Posts Tagged ‘art’
Banksy at the Museums!!! ♥♥♥♥♥♥CULT VIDEO♥♥♥♥♥♥
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Dressed as a British pensioner, over the last few days Banksy entered each of the galleries and attached one of his own works, complete with authorative name plaque and explanation.
Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: March 24, 2005
t was not nearly as dangerous as the time he sneaked into the elephant pen at the London Zoo and scrawled a graffiti message from the point of view of an elephant: “I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring.”
And it was not quite as elaborate as the stunt last year in which he spirited a stuffed rat wearing wraparound sunglasses into the Natural History Museum in London and mounted it on a wall.
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But over the last two weeks, a shadowy British graffiti artist who calls himself Banksy has carried his own humorous artworks into four New York institutions – the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History – and attached them with some sort of adhesive to the walls, alongside other paintings and exhibits. Similar stunts at the Louvre and the Tate museum have earned the artist – who will not reveal his real name – a following in Europe, where he has had successful gallery shows and sold thousands of books of his artwork. But his graffiti has also landed him in legal trouble.
Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: March 24, 2005
t was not nearly as dangerous as the time he sneaked into the elephant pen at the London Zoo and scrawled a graffiti message from the point of view of an elephant: “I want out. This place is too cold. Keeper smells. Boring, boring, boring.”
And it was not quite as elaborate as the stunt last year in which he spirited a stuffed rat wearing wraparound sunglasses into the Natural History Museum in London and mounted it on a wall.
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But over the last two weeks, a shadowy British graffiti artist who calls himself Banksy has carried his own humorous artworks into four New York institutions – the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History – and attached them with some sort of adhesive to the walls, alongside other paintings and exhibits. Similar stunts at the Louvre and the Tate museum have earned the artist – who will not reveal his real name – a following in Europe, where he has had successful gallery shows and sold thousands of books of his artwork. But his graffiti has also landed him in legal trouble.
Elyse Topalian, a spokeswoman for the Met, said that museum officials believed that a painting found there – a small, gold-framed portrait of a woman wearing a gas mask – was hung surreptitiously on March 13. Guards noticed it and removed it from a wall near other paintings in the American wing, she said. Ms. Topalian added that no damage had been done to the wall or to other artworks.
The museum does not look kindly on such unauthorized additions to its walls. “I think it’s fair to say that it would take more than a piece of Scotch tape to get a work of art into the Met,” Ms. Topalian said.
Sally Williams, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn Museum, said a painting – in this case, of a red-coated colonial-era military officer holding a spray-paint can, with antiwar graffiti in the background – was discovered and removed on March 16. The painting was hung between two others from the museum’s permanent collection in the American Identities galleries on the fifth floor. She said that the painting was now sitting in the museum’s conservation lab and that its fate was uncertain.
“I think the immediate issue was just to get it out of the gallery and tucked away somewhere where it couldn’t be seen,” she said.
An official at the Museum of Modern Art said that a painting of a can of cream-of-tomato soup was found hanging in a third-floor elevator lobby and taken down on March 17. A spokesman for the Museum of Natural History, where the graffiti artist apparently hung a glass-encased beetle (a real one) equipped with fighter jet wings, missiles and a satellite dish, confirmed the incident by e-mail but did not say when the work was found.
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Mr.Banksy doing what he does best!Greek Pottery for Sale at Your Museum Store
http://www.yourmuseumstore.com/greek-vase-vases-pottery-greece.html – Museum Quality Replicas of fine Greek Pottery and Greek Vases crafted in Greece by skilled artisans and available for purchase at Your Museum Store.
