GOD & COUNTRY : STORIE PARIS (MONTPARNASSE)

Installation views of GOD & COUNTRY at STORIE PARIS, 20 Rue Delambre 75014 (Montparnasse). Exhibition 30 August - 30 September, opening 1 September 2011.  Web: STORIE PARIS.  For all information on prices, please contact STORIE director, Fiona Cameron.

MATTHEW ROSE STUDIO PARIS FRANCE.

PROJECTIVE CITY IN PARIS

Projective City is a new curatorial project devoted in part to bringing the work of exceptional emerging artists from New York to Paris through both conventional and experimental exhibitions, and also to developing unusual projects that blur the lines between cultural producers and consumers. This campaign is for the support of four exhibitions taking place in the fall of 2011 (now!).

Syrian gunmen break artist's hands as 'warning'

BEIRUT (AP) — A renowned political cartoonist whose drawings expressed Syrians' frustrated hopes for change was grabbed after he left his studio early Thursday and beaten by masked gunmen who broke his hands and dumped him on a road outside Damascus.

One of Syria's most famous artists, Ali Ferzat, 60, (pictured here), earned international recognition and the respect of many Arabs with stinging caricatures that infuriated dictators including Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Libya's Moammar Gadhafi and, particularly in recent months, Syria's autocratic Assad family.

He lay badly bruised in a hospital bed Thursday evening with his hands swathed in bandages, a stark reminder that no Syrian remains immune to a brutal crackdown on a five-month anti-government uprising.

Ferzat remembers the gunmen telling him that "this is just a warning," as they beat him, a relative told The Associated Press.

"We will break your hands so that you'll stop drawing," the masked men said, according to the relative, who spoke anonymously for fear of retaliation.

Before inheriting Syria's presidency from his father in 2000, Bashar Assad, a British-trained eye doctor, used to visit Ferzat's exhibitions and offer encouraging words, the artist has said.
When the new president opened Syria to reforms, Ferzat was allowed to publish the country's first private newspaper in decades, a satirical weekly called The Lamplighter.

The paper was an instant hit, with copies of each issue selling out a few hours after hitting the stands. It was soon shut down, however, as Assad began cracking down on dissent and jailing critics after the brief, heady period known as the Damascus Spring quickly lost steam.

Ferzat became a vehement critic of the regime, particularly after the military launched a brutal crackdown on the country's protest movement.

Human rights groups said Assad's forces have killed more than 2,000 people since the uprising against his autocratic rule erupted in mid-March, touched off by the wave of revolutions sweeping the Arab world.

An endearing figure with a bushy gray beard, Ferzat drew cartoons about the uprising and posted the illustrations on his private website, providing comic relief to many Syrians who were unable to follow his work in local newspapers because of a ban on his drawings.

His illustrations grew bolder in recent months, with some of his cartoons directly criticizing Assad, even through caricatures of the president are forbidden in Syria.

This week, he published a cartoon showing Assad with a packed suitcase, frantically hitching a ride with a fleeing Gadhafi. Another drawing showed dictators walking a long red carpet that leads them, in the end, to a dustbin.

The response was swift.

Ferzat, who usually works late into the night, left his studio at 4 a.m. Thursday, but a jeep with tinted windows quickly cut him off, according to the relative. Four masked gunmen then dragged him out of his car, bundled him into the jeep and drove him to the airport road just outside Damascus, beating him and making threats all the while.

The men then singed the artist's beard, put a bag over his head and dumped him on the side of the road.

The Facebook page of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus described it as a "government-sponsored, targeted, brutal attack."

The Obama administration, which has called for Assad to step down, said the cartoonist's beating was deplorable.

"They broke his hands in the most disgusting and deplorable way to send a message," said U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. "It's not only Ali Ferzat that we're worried about. The regime has also locked up a number of other prominent dissidents to send a message."

