Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich has added new meaning to the phrase, “comfort food.” He created a sofa made out of chocolate cake.
Edible Furniture
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Eat My Seat
Posted in Art, Food, Tom Bennett, mixed media, sculpture with tags Art, Food, Tom Bennett, sculpture, edible art, south america, cake on November 18, 2009 by bennett77But Is It Art? Feed Me, Seymour.
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Miscellaneous, Tom Bennett, news, science with tags "But Is It Art?", news, rat, science, Tom Bennett on August 20, 2009 by bennett77
I need this in my neighborhood in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It’s a newly discovered
Rat-eating plant.
What it does with the bones, I don’t know. Now if an obnoxious Donna Summer-playing neighbor-eating plant can be discovered, I’ll be set.
LizardMan Tips the Scales on Coney Island
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, Photography, Tom Bennett, current events, events, performance with tags brooklyn, Coney Island, freakshow, Lizardman, meg rorison, performance, Photography, Tom Bennett on April 22, 2009 by bennett77So my niece Margaret (Meg), a fine photographer – Meg’sBlog– comes over to hang out and paint, but we decide to head on out to Coney Island instead, to shoot some photos and maybe spot LizardMan. Steph prompted the whole idea in an earlier post, but it was well past his show time when we got in the car. The fog was thick as soup and Meg and I were crawling around in the misty mess when finally we spotted the Circus Sideshow Freak Bar, and low and behold, there was Lizardman hmself, holding a post-performance chat with his fans and a few gecko groupies. He spoke of his sword swallowing techniques among other things, and we took some pictures. His dedication to his self-mutilation –– that is, uh, craft – is remarkable. Well, here are some shots.
Tom Bennett
This was Coney Island in the fog :
And then we meet Jim Morrison- uh, I mean, the Lizardman:
French kisses are a dollar.
LizardMan and BatsBoy.
Meg and the Fire Eater’s chin.
Meg is pleased by snakes.
Better Late Than Never…
Posted in "But Is It Art?", 1904 World's Fair, Art, City Museum, Drawing, FREE ART, Jason Gray, Links, Miscellaneous, Painting, Photography, Rust-Belt, St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum, Work in Progress, abstract, art on paper, awareness, collection, current events, digital, exhibits, mixed media, museum, news, oil painting, portrait on March 30, 2009 by jasongrayfineartist
O.k., so I’m posting late this week….In all earnestness, this is not going to be much of a post at all. I spent this last weekend in St. Louis, which is to be my new home, come May 1st. From all perspectives, this will be a good move, as it will allow my wife and I to save money, revolve around a smaller nucleus, have more space, do more things, etc.
Nonetheless, this post is centered around the photographs that I took while doing other things, this weekend. It is image heavy, so be forewarned… Read more »
Photo-Impressionism
Posted in Art, Jason Gray, Photo-Impressionism, Photography, Work in Progress, abstract, digital, technique on March 13, 2009 by jasongrayfineartist
This is an update of a project that I started back in December. Over that time, I have experimented a lot within this series, and I think that the approach that I have arrived at has finally evolved into something pretty interesting. Read more »
Written Letter Project–Neo-Luddites, Unite!
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Jason Gray, Miscellaneous, awareness, current events, internet on March 10, 2009 by jasongrayfineartistGenerally, on every one of my days off, I clamber out of bed, put on some water for coffee, and go straight to the computer. Once there, I proceed to worship, red-eyed and impervious to the real world; but what am I worshiping, and why? I am inexplicably drawn to the scale of human broadcast, and to the scope of internet-bred, interconnectivity. The pull is something preternatural; something I desire without real necessity for it. In concept, the abstract of social networking sites is Read more »
Synesthesia
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, Jason Gray, Miscellaneous, Psychology, Scientific American Magazine, abstract, awareness, current events, neuroscience, news, synesthesia on February 27, 2009 by jasongrayfineartistScientific American: Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes [ NEUROSCIENCE ]
People with synesthesia–whose senses blend together–are providing valuable clues to understanding the organization and functions of the human brain
My reaction:
After reading this article, it seems that synesthesia might be a completely perceivable condition, or at least that its possibility appears logically explicable. As our society becomes Read more »
Who’s your Favorite 20th Century artist?
