Amy Goodwin

The Art Newspaper reports that the american artist robert rauschenberg has sued a florida artist for selling his
trash. the defendant, robert francis montgomery found a collection of work by rauschenberg in the artist's trash
in 1998. he subsequently gave a way many of the works and sold one. the incident resulted in a court case in
which rauschenberg claims that the sale of this counterfeit work jeopardizes his reputation and the value of his
legitimate works. montgomery on the other hand aks, 'why does the lion want to eat the mouse?'.

'minutiae' by robert rauschenberg, 1954

'untitled' by robert rauschenberg, 1955

On David Horvitz's website he lists lovely things you can buy.
For example:

"If you give me $1,412 I will go to Japan, go to a mountain, find a buddhist monk, and share a cup of tea with him or her. I will mail you something from in or around the temple. I don't know what it is yet, I have to find it there."

"UPDATE: While in Japan I will also learn how to brew the best Japanese green tea. I will study hard and perfect it. I will then make YOU a cup of green tea! You will either have to come to New York, meet me in Japan, or pay for my plane ticket to meet you wherever you are."

david horvitz

Frida + Fawn

fffound

I miss Mark Morris' big pouf of hair but I still love his work.
I enjoy listening to him discuss his method.

of all the baby laughing videos

my favorite

A new study from the University of Michigan shows that having a husband creates an extra seven hours of extra housework a week for women. But a wife saves her husband from an hour of chores around the house each week.
link

I know I posted this before but I still like it so I'm posting it again.

Some good simple tips

50 ways

"Has any work of art been more reviled than Aliza Shvarts's senior project at Yale? Andres Serrano's photograph of a crucifix suspended in his own urine did not lack for articulate champions. Nor did Damien Hirst's vitrine with its doleful rotting cow's head. But Ms. Shvarts's performance of "repeated self-induced miscarriages" has left even them silent. According to her project description, she inseminated herself with sperm from voluntary donors "from the 9th to the 15th day of my menstrual cycle . . . so as to insure the possibility of fertilization." Later she would induce a miscarriage by means of an herbal abortifacient. (Or so she claimed; whether she actually did any of this remains unclear.)"

"Ms. Shvarts may have, as she asserts, intended her project to raise questions about society and the body. But she inadvertently raises an entirely different set of questions: How exactly is Yale teaching its undergraduates to make art? Is her project a bizarre aberration or is it within the range of typical student work, unusually startling perhaps but otherwise a fully characteristic example of the program and its students?"

Art and (Wo)man at Yale in the WSJ

Bruce Nauman
Run from Fear, Fun from Rear
1972
Froehlich Collection

time for a holiday

found on ilike
I love the diving around 1:50
and the type around 4:00

Tatum's sense of style started early

A great article in the NYTimes
Graven Images
In every country in the world, art is considered the element that reflects the civilized face of society, and the better the sculpture and paintings you see, the better impression you get about the country you are visiting.
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stop motion clever

shiny cube of silk ribbons

jacob dahlgren

Stand Still, A Spectacle Will Happen

Olafur Eliasson

Printable pinhole cameras

templates here

Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius established the look that has become Modern Architect Chic. Here we see the I-don’t-work-in-a-proper- office jackets and the I’m-a-bit-artistic bow ties that originated with this duo. Gropius’s bow tie is a little floppier than one would expect from the founder of Bauhaus (right), but Le Corbusier’s pulled-together look is surely what one would expect of a man who used to design whole cities for a giggle
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A blog about the creative process
measure for measure
soooo good

2x4 is a multidisciplinary studio focusing on design for art, architecture --
-- fashion and cultural clients worldwide.

2X4
utter rubbish

from flickr

stefan bruggemann

One week of art

I so wanted to go back to bed this morning

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Or maybe have a ton of coffee

I saw this image on fffound

and then linked to these paintings

more images

More than 20 years after he unleashed the first wave of Young British Artists on an unsuspecting public, Charles Saatchi is to present a new exhibition of work by the next generation of YBAs. New Britannia is due to open in summer 2009 at Saatchi's new London gallery, and will feature works by more than 42 artists, many of them from Saatchi's own collection. Included in the show are the paintings of artist Toby Ziegler.

Designated For Leisure
Toby Ziegler

Nuala Goodman
portrait of
Alberto Alessi

Rob Ryan

Hina Aoyama

Painter Ben McLaughlin's sober cityscapes bring to mind a contemporary update of Edward Hopper, all dark corners and abandoned, empty spaces, with cinematic framing and bold use of light and shadow.

Wedding Chapel, Mexico
by Bunker Arquitectura

Wallpaper

Young At Heart
trailer

Artist Damien Hirst must have a busy schedule, what with all the shark embalming and gluing little diamonds onto skulls and bidding on white truffles. But he's determined to make sure that his art remains within reach of the common people, who wear jeans and patronize over-the-top art world events. So he teamed up with all-American brand Levis—and the Andy Warhol licensing machine—to design some jeans that anyone can buy, assuming they have $80,000 (really) to spend on psychedelic pants.

Gawker

Lighter Tracey

Tracey Ullman as Dina Lohan

Not Juno, Tracey

The Tracey Fragments

Cash Rules Everything

Dan Tague

the Jello wiggles

A look at Stefan Sagmeister's new book and 15 of the possible cover combinations.
The book is comprised of 15 unbound signatures.

Music courtesy of Eric Nyffeler and Esau.

Fancy Names for Colors

Slovenian artist, Franc Grom creates egg art using an electric boring tool. The results are stunning and as laborious as the finest of craftsmen from centuries past. The eggs that Grom creates have approximately 2,500 to 3,500 holes (he has been known to drill up to17,000 in one piece). The results are simply amazing. Who would have thought that something so delicate could be made even more fragile and precious.

National Geographic

The pig is in the building