We Accept Walkens

Hear hear for Christopher Walken. He has become a meme, and we love him for it. He is a great actor, and a pop culture icon, and we simply salute him. The man is a Walken work of art.

This may be his pop culture masterpiece. Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim. Directed by Spike Jonze.

Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry

This is an excellent documentary by young filmmaker Alison Klayman, about Ai Wei Wei, artist, activist and giant thorn on the side of the Chinese government. It shows how a smart conceptual thinker like Ai is exploiting the capabilities of technology, namely twitter and the internet, to…

Thanks, Señora Cecilia!

By now, you must live under a rock if you haven’t heard about the poor Spanish elderly lady who took it upon herself to restore a badly damaged 19th century portrait of Jesus in a church in Borja, Spain. You probably have seen the appallingly funny before and after pictures.

Artists We Love: Cindy Sherman

We recently saw the Cindy Sherman retrospective at MoMa and we loved her. That is to say, each and everyone of her, for Cindy Sherman has been taking pictures of herself since she was an art student, and has managed to become hundreds of different women, and sometimes men…

Why Movies About Artists Suck

How many movies about visual artists have you ever seen that are not a total drag? Like most biopics, the lives of famous artists, whether painters, writers or composers, are usually not as dramatic and interesting as the lives and work of the artists themselves. Watching…

Artists We Love: Anselm Kiefer

Photographs by Beatriz Helena Ramos

DADA Art Bites: The Tech Gardener

We are proud to introduce Art Bites, our new video series about intriguing visual artists. Enjoy our first mini-doc about Carlos Gómez de Llarena, a very interesting hybrid of a man, whose training as an architect and tech wizard has led him to create new art forms for…