luzinterruptus Floating Presences 2010
hyde or die
Zhang Huan Three Heads, Six Arms 2010
“I spent more than 10 years doing performance art. I was young and energetic, and I had strong hormones in my body, so I wanted to use them up. Now I’m 45, and my hormone levels are dropping.”
A collaboration between Matthew Ritchie, Aranda\Lasch, Arup, and Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary resulted in the phenomenal installation The Morning Line. You can learn more about the piece by watching this interview with Matthew Ritchie.
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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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.
Reblogged from The Tao of Dana.
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.
Christo The Wrapped Reichstag
Jeanne-Claude, wife and artistic partner of Christo, died on Wednesday. She was 74.
