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Art Talks | Rick Prelinger: Renegade Film Archivist

— March 10, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them.

Colour Harmony, 1937

"It's folly to make too much out of originality; we add meaning to culture by remixing it."

The face of recycled film would be a listless one without the work of renegade archivist and lost footage life-giver, Rick Prelinger. In 1983, he opened the largest privately held collection of American ephemeral film, resuscitating the remix technique of mashup cinema with can after can of neglected footage - most of it disc...

Art Talks | Post-Rock-Loving Zebra Finches

— March 4, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them.

The French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot is a classically trained musician who creates environments that seek to challenge both our relationship to sound and the definition of what constitutes music. This month, he brings the intervention Lost At E Minor to London’s Barbican centre: cue a large white space filled with electric guitars played by a fluttering charm of post-rock-loving zebra f...

Art Talks | Tom Ford: A Singular Man

— February 10, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them.

Julianne Moore in A Single Man

Tom Ford needs no introduction, certainly not to readers of an international fashion magazine. Having joined Gucci in 1990 as a relatively unknown designer, Ford became creative director in 1994 and is credited with having turned the démodé label into a global powerhouse while, in the process, revolutionizing the fashion industry. This latter point is one that is only begrudgingly conce...

Art Talks | Jonathan Wateridge

— January 29, 2010—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them.

The Architect's House by Jonathan Wateridge, 2009 Courtesy of All Visual Arts

The celebrated painter Jonathan Wateridge challenges the viewer to consider what is real and what is not via the construction of elaborate fictions with visible seams. Here, he talks about the inspiration for one of his most recent paintings, which depicts a moment between a film crew and the actors on the set of a fictional movie.

Jonathan Wateridge: The corpse in The Architect's House was inspired in part by Willi...

Art Talks | Keith Tyson, Fooled by Randomness

— December 22, 2009—

Art Talks is an insight into the works of some of our favourite artists, as seen by them.

Taken from the Nature Paintings series by Keith Tyson, 2008

AnOther Magazine collaborated with Turner prize-winning artist Keith Tyson on a project that focused on his Nature series paintings, which are created by the pouring of paint and chemicals onto a surface. These works explore ideas of chance and control, and we decided to play on those themes by zooming in, cropping and blowing up each piece into new forms – sculpting them according to our point of view...