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art-it: Olafur Eliasson

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:58:06 -0800

Olafur Eliasson

How irresponsible of you to show model Carmen Kass separating her eyelashes with, of all things, a...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:57:25 -0800

How irresponsible of you to show model Carmen Kass separating her eyelashes with, of all things, a safety pin [“Best of Beauty,” October]. Let’s hope none of your readers display such a, so to speak, glaring lack of common sense.
Kathe R., Las Vegas (Allure, December 2009)

Thanks for all the awesome tips! I particularly enjoyed the tip about poking my eyes out with a safety pin. At first I was like “Maybe I shouldn’t,” but then I did, and it’s definitely given me a new perspective. As in, no perspective, because now I am blind. Kudos!
Marcie T., Mobile, AL

Letters to the Editors of Women’s Magazines, with Edith Zimmerman (via Get That L@@k!)

Paul McCobb American Furniture designer (1917-1969) (via...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:50:12 -0800

Paul McCobb American Furniture designer (1917-1969) (via MAFIA-HUNT)

Marijn van Kreij (via MAFIA-HUNT)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:23:17 -0800

Marijn van Kreij (via MAFIA-HUNT)

towerofsleep:cameronr:mentalbeast: fanshaw - All I Want For...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:13:57 -0800

towerofsleep:cameronr:mentalbeast:

fanshaw - All I Want For Christmas Is You

jenbee: Yoshitomo Nara Towel, new from the Art Production...

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:06:20 -0800

jenbee:

Yoshitomo Nara Towel, new from the Art Production Fund.

I love, love, love my Works on Whatever towels, even though they’re impractically ginormous. Alex Katz! Cindy Sherman! Jeff Koons! My beloved Ed Ruscha! And now Yoshitomo & Peter Doig.

jennilee: aaron feinberg national geographics international...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:39:53 -0800

jennilee:

aaron feinberg

national geographics international photography contest (2009)

Stunning!

Yayoi KusamaNarcissus garden (detail) 1966/2002Site-specific...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:53:19 -0800

Yayoi Kusama
Narcissus garden (detail) 1966/2002
Site-specific work (this one is at the QAG in Australia)

The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, born in 1929, has spent the last 20 years commuting between her large studio in the Tokyo suburbs and the psychiatric hospital that she chooses to call home.

in 1966, when, with the help of the Milanese artist Lucio Fontana, she presented “Narcissus Garden,” a rogue installation of 1,500 reflective metal balls. (At the time, Kusama, dressed in a kimono, hawked the balls herself for $2 a piece on the lawn in front of the Padiglione Italia in the Venice Biennale Giardini.) Another version of the same work is now in Milan and it still leaves you breathless, letting you see your image reflected endlessly on the spherical surfaces. The effect was even more dramatic at night, when the images were reflected not just on the balls but on the glass wall facing the garden behind them.

(via Flower Power | Kusama-rama, From Miami to Milan - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com)

Kehinde Wiley’s “Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II,” 2009,...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:37:00 -0800

Kehinde Wiley’s “Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II,” 2009, at Deitch Projects (not my favourite Wiley, but props for the bombast)

MIAMI — The first person I saw at yesterday’s V.I.P. preview for Art Basel Miami Beach was Sylvester Stallone. Accompanied by a bodyguard, he was studying a new painting by Julian Schnabel hanging at Deitch Projects. This was fascinating. When Brad Pitt, Steve Martin or Sofia Coppola show up on the circuit, they are shopping as collectors. Stallone, a Sunday painter, was actually at the fair to sell. By late afternoon, I heard that three of his canvases had gone to buyers at Galerie Gmurzynska, which was also hawking Miró, Botero and Malevich.

Lots of Art Basel Miami coverage over on The Moment Blog, including an interview with Aurel Schmidt.

(via Art Basel Miami Beach | Doing More With More - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com)

jennilee: nice! black to back and light installation view at...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:56:06 -0800

jennilee:

nice!

black to back and light installation view at the clint roenisch gallery

jeremy r. jansen
niall mcclelland
richard serra
ellsworth kelly

jennilee: artist book database launched by david schoerner of...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:25:21 -0800

jennilee:

artist book database launched by david schoerner of hassla books

threewordtitle: This gingerbread version of Mies van der Rohe’s...

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:11:22 -0800

threewordtitle:

This gingerbread version of Mies van der Rohe’s classic Farnsworth House, took April Reed Cake Design several days of photo research and about 25 hours to construct. (via Farnsworth Gingerbread House at iainclaridge.net

I’m making a gingerbread house this year. Something tells me it won’t be as impressive as this.