Category : art

A terrific little short on artist Christine Sun Kim by Todd Selby

Vision, a drawing machine by New York-based art duo Ryan and Trever Oakes.

MÖBIUS was created by the Melbourne, Australia-based design firm Eness.

The Character by Candice Breitz

It’s even better than you think. This week the Google Art Project debuted, giving anyone an inexhaustible, close-up view of the world’s top art museum collections. You can explore the galleries with a street-view like perspective and then zoom into each work of art, which are photographed at an average 7 billion pixels per image. Currently there are 17 museum collection available including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, the Frick Collection, National Gallery in London, Tate Britain, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Rijksmuseum, Palace of Versailles, and the Hermitage. Read more about the project here. And see a behind the scenes video of how it was done.

323 Projects has created You’ve Got Problems? We’ve Got Solutions, an exhibition that offers a practical guide for enlightened living. Actually, it’s a daily inspirational message from the artist Tucker Nee that is designed to eradicate those demons, kick start the healing process and set you on the fast track to transformation.

Jesse Chehak’s Fool’s Gold is an amazing portrait of the West. Read a brief profile of Chehak in the New York Times’ Lens.

For the past year, South African photographer Pieter Hugo has been photographing Agbogbloshie, a dump of obsolete technology in Ghana. It’s a wasteland, where people and cattle live on mountains of motherboards, monitors and discarded hard drives, is far removed from the benefits accorded by the unrelenting advances of technology. It’s a haunting and dismal glimpse at what becomes of the 50 million tons of digital waste produced each year in the Western world. The exhibit, called Permanent Error, opens tomorrow at the Michael Stevenson Gallery in Capetown, South Africa and runs until September.

It’s like a Goya monster coming over the hills or something. French design studio Helmo has made these great collages for les Pronomade(s) en Haute-Garonne, an annual street arts festival in rural France.

I really like James Cooper’s photos. He’s a photographer from Bermuda who takes some of the most funny and creative underwater photos you’ve ever seen. Check out more photos at his image blog.

The four-story townhouse where the late Richard Avedon had his studio and home for more than 30 years is now on the market for $12 million. Currently owned by Olivier Sarkozy, the half-brother of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the ground-floor studio where Avedon made his photos has been left unchanged since the Sarkozys moved in 2005, the year after Avedon’s death. And it’s a pretty interesting studio space too. In this photo you can see how the walls of the studio curve into the floor, creating a backdrop with an illusion of unlimited space.

German photographer Robert Voit has taken a terrific series of photos of what he calls New Trees, examples of cellphone antennae camouflaged as trees.

Joni Sternbach makes beautiful large-format tintype photos, especially her Surfers series.

German artist Hans Hemmert made a tank out of balloons and then kids stomped on it.

A new exhibit of the work of reclusive Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý has recently opened at ICP in New York. The handmade cameras he makes are nearly as beautiful as the photos the cameras produce.

I cut a lens out of Plexiglas with a knife, ground the lens, made a camera of wood and cardboard, and took pictures with that. Of course it worked. When I do something, it has to be precise. Truly, the lens was not precise, but maybe that’s where the art is… Then I grind the lens with various types of sandpapers, first coarse sandpaper, then finer and finer, until you can see through it beautifully. And then what? It needs to be polished, that isn’t a problem. You take toothpaste, mix it with cigarette ash, and then you polish it. And that’s what I photographed with.

See more photos of Tichý and his cameras. And go to Tichý’s website to see more of his photos.

Go along on a roadtrip with one of the world’s greatest living photographers and you’ll see it’s all about the crackers.

Photographer Matthew Albanese uses household items like grout, paprika and steel wool to build elaborate little miniature worlds to photograph. Read more about how the photos are made.

Polish photographers Szymon Roginski and Kasia Korzeniecka have created an inventive, three-dimensional way to display their photos with their o mia o project. Roginski’s night photos are pretty cool too.

There’s been a lot of attention lately around the work of photographer Robert Bergman. There are three simultaneous shows of his portraits at the National Gallery of Art, P.S.1, and the Yossi Milo gallery in New York. The haunting, closeup photos seem to emulate the more gaunt and worn of American humanity as captured by Robert Frank. But there is something piercing about everyone of them.

San Francisco photographer Alex Fradkin has made some beautiful photos of concrete bunkers ruins around the San Francisco Bay Area. Built by the U.S. military to defend against an enemy that never came., some have fallen into the Pacific Ocean and some just sit quietly as they are absorbed back into the earth.