And it was simply beautiful! The photo that inspired Agnelli was taken by photographer Paulo Pinto and was published in Brazilian newspaper “O Estado de São Paulo” in 2009.
Hear the song “Birds on the Wires” for yourself in the video below and see Agnelli’s presentation and performance of this song at TEDx.
Original Photo “Birds On The Wires”
Watch The Video here:
With the aid of his ‘Spirit Energy’ Friend Called Desmond, Mike Super managed to captivate the judges especially Mel B of Spice Girls, Prepare to be Mystified!!!!
AcroArmy’s Week 3 Quarterfinals performance in Episode 913 consisted of performing acrobatic feats such as acrobats being tossed to other acrobats, handstands on top of other people, and flips in the air. Heidi Klum, Mel B, and Howie Mandel all gave the group standing ovations. AcroArmy finished in fifth or sixth place in America’s Vote. In the Judges’ Choice, although Howie did not vote for it, Howard Stern, Heidi, and Mel B did, sending the group to the Semifinals in Episode 914 instead of Mike Super.
The 12th edition of Frieze London opened its doors a fortnight ago, housing 162 galleries from 25 countries under a newly redesigned tent by Universal Design Studio. The fair opened a day earlier than usual (as well as earlier in the morning), and, with sales whispered shortly after the arrival of the first VIP guests, the mood was already electric in the early hours.
Some changes are noticeable, for example the disappearance of the section Frame, which was dedicated to solo artists presentations from young galleries. On the other hand, Focus, dedicated to galleries up to 10 years old, has grown into a more significant section, featuring a whopping 36 galleries (whereas last year there were only 22). The new Live section, which gathers six galleries showcasing performative works, signposts the growing presence of dance and performance pieces throughout the fair, from the sections all the way to Frieze Projects.
Frieze has a new dazzling layout, which makes navigating the fair a much more pleasant experience (or so the rumors went), but it is also bigger than last year. Although many visitors have commented that the fair seems smaller and friendlier, the truth is that this year the roster of galleries has increased by an additional 10 exhibitors.
This is why browsing around Frieze London can be daunting experience, although it’s always exciting. So, to avoid getting lost in the maze, these are this year’s selected highlights.
Here is Frieze London 2014, in a nutshell:
1. Kate MacGarry, London, Stand A4
Goshka Macuga weaves a tall tale of artists, art collectors, and art history in the video of her theatrical comedy Preparatory Notes for a Chicago Comedy, along with photocollages and a large-scale tapestry, extending the artist’s history-delving, hall-of-mirrors practice.
2. Lisson Gallery, London, Stand B5
Info-culture overload, with Cory Arcangel digitally channelling Miley Cyrus into pools of cupcakes, and Ryan Gander putting his oddball classifications of images onto USB sticks you can’t access. Meanwhile, Joyce Pensato gets messy with Mickey Mouse.
3. Gió Marconi, Milan, and Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe, Stand B2
Clattering film projectors, ball bearings teetering on the rim of stacked film cans—Rosa Barba’s cinematerialism strips images back to bare matter.
4. Workplace Gallery, Gateshead/London, Stand H10
Long unsung Brit sculptor Eric Bainbridge combines lo-fi aesthetics and a tragic-comic, suburban love for the promise of modernism—and funny fur—at Gateshead-based mavericks Workplace.
5. Carlos/Ishikawa, London, Focus/Stand G26
Upcoming and already-come art boys Ed Fornieles, Oscar Murillo, and Korakrit Arunanondchai get messy together, with Fornieles offering a working nail bar for the unmanicured. Get in the queue.
6. Hauser & Wirth, Zurich/London/New York, Stand D6
Calling up pretty much the entire menagerie of the gallery’s artists, artist-cum-curator Mark Wallinger turns Hauser & Wirth’s stand into a Freudian boudoir for an obsessive collector.
7. Thomas Dane Gallery, London, Stand E6
Offering a poised and beautifully balanced contrast of artists old and new, Thomas Dane Gallery has a sculpture by Phillip King dance around works by Michael Landy and Alexandre da Cunha, while a “touching” Steve McQueen photo looks on.
8. Kukje Gallery, Seoul, and Tina Kim Gallery, New York, Stand B6
New York’s Tina Kim Gallery and Seoul’s Kukje Gallery share a booth, East-meets-West style, with immaculate works by, among others, Haegue Yang and Damián Ortega.
9. Gagosian Gallery, Stand C3
Trippy and a bit random—there’s a giant magic mushroom and an oversize dice into which children keep disappearing—Carsten Höller’s sculptural playground turns Gagosian’s stand into a behavioral laboratory for the ADHD art fair visitor.
10. Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Stand D5
São Paulo blue chip gallery Fortes Vilaça delights with a carefully curated selection of Brazilian artists, including Iran do Espírito Santo, José Damasceno, and Rodrigo Matheus, whose works play with geometry, lines, and minimal gestures.
HBO’s “Banksy Does New York” opens with a scene of two men attempting to remove a giant “Banksy!” balloon from its perch atop a building in Long Island City. Scaling the facade with a ladder, they retrieve their prize, but are immediately tackled to the ground upon climbing down by several men in a growing throng. A fight breaks out, the cops show up, and the final artwork from Banksy’s “New York residency” is hauled off in a paddywagon. Believe it or not, it is exactly what the artist wanted.
The documentary follows the street artist’s dramatic, enthralling 31-day stint in New York City. For those who don’t remember, beginning on October 1, 2013, he produced a new artwork each day, leaving clues as to its whereabouts on his website. A cultish following that identified themselves as “Banksy hunters” quickly sprang up. Some of these followers were reporters chasing the story, but most of them were just everyday people who for whatever reason were so taken with Banksy’s work, they decided to drop everything and spend a month obsessively tracking and documenting his actions. Much of the film is comprised of video and photographs taken by these people.
