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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Guy HepnerLos Angeles and Los Angeles based artist Neal Spector announce October 23, 2008 as the formal opening of Labels. Los Angeles based, Detroit native Neal Spector is no stranger to the limelight. Before commencing work as an artist, Spector was one of the founding creatives behind one of Hollywood’s [...]
LONDON.- Sotheby's will follow its record-breaking series of Contemporary Art sales in recent years with its October Contemporary Art sale, to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair. Following the stunning success of the Beautiful Inside My Head Forever sale of Damien Hirst's work, Sotheby's will offer a selection of top contemporary works on 20 October, 2008. The sale will include an
"Careful, Wally," she said. "It's a great metaphor, but it'll weight the book down. There's no bigger taboo than disgust..." My big fall project is the new, next-wave novel by Lawrence Shainberg, Crust, published by Two Dollar Radio and out...
A real estate broker has plastered an Upper West Side retail space with an advertisement imitating (or celebrating) the work of renowned artist Barbara Kruger, who, interestingly enough, borrowed imagery from advertisements in order to criticize consumerism, according to an article in today's Washington Post . Said real estate broker is Matt Harnett, a photographer and one-time teacher at the School...
An Upper West Side advertisement by a New York real estate firm borrows from the aesthetic popularized by Barbara Kruger's art, below, in the 1980s. "My work was always about questioning the power, the ownership of images," the artist says. (By Lucy Hogg) Blake Gopnik writes about advertisements that "borrow" imagery from art. What caught his eye was this condo ad that looks an awful like something...
SAN DIEGO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Memory Is Your Image of Perfection at MCASD's Downtown 1001 Kettner location. The exhibition, curated by MCASD Assistant Curator Lucía Sanromán, presents photography and video works from the Museum's collection that were created by women artists of Southern and Baja California. The exhibition will be on view
Seven months after getting disbarred for his ties to a personal-injury practice in Long Island City that belonged to a non-attorney who’d made his money in taxicab medallions, and 10 months after closing on a $35 million mansion on East 62nd Street that Madonna had bid on, the lawyer turned real estate investor Keith Rubenstein has made another real estate deal. But it’s more modest. According to...
BERLIN.- The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents an exhibition of works by the American artist Barbara Bloom. In a world saturated with images, Barbara Bloom makes visually abundant art that examines the nature of looking. Internationally known for her meticulously crafted works that are precisely detailed and flawlessly executed, Bloom rarely presents a singular image or object, but concerns herself
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 [...]
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 [...]
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...
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.
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!
Barbara Kruger - Untitled (You are not yourself) 1982 - Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, California The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
Ever since seeing one of Jenny Holzer’s “truisms” projected on the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s walls last year, I’ve been applying her words to real life: SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT HIS PERSONALITY FAST Now, I haven't quite got to the point of [...]
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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
Karen Watkins - (not a member) - 30/07/2008