Art in One Form or Another

Artists Protest BP at Tate

Protesters bathed an entrance to the Tate Britain in mock oil provoking anger from guests attending a party to mark 20 years of BP's sponsorship of the flagship gallery.

Beach Art

 

For many decades, Los Angeles lifeguard towers have been a sun-washed shade of blue. That will change through a major new project. The Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative, Summer of Color, is the largest public art project in the U.S., and also one of the largest civic efforts in the world.  For five months beginning in May, the LA County lifeguard towers – on 31 miles of beach -- will be transformed into a collective work of art.

Top 200 Art Collectors

My life's goal is to make this list. ARTnews today released its annual report on the top art collectors in the world.

YouTube as Art?

The Guggenheim is hoping to plumb the creative depths of online media by partnering with YouTube for a new exhibition this fall called YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video. Starting October 21, the top 20 entries will play in Guggenheim museums in Bilbao, Venice, Berlin and, of course, New York. YouTube has already inspired millions of uploads about funny cats, political rallies, music remixes, trailer parodies, crying rants, sports highlights, and sexy women. Will it become an inspiring new medium for the art community?

Art Info on Foursquare

I'm admittedly a little late to this one but I just found ArtInfo.com on Foursquare and they've done a good job. When you check in with Art Info on Foursquare you unlock New York's art world. You'll discover the city's top art galleries, the coolest artist hangouts and more. Love the continued incorporations of digital into the art world.

Uncollectable Contemporary Art

Looking back on the past half-century of art, one thing could be said for certain about its creators' achievement: much of their work is a headache for collectors. Here's part 1 in a look at top ten uncollectable contemporary works of art.

Hipsters and Hustlers

At the Met (through 10/17) is Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988), an unheralded master of street photography, best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island.

Art Basel App

Art 41 Basel is now in 3D on your smartphone and iPad. You can search and browse the galleries and artists on view at Art 41 Basel and explore the exhibition sectors and event agendas. An interactive 3D-Map helps navigate through the exhibition halls to locate galleries and artists, to access more information and images of works that  galleries bring to the show, organize them as favorites and find out about the museum shows and events and exhibitions around town.

Come Out and Play

If you're around NYC this weekend, head over to Governors Island for a giant art-filled playground with the return of Figment 2010. About 400 projects will be dotted throughout the park and all are interactive or participatory in some way.

Art Theft Market

Forbes just rounded up the ever-growing “World’s Biggest Illicit Industries” and thieves and sellers of stolen art are cashing in $6 billion yearly, stateside. There’s only so many rich gents whose secret penthouses need a classy spruce up: while stealing is easy, selling is hard.