Marina Abramovic’s latest performance piece, The Artist is Present, ended a couple weeks ago. Abramovic had been sitting at Moma seven hours a day, six days a week for three weeks. Viewers were allowed to sit across from her for however long they wanted to if they chose to do so. Personally I’ve never been all that comfortable with performance art pieces. Maybe it was my own unease with public speaking / performance, but watching performance pieces, even back in art school, made me quite uncomfortable. Ofcourse that may have been the point – to provoke emotions that were not always pleasant. Be sure to visit the Moma flickr stream for more photographs.

[ Moma : The Artist is Present ] via [ the girl in the green dress ]

photographs by [ Marco Anelli ]

Aidan Koch draws and paints, oh so beautifully.

[ Aidan Koch ]

Check out David Galletly’s awesome illustrations. He has an ongoing series called “What I wore today,” which I especially like, but everything on his site is worth a look – great stuff!

[ David Galletly ] found through [ It's Nice That ]

Creepy, ingenious, hilarious, and awesome all at the same time! Mark Pernice brought to life the distorted image of himself created in photo booth, a Mac OS application that I’ve personally wasted a lot of time on. There’s something quite satisfying in destroying your own face, but to create a 3D mask out of it… wow…

[ matic ] via [ the strange attractor ]

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[ vasco mourao ] via [ sub-studio ]