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"No good deed goes unpunished."—Oscar WildeSearch
My Music. Song, Art, Writing Entries of Various Sorts
- I rest my case - DJs truly suck balls
- New Art Prints - A thousand colors made from tears
- Bono & U2: Abho(RED) By So Many Thoughtful People
- Happy Easter
- Flower Power Vs. Venus In Furs
- Bulboscity in Stasis
- Roy Sablosky on the Blue Serge and the Savoy Tivoli
- The Love Shack, Hockney-style
- Cat + Synthesizer
- The Serge Modular Synthesizer and the Origin of the Atom Bee
- Disposable Pop From the (song)Device
- Happy Birthday, David and Elvis
- James Brown, R.I.P.
- Happy Birthday Louie Van Bee
- How The Brain Processes Words
- A Love Supreme - Chiclet Edition - Edition Info on the way
- In Loving Memory, John Lennon, Oct. 9, 1940-Dec. 8, 1980
- British Prize For Art That Has No Meaning
- LeisureTown
- Art School Confidential
- Total War on DJ Culture
- Welcome to Sun Pop Blue
- Hunter--We Hardly Knew Ye!
- Poor Hunter Thompson
Words and Art British Prize For Art That Has No Meaning | British Prize For Art That Has No Meaning |
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LONDON — German-born abstract painter Tomma Abts on Monday became
the first female painter to land the Turner Prize in the 22-year
history of one of the art world’s most controversial awards.
Abts, 38, who has lived in London for 12 years, has said that she begins every piece — they all measure exactly 18.9 inches by 15 inches — with no idea what she is about to paint and that they symbolize nothing at all. The $49,000 prize was presented by Yoko Ono during a ceremony at London’s Tate Britain gallery. London artist Rebecca Warren had been the favorite to take the prize; she specializes in sculptures of large cartoon women with what the judges called “humongous knobbly breasts and enormous bobbly buttocks.” [Knox says: be sure to click on the jump to see/read more about Rebecca Warren - he wanted to ridicule her based on this sentence, but did a little research and now he LOVES her.]
This is Marcel Duchamp's sculpture The Fountain, 1917. It is often said, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, duchamp." The Fountain has "meaning" up the yin-yang. Recently, a cabal of modern curators has advanced the concept of the wall-mounted urinal as the perfect archival medium/repository for the collected works of Yoko Ono. (More art fun on the flipflop)
Work by Glasgow video artist Phil Collins, another contender, includes a video of nine people who believe their lives have been ruined by reality TV. Last year’s winner was Simon Starling, who turned a shed into a boat, then back into a shed.
More about Rebecca Warren here:
Homage to my Father, by Rebecca Warren
Props to The Philter for the original item. |
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written by BC, December 07, 2006
Er, wait, I mean: Recontextualizer!
No, wait again: Artist!
Things sure change in a hurry these days.