the recent collaboration between hermes and japanese artist hiroshi sugimoto has resulted in objects of light, objects of desire, and objects of nothing and anything. color and light have always been a muse for me, so i truly enjoy mr. sugimoto’s articulation of his work. please watch the vid here.
ps. dd should have gotten one of these for his personal anniversary, i would have loved to…it’s the thought, right? by kl
this is a story of a monk and a nun whose love letters became world famous. around 1100, peter abelard went to paris to study at the school of notre dame. he gained a reputation as an outstanding philosopher. fulbert, the canon of notre dame, hired abelard to tutor his niece, heloise. abelard and the scholarly heloise fell deeply in love, conceived a child, and were secretly married. but fulbert was furious, so abelard sent heloise to safety in a convent. thinking that he intended to abandon heloise, fulbert had his servants castrate abelard while he slept. abelard became a monk and devoted his life to learning. the heartbroken heloise became a nun. despite their separations and tribulations, abelard and heloise remained in love. their poignant love letters were later published. by cm
this incredible street art can be found today through august 25th at openhouse 379 broome in nolita. these installations, composed by iranian artists icy and sot, concentrate on the parallels between the worlds of love and hate, war and peace, and hope and despair. i tend to divulge in the mystery between life and death, but i suppose that is transfixed in the midst of all these other concepts. the designs from tehran have previously been in turin, paris and several places in brazil. if you are in the new york area this weekend, there’s no excuse but to check these out. if you head over tonight, you can hear the iranian punk band the yellow dogs. by sv
did anybody else get one? by ak
Brothers Quay -1987- Rehearsals for Extinct… by petitlolotechre
the brothers quay and their surrealist tendencies. my dreams looked like this over the weekend, monochromatic and disturbing. by sv
i’m referring to an english teacher here. by dd
by motoi yamamoto. if you live in LA, you can see his works in laband art gallery starting september 8. by ak
inhotim is a contemporary-art complex in the hills of southeast brazil, where you can enter a unique art experience with more than 500 works by foreign and brazilian artists, as well as a botanical garden with otherworldly plants. by cp
tall sculptures of girls by cajsa von zeipel. by wn
brazilian artist vik muniz makes us re-think the amount of garbage we produce with his documentary waste land and garbage portraits. by cp
fluorescent tubing seems to be a go-to for gazillions of trying artists that might rely on the industrial and the mundane to create a modern spirituality. it takes a great artist to succeed. here we see a beautiful piece by dan flavin, 1987. by kl
thomas bayrle’s tenaciously consistent pieces have transcended the idylls of religion, art, machines and remained socially apt for decades. here we see his dogmatic epiphany of the automotive kind. by sv
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