October 10, 2007

Links in the Link Age

• Ever-innovative Brendan DeVallance brings an art gallery to his Lippincott Mercer Park Avenue office cubicle. You know what they say, the arrival of the artists signals the first wave of gentrification.

• Lego my ego: In the emergent genre of stop-motion toy brick animation, auteurs screen their latest at Brickfilms.com.

• Gravity getting you down? Check out the floating “action mechanics” of STREB as well as this “human art” from Japan. For more of the latter see Japanprobe.com.

• “Fear is joy paralyzed,” shares transcendant tour guide Timothy “Speed” Levitch.

• Humorist and citizen diplomat, Kristian Ruggieri chronicles her latest mission of passion – this time to Africa.

• If you’re looking for an art resource specializing in the intricacies and beauty of hay, I’ve found none better than Hay In Art. I especially appreciate the Martin Johnson Heade page.

• The Gagosian Gallery’s rapturous de Kooning exhibit continues through the 27th. For more on de Kooning’s 1980s work see this definitive – if I do say so myself – essay.

Posted by mark at October 10, 2007 05:59 PM