Posted: February 14th, 2012 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Not an especially romantic edition of Found Objects this week, but hey ho:
- It was sad to hear that Barcelona painter Antoni Tàpies has passed away. Check out this obituary and slideshow in the Guardian.
- Here’s a Tate Shots video dispatch from the Yayoi Kusama PV at Tate. Always good to hear a former rock star doing art crit (and Bob Geldof calls it well, imho).
- This longform Vanity Fair piece on Lucian Freud harvests quotes from many of those who knew him best to produced a fascinating study of the man (thanks @rosieclarke)
- Some 43,500 year old paintings have been discovered in a cave in Spain. Brooklyn art blog Hyperallergic catches the buzz.
- If you don’t already know what a good thing Art Licks has been for the South London art scene, check out this Ideas Tap interview with Holly Willats.
- Rural France is the last place you’d expect an Ab Ex painter to move to, but Joan Mitchell did just that. Now Art Wednesday carry shots from a show at Hauser & Wirth.
- Don’t let it be said that artists are standing by while the coalition government dismantles the NHS. Many of them are making work for this tumblr blog.
- And here’s an even more angry blog about the art world, which you may also find amusing, Moogee the Art Dog.
- The best Art Thoughtz so far? Hennessy Youngman (aka the Pedagogic Pimp) holds forth on performance art.
- Oh, and happy Valentines Day!
Posted: January 30th, 2012 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Ten links from around the virtual week in art:
- Artnet has the latest on the Prince vs Cariou case regarding copyright and image appropriation. You get to read the people specs for an A-list opening at Gagosian.
- A paranoid genius has managed to uncover at least two partial words spelled out by Hirst’s spot paintings. A Da Vinci code for the new millennium? (thanks @TwoCoats)
- Speaking of Leonardo, it seems that Vetruvian Man was something of a renaissance meme. Now an earlier example of the design has shown up (h/t @DaveFenton).
- The Independent features a great interview with Sarah Maple, who has been wowing global art svengalis and builders from Crawley alike.
- Q: Can nicking a piece of shop decor result in a home raid by a six man police team? A: Yes, if you are artist Jani Leinonen (on We Make Money Not Art).
- Great bat sounds on this audio slideshow from The Guardian. The paper has been hanging out with Jeremy Deller as he tried to make the ultimate film about chiropteras.
- There’s an interview with designer Marc Newson in the New York Times. It’s seven pages long but as comfortable as a ride in one of his pimped up private jets.
- Check out Dangerous Minds and be glad you don’t have any family photos like this: vintage portraits with ‘hidden’ mothers (via @SKYENICOLAS).
- There’s a delicate balance between civilised and riotous in this filmed performance by synaesthesic painter Mark Rowan-Hull.
- And very much finally, a giant hare made of turf (via @artfagcity).
Posted: January 23rd, 2012 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Great links this week. Please tuck in:
- I’m still not entirely sure what SOPA is, but I vehemently oppose it. Even if it has thrown up this ace Jonathan Jones rant on Wikipedia
- As Prime Minister David Cameron calls for more commercial British films, comedian Stuart Lee offers a commercial response (via @NickMotown)
- Third and perhaps best Guardian rant of the week comes courtesy of novelist Will Self, who mines some previously untapped comic potential from the urban space that is Trafalgar Square
- I don’t know how it took the fashion industry 500 years to spot this trick: a handbag made according to a design by Leonardo Da Vinci. Do check the video.
- It’s local politics, but not as you might know it. Kriston Capps reports from Washington DC on hunger-striking auto-circumcision merchant Adrian Parsons.
- Another controversial spot of legislation saw artist Miranda July arraigned for kookiness. At least you could read it in The Onion (also via @KristonCapps)
- Musician and photographer Patti Smith gets a first museum show in Connecticut. NY Times finds it endearing if not groundbreaking
- Tickled with excitement by this interview with Brian Droitcour. The new poetry editor at Rhizome discusses the online potential of the medium, in effervescent verse
- Would love to see an Ed Keinholz show, more specifically this one featured in Daily Serving. The fiercely critical artist died in a place called Hope (Idaho)
- Theosophical dining on offer at Swiss Miss blog: a Mondrian Sandwich.
