Prince's Nurses

Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer, who began his career in 1977 by appropriating photographs:  meaning the artist pulls from the work of others, in a modified way, in order to create his own work.

The most well-known paintings by Prince, are his works from the so-called “Nurse Series”.  A series that is mainly inspired by the covers  of cheap pulp novels. Prince initially scanned the cover images, after which they were transferred onto a canvas and personalized by acrylic paint. The titles of the series include “Naughty nurse”, “Millionaire Nurse”, “Surfer Nurse”, after the titles of the book covers they were appropriated from.

Although heavily criticized at first, the Nurses are now priced in the millions.



Richard Prince: A nurse on horseback



Richard Prince: Tender Nurse



THINK Exhibit

IBM's THINK exhibit at the Lincoln Center in New York composes of 40 interactive panel showing various indicators of life quality in the Big Apple, which engage visitors into a conversation on this subject.
The exhibition is open from September 23 to October 23.

Light Painting

Andy Hemingway is a Huston-based photographer, who in his latest series "Light Painting" applies light graffiti to an abandoned parking garage in his home town. Done with a flashlight and some projection  tools, the result is a spectacular combination of flowing light effects to an lifeless concrete backdrop.

A new type of sculpture!

Today we’d like to introduce you to a whole new type of sculpture, made by Brooklyn-based artist Nick van Woert.

Van Woert makes weird, awesome and unique sculptures, in which he combines marble busts with polyurethane plastic in adhesive form. The plastic is to be understood as “attacking” the busts. Van Woert himself refers to these sculptures as:  "a hijacking of the art historical past”.

Van Woert is currently partaking in exhibitions worldwide and is represented by the most renowned galleries.



Nick van Woert: Poor me

 




Nick van Woert: Eclipse (yellow)



Nick van Woert: Untitled



Is this the new leader of the free world?

With the U.S. elections soon aproaching a new candidate has emerged
The sculpture of a cow made from butter, shown at the biggest agricultural exhibition in Iowa proved to be so popular that Jack Mathews has begun a campaign to get the Butter Cow in the presidential running. He started a website, buttercow2012.com, which is currently conducting its own pole. Here Butter Cow received 62% of the votes, almost four times more than President Obama's 16%.
The website describes the candidate as "udderly fantastic" with strong "grass roots values". The candidate hasn't made any comments yet, but one thing that he will be out to prove is that being inhuman isn't all that bad.

Official campaign T-shirt

A new breed of trailer trash

Now, if you would happen to have $2,5 million to spare you could be the new and proud owner  of the world’s most expensive luxury coach: the Featherlite RV Vantare Platinum Plus.

This thing is much more than your ordinary RV;  it truly is a mansion on wheels. The interior boasts rare marble steps, a customized sculptured ceiling and onyx shower walls. The gas tank will cost you some  $1000 to fill up, but thank God your sportscar can be stored underneath.

Featherlite Vantare Platinum Plus



Featherlite Vantare Platinum Plus- interior



Acido Dorado

The "Acido Dorado" -spanish for 'golden acid'-  is Robert Stone's second rental house built in the middle of the southern Californian desert. The project was designed and built as a 1350 square feet golden shimmering minimalist house, by Los Angeles based architect Robert Stone who conceived the building as a reflection on architecture itself.


copyright: Brad Lansil: robertstonedesign.com




copyright: Brad Lansil: robertstonedesign.com

copyright: Brad Lansil: robertstonedesign.com

 Hundreds of feet away, the Acido Dorado finds its counterpart in the so called "Rosa Muerta", which is a similar construction in darker colours that also functions as a rental house.

copyright: Brad Lansil: robertstonedesign.com