A new website has just been launched for Colonisation, a project initiated by Sinéad Carey. Colonisation is a project about reclaiming urban space; it is a reaction to the modernisation of the environment that we inhabit. On the website you can find details of the projects phases, an online gallery, news feeds and a …
“I am. I am. I am 28. I am 34. I am from Portland. I am from Tokyo. I’m happy today. I am from the US and I am naked. I am bi. On a grey San Francisco day last October I sat alone in a darkened room at the city’s Yerba Buena Centre for [...]
To many people the term “prefab housing” calls to mind trailer parks. Yet lately prefabricated houses — built off site and then delivered largely complete — have become fashionable at architecture schools and among an upscale segment of the housing market. They pose a considerable design challenge. The Museum of Modern Art has commissioned five [...]
“This is a crack that runs through the world’s most popular museum of modern art. Just as Hirst’s diamond-studded skull symbolises the pinnacle of vanity of the contemporary art bubble, the crack symbolises its imminent collapse.” Read the full Story.
Forget about wandering through an art gallery and wondering if you’re the only one who has no idea what anything means. Hannes Broecker has brilliantly invited the cultural elite to grab a glass at an exhibition in Dresden, Germany, and drink away the art. As the night progressed, the levels of the multi-coloured …
This is the work of the very talented Matt Billfield, based in California. This piece above, entitled “Peggy” is pretty awesome, 3 foot tall by 7 foot wide, with 2788 hand cut, sanded, and painted dowels that where then assembled together to recreate Lichtenstein’s image in 3D. He’ll do commissioned works, but don’t expect it [...]
Say “Brazil” and most of us think of Rio, carnival, party and beach. But those who for some reason end up in the central Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, that has neither beach nor Rio, will be glad to know that party is alive and well here, too. In the state’s party-crazy …
This guy Phil Hansen, from Washington does these pieces: “This image is made of roughly 7,000 matches. I colored some black and some white (with help). It is part of a series of pieces that I am titling “goodbye art” because there is nothing left for me to keep at the end. I make a [...]
The Lab on Foley Street in Dublin City presents: ‘No Fighting in the War Room’, by Alan Mongey, is one of a number of recent exhibitions that make the ‘war on terror’ a central concern. Mongey’s work is an attempt to defuse, through humour, those terrorist threats so prevalent in the mass-media of today. NO [...]
Nice advert for ESPN in Brazil…Mini goals were placed on green urinal deoderizer blocks in several pubs. Moth balls were placed in front of the goals. A sign on the wall above the urinal says: “soccer is good anywhere, but is much better on ESPN channels”.
Category: installations