Art
Turner Prize Winner Improvement?
The signature work of past winner Tracey Emin.
The signature work of this year's winner, Martin Boyce.
Full report here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 05, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
Sigalit Landau
S. Landau "DeadSee" by maneb40
This is the nude artist swimming in the Dead Sea with several bushels of watermelons.
Warning: minor artistic nudity a few pixels wide.
Artist's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 04, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Body, Food, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits
Ocupación
The artist's concept: to walk in traffic with car horns strapped to her back.
Or, as the translated text from YouTube says: "Occupation of space for the transit of cars with loud support from a portable device with 4 horns (12 v) for cars."
Artist's home page (in Spanish).
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 12, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Motor Vehicles, Central America
10 Weirdest Sculptures
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 15, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Asia, Europe, North America, South Pacific
John Pugh
Non-embeddable short documentary here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 14, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Pop Art, Surrealism, Psychology
Sleep Artist
The Man Who Draws in His Sleep
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 02, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Psychology, Europe, Brain
Art4God
Jesus laments that a container ship from Taiwan lost a bunch of toys overboard.
More great religious inspiration here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 31, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Religion, Toys, Historical Figure
Travis Louie
Surely a painter who will appeal to WU-vies.
The artist's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 30, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Mad Men #145
The twentieth-century's maddest genius touts chocolate and antacid.
Thanks to the sharp eyes of Warren Ellis.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 21, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Surrealism, Body, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, 1960s
Art Lover Puts His Foot In It!
Much to the amusement of nearby tourists , the startled art lover promptly sank into the installation, a 1962 work by Dutch artist Wim T. Schippers named – appropriately – Peanut Butter Platform, but since the piece is only a few centimetres deep, he was quite able to extract himself, leaving only a few nutty footprints as record of his adventure.
The museum meanwhile has demanded that the unfortunate fellow pay for the damage caused by his impromptu art-criticism, but they may have no solid foundation to do so. This is not the first time someone has accidentally trod on the exhibit, but museum bosses have previously refused to erect any form of barrier around the piece claiming that to do so would spoil its beauty (Herald Sun).
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Fri May 13, 2011 -
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Category: Accidents, Goofs and Screw-ups, Art, Avant Garde
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