by | Apr 1, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from U.S. News & World Report Pentagon Art: $600,000 Gurgling Toad Sculpture By PAUL BEDARD A $600,000 frog sculpture that lights up, gurgles “sounds of nature” and carries a 10-foot fairy girl on its back could soon be greeting Defense Department...
by | Mar 31, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art
from the National Post The art of surprise Brett Gundlock / National Post Does it look like they’re joking? From left: Don McKellar, director Andrew Burashko and Nicholas Campbell restage Orson Welles’ 1938 aliens attack radio drama/elaborate hoax, War of the Worlds....
by | Mar 30, 2011 | Culture Music Art
from The Huffington Post Academia: James Franco’s Best Work of Performance Art by Kia Makarechi – Editor, AOL No one can call James Franco unambitious. From attending six schools to continuing to film movies and TV, to working sporadically as a...
by | Mar 29, 2011 | Culture Music Art
from ARTINFO Porn As Performance Art?: Sasha Grey Releases “Neu Sex,” Her First Book of Art Photography Courtesy of the artist and VICE Books NEW YORK—Pornography has long been an au courant subject for contemporary art — see John Currin, Marilyn Minter,...
by | Mar 27, 2011 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from The Los Angeles Times L.A. THEN AND NOW Southern California’s great citrus had its crate advertising For decades, citrus growers labeled their wooden crates with colorful brand names and images, letting consumers know that the oranges, lemons and grapefruit...
by | Mar 25, 2011 | Culture Music Art
from ARTINFO Damon Johnson “The Beautiful Chaos: A Style Installation” at Gallery Bar, through March 24, culturally-stimulating soirée March 23, 7-10 p.m., 120 Orchard Street, gallerybarnyc.com Last week Gallery Bar, the Lower East Side hangout and art...