Posted: January 16th, 2012 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Regular users of this internet thing will be pleased to know this week’s Found Objects are a spot free zone:
Posted: January 2nd, 2012 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
A rather sheepish selection of five post-celebratory links this week. Thanks for reading in 2011 and rest assured I’ll be back on it later in the week:
- Somewhere between art history and art criticism, this is a heavyweight consideration of either version of Leonardo’s Virgin of the Rocks. Elucidating (via @tds153).
- Good news if you’ve been tinkering with a screenplay for Finnegan’s Wake. Copyright has just expired on the literary oeuvre of James Joyce.
- You might not think that free jazz and population studies would make good bedfellows, but this vintage collaboration between Ornette Coleman and Pierre Hébert really works. Yowl!
- You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll wonder why you didn’t get to the cinema more often in 2011. At least I did after viewing this supercut of films of the year (hat tip @hindmezaina).
- But it might also surprise you just how much goes on annually in just one artist’s studio. Painter David Dipré has made a slideshow of 2011. Music optional.
Posted: December 19th, 2011 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Most favourite links from the past week, with a passing reference to xmas:
- Take in a whole book on deregulated capitalism at a glance with this wall chart by William Powhida. Better still, zoom in and scroll around.
- The Guardian interview the soi-disant Ikea anarchists, underemployed grads with time on their hands and photoshop on their laptops.
- Kieron Long in Architect magazine is also sticking it to the man, or at least the men behind the Arcelor Mittal Orbit Tower (hat tip @kristoncapps).
- Contemporary Art Daily showcases Merlin Carpenter’s scruffy, colourless cafe scenes (The cafe is in Tate Modern).
- Louis Wain, schizophrenic cat artist of the early 20th century finds his way onto the internet, where he always belonged. See Beautiful/Decay zine.
- The head of the arts programme at Cern argues the case for magic and mystery, even as particle physics illuminates all. (The Art Newspaper via @KatharineAllard.)
- You get the stalker you deserve. Claire Breukel has been following Vito Acconci for Hyperallergic.
- Van Gogh may have been an anomalous trachomat. Who knew? And Kazunori Asada has designed the software to prove it (via @inthecompanyof).
- Chloe Nelkin bemoans the lack of festive tree at Tate Britain this year. It’s a good excuse to look back at the trees of Christmas past
- And finally…Der Spiegel report on a rogue santa distributing ecstasy-laced drinks at a Berlin Xmas market.
Posted: December 12th, 2011 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Clearly there has been a major art prize since the last Found Objects, but you’ve been spared any more links to it. Instead:
- With great timing (both United and City crash out of Champions League) the BBC carry a slide show of a new show about Manchester after a speculative apolcypse.
- Gabriel Orozco is the engaging subject of a Paris Review studio visit. He works in his kitchen, so where does he cook?
- As Anselm Kiefer warns us, ‘there are only a few people who can say something about art’. Great interview with Alex Needham.
- Ignoring that sound advice I’ve sneaked onto a list of people making cultural predictions for listings site Spoonfed. Scroll down.
- If you haven’t seen it yet, this bit of architecture crit from rapper Ice Cube is a joy. Give the man a BBC4 mini series.
- More pre-seasonal good cheer is available from the New York Times. The paper interviews a comic book artist who also happens to be an asperger’s sufferer with no fixed abode.
- And even more heart-warming fare can be found on the MoMA blog as they relay the runaway success of their new digital comments board.
- But maybe we should get real. Here’s some generally ominous war art gathered together by Will Brand on Art Fag City.
- …and here’s some depressing photography about the oil business in Nigeria from We Make Money Not Art.
- The panacea for all that is this wildly off-beam film about the internet made in 1969. Also from the ever-reliable @KathyKavan.
Posted: December 4th, 2011 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
A few of the least missable art links from the web this week. Peruse at will:
- Here’s the most surprising thing written about art this week: Charles Saatchi on the vulgarity of the art world.
