Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening:
1. Damien Hirst: The Currency and Burning Art
2. Paola Pivi: Statue of Liberty at The Highline Park in NYC
3. Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada: “Outsight
BSA Special Feature: Damien Hirst: The Currency and Burning Art
Love me or hate me, please don’t stop talking about me. Just in time for currencies like the dollar and the pound to reduce to little more than colored paper: This cultural currency of this modern contemporary artist who is best known for colorful dots, sharks, and Banksy rumours is placed before you, courtesy Stephen Fry. To hear the marketing that goes into this release feels rather stunt-like, and just the kind of thing that the kids will adore. But they must make a choice of what kind of Damian Hirst artwork they would like…
Damien Hirst – The Currency and Burning Art
Paola Pivi: Statue of Liberty at The Highline Park in NYC
Possibly the oddest pairing of musical soundtrack and rapid fire documentation to accompany the making of a sculpture, this Emoji-faced statue of Liberty will surely confuse passersby as well.
Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada: “Outsight”
A ‘making-of’ video for this mural we brought you a couple of days ago, here is the artist at work.
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