Happy New Year!

Video directed by Sou Ootsuki.

The Splendorous Form of Noise

To see the following video you should enlarge it (double-click once playing).The above is a compilation of works by the Swiss artist Zimoun.1. Funny, one keeps telling oneself, enough of the minimal already, somehow feeling that less is a bore should be embraced, and the...

Wishing you aesthetic pleasure

Gabriel Cornelius von Max, Monkeys as Judges of Art (1840)

(I'm the small one watching the work, the one in the middle, whose profile can be seen behind the bent knee)

Earn your money

The Minimum Wage Machine (work in progress), by Blake Fall-ConroyThe minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the...

Wink

I have no idea concerning the origins of the above.
UPDATE: It is The Cyclops by Jaime Pitarch (2002)
Thank you Claudia!

Does beauty make sense?

Is it as coherent as we like to think it? Does it demand coherence?And does beauty differ dependent on categories? After all, we do watch differently than we listen. And when we watch, the pleasure of, say, seeing a beautiful feature film is quite different from the pleasure of seeing a piece of video...

Featured Painting by Judith HeartSong

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Judith HeartSong

Judith Olivia HeartSong is a professional artist of more than twenty-five years with a penchant for exuberant color. As a painter she creates splashy watercolors featuring abstracted women and acrylics of bold, iconic flowers. There is a seamless flow from one beautiful thing to another in her work...

Omniphilia

Let's start off easy.The first image seems the most banal. But we'll get back to it.The second is clearly far from innocent. Or rather, it is its absolute innocence that brings the tension.Just one more innocent painting to keep you off-guard...And here we go:Most of Melissa...

Munching Sweets

From the Towersby Heather McHughInsanity is not a want of reason.It is reason's overgrowth, a calculating kudzu.Explaining why, in two-ton manifesti, thinkers sally forthwith testaments and pipe bombs. Heaven help us:spare us all your meaningful designs. Shine down orshower...

The Disappeared

Up to 30000 people disappeared during the period of dictatorship in Argentina, lasting from 1976 to 1983. The desaparecidos, as they are commonly called (the dictator General Videla infamously said they were "neither alive or dead, but disappeared"), are still a very hot...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US - three years old today!

WELL DONE and THANK YOU Three years ago today the first post on Art Blogs 4 U said:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------About Art Blogs 4 UHave you ever tried to join a list of links to art blogs? (there are several...

The Song Is You

It might seem innocent.Yes, this is innocence. It is the purity of what happens when the postmodernisms and the camps and the sooavantgardes have made their statements and played their anti-tunes, and yet, we are still there, trying to listen in to that something special.Call us romantic. Call us Those...

Past Present

Take a look at the pictures by Roger Cremers. The series, which won an award at the 2009 World Press Photo, is called Preserving Memory: Visitors at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, 30 April-4 May.No, I will not be writing about how the ever-present cameras...

How To Win An Art Contest In One Easy Step

Make one.Tom Polo created the 2009 B.E.S.T. Contemporary Art Prize for Painting contest. The criteria were typical of the art contests we know. Except for one small point, which stated:eligible entrants are artists born on the 1st February, 1985 and named as 'Tommaso Polo'...

Anonymous. 3 works by Armin Rohr

I can't get these pictures out of my head.Especially the last one is mesmerizing. Is it peaceful? Mysterious? Haunting? Creepy? Brutal?The mass in the first two paintings that makes up a threatening, or at least disquieting block, is here replaced by three distinct figures....

If You Want To Cry

...cry to this.My Mother, My Son by Mary FreyAnd another one, less obvious, but no less gorgeous - Bathroom Landscape:Every once in a while the question comes back lurking: are there things that are not to be shown? Or rather: not to be worked at? Do you imagine this -...

Zoonoia

From the crazy guys at Koerner Union comes the most original dog portrait of 2008:

...and the most unappealing digital album of 2007 - Ready Made. Which is also an accomplishment of sorts.

In A Sentimental Mood

Sonnet 44If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,Injurious distance should not stop my way;For then despite of space I would be brought,From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.No matter then although my foot did standUpon the farthest earth removed from thee;For...

Workingg

Just so you don't think I'm ignoring you - check out some great projects by Marc Kremers:

• As found, a site with images found on the net... Fantastic.
• The wonderfuly anarchist Tex Server.
• And some of Marc's animations can be found here.

The right and the rights

So how was it for YOU?Not all of Robert Grigolov's work convinces me. Some of it seems like simple tricks pour épater les bourgeois. But isn't part of the fun about discovering the value something has for you when taking out of a context which isn't necessarily one you...

Watch your back

Oh what jealousy of the physical difference! Of the outcasting cast out in flesh! Oh how simple the definitions then become. How meaningful in their ever-presence. What sort of a tragedy can there be when its shape is nothing? How do you give it shape? How do you translate...

Feature painting by B J Wright

Soft morning