Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:

misterhippity:

“To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings.”

She’s obviously never heard about how fun and easy it is to use dental floss cutters to shape barf bags into entertaining 19th century Javanese shadow puppetry.

I guess everyone needs a hobby.

5,000 Books Pour Out of a Building in Spain - My Modern Metropolis

Artist Alicia Martin’s tornado of books shoot out a window like a burst of water from a giant hose. The Spain-based artist’s sculptural installation at Casa de America, Madrid depicts a cavalcade of books streaming out of the side of a building. The whirlwind of literature defies gravity and draws attention with its grandeur size. There have been three site-specific installations, thus far, of the massive sculptural works in this series known as Biografias, translated as Biographies, that each feature approximately 5,000 books sprawled out around and atop one another.

Martin’s giant book structures give life to the inanimate objects filled with knowledge. By constructing the curving towers with a rather free and disheveled exterior, while maintaining a sturdy core, the books’ loose pages are free to blow and rustle in the wind, allowing the piece to be further animated. Take a look at the short video, below, to see the piece in motion. 

h/t Steph

I’m loving the rounds of “excavated book art” that I’ve been seeing lately, this included.

makeandmana:

Maya Lin, Altered Atlas. cjmcc-artistresearch

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German artist Martin Klimas set out to answer the question “What does music look like?”. In order to find out, he selects some music, puts splatters of different colours of paint on a translucent sheet over the diaphragm of a speaker and then turns up the volume. The vibrations of the speaker send the paint up into the air, creating beautiful patterns and sculptural forms, and Klimas photographs the results. He typically chooses dynamic and percussive music such as Steve Reich, Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix.

Steve Reich and Musicians, “Drumming”, 100x135cm

Picture: Martin Klimas (via Photos of paint splashes in mid-air by Martin Klimas show what music looks like - Telegraph)

via hikergirl

I really need to visit the American Visionary Art Museum at some point.

baltiamore:

Gotta Love the AVAM

drockk87:

this is war.

hikergirl:

The head stone of Andy Warhol is surrounded by mementos in St. John The Baptist Byzantine Cemetery in Bethel Park, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012. Feb. 22, 2012 marks the 25th anniversary of the pop artist’s death due to complications of gall bladder surgery at the age of 58. To see a gallery of images Warhol and his work, click here.

Gene J. Puskar | AP (via Day in Pictures - Sacramento Bee)

Balloon art. Click photo for more.

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apoplecticskeptic:

Sandwich Artist

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Tributes to Van Gogh (love him or lobe him) (via the guardian)

In cartoonist Peter Duggan’s redrawing of art history, a group of artists – Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and Arthur Sarnoff – pay tribute to Vincent van Gogh in their own artwork. Click on the image to see large version

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thedailywhat: Street Art of the Day: The Peanuts gang spoofs Abbey Road.

[wooster.]

(Source: thedailywhat)