Art
This Sunday January 16th, Outpost Artists Resources will be hosting a night of retro animated advertising curated by Willy Hartland, a distinguished New York City animator. The event, Fresher, Smoother, Creamy, and Delicious: Adverts and other Animated Weirdness from the 50s & 60s, begins at 6pm.
Opinion
And here we thought the Brits were all repressed about their sexuality. London's famed Fourth Plinth, a sculptural pedestal left empty after funds ran out in the 19th century, has played host to sculptures by Rachel Whiteread and other British art world lights. In 2013, the pedestal will have a GIAN
Opinion
Botticelli's original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence's Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of delicately painted elongated figures and an icon of art history. This 8-bit version of the painting by PixelJam [http://www.pixeljam.com/]'s Rich Grilloti is sitting right
Art
Hearing “Detroit” today brings to mind some ideas specific to the post-2000s: a city emptied by the flight of business, money and population, the crisis faced by American car makers during the economic crisis, a bunch of grand buildings built while times were flush and now as empty and silent as a m
News
The New York Times announced today that the Museum of Modern Art has acquired David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly,” including both the artist-cut 7 minute version and the 13 minute full work. The acquisition pays testament to the work's newfound significance after being censored from the Smithso
Opinion
Ai Weiwei is a media sensation, and that's not a bad thing. The artist’s pioneering works, relentless activism and life-broadcasting on Twitter and other media have turned Ai the artist into Ai the figurehead. His role as a pioneer of contemporary Chinese art in the Western world, taking on landmark
Books
Public [http://publicjournal.ca/about.htm] is a Canadian journal founded in 1988 that comes out twice yearly, a compendium of art, design and writing projects centered around a single theme for each issue. Public's latest issue, number 42, is called Traces, and centers around the physical traces his
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In Fall of 2010, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was requested by government officials to vacate his newly built Shanghai studio so that it could be demolished. The weird thing is that the Shanghai city government were the ones to ask Ai to build the studio. Following a blow-out demolition party on Novembe
Opinion
To all those haters who claim they just don’t get Jackson Pollock, or that the painter’s Abstract Expressionist canvases have started to look stale: here’s something to get your attention. A slow-motion video of flung paint shows the real drama behind Pollock’s paintings.
Opinion
Production outfit The Third & The Seventh has made a movie that allows us to experience architecture better than ever before, showing iconic buildings in multiple perspectives simultaneously and suffusing them with soft, unearthly light. Viewers would be excused for thinking that these clips were sh
Opinion
Call it the anti-condo: Dutch artist and architect Joep van Lieshout's Atelier van Lieshout is offering up their first house for sale, and this inhabitable work of art is not your average villa. Draped with an intestinal blob-tunnel, Lieshout's one of a kind Utrecht building is available for a cool
Art
The Metropolitan is really hitting hard with its new media efforts lately, coming out with an interesting project in conjunction with its Lod mosaic exhibition, as well as a new presentation called “Connections,” an online series of photo slideshows with audio featuring museum staff giving short pre