The Danish Design Center just wrapped up a retrospective of Swiss designer Verner Panton who created some of the most groovy and retina-burning future looks around.
Category: Art
Saturday art – Sixspace and LACMA
Couple of cool art happenings going around town right now. Went to both today and they’re worth checking out…
Kenn Sakurai and Dave O’Regan at Sixspace downtown. Both these guys gobble up pop culture icons/ephemera and reconstitute as culture-jam postcards and prints for the Adbusters set. Most of it is kinda spotty, but there are a few dead on ones.
After Sixspace, I headed over to LACMA to catch the Modigliani/Montparnasse show. Mmmm… Boho Paris proto-surrealists!
Rather nice show, because it’s all there. Everything. Paintings, sketches, sculpture, etc.
Utterly fantastic art
Scrubbles points to this terrific collection of fantastic art taken from Cornell’s collection of manuscripts, obscuro books, and turn of the century magazines.
The Future We Were Promised
Incredible exhibition of future art from A. C. Radebaugh. The folks at Lost Highways literally stumbled onto these when they acquired the contents of an old Philadelphia warehouse and then one thing led to another…
Astronaut Dinosaur
He is 65 million years old and was at one point the king of the Cretaceous period. Now he likes tacos and is traveling the world. Scott Listfield takes pictures of dinosaurs, and creates paintings about astronauts and dinosaurs. Astronautdinosaur.com is the domain name.
[via KALIBER10000]
Googie art sale
Arment & Davis designed some of the best Googie coffee shops and restaurants in Los Angeles. Beginning on March 1, prints of their original design art will be offered for sale. Check out their web site: GoogieArt.com. Just looking at the pictures makes me crave a slice of apple pie and a cup of coffee.
[via Politics in the Zeros]
Thomas Kinkade – Painter Of Bankruptcy
Fresh from his attempts at building Stepford Villages, cult/shlock artist Thomas Kinkade (the “Painter of Light”(tm)) is working of that other Great American Pastime: fraud. The LA Times reports. (reg. required, use laexaminer/laexaminer).
DiGiovanni is the owner of a string of Kinkade galleries in the Minneapolis area that are in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The former defense company executive, who says he was led to believe he could match his $225,000 salary by becoming a Kinkade dealer, is facing the loss of his life savings.
The story he tells of his venture with the Painter of Light is mirrored by legal complaints coming in from many other corners of the nation that Kinkade and Media Arts have systematically defrauded their dealers, sucked them financially dry and reduced many to ruin.
My gut reaction is to call for a full-on Nelson-sized “HA HA!” here, but perhaps not if folks are losing their money. Nah… “HA HA!”
[via Scrubbles]
Retrofuturism: The Car Designs of J Mays
Didn’t realize this was going on up at MOCA, but I am so there. Mays is the designer of the New Beetle and the Thunderbird and the MOCA exhibition marks the first time a car designer has been featured in an American art museum. Digital Journal has some background.
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War Of The Worlds
118 different covers of H.G. Wells’ The War Of The Worlds from 1898 through 2002.
[via No Sense Of Place]
Planet Earth as abstract art
Amazing collection of Landsat images chosen for their artistic appeal.
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