• We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.
^An odd idea.^
A small but interesting urban intervention. I drove out this morning but failed to catch the artist in the act:
http://uair01.blogspot.nl/2017/09/harmen-de-hoop-retrospective-3.html
Philistine that I undoubtedly am, I'm still going with:
thbbtt_ss.jpg
 
I will donate 10$. You too?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nevadaart/trevor-paglen-orbital-reflector

Orbital Reflector
is a satellite that will have no commercial, military, or scientific purpose. Instead, it will be a public sculpture, visible from the ground without a telescope -- a satellite that belongs to everyone.
Cor .. this is going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons with the flat earthers .. satellites don't even exist according to them .. :atom:
 
Amazingly, I'd never heard of Marian Spore Bush and her paintings before today -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Spore_Bush
Tornado marian spore bush.jpg

World aflame marian spore bush (2).jpg

Marian Spore Bush
(October 22, 1878 – February 24, 1946) left her successful Michigan dental practice for a studio in Greenwich Village, New York City, and became a self-taught painter in the 1920s. She claimed her large surrealistic works were inspired by long-dead artists who were communicating with her from "beyond the veil." Her predictions of the future, her unusual artwork, her work with the poor in New York City's Bowery, and her eventual marriage to Irving T. Bush incited much interest in the national press

Her work could be both outsider art and surrealism, but
I think the "communicating with dead artists from beyond the veil" bit puts her smack into the Fortean category. :)
 
Valuable contributions to the field of human endeavour. Except the air sex - which I can imagine being quite funny, I suppose.

I'm sure I remember a plant/synth interface on Tomorrow's World many years ago. But nothing it produced could realistically be described a music IIRC.
 
A bronze bust of Marx smothered under a huge balloon, carrying a tiny castle with the banner "Festival of progress".
It's weird art. But I'm not bashing it, I actually like these WTF experiences ... how could someone devise a juxtaposition like this :crazy:

tent01.jpg tent02.jpg tent03.jpg

It's this exhibition: http://www.wdw.nl/en/our_program/exhibitions/goshka_macuga_amp_ahmet_t_episode_2
The text doesn't clarify anything. The art is more fun as is. For example, only after looking at the photograph I realized this MUST be an artwork:

tent04.jpg
 
Last edited:
They were probably sitting in their studio one day and looked at all the crap they had lying about. Then they probably started randomly putting stuff together. It was a way of clearing out the ol' storage space.
 
More from the same exhibition. An art-horror installation and a space for and recording of some performance.
Most of it is totally unintelligible, but as Forteans, I assume we like the unexplained. In any case, I was highly entertained and will re-visit.

tent05.jpg tent06.jpg tent07.jpg

This belongs to: http://www.tentrotterdam.nl/en/show/among-other-things-ive-taken-up-smoking/
Don't bother to read this, just enjoy the strangeness ... :)
 
Are fake Warhols real Warhols?
"If the world-leading Warhol scholar says it's a Warhol, and you do everything in the mechanical process that the original artist did, and the original artist said 'I want other people to make my paintings', which he did - what is it?

"I don't know the answer to that question."
 
I like it! I cannot place all of them. Can you help me?

Vietnam
Vietnam
???
Yalta with Stalin ?
?
Iwo Jima
Berlin Olympics 1930 ?

Saigon Execution
Phan Thi Kim Phuc/Napalm Girl
Oswald shot by Ruby
Yalta Conference
Pope John Paul II meeting Mehmet Ali Agca
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Jesse Owens/1936 Olympics medal ceremony
 

Requiem to a Shipwreck
director Janis Rafa 2016, cinematographer Thodoros Mihopoulos GSC

Ironic and strange.
Start at 5:30 and everything will be clear immediately.
Nice find. That was great.
Totally evoked for me the conflict at Gallipoli in 1915. And an omen for conflict to come. The signs are everywhere.
 
Back
Top