Aug 9, 2012 | news
Since I’m visiting Chicago this week, I thought it would be fitting to post some art news happening here:
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A previous Garbage Wall like the one to be installed.
Also from the Sun-Times article. |
A wall of garbage is making its debut as art next month at Chicago’s Navy Pier. Normally I don’t go for the whole everyday-items-as-art nonsense, but after going on a river cruise today and hearing all about how awfully polluted the water used to be, a public work like this might not be such a bad idea.
It’s meant as a reminder against pollution, as a way of physically showing how much waste we create without fully noticing. The Natural Resources Defense Council is the environmental group that’s bringing the exhibition to Navy Pier, and the very first “Garbage Wall” was created by Gordon Matta-Clark in New York City in 1970.
Read the full story on the Chicago Sun-Times here.
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Aug 6, 2012 | street art
These pictures are from some beautiful street art I passed yesterday. I tweeted out an image, but decided it deserved its own post, especially since it takes up an entire building. You can find it for yourself on 3rd Street between 2nd Ave and Bowery.
Shadowed birds fly towards her with fervor, surrounding and overwhelming this anonymous person as she covers her face in despair. The paint is rough and dripping in all places and like most street art, this only makes it more beautiful since it’s being forced to survive outside on the New York City streets.
The birds fly from beneath written words which read:
paradox will assume new meaning
and be found to be the language
which the intuition uses when the intellectual currency has failed
the use of paradox
does not spring from a desire to mystify
the hearers or oneself
it arises from
the inability of language to
say two things at once
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Aug 3, 2012 | news
German artist Nina Boesch has done some pretty cool stuff with something that usually just litters the streets and subway stations.
Check out more of her Metrocard collages on today’s HuffPost Arts post here, and think about all the cool stuff you could do with things that are normally just thrown away!
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