Adrian Reimann has created a series of illustrations of characters from Masters of the Universe in a fashion-esque style. Pay attention to the Dior Homme, Imperial, Iron Heart, and Flat Head jeans (alongside April 77, Common Projects, and other Superfuture-approved brands).
Installation by Yayoi Kusama. (Photo via updownacross.)
Dan Lacey has a bunch of paintings of President Obama, nude, with unicorns. View the entire set.
Eight of my portraits will be featured in an upcoming group exhibition at Clothing Brigade in Cleveland, Ohio. A big thank you to Steve Brown for making it happen. Please check it out if you can.
I’m really stoked for Art & Copy, a documentary exploring the history behind some of the most infamous creative advertising in the modern age.
A blog by Colin Pantall about all things related to photography.
Choice is important because photography is a promiscuous art. We don’t have to make choices if we don’t want to, we can just point our camera and shoot away, have a drink, swap cameras shoot some more then drink some more, find another camera and imagine that we can make the choices later and a messianiacal coherence will shine through. (Genre Switching)
Via Gerry Caravan.
Jonathan Meese is a German sculptor, painter, and performance artist.
A series of images and video of various objects subjected to computed axial tomography scans.
Via Gerry Caravan.
A crazy organic set of “tridimensional” installations by Henrique Oliveira. It will be exhibited at the Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas, beginning on March 27th, 2009 until May 9th, 2009.
Oliveira’s installations, which he refers to as “tridimensionals,” have evolved into massive, spatial constructions that combine painting, architecture, and sculpture. In some installations he uses walls as supports, attaching and shaping lengths of PVC tubing to create enormous, protruding forms over which he layers thin sheets of wood. In others, he arranges thousands of pieces of painted wood into gestural abstract “paintings” that spill off the wall into the viewer’s space.
Via posterous.
Mike Ley, a designer from Brooklyn, has spearheaded a small ‘zine project with users from Superfuture. I just put in my order. Please check it out. You get a westside button for your troubles too.
The Museum of Modern Art has redesigned their website.
Jeanne-Claude passed away at age 74
Jeanne-Claude, one half of the famed duo, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, passed away today at the age of 74. Notable works include The Umbrellas, from Japan to the United States, in 1984:
Various draping installation pieces such as the Reichstag in Germany and Surrounding Islands off the coast of Miami:
And then there was the Running Fence, made entirely of fabric, that ran through Sonoma and Marin counties, in California, directly into the coast:
There’s also a great video documenting the controversy that surrounded their efforts to build a fabric fence across various farmlands and properties in the Sonoma and Marin county.
Their most recent work might have had the largest audience to date. It was The Gates, a temporal art installation of over 7,000 gates spanning 23 miles of Central Park.
The Gates was an experience I was fortunate enough to experience while attending New York University in 2005. I remember the hoopla from the surrounding project, the initial unveilings of saffron fabric (in dedication to Jeanne-Claude’s saffron colored hair) from each gate in the park, and the late night sledding through the gates during the first snowfall of the winter. A 21 year endeavor, conceived in 1979, the $21 million project was said to have brought in $254 million in additional revenue from tourists who came from around the world to witness the temporal art installation.
Update: Upcoming installations include Over The River, a 5.9 mile stretch of fabric that is meant to be viewed from below while the movement of the material is affected by the weather, light, and vegetation, and The Mastaba, a massive structure made of 710,000 shiny oil barrels similar to the color of The Gates.
(images via google images and christojeanneclaude.net)