A detail from Damien Hirst’s In the Name of the Father which is claimed to be based on John LeKay’s earlier This is My Body, This Is My Blood. Photograph: Jackdaw The Guardian: “Charles Thomson, the artist and co-founder of the Stuckists, a group campaigning… Read More
Locust sculptures made from fake designer bags Pink Tentacle: “Nine locust sculptures made from fake designer bags were removed from an art exhibit in Kobe, Japan after a complaint lodged by luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton. The works — created by Kyoto-based artist Mitsuhiro Okamoto… Read More
Telegraph: “One of the biggest photo libraries in the world is hoping the work of amateur photographers can reinvigorate its collection and help to create an edgier persona. Getty Images, the world’s largest distributor of still imagery, has teamed up with Flickr, the photo-sharing website,… Read More
Cory Doctorow has released all his fiction simultaneously in bookshops and online. Photograph: Bart Nagel The Observer: “Politically engaged and disarmingly geeky, Cory Doctorow is one of the better-known faces of the digital revolution: co-editor of the celebrated blog Boing Boing (‘a directory of wonderful… Read More
This is what I would call a mayor PR crisis! Mashable: “Time Magazine’s May 31 issue will hit newsstands with a cover and feature story dedicated to the “scary” side of Facebook. The cover art pays homage to the Facebook generation with a mosaic of… Read More
Interview Magazine: “During the last presidential election, artist Shepard Fairey’s poster of Barack Obama—a graphic, vaguely Russian-propagandist-looking portrait of the then candidate with the word HOPE drawn in big, bold letters underneath—achieved the rare feat of becoming a visual emblem of a moment in American… Read More
Open Video Alliance: “A recent wave of takedowns notices affecting many of the Hitler “Downfall” parody videos has resulted in their removal from YouTube. (EDIT: These videos were blocked by YouTube’s Content ID system, not taken down via DMCA notices. For more on the difference… Read More
Adam Pynacker’s ‘Boatmen on the shore’ (left), and Sam Leach’s ‘Proposal’ (right), which won this the Wynne Prize.Sydney Morning Herald: “Australian landscape artist Tim Storrier sees it as theft. When he looks at this year’s winner of the $25,000 Wynne Prize, side by side with… Read More
NYTimes.com: “As Google awaits approval of a controversial settlement with authors and book publishers, the company’s plan to create an immense digital library and bookstore may face yet another hurdle. On Wednesday, the American Society of Media Photographers and other groups representing visual artists plan… Read More
Copied almost shot-for-shot from the Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’ video. – This is the big hit on the interwebs today, folks! And it must have been a lot of work to get it right. Whoever made this doesn’t have the copyright for the song or the… Read More
