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Via Random House: “Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it’s squatting in the Tate or New York’s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world.”

More from wikipedia here and check out an interesting discussion of copyright laws as they pertain to Banksy and other graffiti artists here.

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Via Yale University Press: “Conceived by architect Charles W. Moore and begun in the context of social activism and dramatic institutional change during the 1960s, the Yale Building Project has contributed to the education of many of this country’s leading architects, serving as the model for “design-build” programs at universities nationwide. The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years is the first comprehensive history of this important initiative.”

Yale U. Marks 40 Years of Building Community Scott Carlson Chronicle of Higher Education 8/16/07

More on the building project here and here.

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Simulation image, Daisy Chain Twist, 2004-5. Jennifer Steinkamp

Northrup, JoAnne with contributions by Dave Hickey and Dan Cameron. Jennifer Steinkamp. New York: Prestel Verlag & San Jose Museum of Art, 2006.

This monograph on the artist Jennifer Steinkamp jumped off the shelf with its holographic cover. Previously unfamiliar with Steinkamp’s work, the book is a solid introduction to her rather intriguing career as an artist working with digital/computer animation for close to 30 years. Influenced by California Light & Space art (James Turrell, Robert Irwin), experimental film, and a dash of 1960s psychedelia, Steinkamp’s art is an odd combination of a trippy light show and rigorous formal invesitgations of light, space, and technology.

The artist also has a cool website with additional information.

Posted by: Ian M.

Experimental public art troupe, Creative Time, has published a book and true to form, the book itself is the result of an art installation. Each book cover is a unique display of colors, sounds and weather recorded in New York. The A&A’s copy of the book shows information collected from Battery Park on 9/8/06 at 12:34PM. Find information about the making of the cover and more here.

From the book description: “For more than 30 years, Creative Time has been an avatar of public art in the city, working to engage art and the environment, artists and the public. Creative Time: The Book shows how a single organization made it possible for thousands of artists to present awe-inspiring works that engage, taunt, seduce, enliven, and transform a city.

“Creative Time artworks have been seen in spaces both lofty and modest. Light projections have appeared on the Beaux-Arts entrance to the New York Public Library and from Ground Zero in the now famous Tribute in Light Memorial to 9/11. Signage has popped up on Times Square’s Astrovision screen and along the boardwalks of Coney Island. Music has blasted in Central Park as well as under tunnels in DUMBO, Brooklyn.”

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Aperture

“Hungarian born photographer Sylvia Plachy goes home for the last time in a bitter sweet final parting with her home land. Self Portrait with Cows Going Home, Plachy’s latest book, is a powerful personal memoir told through images and anecdotes about her beginnings in communist Hungary, to her migration to Austria, then New York with her parents and her repeated journeys back to Hungary…Her pictures of her son Adrian Brody on the set of The Pianist, in 2001, are used towards the beginning of the book to paint the picture of Hungary after the revolution.”

Note from Take Great Pictures.comSee photos from the book via the link above and at Aperture.and read it at the Arts Library!

Posted by: Tanya

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