The new monument completed in time for the third anniversary of the March 11, 2004, attacks in Madrid. A luminous three-story monument built out of 150,000 curved glass blocks glued together with a liquid-acrylic material hardened by ultraviolet lamps - The Eternal Glow
The art of flash innovator Joshua Davis and the work of NY architecture studio Commonwealth come together to give lots of computer generated goodness - Commonwealth v Joshua Davis
If macabre art is your cup of tea then who killed Bambi will deliver what you need.
Book illustrator Shaun Tan's beautifully intricate pencil drawings for his book 'The Arrival'
The work of artist Francesca Berrini, maps of made up 'places' out of torn and pasted maps.
Design, illustration and motion graphics from Canada - Ventilate
Thomas Allen has some fun work based around the dramatic covers within the pulp fiction genre. Currently exhibiting at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in California.
Barbarian Software have developed a new music visualisation plugin for iTunes called Magnetosphere
Susanna Hertrich's 'Chrono_shredder' slowly shreds a paper calendar roll slowly over 24 hours, producing a never-ending mess of time gone by.
In remembrance of the passing of the conceptual minimalist Sol Lewitt, here are 35 sentences on Conceptual Art (1968)
some of my favourites:
Rational judgments repeat rational judgments.
Illogical judgments lead to new experience.
Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.
A fun, interesting use of photography to get across the message. No one belongs here more than you.
American conceptual minimalist Sol Lewitt died yesterday in New York aged 78
Make your own public art work - the Pixelator is a simple grid like screen that can be made cheaply and placed over the top of public video screens.
Short video collection of interesting art discussion - from Rodin to Gilbert & George - TateShots
Interesting sound and visual experimentation - Screenvader
Some interesting, unique use of space by British studio - Heatherwick Studios
If you are looking for some interesting and beautiful images to liven up your interior space then Wonderwall from Sweden have a great selection of artwork to look through.
The Online Community and Marketplace for Creative Expression - RedBubble
When does appropriation become copyright infringement? Is influence a crime or a part of the creative process? Jonathan Lethem from Harpers takes a good look at copyright and appropriation within cultural production - The Ecstasy of Influence
Email and digital images have revolutionised the Art Market. Jori Finkel from the New York Times looks at how 'JPEG' me your work has slipped into the art vernacular and escalated sales long before the gallery opening.
Tomma Abts' abstract paintings win Turner prize for 2006
Technology and globalisation are rapidly altering the art world's elitist and euro-centric grip on cultural production and the art market is loving it
Sculptor, Maurice Agis has been arrested and bailed over the accidental deaths of Elizabeth Collings and Claire Furmedge who died after his 2,500sq m Dreamspace artwork was thrown 100ft into the air by a gust of wind.
Travel photographer Michael Hughes purchases postcards and souvenirs then photographs them in front of the real object
A good way to teach your children the 'way of the executive' - The Executive Coloring Book
French Minister for Culture and Communications has called for video games to be accepted as cultural products. By seeing video games as more than just a 'mere commercial product' Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres plans to give the French games industry, tax incentives that are currently enjoyed by other cultural products such as French Cinema.
No Knock Room - an open door to contemporary art
Eight pages of quotes from the master of filmic imagery Peter Greenaway.
Molly Crabapple, founder of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School talks to the Village Voice about her life drawing classes. If sitting around drawing burlesque performers, roller derby girls, and muscled up topless men while imbibing alcoholic beverages is your thing then give Dr Sketchy's a try.
A good selection of reasonably priced poster designs - The Poster List
Swiss art/design project - Umdenken
Austrian artist Markus Hofer
Germaine Greer takes a swipe at the Frieze Art Fair by claiming that in art the really good stuff is uncollectable.
Dmitri Siegel at Design Observer takes a look at the tradition of artists and designers using rules of creation not only within their work but as the finished piece.
American sculptor Richard Serra, talks to Gloria Goodale about his career producing public sculpture
Geurilla artist Banksy is visiting LA. The LA Weekly talk to him about his visit meanwhile there are photos from his show here and here while the LA times are not impressed by his use of animals.
