good sports. They both ventured outside of their natural habitat to display their feathers in ordinary situations to see if people noticed. I put this up as a contrast to the previous post about Gregor Schneider, since neither of these people are Fartists (Feeble artists).

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David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable

April 8th, 2008 · 3 comments or link to (permalink)

David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable

A nice clip from The New Shock Of The New, which I assume is an update to the classic Robert Hughes series of the 70s. The original series would rank in my top 10 all time TV programs, so I am now scurrying around trying to find a complete version.
via Andy Jones

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ABC3D

March 28th, 2008 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

ABC3D

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Miss Peanut (Leigh Bowery)

January 1st, 2008 · comment or link to (permalink)

The highlight of MOMA’s Lucian Freud etchings exhibition is a tiny six inch oil painting of Leigh Bowery who regularly sat for Freud. Bowery was basically a transvestite nightclub diva, but with so much originality that his act transcended camp superficiality and his outfits are now recognized as works of art, like Freuds paintings of him without them.

The irony of Freud’s paintings are that Bowery, famous for being clothed and glam is show unceremoniously naked and fat. In similar ironic vein, here is Bowery in New York parading around a sun bleached, decrepit city that looks like New York used to, in one of his outfits: Leigh on Bowery, in the flesh but fully clothed.

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Faking it - Graffiti

March 31st, 2007 · 1 comment or link to (permalink)

A rich preppy from Britain’s Landed Gentry has to become an accomplished urban graffiti artist in a few weeks. Classic Episode of ‘Faking It’.

Running time: 1 hour

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