tomorrow yesterday
Today re-imagined for yesterday
subway
As Sydney’s elites haggle endlessly over exactly how tall an awful building is going to be down in the new Darling harbour, or as they refer to it, Bangaroo, why not have a peek at what infrastructure looks like in a sophisticated, creative society, like Sweden. The above pics are part of a series which you [...]
hipgnosis
pixelated
makeovers
Great stuff here from Reclarkgable on the Behance network. The same couple rendered as every kind of hipster dream type you can think of. Ingenious.
taking your medicine
Denis Dutton/NY Times
Art’s link with money is not new, though it does continue to generate surprises. On Friday night, Christie’s in London plans to auction another of Damien Hirst’s medicine cabinets: literally a small, sliding-glass medicine cabinet containing a few dozen bottles or tubes of standard pharmaceuticals: nasal spray, penicillin tablets, vitamins and so forth. [...]
Fresco
From The Guardian
The creator of a subtle and unashamedly beautiful fresco in gold leaf has been named the winner of this year’s most prestigious UK art prize. Glasgow-based Richard Wright, 49, used the age-old, painstaking techniques of the old masters to make his glistening wall painting for the Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain [...]
Immanuel Kant’s critique of aesthetic judgement explained through the use of comic books
stick with it punters and learn some shit….
War and Peace
Sydneysiders may be aware of a pair of sculptures outside the Art Gallery of NSW that depict, in typical neo classical style the personages of war and peace sitting astride their tremendous stallions. Whilst kitsch, they’re quite striking and well rendered. Now local artist Tatzu Nishi has done something rather special to them, an intervention [...]
bullseye
Jacob Dahlgren | Interactive dart board installation
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