- As if to make a similar point Miru Kim shacks up with two pigs for the duration of Art Basel Miami (as told by Animal New York.)
- On the eve of the Turner Prize, you could do worse than listen to a mod-ish spotify playlist put together by nominee George shaw.
- Sad news is they’ve fenced off Oscar Wilde’s tomb in Pere Lachaise. Good news is the BBC have interviewed the poet and wit’s grandson.
- Corporate sponsors steer clear of historical shows in the US. Laura Gilbert says that‘s their loss.
- The Walker Center in Minneapolis launch a new website. People in the world of online art appear to agree it is rather good (thanks, Eyeteeth).
- 60s-style performance art meets contemporary RnB in this unholy YouTube clip found by Art Fag City.
- A perverted but strangely beautiful twist on vintage erotica: Beautiful/Decay presents The Love Life of the Spumifers.
- Meanwhile a new photography book uncovers a more banal world of sex. There aren’t enough Spumifers in the sex clubs of America.
- Finally, settle down and watch this charming and poignant animation about the loss of classic high rise architecture in Chicago.
Posted: November 28th, 2011 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Welcome back to another round of art links from an exciting week on the Internet:
- From the department of unexpected events, here’s news that the EU is planning to undertake its biggest ever funding drive for art and culture.
- And here’s some more news that goes against the grain. Scientists have massively slowed up the rate at which Leonardo’s Last Supper is disintegrating.
- Pop artist Gerald Laing passed away last week and you can read his obituary in the Guardian. I am really saddened by this as he gave me a great interview once.
- If you need cheering up after that, you could read part one of Tyler Green on trees. In art, of course. These were prompted by an encounter with a van Ruisdael.
- Next travel the world’s most remote byways in the company of Aaron Hobson. In his interview with Spiegel Online he talks about his project using Google Street View.
- Hyperallergic reports on a photography show in Chicago which deals in the realm of crimes, both real and imagined. Sounds completely brilliant.
- There’s another dose of vitriol from Alastair Gentry who reflects on the new Tacita Dean piece at Tate. I thought it quite good myself, but not so good I didn’t laugh.
- New Art posted two videos featuring robots with a stirring introduction. One is funny and the other is elegant. You’ll know which is which.
- Allow yourself to be entertained by a slideshow of the Shit London awards in the Guardian. I especially liked the depressing views from workplaces category.
- Finally, a tumblr you may or may not have seen. It’s Ugly Renaissance Babies (via @electriclit and @alastairgenry).
Posted: November 22nd, 2011 | Author: Mark Sheerin | Filed under: aggregation, contemporary art | No Comments »
Vienna was fun, but more on that later. Here are some links I’ve been catching up with:
- Check this photo on Hyperallergic and I’m sure you’ll agree, this woman really looks like a public menace. No wonder the cop is using pepper spray.
- I may be late to this, but if police can use said spray ‘for fun’ it seems only right that others can too, given access to photoshop. See the Tumblr of the week.
- While on the subject of global protest movements, C-Monster posts a couple of nice bits of street art from Tahrir Square.
- Art historian John Berger has a piece in the Guardian. Marvel at the way his reading of the Degas/ballet show goes out on a shadowy limb.
- Leonardo biographer Martin Kemp meanwhile compares the spooky new Salvatore Mundi to the (perhaps no less) spooky Mona Lisa. Great interview on Art Info.
- The Independent asks if Damien Hirst deserves next year’s major retrospective at Tate Modern. Brian Sewell says, no. Martin Glover says, yes. That’s a maybe, then.
- Cat lovers should enjoy this Q&A with painter Allison Schulnik. Why is she obsessed by the feline creatures? Aren’t we all.
- This rollercoaster on foot is anything but pedestrian. Check out Phaidon for a new public sculpture by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth.
- Hell hath no funniness like a woman scorned. Comic and artist Miriam Elia has a forthcoming show devoted to her break up with Martin Creed.
- Excuse the shameless nepotism but Forbes is running a story about a board game and iPhone app designed by my brother. Find out why it might get banned.