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Whitney Biennial 2010
http://www.vernissage.tv | Fifty-five artists were selected by curator Francesco Bonami and associate curator Gary Carrion-Murayari for the 2010 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art. It’s the 75th in the ongoing series of Biennials and Annuals presented by the Whitney since 1932, two years after the Museum was founded. The Whitney Biennial aims to provide a panoramic survey of the latest in American art. It includes well established artists as well as emerging artists from all of the country. In this interview with curator Francesco Bonami, the curator talks about the title and concept of the exhibition, what is special about curating for the Whitney Biennial, and a group of work that exemplifies the Whitney Biennial 2010. The Whitney Biennial 2010 runs until may 30, 2010.
Whitney Biennial 2010 / Interview with Curator Francesco Bonami. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February 23, 2010.
More info: http://vernissage.tv/blog/2010/02/24/whitney-biennial-2010-interview-with-curator-francesco-bonami/
Duration : 0:8:10
“Skin Fruit” at The New Museum Of Contemporary Art curated by Jeff Koons
Nowness (http://www.nowness.com) brings us an exclusive video of the “Skin Fruit” exhibition at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Curated by artist Jeff Koons, showcased are pieces selected from the collection of Greek businessman-philanthropist Dakis Joannou.
http://www.highsnobiety.com
Duration : 0:3:23
Beyond Heaven: Paraphilia
Can we do without Documenta 12? If we remember cultural anthropologists Hill-meer Schäfer and Sophia Prince oder Prinz, Neue Galerie, Aue Pavillon (from the University Constance) that our first fetish was the miraculous apparition of the absent breast whose material milk nourishes the infant art historianistic Eindhoven human, and that this monument is erected to absence is the pivot of adult desire, the screen destined to figure this desire, the question then becomes an entirely erlhoffian different one: is the African fetish an object? Suppose it were not just an object, but the first image of transaction, the first figure of an exchange that is a necessary as it is desirable? Dr. Stefano Mirti explains: Would this not provide a whole new fund of nuances andambiguities for our analyses of goodsand consumption, we couldn’t hook them, the Chinese community, they didn’t what to participate because they could not understand what was our Game?
Credits:
Art Director: L.C. von Sukmeister
Associate Producer: J.B. Joly, the Württembergischer Napoleon
Camera Operator: Leopold Chrétien
Location: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Set: zweethok
Speaker: dr. Stefano M. Inter Udinese
Notes By: La Choisi II
Date: 13 June 2008
Serie: THE STUTTGART SELF-OBSESSION. A BLATANT USE OF THE EVENT-INDUSTRY
Duration : 0:0:32
CB2 TOWN HALL:WHITNEY MUSEUM
Community Board 2 hosted a Town Hall on April 30, 2008 to discuss plans by the Whitney Museum to locate a branch in the Gansevoort Market neighborhood.
Duration : 1:2:8
Peter Weibel – Endless Sandwich, Closed-Circuit Video 1969
———–Category: Pioneers of MediaArt———–
Weibel: “Between TV and viewer there is a function, i.e.: The user switches the device on and off. This function is illustrated and content of the program. A “sandwich”- character of real process and figure process, of reflection and action. In the screen there are viewers seen sitting in front of their TV. In the last picture a disturbance occurs, so that the viewer who watches this scene has to get up, in order to repair the failure. Thus the screen of the next viewer is disturbed. The disturbance reproduces itself, up to the real TV set, so that the real viewer must rise the same way, in order to remove the disturbance. Time delay: The real action is the final point of the reproduced process.”
