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Christo and Jeanne-Claude Store Front SeriesBY Cyril Foiret / Sep 06 12 @ 1:44 PM
In 1963, still in Paris, Christo had begun making the Show Cases. He acquired small glass display cases or medicine cabinets at the flea market and turned their function around ...
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Faig Ahmed’s Embroidered ArtBY Katrina Tan / Sep 03 12 @ 11:16 AM
Twenty-nine year old Faig Ahmed has taken to the traditional arts of tapestry and needlepoint, but unlike his more prim predecessors, churns out pieces with an edgy, unraveled appeal. Faig’s ...
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Peter Root’s EphemicropolisBY Amanda Jakubik / Aug 13 12 @ 11:16 AM
For all of those who need a little inspiration at the office, artist Peter Root was feeling the same way and decided to fashion an entire little city of staples – an ephemicropolis! Hard to believe he spent 40 hours building the installation in the lobby of a building, using solely stacks of staples that [...]
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Homage to the Lost Spaces Installation by Mike HewsonBY Cyril Foiret / Aug 07 12 @ 4:58 AM
Reminding me a lot of the art of French artist JR and in a similar concept, “Homage to the Lost Spaces” installation by New Zealand artist Mike Hewson integrates real life size optical illusion collages in the town of
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Luciano Podcamisnky Five Series Art Installation at Centro Cultural RecoletaBY Vanessa Weste / Jul 30 12 @ 1:34 PM
Thank You Very Much! are a collection of artists from around the world based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Recently, they launched
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Sara Cwynar’s Accidental ArchiveBY Katrina Tan / Jul 30 12 @ 11:01 AM
Previously featured for her work on the New York Times redesign, artist and photographer Sara Cwynar has a new show opening at the Cooper Cole gallery in Toronto this Thursday. Accidental Archive showcases the things Sara does best: impeccable curation and exercising her amazing eye for color. While the exhibit is breathtaking on its own, [...]
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Yayoi Kusama at Whitney Museum through September 30, 2012BY Michele Llanos / Jul 13 12 @ 12:38 AM
Yayoi Kusama is trending in a big way this year, but if you follow Trendland you were onto it earlier than most. We have already posted on our calendar the dates of her retrospective at The Whitney this month but because I am such a fan and think her work is so relevant and important [...]
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Modern Art at VersaillesBY Michele Llanos / Aug 06 12 @ 3:52 AM
I thought I’d do a piece on the incredible modern art collection at Le Chateau de Versailles. I have always had an affinity to the beautiful juxtaposition of old and new living together symbiotically, creating imagery that evokes memory through history and emotion, and hope through a context of new creative thought processes. Placing a
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Pleix’s 2062BY Amanda Jakubik / Jul 12 12 @ 12:01 PM
It’s 2012 here, and maybe you think the world is going to end, or maybe you think this is the year that you will hit the jackpot. At Trendland, we are betting our chips on a carefully designed utopian society in which we raise our citizens to continuously create. Luckily, earlier this year French directing [...]