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May 10, 2013 | by Dave | In art, comics, Culture, Los Angeles, Music, New York, Printables | No Comments
Bubblesplatz: David Shrigley’s Shrine to Michael Jackson’s Monkey in Munich
Didn’t even know there was already a shrine to MJ there?
Lucien Smith, A Clean Sweep, 2013
Made in collaboration with Glenn O’Brien
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The Luckiest Village in the World by Michael Paterniti
It was a tiny town of farmers, a village where everyone knew everyone and nearly all struggled to make ends meet. But then, a few days before Christmas, they won the largest lottery in the history of Spain. The entire town. All of them. (Well, almost all of them.) Instantly, Sodeto became known as the luckiest place on earth. Michael Paterniti visits the town that fortune smiled upon and finds that the people there—now flush—are still uncertain of just how lucky they really are
New York Editions by New York Artists
Counter Editions offers up new work by Adam McEwen (above), Josephine Meckseper, Josh Smith, Mary Heilmann, Richard Phillips, Roe Ethridge, Sara Vanderbeek, and Ugo Rondinone, online and in a pop-up shop at the New Museum.
The Journey is The Destination
A behind-the-scenes look at 10 years of Ryan McGinley’s photography. The Ryan McGinley Purple Book is available with the latest issue of Purple FASHION Magazine (Issue 19).
May 7, 2013 | by Dave | In art, Books, Magazines, Photography, Slideshows, Travel, zines | No Comments
Artistic Homes of California
May 6, 2013 | by Dave | In Architecture, California, History, Home, San Francisco, Slideshows | 1 Comment
JR at Rikers
Working with the education department at the Tribeca Film Institute, JR was granted access to Rikers Island for a two-part art installation. How he got permission for this is a mystery to us. Dude’s been on a roll lately.
From JR’s instagram yesterday:
“We just pasted the eye of another Inmate on the 2 South Building of the Rikers Island Jail in New York City. He wanted me to choose his eye looking left as life in jail is all about watching your back…”
Tanera Mòr
Own this 800 acre island Scottish Island for only $3.9 million, and obtain the ability to design and issue your own stamps.
Openings & Parties: The Whitney Museum’s Annual Art Party
This was a good party with nice art, drinks and babes, and the Whitney raised over $450,000 towards their independent study program. Win-win.
Photos by Christos Katsiaouni.
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Legends Never Die by Caroline Rothstein
Two decades after a low-budget film turned Washington Square skaters into international celebrities, the kids from “Kids” struggle with lost lives, distant friendships, and the fine art of growing up.
photo by Gunars Elmuts
Yung Lenox
Under the art direction of his father Skip Class, six-year-old Yung Lenox makes portraits of rappers and popular characters from online culture. This Saturday, the lil’ man makes his debut in the group show Magic Kingdom at the Old School in New York.
“He is me and I am him.
He is my son. I am his dad. If I watch cartoons then he watches cartoons. If I eat pizza then he eats pizza. If I listen to obscure 90′s Memphis rap tapes then he listens to…..you get the idea.”
Santa Monica Locos
Talking Portraits by James Gurney
“In 1981, artist James Gurney brought his sketchbook and tape recorder to the pier in Santa Monica, California. He did a pencil portrait of two guys there and then asked them to describe themselves to the tape recorder. For the first time, their faces and voices are brought together in a talking portrait.”
via, boingboing
San Francisco Photography
Travis Jensen, Andrea Sonnenberg, and Ted Pushinsky at Guerrero Gallery. On view through May 4th.
THE TRAVEL ISSUE
It’s really worth subscribing to THE THING, especially since the upcoming artists in this subscription cycle are Tauba Auerbach, Ben Marcus, and John Baldessari.
