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Is it art? Salmon glaze with paint brush via Julia Child
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, Food, performance, Tom Bennett, video with tags "But Is It Art?", Food, julia child, SALMon, Tom Bennett on October 21, 2010 by Tom BennettBut Is It Art? Feed Me, Seymour.
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Miscellaneous, news, science, Tom Bennett, Uncategorized with tags "But Is It Art?", news, rat, science, Tom Bennett on August 20, 2009 by Tom Bennett
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.
Goebbels may ask, is it art? Golden Fascist Gnome
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, awareness, events, exhibits, figurative, news, Tom Bennett with tags "But Is It Art?", Art, museum exhibit, nazi, news, Nuremberg, Tom Bennett on July 17, 2009 by Tom Bennett
Irony again???
German authorities are asking if a nazi-saluting gnome on exhibit in Nuremberg is in violation of the law. I can see this in my backyard garden in Brooklyn as a flippant bronx cheer to my loud, authoritarian, merengue-playing neighbors.
The artist has been overtly disingenuous about the potential socio-political provocativeness.
But Is It Art?
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, Toni Tiller with tags "But Is It Art?", Art, artprize, Toni Tiller on June 12, 2009 by Toni TillerKalamazoo artist takes the phrase “go sit on a flagpole” a bit literally. Is it art? As usual I don’t know but you can look here and judge for yourself.
Brooklyn Designs
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, design, Miscellaneous, mixed media with tags "But Is It Art?", design, dumbo, MOMA, Tom Bennett on May 8, 2009 by Tom Bennett
http://www.ashacarpets.com
from their website:
BKLYN DESIGNS™ is New York’s hottest exhibition of designers and manufacturers of contemporary furnishings, lighting, and accessories made and/or designed in Brooklyn, all handpicked by a jury of editors from leading design and shelter magazines. Founded in 2003, this not-to-be-missed trade show has doubled its attendance in just six years, and has grown to include a diverse array of satellite exhibits and demonstrations, panel discussions, and keynote speakers. The 7th annual BKLYN DESIGNS™ show will be held May 8 – 10, 2009, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. BKLYN DESIGNS ’09 will be spread out over numerous venues to include a specially curated “green” exhibition at Thermador, Bosch, Gaggenau Showroom, a children’s furniture off-site located at Jane’s Carousel, as well as multiple design related evening festivities at hot spots across DUMBO.
But Is It Art?
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Toni Tiller with tags "But Is It Art?", Bacon on April 22, 2009 by Toni TillerIt’s bacon. In a SQUEEZE BOTTLE. Enough said.
Freaky, But is it Art?
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, current events, events, exhibits, Miscellaneous, science, Tom Bennett with tags "But Is It Art?", anomalies, exhibit, freak show, gallery, human oddities, shock and horror, side show, Tom Bennett on April 10, 2009 by Tom Bennett
Ever since my father took me to Madison Square Garden, when I was 7, to see the Barnum and Baily circus I have been fascinated with it and the side show.
An artist and photographer, James Mundie, let me know about this.
There is an exhibition of human oddities and medical anomalies at a gallery in downtown Los angeles called the Todd Browning Gallery, named after the director of the classic horror film, “Freaks”. The gallery specializes in vintage and contemporary photography by international artists. The show is called Shock and Horror
But Is It Art?
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Toni Tiller with tags "But Is It Art?", Art, scanwiches on March 29, 2009 by Toni TillerAs usual I have no idea how to answer that, but by the end of page one I am pretty sure whatever it is I like it. “March 19″ on page two particularly captures my fancy.
-Toni “bunnie” Tiller
But Is It Art?: The Inevitable Robot Rebellion
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art with tags "But Is It Art?", Art, news, robots, zombies on March 11, 2009 by jdhastings
I know what you’re thinking to yourself right now after reading that headline. You’re thinking, “But which robot rebellion is he talking about? The kind from the Matrix? Or one of the ones from Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner, the Terminator, War Games, 2001, or even the non-rebellion rebellions spelled out in the original Robots series by Isaac Asimov?”
And to your query I respond: Yes.
You see, I am an unapologetic Sci-Fi dork. I find the world destroying issues of the fictional future to be way more cool than any of the kinds we’re actually facing today.
So I felt a completely inappropriate thrill today when I ran accross a story titled, Regulate Armed Robots Before It’s Too Late on Newscientist.com. Could the dystopic future I’ve loved since childhood finally be here? We can all hope.
But don’t stress yourself out worrying too much. Afterall, Will Smith still walks among us.
Thanks, Vincent
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Art, art school, Miscellaneous, performance, Tom Bennett, Uncategorized with tags "But Is It Art?", Art, art school, performance, sweden, Tom Bennett on February 15, 2009 by Tom BennettWe 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.”
“But is it art?” Bacon Redux
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Food, Links, Toni Tiller with tags "But Is It Art?", Bacon, Cookies, Experiment, Toni Tiller on December 27, 2008 by Toni TillerI am feeling a little nostalgic because it was about this time last year I was up at Chez ssSteph enjoying Christmas and trying out some experimental bacon cookies. Yes, I said bacon cookies, don’t sneer. ssSteph is mostly vegetarian (not to mention really tolerant to let me stink up her house with a pound of fried bacon) so all of the taste testing was left to me, but I have to say they were pretty good. If you can get over the whole, “there is meat in my cookie” mind bender and just focus on the sweet and savory combination of flavors you might enjoy them. Here is a link to a baking blog called Never Bashful With Butter where they have a recipe, as well as all kinds of more traditional, but no less delicious ideas. For those of you who are more committed to bacon than you are to cookies, I found a Bacon of the Month Club.
photo credit – neverbashfulwithbutter.com
- Toni “bunnie” Tiller
“But Is It Art?”: the Bacon Cheese Weave
Posted in "But Is It Art?", Food with tags "But Is It Art?", Art, Bacon, Cooking, Food, Recipe on December 18, 2008 by jdhastingsI’ve seen many arguments as to the definition or categorization of art. Different people have different takes, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. I thought it might be fun (or infuriating- same dif) to occasionally examine the issue as it comes up.
Today’s entry?
The Cheese-filled Bacon Blanket (and a separate entity- the Meat Cake), as posted on the excellent (and usually a little healthier) food blog Thought for Food, who found it at Foodproof.
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