Assad's crackdown has not spared other Syrian intellectuals and artists who dared to voice criticism. A group of intellectuals and artists, including Syrian actress May Skaff, were rounded up and jailed for a week last month after holding a protest in Damascus.

Damascus-based activist and film producer Shadi Abu Fakher went missing on July 23 and has not been heard of since.

Ferzat, however, is the most famous victim of the repression to date. He had been encouraging other Syrian artists to side with the protesters, even publishing on his website a "List of Shame" that included names of those who were on the side of the regime.

"We were a group of reformers in the country, and suddenly, the doors of hell opened on us. It was a huge disappointment," Ferzat told the AP earlier this month in a phone interview.

The timing of the attack strongly suggests Ferzat's attackers knew his unusual working hours and had been tracking him. Ferzat said his day starts at 5 p.m.

In the telephone interview, he said he was full of hope that the Syrian revolution would bring about the change fervently desired by so many Syrians.

"There are two things in this life that cannot be crushed — the will of God and the will of the people," he said.

Asked if he fears arrest because of his drawings, he said: "I have killed the policeman in my head."

After news of Ferzat's attack broke Thursday, online social networking sites exploded with angry postings.

"Assad's Syria is the burial ground of talent," read a posting on Twitter.

"Ali Ferzat, your innovation will stand in the face of their cowardice and hate," wrote Suheir Atassi, a prominent Syrian pro-democracy activist.

Soon after the attack, his website where he published his cartoons and satirical commentary was taken down. "This account has been suspended," reads a message on the website, http://www.ali-ferzat.com/.

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Associated Press writer Matthew Lee contributed to this report from Washington.

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Zeina Karam can be reached on http://twitter.com/zkaram

SARA CONTI : STICK 'EM UPS IN SAINT-GHISLAIN (B)

Sara Conti has had a busy summer, covering the unused, unseen walls of an abandoned Saint-Ghislain in Belgium with her irreverent characters vomiting, swimming, talking underwater, screaming, buzzing, bleeding and even sometimes (gasp) having what appears to be sex. Sara uses large "autocollants" – simple colored paper that is xeroxed; she then pastes with traditional wallpaper glue.

These newest works are expansive and bring together her simple matryoshka or babushka, Russian nesting dolls into dynamic and very weird plays of love and lust, solitude and electricity (life currents?).  We love them.  As for the sex, you'l have to figure out where and how.  Visit Sara's site: SARACADABRA.

GOD & COUNTRY

Opening in Paris, Thursday September 1, 2011 at STORIE, 20 RUE DELAMBRE 75014 Paris.

DESIGN: MATTHEW ROSE
DOWNLOAD POSTER (PDF): GOD & COUNTRY

RIVER VIEW: RUSSELL STEINERT'S LANDSCAPE PRINTS

River View, 2011, aquatint-etching on paper, 10 x 13 inches, $150 (edition of 5)

Russell Steinert has just released two small-editioned, hand-pulled aquatint etchings.  Steinert is known for his neo-classical, but surreal dreamscapes in oil on canvas. These prints issue from that sensibility.

The Brooklyn, New York-based artist writes: "We just took the dust cover off our Charles Brand press in the garage.  The first two efforts: River View and Two Trees."  Take a look : Russell Steinert Website.

Cities of the World Typecast : Via Francophilia

Enjoy these new typographic designers for the world's cities: From Francophilia.

John Himmelfarb: Driven

John Himmelfarb talks about his trucks, painting and what they mean for all of us. The artist has actually produced a full-sized truck sculpture that looks like it just drove out of one of his monumental truck paintings. Must see: Click here to watch the 5 minute video.

The famed Chicago artist has also installed his truck paintings along a Chicago viaduct underpass and put together a massive show of his fantasic four-wheeled monsters at the Chicago Cultural Center.  Gorgeous work.  See the review here: DRIVEN.

Also see John Himmelfarb's website.

