Dutch still life paintings from the 17th Century were a great opportunity to show off a painter’s skill with their detailed realism. Music videos in the 21st Century on the other hand, like this one for electronic trio New Build, are perhaps better suited to showing off a sense of humour. This video for the London band, which includes Hot Chip members Al Doyle and Felix Martin and composer Tom Hopkins, plays off a series of visual puns evoking famous faces from Brad Pitt to Roald Dahl and is heavily inspired by old Dutch master paintings. Directed by George Wu and still life photographer John Short, it is broken into four acts humorously bringing pop culture and history into the same frame.
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Happy Mardi Gras! We’re off to New York today for the Whitney Biennial and the NY Art Fairs
Andrew Jeffrey Wright has been skewering the Whitney Biennial in his recent Bananazz comics — take a look if you’ve missed them! Meanwhile, Libby and I are off to New York to see the real thing today. Lots of Philadelphia artists in the show (the late Terry Adkins, Ken Lum, Joshua Mosley, Dona Nelson), and a Philadelphia curator, Anthony Elms, of ICA. We’ll also check out the Art Fairs – Armory Show, ADAA, Volta, Scope…. Many pictures will be forthcoming! (Picture is from Mardi Gras in 2004, pre-Katrina, when Stella and I went down to New Orleans.)
Mardi Gras, New Orleans, a few years back when Stella and I visited.
