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...