“I tried to portray speed pictorially. If a car is moving really quickly, all the lines and colors are blurred.” -Andy Warhol

Props to the always amazing, always inspiring Bibliodyssey for the source imagery.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall for the initial pitch of this exhibit. Like some acid-laced alien invasion, Murakami’s superflat style takes over Versailles.

William Betts returns to the Jennifer Kostuik gallery this week with a new series of paintings that explore our notions of privacy in the digital age. Whereas his last exhibit dealt with the passive mediating agent of the surveillance/CCTV camera, this series shifts towards the theme of voyeurism depicting beach and swimming pool scenes that reflect our paparazzi/Facebook-fueled fetish for consuming personal moments within the public space.
The paintings are created using a technique that involves drilling small holes in the back of acrylic mirrors and filling these holes with paint. …

The Collection continues with 13 works from over at Regen Projects
Also of note, it was recently announced that Pettibon is the 2010 recipient of the Oskar Kokoschka Prize. As this year’s winner of the biannual prize, the artist will be awarded €20,000. Pettibon will receive the prize in a ceremony to be held at the University for Applied Arts on March 1 at 11:00 o’clock in Vienna.