Imitation would be welcome

While I wouldn't go as far as to stack him up against the Sistine Chapel (having not seen either) I'm as big a fan of Sol LeWitt as the next art person.*

While I've seen (and enjoyed, and blogged) art galleries who record the creation and erasure of LeWitt's wall drawings, I think Christopher Knight is the first critic to capture the experience he's having on video, so he can share it with his readers. Artists and galleries are going multi-media; why shouldn't critics?


*who doesn't think that "Sol Lewitt was not an artist, and none of his so-called drawings qualify as art---not by any objective definition of the concept..."

Feel the burn

Very witty short film based on actual requests submitted to Hulton Archive/Getty Pictures.



Including:

• Can I have a photo of a dodo in the wild?
• Can I have a photo of an Edwardian lady in the Victorian era?
• Can I have a photo of Jack the Ripper?
• Can I have a photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon? You know, the one where he's surrounded by a group of people?

Off topic

From the childish (and lovely) to the grown-up (and surreal): Winnie the Pooh in Russian, and Polish designer and animator Jan Lenica's 1963 Labirynt.

Len Lye online

Here's a nice thing: among the links on the Govett-Brewster's Len Lye web resources page are a couple of links out the Flickr, and images tagged with 'wind wand' or 'water whirler'.



The GBAG page also links out to the BFI Screenonline site, which has clips from Lye's films, but you can only access these if you're connecting via registered UK schools, colleges, universities and libraries.

Maybe the GBAG should think about linking out to YouTube too, where people have been happily loading up Lye films including Colour Flight, Rainbow Dance, The Peanut Vendor, and a tribute to the Water Whirler in action. There's also Lye talking about his kinetic sculptures, from the Horrocks doco.

Image: Len Lye's Wind Wand on the New Plymouth foreshore; by Cicada, on Flickr.