(*) The Only Magic Left is Art — A Symbiotic Union of Paint and Photo by Parisian... ¡Viva la Revolución! There is an invisible revolution going on right now and the old ways are being uprooted by a new generation of artists through social media. 10 years ago, it was practically impossible to get exposure to a vast international audience without being sponsored by a high profile company. Now, all of that is about to change. Never before have we lived in a time where artists have an even playing field against the more privileged. Talent is finally becoming the backbone of success rather than nepotism. We are entering an era of "artistic equality" among the creative stratosphere. You can support and be a part of this historical movement by subscribing to us on Quarterly.co and directly contribute to the dreams and values of artists just like you and me. Young Contemporaries | The Young Contemporaries are a vital part of The Reach and Abbotsford’s future.
WAG extends run of 100 Masters show. Winnipeg Free Press - ONLINE EDITION Posted: 08/7/2013 1:24 PM | Comments: MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Enlarge Image A visitor looks at the impressive wooden sculpture by Robert Davidson titled, Killer Whale Transforming into a Thunderbird, 2009, as part of 100 Masters: Only in Canada. The show's run has been extended to September 2. Photo Store The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s centennial exhibition, 100 Masters: Only in Canada, has had its run extended until Labour Day on Sept. 2. "This exhibition has obviously resonated with people, making it the best attended show in the WAG’s history and a fitting tribute for the WAG’s Centennial," says Stephen Borys, WAG Director and CEO. 100 Masters: Only in Canada, originally scheduled to close on August 18, brings together some of the world’s greatest artists under one roof, including Rembrandt, van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Picasso and Warhol.
Hours of operation for the WAG and the Gallery Shop until the close of the exhibition: TheReach : Proof that sometimes curators... In praise of street art that draws attention to more than just itself. By Ernest Zacharevic. In Vilnius, Lithuania. Via Street Art Utopia. It’s difficult to generalize about street art. Obviously that’s not really the case. It’s not only easy to generalize about street art, it often seems to be mandatory. Critics of street art — or graffiti — dismiss it across the board as vandalism. Before I go any further I should make it clear that all the images I've collected here are examples of street art that I like quite a bit, and I want to explain why.
Via Street Art Utopia, which attributes this to Oakoak, in France, and offers many more examples of this artist’s street work here. The most-is-bad-but-some-is-great point is true of any form (nobody would insist that there’s some kind of intrinsic importance to watercolors, or whatever). I’ve struggled with this issue for years, as a very enthusiastic fan of certain street art (including completely illegal examples that I am sure opponents would consider vandalism), who nevertheless has the doubts expressed above.
One Million Bones Brings Genocide To Washington, D.C. Visitors to Washington, D.C. this weekend saw a National Mall transformed into a mass grave. It took more than 1,000 volunteers, clad all in white, more than four hours to lay out what artist Naomi Natale described as a “visible petition” of more than 1 million hand-made “bones.” It was a petition less about remembering any specific genocides of the past, than awareness of genocide in general, and ongoing atrocities in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Syria. The "One Million Bones" themselves were constructed by hand out of clay and papier-mâché over the last three years by more than 100,000 people in 30 countries. Each bone created by a student was matched by a dollar donation by the Bezos Family Foundation to CARE’s work fighting poverty in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
As an art project, though, the purpose is less pointed. Watch: Doug Aitken Wraps A Building In Video Art. For a half hour on March 25th, a corner of downtown Seattle became an unlikely vortex of 1960s culture: Hundreds of partiers gathered outside the Seattle Art Museum for what was officially described as a “happening.” Members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra played Terry Riley’s monumental symphony, In C. And most importantly, the artist Doug Aitken unveiled a permanent installation called Mirror, an “urban earthwork.” The major difference between Mirror and, say, Spiral Jetty, is that it’s digital. The massive LED screen wraps the museum’s facade like paper on a present, covering the stonework with a constantly changing array of moving images. To fill the screen, Aitken shot hundreds of hours of video documenting everything from the shimmering Pacific Ocean to the floor of a Boeing assembly factory.
