Willi Dorner on his Bodies in Urban Spaces event in lower Manhattan this past weekend: “The idea is to provoke and test security in the areas, and see how a health and safety- and security-obsessed society copes with unexpected dance breaking out …”
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Giant Statue of Middle Finger Causes Brouhaha in Milan
“The 11-meter high installation, called L.O.V.E.” and unveiled for the first time in Milan, is part of a retrospective dedicated to the Italian contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan, whose provocative works include a sculpture of Pope John Paul being hit by a meteorite.”
‘Lighting The Sails’ – Laurie Anderson Illuminates Sydney Opera House
For the opening of the city’s Vivid LIVE festival, which she is co-curating with husband Lou Reed, Anderson designed a special light show to be played out on the brilliant white roofs of Australia’s most famous icon.
Are We Witnessing The End Of Street Art?
Banksy’s film Exit Through the Gift Shop has critic Ben Davis pondering: “Is there life left in this movement? To answer this question, you’ve first got to have some idea of what the [street art] movement actually is. And that’s harder to do than you might think.”
How Fabulously Awful Were The Olympic Ice Dancing Costumes?
“Ice dancing, for years the whorishly exotic stepchild of figure skating, exceeded all of our expectations these Olympics. … There were adorable University of Michigan coeds pretending to be Bollywood stars. And there was that infamous native folk dance, seemingly honed at the John Mayer school of racial sensitivity. And we loved it all!”
You Know What Else Is Manly? The Color Pink
Yes, from the pages of the Financial Times to the battleship HMS Kenya to the cherry blossoms on WWII kamikaze planes, “pink has a decidedly masculine, even butch side: At different points in history, for different countries, it has served as the color of imperialism, speed, and strength in many forms.”
Can You Spot The Forgery?
In connection with the Royal Ontario Museum exhibit “Fakes & Forgeries: Yesterday and Today,” Discovery shows us faux ancient artifacts alongside the real thing and discusses how to tell the difference.
‘From Sanctuary To Snake Pit’: A Photographic History Of The Insane Asylum
Today the very term “insane asylum” conjures up images of the squalid, cruel institutions portrayed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Titicut Follies. “But asylums started out as philanthropic dreams,” comfortable, well-appointed places of refuge and healing. (Consider the very term “asylum.”)
The Very Model Of A Monumental Sculptor
Whether we know it or not, the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens is the basic, fundamental image most Americans have in mind when we think of public monuments. “[H]ow different … from contemporary artists such as Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, and Jeff Koons, who make public sculptures but whose art is essentially private in nature.”
Ingmar Bergman’s Interiors: A Look Inside His Baltic Hideaway
“Unforgiving and elemental, with its rocky beaches and weather-beaten forests of gnarled pine, Fårö epitomized Bergman’s unsparing and unsettled internal world. There’s a sensuality in its hardness that reveals itself only if you look closely: Fårö does its best not to charm you.”