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seeingeyewantstosee:

”[TV Cello is] the first real innovation in cello design since 1600.”—Charlotte Moorman
Since the early 1960s, Nam June Paik has explored the potential of television as an art object and an expressive medium. TV Cello is one of several objects Paik designed to be used by the late avant-garde cellist Charlotte Moorman (1933-1991). The three televisions in this work originally displayed three images: a direct feed of the immediate performance, a video collage of other cellists, and an intercepted broadcast television feed. As Moorman played this one-stringed cello with a regulation bow, she also created a series of electronic sounds, transforming the television into a musical instrument. When TV Cello was acquired by the Walker Art Center in 1992, Paik created new video images for the piece by combining existing footage of Moorman with excerpts from his video work Global Groove (1973).
Source: Walker Art Center

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The private journals of Edvard Munch: we are flames which pour out of the earth Par Edvard Munch,J. Gill Holland

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escapeintolife:

#art #collage
juliaforsythart:

blows my mind a little that this was made in 1921…
theshipthatflew:

Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953), The Cacodylic Eye (L’Oeil cacodylate), 1921 Oil with photomontage and collage on canvas, Centre Pompidou, via bildwerk

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jon-garcia:

“we knew there was a battle ahead and we wanted to be in there first, long before somebody could say we weren’t good artists, we couldn’t draw or we couldn’t paint, long before all that criticism began, we had already attacked ourselves, called ourselves “a Shit and a Cunt”’.
-Gilbert and George

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cross-stained:
Unbearable Lightness, Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny, 2010 Dutch designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny made a sculpture of Jesus that was completed by bees. He erected a sealed glass container with his mold inside. Libertiny then released 40,000 bees who worked on the honeycombed surface of the mold:
Over the course of the fair, 40 000 worker bees were released into the case to complete a wax honeycomb structure over the figure of a martyred christ rising out of the chaos, his weight seeming to be upheld by the mass strength of the swarm. the figure within the vitrine is made of a laser sintered framework in which the industrious bees created a honeycomb skin over before filling each cell with the honey they produce. then bees worked to remove the honey from the cells and return it to the beehive, cleaning the figure back to the wax cells they originally created.

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roverpaul:

(via M-Theory)
“Cacciatore di Stelle” by Mimmo Paladino.
Acclaimed and prominent Italian sculptor, painter and printmaker Mimmo Paladino is the first artist to turn a private jet into an art installation. Named “Cacciatore di Stelle” or “Star Hunter”, the Piaggio P.180 Avanti II aircraft was recently on display in the famed Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan. Paladino adorned the jet with “ancestral symbols, constellations and geometrical designs to reflect the skies in which it flies.

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Alexander Adler: Exhibit Highlight: Banksy at Keszler Gallery

alexanderhladler:

BY ALEXANDER ADLER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN SUTCLIFFE

Robin Barton and Stephan Keszler in front of “Stop and Search”

Banksy murals being installed at the old power plant in Southampton

On August 20, Banksy, the pseudonymous Brit, was the talk of the East End as the subject of…

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