Public art

Leon Reid IV in São Paulo.Idea: the beauty of art in public is that art cannot be public. Art is necessarily private, intimate, as any experience (yes, also the so-called "group experience"). So art that is out there, when it's good, makes contact also because it creates...

Experiencing Bergman

I was full of doubts. I had never been to the cinema to see a Bergman. Tried watching Persona on TV, and I don't recall where and when exactly I was severely disappointed by the Seventh Seal.Saraband was to be my first real Bergman experience. The film was publicized as...

Doing the right thing for art

Fragments of Richard Jackson's installations.

Parantheses from Barthes' Camera Lucida (1&2)

1.(1852)(this is how life is made up of small solitudes)2.(one needs to classify, to group, if one wants to constitute a corpus)(Professional/Amateur)(Landscapes/Objects/Portraits/Nudes)(Realism/Pictoralism)(if it exists)(a certain photo and not the Photo)(spoken out)(from...

Vik Muniz : how much cool is too much?

This is pretty.Aesthetic experience, yes. Or maybe just a hint of a possible one? How is one to distinguish?Here is Brasilian artist Vik Muniz presenting his work to an American, non-artistic audience. Notice how technically sophisticated the presentation is. And how the...

Featured painting by Lesly Finn

Past Performance
(Acrylic, 36 x 24 ins)

Lesly's Blog


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Art > > framing

photo by Jindrich Marco (via) I get a sense (...) that somehow I trade majorly in comical irrelevance and apparent digression. Narrators/voices that are never really getting to the point, or who are straying from the point very often and as far as possible. Also the totally...

The White Desk

by Benoit Lemoine & Cecile Boche

Technorati: animation, movies, design, graphic design, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Two absolutely unassociated quotes hereby given a common ground

One suggestive bracket for the project and very close ot the idea of the interview which guided Żmijewski in the realisation of this cycle, is Truth Serum. Althamer is asked a series of question while under sodium pentothal. Żmijewski begins with the usual prosaic issues:...

Krijn Van Noordwijk - saying more

Is there anything else you wanted to tell me?Really, there seems to be something you left aside. As if something could explain your silence, your persistent silence.I am watching, but I am not sure if what I see is what you want me to see. How am I to interpret it? Shouldn't...

Re-blogging

(here)Happy Famous Artists on the Wittgenstein Forum. Here, this is a triple inside joke. And it makes me smile.(here)Machine That Tries to Tie a Shoeby Adriana Salazar(here) Placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3.30 am on Sunday night in response to...

The Power of Re-blogging

Some art bloggers seem to consider re-blogging, or the idea of having the same image, review or "discovery" appear on many sites, a proof of a lack of originality and frankly a waste of the reader's time. After all, we want to see new things, discover new territories, etc. It is one thing to have a...

Gravel, Mayes, Sondin-Klausner and the art ripple

Oh boy, oh boy... When life mixes with art, it's exciting. But when politics becomes conceptual, that's really something!First, here you have it: a video of former US senator Mike Gravel, who is now a candidate for US President.I need not say this is brilliant. And funny. And this and that.Now what...

What a computer virus really looks like

Too much virtual art research can be hazardous to your, well, being.
(See here and here)

Technorati: installation, art installation, design, digital art, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Get your AB4U button code

If you would like to link to Art Blogs 4 U with this buttonFull Instructions:First of all you need the HTML code for the link button for the Art Blogs 4 U site. Here it is:- copy and paste the following code but REPLACE each * with <:*center>*a href="http://artblogs4u.blogspot.com/">*img...

Dance

This one is for Tiago.
(via)

Technorati: movies, performance, dance, ballet, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Plug yourself

Vilcus, the Plug Dactyloadapter, by Art Lebedev (see also here), who have brought some other truly wonderful ideas so far - and have been working on more (like this great keyboard where you can actually program the keys according to your current needs - QWERTY, AZERTY,...

Within

Martin Bureau, Surviving in Ambiguity