As a wise man once said, life is serious, art is lighthearted. And this very description is what I find the most difficult about creating art. There is a tremendous distance between the seriousness of living a life (yes, even an artist's life...), and the light that the art requires. Or is it the...

Looking for the above gorgeous image by Francesca Woodman, I came across Lucilees post where she asks the ever-recurring question about appropriation vs. plagiarism, in the context of the two works below: Cattelan's installation, untitled, from 2007. Woodman's photo, untitled, 1977. The work...

Beautiful Steps #2, by Lang/Baumann at the Utopics exhibition in the Swiss city of Biel.

(thanks Maria!)

See Sprint's Plug Into Now project (launched about a year ago and created by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners). Get impressed. And then goddamn it, move forward, do things no commerce can think of. Because it does have the feel of some excellent live art that's been around in the recent years. And let's say it feels just a tad late (and shallow, and not moving forward - but it's selling a product, for chrissakes!). Just late enough to feel that artists can still handle the commercial pressure. Yes, they've been counting on viral marketing. Yes, they think they might tap into a blog like this one. Yes, they just...

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Still from “Grape Stomp” video How much link can you get? We have no idea who Greg Rutter is, but he put together a fantastic list of 99 links��� comprehensively scouring every meme on the Internet ever. Websites range from obvious classics Cute Overload and Dancing Baby to...