| Centerpoints: Buddhism and Art, Translating Peace - Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:27:20 +0000 |
| • “The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist—that it’s a godlike thing,” says Laurie Anderson in an interview with The Believer. “You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.” • When Chris Burden’s Metropolis, a kinetic sculpture/mini-cityscape, opens at LACMA on Saturday, [...] |
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| Send in the Cats: An Open Call - Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:51:04 +0000 |
| As you may have gathered, I’m a dog guy. But seeing as the internet is especially fond of cats, we’ve been doing a weekly (more or less) nod to feline fanciers in the Walker homepage’s Art News From Elsewhere section. Our art-linked Friday Cat Breaks have shown us Ai Weiwei’s cats; the increasingly abstracted cat [...] |
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| Centerpoints: Face Replace, Hockney v. Hirst, Polish Banksy - Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:16:11 +0000 |
| • Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Steve Jobs: These are some of the figures Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro use in their face-substitution experiment, which uses face-tracking technology and color interpolation to create creepy mashup visages. • David Hockney confirms: Language on posters for his Royal Academy of Arts show are a dig at Damien Hirst. [...] |
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