Selections from the Carceri d’invenzione of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Emile de Antonio – Painter’s Painting (1972)
September 17, 2009 – 4:09 am
The player will show in this paragraph An extraordinary film by radical filmmaker Emile de Antonio on post-war American painting featuring candid and revelatory interviews by the likes of Robert Rauschenberg, William de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Clement Greenberg. Taken from UbuWeb. (It’s 116 minutes.)
Margaret Durow
September 16, 2009 – 4:34 am
Margaret Durow is a 19 year old photographer from Wisconsin.
Superflex – Burning Car
September 15, 2009 – 4:01 am
Stills and low-quality video of the Danish art group Superflex’s Burning Car. For more information, including how to download a high quality version free from The Pirate Bay, visit Superflex’s website.
Postman Cheval’s Le Palais Idéal
September 14, 2009 – 4:01 am
Le Palais Idéal was built by hand by French Postman Ferdinand Cheval from 1879-1912 in the countryside outside of Lyon with stones he collected on his daily postal route.
Seizure by Roger Hiorns
September 12, 2009 – 7:50 am
The work Seizure by Roger Hiorns was produced in 2008 through Artangel in an unused 1960′s block of flats in south London. More than 70,000 litres of hot copper-sulfate solution were pumped into a waterproofed flat where it was left to crystalize for two weeks, producing an noxiously blue geode. The work earned Hiorns a [...]
Tom Hines for The Lake & Stars S/S 2010
September 11, 2009 – 3:52 am
See the entire campaign with considerably higher quality images, at Tom Hines’ website. The Lake & Stars, Maayan Zilberman & Nikki Dekker Model: Nell Rebowe, Trump Hair & Makeup: Fernando Haddad Prop Stylist: Jesse Kaufmann Photography: Tom Hines
William E. Jones – Killed (2009)
September 10, 2009 – 5:14 am
Images from William E. Jones’ work Killed (2009). The piece features a 2 minute loop of digital images taken from the Farm Security Administration’s attempt to document America during the Great Depression using photographers such as Walker Evans. The program’s director, Roy Strykor, “killed” images he saw as being unusable by punching a hole in the [...]