SKYPE : THE EARLY DAYS

The earliest inkling of SKYPEness... Thanks to artist Daniela Akerblom for this very cool heads up. Visit her web site here: http://www.dakerblom.com.

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London Walks!

Joanna Walsh, aka BADAUDE, the itinerant blogger and artist of many things French has taken her pen for a walk in London and, hey! at the Tate Modern. 

The book is an alternative walking guide to London.  "You travel through the city by atmosphere rather than by the souvenir shops," she says. "Although there are still a few pubs in there!"  Buy it direct from the Tate Modern or in Paris at Shakespeare & Company.  It's a steal at 8,99 Pounds or 10 Euros. Click to enlarge the photos.

From the book sale site:

London is best appreciated on foot. Packed with quirky observations and out-of-the-way treasures, this unique, hand-drawn guide reveals the charms of a city waiting for those ready to stop and look.

Badaude's intricate and witty drawings not only capture the unique architecture and atmosphere of London's streets, but also the way its inhabitants talk, dress and behave. With twenty-one suggested walks, three bus routes and one boat trip, London Walks! is the perfect companion for every urban explorer.

Badaude writes and illustrates a weekly column in the Times and her work appears regularly in the Guardian and The Idler. She has exhibited at the Port Eliot Festival, Shakespeare and Company and the Wellcome Collection.

MICHELE BACHMANN: THE NEXT US PRESIDENT ?

We hope not.

Lucien Freud 1923 -2011

British painter, grandson of Sigmund Freud, died this week.  See the article on theartblog.org. Photo of the artist in his London studio.

East Enders State of Mind: Catching Up With Anglo Hysteria

Brits and Americans have had a long-running obsession with the BBC show EastEnders. 

Larry Jaffee, author and publisher of The Walford Gazette puts these folks on couch for an analytical session that gets to the root of the matter. 

"It's escapism," says Jaffee.  "...but it takes place in a zone where neighbors actually talk to each other.  Yes, there's sex, drugs and everything you might imagine but there's a sophistication about it in the way reality shows are sophistication.  That's the working class in all its glory.  And, it's ours."

Purchase the book, Walford State of Mind on Amazon.  (Also in a Kindle format).

From the publisher's release on the book and its author:

Walford State of Mind: EastEnders As Reported By The Walford Gazette is an irreverent new book that tells the story of the popular BBC series from the perspective of a quarterly fanzine.

 
The new book (ISBN: 978-0-615-42920-5) features the best of the Walford Gazette’s first 18 years and 72 issues, including contributions from Radio Times’ Andrew Collins (who tells what it's like to be an EastEnders scriptwriter; and renown musician/author Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group), who tells how EastEnders saved his marriage, twice!

Walford State of Mind features analysis of the series’ best episodes and characters, and is the follow-up to Albert Square & Me: The Actors of EastEnders, featuring 52 exclusive interviews with current and past cast members (ISBN: 978-0-615-41015-9). 

Editor & Publisher Larry Jaffee tells: • how he was banned from the studio for three years for publishing photos in the 'Walford Gazette' under the headline 'ALBERT SQUARE TRESPASSER!" of an American woman who talked her way onto the set;
 
• how he conversed with Rupert Murdoch on why News Corp. should acquire the US rights to EastEnders when BBC America cancelled it;
 
• how he encouraged readers to send teabags to the president of BBC America when he told an Associated Press that “The joke around the office is the lesson from [EastEnders] is `Life is miserable and then you die.'"

“The publisher of the Walford Gazette, Larry Jaffee, is the best friend on this side of the Atlantic that EastEnders has ever had, a tireless evangelist for the show fighting for its availability on public television and cable despite setback after setback,” wrote Vanity Fair columnist James Wolcott in his blog.   