Men attempt to steal the Banksy! balloons in Queens. Photo via Animal New York.
Despite what graffiti writers who view him as a sellout would have you believe, Banksy is nothing if not an artist of the people. His work widely appeals to the public, and it also plays with the community in subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways. Watching the entire month-long residency unfold in about an hour’s time, it becomes clear that the stencils left on buildings were just the beginning of what he intended to create. It becomes clear that critics who have dismissed his work as unsophisticated and obvious are only looking at its most basic elements and ignoring the whole picture, a fact that becomes clear while watching the anonymous artist carefully manipulate the frenzy around his work.
This world of Banksy functions a bit like a fairy tale. A modern-day King Midas, everything he touches turns to gold. He has the ability to greatly help people simply by showing up and signing his name on something. It’s an incredible kind of power, and inevitably, it causes both heroes and villains to crop up around him. Obvious heroes are people like the “Wet Wipe Gang”—a ragtag group of unofficial art restorers who would clean up the paintings after a vandalism like the one that occurred on his traditional Japanese footbridge in Bushwick. The undisputed villain of the film seems to be gallerist Stephan Keszler, who buys stolen Banksy works, hauls them off to his annex in the Hamptons, and attempts to resell them at a major markup (I say “attempts to” because all of his works from the New York residency have yet to sell).
A girl poses with Banksy’s Japanese footbridge. Photo: Carlo Allegri
But there are grey areas as well. One of the pieces purchased by Keszler is a stone sphinx sculpture from Willetts Point, Queens. The neighborhood is home to over 250 small businesses that received word just weeks before that the area would soon be demolished to make way for high-rise condos. Autobody shop owner Bernardo Veles saw a golden opportunity, and with the help of friends, packed up the sphinx into the back of a truck and then proceeded to store it in his grandmother’s garage. Veles’ status as a “good guy” or a “bad guy” in the world of Banksy remains uncertain. Sure, he stole the artwork, but he also probably needed the money to continue to exist in a New York, which increasingly favors the rich. Setting up these kind of tenuous situations and exposing the deeper issues beneath them is exactly what Banksy’s art (and this film) do best.
During the Banksy! balloon fiasco, the film cuts to an interview with a Banksy hunter who says she wishes she could explain to the cops the “cultural currency” of what they’re shoving into the back of their van. Any understanding of that could be immediately remedied by watching this film and reliving this art-based social experiment that touched the lives of people as diverse as New York itself.
“Banksy Does New York” will premiere on HBO Go on October 31, 2014, and on HBO on November 17 at 1600 GMT
source: artnet
Since 1964, the National History Museum in London has been organizing their annual Wildlife Photographer Of The Year contest. This year, the Grand title winner in Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, which includes photographers up to 17 years of age, was Carlos Perez Naval – a 9-year-old boy from Spain.
Carlos’ parents are tireless travelers, and they always take their son to all their trips around the world. When he was 4, he started taking photos of all the nature he saw – first with a compact camera and now with professional equipment. He gets a bigger lens every time he goes abroad.
Carlos doesn’t need to be in far away lands to take nice photos – during the school year, the flora and fauna in his garden and surrounding Teruel can’t escape the “clicks” of his camera.
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Source: nhm.ac.uk
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“If we burn, you burn with us.”
The highly anticipated The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 film arrives in theaters in less than a month. And though the official trailer was released in September, one more has just been dropped to tide fans over. In this trailer, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) has a special message for President Snow (Donald Sutherland)
It opens with Plutarch Heavensbee (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) and President Coin (Julianne Moore) discussing Katniss.
Katniss sees first-hand what the Capitol did to District 12.
Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) sends Katniss a terrifying warning.
As does President Snow.
But she’s obviously not going down without a fight.
Let The Games resume!
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 opens on Nov. 21, 2014.
Watch Official Trailer here
No seriously, it will change your perspective on life.
R&B and hip-hop star T-Pain has sat down and performed a mini concert without the use of auto-tune and it’s awesome.
T-Pain’s fingerprints are all over pop and R&B and hip-hop. He wasn’t the first musician to use Auto-Tune as an instrument — he noticed it on a Jennifer Lopez remix, and remembers “Deep” well — but it was, as he says, his style. For a while, in the mid-2000s, he lived at the top of the charts. He dominated that brief moment of our lives when ringtones were a thing. He was celebrated as an innovator, and he happily took his talents where he was invited, which was everywhere.
But somewhere along the way, somebody got it twisted. “People felt like I was using it to sound good,” says T-Pain, in an interview that will air on All Things Considered. “But I was just using it to sound different.”
He just turned 30, but T-Pain has already done enough to drop a greatest hits album next week. We asked him if he’d grace the Tiny Desk without any embellishment or effects to show what’s really made his career: his voice, and those songs.–FRANNIE KELLEY
SET LIST
“Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)”
“Up Down (Do This All Day)”
“Drankin’ Patna”
CREDITS
Producers: Frannie Kelley, Maggie Starbard; Editor: Maggie Starbard; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Videographers: Colin Marshall, Maggie Starbard; Production Assistant: Susan Hale Thomas; photo by Maggie Starbard/NPR
Watch Video here T-Pain: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
A few days ago, reports were circulating that WizKid was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya over possession and use of marijuana. WizKid has come out to shun the reports, stating that nothing happened, and that those are just rumors about him that always happen.
He said “Nothing of such happened. It is all rumour, rumors keep churning out everyday, it didn’t happen.”
We certainly hope that’s the case
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