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Archive | May, 2009
Fresh Stuff From Sten and Lex
Location: Palermo in Piazza Magione.
Image: Pope Sergius, the first Pope born in Palermo
Zevs’ Electric Rainbows (2007)
Zevs has updated his website with photos of past and recent project. We love the Electric Rainbows that he exchanged for advertisements back 2007:
Asymptote
Scheduled to open October 2009, Asymptote Architecture’s YAS hotel in Abu Dhabi is currently nearing completion. Based in NYC, Asymptote are known for their work at the crossroads of Art and Architecture.
Yes, that’s a formula 1 racetrack you can see in front of the hotel in the image below.
The grid-shell encompassing the hotel complex consists [...]
Cubism creation myths
My hazy recollection is that I first heard cubism explained as a style that showed multiple points of view in a single painting. That may be fairly typical of the popular conception of what cubism is. But since one often has difficulty even telling what the subject is, it’s pretty …
Zephyr – An Introduction
One of the first graffiti artists to “accept” Sara and I back in 2000 when we started the Wooster Collective was Zephyr. This week Upper Playground posted a terrific interview with Zephyr filmed a few years ago for their Dithers DVD.
The Yes Men – An Introduction
If you’re not familiar with The Yes Men, this video of their Poptech speech from 2006 is a fantastic introduction.
(Hat tip to Brain Pickings)
Hauser & Wirth to Open in NYC! Is this a Good Time to Open an Art Gallery?
Yes… you read that correctly.. A New Contemporary Art Gallery is actually not closing opening up in New York City! Yea! London’s Hauser & Wirth Gallery is planning to open on the upper east side of New York City in September! But, with the US economey crashing, is this a Good Time to Open an Art Gallery? Maybe, we shall see, a huge economic recovery might just be several years away around the corner. So here’s the exciting email we got this morning… Hauser & Wirth, widely considered Europe’s most influential and acclaimed gallery of contemporary art and modern masters…