One of Bul’s floor sculptures. (Photo by C-M.)
I love a show where you can clomp your dogs all over the art. If you do, too, go check out Lee Bul’s trippy installations over at Lehmann Maupin in NYC. The show is up through June 14th.
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The art paparazzi get to work. (Sublime photo by eugenio_gp.)
Before: The Guardian’s art and architecture blog page with advertising.
After: That same page with art. So soothing!
How to put it delicately? Advertising sucks. And thankfully, there are mad-genius artist types in the universe who are working on dealing with this scourge. Brooklyn-based artist Steve Lambert, a senior fellow at Eyebeam, has, for the past year, been developing a Firefox plug-in that replaces Internet advertising with images of art.
The widget is based on a popular ad-blocking software, with added layers of coding that allow websurfers to see art rather than ads. Lambert, who has worked on other anti-advertising projects in the past, including Budget Gallery in California, and the Anti-Advertising Agency in NYC, came up with the idea three years ago. But he didn’t begin serious work on the project until about a year ago, when he got the hackers at Eyebeam to help write code. (Here’s the list of people who have contributed to the project.) In addition to the Eyebeam folk, other tech types have also been involved. “I’ve had groups of people get together every week or two weeks and we have pizza and beer and work on this,” explains Lambert. “There’s a guy at Bank of America who works during the day but then he comes over at night. He really has a great spirit about it.”
The plug-in is still in the beta stages, but I’ve been testing it out for several days and am happy to report that it kicks ass. (All of the screengrabs in this post are from my websurfing travails.) Seven out of ten times, the widget, formally known as Add-Art, effectively replaces all advertising with images of art. At other times, it just leaves ad spaces blank. The art, unfortunately, does not click through to an arts site. But no matter, Add-Art vastly improves the visuals on any websurfing experience. Ultimately, Lambert is seeking to create up-to-date galleries by guest curators that will be rotated in and out of selection every two weeks. “Right now, the plug-in replaces most ads and sometimes it leaves things blank,” he says. “But that’s fine with me. At least you’re not seeing ads.” Hallelujah to that.
Lambert will formally “unveil” the plug-in next Thursday, May 22nd, at 7:30 p.m., at the New Museum. In the meantime, you can download Add-Art here.
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Detail: Dangerous Intersection, 2008. (Photos by C-M.)
Photos from the opening of Josh Dorman’s solo show, Babel, at Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City. The show is up until June 21st.
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A Rauschenberg piece at Songs For Sale at Deitch, in 2006. (Photo by third uncle.)
Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008. Read the NY Times obit. See the photo essay. Plus: Bloomberg, AP, Chicago Trib, L.A. Times, Reuters and the Captiva News-Press.
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Dodecahedron lamp, 2005. (Photo by C-M.)
Olafur Eliasson at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in NYC. The show runs through June 21st.
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Matt Siren. (Photos by C-M.)
Darkcloud and Matt Siren had one heck of a jam-packed opening for their exhibit of paintings and prints at the Woodward Gallery. In addition to the main event, there was plenty of collaboration. The show includes a mini-show within a show: Siren got together all kinds of artists - including 2ESAE, AVone, Gore-B, Infinity and many others - for a series of collaborative sign paintings that hang at the gallery’s entrance.
Money shots after the jump. Click on images to supersize.
Zhang’s ash painting, as it was being produced. (Photos by C-M.)
Photos from the opening of Zhang Huan’s show at Pace Wildenstein. It was totally over the top. In a good way. His most prominent piece was a giant ash painting, which was created on the surface of adjoining six-foot tall concrete blocks. You have to climb several steps, up onto a scaffolding, to see the piece, which was being touched up by a young woman in white, who would float over it and flick little piles of ash on various strategic locations. I was afraid to sneeze.
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Embroidered piece by Steve Macdonald, aka the Ramblin’ Worker. (All photos courtesy of Paper Boat.)
Artists Steve MacDonald and Rachel Budde came together for a new exhibit last week at the Paper Boat Gallery, an independent arts space in Millwaukee. The folks at the gallery were kind enough to put up a very nice Flickr set that shows opening night proceedings. If you’re in Milwaukee, this looks like it’s definitely worth checking out. The show runs through the end of the month.
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Inga Huld Tryggvadottir. (Photos by C-M.)
Photos from Lather, Rinse, Repeat: new works by Aurora Robson, Inga Huld Tryggvadottir, Jason Wagner and Megan Hayes at Lumenhouse in Brooklyn. The show is up until May 18th. Check it out!
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