Small scenes of everyday life in London - staged at a miniscule scale
Paul Curtis aka Moose has authorities confused with his new style of graffiti - he uses a shoe brush, water and elbow grease with which he cleans the walls
A tool for painting and drawing, the Camera Lucida and how to make one yourself
Artist, John Gerrard and some of his works - Smoke Tree where the foliage of the tree is abundantly producing carbon in the place of oxygen. Watchful Portrait (Caroline), two virtual portraits who track the position of the sun and the moon at all times, and The Ladder, a mixed reality installation - via
To mark the opening of a major new exhibition, Jonathan Jones from the Guardian Interviews David Hockney
Guerilla public art - Mark Jenkins' street installations
Can an art project make the transition from being 'art' to being a mass product? Does the resonance of that product get lost along the way? Mocoloco interview Nicolas Roope ceo of Hulger
Beautiful, delicate and ornate drawing from Marian Bantjes
Fashion designer Mark Ecko talks to Wired about graffiti and how it is incorrectly perceived by many as vandalism - what is the difference?
Convicted forger John Myatt talks to the Guardian about his life before he painted forgeries to be sold at Christies and now after getting out of jail. The tale of a convicted forger.
John Powers, an artist where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts
a musical realization of the motion graphics of john whitney as described in his book "digital harmony"
A look at some of the early graffiti practitioners from New York and how their work changed over the 1970's and 80's
Charlotte Higgins from the Guardian, profiles British Artist Damien Hirst as he hits 41, ponders life and Death (again) and renovates his monument to himself (a $3m castle that he hopes to turn into a museum of his work).
Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, a prominent Vienna salon hostess and wife of a Jewish sugar industrialist, has eclipsed the $US104 million paid for Picasso's Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice) by recently selling for a record$US135 million.
Engravings, woodcuts and pictures from old books - scanned and prepared by Liam Quin
One of synaesthesia's most well known proponents, Russian-born artist Wassily Kandinsky is exhibiting at Tate Modern, Kandinsky: Path to Abstraction. The Telegraph looks at Kandinsky's abilities to hear colour and see sound.
By feeding a parking meter you can lease a small piece of urban space in increments of 1-2 hours. Blaine Merker and Gregory Kellett decided to use their time and space for providing some greenery in the city.
Based in Copenhagen and doing the rounds of Zurich and New York, the FLOWmarket - an installation that questions global consumption.
When you sit on it, it chuckles. As you swing, it laughs, and the higher you go, the harder it laughs. At the peak swinging it is laughing wildly - The Laughing Swing
Scientists have discovered the worlds oldest drawing - 27,000-year-old drawing of a face
Dale Chihuly has taken legal action against two glass blowers claiming that they have infinged on his copyright. One of the glass blowers has counter sued - the countersuit alleging Chihuly is trying to claim "a monopoly on any and all glass art that is curved, nested or uses certain kinds of colors.
32 balls, each one designed by bora.herke, made by Adidas and representative of the the countries that have qualified for the World cup
Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, long time friends currently showing their varied collaborations in an exhibition "Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi," at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City until October 15th
A Getty Images project involving 5 leading design companies to develop interactive experiences that explore visual language - 10 ways
Dreamlike, Escher-esque illustrations from Rob Gonsalves
Forest Grove is a project by Maya Churi, inspired by a gated community in Texas. An enjoyable flash called 'Charlie's Story'
The short list for this years Turner Prize has been announced
Danielle Aubert's soon to be released book of excel art
Some enjoyable collage and photography from Tracey Snelling, The Little Art Factory - via
The use of 'narrative performance' as a tool to reconfigure the everyday social discourse may not be a 'new' art movement, but in it's current incarnation some artists are "anticipate(ing) how history will be told, not by leaving traces but by effecting changes in the future" - Nancy Spector, frieze.com
Ambient movies designed to look great on your plasma or LCD screen all for download in multiple formats - Plastic TV
photo: Lucian Perkins, Washington Post
The Washington post has some good photographs of work by London based Australian sculptor Ron Mueck.
An interesting chronological look at the diagrams that have been used to explain/describe colour.
Or what not to do - from the Wish Jar
Just finished yesterday Beautiful Losers - contemporary art and street culture
Matthew Barney and Bjork in Drawing Restraint 9
What do you do when someone paints over your graffiti? Go back and paint over their advertising - competing for public space
Interactive artist Joshua Davis works with BMW and Mazda work with Quicksilver in new ways to help broaden their brand appeal
Japanese visual Art for your iPod
British artist, Tom Hunter has an interesting photographic exhibition at the National Gallery in London. Their site has some good flash videos of Tom talking about his work and how he works.
