I know - it's like Late Facking Review or summinck.

I like your new avvy, Zoz. I need a change too.

Sefi x

I have syphilis

Well - you've picked a lovely day for it.

Sefi x

Interesting Art Exhibit

Subway Gallery. "Underground" art.

ooo i only just discovered this thread, i'm a arty-person myself so it'd be nice to talk art with people!

Hehe..i like the current exhibit at the subway gallery, Rabbit!

The previous post is really interesting too, i've done some video work myself so i find interactive pieces really interesting!

Andy Goldsworthy At Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Will definitely be checking that out when the weather gets warmer, I studied some of his work at uni and find it really interesting!

This looks like a fascinating project: Picture House At Belsay Hall

belsay is really nice. the house is pretty interesting, but the quarry gardens are amazing and one of my favourite places.

similarly, one of my favourite haunts as a youth, was an old quarry in the cleveland his, which had been left for a few decades. nature returns with a vengeance and creates a pretty special atmosphere...

Underwater sculpture gallery cum open dive site.

This is beautiful and I want to dive there.

Me too, 'cept I can't dive.

Just spent lunch going round the Anthony Gormley exhibition at the Hayward. The Cloud Room is cool, but now my hair's gone all crap.

ETA: Craig, that is all kinds of awesome.

I'll go alone then.

I'll come back again. Missed out on one of the rooms because of the queue.

I don't believe that.

Yay art!

The National Gallery are doing an great promotion at the moment. For the last couple of weeks in the Soho area they have put full size framed reproductions of famous masterpieces on the sides of on the sides of buildings etc. It's quite odd to turn a corner and be confronted by a Turner or Rembrandt. And I have yet to see a vandalised one .

^ They're good, I've seen them. I'm also quite surprised (and pleased) that they've not been nicked or damaged. Although I imagine that they'll be keeping a close eye on them to replace any that do get vandalised.

Sounds tremendous. I wish i could see it - but alas, my poverty. Ahhh.

You have lovely hair, Ipse. Just lovely.

The Foley Gallery is showing some of Kent Rogowski's inside-out teddy bears. Bear 36 has somehow managed to remain cute.

Cute

Makes sculptures on the head of a pin. The Teeny World Of Willard Wigan

The World Of Gilbert & George DVD

I posted a couple of tidbits in the "heh" thread but check out Kenneth Tin Kin Hung's Because Washington Is Hollywood For Ugly People installation.

Tin Kin's Homepage

Fred Eerdekens does some really cool stuff with shadows.

I like minimum best.

That is genius.

A vending Machine to measure your goodness.

I love it. It's like a karma ATM.

I love this guy's photography. The boxes are particularly cool.

Found Chris Gilmour through boingboing.net. He makes cardboard sculptures. Most of them are life-size and really impressive.

nice...

They're impressive, but I'm not sure I get the artistic merit of making exact replicas of things out of cardboard.



I don't know about that.

i suppose that he reckons that the fact we are so impressed by his replicas, will bring us a renewed appreciation of the craft that goes into the objects that he is mimicking, despite their everydayness. i reckon that people are more likely to say 'nice' and not bother thinking. like me...

Oh I dunno . . .

Now that's a work of art!



This one looks like a prop from 'The Science of Sleep'

It also looks a bit shoddily made - I'll only be impressed if it's fully functioning.

I like. And I do appreciate the craft. Just think, he probably had to take apart & put together the real objects to be able to recreate them like this. He now knows a lot more than most how everyday things work. You can't take life & its trappings for granted.

That's a very good way of putting it, these seem more craft than art to me.

My brother used to spend hours taking electrical items apart and then reassembling them when he was a child. I'm not sure it gave him a greater insight into the everyday, but I'm sure it helped in making him the academic superstar he turned out to be - it certainly didn't help his social life.

I see it as a commentary on the disposable nature of modern technology.

Or a waste of cardboard, the box.

The Last Supper available online in 16 billion pixel resolution

Wowee!

I went to see the exhibit, Spiritual Art of Salvador Dali. It was totally fabulous. I get such a high seeing any of Dali's original work. These were two different works. One was the Bible lithographs and the other was The Divine Comedy woodblocks. The gallery guy showed us a break-down of one of the woodblocks. The entire series used over 3000 woodblocks. And the details! I've never seen so much work put into one print.

I was supposed to go & see the Banksy exhibit too but I never got over there. Disappointed but Dali will keep me happy for a while now, so it's okay.

Yesterday Graziano Cecchini dropped five hundred thousand brightly coloured plastic balls bounced down the Spanish Steps in Rome. Each one "represented a lie told by a politician".



It may be equally weak in terms of artistic merit or social comment, but I'd be a hell of a lot more behind Banksy if his stunts were this fun.

Cecchini's previous work of public art/vandalism in Rome.



I likes him.

China Design Exhibit At V&A

Insane Technology Changes Art Restoration

That's amazing!

Tseng-Kwong Chi Exhibit

I've just bought a painting (I hope!) by this artist. I've never bought art before. It's all a bit exciting.

Some disgustingly talented people use their Moleskines as they were intended.

Most of these are fantastic.

I love stuff like that. I wish I could draw.