Get dotty: Anyone wanting to relive the polka-dotted splendor of our 1999 Yayoi Kusama exhibition should check out the Queensland Art Gallery’s kids’ web game, Kusama’s World of Dots, where you can plaster dots over every surface of a virtual room.
Movies about paintings: Thomas “Painter of Light” Kinkade’s painting “The Christmas Cottage” as a movie? Tyler Green’s got a better idea: here’s his list of five paintings that actually merit Hollywood’s attention.
Oiticica’s “American” art: Ever since the Walker’s 1993–94 Helio Oiticica exhibition, the term “American art” has been more generously applied to artists from the span of the Americas. Roberta Smith, reviewing the Museum of Fine Art Houston’s Helio Oitica: The Body of Color, writes that the show and the late Brazilian artist’s work is like “a large stone dropped into the calm waters of European-American art history.” (Pictured: Oiticica’s 1958 work Metaesquema.)
Guerrilla prude: A guerrilla censor clandestinely (and strategically) covered bodily bits exposed on statues in Oslo’s Vigeland Sculpture Park recently, leaving this note: “There is too much nudity in newspapers and magazines, so here on the bridge the limit has been reached!”
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I hope J-Lo and Ben Affleck star in it. That’s the kind of star-power Kinkade deserves. And scarily enough, it’d probably do alright at the box office.
Comment by Justin — March 19, 2007 @ 10:52 am
OMG you gave me the heebeegeebees when I saw the painter of light in my google reader.
Any Picasso would be a good movie. An indie flick for sure with a surreal plot.
Comment by nee — March 19, 2007 @ 5:13 pm