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Joshua Harris: Inflatable sculpture

Posted by Anne on September 7th, 2008

Harris makes moving street art from plastic shopping bags and trash bags which he attaches to the subway exhaust shafts in New York. Watch the ephemeral creatures come to life and die as they inflate and deflate, controlled by the winds generated by the passing trains:

Animating girls

Posted by Anne on May 27th, 2008

Two very different scenes – street theater and pixels – and yet somehow they are mirror worlds inhabited by the same kinds of dreams. We love puppets of all kinds, don’t we, especially those who seem to really come alive when we pull the strings. Who’s controlling whom? A little creepy (unheimlich) and wierd – [...]

Art is…

Posted by Anne on May 20th, 2008

For laughs: Aardman of Creature Comforts collects comments on art from the artistes and connaisseurs on the street. As he has his Hawaiian chameleon say, “If you can bring laughter into this world, that’s a form of art.”

iGoogle Artist themes launched

Posted by Anne on May 17th, 2008

A launch party on the streets of Manhattan: Google took their new product, featuring visuals by big name designers from Jeff Koons and Philip Starck to Dolce & Gabbana and Akira Isogawa, to one of the most interesting areas of New York, the Meatpacking District, and projected the artwork onto the buildings.
What a nice night [...]

Art for Navigators

Posted by Anne on January 21st, 2008

Julian Schnabel, artist and filmmaker, has just opened a new exhibition entitled “Navigation Drawings” at the Sperone Westwater gallery in New York.