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Tuesday 9 Feb 10
The Art Newspaper may have found the art world’s first daredevil photographer. Meet Seattle-based artist Aaron Gustafson, who takes landscape pictures while skydiving from a plane. Using a custom-designed 4x5 large-format camera strapped to his helmet, the photographer snaps one shot per jump, while free falling through the air at speeds of more than 130 miles per hour. Gustafson has done around 25 such dizzying stunts, creating dramatic aerial views of the Shawangunk Ridge in New York, and the Cascade Range and Puget Sound in Washington State. “This is what you’d get if you threw Ansel Adams out of a plane,” Gustafson says. Images of the modest artist’s work can be seen on his website: www.aarongustafson.net
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Tino Sehgal's performance art journey at the Guggenheim has been provoking a range of responses from visitors, who are led through the museum's empty spiral by actors that engage them in philosophical discussions. But in perhaps the first example of a viewer having an effect on the art, rather than vice versa, New York magazine critic Jerry Saltz unhappily related this weekend in his review of the show that he actually made the work of art cry. “I had been so slow taking notes and asking questions to the perfect little girl who greeted me and started the conversation that, after passing me to the next person, she had broken down in tears… It is also the only time in my life I ever wrote a letter of abject apology to a work of art.”
Kosovo-born artist Sislej Xhafa unveils this mammoth sand sculpture of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at Roda Sten gallery in Gothenburg this weekend (until 18 April). "Disturbance prevails over laughing as the viewer realizes that they have been made to walk up to and pay tribute to the grotesque but all the same glorified representation of Berlusconi," says the press blurb which cheekily points out that the politician looks like a "thinking Buddha".
Brit artist Jeremy Deller's Boilersuit, co-created with Savile Row tailors Norton & Sons, gets an outing in the US with a stint at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. The "modern utility outfit that accumulates patches as mementos of the wearer's life" (or so say the organisers) goes on show from 8 February in "'Workwear', an exhibition and symposium that explore the legacy of work wear as a uniform for success in New York". The hardwearing outfit was first seen in a menswear show at London's Somerset House last year.
It looked like the opening of the new Tampa Museum of Art in the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, Florida, this weekend was set to be scuppered-by an unruly golf buggy. Local press reports stated that a wayward golf cart had crashed into the corner of the new 66,000-square-foot Cornelia Corbett Center building last weekend. But the shattered corner of the new museum was, instead, reportedly damaged by a runaway equipment crate following a concert in an adjacent park. A lighting-and-sound crew apparently lost control of the crate, which smashed into the side of the museum's glass exterior. Thankfully, the gleaming new build is still set to launch on 6 February (phew).
She said no to rehab but yes to a work of art by Gerald Laing. Bee-hived UK singer Amy Winehouse is pleased as punch with a picture made by the veteran British pop artist which shows the headline-hitting chanteuse as a housewife, vacuuming the carpet. Depicting the songstress as a domestic goddess appealed to Raye Cosbert, Winehouse’s manager, who duly bought the screenprint as a birthday present for Amy. “She absolutely loves it. It takes pride of place in her Camden home,” says Cosbert who is backing Morton Metropolis, a new art gallery in London's West End which opens this month with a selection of works by Laing depicting Winehouse in a range of guises.
At Tate Britain's Chris Ofili launch party last week, Christoph Grunenberg, director of Tate Liverpool, was keen to reveal important art historical details about his forthcoming blockbusting Picasso show (21 May-30 August) at the Merseyside museum. Cheekily goaded by Stephen Snoddy, director of the New Art Gallery Walsall, Grunenberg announced (drum roll) that “Picasso was secretly a feminist.” And has he had any problems obtaining loans for the show? “We were desperate but now we’ve got over 200 works,” he said. Phew.
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