Not the first Canadian in space, but perhaps the first Legoman? File it under “cool shit Canadians do in their free time”.
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Daughter
—Youth by Daughter (Love Thy Brother Remix)
Your weekend chill music.
Dan Flavin, “Untitled”, 1970
(Photo: Installation at Dia:Beacon, 2008)
“PEOPLE WHO EAT WHITE BREAD HAVE NO DREAMS”
(Source: jenbekmanprojects)
This is really cool! Another great initiative from the New York Public Library.
Dan Graham, “For Gordon Bunshaft”, 2007
(Photo: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, May 2009)
Shaking up the classic “Still Life” — an interactive painting by Scott Garner
(Source: psfk.com)
Projects that are open to participation—where the audience is invited to comment on and collaborate in the making of the work using a technological system set up by the curator, institution, or artist—do question authorship. But authorship, it turns out, is not the biggest problem in our age of user-generated content. Who made it becomes of secondary importance to who uploaded it, who tagged it, and who now owns it.
—Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook in Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (2010)
(Source: pcah.us)
Snow in the Summer? Well, maybe.
Andy Goldsworthy’s “Snow House” looks like it is coming to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.
Ai Weiwei: The Evolution of Dissident
An Op-Ed by Alison Klayman, Director of “Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry”.
The Parking Garages of Miami Beach
Photo: Arquitectonica completed the Ballet Valet, a six-level garage plopped on top of a historic block of buildings and shrouded in greenery, in 1996. The garage, nicknamed the ‘Chia pet’ and located on Collins Avenue between Sixth and Seventh Streets, is credited with raising the bar for the city’s garages.
Please see also Michael Kimmelman’s Taking Parking Lots Seriously from last week’s New York Times.
The Log Driver’s Waltz by John Weldon, 1973
This lighthearted, animated short is based on the song “The Log Driver’s Waltz” by Wade Hemsworth. Easily one of the most often-requested films in the NFB collection, Kate and Anna McGarrigle sing along to the tale of a young girl who loves to dance and chooses to marry a log driver over his more well-to-do competitor. Driving logs down the river has made the young man the best dancing partner to be found.
(Source: nfb.ca)
