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Cartoon characters brutally killed in new Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck art exhibit
The gruesome pictures include children's cartoon favourite Daffy Duck having his head blown off by a gun-wielding Bugs Bunny, as blood is sprayed everywhere. The gruesome pictures include children's cartoon favourite Daffy Duck having his head blown off by a gun-wielding Bugs Bunny, as ... more
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2008 Turner Prize contenders: Who should win?
Meet this year's contenders for the prestigious Turner Prize! Who do you think should win this year's £25 000 prize and why?
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LeBron Gets Schooled By Warehouse Worker
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- LeBron James could be excused for his poor shooting from behind the arc, and for being blown out in a game of H-O-R-S-E with a warehouse worker in a beach exhibition. James was still floating in the clouds from his Olympic experience.
James was on an outdoor court at Venice Beach to take on David Kalb in a shooting game, mostly of trick shots, although James' outside shooting touch was way off. At one point, he grinned and said, "That wind."
Kalb won the matchup with James in an online contest, "LeBron's Trick Shot Challenge sponsored by Cub Cadet."
Kalb's bag of trick shots including one where he bounced the ball very high in the lane, raced around the goal post, caught the ball as it came down, and tossed it in the basket. James missed his try, and after losing the first game, declared best two-of-three. Each made, among other shots, left-handed free throws, but Kalb went on to win the second game as well. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- LeBron James could be excused for his poor shooting from behind the arc, and for being blown out in a game of H-O-... more -
Artzone Edmonton An Art, Music And Film Space (For Hire)
MAIN HALL DIMENSIONS
2200 Square Feet x 15 Foot high Ceilings with flexible stage
Wooden Floors, Black Ceiling with full 360 thick black curtain for shooting and sound absorption
24 Professional Stage Lights mounted on the ceiling
1 x Grand Piano
Professional P.A System
PLUS
2 smaller lounge areas Reception area and Restaurant (open late)
1 Large office space with hot desks available for monthly rent
Fully Equipped Kitchen
Car Parking and special loading bay with industrial lift for heavy goods
Wheel chair access all-round
RATES
The space is under new management and the rates are negotiable on a project to project basis - for this period – drop us a line for a chat (we are reasonable people).
WATCH THE VIDEO OF THE SPACE
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CONTACT
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+ 44 (0)78 9501 6685 MAIN HALL DIMENSIONS 2200 Square Feet x 15 Foot high Ceilings with flexible stage ... more -
Auditoria - Leslie Deere - Bari, Italy 2007
An artist profile, showreel and Gallery Exhibition/ Installation of her sonic sculpture works held at the Pino Pascali Gallery - 2007.
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David Blaine goes batty
Get ready for another Blaine stunt. The Dive of Death! This time, the daredevil has plans for a Batman style hanging session. He is going to be suspended six stories high and hang upside down like a bat for three days in New York's Central Park. Get ready for another Blaine stunt. The Dive of Death! This time, the daredevil has plans for a Batman style hanging session. He is go... more
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Gillian Wearing at Regen Projects
Tenderness isn't a quality one generally associates with the so-called Young British Artists, a generation far better known for irreverence, audacity and headline-grabbing showmanship. It's a palpable undercurrent, however, in the work of Gillian Wearing, whose third solo show at Regen Projects spans both the gallery's locations. More... Tenderness isn't a quality one generally associates with the so-called Young British Artists, a generation far better known for i... more
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Video Game Nostalgia
Mario, Mega Man and Sonic are just a few of the popular video game characters featured in an art exhibit in Hollywood, California.
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Plug in - electric cable art
Check out Ruth Whiting's latest exhibition: 'Plug In', a show of oil paintings featuring electric plugs and cables at the Wedge Gallery in Asheville, NC.
