Motionographer (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Music Video Master-Craftsman, Jonas Odell (co-founder and director at Film Tecknarna) teamed up with Nexus to deliver this high-energy, pop-art inspired video for Swedish rocker Ida Maria. This video for “Better When You’re Naked” picks up right where last year’s for The Hours left off. Where the Hours piece was fueled by a theatrical fusion [...]
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
An impulsive early evening trip to LACMA last night to finally see the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (I know– long overdue,) housed in it’s Renzo Piano-designed digs, turned into a trip down memory lane for me. As it turned out, I had seen a lot of the ’80s and ’90s pieces in their original gallery [...]
debbie millman (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
My dear friend Renee sent me this link today with the accompanying question: What if there were no stop signs... and a major corporation was charged with inventing one? The answer: Every single sentence in this video is accurate and true. Every last word.
The G Bitch Spot (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Somewhere in this is a life lesson—a fight of sorts between lionesses, crocodiles, and water buffalo, with the water buffalo winning. At Kruger National Park, South Africa. From Negative Space Media where you can buy pictures of the Battle at Kruger.
{ Never Neutral } (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1982. — Thank you for your comment. It’s great that a post can spark a discussion. I was happy to read comments by Dave, Ira, Miriam and Elsa too. Let me start by saying that I NEVER said that we could remove the “I”. This is a topic I go back to again [...]
The Daily Docket (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Hey gang, scoot on over to the Brooks Museum for a cheap date to see a collection of concert posters from the height of the hippie era, now through August 24, 2008: Rock ‘n’ roll posters for Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother and the Holding Co., Grateful Dead, and Otis Redding concerts are among the 40 examples on loan from Houston Freeburg for this exhibition. Also included are black light posters
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Gap teams with Whitney Museum to offer limited-edition artist editions t-shirts.
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Artists protest Barbara Kruger's involvement with the Gap Corp.: http://post.thing.net/node/2164 Pissed Off Artists Allegedly Urinate on Kruger Art Installation A...
debbie millman (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Seen on the streets of New York City, the captial of capitalism.
B is for bunnyshop (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
This is like the most amazing idea ever and we honestly are shocked that it was the Gap who came up with up: a whole bunch of t-shirts designed by Whitney Biennial artists. And so many amazing ones! Like Chuck...
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Anyone else thing these artists are sell outs... literally to Gap? I'm joining the protest. where's the baggies? http://post.thing.net/node/2164
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
The Stuart Collection on the University of California San Diego campus is celebrated for its 25 years of commissioning major artists to create adventurous works for the campus.
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related video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ2FlqJ9v04
Perfromance Artists Pee on Another Kruger Installation-- Get Arrested
Pissed Off Artists Allegedly Urinate on Kruger Art Installation A group of artist protesters calling themselves The Infinity Lab were arrested Thursday...
blog.stylehive.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Years ago, you could count on Gap for classic cuts, khakis, and oh, those commercials. Today's Gap maintains the same cool, clean attitude, with a bit of edge and exclusivity thanks to their Design Editions and CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund collections. Now the retailer has yet another venture under its classic leather belt--- a line of limited edition t-shirts designed by Gap in close collaboration with...
bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
They go on sale at Gap stores in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. and on gap.com tomorrow. 13 artists: Chuck Close, Jeff Koons, Marilyn Minter, Kiki Smith, Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger, Ashley Bickerton, Kenny Scharf, Glenn Ligon, Rirkrit Tiravanija,...
HIDE YOUR ARMS (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Its not exactly often I read or write about GAP, but I thought that there were some cool designs in the range, so here it is. According to HighSnobriety: Gap worked in close partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art and Art Production Fund to create the collection with the 13 artists, who are all [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The location is Los Angeles – Wilshire Boulevard, to be exact. The occasion is the opening of a major new museum, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM). And the architect is the Italian Renzo Piano who, with a recent string of commissions, seems to have supplanted local star Frank Gehry in America as museum designer of choice.
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People throw bags of feeces at the Kruger piece?????
Because I can't believe that happened. http://post.thing.net/node/2164
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Gap introduces their artist series t-shirts and the line-up is impressive. Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger and the likes put their art onto the t-shirts that are available now!
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Is it true that people threw poop at Kruger's exhibit at the Broad? Pissed Off Artists Allegedly Urinate on Kruger Art Installation A group of artist...
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