What happens when you put on an art show and the artist doesn’t want to cooperate? Just do it anyway. The Triple Candie Gallery in Harlem put on a full career retrospective of the work of New York artist David Hammons without any contributions from collectors or artworks from the amazing but prickly artist himself. The gallery’s directors, Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbet, photocopied illustrations of existing, or once existing, Hammons pieces from books and magazines, and downloaded other images from the Internet. They then taped the 8
Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri takes photos from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens that makes the landscape below look like dioramas. His photos of Rome, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Shanghai make the cities look like toy replicas. More links to his photos here, here and here.
In the 1950s Harold Edgerton took photos of atomic bomb explosions with a 1/1,000,000,000 of-a-second exposure. More photos and info here.
Orange County has picked NY landscape architect Ken Smith to design the transformation of a portion of the former El Toro Marine Base into one of the largest urban parks in the country. The 1,300 acre Orange County Great Park will be larger than both Golden Gate Park and Central Park and will be the largest public works project in the country for years, says one consultant on the project. When complete, the park will connect the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park with the Cleveland National Forest, creating the largest contiguous band of open space in any U.S. metropolitan area, say park officials.
Brooklyn photographer Christopher LaMarca has taken a nice series of photos of pool hustlers at the Golden Q poolhall in Woodside Queens.
Seattle photographer Chris Jordan has taken some amazing photos showing piles of American consumption waste. And he’s now got photos online of a recent trip documenting Katrina destruction on the Gulf. Also check out an interview of Jordan with more photos of the American waste.
I was born a video game in 1986 and then I got all death metal and then, poof, I was an albatross.
Chilly winter nights I’m always rocking a gem sweater. More from Leslie Hall and the LYs.
Argentine transplant Nate Williams is drawing up some great illustrations.
Developer Michael Young has come up with AP news by Google Map, a mix of the AP
More great mirrors from New York Artist Daniel Rozin. The Circles Mirror has 900 overlapping circles connected to a motor, computer, and a video camera. See the Circles Mirror video (the best part, with human interaction, is near the end).
A group of filesharers in Sweden have started a new political party which hopes to decriminalize filesharing and kill a lot of the country’s intellectual property laws. Piratpartiet (in Swedish) hopes to get 4% of the vote in this fall’s parliament.
Quiet little photos of Russian from early in the last century in Quiet Resistance: Russian Pictorial Photography, 1900
Photos of a Stephen Shore’s 1970s roadtrips across the U.S. They were a part of The Biographical Landscape exhibit this fall at the UCLA Hammer Museum. You can see a few more photos on the website of the Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver, B.C. where the show is up until later this month.
Omaha by Minneapolis band Tapes ‘n Tapes. More songs here.
There are a few nice SF Bay Area podcasts about art out there. KQED’s Gallery Crawl is a monthly video visit to area galleries. And both the deYoung Museum and SF MoMA have audio podcasts about current exhibitions. You can even walk through the Chuch Close and Kiki Smith exhibits as the artists talk about their work.
New York artist Tara Donovan makes extraordinary sculptures out of the most ordinary materials. Some of her sculptures become room-sized installations made of just Styrofoam cups, paper plates, plastic drinking straws, wooden toothpicks, fishing line, stacked disks of dried Elmer’s glue. See more at the Ace Gallery in L.A.
