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Robert Rauschenberg 1925-2008

(previous posts about RR = here and here)

Sunny Side Up

The city of Leeuwarden has something new in the town square. If you like your eggs sunny side up and you live in the Netherlands, you're in luck. Dutch artist Henk Hofstra has taken care of everything. In a big way.  His newest art environment is called "Art-Eggcident Leeuwarden."  Each of those eggs is 100 feet wide.

via the Wooster Collective

Frankenstyles

I can't remember how I first landed on the Frankenstyles site, but the quirky, challenging designs of Stephen Kelleher never disappoint.

Cahier de Travaux Pratiques

Artist and illustrator Emmanuel Polanco opens his notebook and shares. Check out his new blog.

Here's an Alice in Wonderland inspired doodle.  Is the white rabbit wearing head gear?

One Day Poem Pavilion

My friend Ann Sieber sent me a link this week to Jiyeon Song's site Experiential Typography, saying she thought I might like it. I do!

"The One Day Poem Pavilion demonstrates the poetic, transitory, site-sensitive and time-based nature of light and shadow. Using a complex array of perforations, the pavilion’s surface allows light to pass through creating shifting patterns, which–during specific times of the year–transform into the legible text of a poem. The specific arrangements of the perforations reveal different shadow-poems according to the solar calendar...."

The poem Song chose is a sijo, a form from classical Korean poetry.  Here's the breakdown:

You can learn more about this form here or here.  And you can see the pavilion through time-lapse photography on YouTube.

Song did this project as part of a master's thesis at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

Hello Lucky Presents

Hello Lucky presents Flora and Fauna featuring work by Rene Cruz, Woody Golden, David Krueger, Dana Pike, and Christine West.

Flora and Fauna will open Thursday April 24, with a reception from 5 - 7:30 pm.

Hello Lucky is located at 1025 Studewood Street, Houston, Texas 77008.

via SpaceTaker

My Pollock

My daughter Carrie (age 2.5) did this one.

All the Way Home

  all the way home 
  Originally uploaded by snailbooty

Here's a collage made from paint chips by Snailbooty Studios. It could also be called "The Art of Waiting."

Art by Tomas Karkalas

Here are two pieces by the Lithuanian artist Tomas Karkalas: Year End and By the Road. Visit his blog Candleday to find out more about him and his work.

http://candleday.wordpress.com/pictures/

Hot Air Street Art

Somewhere out there an artist roams our streets, creating surprises out of the simplest objects found in the trash.

"There's an artist who's been making these animals out of discarded plastic bags. He (or she) ties the bags to the ventilation grates above the subway lines so that when the subway rushes through underneath, the animal jumps up and springs to life."

--excerpted from The Wooster Collective

Rapunzel Gets (More) Radical

Feminism meets fairy tale in this art concept. Read more about The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics on the YBCA website.  This piece called "Our Rapunzel" is by MK Guth.  Other artists represented in this show include Nao Bustamante, Eve Fowler,Taraneh Hemami, Miranda July and Shauna McGarry, LTTR, Aleksandra Mir, Shinique Smith, subRosa, SWOON and Tennessee Jane Watson, The Counterfeit Crochet Project organized by Stephanie Syjuco, and others.

(story via Rhizome) 

Buttoning

Art by London-based Multistorey, led by Rhonda Drakeford and Harry Woodrow. I love buttons.

ZOBOP! at MoMA

Watch Jim Lambie's dream become real in this video.

From the MoMA website:

Color Chart celebrates a paradox: the lush beauty that results when contemporary artists assign color decisions to chance, readymade source, or arbitrary system. Midway through the twentieth century, long-held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass-produced and standardized commercial product. The Romantic quest for personal expression instead became Andy Warhol's "I want to be a machine;" the artistry of mixing pigments was eclipsed by Frank Stella's "Straight out of the can; it can't get better than that."

Color Chart is the first major exhibition devoted to this pivotal transformation, featuring work by some forty artists ranging from Ellsworth Kelly and Gerhard Richter to Sherrie Levine and Damien Hirst.

(Thanks, Jack and Long, for this one!)

Some Dragon

My daughter turned four today.  This is a dragon that she drew recently.  Happy Birthday, Pearl.

My Rex Ray