This is quite good, especially considering the Sci-Fi London Film Festival asks of entries to make a 5-minute film in only 48 hours. And if you have ever made a film, that is quite hard to do. On top of that, the festival organizers give each group of filmmakers the props, title, and the theme, and tell them to have at it.
Denver-based Evan Hecox, one of our personal favorites on the site, is about to open a new body of work, Dark Island , at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC on May 24, 2012. The exhibition, featuring acrylic and gouache works on vintage newspaper, is inspired by Hecox’s recent walks across lower Manhattan and west Brooklyn.
Denver-based Evan Hecox, one of our personal favorites on the site, is about to open a new body of work, Dark Island , at Joshua Liner Gallery in NYC on May 24, 2012. The exhibition, featuring acrylic and gouache works on vintage newspaper, is inspired by Hecox’s recent walks across lower Manhattan and west Brooklyn.
New Zealand-based DJ software makers Serato has previously collaborated with artists to create limited edition vinyl platters for turn turntables.
Juxtapoz contributing editor Joey Garfield, who collaborated with the Beastie Boys in the past, sent us a message he wrote about the passing of his friend, Adam “MCA” Yauch. The piece makes it quite clear; someone special was lost, and his reach as an artist and a man will live on with a very special legacy….
Topsafe London and ILoveDust combined efforts to animate this short video of Horfe’s quirky drawings.
There is a ton of anticipation for Wes Anderson’s return to real actors with his newest film, Moonrise Kingdom, and Anderson regular Bill Murray hosts a tour (yes, you can tour films now, especially the big-budget arty ones like a Wes Anderson film) of Moonrise Kingdom . That’s right, he just sort of talks the film out to you.
Somewhere in Cleveland, Ohio underneath an overpass the graffiti writer, Rankos, aka Read More Books, had a field day painting numerous different styled pieces.
The dead are coming out of their grave to reclaim all the boxcars and save them from the toy garbage that plagues them.
Galerie Joseph Tang Sculpture inhabits a precarious position in the genre-bending inclusiveness of contemporary art, which, encouraged by the digital turn of culture at large, lately prizes ephemerality at the expense of monumentality and a cartoonish or kitsch grotesque in lieu of ‘process’: Carsten Höller’s groovy tube slides descending from Richard Serra’s massive rolls of steel via Dan Graham’s playfully reflexive pavilions. The need for statuary or commemoration in the 21st century feels equally superfluous amongst artists of the younger generation, after Jeff Koons, so sculpture slips into a liminal space somewhere between image and environment, drifting far from figurative aesthetic notions of representation and beauty toward the anti-humanist installation, complete with a post-Duchampian fetish for the consumer object despite any art historian’s theories of dematerialization. The young French artist Chloé Quenum’s recent work addresses a less sensational, still somewhat tongue-in-cheek legacy of Modernism; that of post-Minimalism.