'The paintings create a luscious mythology surrounding the ordinary plugs and cables that connect our technological lives. Liberated from their mundane function and rendered in glowing colors, these every day objects assume an almost sacred quality' Check out Ruth Whiting's latest exhibition: 'Plug In', a show of oil paintings featuring electric plugs and cables at t... more -
New law proposed in response to art exhibition
San Francisco city commissioner Christine Garcia, who wrote the bill, told The Art Newspaper: “If you allow forums that find this type of work acceptable, more people will produce it and can gain fame from the suffering of animals.” The bill, which is still in the process of being drafted, must go before the city legislature before it can become law.
The proposal comes in response to a recent video installation by Algerian-French artist Adel Abdessemed at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) showing the killing of six farm animals. The Art Institute was forced to close the show in late March after only one week when Abdessemed, curator Hou Hanru and staff members received a series of death threats from animal rights extremists (The Art Newspaper, May 2008, p3). The SFAI says that Abdessemed was documenting traditional methods of food production in Mexico and that no gratuitous violence took place to make the videos.
In mid-March, the California-based animal rights group In Defense of Animals, which has testified before the city commission, sent an “action alert” email to 30,000 of its subscribers asking that members demand the immediate closure of Abdessemed’s exhibition.
At the time Okwui Enwezor, dean of academic affairs at SFAI, told us that the exhibition’s sponsors, including the Andy Warhol Foundation and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, had sent letters in support of the show. The same exhibition attracted no protests when it was seen in Grenoble, France, earlier this year but was cancelled by curators in Glasgow in April.
NEW YORK. A committee in San Francisco’s city government has introduced a bill that would allow misdemeanour or felony criminal charges to be brought against any artist or financial backer who causes “the death, abuse or suffering of an animal” when making a work of art. San Francisco city commissioner Christine Garcia, who wrote the bill, told The Art Newspaper: “If you allow forums that find this type... more -
Hitler sits back in his bunker ... waxy-looking
The unveiling of the ex-Nazi dictator wax figure statue arouses criticism and sensation, as he's on exhibition along with popstars and other outstanding political figures. These look set to be overshadowed now by the controversial new installation. Yet he looks miserable and in his most sombre moment of decay ... The unveiling of the ex-Nazi dictator wax figure statue arouses criticism and sensation, as he's on exhibition along with popstar... more
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Animal Inspired Art Exhibition coming to London. Disturbing?
A ground breaking design exhibition takes place this September as part of the London Design Festival. It will bring together talented avant-garde designers and artists whose work is inspired by animals – forms that are simultaneously highly familiar but slightly disturbing; and radical yet nostalgic. Here are just a selection of some of the works of art that will be on show. A ground breaking design exhibition takes place this September as part of the London Design Festival. It will bring together talented ... more
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Artist J A Nicholls, London
These paintings look like collage but are made entirely of paint on a single canvas surface.
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Contemporary Art Projects (Exhibitor) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
An energetic curiosity about the world of things unites the work of Craig Fisher, J.A. Nicholls and Debra Swann. Cutting it up, shunting it around and shoving it down in a different way is what they each do with a confidence that runs a road through the familiar. These works transgress referential and material boundaries with a desire at times plainly wanton and at others with the tentative steps of a torchless, night-time adventure. What drives these practices is an appetite for a different kind of sense, new associations offering the possibility of new stories.
Fisher renders the accessories of tough urban life in fabric offering a new take on traditional representations of aggression and hostility. Soft and sensuous collisions of technique, of high and low culture and of pictorial and sculptural space cause slippages in meaning through which new territories can be glimpsed.
Gesturing from the far side, Nicholls’ faux collage paintings concern themselves with the pleasures of referentiality. These works pursue a dynamic dialogue with the remains of meaning, a range of faded visual histories, feeling what the curves and lines of familiar marks might contribute to the making of a new story.
As with Fisher and Nicholls, there is an almost fetishistic fascination with the physicality of materials in Swann’s delicately made and deceitful artefacts. A compulsive authorial shadow asserts its presence in the transformation of resources providing a fantastical gateway to the world of nature.
