Outside the Art Gallery of NSW,  the two monumental bronze sculptures The Offerings of War and The Offerings of Peace (1923) that are flanking the museums entrance, have been put in a new, quite absurd context. Titled War and Peace and in Between, the artist has built a perfectly average looking living room and bedroom around the sculptures which visitors can access via two ramps. It’s a stunning experience to grasp the actual scale of an oversize bronze statue from so close. And beyond that it really makes you aware of the divide of public and private in the objects that surround us in our daily urban environments.

The Sydney project marks the latest in the series of Kaldor Public Art Projects, running since 1969 throughout Oz and including the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, and Bill Viola.

Building domestic spaces around public monuments, artworks and streetlights has been Tatzu Nishi’s signature act for over a decade. The artist lives and works in Cologne, and you can see more of his projects at his website.

Almost 3 years ago we started a project with the Asian American Art Centre (AAAC) in Chinatown to develop a digital archive. Impacted by 9/11, the AAAC received funding from the LMDC to help preserve and document the history of Asian American art in the US over the past 60 years. More than 1,500 files from over 170 artists form the basis of the digital archive. Together with AAAC’s team and professional archivists, we developed and implemented the archiving and cataloging software. Once the back-end was in place, archivists added content such as photos, scanned images, letters, and press articles. Finally SUPERMETRIC designed and implemented the front end of artasiamerica.org to make the largest digital archive of Asian American art accessible for everyone to learn and enjoy.

It’s one of those dumb male cliches, that we love to spend hours at Home Depot. For me this is absolutely true, and these french guys here even make an art of it. Makeshift Guerilla art installations, just pure boy’s fun. They go by the name ENCASTRABLE (I’m pretty sure that means something sexual, as most french things — just to ponder a bit more on stereo types…) Click on the images to enlarge or check out their website — it’s fun!

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