May 2, 2012 • 9:40 am 0
David A Brown created an Optical Chapel in an office space that was once an optician’s office in downtown Houston. The installation incorporated 11,000 photographs. The project was featured in FotoFest 2012.
Filed under: Art, Current Events, Design, Photography, Poetry, Travel, david a. brown, fotofest 2012, houston, installation, optical chapel
February 23, 2012 • 8:28 am Comments Off
Leap Year, a painting by Austin-based artist Julie Speed
Filed under: Art, Julie Speed, Leap Year
February 9, 2012 • 3:07 pm Comments Off
I have a fascination with art by writers, especially the writers that I already like. Maybe that why I like this wonderful post about the wonderful poet, Mary Ruefle. The piece is by Douglas Glover on his web magazine Numero Cinq. In the post Doug shares postcards and stories about the poet. Here’s my favorite.
January 30, 2012 • 5:39 pm 1
If you were Amanda Nelsen, you’d make art with it. I love that she took something that’s wasteful and rather insidious and used it creatively. Isn’t it beautiful? [via The Artful Desperado]
Filed under: Art, Current Events, Design, Travel, Amanda Nelsen, Recycling
January 20, 2012 • 4:01 pm Comments Off
January 15, 2012 • 4:49 pm Comments Off
I had everything I ever wanted to say to you organized in my head
but forgot it all when you took my palm in your hand and with
your index finger wrote “disaster.” If you were to ask me how I
ended up here, I don’t even know. Every night at 8:25 I can’t
believe it’s already 8:25 and I’m so happy it’s only 8:25. Sometimes
I find tragedy reassuring. Sometimes the cat licks my neck. I don’t
want to think about where I’ve been or where I’m going anymore.
Sometimes I just want to cry. Sometimes I just want to sit in a
quiet space. It’s within me to rip my own head off. Let me tell you
about the city. It’s a city of lavender. I can’t remember its name.
There aren’t enough bank holidays. Someday you’ll read this and
understand what type of person I am.
by Jason Bredle
published on Verse Daily
December 12, 2011 • 5:02 pm Comments Off
Unhinged by Jennifer Davis
New work by the Minnesota artist Jennifer Davis can be seen on Art MoCo or on her website. All so cool.
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Blogs, Jennifer Davis, Visual Arts
October 11, 2011 • 3:42 pm Comments Off
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, the creators of Inversion, have created a new piece of temporary public art by the Houston artistic team of Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. Located at Project Rowhouses, the structure is part art, part stage and part park. It’s also awesome art. There are concerts and activities planned there (3705 Lyons Avenue, Houston, TX) this fall.
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Design, Poetry, Travel, dan havel, dean ruck, Havel Ruck Projects, houston, inversion, Public art
August 26, 2011 • 9:02 am Comments Off
The Listening Room by Rene Magritte
I was ready for a new experience.
All the old ones had burned out.
They lay in little ashy heaps along the roadside
And blew in drifts across the fairgrounds and fields.
From a distance some appeared to be smoldering
But when I approached with my hat in my hands
They let out small puffs of smoke and expired.
Through the windows of houses I saw lives lit up
With the otherworldly glow of TV
And these were smoking a little bit too.
I flew to Rome. I flew to Greece.
I sat on a rock in the shade of the Acropolis
And conjured dusky columns in the clouds.
I watched waves lap the crumbling coast.
I heard wind strip the woods.
I saw the last living snow leopard
Pacing in the dirt. Experience taught me
That nothing worth doing is worth doing
For the sake of experience alone.
I bit into an apple that tasted sweetly of time.
The sun came out. It was the old sun
With only a few billion years left to shine.
by Suzanne Buffam, “The New Experience” from The Irrationalist
The New Experience by Suzanne Buffam : The Poetry Foundation
Filed under: Art, Poetry, Writers, Suzanne Buffam
August 23, 2011 • 10:05 am 2
The urban lyrics of Robert Montgomery are nested so tightly into the cityscape, you might not notice. But they are there, each of them, a ghost in the machine.
Check out his site here.
(via My Modern Met)
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Design, Photography, Poetry, Travel
August 22, 2011 • 8:59 am Comments Off
Art happening on the NYC subway
Olek is an artist. What is her art? Well, it’s called knit graffiti, yarn bombing, or urban knitting . It makes us take a second look. Or perhaps a 30 second look. New York City-based artist Agata Oleksiak (known as Olek) uses crochet in bold colors to make her statement. (via Web Urbanist)
Filed under: Art, Current Events, Design, Travel, art, crochet, knit graffiti, new york city, yarn bombing
August 16, 2011 • 11:26 am 1
From Moco Art:
Vicki DaSilva uses tube lamps to create photography based on light graffiti. DaSilva uses this medium to create site-specific installations loaded with socio-political commentary. The single frame time exposure light paintings are made by moving the lamps either by hand or along tracks to create fields of light. Her current show of work, Reverb, features photos based in an abandoned silk factory. The photo above is in reference to the Chinese artist/activist, the pale yellow a nod to the Jasmine Revolution.
Find out more about the artist, Vicki DaSilva, here.
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Poetry, Light painting, Site-specific art, Visual Arts
April 20, 2011 • 9:48 am 1
Now this chair has the poetry in it!
Via DesignBoom: The zartan chair by philippe starck with eugeni quitllet is a new approach to industrial production in a post-plastic era.
at the magis booth on the milan fairgrounds, designboom spotted this from top to toe wholly natural chair, made of a sort of ‘liquid wood’.
Read more here.
Filed under: Art, Blogs, Design, designer chairs
March 15, 2011 • 5:00 pm Comments Off
One of my (many) childhood fantasies was having an identical twin. You too? Check out the repetitive hilarity of illustrator Judy Kaufman. Bring back the joy!
(via Art MoCo)
Filed under: Art, Blogs, Books, Design, identical twins, illustration, judy kaufmann, twins
March 2, 2011 • 2:33 pm Comments Off
They told me, fetch the jawbreaker
They told me, take down the wash
They told me, any day now, any day
They told me, one book?—as good as another
They told me, ’til someone loses an eye
They told me, gravity is deafening
Nancy, they told me, Nancy with the laughing face
They told me, just flour water and sea salt
They told me sometimes a rave
They told me sometimes a dove
They told me, they told me
They told me, blow skyward
They told me, stars across the knife
by Peter Jay Shippy
published in Diode
photo by lastplak_artworks
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Poetry, Science, alien poem, peter jay shippy
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