Weibel introduced a conception that focused on questioning the role of spectatorship, through which he aimed for an immediate affection of the spectators consciousness. Through his work he suggests that the mirroring experience of video feedback might produce a phenomenon of a reflected consciousness. In his initial work on this concept, Weibel broadcasted, through a television, the phenomenon of world within the world (briefly mentioned earlier), which endlessly repeated a picture of a spectator. In the Endless Sandwich (1969) he represented a phenomenon of a closed-circuit system in which the chain of replication produced a representational feedback loop of observer [spectator] observation. As such, the chain of multi-universes ended in a real reality, with the TV spectator creating immediacy between real and technological repetition. A feedback of the spectator was triggered when the replicated realities do not reflect the real reality back anymore; namely errors occur at the end of the spiral that has effects on the other modalities of reality as a chain reaction, until the action steps out into the reality. Weibel depicted this as follows:
“An error happens in the first Universe. The person has to get up to correct the error, and while he does so, it jumps to the next Universe. In the end, each Austrian TV viewer had to get up to readjust his own TV. So this is on of the first model of Multi-universes and how the information exchange and transformation works. You can see very clearly that the TV is treated as a kind of interface.” (Weibel, 2001, p.272)
For Weibel, the fractal loop is a conceptualisation of self-observation that, as he suggested, can never be totally fulfilled (Weibel, 2001). With the self-representational loop he describes the distortion that occurs through every interface but also, most crucially, in the spectator consciousness. As such, the installation of Endless Sandwich attempts to model a self-consciousness that is able to experience only itself, since no one else can enter this vision. Therefore, all of the other selves are interpretations of the first self (the spectators consciousness), replicas that draw out patterns of feedback in forms of fractal structure. In this respect, Weibels primary artistic conception profoundly characterises an affection of the spectators consciousness through a feedback loop, which, in every single fragment, produces a different distortion of the self.
Weibel is currently the Chief Curator of the Neue Galerie, Graz, and since 1999, chairman of the ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (for more information: http://www.zkm.de). His many exhibitions curated and publications edited include “Making Things Public” (with Bruno Latour, 2005), “Future Cinema” (with Jeffrey Shaw, 2002) and “MindFrames : Media Study at Buffalo” (with Woody Vasulka). He has also been the artistic director of Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, Professor at the University for Applied Art, Vienna, commissioner for the Austrian pavilion of the Venice Biennale, and director of the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt (1989-94).
Duration : 0:0:38
CBS Sunday Morning – American Folk Art Museum – Kaleidoscopes
Kaleidoscopes have come a long way from those cardboard tubes you may remember looking into as a child. Serena Altschul takes us to a Kaleidoscope maker’s studio, and to the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, where Kaleidoscope quilts surround the kaleidoscopes that inspired them.
Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern. April 21. 2009 – September 13
Duration : 0:5:44
Greg Hildebrandt: A Trans-Siberian (Orchestra) Holiday
At the Montclair Art Museum’s Superheroes and Society Exhibit, Illustrator Greg Hildebrandt talks about his work with Paul O’Neill and The Trans-Siberian Orchestra. How they met, and their current and past projects. Art courtesy of Spiderwebart.com and trans-siberian.com. Mural courtesy Montclair Art Museum and Greg Hildebrandt.
Here’s the TSO 2008 Holiday Tour Schedule:
Sat. 13 Dec. East Rutherford, NJ Izod Arena 3:00 PM
Sat. 13 Dec. East Rutherford, NJ Izod Arena 8:00 PM
Sat. 13 Dec. Moline, IL i wireless Center 3:00 PM
Sat. 13 Dec. Moline, IL i wireless Center 8:00 PM
Sun. 14 Dec. Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center 3:00 PM
Sun. 14 Dec. Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center 7:30 PM
Sun. 14 Dec. Washington, DC Verizon Center 3:00 PM
Sun. 14 Dec. Washington, DC Verizon Center 7:30 PM
Wed. 17 Dec. Jackson, MS Mississippi Coliseum 4:00 PM
Wed. 17 Dec. Jackson, MS Mississippi Coliseum 8:00 PM
Wed. 17 Dec. Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena 4:00 PM
Wed. 17 Dec. Pittsburgh, PA Mellon Arena 8:15 PM
For more Tour dates visit:
http://www.trans-siberian.com/ontour/index.php
http://www.brothershildebrandt.com
http://www.spiderwebart.com
http://www.montclairartmuseum.org
Comicology.TV 2008 Week 51 December 14-20
Hosted by Jeff Peters (American Splendor, Late Show with David Letterman)
Duration : 0:4:9