Let There Be Light
After a week of gray skies in this season where the days are getting shorter, the light lovers among us won’t want to miss this weekend’s festival, Bring to Light, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and other cities around the world on Saturday, October 1st. This free nighttime public festival of art in New York City takes […]
The Sheltering Sky
“Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.â€â€•Â Paul Bowles
DUMBO Arts Festival
Our very own Hope Dector, printmaker and designer of the Harmony Blog, has a project at this weekend’s Dumbo Arts Festival. Don’t miss her collaboration, “Coppercussion/Papercussion,” with sound artist Nick Yulman. For their project they use materials of printmaking, electronics and sound to create a network of automated musical devices.
7 Men on a Vault
What art school does teach you is how to teach yourself. No one is going to ask you to do art projects. It’s your freedom. And freedom is the condition of responsibility. You learn how to take responsibility for your time and choices. —artist Jumana Manna in Acne Paper
Etsuko Ichikawa
Japanese-born artist Etsuko Ichikawa creates large-scale pieces of work with a molten fire. “Handling it while aglow at 2100°F, she loops, stretches and presses the smoking mass of lava atop paper to create abstract drawings known as pyrographs,” says the Anthropologist (where you can see a cool short film of Ichikawa in action). “My work […]
Food Porn
Andy Ellison, an MRI technologist at Boston University Medical School, began scanning fruits and veggies in his lab as a way to warm up the machines. The results were so beautiful that he started a blog, Inside Insides, to share the mesmerizing moving images of everything from sliced starfruit (above) to onions.
Perhaps more fun than surfboarding, and more democratic?
George Greenough is a pioneer in surf photography. Always against existing conventions, he invented and developed other forms of surfing—kneeboarding and surf-matting, in the long-board reining 60’s.
Tony Cragg: Seeing Things
This weekend, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presents Tony Cragg: Seeing Things, the first U.S. museum exhibition in nearly 20 years of the work of the award-winning, internationally-acclaimed artist. The exhibition will be on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center from September 10, 2011 to January 8, 2012 and is presented by the Dallas […]
Bat Tower
Almost a year ago, the University at Buffalo’s Joyce Hwang installed this twisted bat house at Griffis Sculpture Park in Southwestern New York state. Bat Tower stands about 12 feet tall, with walls of finished plywood panels arranged in a ribbed, accordion-like pattern. The conspicuous design, unusual for a bat house, serves a purpose: Hwang, […]
Renee Green, Endless Dreams and Water Between
LORRAINE CWELICH: One of the framed prints outlines a proposition for the September Institute. What is the September Institute? GREEN: The September Institute is a non-utopian vortex of thinkers and artists that gather each September in the island of Majorca. There’s a lot more supposed connectivity online but there also seems to be a dwindling […]
Tomorrows Tulips
Just saw a show by Tomorrows Tulips at Piano’s. The band’s lead singer turns out to be pro surfer Alex Knost.
Clifford Ross Hurricane Series
It is testimony to the power of photography that one can contemplate one of Clifford Ross’s “Hurricane” images and see a thundering wave stopped cold, spray and spume arrested in mid-flight, its fluid power trumped without so much as a molecule deflected from its path. The project Ross designates “Wave Music” is, in his view, […]
The Roar
“I have been graced with occasions when creation out of destruction has been palpably evoked before my astonished eyes.”—Isamu Noguchi
BirdScraper
Zhong Huang recently took third place in the Animal Architecture awards with plans for a BirdScraper in New York City. The massive structure designed to house birds should address the problems faced by our feathered friends. “Over 90,000 birds die every year by crashing into skyscrapers because lights inside the buildings attract birds flying right […]
Michael Miller
I make surf paintings. My pictures are inspired by the act of surfing. The feeling of the wave, the ride between solid ground and sea, Hawaiian wave rituals, surfers, surf magazines, explorers, flecks of history, personal writings, physical feats of endurance, and liquid cinematography. —Michael Miller, a Brooklyn-based painter who’s transforming five paintings into faceted […]
Merce Cunningham, Beach Birds For Camera
Beach Birds For Camera, 1992 (a 35mm film directed by Elliot Caplan) First Performed: New York, New York; Dec 1991 Music: John Cage Design: Marsha Skinner Dancers: Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Tacita Dean, The Green Ray
TD: In America they call it the green flash. When the sun sets, in a very clear horizon, with no land mass for many hundreds of miles, and no moisture or atmospheric pressure, you have a good chance of seeing it. The slowest ray is the blue ray, which comes across as green when the […]
Charles and Ray Eames in India
A photograph of the living room of the Eames house in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles has proven rather puzzling to historians of design. It depicts the famous Case Study House as full of exotic collectibles. Hopi kachina dolls, seashells, craft objects, silk textiles from Nepal and Thailand, and elaborately patterned rugs from […]
Yayoi Kusama, The Atlantic Ocean
MIDORI: Do you dream these landscapes? YAYOI:Â I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images. —Yayoi Kusama in Index, 1998.
Dan Torop, Ocean
Ocean overview (brief) from Dan Torop on Vimeo. I’ve worked on the digital Ocean since 2000. It is a real-time, physics based, interactive manifestation of the ocean. I was spending a lot of time out at the ocean, photographing the waves. It was sublime. But, apparently, also determined by the laws of physics? So I researched a […]
Dumpster Design
New Jersey-based recycling and upcycling design studio, TerraCycle, recently renovated their offices using all sorts of trash. Walls were built from old bottles. Chairs were re-covered in Capri Sun pouches. And, yes, a ticking clock made from pregnancy tests. See more images and the full story here.
Hannah Whitaker, Dome
Consisting of 42 acres, Bear Island is part of a small archipelago in East Penobscot Bay, about 11 miles east of Camden. Along with forests and fields, the island has a dock and several traditional New England wood frame buildings. Though Buckminister Fuller once built a 21-foot tensegrity dome that was recently reconstructed, none of […]
Drug Money Art
Argentinean-born Tin Ojeda, a Montauk-based painter and surfer who created the Drug Money Art clothing line started by spray painting boards. Now he designs and prints hand-crafted t-shirts, scarves, books and boards that are sold around the world.