Inhabiting a point of view both within and at a distance from what’s agreed, the work of these three artists makes the assertion that odd associations have a rightful place, which strays from the requirement that they be competent, able to provide answers in known terms. An energetic curiosity about the world of things unites the work of Craig Fisher, J.A. Nicholls and Debra Swann. Cutting it up, shunti... more -
Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
DEBRA'S STATEMENT
My work is informed by the physicality of being human and yet the most visible trait comes from a collision between the worlds of reality and fantasy. Taking materials from the everyday and transforming them into fantastical objects or attire, I attempt to investigate my own imagination and explore the boundaries between the everyday and the subconscious or metaphysical worlds of fantasy. I am interested in how science tries to explain or make sense of the world and the way in which we place our trust in what we consider to be fact. Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com DEBRA'S STATEMENT ... more -
Afghanistan's Hidden Treasures on Display in D.C.
The history of Afghanistan is bloodied with wars, warlords, invasions and occupations, but as a vital stop along the ancient Silk Road, Afghanistan was also a place where traditions of the East and West met — a crossroads of cultural riches.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington is exhibiting some artifacts that have outlasted all the wars and conflicts. The show is a mix of breath-catching beauty, artistry, derring-do and heroism. The history of Afghanistan is bloodied with wars, warlords, invasions and occupations, but as a vital stop along the ancient Silk Road... more -
“Our Mountain” exhibition - Steve Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer
The super talented men of National Forest Design, Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer are putting on a show called “Our Mountain” which will feature new works from the both of them. If you are in the area you should definitely go check them out.
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www.nanastores.com The super talented men of National Forest Design, Steven Harrington and Justin Krietemeyer are putting on a show called “Our Mountain”... more -
'Extinct smells' exhibition
The world's first exhibition of 'extinct and impossible' smells is under way, from the metallic fallout of the first atomic bomb to the aroma of cloves and oranges from the first aid kit of a medieval plague doctor.
The acrid reek of a blazing meteor impact, the sweaty bouquet of a space station, the hothouse aroma of a Victorian greenhouse are also there for the smelling at the Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland.
The aromatic exhibition has drawn on the efforts of perfumers, chemists, botanists and a Nasa scientist.
There is also the smell of Cleopatra's hair, based on an incense that was popular among ancient Egyptians containing raisins, an evergreen called Cassia, and wine. The Soviet Mir space station, which burnt up in the atmosphere in 2001, smells of formaldehyde, charred material (the space station caught fire) and a strong pong of astronaut BO. Among the stranger smells is the "surface of the sun."
"It is hard to sum up. It is an atmospheric smell, like walking into a room when the sun has been pouring in," says Blackson. "It gives a freshness, a sun kissed feel with a bit of metal. If you can say something smells hot, this is it."
"There's also some extinct flowers," adds Blackson. "Some have been gone for hundreds of years, whilst others have only been extinct for the last 30, due to things like deforestation." The world's first exhibition of 'extinct and impossible' smells is under way, from the metallic fallout of the first at... more -
Banksy and pals go underground(ish)
A south London tunnel has been turned into a giant exhibition space by graffiti artist Banksy.
Murals in the Bristol artist's famous stencil style appear with work by 29 other artists in a half-mile stretch of the tunnel in Leake Street, Waterloo.
Images of Madonna kissing Britney Spears, a knife-wielding hoodie and a gameshow hostess appear alongside installations of crashed cars.
The three-day exhibition, called the Cans Festival, opens on Saturday. A south London tunnel has been turned into a giant exhibition space by graffiti artist Banksy. ... more -
Exhibition - World's Away: New Suburban Landscapes
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is currently exhibiting new work that comment and defy conventional stereotypes about contemporary American suburban life. The fact that suburban growth has shaped culture and how individuals engage in work and leisure is also the inspiration for new art. Visit the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to see World's Away, on view through August 17 at the Target Gallery, and later at the Carnegie Museum of Art, October 4, 2008 - January 18, 2009, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Image: Sarah McKenzie, Site, 2007, oil on canvas 48 x 72 in. Courtesy the artist and Robischon Gallery, Denver. Courtesy of Walker Art Center, walker.org. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is currently exhibiting new work that comment and defy conventional stereotypes about contemporar... more
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