Christopher Butler

December 10th 2009

What If… exhibition at the Science Gallery in Dublin

A nice comment from Kat Austen of the New Scientist’s Culture Lab:

Many of the exhibits are heavily dystopian, and address questions on scientific or medical ethics that must be asked in our bio-technological age. Both the installation that posits using pigs and other animals as life support machines and Future Farms - where people use their own bodies to grow stem cells for medical procedures - evoke the kind of discomfort you feel when you watch a news story about an impoverished parent resorting to selling their own kidney just to put their child through school.

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December 10th 2009

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Michael Beirut of Pentagram has redesigned the NC Museum of Art’s logo (above). I like it!

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December 8th 2009

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Nice geometric work by Gethin Wyn Jones

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December 7th 2009

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Mobile Evolution, By Kyle Bean… Nested cellphones!

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December 7th 2009

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December 3rd 2009

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From Art Knowledge News:

The Dallas Museum of Art today announced the acquisition of a major large-scale sculpture, The Eye, by the celebrated Canadian artist David Altmejd. Among the artist’s most ambitious works to date, The Eye measures approximately 11 by 18 feet and is an imposing and mesmerizing structure of mirrored glass and wooden support that engulfs the viewer in a spectacular environment of fractured light and reflection.

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$From Art Knowledge News: The Dallas Museum of Art today announced the acquisition of a major large-scale sculpture, The Eye, by the celebrated Canadian artist David Altmejd. Among the artist’s most ambitious works to date, The Eye measures approximately 11 by 18 feet and is an imposing and mesmerizing structure of mirrored glass and wooden support that engulfs the viewer in a spectacular environment of fractured light and reflection.$

December 3rd 2009

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Cool paintings by Mark Warren Jacques.

(via but does it float)

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December 2nd 2009

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A CHANCE TO SEE YOUR WORK ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND

The V&A has commissioned Karsten Schmidt to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition using open source code (video above). We are giving you the opportunity to recode Karsten’s work and create your own original artwork. If we love your work it could even become the new Decode identity.
You can download and interact directly with the source code, but you do not need to be an expert coder, as Karsten has also designed a graphical user interface. For full instructions and downloads go to theDecode Google code page which also has a detailed user guide written by Karsten.

More here >

Otherwise, this video as is sure is pretty…

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November 30th 2009

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Leone Kahl, Director, Stables Art Gallery, Taos, ca. 1963 (Quoted by Megan Prelinger in a guest post for BERG)

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The artist is aware of space, mass, motion and energy. He is cognizant of our world in conjunction with outer space and is abreast of the development in the world of science. He searches intuitively rather than theoretically. The scientist is equally involved with the same observations. He explores the potentials; he is the discoverer: the man of research. Both artist and scientist are involved with the mysteries of the Universe.

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November 28th 2009

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Art Knowledge News:

David Hockney gifted Bigger Trees near Warter 2007 to Tate in 2008. The oil painting, his largest ever, was made on fifty canvas panels and was executed outside, en plein air. Measuring 4.6 x 12.2 metres (15 x 40 feet), its subject is a typical Yorkshire landscape, west of Bridlington.

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Art Knowledge News:
David Hockney gifted Bigger Trees near Warter 2007 to Tate in 2008. The oil painting, his largest ever, was made on fifty canvas panels and was executed outside, en plein air. Measuring 4.6 x 12.2 metres (15 x 40 feet), its subject is a typical Yorkshire landscape, west of Bridlington.

November 28th 2009

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From Art Knowledge News:

The BBC and the British Museum have joined forces in an original and unprecedented public service partnership, focusing on world history. At its heart is a landmark series on BBC Radio 4, ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ which will broadcast from 18th January 2010. This series is a narrative global history told through the British Museum’s unparalleled world collection. The series will tap in to the unique power of objects to tell stories and make connections across the globe. To produce the series the BBC and the British Museum have come together in an ambitious partnership to ensure the widest possible access and engagement across radio, television and online.

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From Art Knowledge News:
The BBC and the British Museum have joined forces in an original and unprecedented public service partnership, focusing on world history. At its heart is a landmark series on BBC Radio 4, ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects’ which will broadcast from 18th January 2010. This series is a narrative global history told through the British Museum’s unparalleled world collection. The series will tap in to the unique power of objects to tell stories and make connections across the globe. To produce the series the BBC and the British Museum have come together in an ambitious partnership to ensure the widest possible access and engagement across radio, television and online.

November 28th 2009

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Cool:

The Royal Academy of Arts and the National Trust today announced a major new public art commission to go on display on the façade of the Royal Academy’s 6 Burlington Gardens as part of the forthcoming exhibition GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a changing world, which opens on 3 December 2009.

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Cool:
The Royal Academy of Arts and the National Trust today announced a major new public art commission to go on display on the façade of the Royal Academy’s 6 Burlington Gardens as part of the forthcoming exhibition GSK Contemporary, Earth: Art of a changing world, which opens on 3 December 2009.

November 25th 2009

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Milton Glaser on “How you live changes your brain.”

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Thought changes our life and our behaviour. I also believe that drawing works in the same way. I am a great advocate of drawing, not in order to become an illustrator, but because I believe drawing changes the brain in the same way as the search to create the right note changes the brain of a violinist. Drawing also makes you attentive. It makes you pay attention to what you are looking at, which is not so easy.

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November 24th 2009

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The Bizarre and Brilliant World of Knitted Science

From Discover Magazine, this image is one of several in a gallery of knit and crochet science ‘visualizations.’ This is a knit brain created by psychiatrist Karen Norberg.

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The Bizarre and Brilliant World of Knitted Science
From Discover Magazine, this image is one of several in a gallery of knit and crochet science ‘visualizations.’ This is a knit brain created by psychiatrist Karen Norberg.

November 23rd 2009

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This is a small section of a pencil portrait of Marilyn Monroe done by artist Billy Pappas, the subject of an upcoming documentary titled “Waiting for David Hockney.” The filmtells the story of how Billy created the portrait over 9 years of continual work, gathered a group of supporters- eventually including David Hockney, and achieved recognition for his achievement.

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