Can Cows Make Art?

On the light side --- cows (and deer) make art. Great Salt Lick Contest returns!

Txt & pix via npr> http://tinyurl.com/d7o8ho6

No Longer Art

 "No Longer Art: Salvage Art Institute" at Columbia Univ. Arch. Gallery. Closed yesterday. Damaged art, declared non-art by insurance companies. Very smart!

Essay @ hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/d222jch

Provisionalism

Provisionalist painting strikes! Is the unfinished look the new way out?
Pictured: David Hammons, "Untitled: (2011)

Via hyperallergic> artinamerica> http://tinyurl.com/ckknqhd

Transfer Bin Art Galleries in Ghent

Barge-to-truck transfer bins transformed into art galleries on the Ghent waterfront.

Via sutilitas.tumbler>http://rotordb.org/project/2012_Grindbakken_expo

Andy's Maos Banned in China

Warhol Mao paintings banned in China!

Via telegraph-uk> http://tinyurl.com/c6flboa

Euro-Australian and Indiginous Artists Collaborate

Appropriation of indigenous art by Euro-Australians yields controversies; but also --- on the bright side --- new cross-cultural collaborations.


See above:  "Hymn to the Night" by Michael Jagamara Nelson and Imants Tillers.

Story @ theaustralian> http://tinyurl.com/cgw3fps

Occupy Cooper Union's Parting Shot

Students who occupied Cooper Union clock tower to protest the imposition of tuition to this traditionally free art school signed off with the tableau below.

Story and pix from hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/bolzos5