Arts news

Spencer Finch climbs mountain to bring blue skies to cancer hospital

16-01-2016 22:00

The US artist Spencer Finch is creating a major installation for the unorthodox venue of a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. The work—a series of lightboxes for a seven-storey bank of lifts—is one of around eight site-specific commissions planned for a $276m cancer facility that is due to open at the Cleveland Clinic in 2017. The project is inspired by the cyanometer, an instrument developed in the 18th century to measure the blueness of the sky. To create the work, Finch plans to hi

Read more
Mike Garson “The Bowie Variations” 2011

16-01-2016 18:46 via feedproxy.google.com

David Bowie is gone, but his legacy will live on forever… blah blah blah. Great man, great body of work. Too bad he’s no more. The world will never be the same. Loved Outside. Ok, i’ve done with my portion of mourning phrases. Let’s move on. There’s one thing that is left suspiciously forgotten in the fuss of this shocking news – Mike Garson‘s tribute album. And it’s insultingly unfair. For obvious reasons it was overshadowed by the release of Bow

Read more
Painting the view from a rainy-day road trip – in pictures

16-01-2016 18:00

When he’s driving, Gregory Thielker takes in the views that change from moment to moment: the road, the sky, other cars. “Inside the car it’s easy to forget the outside temperature, humidity, the noise of the road,” he says. “But something happens when rain interrupts the view: the lens through which we are seeing is revealed. Water both obscures and highlights the landscape.” The New York-based painter captured these moments in a series of paintings, Under th

Read more
A Look at Paramount Ranch and Art Los Angeles Contemporary

16-01-2016 16:00 via artnews.com

In 2014, in Los Angeles, a small art fair opened at Paramount Ranch Western Town, a group of sets—and now a national park attraction—that was previously used for shooting Hollywood movies. The fair, named Paramount Ranch after its location, was founded … Read More

Read more
Advertisement
Untitled( two heroin addict clowns entertain the children)

16-01-2016 02:14 via feedproxy.google.com

the girl i was seeing was stand offish. she never let me pay or her drinks or food. she thinks i’m bitter. she has thick thighs and big feet. i can’t take a woman to bed who has larger feet than i have.d was tormenting an assistant. he talks like how employees do when they are working.i got up at 3 pm. it’s 3:30. i should take my ant anxiety medication at 6. i don’t want to get another one of those predictable headaches.the mother dresses like a grandmother. she looks lik

Read more