“For me,” she says, “transformation is inevitable. That’s what I find really fascinating about life, and I have since I was really very small. And I’m always interested when people fantasize that they can deny that it exists, or that they can have any control over it, or that change might be a choice. Change is the only thing we have, it seems to me, and it’s with us all the time.”
Currently at the Hayward Gallery in London. ‘Cama’ by Cuban artists Los Carpinteros is part of THE NEW DÉCOR exhibition until September 2010. More images here…
Rintala Eggertsson’s Ark is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Small Spaces exhibition in London: 6,000 books turned into a small and delightful flat.
Sadly, the Ark is not a real apartment, but a structure for exhibition. That’s really too bad, because I just want to live surrounded by 6,000 books, and then spend my days reading the 120,000 volumes on my iPad.
If you are in London, you can see it until August 30.
Range Rover Evoque makes an entrance with Victoria Beckham and Vogue
Land Rover unveiled the newest addition to the Range Rover lineup at its 40th anniversary celebration in London on July 1 at a party organized with VOGUE. The vehicle goes on sale in summer 2011. The brand announced that Victoria Beckham will be the new creative design executive, designing a portion of the Evoque interior.
All eyes are on L.A.’s most iconic artist, John Baldessari. While his work is currently being featured in over five shows in the greater Los Angeles area (two notable exhibits are the stellar prints he collaborated on with Gemini G.E.L., and the Sediments show at Margo Leavin), the crown jewel is his Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new comprehensive retrospective of the California artist’s work, Pure Beauty. The show features more than 150 pieces spanning the artist’s career from 1962 to the present day, and includes works on canvas, photography, videos, and artist’s books. John Baldessari is a legit hometown hero, so trust—we can’t recommend this enough.
Of course if you can’t make it to L.A.C.M.A. in the near future, but you love John Baldessari and interactive artwork, then there’s an app for that! Released in conjunction with the Pure Beauty show, John Baldessari has collaborated with L.A.’s ForYourArt and Ovation on the first-ever app created by a contemporary artist, available for iPhones and iPads. The program allows you to interact with his famous piece, In Still Life 2001-2010, and make your own pieces of artwork. It’s as fun as it is beautiful, and each piece is totally unique. Says Baldessari, “When someone creates their own In Still Life 2001-2010, it becomes their own artwork. It’s not mine. It’s theirs.”