It is “a dynamic representation of the constantly changing environments that make up Seattle and the Northwest,” explain SAM’s curators. Check out Mirror at SAM, in perpetuity. Space2place : this is so awesome... Charles A. Birnbaum: Dan Kiley: A great yet little known Modernist. In his later years, you could find Dan Kiley with his wild hair and pants hiked up to his waist always brimming with opinions and ideas - or as the celebrated landscape architect Laurie OIin once observed: "Dan's thoughts are like rabbits - they just keep leaping out.
" The peripatetic, Boston-born Kiley was an avid skier who could readily quote Thoreau, Kierkegaard and Henry James. Creativity, he said, was "a patient search and a joyful discovery. " Kiley was also among the most important, influential and personally idiosyncratic landscape architects of the 20th century and designer of more than 1,100 projects - yet today he is not well known. As Calvin Tompkins wrote in his New Yorker profile of Kiley: "Even a partial listing of Kiley's more important commissions makes you wonder why his name is not better known outside the profession. " And that was in 1995! Dan and Anne Kiley in New Hampshire, pre-1940. Dan Kiley in his Charlotte, VT studio, c. 1990's. Miller House and Garden (2005). ICEBERG Montréal. Vancouver Covers Its Sidewalks With Giant Pillows - Arts & Lifestyle.
Commissioned by the City of Vancouver, "Pop Rocks" is an architectural installation that aims to transform the city’s downtown area using repurposed industrial materials. Designed by AFJD Studio and Matthew Soules Architecture, the temporary installation was crafted entirely out of post-consumer waste (definitely a contender for the Architizer A+ Award for Materials) in a response to the city’s initiative to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. The installation consists of 15 large pillows, each made from Canada Place Sails and Recycled Polystyrene, peppered across a city block to create an unusual landscape offering visitors a soft place to rest.
Free and open to the public, the pillows were on display in the City of Vancouver from August 15 through September 3, with a plan to recycle all materials at the project’s end. All photos courtesy of Krista Jahnke This post originally appeared on Architizer, an Atlantic partner site. Landscape Photography: New Visions: Slideshow. Eavesdropping on a War. This is a community post, untouched by our editors. An essay written in 2009 after a particularly strong eruption of violence in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Downtown Chicago via Gravitywave on Flickr Imagine yourself in the busy and bustling streets of downtown Chicago. You have just rushed down from your 15th floor condominium onto the street. Following your daily morning routine on your way to the office, you stop off at the newsstand a block away to purchase the Chicago Tribune. Just as you take a step down into the subway station, your ears catch a faint whistling sound. You briefly stop. By any means, this depiction of the conceptual design idea proposed on the landscape architecture blog, Pruned, is quite radical. Gaza City via proisraeli on Flickr This concept is a perfect example of a project that straddles art and design.
Although many would soon realize that the sounds are coming from speakers, the audible despair, chaos and destruction would surely engage the populace. 1. 2. Bionicaarquitectura: El proyecto LUZ NAS VIELAS... Artist Depicts The Most Horrible Catastrophes In The Cheeriest Colors. Picture any crisis you can imagine--a war-torn city, an impoverished village of rusty shanties, people displaced by disaster--and if your brain is anything like mine, those images come through in muddled browns and washed-out highlights. Maybe it’s the influence of photography or film, maybe it’s just that the worst living environments tend to involve a lot of dirt and not much paint--maybe it’s based on a level of truth or influenced by pop culture.
I don’t know. But I do know that, before exploring work by Amze Emmons, I hadn’t even realized that my mental color palette bias existed. Emmons’ recent art--a combination of graphite, acrylic, gouache, and watercolor--depicts disaster and refugee zones with utter vibrance. Bold pastels add sparks of color where you least expect them. Shanties become patchwork quilts, and concrete barricades melt into giant Popsicles of every flavor. [Hat tip: It’s Nice That] Incredible Environmental Art by Jaakko Pernu. Jaakko Pernu is a land artist and sculptor from the subarctic city of Oulu, Finland, a place that's surrounded by Boreal forest. With inspiration from the timber outside, Pernu creates expressive installations from wooden strips. The resulting works, which comment on the give-and-take relationship between humans and nature, are some of the most impressive examples of environmental art today. Pernu's work is informed by the idea of the timberline, or puuraja, the point in Northern latitudes at which trees no longer grow.
