hyde or die

The mural, a 30-foot tall painting of a rat holding a machine gun, will disappear after the businessman bought the former Liverpool pub it adorns and promised to paint over it…
But after purchasing the artwork at auction on Thursday for £114,000, property developer Billy Palmer, 44, admitted he has no interest in preserving the painting, despite protests from art lovers.
“I’m not a fan of modern art, I can’t say I know much about it really,” he said after the auction at Liverpool’s Marriott Hotel.
“All I was concerned about was getting this great building for a good price, I’m going to turn it into luxury flats…
As an official commission, the work is a rarity for Banksy. 

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February 21, 2010, 5:22pm  

Cai Guo Qiang Fallen Blossoms, 2009

It’s such an interesting concept because he uses gun powder and simulates movement and explosion in so many of his pieces, but you only get the final static product.

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December 18, 2009, 10:18am  

Pablo Vargas Lugo Eclipses for Austin, 2009

On Tuesday, October 6, 2009, two hundred volunteers gathered at the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium at The University of Texas at Austin to stage a performance recreating four solar eclipses that will be visible from that exact geographical position in the years 2024, 2200, 2205, and 2343. The group sat in a circular arrangement flipping two-sided cards in a choreographed performance to simulate future trajectories of the sun and moon. via…

Sometimes Austin is just too cool to handle.

December 04, 2009, 3:05pm  

Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset Short Cut

November 30, 2009, 1:58pm  

luzinterruptus An Almost Ephemeral Autumn 2009

November 23, 2009, 11:07am  

Christo The Wrapped Reichstag

Jeanne-Claude,  wife and artistic partner of Christo,  died on Wednesday. She was 74.

November 19, 2009, 11:43am  

Marilyn Minter Green Pink Caviar

Presented on two high definition billboards situated along Sunset Blvd, the video plays once every hour above the Key Club at 9039 Sunset Blvd and at 8410 Sunset Blvd, across from the Andaz Hotel. The video is also installed at Marilyn Minter’s first L.A. exhibition at Regen Projects, from October 24–December 5. In honor of the artist’s west coast debut, the Standard Hollywood and the Standard Downtown LA, are both showing the video from October 21–December 7. via…

Do I feel a little like sloppy seconds to NY’s inaugural viewing? Kind of. Am I going to let that ruin my excitement to seeing this in my city? Not even a little bit.

October 22, 2009, 9:46am  

October 18, 2009, 1:19pm  

Berlin Wall on Wilshire Blvd.

October 18, 2009, 1:16pm