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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Hyperculture, Whirl Crash Go! and What We Do Is Secret

Monday, August 31, 2009

Whirl Crash Go! at Locust Projects. This past Saturday three exhibitions opened in Miami’s Design District: Hyperculture by Victor Muniz at Swamp Space, Whirl Crash Go! by the TM Sisters at Locust Projects, and What We Do Is Secret by Manny Prieres at Spinello Gallery. In Hyperculture Victor Muniz offers a clue to understanding his [...]

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The Sunday Video: Pole Shift by Damon Zucconi

Sunday, August 30, 2009

This weeks Sunday Video is from the Vimeo archive of Damon Zucconi, an artist whose varied and fast-growing body of work includes browser-based projects such as Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue, video such as Untitled (SONY) as well as inter-disciplinary installations and expanded performances, all of which interrupt the marketing campaigns of everything from ideas to [...]

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Friday’s Hairy Eyeball: Bruce Lee statue unveiled, Gay Japanese Baby Head Porn bested, Jeff Koons croons over balloons

Friday, August 28, 2009

Image credit. Friday’s Hairy Eyeball is a weekly round-up of choice posts from the art blogosphere and beyond: . Triple Canopy has some characteristically enthralling articles in their sixth issue “Urbanisms: Model Cities” ArtObserved has an interview with Steve Powers in relation to the Love Letter Project in Philadelphia Art Fag City host VVORK’s essay [...]

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Hump Day Cool Finger: The Conundrum of the Name Brand Artist

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Dalek Print Chuck Taylor All Stars. Has anyone noticed how the vast majority of ‘artists’ that design products for name brand companies like Oakley, Converse and Scion seem to be spontaneously co-created as and when a new line is due to be released? Has anyone heard of these people in an art context before? Where [...]

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The Survival and Art of the Children of Gaza

Monday, August 24, 2009

Image Credit. What a pleasure (albeit a back-handed one) to see these drawings by children in Gaza. A pertinent reminder of the fundamentality of visual response, the resilience of children, and the spirit-based definition of human nature as espoused by Carl Jung, these drawings are a confirmation of the human need to document and communicate [...]

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The Sunday Video: Turning the Place Over by Richard Wilson

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Via biennial.com [with interjections by ARTLURKER in brackets] “[Apparently] the most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is [purported to be] artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, [where by] turning [a blind eye to the recent history of contemporary art] a building in [...]

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