Posted in Art, Collage, Drawing, Miscellaneous, Painting, Tom Bennett, art on paper, mixed media, news with tags 20th century artists, Art, Painting, saatchi, Times online, Tom Bennett on February 24, 2009 by bennett77The Times Online and the Saatchi gallery have put together a list of 200 twentieth century artists and is asking visitors to vote for their favorite. They include famous painters, sculptors, photographers, video and installation artists.
You can vote for your favorite artist/s on the
TimesOnline website
My current pick is Willem de Kooning; of course painting would have suffered without the likes of Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Gerhard Richter, Philip Guston, Wassily Kandinsky, Anselm Kiefer, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Richard Diebenkorn, Frank Auerbach and well, the list goes on…
Photo Technique
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Jason Gray, Miscellaneous, Photography, abstract, digital, portrait, technique on February 20, 2009 by jasongrayfineartist
Here is a little secret that I like to do to create interesting shots. I cut the bottom off of a Read more »
Links Du Lapin #13
Posted in "But Is It Art?", current events with tags Art, auction, bad painting, michael jackson, Toni Tiller on February 16, 2009 by Toni TillerMichael Jackson is selling off some of his prized possessions. I’d comment on this one but I think it speaks for itself.
Thanks, Vincent
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, Miscellaneous, Tom Bennett, art school, performance with tags "But Is It Art?", Art, art school, performance, sweden, Tom Bennett on February 15, 2009 by bennett77We have to thank the romantic movement of the 19th century and characters like Vincent Van Gogh for the the collective western idea of the artist as madman. Here is a new manifestation:
“The doctoral performance art dissertation as madman.”
TB
from Ananova:
Student fakes insanity – for art project
A modern art student stunned doctors by pretending to be mad so she’d be sent to a psychiatric hospital – as part of her degree show.
Anna Odell, 35, convinced police she was psychotic after faking a suicide attempt jumping off a bridge in the Swedish capital Stockholm.
It took eight staff to restrain her at nearby St Goran’s hospital where the artist kicked, screamed and spat in nurses’ faces until she was sedated and strapped down.
But furious doctors discharged her the next morning when she told them the stunt had been part of an art project for her final degree show at Sweden’s University College of Arts.
Police are investigating complaints of assault, violence against public servants and wasting police time.
Chief physician David Eberhard said: “It’s not only disgraceful that she used our resources, but what she also did to other patients, the staff – to everyone – is shameless.
“She and the head of her college ought to cut their hair and get real jobs.”
Ms Odell insisted: “It was well thought through and no joke.”
The animated life
Posted in Art, Drawing, Links, Miscellaneous, Painting, Tom Bennett, animation, art on paper, film, mixed media with tags animation, Art, Drawing, film, Painting, Photography on January 9, 2009 by bennett77I rediscovered Jeff Scher again recently. His animated drawings and paintings choreographed to music are mesmerizing.
From the NY Times:
Jeff Scher is a painter who makes experimental films and an experimental filmmaker who paints. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum, and has been screened at the Guggenheim Museum, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and at many film festivals around the world, including opening night at the New York Film Festival. Mr. Scher has also had two solo shows of his paintings, which have also been included in many group shows in New York galleries. Additionally, he has created commissioned work for HBO, HBO Family, PBS, the Sundance Channel and more. Mr. Scher teaches graduate courses at the School of Visual Arts and will be joining the faculty at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Kanbar Institute of Film & Television’s Animation program in the fall. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two sons.
His new films and paintings can be seen via his website above,
this is an animated film from several years ago:
Portrait and Allegory
Posted in Art, Links, Painting, Tom Bennett, art on paper, monotype, portrait with tags allegory, Art, figure, homage, monotype, Painting, paper, portrait, tiepolo, Tom Bennett on January 8, 2009 by bennett77This week I’m posting a monotype that was requested as a gift, below; and another in a series of interpretations of allegorical paintings, this time the baroque “Neptune and Venus”, by Tiepolo.
