Word: artisticness
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...particularly eccentric walker: "The most extreme Los Angeles walker I know is called Mudman, a persona of the artist Kim Jones. In order to become Mudman, Jones coats his body in mud, pulls a thick nylon stocking over his head, puts on a foam headdress, and then straps to his back a large lattice structure made of wooden slats, tree branches, wax, wire, tape, sponge, and whatnot. Sometimes he also wears a glove on his left hand from which a number of long wooden spikes protrude all the way to the ground. The effect is visually and conceptually compelling, especially...
...yesterday afternoon. Fans of the site range from your run- of-the-mill indie-loving college students to their Johnny Mathis-loving grandmas. Using a complex algorithm created by the Music Genome Project, a company Westergren helped found earlier, Pandora takes a listener’s favorite song or artist and recommends similar music based on a series of factors present in that song or artist’s catalogue. “[Pandora] replicates your best friend, but with almost perfect knowledge of an enormous catalogue of music,” Westergren said at the talk, which was sponsored...
...risk. Even stepping out of the flow to grab a paper at one of the station's many convenience stores can be a struggle. But as of Monday, there's a new reason for Tokyoites to take a detour from their well-worn paths: revered Japanese artist Taro Okamoto's Asu no Shinwa ("Myth of Tomorrow") now has a permanent home near the Keio Inokashira line in the Shibuya station...
...LeWitt retrospective grew out of conversations that began five years ago between the artist and Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery. Thinking over ways to preserve LeWitt's work, Reynolds suggested a long-term installation of his wall drawings at Mass MoCA, which had opened in 1996 in a complex of almost two dozen derelict industrial buildings, most of them still unused by the museum. "I think Jock described me to Sol as a poor dirt farmer of a museum director," says mass moca director Joe Thompson. "Cash poor but rich in buildings and land...
Graphic Fantastic. A retrospective of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt opens this week at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Mass. Featuring 100 works created over the last 40 years, the artist himself collaborated on the exhibit before his death in 2007. It opens Nov. 16, and will stay up for 25 years. 1040 Mass MoCA Way, North Adams...