All Things Art & Photography
Obviously influenced by the conceptual photographic artist John Baldessari and his ever present dots, Julie Cockburn takes it another step further and proves the more time you spend on your work the better you can see it. By stitching or collaging directly onto found photographs she makes them all her own. See her current exhibition at Yossi Milo.
The Altered Found Photographs of Julie Cockburn
My favorite works of Josiah MecElheny are made out of glass. They are extremely beautiful and memorizing. Here is a short piece regarding his thoughts on beauty and art. (Not very popular in the art world for a number of reasons he covers and challenges…)
Photos via andrearosengallery.com
Josiah McElheny on Beauty & Seduction in Art
The Exhibition: Boris Mikhailov Four Decades is a 40 year small but knockout survey of one of the most famous Russian photographers alive. See the reality of a failed empire through the eyes of an artist.
Bori Mikhailov: Four Decades November 23, 2013 – February 8, 2014
Dominique Lévy Gallery 909 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10021
via: http://www.dominique-levy.com
Check out the new sculpture of Benedetto Bufalino. Reminds me of something that we would see in a Road Runner cartoon…
“In keeping with the theme of his humorous urban interventions, french artist Benedetto Fufalino has sent a residential caravan soaring into the sky. ‘la caravane dans le ciel’ is a mobile trailer situated atop a sky jack that slowly moves upwards towards the clouds. towering over trees and building-tops, the hybrid habitat is gradually lifted into the air and at night, the mysterious illusion lights up the sky with its illuminated interior windows”.
via Design Boom
Peter Beard has spent his life fighting for the natural world. He knows more about the effects of man on nature than just about any other human being alive. (except for maybe George Monbiot , Jane Poynter or Bernie Krause ) He also just happens to be one of the great image-makers of all time. (His notebooks are legendary). Great interviews; one short and one long by Lars Bruun and Dereck Peck. Spend 30 min with a real genius and true warrior.
On Mankind: “…(Da Vinci) knew that only the creature that could appreciate all this beauty comes on the scene and sure enough, destroys what only what he can appreciate…”
On learning from the elephants: “…The entire ecology of the elephant is more similar to us than any other animal. What have they done to their habitat? They ate it, they trampled it, they died. You would think we would take a hint from their demise… “