Tag: Art and design
What inspires Hans Ulrich Obrist and seven other cultural tastemakers
The heads of the Serpentine, Secret Cinema, Glasgow International, the Young Vic and others on how they find fresh talent and new ideas Hans Ulrich Obrist: I cant live without Instagram Swiss-born curator, writer and art historian and artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries. Since 2009, Obrist has held aRead More
My best summer photograph: sun, sand and plastic surgery
Top photographers pick their best summer shots Summer is a time when natural light can lend an otherness to almost any subject. From Ryan McGinleys playful homage to Renaissance nudes, to Nadav Kanders eerie inlet at Mont Saint-Michel, these shots by contemporary photographers are testament to that. As the holidayRead More
Cyborgs, ecosexuals and a bed made of bees: inside Perth’s strangest art show
Its not for the faint-hearted, but the new group show examines our relationship with nature and science with a tendency towards the erotic I would sneak inside the tree and jerk off, surrounded by bark; roots beneath my toes. Its not a confession I expected to have whispered into myRead More
Benjamin Patterson: the Fluxus artist who composed with ants
Denied work as a classical double-bassist due to the fact that of his race, the multimedia artist, who passed away recently, entered a more innovative instructions Fluxus , performing his own structure at the very first performance co-organized by Yoko Ono , La Monte Young have actually all taken pleasureRead More
