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memory landscape drawingsLarge-scale wall drawings & works on paper by artist Janice Caswell that represent mental maps, an investigation of the mind's peculiar ways of organizing memories.
Artist of Light, Space and, Now, TreesRobert Irwin -- the prolific artist, philosopher and football fan. [images]
Drawn to startling drawingA Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective at MOCA in Los Angeles highlights the artists drawings (revealing that all his works were drawings whatever the medium) and "uncommonly clever" use of materials.
Interview: Dan Graham"Dan Graham is one of the most influential contemporary artists working at the intersection of art and architecture. His works have explored a variety of urban phenomena, from suburbia to public architecture and punk music. Graham is also a theorist and writer on cultural ideology and systems."
Follow the astroturf roadLondon-based art and design practice Sparks have installed a piece called "Convocation" to enliven an underused public space behind the Economist headquarters in London.
Interview: Richard SerraThe sculptor talks about his work, scale models, Zen gardens, and not giving a shit.
Interview: Ed Templeton"An icon of street culture, Ed Templeton is both a skateboarding legend and a prolific artist."
The Canary ProjectA collection of photographs shot in sixteen diverse landscapes around the word as a means to highlight evidence of global climate change.
Obsessive energetic visions of city lifeChris Dent is a U.K. based illustrator Chris whose work explores his fascination and intrigue in all forms of buildings, cities and street culture.
MaguilaCool Hunting points us to a groovy art mag published by a group of artists from São Paulo, Brazil. It is available for free download in PDF format. Check it.
A sprinkling of interventionArtist Kristi Sword creates interesting juxtapositions in ordinary urban contexts using stickers and candy sprinkles.
Willard Wigan, nano sculptorInadvertent inhalation of artworks is not an occupational hazard that one normally associates with sculpture: "...just as I was about to put Alice in place alongside the other characters, I inhaled her." Awesome.
Matta-Clark and Patek Phillipe's Love Child"Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building and made to oscillate in three dimensions." Far out, duuuude!
Un-vanishing a lakeAn interesting project by artist Ledia Carroll, whose "work uses measurement to reveal aspects of these internal logics within particular topographies."
Phone a glacier"A unique work of art, unveiled today, invites viewers to phone a glacier in Iceland - and listen to its death throes, live, through a microphone submerged deep in the bitterly cold lagoon."
Banksy Was HereThe guerilla artist profiled... "I have no interest in ever coming out. I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is."
Iconic Banksy image painted overLondon transport workers have painted over an iconic mural by "guerrilla artist" Banksy estimated to be worth more than £300,000.
Serra Installation At MoMAPhotos of a sculpture by Richard Serra being hoisted into place at MoMA's courtyard.
For many, artwork is not a bright spot"San Pedro's robotic eye-on-a-pole, watching passersby down below, is getting a mostly cool reception. Just wait until it shines a light on folks."
Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78"Mr. LeWitt helped establish Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant movements of the postwar era." "Mr. LeWitt gently reminded everybody that architects are called artists — good architects, anyway — even though they don’t lay their own bricks, just as composers write music that other people play but are still musical artists. Mr. LeWitt, by his methods, permitted other people to participate in the creative process, to become artists themselves."
Fictional Home Blue PrintsA series of floor plan drawings by artist Mark Bennett depicting the layouts of homes of characters including Dr. Frazier Crane, George Jetson, Luke Skywalker, etc.
The Museum of NatureA series of digitally manipulated photographs by Ilkka Halso showing "natural ecosystems" museum displays.