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His latest series - "In Plain View" incorporates fake metal grates in some very risky locations... - Andy Ratto

Over at Modern Art Notes Tyler Green has an interesting discussion with MoMA Chief Curator of Photography Peter Galassi regarding how the Abu Ghraib photographs might fit into MoMA’s collection. Galassi and Green each raise interesting points about what physical representation such a thing might occupy (magazine? JPEG?). Green asks if the hypothetical MoMA acquisition might function as part of a “specific national process.” - Andy Ratto

Over at Modern Art Notes Tyler Green has an interesting discussion with MoMA Chief Curator of Photography Peter Galassi regarding how the Abu Ghraib photographs might fit into MoMA’s collection. Galassi and Green each raise interesting points about what physical representation such a thing might occupy (magazine? JPEG?). Green asks if the hypothetical MoMA acquisition might function as part of a “specific national process.” - Andy Ratto

His latest series - "In Plain View" incorporates fake metal grates in some very risky locations... - Andy Ratto

In a stunning series of photographs of creatures, a new book reveals just how far removed we are from the animal world. Giacomo Brunelli’s The Animals is no ordinary collection of wildlife photography… Taken in his native Italy, Brunelli’s images in The Animals offer glimpses of familiar creatures – dogs, cats, birds, horses – but they are invariably disarming and unsettling. - Andy Ratto

In a stunning series of photographs of creatures, a new book reveals just how far removed we are from the animal world. Giacomo Brunelli’s The Animals is no ordinary collection of wildlife photography… Taken in his native Italy, Brunelli’s images in The Animals offer glimpses of familiar creatures – dogs, cats, birds, horses – but they are invariably disarming and unsettling. - Andy Ratto

The artist Heide Hatry created these weird little creations with animal skin and body parts. So the eyes are real, but they're real pigs eyes. The lips are raw flesh and the skin is from a pig. - Andy Ratto

The artist Heide Hatry created these weird little creations with animal skin and body parts. So the eyes are real, but they're real pigs eyes. The lips are raw flesh and the skin is from a pig. - Andy Ratto

Portraits of having sex with Presidents. - Andy Ratto

Portraits of having sex with Presidents. - Andy Ratto

After creating pictures from the human DNA code and getting an incredible amount of positive response, the step to convert the data to audio came into our mind quite fast. After some thinking and lots of tests, we are converting the whole human genome to audio and streaming them now to the Internet, 24/7. The idea is quite simple, every base is read and broadcasted instead converting it to a color. With DNA-Radio we don't visualize the chromosome, we sonify it and have now completed a full audio-visual DNA representation of human chromosomes. - Andy Ratto

After creating pictures from the human DNA code and getting an incredible amount of positive response, the step to convert the data to audio came into our mind quite fast. After some thinking and lots of tests, we are converting the whole human genome to audio and streaming them now to the Internet, 24/7. The idea is quite simple, every base is read and broadcasted instead converting it to a color. With DNA-Radio we don't visualize the chromosome, we sonify it and have now completed a full audio-visual DNA representation of human chromosomes. - Andy Ratto

Joshua Allen Harris' inflatable bag sculptures. - Andy Ratto

Joshua Allen Harris' inflatable bag sculptures. - Andy Ratto

The bubble in contemporary art is about to pop. It has exhibited all the classic features of the South Sea bubble of 1720 or the tulip madness of the 1630s. It has been the bubble of bubbles—balancing precariously on top of other now-burst bubbles in credit, housing and commodities—and inflating more dramatically than all of them. - Andy Ratto

The limited edition Aachen Passover Haggadah by artist Zoya Cherkassky is one of the most fascinating, probing and beautiful haggadot to be produced in recent years. (It will be on display in London at the Bernard Shapero Gallery for a single day on 14 April 2005.) The original Haggadah, executed in ink, gouache and watercolour on paper appeared as part of her Collectio Judaica exhibition at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Tel Aviv last year, and is now part of the permanent collection at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Zoya’s work in Collectio Judaica addressed sensitive issues of antisemitism and Judaism and may be understood against the backdrop of the heated ‘Who is a Jew?’ debate currently prevalent in Israeli society. Born in 1976 in Kiev, Zoya - who exhibits under her first name - has had exhibitions in museums across Israel and Germany and is now recognized as an exceptional voice in Israel’s contemporary art scene; she has recently been given the IcExcellence Foundation award. - Andy Ratto

I imagine most people have seen these fantastic photos of a person dressed as different animals, the costumes created from items normally found in the back of the closet�they have been making the email rounds. They are the work of Geoffrey Cottenceau, as his thesis work at ecal.ch, a Swiss design school located in Lausanne. You can see more of his work at gneborg.org where he makes magic out of Bernhard Willhelm's frocks. - Andy Ratto

Various signs seen around the world. - Andy Ratto

For one day a week over the span of a year, Cooper carried a camera around to document his travels around his Greenwood neighborhood. The pictures he brought back range from the mundane to the sublime: neighbors' yards, busy streets, plastic flamingos on the Cross' front lawn and one spot where he spent a lot of time bird-watching. - Andy Ratto

FOR one day this month the Los Angeles County Museum of Art had the distinct feel of summer camp. In the inner chamber of a Richard Serra sculpture visitors sat in a circle around two musicians, one drumming and the other strumming. Outdoors some took a workshop to learn how to crochet small fluffy birds. Others helped make what was billed as an army of foals — four-legged wooden structures that lurched under their own power into the crowds.But these days, he said, “we are in some sort of transition from being an art venue to being a collective that works like a theater troupe. It’s like we have this home theater that produces plays there, but we are also developing this ability to take shows on the road.” - Andy Ratto

Is it mere celebrity that imbues them with the sort of aura that makes people seek out their company—and happily pay whatever their dealers demand? How is it that a handful of those dealers manage to attract—some might say manufacture— such supernovas? Do artists who have crossed into the cultural mainstream share a character trait that grants them not just social status but lasting success? Does their charisma affect their art profoundly enough to alter its place in history? - Andy Ratto

The installation 'bios [bible]' consists of an industrial robot, which writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision. Like a monk in the scriptorium it creates step by step the text. - Andy Ratto

Sine-wave speech is a form of artificially degraded speech first developed by Robert Remez and Philip Rubin at Haskins Laboratory. Several seminal experiments on the perception of sine-wave speech are described here: - Andy Ratto

On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more... - Andy Ratto

Audience, conceived by rAndom International, is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects. Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behaviour. - Andy Ratto

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriage - Andy Ratto

A Bearded Font! - Andy Ratto

Why is an El Greco worth less than a Koons? Gallerist Larry Salander called it a moral travesty, and decided, catastrophically, to do something about it. - Andy Ratto

So we founded the Really Terrible Orchestra, an inclusive orchestra for those who really want to play, but who cannot do so very well. - Andy Ratto

But the blue-and-white sign above it says not “Phone” but “Prayer.” And there’s no way to call anyone — on Earth, at least — because there isn’t a pay phone inside, but instead a fold-down kneeler like you’d find in a church. - Andy Ratto