The picks of the week from around the web. The clip above and this one are pretty neat examples of ingenuous street art, I must say. Delightful. (Thanks, Eddie Campbell). Otherwise: Lots of great comics links this week! CBR — Steve Grant on the Superman ruling. The best summary article and analysis so far on…
The great exhibition of Titian’s late work shown this past autumn in Vienna has now moved to the Accademia in Venice in a rather amputated, but still beautiful incarnation. Worth seeing alone for the rare chance to see the KromerÃz Flaying of Marsyas and the Accademia’s own Pietà , which did not travel to Vienna, hung…
Loka? the best kept secret of Danish graphics — and the designer of the Metabunker logo (above) — is still online and is now blogging. Go check out his work.
During Albrecht Dürer’s second stay in Venice, in 1506, he wrote back to his friend Willibald Pirckheimer in Nüremberg about his experiences in the Serenissima, amongst other things describing the artists at work there. Of the elderly but still very much active Giovanni Bellini, he wrote that he was still “der pest im Gemoll” —…
“The appearance of realism in a superhero costume made from real materials is generally recognized to be difficult to pull off, and many such costumes do not even bother to simulate the presumable effect on the eye and the spirit of the beholder were Black Bolt to stride, trailing a positronic lace of Kirby crackle,…
I’m in Venice at the moment and have no steady internet connection, and am thus not able to do much here on the blog. But I’d like to take the time out to advertise this: the 10-year anniversary of Zven Balslev’s quality art zine/publication, and now art publisher and record label, Smittekilde! Congrats! If you…
Awesome art trio Ingen Frygt are exhibiting at Field’s, Copenhagen. The opening is this Friday. Go.
Fra Louisiana’s hjemmeside: Manga 8. oktober 2008 – 8. februar 2009 Det var den berømte japanske maler Hokusai, der kaldte sine tegnede portrætskitser for manga, som bragte navnet til Vesten. Manga er et særlig japansk tegneserie-fænomen, der historisk rækker 200 år tilbage, og som i dag har international kultstatus med millioner af hæfter solgt hver…
Til vore norske læsere vil jeg lige gøre reklame for seneste udgave af Morgenbladet, der er i dobbeltstørrelse i anledning af julen. I kultursektionen står en anmeldelse af Tizian-udstillingerne i Belluno og Wien, begået af undertegnede, at læse. Den er en art kondensat af mine tekster her på sitet, men rummer alligevel andre betragtninger. Avisen…
I’ve only just now been made aware that the great Renaissance scholar Konrad Oberhuber passed away on September 12, aged 72. I never had the pleasure of meeting the by all accounts charismatic and gregarious scholar, but have found great inspiration — and also at times frustration — in his work. It’s sad to see…
Brooklyn-based cartoonist Alex Holden has just launched his brand new website, full of art! Go there, and check it out, and keep an eye out for his comic series Magic Hour — it comes Bunker recommended! Oh, and check out Holden’s blog while you’re at it.
Kunstnertrioen Ingen Frygt reagerer på den hetz, politikeren Asmaa Abdol-Hamid har været udsat for i forbindelse med sit kandidatur til Folketinget, og har i selskab med initiativtagere lanceret en støtteside. De skriver: “Via nogle venner blev vi involveret i at lave denne støtteside for en engageret ung politiker, som af medier og andre politikere bliver…
Tomorrow, Saturday, the exhibition Line Dance, with Peter Chr. Petersen and Jimi Holstebro, opens at Ã…rhus Kunstpavillion. It goes down between 12-15. Welcome! Click on the flyer for more info.
Via David Packwood, I was made aware of the sale, last Friday at Moore, Allen & Innocent, for £2 million, of a Dutch 16th-Century portrait that the buyer and whoever he was bidding against evidently thought was a Rembrandt. Now, it certainly is a good-looking painting and evidently related to Rembrandt, but — at least…
Just returned from a short, sweet trip to Barcelona. Found this on a wall, in one of the many recesses of GaudÃ’s Sagrada FamÃlia. Made me think of this passage from Leonardo’s notebooks: “… if you look at any walls soiled with a variety of stains, or stones with variegated patterns, when you have to…