Do you remember the Takashi Murakami and Kirsten Dunst collaboration (Akihabara Majokko Princess) we reported on awhile back? I figured you didn’t. Nevertheless, the video has finally found its way to the internet!
UPDATE: If the video goes down or gets pulled, just leave me a comment and I will try to find an alternative source.
Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo is a Korean-Italian American artist who was born in Busan, South Korea and is now working out of Berlin, Germany.
The Witness, the new artistic project by Winkler+Noah.
“Growing up on the wrong side of the wall might mean becoming blind. Everything that is behind it seems muffled and invisible. The reality is just a surrogate offered by the authorities, and it marks the passing by days till they become years. This is why we have chosen to portray symbolically 20 blind young people in their twenties, photographed in a tight close up of their faces, where the eyes are as if covered up by a white patina that makes impossible the vision of the world.”
Exhibition in Milan: November 9 – December 3
Wannabee Gallery, Via Thaon de Revel, 3
MINDstyle’s Deluxe McSupersized Me by Ron English is set to ship in time for Christmas. Which means that I better get my order in. Check out MINDstyle’s website for more information.
I am really digging the work of Georgia based artist Elizabeth Heppenstall. In particular, I really love her animated gif series entitled ‘Boys’. [via]
Here’s a look at Damien Hirst’s latest foray into the art world, a series of self made–as in, unaided by his army of faceless art school worker bots–paintings that The Gaurdian are calling “deadly dull” and “positively amateurish.” Putting aside my own slightly neurotic and occasionally unfounded hatred of Damien Hirst, I must say that the criticism seems misplaced and rather opportunistic given the popularity of anti-Hirst sentiments these days.
While the paintings themselves might not be the greatest works of art ever created, Hirst has done the art world a great service by instigating a reversal in the popularity (that he originally helped create) of art created by anonymous assembly line automatons.
Whether or not this renewed idea of self creation takes hold in the oxygen deprived upper atmospheres of high art remains to be seen, but I personally would love to see it catch on. Congratulations Mr. Hirst, I hate you a little less today.
So that strange Kirsten Dunst sighting in Tokyo awhile back has finally been explained. She’s apparently taking part in a new short film by Takashi Murakami and director McG entitled “Akihabara Majokko Princess”, wherein she plays the part of a “Murakami princess” singing The Vapors “Turning Japanese”.
The video is part of the “Pop Life: Art in a Material World” exhibition currently being held at the Tate Modern museum. We will be sure to publish the video whenever it inevitably makes its way to the Internet.
COMBO, a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis. I love it. Although I still like Blu’s other piece a little bit better.
