I have no idea how long this will last, but if you move quickly and head to Michel Gondry’s website, he’ll draw your portrait for $19.95. That is, if you submit a photo of yourself, in a couple months time you’ll be the proud owner of a caricature of yourself done by the very, very talented Mr. Gondry, who if you aren’t aware, has directed some stellar films, like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind Rewind, among other projects…Sweet deal, hurry up, because the piece of shit you picked up at auction last year is worth 1/100 of the money you thought it was.
And: more from Vin and Jay: Southside 412 Episode 2 featuring all the art you can handle from the likes of John Ross and Bill Wessel. If you’ve spent any time hanging around the South Side, you should spend a little time getting to know the people who’ve been making it great for years…to be continued, but for the interested, subscribe to Southside 412’s Youtube channel:
Takashi Murakami’s work reaches from faux LV purses (nah, just kidding, I’m sure you paid retail…), to Kanye’s album cover, to colorful nightmares everywhere. Anyways, Mr. Murakami’s show can currently be see at the Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, in Frankfurt, for all you globetrotters out there.
A lot of work went into the inaugural exhibition of Pop artist Jeff Soto, so if you happen to be in the Riverside, CA area it would be in your best interest to attend. The exhibit, entitled Turning in Circles, is open through February 21st, 2009 at the Riverside Art Museum. Go on, just go, then you can impress people with your knowledge of contemporary American Art…not that anyone will care, but…
I saw this posted a little while, and didn’t post it out of laziness…So, now I’m gonna post it without being able to remember any of the specifics from the original article I saw, which was quite informative…So, to assuage at least a smidge of guilt over my creative sloth, I’ll give you a little of the info that I can remember: “Adobe Photoshop CS5 concept, designed to look like a real artist’s set-up. Created for ad group (fill in name of company I can no longer remember, even though I took a trip to their website and all).”
If you like Damien Hirst, but can’t quite afford to part with a hundred million, maybe just kick down 75K or so and pick up one of 50 skulls painted using his scientifically-proven spin painting technique…this amazing technique can also be applied to denim. Just messing with you, Damien, cheer up, I think the skulls look nice.
If you happen to be in NYC from now until January 11th, are interested in Japanese Art, and like Bamboo, well then just stop by the Japan Society’s New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters exhibit. Bamboo is extraordinary in its versatility, beauty and sustainability – we should use more of it. Anyways, it makes for great art, too, and the pieces below (Harmony II & III, by Morigami Jin) reminded of the Henry Moore on the campus at Purchase where I went to school. I liked that sculpture a lot…until I found out there was another one up in Canada somewhere. Then I just felt betrayed and lost.
English Illustrator Jon Burgerman designed this ridiculously cool wallpaper, which you should buy and cover you walls with so people will actually come over your place and hang out. Because it gets lonely, right? I feel you. Pretties:
I was talking with Pops and Danno the other day about artists. and I mentioned Picasso. Of course, my brother and father are a lot smarter than me and discussed the business savvy Picasso combined with his genius at art. I’m sure my comments hung around, “I really like Picasso, his stuff is pretty.” However simple, I do find his work pretty, as well as brutally visceral; shattered portraits and landscapes. Guernica is one of my favorite artworks of all time, and if you care to, you can head to the wiki for some intro info. Artist Lena Gieseke created a 3D model of that work, and you should definitely check it out. Fairly amazing, imho.