One of the great video artists of the 20th century, Nam June Paik has passed away at his Miami home at 8:00pm EST on Sunday, January 29th, 2006.
A good list of techniques used for transferring images from photographs to paper/fabric
Thumbtack Press have a good selection of prints at reasonable prices
Using every day mass produced items of modern society, Brian Jungen creates archeological and anthropological representations that in turn, create a dialogue between the original product and it's new cultural representation - via mocoloco
A new genre in digital gaming is developing. Kristine Ploug, gives a good introduction into this new style of game. And here are a good selection of games
One of the world's great sculptors Anish Kapoor is profiled by the Independent
6 students from the Royal College of Art in London have designed cocoon-like furniture to be used by users of the Playstation portable. An interesting look at the relationships between users of personal technology and their surroundings.
Germaine Greer looks at the Aboriginal art scene and asks the question - Can you tell what it's worth yet?
Kirsten Anderson, founder of the Roq La Rue gallery in Seattle is interviewed about 'Pop Surrealism' and it's evolution from 'Low Brow'.
Aaron Rose from LA Weekly believes that todays young artists have been educated into a corner in his article 'The Kids aren't all right
The Financial Times has the list of the 100 most powerful people in the artworld for 2005.
Po Horyzont's 238x504 project. Replacing advertising on billboards with the landscape they block out - 238x504
Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of the Beautiful
More than 70 artists, both national and international, taking place in various spaces around the city of Salamanca, Spain. - via archinect
frieze has asked 33 artists, collectors, critics, curators, educators and gallerists to respond to the question 'How has art changed?' - part one, part two and 'where is it going?' - via archinect
Cinemas, theatres, concert halls and opera houses and even circuses in Italy will be empty today because of a combined strike and lockout in protest at huge cuts to the arts budget ordered by Silvio Berlusconi's government.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has set aside a 70-acre island in the Seine outside Paris and introduced a 50% tax reduction for Artists - to try and recapture the glory when France was the capital of the Art World
The new installation by Rachel Whiteread has just been unveiled at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. The Guardian and The Telegraph have a look at EMBANKMENT.
David Byrne's latest project in collaboration with Jan Åman. Connect up parts of a building so air blows, vibrations oscilate and parts get struck. There is no amplification or computer synthesis of sound. The building is the instrument.
British Conceptual Artist, Martin Creed is at the ding dong lounge (market lane,city) in Melbourne on Friday 7th of October and Sydney on Monday 10th of October at the Excelsior Hotel in Surry Hills.
Creed is most well known for winning the Turner Prize of Art in 2001 for his controversial empty gallery where the lights were turned on and off. - via Shutupandfollowme
The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art looks to be full of all the brightest colours of tragedy. The Washington Post looks into 'The Down Side of Pop'
After 'Shakespeare in Love' Joseph Fiennes turned down a lucrative five picture deal in Hollywood so he could work in theatre at the Royal Court Theatre. Xan Brooks talks to him about his path in life.
A 200-foot-long toy rabbit lies on the side of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy's Piedmont region.
Viennese art group Gelatin designed the giant soft toy and say it was "knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool".
The giant rabbit is expected to remain on the mountain side until 2025.
Anish Kapoor's very popular 'Cloud Gate' sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park. It was supposed to be covered up and the seams welded and polished to make it a single seamless reflection. But because of the huge crowds that gather around the sculpture from early in the morning until very late into the night, it has yet to be completed.
Some good work from Mariko Mori, the NY based Japanese artist.
The engineer behind Architect Frank Gehry's 90's rejuvination has recently been working with sculptor Richard Serra. Martin Pedersen talks to him about his experiences. - via core77
Different ways to map the world
The British artist, Damien Hirst has just bought a 300 room mansion for $5.4 million. via luxist
Some quality prints from Alex Gross - via artdorks
look around some of the most beautiful rooms of the Louvre in full screen 360 degree VR - Louvre 360
Lots of fun to be had printing out paper toys and models - Paper Forest
If you have ever thought about writing a novel then this website can take you through the process 1 day at a time. By breaking it down this way the process seems much more achievable - How to write a novel in 100 days or less
All the usual literary suspects - McEwan, Rushdie, Barnes, Ishiguro, Coetzee, the Smiths (Ali and Zadie) plus more.
