New (real) album inspired by David Shrigley's (fake) album

Noodle Doodles - David Shrigley and a Bunch of Bands Make Fake Songs Real

In 2005, the pretty famous Glaswegian artist David Shrigley released Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve)—a 12-inch record sleeve with no record inside, just a booklet of doodles and lyrics. The doodles were things like a man with a giant bottom holding a rat, with the caption, “If I were hungry enough I would eat a rat/No doubt about it.” And the song lyrics were like a retarded Shel Silverstein, minus the creepy hippie-beard vibes.

Everyone went bazonkers. They went four-car rectangles. They lined up in two rotations to buy. Then the guys from Deerhoof, Grizzly Bear, Franz Ferdinand, Islands, Liars, Dirty Projectors, Hot Chip, Les Georges Leningrad, and a bevy of other notable music dorks (David Byrne) recorded 39 songs from the booklet and now you can hear it.

“I guess it was logical,” Shrigley said, “but there are obviously way too many people in the music industry because the whole thing seemed to happen in about a week. Everyone got in arguments about who got to do what track.”

So, what more to say? The other day I was at a party where a man who edits cartoons for national syndication was explaining how he had one comic writer who was always trying to sneak the word “butt” into his comic. This is not related, maybe… We just wanted to reproduce a bunch of Shrigley’s funny drawings is all.

JAMES KNIGHT
David Shrigley’s Worried Noodles is available as a double CD or triple LP on Tomlab Records.

Moderna Museet's Warhol Brillo Boxes Are Fake

Six wooden Brillo boxes in the collection of a Swedish museum are fakes that were made in 1990, three years after Warhol died, the New York Times reported (via the Associated Press) on Saturday. The Moderna Museet in Stockholm said it had investigated the six Brillo boxes, donated in 1995 by its former director, Pontus Hultén, after a Swedish newspaper claimed that they were copies. In a letter to the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board in New York, the museum director, Lars Nittve, confirmed the claims. “These boxes are not authorized by the artist and should be removed from the official list of Andy Warhol Brillo boxes,” Nittve wrote. The Swedish paper Expressen reported in June that Hultén, who was director of the museum in the 1960s and the Pompidou Center in Paris in the 1970s and 1980s, had Swedish carpenters build 105 copies of the box for an exhibition in Russia in 1990. Expressen claimed that Hultén, who died last year, sold a number of the copies with certificates falsely stating that they were made for a Warhol exhibition in Stockholm in 1968.

[via artforum.com]

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Antony Gormleys first big Lithograph project in 16 years

Antony Gormley made hirst first big Lithograph project in 16 years

during hes stay at edition Copenhagen in august 2007.

Antony Gormley

Space

Original lithograph

111 x 77 cm

Printed on 250 gr. Velin d´Arches paper

40 ex. numbered and signed by the artist

Price: EUR 4.300,00 + VAT

See all 10 works HERE.

A book will be published about the project in February 2008 with a text by Poul Erik Tøjner.

The project is co-published by Edition Copenhagen and World House Editions.

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Devendra Banhart - Some Drawings

Opening reception: Friday, November 9, 2007, 6-8pm
November 9, 2007 - December 15, 2007

Known mostly for his catalogue of folk music songs that some have described as “psychedelic,” Devendra Banhart is a San Francisco-based artist and musician whose small, fine-line ink drawings combine strange and sometimes beastly human and animal figures, ornamental framing devices, abstract symbols and bits of language to create oddly charming works that defy definition. Intimate and hypnotic, Banhart’s works on paper share affinities to Tantric diagrams and Indian narratives, giving rise to fantastic private worlds.

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Banksy, the celebrated graffiti artist, is caught in the act for first time

His works command tens of thousands of pounds at auction and he counts Hollywood actors among his fans, yet his agent claims never to have met him.

Now it appears that Banksy, the elusive graffiti artist, has let his cover slip by being caught on camera at work for the first time.

He was pictured extending double yellow lines from a road on to the wall of an East London house to form a big yellow flower. To the left of the horticultural daubing sits a stencilled street-worker, sitting on a tin of paint and holding a roller. The picture was taken by a passer-by with a camera phone.

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