Tiller, monotype, 18′ x 12″
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Neptune and Venus (after Tiepolo), monotype 18″ x 12″
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Recession can bring out Repression
Posted in Art, Miscellaneous, Tom Bennett, news with tags Art, art exhibits, exhibit, Gagosian, galleries, gallery, new york, recession on December 21, 2008 by bennett77gag
From Gawker.com:
Wow, this beats even the douchey memos or subject-only e-mail missives we’re used to receiving. Larry Gagosian, probably the richest gallerist in the world, sent this message to his staff in November: “If you would like to continue working for Gagosian I suggest you start to sell some art.” The memo originally appeared on Flash Art Online, but now we can’t find it—maybe because Gagosian is a big advertiser on that site?—and was also picked up by More Intelligent Life. The rest of the threatening memo—”If you are not willing to make that kind of commitment please let me know”—after the jump.
“If you would like to continue working for Gagosian I suggest you start to sell some art. Everything is going to be evaluated in this new climate based on performances I basically put in eighteen hours a day, which any number of people could verify. If you are not willing to make that kind of commitment please let me know. The general economy and also the art economy is clearly headed for some choppy waters; I want to make sure that we are the best swimmers on the block. The luxury of carrying under-performing employees is now a thing of the past.”
Hah. Don’t we know it.
NY Gallery Shows in December
Posted in Art, Collage, Links, Miscellaneous, Painting, Photography, Tom Bennett, Uncategorized with tags art exhibits, Art, gallery, Painting, new york city, marlene dumas, Fashion Institute of technology, MOMA on December 20, 2008 by bennett77There can seem few other options outside of shopping and partying in New York at the holidays. Here are a few shows for the holiday weary:
–Tom Bennett
Reinventing the Wheel
Posted in Art, Photography, Uncategorized on December 12, 2008 by jasongrayfineartist
“Untitled”, Nikon D300, Location: St. Louis, Missouri
This post parallels Toni’s recent one. The idea that photography owes itself exclusively to the reproduction of recognizable places, peoples and things is one the has consistently been argued for or against since the media’s inception. The unique thing about photography that causes this inherent dichotomy is its two functions; utilitarian and intellectual. For instance, a photograph of a single-celled organism can either function as scientific fact or esoteric fantasy; one being the representation of a thing that we can not see with our own eyes for the benefit of our understanding, and one being the recognition and appreciation of a design that we are not ordinarily familiar with. Which is real? Anne Hoy wrote, “The photograph has an indexical relation to its subject: it is chemical proof of the presence of its subject in past time under light, a trace of existence like a thumbprint or DNA evidence.” Today however, the opportunity to alter what was real is greater than ever with the widespread use of digital photography editing software. No doubt a plethora of altered truths exist as accepted truths; bended realities that thereby bend the rules of life that we live by. Who hasn’t pictured themselves as though they were in a movie, and then sought out to make some version of that fictional version of themselves real?
In any case, this photograph was taken while my brother and I were walking along railroad tracks, south of St. Louis, at Cliff Cave Park, along the Mississippi River. At this point along the tracks, there is a spot below a cliff face, a hundred or so feet high, that collects the junk that people throw off the precipice high above. As those articles of detritus are heaved over the side of the cliff, their reality is altered, and they lose what they were, and become first missiles for a moment and then a fractured design on the ground below. Something appreciated from above. My photograph took into consideration the new purpose of the wheel as part of a composition with the sticks around it. Like the single-celled organism, it is a wheel and a found object artwork as well, and only the viewer can tell the difference.
Best-
Jason
National Bankruptcy Day
Posted in Miscellaneous, Uncategorized on December 12, 2008 by Daniel Allyn Lee
I’m not sure if I’ll have to stop making toys and selling them. I hope not but, what I’ve heard about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act is making me worried.
February 10th is being called “national bankruptcy day”, because that’s when this act is set to go into effect. As far as I understand any manufacturer of any product intended for use by children under 12 must have third party testing done on every product and every variation of that product for lead and phosphates. “Apparel, diapers, blankets (housewares), books, videos, computer and electronic products, strollers, cribs, car seats, and anything humans come in contact with in their environment.”
Now, I make one of a kind, plush dolls at home and there is no way I could afford these tests; they are ridiculously expensive. It might be feasible for a large company but for me it wouldn’t make any sense, but the regulation has Read more »
Blog Blessing
Posted in Art, Uncategorized on December 2, 2008 by darteboard
We ask the patron saint of internet artists to watch over this blog, to protect us from pretension, pomposity, and the greatest sin of all, being boring.
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Toni Tiller
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