Archive | February, 2009
The 10
Dufala Brothers, Ice Cream Truck Tank, Mixed Media, 8′x6′x13′ 2007 As many of you know, last year my family launched our first annual art prize. On December 1, 2008 we announced the 10 winners. Last night we announced the $25,000…
photogenic art
Went to NYC for the weekend.
Couldn’t get tickets for the opening night at Alice Tully Hall
and instead visited the Pierre Bonnard exhibit at the Met – Late Interiors.
The book accompanying the exhibit told us that, unlike the paintings of his friend Matisse, Bonnard’s paintings are very difficult to reproduce. …
Vintage Footage of Blek le Rat and Jef Aérosol in 1985
For the past few weeks, Jef Aérosol has been putting up on Youtube a ton of amazing vintage footage. We loved this video below, shot over 20 years ago, which shows Jef and Blek Le Rat.
Wall of Eyes – Adrian Baynes
Wall of Eyes by Adrian Baynes is an interactive public artwork, comprising of 225 mannequin eyes, which follow the viewer through space.
Its just one of the kinetic installations showing for the first time at Kinetica Art Fair opening today (Friday 27/02/09). More information to follow but if your about London this weekend, it looks worth [...]
Kamrooz Aram.. A MAO favorite artist makes the Cover of Art In America
Kamrooz Aram.. A MAO favorite artist makes the cover of Art In America this month. So we’ve long been a fan of the bright colored exotic Persian influenced paintings of Kamrooz Aram. Kamrooz was by far the biggest up and coming star, of the now, just Gallery Road Kill of the Great Art Recession of 2009 a fond memory, but uber cool, Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery . While this will not be a big surprise to many wise long time MAO readers. We’ve blogged about Kamrooz before. But this month, Kamrooz Aram’s art career hits a new high, with the…
New, newest, now, next
It’s the dawn of a new age. No, not another, deeper stratum to the credit crunch, but a new era of art is upon us and it’s called the ‘Altermodern’. So says French curator Nicolas Bourriaud, who was also responsible for that other recent frisson of novel art-speak, Relational Aesthetics, …
