This story is hot off the wires and I haven’t yet heard about what the critics were saying about the fabulous slab of stone…we can imagine it was something like “This piece is marvelous in its simplicity…complex for all of the modern issues which it represents…” Mink Hippie asks “How did they discover the error?…
Category: Art
Do you believe in magic?
Cirque Hawaii recently debuted in Honolulu – it is sort of a local version of Cirque du Soleil. I use “local” loosely, since most of the performers are from Central Asia and Mongolia. It must be kind of a surreal life to train as a circus performer somewhere in Kyrgyzstan and end up in Waikiki…….
Lifestyles of the Despotic Dictators
I just came across a short blurb about Dictator Style in Esquire this morning in the, ahem, reading room. From what the reviews are saying it is a book like no other. Unfortunately, the pictures aren’t what you would hope. The Esquire blurb had the horrible picture from one of Saddam’s palaces below… cd Dictator…
Hirst statue unveiled in London
I first saw Damien Hirst’s work at the Brooklyn Art Museum in an exhibit that Rudy Giuliani tried to shut down. I still have the “Danger:Art” magnet promoting the show on the refrigerator. Hirst’s piece in that show was a dead cow displayed in slices. The exhibit also included Chris Ofili’s madonna decorated with dung,…
I’m in love with a philosopher, and the worst part is…
(I am, by the way. -mh) Arj is in a Descartes-ian conundrum. He’s in a love with a philosopher. AtomFilms – Arj and Poopy: Philosopher
The Case of the Missing Munchs – New York Times
Longtime Incredible Fukn.us readers may remember the bungled attempt at stealing three reproduction Munchs’ last year…that article made mention of this crime but didn’t go into quite the same detail about the ‘brutality’ the thieves showed in smashing the painting from frames…. I would like to point out that there are actually 2 versions in…
Kailua Second Sunday Gallery Walk 2/12
Was reminded by the radio this morning that this Sunday is the Kailua Second Sunday Gallery Walk, here in lovely Kailua on the island of Oahu. The manager of the Balcony Gallery at 442A Uluniu created the gallery walk about 6 months ago now. The Lodestar Collective, next door to the Balcony, plans an “anti-Valentine’s”…
Who Owns Seydou Keïta? – New York Times
I remember hearing about Seydou Keita when the 1997 show opened – the buzz I remember was about an African photographer working in essential isolation with minimal equipment about 40 years earlier producing striking modern images that rivaled anything produced by contemporaries that had the “benefit” of being part of the “Art World.” The full…
Conceptual Artist as Vandal: Walk Tall and Carry a Little Hammer (or Ax) – New York Times
If I had a hammer…. I’d hammer in the toi-oi-let I’d hammer in the urinal I’d deconstruct…. I’d deconstruct dada I’d deconstruct disco …..blah blah… I love this story…follow the link for the whole thing. cd Conceptual Artist as Vandal: Walk Tall and Carry a Little Hammer (or Ax) – New York Times PARIS, Jan….
Cool China Housing
This makes me want to return to China. Beijing is an incredible city. Amazing. Astounding…..wow…. cd Mass housing in China has historically been standardized and repetitive. Steven Holl Architects’ Linked Hybrid project in Beijing should break the pattern. The complex will house 2,500 people in 700 apartments and feature one of the world’s largest geothermal…