Walford State of Mind is available on Amazon.com, bookstores everywhere through Ingram, and www.wgazette.com           

YANA BYSTROVA: PARIS EN FLEURS

Yana Bystrova is giving new meaning to plein aire painting these days by French frying the great outdoors in a kind of liquid neon. The world should look this cool. The Paris-based, Kiev-born artist walks out into her own Strawberry Fields and serves up these fertile lands in a very hot juice. The results are graphic, hard-edged works that glow with an intensity that would have easily buzzed Van Gogh during his famous swoon in Arles.

A visit to Yana's Marais studio is a bit like an acid trip stoned on summer sunshine and lavender loaded breezes. Vibrating flowers, rolling and tilled fields populate the two-level loft creating open windows onto scintillating landscapes.

Newer works on round canvases fill the lower area, along with large Rorschach-test inspired canvases (pictured above) that combine abstract patterns with anagrams. Everything spills over in pop color, intimating seemingly drug-drenched puzzles that double as interior psych sessions. These canvases are a sweet industrial magic and light show for high IQs looking for a work out, a stroll through the magic mushroom kingdom.

But these are self-conscious art works, objects in and of themselves.  And Yana has long aimed at this kind of visual poetry, without the aid of any kind of hallucinogens.

The works also borrow from a range of printing notions and several of these works feel like they've been silkscreened or produced using woodblock printing. But no, says Yana, they are all done in "the middle of some field by my own hand."

These canvases typically sell for between 1000 and 3000 euros. You can contact the artist directly if you'd like to arrange a visit: Yana Bystrova Website.

Yana's electric landscares are currently on view in Champagne, France from 8 - 28 July in a group exhibition with the controversial theme of : Revolt of the Wine Growers.  Well it's actually Centenaire de la Révolte des Vignerons 1911 - 2011.  To visit: Coopérative Les Coteaux du Landion 10200 Meurville, France.

MONEY & WARHOL & MONEY

Cy Twombly 1928-2011

Randy Kennedy writing in The New York Times on the idiosyncratic painter who had lived and worked in Rome since 1957 : "But Mr. Twombly, a tall, rangy Virginian who once practiced drawing in the dark to make his lines less purposeful, steadfastly followed his own program and looked to his own muses: often literary ones like Catullus, Rumi, Pound and Rilke. He seemed to welcome the privacy that came with unpopularity."

The New York Times Obit :  American Artist Who Scribbled a Unique Path
Photo of Cy Twombly : CS GRAPHI

On Billboards : TOO MUCH by Andrew Willett

From the global billboard art project ART MOVES.  The 2011 edition is about: Reality or Fiction?

THE ILLUSIONISTS: BY ELENA ROSSINI

The Illusionists is a feature-length documentary about the commoditization of the body and the marketing of unattainable beauty around the world.  (See the Kickstarter Page).

The film will explore the influence that corporations have on our perceptions of ourselves, showing how mass media, advertising and several industries manipulate people's insecurities about their bodies for profit.

The preoccupation with physical beauty is as old as time; what is different today is the central role that the pursuit of the perfect body has taken. It has become our new religion. Everyone is affected: boys, girls, women and men from Los Angeles to Tokyo, passing via Mumbai.

Almost 50 years ago, French philosopher Guy Debord wrote The Society of the Spectacle. In the book, he spoke about a consumer society obsessed with and drugged by spectacular images. It was eerily prophetic. The central importance that appearance has taken in our world is at the core of this film.

ELENA ROSSINI (writer, director & producer)
http://www.elenarossini.com

BABBLERS 2011

CLICK HERE FOR MORE BABBLERS.

Corrosion : Gavin Harrison

British fashion photographer and artist Gavin Harrison has just released his first fine art pigment print, Corrosion.  The print is 40 cm x 50 cm and printed by Mariela Cadiz in association with Burning Boy Press onto heavy German Etching paper using archival inks process. The edition is limited to 50, each signed, numbered and dated by Harrison.

