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keeping up
If you Google Huang Yong Ping + Bat Project, you’ll find news on Huang’s attempt to build and show a replica plane from a historical event, along with the news reports of the 2001 event itself. Funnily enough, you’ll also get the same data when you visit Huang’s work at the Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. It’s… (read more)
len_lye: science guy
Len Lye is Science Guy for art of all kinds. “How to Enjoy Art Without Thinking” by Len Lye. It’s not the original name of Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery exhibit (The Body Electric) but it’s the first notion that comes to mind wandering through the roomful of audio-enhanced, kinetic sculpture from the New Zealand artist. In… (read more)
slave to the Amazon
While the popular cry for the slow demise of Earth has been heard from every person, state, corporation, and politician for the past two decades, the Garden of Paradise appears to be handling it like a tough old grandmother. Think of a place on Earth that sees minimal human imprint. A green, square patch of… (read more)
more math for artists
As an artist – as a hungry, wanting, miserable-existing, low-rent-living, desperately seeking appreciation artist – wouldn’t you want to have maximum exposure so that any one of us buyers and lovers of art might catch on that you, well, exist? More philosophically, if you have a showing of your work, and it lasts only one… (read more)
hello down there
Imagine you’re floating in a narrow hole in the ground, a mile deep in the earth’s crust. It’s useless to scream because nobody would hear you. And there you are, for the rest of your very quiet and still life, getting to know your new neighbor, mother earth. It wouldn’t be a comfortable way to… (read more)