DAZED and CONFUSED: Maurizio Anzeri and Richard Burbridge

someone make this an album cover

A great collaboration, this time between photographer Richard Burbridge, Italian artist Maurizio Anzeri and stylist Robbie Spencer for June 2011 issue of Dazed and Confused. Black and white photographs taken by amazing Richard Burbridge were exploded to another dimension by Maurizio Anzeri who is best known for his series of embroidered portraits made from photogrpahs found in flea market. He transformed photos by stiching and sewing directly on them using colored threads.

source: http://trendland.net/2011/07/23/it-came-from-the-sky-by-maurizio-anzeri-and-richard-burbridge/#more-62675

TIM BURTON at LACMA

TIM BURTON exhibit at LACMA

 

   The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton's creative work, both as a film director and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.

   Tim Burton was born in Burbank in 1958. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before breaking out on his own. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.

   The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist's own archive, as well as from studio archives and private collections of Burton's collaborators. Hundreds of never-before-exhibited artworks and sketches will be joined by a selection of film posters accompanied by music composed for the exhibition by Burton's longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.

   Two large-scale outdoor artworks are also installed on campus: a topiary inspired by Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Balloon Boy, an enormous figure based on an amalgamation of characters that Burton first introduced in his 1997 book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories.

   In addition to the exhibit, Burton has taken on the role as curator and sifted through LACMA's archives to find the most "Burtonesque" art among the collection. Burton shares his inspirations in the video below.

source: http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/tim-burton

MAGNIFIED PORTRAITS

LATEX LOVE- JASPER GOODALL

THE PAINTING I DIDN'T BUY

Saw this painting at Eastern Market in Washington, D.C.--- still pissed I didn't buy it. I liked the stabs of red on his leg--- CAVEMAN or better yet CANNIBAL---either way--- I messed up. 

THE modern-andy-warhol MADAME

BRIGHT LIGHTS IN EXCESS

WELCOME

TO

ANDY WARHOL's

HOUSE

B.Burn channels Andy Warhol's Elizabeth Taylor

A new piece of Andy for everyday of the year---this book reveal photos and facts from the white-haired phenomenon. Expect XXX.

Written by Andy Warhol, Truman Capote said this book was, "Acute. Accurate. Mr. Warhol's usual amazing candor. A constant entertainment and enlightenment."

For the modern day Warhol read, check out Andy's Interview magazine. www.interviewmagazine.com

DEAD PINK BUNNY- POP ART STORE

Best store in N.Y.C-hands down- is Gagosian.

www.gagosian.com