Gavin, a professional illustrator and fashion photographer, says he fully embraced the freedom of self publishing and used all his skills to produce a rich, highly detailed work about portraiture and time. "I wanted to make this print for myself," he says. "For my own walls.  And to make something something that would work off vintage furnishings and contemporary design. A piece that brought together a collection of surfaces to reflect the world that I live in...and maybe some other people as well."

The artist pulled together a number of different media like aged paper, flaking iron, and a stenciled wall – oxidation in all its forms – and something iconic and British: The school boy photograph from the early 20th century.  The effect is nostalgic – an essay on decay, loss, memory and in the end, civilization. The result is dark but humorous and visually compelling.

Corrosion is available directly from Gavin Harrison for £120.00.  You can order the work here.

Gavin has long worked as a photographer for numerous fashion and editorial projects in the UK and internationally. His portraits of both men and women, sometimes whimsically attired and posed, are humorous, scintillating and extremely sexy.

See more of Gavin Harrison's work: http://gharrisonphotography.com/ 

Shop: http://gavinhemporium.bigcartel.com/
Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ukfoto
Blog: http://theeloquenceofwantoncuriosity.blogspot.com/

Burning Boy Press Paris produces limited edition fine art pigment prints for artists, photographers and designers in Paris.  We work with the finest technology and the highest quality papers.  We are also tri-lingual: English, French and Spanish.  Contact, click here.

LEARN TO SPEAK FRENCH WITH ONE WORD

From: THE FRANCOPHILIA GAZETTE

Strange Positioning Systems Live From Zagreb, Croatia : Alexander Viscio's Inside Verbal Seed

SPS is launching its live stream from Zagreb : Alexander Viscio's Inside Verbal Seed in collaboration with Galeria Michaela Stock, Vienna and Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti Zagreb.  Live feed/stream: Thursday June 9th @ 1pm - EST/US.

Please see the live stream here: http://strangepositioningsystems.org/

BASEBALL STAMPS: RUBENS ROUNDING THIRD

 

Matthew Rose's Rubens Rounding Third, a unique art idea in a limited edition, signed and numbered print. These prints are produced on gummed paper, perforated and in an edition of 1000.  Size: 29.6 cm x 40.7 cm (11½ by 16 inches).  

SKIN DEEP : PARIS TATOO - AURELIE PRISSETTE AT KO-KEN GALERIE JUNE 2 THRU 30, 2011

Aurélie Prissette doesn't have a single tattoo on her (she says) but she's hooked on French people who do.

"I've taken hundreds of photographs of people and their tattoos – in their work places, the tattoo parlors, their homes – even their bathtubs. Skin, for these people is about performance, a sensual one, a private one." 

Above: "Viva Las Vegas," silver gelatin print (tirage argentique).

Aurélie presents her works at Kö-Ken Galerie, opening Thursday June 2, in an exhibition on the theme of "SKIN."  Two other artists, El Patman and David Law, touch upon fashion and flesh in this collective exhibition.

Address: Address: 107 rue des Couronnes, 75020 Paris - 01 43 58 68 65. Through June 30. The gallery is open every day from 3 PM - 8 PM.

To see more of Aurélie's photographs, click to visit her web site.

No Refunds From End Of The World Prophet Harold Camping. World Continues To Continue.

I LOVE YOU YOU'RE PERFECT (ALIEN)

From The Defense D'Afficher Project
Design: Benoit David
Download: I LOVE YOU YOU'RE PERFECT (ALIEN)

CALL FOR SHOES!

Artist seeking shoes for large scale sculpture. Above: CG mock up for untitled shoe pyre sculpture.

Residency Unlimited has selected Melissa A. Calderon to launch the new community based program Residency Unlimited at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education.

Her project is focused on shoes.

Bronx-based, multimedia artist Melissa A. Calderon is seeking donations of old shoes to be included in a large scale sculpture.  

The artist is looking specifically for women's high heel or work/dress shoes - dressy flats are acceptable as well. She's looking for 500 pairs.

