BOMB’s Series on the State of Abstraction Today

BOMB’s Series on the State of Abstraction Today

Somehow I missed this series when it debuted at the end of November, but my trusty feedreader eventually makes sure the good stuff gets my attention. BOMB’s Jackie Saccoccio posed this question to twelve painters whom she admires: “What is the current...

Black Rain by Semiconductor

Semiconductor, an artistic collaboration between the UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, have put together a three minute video titled Black Rain. It’s a compilation of heliospheric satellite images– as the artists describe it, “raw scientific...
Anna Shteynshleyger at The Renaissance Society

Anna Shteynshleyger at The Renaissance Society

While I was looking at the photographs of Anna Shteynshleyger at the opening of this Russian-born, Chicago-based artist’s new solo exhibition at at The Renaissance Society, a middle-aged woman wearing a fluffy, faux-fur coat sidled up next to me. “Do you...
The Minimum Wage Machine

The Minimum Wage Machine

Artist Blake Fall-Conroy is in the process of making a sculpture that enables everyone to earn minimum wage (or rather, the wage set by the state of New York–Illinois law guarantees a minimum wage of $8.00 per hour for workers 18 years of age and older). From...

New Years Eve Music Suggestions Video

Right now your doing one of two things probably 1. Shoping for beverages for a party 2. Looking for music for a party playlist Well B@S is here to help and even though our tastes run a bit indie-rock and instrumental we can promote the biggest hits of 2009. Luckily...