"A timberline in the middle of a European city may be a Northern comment on the spread of cities," writes the artist. "At the same time, it may represent an aesthetic 'timberline' either in a built-up or in a natural environment. I try to allow for multiple interpretations of my works: they do not preach loudly. " Photos via EnvironmentalArt.net Tags: Why Does This Minneapolis Bench Need an Instruction Sign? - Arts & Lifestyle. Lately it would seem that someone inside the Minneapolis St. Paul* public works department has gone off the OCD deep end, sticking everyday street objects with labels expressing taxonomy and proper "care.
" The above bench requires real-estate ads to be applied every two years and benefits greatly from an occasional wipe-down, according to a new sign standing next to it. Caretakers should "keep [it] warm with butt" and place it "where lazy people should stand. " Oh, and it has a new name: Hortus Ortus Scaminum, a curious Latinate phrase regarding a "garden" or "park. " Similar instructions adorn a Receptoria, commonly known as a mail box, identifying it as an "endangered species" that is dormant on Sundays.
A fire hydrant (Ignis Hydr) has "deep roots" and requires not watering but "canine urination," whereas a no-parking sign (Sorbus Admonitor) should be planted "near yellow curbing" where "parking would be most convenient. " So is the city trying to help out some really dumb employees? Tatiana Plakhova: Geosphere. Extraordinary Environmental Art by Cornelia Konrads. The always-great Colossal tips us off to the work of German artist Cornelia Konrads, who creates mind-bending site specific installations that defy the laws of time, gravity and space. "I like to challenge what is supposed to be 'reliable' about reality: the laws of gravity, the solidity of walls or the ground under our feet… my installations can be seen as a filmstill, pointing backwards and forwards both temporally and spatially―an interim state, reflecting my idea of transience, passage and transformation. " Lots more to view at her site. (via Colossal) Photos courtesy of the artist Tags:
Drawing Wind. These maps, still screen saves from Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg’s animated windmap, show U.S. wind patterns and their velocity at approximately 2pm eastern standard time today. The stream of near real-time maps are constructed with data from NOAA’s National Digital Forecast Database. Similar to drawing water, agencies of algorithms have been deployed, collating and amplifying data from an extensive network of sensate and communicative stations distributed throughout U.S. national terrain. Archdaily.
Despite many opposing residents, Fremont County Board of Commissioners has unanimously agreed to approve the Temporary Use Permit for Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Over The River. This will allow the world famous artist to temporarily suspend 5.9 miles of silvery, luminous fabric panels high above the Arkansas River, along a 42-mile stretch between Salida and Cañon City in south-central Colorado. After remaining on the drawing boards for 20 years, the Over The River installation plans to begin in early 2014 with an exhibition planned for August 2015. “The Fremont County permit is essential to realizing this temporary work of art that Jeanne-Claude and I first envisioned nearly 20 years ago,” said Christo. “I am very pleased that the Commissioners have voted to approve this public work of art for Fremont County, and I want to thank them for their hard work and efforts in evaluating our application.
I am glad to be moving forward with our plans to complete Over The River.” Landscape Light Installations by Barry Underwood. A Crosswalk You Can Roll Up and Carry Away - Arts & Lifestyle. This is not good news for drivers who think they own the road. French artist Florian Rivière has created a crosswalk that rolls up into a tube, allowing pedestrians to quickly lay walking bridges over busy streets. The crosswalk is made from carpet and acrylic paint and sells for 10 EUR. Rivière has already found a couple of buyers for his perambulator-empowering invention, according to Pop Up City, although they might ask for their money back after crashing through the windshield of a speeding car, as these guerrilla crossings don't do anything to change a city's right-of-way laws. Rivière is linked to the Démocratie Créative, an art collective in the Alsatian capital of Strasbourg that's devoted to reshaping the urban environment in a more fun (or just funny) way.
Here are a few of the interventions he's been involved with over the past years. Want to suck down a brew but didn't bring your bottle opener? No worries; just use this rebranded parking meter to pop the top: Gregory Thielker: Under the Unminding Sky.