This work will be done in collaboration with the students at Casita Maria during the artist's residency. The work will then be on exhibit this fall at Hunter College's new Spanish Harlem gallery in its inaugural exhibition curated by Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell and Curator Susana Torruella Leval.

For Drop Off Info & To Contact the Artist:
Melissa A. Calderon
www.melissacalderon.com
914.246.1851
melissaacalderon@gmail.com

Clare Strand: Sleight

Clare Strand, Girl in Two Halves, 2008, fibre based lambda print, 144 × 150 cm

British artist Clare Strand opens Sleight at Brancolini Grimaldi in London Thursday May 26, 2011. the artist is interested in the paranormal, the magical and of course, sleight of hand. 

The exhibition will display for the first time the installation 'Ten Least Most Wanted' - a wry arrangement of ten vernacular images, chosen by Strand from her research scrapbooks. Also included is her new series Skirts, which features ten mysterious portraits of covered tables that invoke a feeling of concealment and denial.

Brancolini Grimaldi  43-44 Albemarle Street   London W1S 4JJ  T  + 44 (0) 207 493 5721

New York City 1985 By Corinne Bunzl

Paris-based photographer, Corinne Bunzl, recently exhibited a number of her black and white prints from New York City, circa 1980s at the Studio Harcourt benefit for Cancer Research in Paris.  This is one of her works – four good friends, working cigars and the side walk on the Lower East Side.  It sold along with several others of her prints.  This print is in an edition of 7.  Enquiries: Contact Corinne Bunzl.

Bin Laden Watches Himself On TV

It's clearly time for a little reflection for the global terrorist, who is reviewing his recent tee vee appearances and perhaps seeing how he might improve his image. He's already dyed the beard black and when on camera dons the pastel-colored robes that bring out the message of peace in his blood thirsty rants.

Article: Bin Laden's Videos.

Kate & Will By Mario Testino

When this photograph was first published on the net, a thread began with the question: "Why no nose rings?"

Taken by famed Kate Moss photo biographer Mario Testino, you have to give him credit for keeping it simple and give the Palace credit for not hiring Jurgen Teller.

The image was produced for the people, of course – an official portrait. Cropped on top and mid-chest, black and white, all smiles, white shirts (both open) the photograph portends equality (between William and Kate), simplicity, honesty and a bit of retro: The 1980s.  It's like they are greeting you at the door. Or at a party.  And there's a subtle sense that you or they are on drugs. They seem really happy to see you and reflect your joy at seeing them. 

Missing: Ai Weiwei

"The lives of artists are more fragile than their creations." – Salman Rushdie, writing in The New York Times.

LOVE LETTER FROM PARIS

Ignatz loved Krazy Kat and Krazy loved getting the love kabosh with bricks. Would the French love bricks as much? Courtesy Estate of George Herriman.

READ LOVE LETTER FROM PARIS: THE ART BLOG.

SLUT FOR LIFE & OTHER STORIES

MORE STORIES, CLICK HERE.

FRANTICHAM: A LOVE STORY (TWO LOST SEOULS)

Short documentary about the artists, book makers and publishers Antic Ham and Francis Van Maele. Some of their site are below.

http://www.redfoxpress.com
http://www.anticham.com
http://www.anticham.blogspot.com
http://www.franticham.blogspot.com

GET REEL

TAKE ONE: COMMUNISM

NOT YOUR MOTHER'S GROUPON.

TAKE ONE COMMUNISM.

CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE WORKS FROM THE PROJECT DEFENSE D'AFFICHER.

Ashely : New Paintings At Galerie Claude Legrand Paris

Ashley Ashford-Brown, an English painter who has long lived and worked in Ivry-Sur-Seine, France is exhibiting some of his most recent works – large canvases that echo ancient Celtic poems and iconography. The artist's work can be seen at: Galerie Claude Legrand, 49 Rue de Seine, 75006 Paris. March 31 - April 20, 2011.  (Click the invitation to enlarge).

