Henry Moore

HENRY MOORE AT THE BBC | Exploring the art of a modern day master

"Art is the expression of imagination and not the imitation of life." -- Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)

Link via The Guardian.
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Baptise Debombourg

Turbo, wood installation, 2008

An amazing sensitivity for distilling a sense of the unexpected out of commonplace experiences.

Link via MAKE.
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LACMA Reading Room

An important move to freely make available old museum catalogs, which will not make the museum any money because very few will buy them but critical as historic documents.  Also see earlier post.

Link via Los Angeles Times.

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Gabriel Orozco

An intellectually enigmatic artist's work eliciting a conceptual approach even in the design of the web-site accompanying his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Link via INSIDE/OUT.
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Motoi Yamamoto

Room, Salt, 260 x 560 cm, 2009

An intricate balance of an evocative and visually alluring material.

Link via Artist A Day.
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Olivier Kosta-Thefaine

Symphony (Detail view of the solo exhibition "W"); Flame of the lighter on ceilling & video documentation; 2009 (photo : Cripta747)

Restrained baroque to the point of primordial "sublime".

Link via Neatorama.
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Light Art Performance Photography (LAPP)

2007

If "enlightened kitsch" is ever possible, it might look somewhat like this?

Link via Neatorama.
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Nate Page

Beauty as an incarnation of excavated desires.

Link via Make Blog.
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Alexandre Farto (Vhils)

Scratching The Surface



Link via Artist A Day.
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Edgar Martins

Untitled, from the series 'Ruins of the Gilded Age' 2008 (Georgia, USA), C-type print, 98x254cm, Edition of 5

Crossing between the imaginary and real - all in the name of that age-old problem of representation.

Link via Conscientious blog.
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Altermodern

Is this IT?

Link to Tate Triennial Exhibition web-page.
Also Exhibition Resource page.
Link to Art In America interview.
Link to Wikipedia page.

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Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective

If walls could not speak, perhaps they could draw? And the time-lapse movies are hypnotic, to say the least

Link via MASS MoCA.
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Betsabeé Romero

Endless spiral, 105cms wide x 30cms each

A cutting comment - literally - on use, waste and transformation .

Link via Neatorama.
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Fourth Plinth

Art at its most public ...

See Guardian web-site.
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Orlan

There's still something to be said - and learn - from Orlan's carefully crafted visual statements.

Link via Guardian.
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Slinkachu

Dreams of packing it all in - Hammersmith Bridge, London, 2006

Street art with a Zen attitude.

Link via Artist A Day.
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Lizzie Thomas

"Hidden Etching", Hand cut and hand printed paper

Portable foldings portending an inevitable diminishing of thought things.

Link via Artist A Day.
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Kate MccGwire

"Rile", 2009, Pigeon feathers, polystyrene, felt, glue, museum cabinet, 180 x 60 x 60

A studied fascination, bordering on obsession - which might be considered as the fundamental underpinning of interesting art.

Link via Artist A Day.
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Art: 21 - Art in the Twentieth-First Century

All 4 seasons of the PBS series are now available online on Hulu. Go to web-page.

Link via Modern Art Notes.
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David Ireland (1930-2009)

"Box of Angels", 1996, Cast figurines, glass, and wood vitrine

"You can’t make art by making art." - David Ireland

See online virtual exhibition at Oakland Museum of California.

Links for tribute and photos in Los Angeles Times; tribute in San Francisco Chronicle.
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