8 posts tagged “art”
Gorgeous video series from Crush + Lovely, who visited Brooklyn and asked fifty people the same question - where would you like to wake up tomorrow?
They've also carried out the project in London.
Exactitudes is a series of photographs by Rotterdam-based photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. They've been working together since 1994 to document the styles and informal dress codes shared by social groups. I find this fascinating, not least because a person's clothes always make a statement about them; even if that statement is I don't care about clothes as my mind is on higher things.
I would probably fit best into this set, although sadly with slightly less Pariessiene chic...
(via yes and yes)
When I am ploughing through my email trying to sort the real from the spam, I occasionally laugh but mostly I get exasperated. Linzie Hunter doesn't... she makes art.
Two things.
1. I know, first-hand, that visiting Tate Modern can be breathtaking and potentially dangerous.
2. I am very clumsy.
However, if I were to visit the new Tate Modern exhibition, I still don't think I'd fall into it.
(Doris Salcedo Shibboleth 2007 Photo: Tate)
Nope, me neither. But Brian Dettmer has...
Is it art? Is it vandalism? Is it a librarian-scaring slasher flick? (OK, OK, so it's art).
(via Snowbooks)
I had never seen this sculpture based on the photograph of construction workers eating their lunch high in the air during the Rockefeller Center's construction until yesterday's post in the Gothamist about one of the guys in the sculpture being... stolen.
Wow. I guess if you're going to steal something, make it something BIG.
Yesterday we had great fun playing out in London. Bri's brother Gary came to stay for the weekend, and they had enormous and geekish fun going to the Game On exhibition at the Science Museum.
However, I had far MORE fun trying out the slides at the Carsten Holler 'Test Site' exhibition at Tate Modern. I went on the slides from levels 4 and 5 of the turbine hall, and although the visitor information had a section sternly headed Precautions, warning...
The slides on Levels 4 and 5 are fast and the experience is physical. Take particular care and follow the Gallery Assistants' instructions.
...I still wasn't quite prepared for having all the breath knocked out of me as I whooshed and whumped my way down the slides. Even if I'd been feeling articulate, rather than a bit shaky, I don't think I could have described the experience as well as Carsten Holler does when he talks about
The state of mind that you enter when sliding, of simultaneous delight, madness and ‘voluptuous panic’
It was a fantastic experience, and I noticed that as everyone came flying out of the bottom of the tubes they were either shrieking wildly or grinning fit to burst.
