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Salon was the legendary lawgiver of the Athenians – the man who laid down the code of conduct that made the Athenians, in their own judgment, the best governed and wisest people of all the cities in Greece. The colors alone intrigue me. So does the reverence for law and learning seen in the way Salon holds his book.
c 1475, oil on wood, Musee du Louvre, Paris
lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows’ colors are changed in realtime with music that’s broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building.
visuals coded in openframeworks by zachary lieberman, joel gethin lewis and damian stewart (yesyesno). music by daito manabe, with support from Taeji Sawai and Kyoko Koyama. we made this in three days 
Mark Bradford’s abstractions unite high art and popular culture as unorthodox tableaux of unequivocal beauty. Working in both paint and collage, Bradford incorporates elements from his daily life into his canvases: remnants of found posters and billboards, graffitied stencils and logos, and hairdresser’s permanent endpapers he’s collected from his other profession as a stylist.
From the Saatchi Gallery. From May 29th till September 13th, a huge exhibition by the gallery, which presents the works of a radical new generation of American abstract painters, whose works surf between fresh cultural expression and postmodernist remix effortlessly, in the face of virtual realities and quicksilver new technologies. The artists grouped together in this publication are daring and inventive, their strategies broad and exhilarating, their exploration of abstract painting at this critical juncture invaluable
Ambushes
Mural / Wallpaper. Commissioned piece for Maxalot Gallery.
Dimensions variable, max 3m x 6m.
Hoogstraten was a native of Dordrecht, where he was first trained by his father. He moved to Amsterdam shortly after his father’s death in December 1640, and received further training in the studio of Rembrant. Here’s his “Man Looking through a Window.” This trompe l’oeil (fools the eye) seems to emphasize the contrast between stone, glass and human being.
I guess you either love Picasso or you don’t. I do. In fact I wish I could find some space on our walls to hang a couple of Picassos. Alas, blog posts will have to do. Here’s his “Self Portrait.” I think its very, very cool.
And here’s one of my favorites, his ”Three Musicians.” If I was a musician, this is what I’d want to look like – sorta. I might get a print of this one to hang in my study!
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Tour the AlloSphere, a stunning new way to see scientific data in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements…
Enjoy this Radiohead video but ignore the words (I don’t agree with the message at all). No cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data. Wild!
Directed by James Frost
