Filed under: ART, CULTURE | Tags: ART, art museum, graffiti, museum, street art, tate modern
Ok everyone, it looks like it’s finally safe to stop talking about about how graffiti should be called street art and how there’s totally a Banksy in the West Village and no one’s should be covering it up. It’s officially art, so says the Tate Modern. They’ve even created a game for kids on their web site, which is nifty and provides a little giggle for those of us who are already familiar with the medium. I won’t presume to discuss the political implications of each piece because you people are smart enough to figure it out for yourselves.
The Tate has sacrificed its enormous front walls to six hot names in street art: Blu, Faile, JR, Nunca, Os Gêmeos, and Sixeart. So hot right now. Don’t worry kids, artist profiles to come, so stay tuned to Spiral (bitch). K$
Filed under: ART, FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY | Tags: ART, drawing, FILM, installation, Installation art, PHOTOGRAPHY, sculpture
I am all about Olaf Breuning. He’s a happy ray of sunshine warming the faces of the art world. The Swiss multi-media artist has a studio in Soho that used to be a Chinese massage parlor. He doesn’t find inspiration is the dark and the tragic but rather in the things that make him smile. He made himself an adorable army of robots for the last Whitney Biennial and takes pictures of his wife with breakfast food on her face. Olaf is just trying to make our world a better place, and I think we can all get behind that. K$