We took the photo above at Ashley's studio in Ivry-Sur-Seine, in front of one of his massive canvases, during the annual portes ouvertes.  See see more of the artists work, click: Ashley Ashford-Brown.

New & Improved: Jumbo-Sized Viagra

New & Improved: Jumbo-sized 6-liter bottle of Viagra (Only You), 2011 by MATTHEW ROSE.  Indeed: Six ways to have fun, on view at La Cave des Papilles, Paris. 

European Spiritual Film Festival Paris: March 25 - 27

Mei Ling, an idle young Chinese woman, lives alone in her flat, waiting for her lover. One day, she finds a little octopus in the kitchen sink. She decides to adopt it to avoid boredom. The octopus grows up...

Mei Ling by Stephanie Lansaque and Francois Leroy, is an animated film, produced in France (2009), and runs 15 minutes.  It is one of hundreds of films entered into the European Spiritual Film Festival, held in Paris – and on the Internet.  The final selections will be held in Paris from March 26th to 27th, 2011.

For the full program see: EUROPEAN SPIRITUAL FILM FESTIVAL.

Japanese Girl : Defense d'Afficher Project

Japanese Girl by One Little Bird, Leanda, a British artist, for the DEFENSE D'AFFICHER PROJECT.

Leanda is also selling signed prints to help support the people of Japan during this difficult time.

Download Japanese Girl and see other works from the DEFENSE D'AFFICHER PROJECT.

Wolfe Contemporary By Alexis Mackenzie

Alexis Mackenzie produced this hand-cut collage on antique paper – "Wolfe Contemporary", 2011 – for the Wolfe Contemporary art gallery in San Francisco.  Look closely.

FluxFest Chicago

Cecil Touchon, Director, The Ontological Museum, directed this photograph of participants of FluxFest Chicago, held recently in Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

Many participants of this festival also participated in and hosted ABAD exhibitions. The Fluxfest was spearheaded by artist Keith Buchholz. Click the photo to enlarge full screen. (It's a fisheye!). PHOTO © 2011 CECIL TOUCHON.

FLUXUS: ENGLISH, HEBREW, ARABIC

GENERAL IDEA: 1969 - 1994

AA Bronson's Website with the history of the art trio.

STEPHEN COLBERT'S ART SPEAK

Give it a minute, then listen carefully. Stephen Colbert deconstructs art speak in a way that is thrilling, accurate and a piece of performance art.

Julie Sadler's: MagikGlasses

The wonderful kinetically kollaged world of Julie Sadler: MagikGlasses.

See her very animated Aviaria: Singing birds angling for your attention.

Cutting Edges: James Gallagher On Collage

GESTALTEN's new book CUTTING EDGES, a big fat book on contemporary collage, edited by James Gallagher.  Price: €39,90 | $60,00 | £37,50.

Cutting Edges documents the new heyday of collage in current art and visual culture. Today’s artists, illustrators, and designers are increasingly drawn to this artistic technique by the challenges of seamlessly melding traditional craftsmanship with skilled computer montage. They are not only composing a wide variety of visual elements, but are also deliberately omitting, deleting, and destroying them. This book is an inspiring collection of these unique examples of contemporary collage.

Artists include: Clara Mata, Cless, Jelle Martens, Matthew Rose, Paul Burgess, Dani Sanchis, David Plunkert, Molokid, Eduardo Recife, Lisa Eisenberg, Aprile Elcich, David Wallace, Free Fred, Max-o-Matic and many many other collage artists working across the planet.   MORE INFO HERE.

YOU LIKE THIS

This will probably get me in trouble.

Obviously, the combination of sex, underwear and Facebook is what makes Store Front Windows interesting, no? I understand. I'm sorry. This is a terrible post.

See more of this terrible stuff :
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FLUXFACE IN SPACE

This thing recently took off: FLUXFACE IN SPACE.