(Source: thegestianpoet, via staff)
“There’s something that happens when you swing. I’m sure there’s a neurological explanation for the sense of pleasure that you feel—and I think people are giving over to that.”
—Ann HamiltonNew video from Exclusive: Ann Hamilton discusses her installation the event of a thread (2012) which occupied the cavernous drill hall at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
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There should be an art history class called Collusion 101. Rather than waste time on the formal and thematic similarities that come to define various art “movements”, the class would instead focus on the financial powers that propel certain artists and works into popular discussion. Which…
“Working on art all the time, I can get into the habit of spending all my time in my brain. A lot of artists are so preoccupied with the work, that they don’t see something like running as fitting into that practice.”
—Artist Tommy HartungGo for a run around Queens with artist Tommy Hartung in a new film from the “New York Close Up” series.
Curious about how this MTV Art Breaks video was made? Ask @creativetimeNYC on Twitter! (Artist Semâ Bekirovic told us some behind-the-scenes info at the Round 2 launch at MTV studios.)
Round 2 Art Breaks Artists: Cody Critchloe (SSION), Andrew Kuo, Divya Mehra, and Guido Van Der Werve || Round 1: Mickalene Thomas, Rashaad Newsome, Mads Lynnerup, Tala Madani, and Jani Ruscica
Art Breaks is co-curated by Creative Time and MoMA PS1 for MTV. The videos air on the tube on MTV and are online at: http://artbreaks.tumblr.com/.