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Remember Al Magnus?

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Nadja Bournonville, A Form of Protection (2008)
What I like most are the hands.And the neck.It’s tense. See the two lines suavely drawing their way into the chest. And the hands, a pianist’s hands, playing out their protagonism, exploring the absent look to shine, and yet tense, they remain, maybe, it’s what they hold, and not [...]

Video directed by Sou Ootsuki.

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To see the following video you should enlarge it (double-click once playing).

The above is a compilation of works by the Swiss artist Zimoun.
1. Funny, one keeps telling oneself, enough of the minimal already, somehow feeling that less is a bore should be embraced, and the outrageously overflowing art of the recent years – appreciated [...]

Gabriel Cornelius von Max, Monkeys as Judges of Art (1840)
(I’m the small one watching the work, the one in the middle, whose profile can be seen behind the bent knee)

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The Minimum Wage Machine (work in progress), by Blake Fall-Conroy
The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are [...]

I have no idea concerning the origins of the above.UPDATE: It is The Cyclops by Jaime Pitarch (2002)Thank you Claudia!

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Is it as coherent as we like to think it? Does it demand coherence?And does beauty differ dependent on categories? After all, we do watch differently than we listen. And when we watch, the pleasure of, say, seeing a beautiful feature film is quite different from the pleasure of seeing a piece of video art. [...]

Let’s start off easy.The first image seems the most banal. But we’ll get back to it.The second is clearly far from innocent. Or rather, it is its absolute innocence that brings the tension.Just one more innocent painting to keep you off-guard…And here we go:Most of Melissa Steckbauer’s spicier pictures are somewhere along the lines of [...]

NEW YORk, NY (AP).- David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated The New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83. Levine died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other ailments. His death was confirmed by Robert Silvers, editor of [...]

MADRID.- This coming February, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition Monet and Abstraction. It offers a survey of the work of the great French Impressionist painter from an innovative perspective and one never previously employed in the context of a temporary exhibition of this scale and importance, namely the artist’s [...]

ROME (AP).- Police say they have recovered from a Roman businessman Picasso’s “Little Guitar” toy sculpture made for the artist’s daughter Paloma. Carabinieri police say Picasso had given the toy to his friend, Italian artist Giuseppe Vittorio Parisi. Parisi lent it to the businessman two years ago to build a glass showcase for it to [...]

EAST SUSSEX.- The Magpie Index – a co-commission by Locus + and the De La Warr Pavilion – is a single screen high-definition video installation which focuses on the English singer-songwriter and recording artist Roy Harper, who delivers a series of monologues, largely as a talking head. The work is a series of [...]

CHICAGO, IL.- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, screens classic Italian films that changed the world of cinema January 7-31, 2010. The selected films resonate with the political, familial, and design themes of the “Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008″ exhibition. “Italics”, a ground-breaking exhibition devoted to contemporary Italian art and creativity, [...]

TOLEDO, OH.- The Toledo Museum of Art has launched a redesigned and expanded website: www.toledomuseum.org The new, easier-to-use site provides immediate ways to explore TMA’s current and upcoming exhibitions, its programs and events, and detailed information about the Museum and its world-renowned collection. “More and more people are turning to the Internet as a [...]

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY.- P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Performa 09 present 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009), an exhibition presenting influential moments in the past century of performance art history. With over 200 works including film, photography, documents, and audio, 100 years presents a wealth of information that is largely unknown and is [...]

LONDON.- For Epoh Beech’s latest solo exhibition in London, the accomplished fine artist has created 45 ethereal charcoal drawings, and a hand drawn animation, inspired by Wagner’s “The Ring”, and Francis Beaumont’s 17th-century tome ‘The Masque of the Inner Temple’ and ‘Gray’s Inn’, ‘Gray’s Inn and The Inner Temple’: This Jacobean ‘masque’ was performed [...]

EINDHOVEN.- The Van Abbemuseum has rounded off a successful year in 2009. Director Charles Esche is satisfied: “2009 was a very good year for the museum. I was pleased with the reactions to our major solo exhibitions especially Sanja Iveković and Deimantas Narkevičius which showed our commitment to bringing the best international work to Eindhoven [...]

BEIJING (AP).- Chinese archaeologists have found what could be the tomb of Cao Cao, a skillful general and ruler in the 3rd century who was later depicted in popular folklore as the archetypal cunning politician. Archaeological officials say Cao’s 8,000-square feet (740-square meter) tomb complex, with a 130-feet (40-meter) passage leading to an underground chamber, [...]