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…
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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…
The Heather Levy Art Site
Heather Levy has submitterd her art site to Fukn.us for review…. remember you can submit your art or music to us for uncensored, totally honest, in you r face reviews….we’ll even write nice about you if we like what you are doing…. I particularly like the amusing titles. She plays with a lot of different…
A fukn band from Jersey – After Them
Another intro to some of the creative-types that bothered to write in to fukn.us….. “Afterthem is a New Jersey based band that does not play weddings or barmitzvahs.” From MH- Can’t help but think of the word “cacaphony.” Now, cacaphony can work (for proof see the evil-carnival-fabulousness of Mr. Bungle). But I have trouble putting…
Artists Who Love Fukn.Us
Well at least they submitted their work to us for review….The following are the links to the first three sites we have seen and reviews by myself and Mink Hippie….Bernest will be on hiatus for a short time as he searches for the meaning of life in Western China and The American South. Dennis Towers…
'Melancholy' Exhibit at French Museum on Yahoo! News Photos
‘Melancholy’ Exhibit at French Museum on Yahoo! News Photos Artgoers look at sculpture , ‘Big Man’ by Ron Mueck as part of the exhibition ‘Melancholy-Genius and Insanity in the Western World’ at the Grand Palais in Paris, Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The exhibition runs until January 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
BBC NEWS | Africa | Ghana needs you… dead not alive
I’ve always loved these fantastic coffins. Sometimes they are symbols of transport to the afterlife, like racecars or jetplanes. In the photos here, however, they are a mermaid, a chicken, and a bottle of beer. The beer I totally grok, but the mermaid and the chicken, I’m not sure about. Funerals are big in Ghana…
A Mosaic of Arab Culture at Home in America – New York Times
An interesting article from the New York Times. I’ve always contended that the periods of ‘melting pot’ growth and maturity in America are a direct result of the wars we fought. I contend still that wars suck….but I probably wouldn’t be able to enjoy Pho so easily if we hadn’t of become embroiled in a…
Art exhibit a rough roe to hoe… – Yahoo! News
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A top Moscow gallery bowed to religious sensibilities and pulled an exhibit that combined two potent symbols of Russia — a gold icon and black caviar — local media reported Thursday. Churchgoers had appealed to the state Tretyakov gallery, objecting to “Icon-Caviar,” which depicts hundreds of tiny fish eggs where the face…