The Museum of Modern Art is featuring a small exhibition of Tehching Hsieh’s performance art. The exhibit’s focus is on the very first of Hsieh’s “One Year Performances”, entitled “Cage Piece” which involved him spending an entire year in near-solitary confinement in a cell-like cage doing absolutely nothing.
This is the inaugural installation in an ongoing series that will bring performance documentation, original performance pieces, and live reenactments of historic performances to various locations throughout the Museum. The first artist to be spotlighted is Tehching Hsieh (b. 1950, Taiwan), who is best known for his five One Year Performances: between 1978 [...]

20 Feb 09  /  Art  /  2 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

This isn’t really art related, but it’s too biazzare not to share.
The descendants of Geronimo have sued Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University with ties to the Bush family, charging that its members robbed his grave in 1918 and have kept his skull in a glass case ever since.
The claim is part of a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington on Tuesday, the 100th anniversary of Geronimo’s death. The Apache warrior’s heirs are seeking to recover all his remains, wherever they may be, and have them transferred to a new grave at the headwaters of the [...]

20 Feb 09  /  Uncategorized  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Artist Terence Koh is the new face for the Spring United Bamboo collection & considering a career change.
“I would like to be a male model,” he says with a smile. “I think I might give up being an artist. That’s hard work.”
What’s wrong bad boy? Nobody is paying half a mil for semen coated bricks of shit these days?

19 Feb 09  /  Art  /  3 Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

18 Feb 09  /  Uncategorized  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

TOUCHPUPPET favorite Takashi Murakami has some new work on display at the Gagosian Gallery in London.
Beneath its bright and playful appearance, Murakami’s art deftly challenges the established dichotomies of high art and popular culture, East and West, present and past, life and death, humor and gravity, skepticism and belief. Visually, his work merges the dystopic worlds of popular animé and manga cartoons with the ultra-refined techniques of traditional Nihonga painting.
The centerpiece of Murakami’s compact exhibition is a vast and intricate five-panel painting, [...]

18 Feb 09  /  Art  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

Really fresh video directed by Nabil.
Via: Kanye’s Blog

18 Feb 09  /  Video  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

China is hopping to pressure Christie’s auction house into withdrawing two bronzes from its sale of Yves Saint Laurent’s vast art collection next week in Paris, saying they were “looted from the imperial Summer Palace near Beijing nearly 150 years ago.”
The two Qing dynasty bronze animal heads, one depicting a rabbit and the other a rat, are believed to have been part of a set comprising 12 animals from the Chinese zodiac that were created for the imperial gardens during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century.
China views the relics [...]

18 Feb 09  /  Art  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes

2007 – On his feelings prior to a fashion show:
“I have no human feelings”
God I love Karl Lagerfeld. Everything that comes out of his mouth is priceless.

18 Feb 09  /  Fashion  /  No Comments  /  Zachary Hayes