In May 2004, Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan hung three plastic “children” from the ancient oak in Piazza XXIV […]
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Stellar-Somerset Gallery has set up a retrospective of photographer David Levinthal‘s work. In 1977 Levinthal collaborated with Garry […]
Herwig Weiser is an Austrian artist whose work aims to tackle the complex relationships between art, hardware and […]
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Norbert Bayer
A bit similar to Harmut Stockter’s Plant Backpack, the EarthMan is a self-contained, self-sustaining bio-environment survival suit featuring […]
Perhaps the best surprise for me so far at the Salone del Mobile was the Ahrend show. They […]
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Spent the day at the Salone del Mobile and will first blog about something i haven’t spotted in […]
Yesterday, i discovered (thanks Constant!!!) the work of Kati Heck. If you’re in Amsterdam and Rembrandt is not […]
Fabrice Gygi places riots barricades at museums, creates machines that unfold red carpets, hangs up bombs so that […]
On April 26, it will be the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Last year, Robert Knoth […]
Litter can manifest a poetic side – think of the plastic bag being tossed by the wind in […]
When my favourite Symbolist artist meets an art duo i admire… French artists Petra Mrzyk and Jean-François Moriceau […]
Gordon Wilding‘s sculptures. Via Suzanne G. More taxidermy and animal-inspired art: Maximilian’s Pet Shop, Petistic, Afke Golsteijn, Martin […]
Ralph Ammer and Stefan Sagmeister have teamed up to create an installation which was first exhibited at Austrian […]
Sad to read on trendbeheer that Beukelsblauw , by Florentijn Hofman (the artist who paints street in yellow […]
Santiago Sierra is known for his provocative performances, which have included paying refugees from Chechenia to remain inside […]
Miles Collyer had a collection of over 300 balaclavas and 45 tracksuit tops. He wanted to match up […]
Christophe Bruno
Joan Fontcuberta uses Google to create large photo-mosaics that comment on the internet-era’s liaisons between mass media and […]
The Australian Dance Theatre’s new show will feature prosthetic limbs, large-scale ambulating robotic creatures (some of them strapped […]
Ernesto Neto creates organic-shaped installations using stretchable fabrics in nylon or cotton. Sometimes they are filled with scented […]
Wishing to reintroduce Chechnya to an international audience while reacting to the proliferation of international biennales, the Emergency […]
Shadi Ghadirian uses her photographs to examine the situation of women in Iran. The Ghajar series looks back […]
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Almond Chu photo exhibition at the Shanghai Street Artspace. More images. Related: Cao Fei’s pictures of Cosplayers.
Yinka Shonibare‘s work addresses cultural identity by juxtaposing African batik patterned cloth with the poses, idle hours and […]
BlackBox is a new media art exhibition within ARCO, Madrid’s contemporary art fair. Here’s what i found about […]
Lee Bul‘s futuristic installations explore how the notions of beauty and the monstrous are at play in contemporary […]
Kent Henricksen embroids seemingly innocent bourgeois sceneries with gruesome images as hoods, masks, ghosts and ropes. The hooded […]
Yoshitomo Nara neo-pop plexiglass dogs and freaky kids are at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, until March 11. […]
Am i slowly turning into a fan of animals or taxidermy? I really like the work of Melbourne […]
SVEN – Surveillance Video Entertainment Network, aka “AI to the People,” is a real-time video performance system that […]
A light-shirt that plays the ‘game of life’ with cool blinking patterns. Craft techniques for making your own shirt. And a research lab that’s got super cool art-engineering goals.
For The Flying Steamroller (1996), Chris Burden is a a 12-ton Navy surplus steamroller connected to a central […]
Tom Hunter’s latest exhibition, Living In Hell And Other Stories, are large-scale photographs that play on the sensationalist […]
Nam June Paik, the artist who made me like media art, passed away at his Miami home at […]
The Texture of Light is research on lighting principles and the exploration of live feed video metamorphosis in […]
On Tuesday i went to Aachen (Germany) to visit the Artgames. Structural analogies of art and game exhibition […]
Couldn’t help but think of Afke Golsteijn’s work when i saw the Somnambulic pieces, by Canadian artist Martin […]
The French collective Pleix has released a new video. It’s called Birds and as its title says it […]