Banksy sprays the west bank barrier.
Business Week Online looks at the second wave for online art sales
A step by step guide on how to screen print your own posters.
A site dedicated to the experimentations of using language to create.
ArtNews looks at how Jeff Koons pulled together a group of dealers and art buyers to help invest in his expensive art projects.
A new project where a company is set up to make money via google advertising. This money is then used to buy shares in google.
Some beautiful imagery from under an electron microscope
In the summer of 2005 Christoph Steinbrener & Rainer Dempf will cover all signage in a Viennese shopping street – For a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will be covered in monochrome.
Peter Brook talks about his life and the Theatre.
Brian Eno talks about his new album 'Another Day on Earth'
Some great alternative knitted creations to enjoy from Donna Wilson
Ironically the new patrons of contemporary Art (advocates of free markets) are demanding the art world become locked down to the bureaucracy and legislature they are used to in the financial markets.
Barbara Kruger, internationally renowned artist known for her photomontage work and her 'I shop therefore I am' - talks with William Gibson, author of 'Neuromancer' and 'Johnny Mnemonic' about the notion of information and how it shapes the way we see the world
A new exhibition of Frida Kahlo's opens at the Tate on the 9th of June - The Guardian have a look at her life.
Christie's set a new record for a contemporary art auction generating USD 31.7 million more than the existing record of USD 102.7 million also set by Christie's last year - USD 133.7 million
"Video art evolves into high-end ambient TV, your LCD-screen becomes a painting." - Souvenirs from Earth
The Guardian asks some well known novelists, artists and critics what their opinion of the question - What is art and does it matter?
Five years ago Tate Modern opened it's doors - The Independent asks artists and commentators what they think about The Tate
In Eindhoven, Netherlands - Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen recent project; The Flying Pins (inaugurated on May 31, 2000) - via mocoloco art
Chaise magazine have just released 'chaise 2' a DVD and CD containing over five hours of visual art, music, film, video, animation, and interactive pieces on a CD and DVD - just send a self addressed envelope.
A look at gated communities in Los Angeles and a piece of public art that challenges them.
Some pretty good Illustration work from James Jean. - via K10K
Britain has begun to set up an Artists Pension Trust. A new way to help artists invest for the future by investing their work rather than their money.
It has been recommended by a new report in Britain that Artists, Galleries, Auction houses and art dealers should have to follow a code of conduct when receiving government funding.
From next year in Britain artists will earn royalties from the resale of their work.
Damien Hirst's new show at Larry Gagosian's Chelsea emporium consisting of 31 photorealistic paintings.
British Artist Banksy installs 'covert art' in some of New York's most famous art museums
Basquiat, Koons, Schnabel, Holzer, Sherman - Time magazine looks at their legacy
The images taken by the Hubble telescope are subjectively touched up in a way similar to the way the landscape was romanticised in old paintings of the American west.
Some eye candy for the easily distracted
Old paintings are bought from an artist's local thrift shop and then made into a work of their own.
An audio art exhibition at the First Draft Gallery, Sydney. Listening Glass uses the front window of the gallery as a type of sound diaphragm, in which the vibrations from outside sounds are picked up and fed into the instrument system. Sounds processed by the instrument are simulataneously fed back through the glass to the street outside.
A new exhibition at the Saatchi gallery called "The Triumph of Painting" is seen as an attempt by Charles Saatchi to rescue his status within the art world by embracing painting as 'the new old thing'
Using Plasma, glass and light
Chairman and Chief Benefactor, Peter B Lewis has resigned from the Guggenheim citing "Differences in direction" between him and the museum's controversial director, Thomas Krens.
An art work that looks at the culture of licensing
2004 was a good year for contemporary art sales. Sales doubled and prices increased by 17%
The new Thomas Heatherwick sculpture for the city of Manchester, called 'B of the Bang' is as big as the Statue of Liberty - but is it any good?
Dustmen in Frankfurt are going to have to take a course on Art so they don't throw anymore art works away by mistake.
