Kinetic Sculpture at the BMW Museum
via Kottke
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Moritz Waldemeyer
If you are like me and think that all current women’s fashion design looks like it was designed for heavily pregnant women by toothless fortune-tellers from Bucharest, then Moritz Waldemeyer’s forays into fashion for the likes of Hussein Chalayan, are a breath of modern, fresh air.
via: This is That
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Television Delivers People – Richard Serra
June 5th, 2008 Comments Off on Television Delivers People – Richard Serra | # link to | posted by david
Celebrated artist, Richard Serra’s sweet little piss-take of TV as being pernicious not because it isn’t active, but because it isn’t even passive – it consumes you. Complete with brainless test card music.
Thanks: Dan Westlake
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Luc Tuyman vs Joshua Bell Bakeoff
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).
David Hockney on What’s Unphotographable
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
Miss Peanut (Leigh Bowery)
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
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
Frida Kahlo – Portrait of a Woman
Subject of the recent feature film, ‘Frida’. Frida Kahlo lived in the shadow of her painter husband, Diego Rivera, but was an important artist in here own right.
Running time: 21 mins
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Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy
February 8th, 2007 Comments Off on Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy | # link to | posted by david
Beautiful documentary about my favorite artist, Andy Goldsworthy. Goldsworthy makes landscape sculpture from purely natural materials that are immediately at hand. He makes arches out of cracked ice, spirals out of cracked stones, and incredible sculptures from woven leaves. The results are simple and unpretentious but at the same time profound and painstakingly well crafted.
Running time: 1 hour 30 mins.
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