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Remember cassettes? Here’s a sculpture of cassettes from Michael Stipe’s house - the house is up for sale at about $11 million.
Everyone has hobbies, and this was probably an easy collection to gather, any time after the late 80s!
Stain Glass Water Tower (via nevver)
“the locally-sourced plexi came from all over new york city—from the floors of chinatown sign shops, to the closed dumbo studio of artist dennis oppenheim, to astoria’s demolition salvage warehouse. build it green! nyc” - tom fruin studio
Argentinean sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas creates enormous sculptural works that seem like remnants of a science fiction movie set, or bizarre moments from a surreal dream.
The awesome piece you see here is entitled My Family Dead (2009). Here a life-size blue whale, created by the artist, lies beached in the woods outside Ushuaia, Argentina. The stranded cetacean is pockmarked with tree stumps, which leaves the viewer wondering if it’s being slowly claimed by the forest or perhaps it’s a native resident. Beautiful and utterly awesome.
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In his installation A Butterfly’s Eye View artist Eiji Watanabe eviscerates butterfly field guides, releasing the delicately cut insects and pinning them to the walls around the gutted textbooks. (via thisiscolossal)
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Took one more pass by Song One tonight before it closes at the end of the weekend. Still so cool.
The Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race is a surreal event. I spent all of yesterday afternoon watching enormous quirky creations dive into the Canton Waterfront and then later putter through the mud of Patterson Park.
Above is a competitor called “Go Ask Alice.”
I missed this again this year, despite a trip to Baltimore yesterday… need to put next year’s race on the calendar!
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Edward Munch’s iconic “The Scream” sells for $119.9 million: We’re with you, freaked-out screaming guy.
‘The Art of Video Games:’ still in beta
Hordes of young school children march up the steps to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC on a cloudless Friday morning. As they run around yelling and chasing one another, the security guard on duty echoes Ecclesiastes using only his eyes: there’s nothing new under the sun, he tells me. But I’m not terribly worried about the situation — surely these children are on their way up to see work from Annie Leibovitz or some other culturally suitable collection. But contrary to my natural assumption, they file into the elevators, and head straight up to grab controllers in The Art of Video Games exhibit. Things are starting to make sense to me, now: The Art of Video Games is all clearly a clever plot to lure children off of their couches and into a museum. Or, apparently, adults.
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I love performance art. And salads.
Make a Salad will be performed on the High Line in the Chelsea Market Passage, the semi-enclosed passageway on the High Line at West 16th Street. At 10:00 AM, the artists will begin preparing the salad ingredients on the upper-level of the passageway. (Salad ingredients will include enough locally-sourced escarole, romaine, frisée, carrots, cucumbers, onions, celery, and mushrooms for up to 1,000 people.) At 12:00 PM, the artists will toss the salad from the upper-level to the lower-level of the passageway, and then begin serving it to the audience at 12:15 PM. Make a Salad is free and open to the public. —High Line Art Performance: Alison Knowles, Make a Salad | The High Line (via Dorsey)
Currently distracting everyone in The Atlantic office: Context-Free Patent Art
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"What makes the Renaissance different? Renaissance paintings look more realistic, good. What else? There are more decapitations, absolutely. You feel slightly attracted to the naked men and women, OK. Fewer weird-looking Jesus babies. Good, good. And what about this? Slide. Remember this cave painting? Renaissance painters were far less concerned with skinny, stick-figure bird men who hold staffs and are either standing or laying down in the vicinity of bison; instead, they were more interested in religion, history, boobies, wee-wees, ca-ca’s, the Renaissance, and random people standing in the background."
— McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Advanced Amateur Art History. (via fdfaumders)
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