Art

A University of Minnesota grad student is up for a Webby Award for Best NetArt site for a project that creates typography from letter-shaped buildings found on Google Maps. Jesse Vig, who’s studying computer science, says his site GeoGreeting.com now has around 1.2 million users, some of whom find and alert him to satellite images [...]

Whether through calculated efforts by his campaign or grassroots channels (like NotCot.org’s user-submitted entry system), Barack Obama seems to be the biggest beneficiary of the work of street artists, programmers and graphic designers: following Shepard Fairey’s Obama posters, new pieces have come out by Munk One, Date Farmers and Sam Flores. For artists, the project [...]

Documentarian Errol Morris calls his new film a “nonfiction horror movie.” And from the sound of it, Standard Operating Procedure doesn’t fail to deliver on gore: A chronicle of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, it focuses on the 270 photos turned over to Army investigators and tells the story behind those images as only Morris [...]

A couple months ago, street artist/designer Shepard Fairey debuted his limited-edition Barack Obama prints on his Web site. Like everything else Fairey has done (including honest-to-goodness marketing campaigns for corporate giants Pepsi and such) the series of Obama posters took inspiration from Fairey’s “Andre the Giant”/”Obey” anti-campaign he’s famous for: shadowy, graphic, three-tone images that [...]

The crafters over at Etsy.com, the site for all things handmade, have been busy making over the presidential candidates. Here, you can find Hillary Clinton’s simpering mug in a beaded, thumb-sized pillow, as Warhol-inspired bottle-cap art, inside collages, or as a voodoo doll and more.

If the number of goods is any indication, Barack Obama has [...]

Halfway through installing a green roof on Wednesday night, May 2, Corrie Zoll stopped to take a slug from a bottle of Guinness. It wasn’t that he was tired out. Just three minutes into the demonstration, he was illustrating for the near-sellout crowd at the Southern Theater how easy it is to install a green [...]

The Minnesota State Fair’s exhibition of crop art is the epitome of democracy: as David Steinlicht, who runs CropArt.com, says, “The art competition in the Fine Arts building is so fierce that your chances of getting in are slim. But a guy with some patience and seeds and glue can get shown, almost 100% of [...]