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Nick Cave will bring “Truth Be Told” to more than 300 billboards in the US.
Last fall, Nick Cave and the Jack Shainman Gallery were embroiled in a lawsuit over whether the artist’s monumental text-based work, To be honeston display on the facade of the gallery’s outpost in Kinderhook, New York, violated local building codes. Cave, who created the artwork in response to the police murder of George Floyd, ultimately prevailed and promptly moved the artwork to a more welcome home at the Brooklyn Museum.
Now animated editions of To be honest with Caves signature Sound suits will appear on 300 different billboards in cities across the United States thanks to a new partnership with Orange Barrel Media and Bob Faust. The latest iteration of the project was created specifically for the media agency’s Sunset Spectacular in West Hollywood as part of their Arts on Sunset initiative, but new presentations will start on July 4th in major cities like Atlanta, Washington and Boston. “At a time when so much disinformation and racist beliefs are finally emerging,” says Cave, “it is more important than ever to tell the truth to power and in many cases to ourselves.”
A new study suggests that hiring clothes is worse for the planet than just throwing them away.
A recent study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters calculates greenhouse gas emissions associated with five different types of clothing ownership and disposal such as resale, recycling, and rental. The results turn traditional beliefs about sustainable fashion on its head – clothing rental had that highest climate impact and recycling was also surprisingly high due to emissions from industrial processing. So what’s the most sustainable approach to consuming fashion? Buy fewer items and wear them until they fall apart.
Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art will open the very first sound art garden in 2022.
Part of that Campus-wide renovation by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta, the introduction of Butler Sound Gallery will for the first time present a museum exhibition space exclusively dedicated to sound art. The $ 5 million donation from Austin philanthropists Ernest and Sarah Butler went to the project, a park-like outdoor area next to the famous Austin Chapel by Ellsworth Kelly.
Luca Nichetto starts his new podcast “Opinionated” with an interview with Daan Roosegaarde.
Nichetto Studio has teamed up with Studio white and Paolo Ferrarini start “Bossy“, A monthly 30-minute podcast that focused on the exchange between creative minds. With the series, Nichetto aims to explore a variety of topics ranging from business and sustainability to contemporary art and music. “Over the years, through extraordinary partnerships and trips, I’ve been fortunate to build a rich and unique network of employees and friends,” says Nichetto. “‘Opinionated’ is the chance to fall back on these connections and to create a sense of community through enriching discussions and the introduction of different points of view.” It starts with a conversation between Nichetto and Daan Roosegaarde.
Beatrice Trussardi founds a nomadic art foundation with an installation in the Swiss Alps.
The Italian cultural entrepreneur took over the Nicola Trussardi Foundation, named after her father, in 1999 and soon started creating nomadic art projects in and around Milan. The same logic will also apply to the Beatrice Trussardi Foundation, their soon-to-be-opened “nomadic museum”, which will open this summer with an installation by Polish artist Pawel Althamer in the Swiss Alps that is only accessible by horse-drawn carriage. Their goal is to realize even more projects in distant places in the world that react to their immediate surroundings. “A home-less foundation works right in the tissue – within the nervous system – of a selected location or a specific historical moment,” said Trussardi Artnet news. “I want the foundation to be a mechanism, a vehicle that can bring art closer to the public.”
R & Company now represents Job Smeets, who will premiere a new work there in 2022.
The New York Design gallery recently announced their representation for Studio Job and Job boards, the Antwerp-based design company founded in 1998 by Smeets and Nynke Tynagel. The studio’s work is known for bridging monumental design and graphic art, with highly crafted works boasting a unique library of iconography, pop culture allusions, and excessive ornamentation. “Smeets’ work has appeared at countless international exhibitions and trade shows over the past 20 years, but it has been almost a decade since Studio Job’s last North American solo show,” said R & Company founder Evan Snyderman and Zesty Meyers it says in a joint statement. The gallery will install “American Job” in spring 2022, which will premiere a completely new group of works by Studio Job.
Today’s Attractive Distractions:
The artist of an invisible sculpture is sued by another invisible artist.
Norway makes it illegal not to label retouched photos on social media.
Instagram tries to make its app visually appealing more like TikTok.
Now that New York has legalized weed, what happens to the “Weed stain? “
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