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Musical Monsters Will Rock Your Other-World

junkyardarts — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:00:43 +0000

Not too much needs to be said about these paintings by Jason Edmiston because everything is so obvious. They are obviously perfectly conceived. Obviously executed to perfection. I think my favorite part about these musical monsters is not the ease with which you can identify the musicians even though they are wonderfully distorted – but [...]

If Gumby Wore Skinny Jeans & Was a B-Boy. Enjoy.

junkyardarts — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:00:19 +0000

So here’s a video of a wiry guy who has no problem spectacularly turning himself into a pretzel. Whilst dancing. In skinny jeans. Enjoy. Alex Yde on Vimeo /

Jackie Chan Ending Action Movie Career, Let’s Take A Look At His Oeuvre

junkyardarts — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:00:33 +0000

Jackie Chan announced this weekend at the Cannes Film Fest that he is bowing out of action films, with his latest film, Chinese Zodiac. His career has been long, storied and often fairly bizarre. From working with Bruce Lee to starring in over 100 movies to being a legit pop-star in China, he’s got a [...]

Support Line: Wolves In The Walls

junkyardarts — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:00:40 +0000

Lucy is hearing strange noises in the walls – noises she believes to be wolves. No one believes her… except her puppet, Pig. Then one night, Lucy discovers that the wolves in the walls are real. And they’re coming out to play… This is the award-winning story by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, and this [...]

Inspritation Nation: Charlotte Caron

junkyardarts — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:00:51 +0000

Guh. Love. I just love this series. French artist Charlotte Caron, as best I can transcribe from my high-school French lessons, talks about this series as examining the duality of the subject and the overlying animal she paints on them. Certainly it’s an idea that is frequently explored in art, and has been for eons, [...]

Boobs in Art: Classic Cans

junkyardarts — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:00:11 +0000

Welcome back to Boobs In Art! Our super classy new Junkyard Original Series, where we source famous works of art that feature fantastic racks. Objectification was never so cultured! Can you identify these Boobs in Art? C’mon, we can all recognize that rack in a deep, v can’t we? Marilyn Monroe’s boobs have been featured countless [...]

Exhibition Alert: Tara Donovan at Milwaukee Art Museum

junkyardarts — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:00:34 +0000

Ongoing until October 2012, hit up the Milwaukee Art Museum to see new breathtaking, inspiring and quizzical installations by Tara Donovan. Her work is really quite beautiful, even when her materials are not. She creates seemingly organic structures that ebb and flow rhythmically, sensuously, for large installations. And each piece is made out of one material, manipulated [...]

Adventures in Art: The Hunt for Alec Baldwin

junkyardarts — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:00:18 +0000

True Story. Back in my college days circa 2003-ish, I managed to get an all-access press pass to the Savannah Film Festival. By bald-faced, straight-up lying. My mother would be ashamed…and at the time, my conscious was knotted up in my stomach. Well. Until I realized how freaking awesome my life was going to be [...]

Inspriation Nation: Jonas Burgert

junkyardarts — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:00:59 +0000

German artist Jonas Burgert is just wonderful. There, I said it. He has a way of mercilessly blending iconography and ritual with urban exploration, civilization (re)discovery and dangerous whimsey. It’s as if someone slipped Dorothea Lang and Walker Evans some acid, and this is what they shot. The final product is this bizarre-o, voyeuristic world [...]

The Googleheim Institute Presents: Kazimir Malevich

Red Beard Rambler — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:00:10 +0000

Welcome to our new series, The Googleheim Institute! In which our friend the Red Beard Rambler takes a crack at professional art critiquing – based solely on 20-minute Google Image Searches and without any background on the artist before hand. This should be interesting. His first victim: Kazimir Malevich. So here’s a review of Led [...]

MetBall to be Live – It’s Just Like We’re There!

junkyardarts — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:00:37 +0000

Well, except not a one of us is as badass as Iman in a gold jumpsuit. Obviously. But for the rest of us who used to have to wait for the glamour, the garbage and the gawking in magazines or online the next day, we are blessed with the opportunity to watch the annual fashsplosion [...]

Last Minute Plans: Beach Party at the Boston MFA

junkyardarts — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:00:07 +0000

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is kicking First Fridays off with a beach ball. Literally, in fact. This Friday May 4th, in honor of the Alex Katz Prints exhibition and in the spirit of museum event innovation, they are throwing a freakin’ weeken’ beach party. Wear your beach-best and enjoy fruity cocktails, beach-y music, [...]

Dissecting Famous Artists is Bloody Genius

junkyardarts — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:00:03 +0000

What’s more wonderful than a cleverly cultivated piece of art? And what’s more clever than these ads from advertising agency DDB, Brazil for the MASP Art School? Not a whole lot. Ive always wondered what separated me, one with almost no physical capability to make fine art pieces, and someone like Van Gogh, a revolutionary [...]

Your New Favorite Word: Chamberlain (a Review of The Guggenheim Exhibiton)

brian — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:00:27 +0000

I am here today to teach you a word recently redefined this past weekend: Chamberlain – Cham.ber.lain 1. Good intentions gone bad. 2. The physical and psychological mess that accompanies a long night of drinking. 3. Any “artwork” that might seem out of place at a major museum, such as John Chamberlain’s work at the [...]

News To Me: Game of Thrones Fan Favorite Was Once A Simon Cowell-Backed Popstar

junkyardarts — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:00:01 +0000

Well. This comes as a surprise! Apparently before he became one of everyone’s favorite characters on HBO’s Game of Thrones, the sword-weilding, grungy sass-talking murderer Bronn, actor Jerome Flynn was a pop singer. In a cover band. Backed by Simon Cowell. Apparently in the 90′s Jerome was one half of Robson & Jerome, and they [...]

Adventures in Art: Black Tie Black Out

junkyardarts — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:00:57 +0000

True Story*. About a year ago, I was invited by my boss and friend, Leigh, to attend a black tie gala with her and two other friends. The event: Oscar night! Naturally, I was going to go. Free booze, movies, gourmet food, a night in the city, and I get to play dress-up and pretend [...]

Courtney Stodden: Harbinger of Love’s Search for Sexxxy Veggies

junkyardarts — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:00:31 +0000

My love for Courtney Stodden known no bounds. I love her hooker shoes. I love her fantastic clear bra straps. I love her frosted lips & freshly baked & out of the oven tan. I love how she parades in labia-spilling denim diapers around young children. And I love her search for sexxxy veggies. In [...]

Thomas Kinkade & Andy Warhol: Kings of Kitch

junkyardarts — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:00:23 +0000

Upon the recent death of the man, the boozehound, the Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade, there have been a lot of arguments over the validity of his craft. Everyone seems to be reliving this argument over whether or not he was a true artist, a charlatan, a con-artist and what his popularity means for the world [...]

Children’s Online Library Accidentally Proves Graphic, Hilarious, Gross

junkyardarts — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:00:10 +0000

Ahh, the library. It’s a wonderful place where imaginations run wild! And a Tampa Bay school system is trying to bring the library to it’s students through a virtual library called myOn, in which kids can look up all sorts of great topics. Like real-crime mysteries, murders and check out autopsy photos! What? They didn’t [...]

New Research Reports Arts Education’s Big Benefits for Art-Risk Youth

junkyardarts — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:00:02 +0000

In news that no one in the art-world is surprised to hear, but that everyone on the planet should be aware of: the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), that pesky left-wing conspiracy group the culture warriors of the GOP are constantly trying to defund, has completed a survey that reveals the undeniable benefits of [...]