The new young and rich are fueling a boom in contemporary art sales
An experiment with projected text
The latest update ranking the worlds top 100 artists
Harvest bone from yourself or your partner, grow it in the lab then carve up some nice rings.
Get your portrait painted in the style of a Bollywood film poster - via
Digitally altering photographs of signage so they hover in the air, creating an interesting perspective on what role these signs play in our environment.
The Tate has invited sculptor Richard Wentworth to create their Christmas tree this year. He has gone with a 'bluetooth tree', visitors are invited to leave little 'digital presents' that will be opened on Christmas day.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka has just relocated and re-opened with a new Duchamp exhibition - Mirrorical Returns
Jeremy Deller wins the 2004 prize
A web service for creating large blown up images
In 4 days the Turner Prize will be awarded. This Financial Times article discusses how 'outrage was so last century'
Christo is to wrap Central Park, NY
Some nice photography and illustration
100 photos that define the time
If you are interested in Net Art - check out Turbulence
Some great projects by Natalie Jeremijenko presenting information/data in interesting ways
ArtReview has released the top 100 artistic movers and shakers
Emily Gertz interviews Natalie Jeremijenko about her role of using technology to defend/deflect militaristic agression in an agressive world.
Two big contemporary art events that have recently taken place in London have made an impact in the British contemporary art scene
It's that time of the year again and the Guardian's Jonathan Jones has already made his mind up
An experiment where an artist is given a large dose of LSD and then over time asked to draw the same person over and over.
Some work by David Meanix - Photosculpture
Some 'nice' poems and stories over at Exquisite Corpse
An attempt to document the homeless culture (so it doesn't fall off the map, to be manipulated for political gains) without buying in to the "victim photography"
An oldie but a goodie - Akiyoshi KITAOKA's page of visual illusion
What happens to art that is dependent on technology? Especially when that technology becomes obsolete and there is no one to fix it when it breaks or deteriorates. [bugmenot]
An Australian based art weblog
The New Zealand Film 'In My Father's Den' has just been awarded the International Film Critics Prize at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada.
As less films are being made and politicians are publicly claiming the arts to be elitist, Australia looks to be losing it's cultural cringe - now it's just a cringe.
A New York Times article on the avant-garde and it's possible resurgence due to new technologies.
A new initiative in the UK is trying to get Art graduates into developing games.
Robert Smithsons 'Spiral Jetty' has re-emerged after decades below the surface of Utah's Great Salt Lake.
More sculpture from Banksy - the sculptor who sprayed "Mind the crap" on the steps of the Tate Britain before the Turner Prize ceremony.
Brion Gysin designed the Dream Machine. A tool for lucid dreaming utilised by William S. Burroughs. One is currently being exhibited this week in San Francisco or you could just build one yourself.
Is the Art world trying to claim ownership over visual culture in another cultural context or is this just the growth of a global cultural product?
Aboriginal artist Rover Thomas' painting 'Uluru' was passed in at Auction for only $675,000. The painting didn't reach it's million dollar reserve price as buyers at Sotherby's weren't too sure that the painting was really of Uluru. When Rover Thomas was alive he made very little from his paintings.
Sauce has some good information on selling and promoting within the visual arts
Most of the 9 billion dollars a year that make up the art industry does not find it's way back to the producers (unlike many other cultural industries) a new, more radical attempt to find ways to sell art works can be found over at prodigal art On a similar note art critic Robert Hughes calls the art market a cultural obscenity
An old cigarette machine in Sapporo, Japan is now being used to dispense small works of art
DJ Spooky remixes 'Birth of a Nation' providing a historical mirror through re-appropriation of sound and image.
Until August 21 Horst Kiechle is exhibiting at the Gertrude Contemporary Art Space in Melbourne
Henry Reichhold has developed a way of using a new medium (phone cam images) to produce large panoramas of events and music festivals.
Over at the Venice Biennale Merilyn Tweedie's new work 'Rapture 2004' has caused a stir in NZ as it cost Creative New Zealand $500,000 to send over and it's physical value (an old out-house that makes donkey noises) doesn't really add up. The old question 'is this art?' - 'worth this much?' is once again being asked in NZ.
Some great optical tricks to make you feel dizzy
Multimedia artist and musician Laurie Anderson has just been named NASA's first artist in residence.
