Bosko Hrnjak and Truus de Groot’s multimedia project The Salton Sea is a bleak but beautiful escape into decay featuring Music, Video and Photography.
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BRION GYSIN EXHIBITION – Dreamachine Opens at New Museum
by Red Cell Brion Gysin Dreamachine 7 July – 3 October 2010 New Museum – NYC From the New Museum’s Press Release: The New Museum will present “Brion Gysin: Dream Machine,” the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK–died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously [...]
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IRA COHEN – UPDATE! Influential Poet, Artist and Filmmaker NEEDS HELP!
Influential Beat Poet Ira Cohen is in immediate need. Read this article to find out why and how you can help!
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ARYN ZEV – Peepholes
Check out this series of photos by Aryn Zev and read about her experience taking them.
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EPICUREAN ARCHITECTS – Bompas & Parr Bring Absurdity to Food
Bompas & Parr create astonishing edible worlds crafted to make the stingiest art lover stare in wonderment.
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PIN UP X-RAYS – Taking It All Off
German ad agency Butter has created a pin up calendar using EIZO medical monitors and female models that appear on radiographs in this completely revealing work.
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BEYOND XY – 4 Photographers Explore The Masculine Continuum
Is the meaning of the word Male simply the opposite of Female? These four photographers think there is much, much more to it.
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GEOTAGGING – Local Vs. Tourist
Eric Fischer has geotagged photos by relation of if the photographer was a local or a tourist and the results are works of art.
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TOM ESTES – “Sewing Performance” at Tate Modern
Tom Estes stages a “Sewing Performance” at the Tate Modern as part of Post-Museum’s contribution to “Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents.”
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SEBASTIAN HORSLEY – Dead at 47
Gadfly, artist and underworld dandy, Sebastian Horsley has died of a supposed drug overdose at the age of 47.
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DOLLAR SIGNS — Mumtaz’s Meditations On Root Of All Evil
Pakistani-born, New York-based artist Murad Khan Mumtaz utilizes centuries-old Indian and Persian miniature painting techniques to draw the ghosts out of the root of all evil.
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PHYLLIS GALEMBO – West African Masqueraders
Portraits of West African masqueraders in 2005/06 by photographer Phyllis Galembo show the highly ritualistic approach to costuming in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso.
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CHEN ZHUN – 40p Static Movie – Bullet Speed
Girls, guns, motorcycles, violence and bras full of milk, this photo shoot by Chen Zhun for FHM Magazine’s 3rd Anniversary Issue in China has everything any fanboy could dream of.
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TETSUYA ISHIDA – Modern Man
The Japanese painter Tetsuya Ishida was a master of awkward positions and disfigurement in his work based in modern society.
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‘TIL DEATH DO WE PART — R.I.P. Tobias Wong
Paraconceptualist Tobias Wong is gone. But let’s not focus on the gory details of his suicide. Instead, enjoy the “stuff” he was so passionate about creating.
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ORDERED EPHEMERA — A Cure for Listlessness
Kurt Vonnegut once wrote, “History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised once again.” With that sentiment in mind, jot down “check out an archival exhibit of artists’ lists” on your to-do list.
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HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF
The Hyperbolic Coral Reef takes Dublin by storm in a ball of yarn and mathematics. Plus, learn how to make your own — if you can understand the math.
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UM, LONNIE – Episode Three
Join Lonnie the Lot Lizard and cohorts in this third installment of clawdeuS’ bizarre, ongoing web-comic, “Um, Lonnie: Pillow Talk from Truck Stops”.
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CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE – Voodoo Exhibition
The Wiels Museum in Brussels is hosting an ongoing series featuring the past 50 years of performance art captured on video called, DO /REDO /UNDO. They are featuring Charlemagne Palestine in a solo show that spans his entire video art career!
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Somnambulist Factory Girls — Rodarte Revisions Maquiladora Exploitation for Profit
The Rodarte sisters’ Fall 2010 collection ruminates on the plight of female maquiladora workers and, in that process, lazily betrays the horror visited upon more than 400 las muertas de Juárez.
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CITY OF ABACUS — Music and Words
Music and comic books keep colliding as out senses lose focus and we seek to rebel. Even better, this one’s helmed by two women and a man, so it’s not just big boobies and guns everywhere. Yay.
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BROADSHIRT – Phyllis Segura’s Wearable Magazine
Broadshirt was Phyllis Segura’s short lived, but very cool, mid 1990s poetry magazine printed on t-shirts. Take a close look and see who some of the names are!
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FABULAS PANICAS – Jodorowsky’s Mind Bending Comic Strip
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Fabulas Panicas” (Panic Fables), was an unusual psychedelic comic strip published in the right-wing Mexican newspaper, El Heraldo de México, from 1967-73.
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Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry – A Site Devoted to Tears
Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry is a site devoted to the tears brought into the world by the famous performance artist’s piece, “The Artist Is Present”.
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UM, LONNIE – Episode Two
The second installment of clawdeuS’ bizarre, ongoing web-comic featuring Lonnie the Lot Lizard: Pillow Talk from Truck Stops!