New Multi-story Mural by RONE in Berlin Street artist RONE recently completed work on this great five-story mural on building facade at Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. The artist is known for straddling the line between beauty and decay by creating large-scale depictions of idealized portraits that appear perfectly composed at a distance, but a closer inspection reveals signs of deterioration and imperfection. You can see more photos of this piece over on photographer Henrik Haven’s Tumblr and see more work by RONE here. All photos courtesy Henrik Haven. Update: According to Complex the face used in his latest piece is that of fashion model Teresa Oman as a part of Project M with Strychnin Gallery.
Were the Cave Paintings Painted by Women? | Picture This Art history (and all history, for that matter) has shortchanged women for a long time. A recent article about the authorship of the earliest cave paintings—the earliest images made by human beings—sets the discrimination clock back tens of thousands of years. Archaeologist Dean Snow studied the hand prints found in caves containing prehistoric artwork and found that 75% of the handprints were those of women. According to British biologist John Manning, women usually have ring and index fingers that are approximately the same length, whereas men usually have ring fingers longer than their index fingers. For the study published in the journal American Antiquity, Snow studied hundreds of hand stencils, but focused on the 32 clearest from the Cuevas de El Castillo in Spain and from the Pech Merle caves and the Caves of Gargas in France. [Image: Cueva de las Manos (“Cave of the Hands”), ca. 7,000 BC.
Top 10 Most Creative and Controversial Banksy Pieces in NYC 10) October 16th (All city - McDonalds) For the whole month of October, Banksy took over the streets of New York City with his Better Out Than In project, leaving his mark in different areas every single day. Though some of his graffiti has been painted over and his installations taken down, we're lucky enough to live in an age where almost everything is documented and we can take a look back on the temporary works and continue to appreciate them. While the elusive artist was able to spend most of his 31-day public residency in the Big Apple spreading whimsy with his sense of humor, there were also days when he touched on controversial subjects. In either case, he never ceased to approach his subjects with creativity. Top photo: A fibreglass replica of Ronald McDonald having his shoes shined by a real live boy. 9) October 1st (Manhattan) Stencils of two boys playfully interacting with an anti-graffiti sign. 8) October 15th (Tribeca) 7) October 29th (23rd Street) 6) October 2nd (Westside)
Boris Mikhailov Born in 1938, Kharkov, former USSR Lives and works in Berlin and Kharkov. 2012Time is Out of Joint, Berlinischer Galerie Triptychs, Sprovieri Gallery, London Salt Lake, La criee centre d’art contemporain, Rennes 2011Case History, MoMa, New York, NY Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany 20101989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?,Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria 1989. 2009Dusk, Deweer Gallery, Belgium Yesterday’s Sandwich – 1960/70 (Space 2 – Loft 19), Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, Paris, France 2008The Wedding, Sprovieri Progetti, London, UK Historical Insinuations, Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts at Moscow Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia 2007Banzai! 2006Yesterday’s Sandwich, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan 2003Boris Mikhailov: private Freuden, lastende Langeweile, öffentlicher Zerfall, eine Retrospektive, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Germany Cambrige Album, Duke University, USA 1998Boris Mikhailov, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland Boris Mikhailov. 2003Witness. 2002Sand in der Vaseline.
GALLERIES “In these L.A. pictures, I was drawn to certain light and colors, spaces, vernacular architecture, and automobiles that, to me, were characteristic of the place in a way that resonated with how I was feeling and the photographic agenda I had.” – Adam Bartos (All rights reserved. Images @ Adam Bartos and courtesy […] New Orleans, Louisiana and environs. ASX CHANNEL: ANDY WARHOL (All images @ Andy Warhol Foundation) ASX CHANNEL: ANTHONY HERNANDEZ (All images @ and Anthony Hernandez) Araki’s Chiro, Yoko, Death and the Baring of a Soul In Sentimental Journey and later in Winter Journey Araki documented both the intimate and the mundane from his honeymoon and his wife’s terminal battle with cancer. (All images @ Arthur Tress) ASX CHANNEL: ASGER CARLSEN (All images @ Asger Carlsen) August Sander’s People of the 20th Century Berenice Abbott can be considered the photographer of New York City. (All images @ Bill Burke) ASX CHANNEL: BILL OWENS (Images © Bill Owens) (All images @ Billy Monk Estate)
texts Human Being Journal This is an archive of an article in Human Being Journal #5. Text by Tag Christof, Photography by Clement Pascal. In the early 1980s, Sherrie Levine gained notoriety for her groundbreaking exhibition After Walker Evans. She had photographed a number of the FSA master’s Great Depression-era photographs (notably all taken before she was born in 1947) and then hung and presented them, in all seriousness, as her original work. Fast forward a few decades and art history has sided squarely with Levine. (More...) Time Time is absolute, the experience of time varies. Some days fly by and some days drag on forever. It’s our personal perception of time that we have to live with. The irony of efficiency Someone finds a trick to simplify a task. Once everyone starts using the same trick, there is no time to relax any more. Texts from Spheres book (Random Thoughts) This is a selection of texts from my Spheres book, in collaboration with Philippe Karrer. (More...) A life without objects
George Tooker - Artists - DC Moore Gallery Born in Brooklyn in August 1920, George Tooker grew up in Bellport, a town on the south shore of Long Island. At age seven, he began taking painting lessons with Malcolm Fraser, a professional artist and family friend who had studied at the Académie Julian and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1938, Tooker graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and, four years later, from Harvard University, where he majored in English literature. He did not take any fine art courses in college, but did have the opportunity to study late medieval and early Renaissance painting for the first time at the Fogg Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Upon graduating in 1942, Tooker enlisted in the Marine Corps. Tooker moved from his family’s home in Brooklyn to an apartment on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village in 1945. In order to escape the harsh Vermont weather, Tooker and Christopher began spending winters in Spain. Download PDF
Felicien Rops : History of Erotic Art Felicien Rops (1833 - 1898) was a Belgian artist who spent most of his life in Paris. He worked in many mediums and was also a master printmaker utilizing various technique. He was originally trained in lithography by the University of Brussels, but went on to produces engravings and etchings as well. He was one of the first modern etchers to revive the neglected medium of soft-ground etching, in which the etching ground is melted into and mixed with tallow, producing the effect of lines drawn with a soft pencil or chalk. He also founded the International Society of Etchers and was for a time the vice president of the Free Society of Fine Arts in Brussels. Rops was originally noticed for the engraving produced a weekly satirical journal called "Uylenspiegel. Many of Rops’s etchings are deeply erotic and depict an imaginary underworld or subjects of social decadence.
The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) Not long ago, I went over to the Getty to see the J. Paul Getty Trust’s President and CEO James Cuno in live conversation with Pico Iyer, one of his favorite writers as well as one of mine. Cuno, himself the author of books like Whose Culture? “Why open content? Related Content: 40,000 Artworks from 250 Museums, Now Viewable for Free at the Redesigned Google Art Project LA County Museum Makes 20,000 Artistic Images Available for Free Download The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art Art.sy Rolls Out Huge Archive of Fine-Art Images and an Intelligent Art Appreciation Guide Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Online
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