ARTIST: Matthew Day Jackson
Matthew Day Jackson
Dance of Destruction (featuring "Lady Liberty" as Shiva, Wovako, Eleanor, and Jim Jones)
(Detail)
2005
Posters, stickers, photographs, acrylic, push pins & needlepoint
approx. 25 feet long, dimensions variable
ARTIST: Adam Cvijanovic
Adam Cvijanovic
Love Poem (10 minutes after the end of gravity)
2005
flashe and house paint on tyvek
14 x 75'
ARTIST: Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Three Studies for Self Portrait
1976
In 1999 Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for Self-Portrait’’ (1976) sold for $2.9 million at Christie’s London. In 2005 it went for $5.1 million at Sotheby’s New York. Now it is expected to sell for between $25 million and $35 million at Christie’s New York. ARTICLE in NY Times.
ARTIST: Josef Bolf
Josef Bolf
Untitled (from the Schoolchildren series)
2007
Ink on Paper
70 x 100 cm
Josef Bolf
Kid Goat
2007
Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
99 x 74 cm
Untitled (from the Schoolchildren series)
2007
Ink on Paper
70 x 100 cm
Josef Bolf
Kid Goat
2007
Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
99 x 74 cm
Frozen Grand Central
Over half a million commuters hurry through New York City's Grand Central Station each day, but on a cold Saturday afternoon not long ago, all of that came to a sudden and mysterious halt. Two hundred people froze in place at the exact same second, for five full minutes. As together they took this grand and wondrous pause, those around them couldn't help but pause and wonder themselves.
For more information visit: Improv Everywhere
For more information visit: Improv Everywhere
Article: artists = teachers
COPENHAGEN. Unemployed artists in Denmark should teach in schools instead of just receiving unemployment benefits, the ministries of culture and education have proposed.
Full article in the Art Newspaper
ARTISTS: Janet Cardiff and Bures Miller
Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller represented Canada at the 49th Venice Biennale with Paradise Institute (2001), a 16-seat movie theatre where viewers watched a film, becoming entangled as witnesses to a possible crime played out in the real world audience and on the screen. The artists won La Biennale di Venezia Special Award at Venice, presented to Canadian artists for the first time and the Benesse Prize, recognizing artists who break new artistic ground with an experimental and pioneering spirit.
