Art Instalation Reinterprets Voices Into Music

From the website of the artist Ranjit Bhatnagar: “Simple automatic instruments are constructed from local materials and objects on site. The system learns the sounds it can make by trying out its instruments, and then uses its range of sounds to try to reproduce...
Stop Signs with tounge firmly planted in cheek

Stop Signs with tounge firmly planted in cheek

Citizens of Oak Lawn, IL have a history of coasting through stop signs and in response the city installed smaller signs below their larger, legal counterparts to get motorists attention while providing them a tongue in cheek appeal to their conscience. The extra signs...
Free Art School in Miami?

Free Art School in Miami?

Via Brett Sokol for New York Magazine: If the glory, freneticism, excess, and sunny evanescence of the current contemporary-art boom has a symbolic home, it’s Miami Beach. Thanks to the appearance of an exponentially more fabulous Art Basel Miami Beach fair each...

Charges Against Artist Steve Kurtz Thrown Out

This just in from the New York Times. Hooray! Biomaterial charges against N.Y. art professor dismissed. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A judge threw out charges Monday against a college art professor accused of improperly obtaining biological materials for an exhibit...

Italian Artist Pippa Bacca Murdered on Peace Tour

From the New York Times: MILAN – The two friends, both performance artists, hatched the idea about a year ago: wearing white wedding dresses, they would hitchhike from Italy to the Balkans to the Middle East to send a message of peace and “marriage between...