
Koons joins a veritable who's who of contemporary modern artists that have turned out BMW Art Cars, including Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alexander Calder. More >
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Koons joins a veritable who's who of contemporary modern artists that have turned out BMW Art Cars, including Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, and Alexander Calder. More >
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring: Objects of Life // Jan. 6-Feb. 6, 2010, at Robert Miller Gallery, 524 West 26th Street, New York,
Stendhal syndrome, Stendhal's syndrome, Hyperkulturemia, or Florence syndrome, is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single place. The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction to a surfeit of choice in other circumstances, e.g. when confronted with immense beauty in the natural world.
Woman Collides With a Picasso
On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally lost her balance and fell into “The Actor,” a rare Rose Period Picasso, tearing the canvas about six inches along its lower right-hand corner....
...the disappearance of the Billy Name's negatives has alarmed not just Mr. Name and his circle of friends and supporters but also scholars, who describe the images as an important historical record of a pivotal time in art history.
“His documentation of that era is really irreplaceable,” said Callie Angell, the adjunct curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Andy Warhol Film Project. “There were really only four photographers around the Factory for any length of time in the 1960s, and Billy Name was the only one of them who lived there. His pictures were Warhol’s press photos. They were his chosen representation of his work.”
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A new digital and interactive design exhibition is now open at the V&A in London entitled Decode: Digital Design Sensations. Julius Popp's "Bit.Code" examines how information on the Internet is presented and changes, how it is created and then dissipates and at what point in time we are able to absorb it. Bit.Flow is about creating a suitable visual metaphor to represent this.
Wallpaper Mag:
What is the thinking that underscores these works?
Popp says: "There is a Greek legend that concerns a thread that Ariadne gives to Theseus to help him find his way out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth. The philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze talked about how this thread has been broken in modern times in that there is no single way out anymore because everything happens simultaneously. Bit.Flow represents the fact that there is now a different kind of navigation and orientation in our culture."
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Twitter's top Trending Topics across several categories—an interesting time capsule of what was happening as this decade came to a close.
News Events
1. #iranelection
2. Swine Flu
3. Gaza
4. Iran
5. Tehran
6. #swineflu
7. AIG
8. #uksnow
9. Earth Hour
10. #inaug09
People
1. Michael Jackson
2. Susan Boyle
3. Adam Lambert
4. Kobe (Bryant)
5. Chris Brown
6. Chuck Norris
7. Joe Wilson
8. Tiger Woods
9. Christian Bale
10. A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez)
Movies
1. Harry Potter
2. New Moon
3. District 9
4. Paranormal Activity
5. Star Trek
6. True Blood
7. Transformers 2
8. Watchmen
9. Slumdog Millionaire