Who wants a bust of the smug B*st*rd anyway?I think it might look more like Ronaldo if the features weren't so squashed together. A bit. Probably.
Ronaldo might be the only one.Who wants a bust of the smug B*st*rd anyway?
Sign me up for a pyramid-shaped Adam's apple implant right now!!!Looks like he had the head shape worked out in advance but plonked a wonky face on top of it.
There's no way the bust has been regarded as a whole.
I hope men aren't expected to be sporting triangular adam's apples as a thing now. It's bad enough that sportsmen are now trying to flog us moisturiser without us sculpting our throats to look like lady fun parts.
I've got this on VHS somewhere, the full film about Basquiat ... I'm not a fan to be honest of his art (the film's ok, Dennis Hopper, David Bowie, Christopher Walken etc ) but each to their own ..A painting by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has sold at auction in New York for $110.5m (£85.4m).
That is nearly double the price of his previous most expensive work, bought by the same person a year ago.
It has broken several other records including becoming the most expensive work by any US artist.
It is also the highest price fetched for any art by a black artist and the first piece created since 1980 to break the $100m mark.
The untitled work was done in oil stick, acrylic and spray paint, and depicts a face in the shape of a skull.
It was sold to Yusaku Maezawa, a 41-year-old Japanese fashion entrepreneur who plans to set up a museum in his home town of Chiba.
Bidding for the piece during the auction at Sotheby's lasted 10 tense minutes. Cheers and applause erupted in the room when the work was sold to Mr Maezawa by telephone.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39971348
http://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice...detruisent-une-oeuvre-artistique-1211655.htmlLyon: Municipal police believe they snatch a plan of cannabis, they destroy an artistic work
Thinking of having found an urban cannabis plant, the agents cleared unceremoniously ... without knowing that it was not cannabis but a work participating in the City's Architecture Biennale.
On June 26, as told here on the site Item , municipal officials Rhodanian wander in the second district of Lyon. They soon notice a fallow that seems suspect to them. The police believe they are facing an open-air cannabis plantation in the middle of the city. They then decide to mow the 400 square meters of the plant concerned.
But, instead of cannabis, there was only hemp, mixed with linen and barley.
This man agrees with you ..I suspect a lot of modern artists wish to shock or produce images to shake us out of our torpor.
This may have been true with the Impressionists but I suspect this cliche now says more about some current artistic blinkered self obssession than it does about an indifferent viewing public. After all, there are a fair amount of OAPs around today who probably dropped acid and lived the high life before these artists were born into their mission to jolt us out of our jaded pedestrian sensibilities. That's why a lot of it seems trite, unimaginative, uninspired and colourless. Some of us have just seen and imagined more.
Someone's created a way for a goldfish to smash tiny bits of furniture with a hammer .. because we are destroying the sea is the arty argument ..
https://laughingsquid.com/goldfish-controlled-hammer/
Tracey Emin's explanations for her 'art' are usually pretty flimsy and arrogant. Classic example...'it's art because I say it's art'.Emin's defence for the piece was "no one's put a dirty bed in a gallery before" which is impressively shallow thinking for an artist who you at least expect to wax philosophical on this stuff.
Tracey Emin's explanations for her 'art' are usually pretty flimsy and arrogant. Classic example...'it's art because I say it's art'.
Didn't Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut get a similar reception? I think it's a terrific film.More specifically, about his last decade when his art went all pervy and he got called a dirty old man.
Didn't Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut get a similar reception? I think it's a terrific film.
It was a great film. Explored some dark ideas.Didn't Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut get a similar reception? I think it's a terrific film.
I'm generally in favour of murals on walls.
It's directed by Julian Schnabel, himself a prominent NYC painter of the era who went on to direct The Diving Bell and The Butterfly which was a terrific movie.I've got this on VHS somewhere, the full film about Basquiat ... I'm not a fan to be honest of his art (the film's ok, Dennis Hopper, David Bowie, Christopher Walken etc ) but each to their own ..
Anyone remember Paul McCarthy's hilarious 'Christmas Tree' in Paris?I see she's got previous. Here's her one from New York in December which managed to stay up for several days. ooerr.
It hasn’t even got balls and a fountain coming out of it.
Two French artists are bringing their 176-snail ballet called Slow Pixel to London this month for its UK premiere as part of Cryptic’s Sonica festival. For only £4.50, you can watch illuminated snails crawl around a darkened room to challenging music. Don’t tell me you’re not tempted.
The gros-gris [fat greys] each have a small LED glued to their shell. Cyril, 43, and Elizabeth, 40, have been using snails in their art for eight years. Their first gastropod-based interventions involved feeding snails paper of different colours. Cyril recalls: “We would feed them red paper and they would shit red patterns. And if we fed them yellow and blue paper, what colour do you think they would shit?”
They hope to seduce visitors into a new relation with space and time. In a world where, as Parisian philosopher Paul Virilio has argued, technological change destroys space and compresses time, what a beguiling existential corrective it is to slow to a snail’s pace for a few hours. “Remember when you were a kid and you could sit and look at an insect for hours? Or watch a snail crawl across a path?” asks Elizabeth. Cyril hopes it will give visitors a Proustian rush, provoking bittersweet meditation on impermanence and lost time.