“I was silently bombarding myself with questions: ‘Did I remember to shave my armpits?’, ‘Will people notice the freckle on my bum?’ and the big one: ‘What if I’m dyed Avatar blue forever?’ As it happens, my fears were totally unfounded; it was the best and most surreal morning of my life.”
Category: visual
This Company Doesn’t Make Forgeries Of Great Art, It Makes ‘Clones’
Artevera “promises to produce ‘clones’ of any work of art ‘with stunning accuracy’ according to their full-color brochure. … Such an audacious business plan could only originate in the state of the Home Shopping Network and the birthplace of schemes for fleecing retirees: Florida.”
Six UK Museums Have Installed Fake Paintings To See If Visitors Can Spot Them
“The secret ‘heist’ has been orchestrated by Sky Arts as part of a month-long national art competition for the new television series Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge, where the public are invited to have a go at spotting the counterfeit paintings displayed at six different galleries in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London and Manchester.”
Two Artists Begin Building Trump’s Wall, And Sending Mexico The Bill
“Covered on one side by a large campaign ad for Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, and studded with wilting fruit, flowers, cleaning items and hardware, their wall was meant to symbolize, Mr. Gleeson said, the economic effects that curtailing immigration and closing borders would have on agriculture, industry and domestic life.”
When Your Drawing Class Model Is A Sex Worker
“Squeezing in between a young female art student and a hairy guy, I picked up my pencil and waited for the sex to begin. It didn’t.”
The Wide World Of Difference In The Words “British Art Fair”
“By Sunday, the third and final day of Shepton Mallet, exhibitors outnumbered visitors and mutterings of “it’s been terrible” and complaints about the poor sales could be overheard above the clutter of unsold porcelain and glass ornaments.”
The Large-Scale Trolling Of The Berlin Biennale
“Their plan to embody and exacerbate the present (DIS calls our period ‘post-contemporary’) is a funeral with neither corpse nor mourners: the curators deliver, under the sign of a provocative ‘re-presentation’ without expertise, an ultimately inaccurate, homogenised and universalist account of what our epoch entails, such that their embodied present is virtually meaningless.”
The Bizarrely Wonderful Universe Of Subversive Garfield Hacks
“That same tabby whose suction-cupped paws once graced the windows of family station wagons across the nation has also spawned a very odd subculture — one that draws from the worlds of avant-garde art, complex mathematics, and deliberate stupidity.”
Thousands Of People Strip Naked And Paint Themselves Blue (For Art)
It was for a photographer, so being outside, naked and painted different colors of blue, was totally acceptable. [VIDEO]
A-List Art And The Value Of Architecture
While developers do not feel an absolute competitive imperative to have A-list art, many believe that great art can help make an already distinctive building an enduring one (and, one assumes, a profitable one).