Art The Modern Art Thread

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Stoned Monkey & Stitch HeaD

Kermit & His Screwdriver

 

[Noodle]

Ed Templeton

BIO

 

[Pander Bear]

 

[spork]

http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2008/10/gallery_LOLarts

 

[Pander Bear]

^^
love it curry!

put my ashes in this

 

[spork]

This one is my fave:

 

[bagochina]

Secrets

Lost

Hidden

Artist: Molly Brill

Green Peace & God bless,
Seedless

 

[Pander Bear]

I've been remiss lately, so I'll dump a couple things that have been languishing in my feed reader.

http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/what_happened_to_you_after_you_died

If you happened to be an inmate of the Oregon State Insane Asylum between 1883 and 1970s and nobody wanted your body, you were cremated and sealed inside a copper canister.

You sat on a shelf in your canister, numbered somewhere between 01 and 5118. Over time, your ashes reacted chemically with your canister, as the canister reacted chemically with the air. You were inside, trying to get out.

Then, in 2005, a photographer named David Maisel found you, took your portrait, and just published it in a book called Library of Dust.

 

[Pander Bear]

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/the-gallery/the-gallery-richard-bassett-067403

Richard Bassett's zapruder pillows

 

[Pander Bear]

"Very Hungry God" by Sudobh Gupta

 

[Pander Bear]

Tara Donovan's Installation at the Boston ICA

The last one is made from styrofoam cups, the first two, from illuminated vellum.

 

[Pander Bear]

A coat made from a culture of living cells--"Victimless leather"

 

[Pander Bear]

Knitted motorcycle cozy by Theresa Honeywell

http://theresahoneywell.com/section/65834.html

 

[Pander Bear]

Sugarcube Minarettes by Brendan Jamison

 

[spork]

I like those pillows, but find them kind of disturbing at the same time.

 

[AmorRoark]

That coat might be the creepiest thing I've ever seen.

 

[QuestionEverything]

^Agreed.

The David Maisel series is really beautiful and poignant.

 

[Pander Bear]

^^
word, best thing I've seen in ages.

 

[alasdairm]

i love art that makes me feel uncomfortable and, to different degrees, a number of the pieces here do that.

alasdair

 

[mariacallas]

That coat might be the creepiest thing I've ever seen.

lol agreed! that coat is giving me visions of misoprostil and uterine contractions...placenta!

I love the zapruder pillows and sugarcube minarette!