http://artsafari.tv ART SAFARI Ben Lewis' Contemporary Art TV Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:10:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   For Full Article CLICK HERE http://artsafari.tv/?p=442 FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE PAGE 14-15 http://artsafari.tv/?p=434 BEST ARTICLE comes courtesy ofTHE TOP 20 MOST POWERLESS PEOPLE IN THE ART WORLDA few weeks ago Art Review announced the TOP 100 power brokers in the art world but we thought they missed the real story.  So Hyperallergic has released its own list of the people who have neer received ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=432 Contributing to Programma Magazines second issue, Ben questions the criteria by which art today should be judged, in a provocative article that calls for the return of certain standards in an ear plagued by decadence. . .CLICK HERE to read Article in Full http://artsafari.tv/?p=428  ”Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Stuart Semple So Different, So Appealing?” Ben LewisMost of the words I would like to use to describe Stuart Semple’s paintings have – as they say about pretty girls - already been taken: Pop Art, ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=389  Art Practicals feature writer Lani Asher talks to Ben Lewis about "The Great Contemporary Art Bubble" to read full article CLICK HERE  http://artsafari.tv/?p=383 HAVE YOUR SAY  . . .BBC's The Culture Show are looking for your opinions on where the future of Art is going.CLICK HEREto log on and have your say. http://artsafari.tv/?p=373 He is a brilliant colourist, but he has no palette. He is an abstract painter, but he has no brushes. He is an architect but he doesn’t build homes. James Turrell makes works of art with light.  For over forty years Turrell has been projecting coloured light in the simplest ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=360 Olafur Ellason Exhibition, Berlin29 April - 9 August 2010At the Martin-Gropius-Bau and various other sites in Berlin.CLICK HERE for more details. http://artsafari.tv/?p=358 Landscape of the Veneral Equinox, 1943   PAUL NASH - THE ELEMENTSDULWICH Picture Gallery until 9 May 2010I enter an exhibition of a British modernist full of blind optimism. Today, I imagine, a new day will dawn, when my experience of the art will overturn the consensus of generations of international art ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=339 THE ART BIN IS RUBBISH!Michael Landy’s ’Breakdown’ (2001) was my favourite work of art made in Britain in the first ten years of the 21st century. Conversely, ”Art Bin” is already a strong contender for my most detested work of the 2010s. ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=326 Gearing up to launch Artsafari 3 and Artsafari.tv, we have no option but to drag out the inner cyber monkey and embark on a solo voyage across the vast uncharted water that is. . . . attracting more global visitors to www.artsafari.tv.Not to be thwarted by the labrynth of directories, ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=323 BEN LEWIS writes a monthly column on Art for Prospect and contributes to the London Evening Standard, The Times, Sunday Times and The Telegraph in the UK, Monopol Magazine in Germany and many Art Forums and websites around the globe. . . .April 2010 - Ben Lewis will be guest ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=305 The Independent Collector http://artsafari.tv/?p=302 2009The Great Contemporary Art Bubble2008Blowing Up Paradise 2007Art Safari 2  2006HAMMER & TICKLE 2002THE KING OF COMMUNISM http://artsafari.tv/?p=301 THE GREAT CONTEMPORARY ART BUBBLE PAL Region 2. English LanguageAvailable on-line from Artsafari.tv SHOP for only £14.99 (RRP£19.99) Europe €17, USA $24 plus p&p   On September 15th 2008, the day of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, the worst financial news since 1929, Damien Hirst sold over ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=293 PAL Region 2. English languageAvailable on-line from Artsafari.tv SHOP for only £14.99 (RRP£19.99) Europe €17, USA $24 plus p&p   Following the runaway success of the multi-award-winning first BBC4 series of 'Art Safari', documentary-maker Ben Lewis, returns with another survey of the world's ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=285 PAL Region 2. English languageAvailable on-line from Artsafari.tv SHOP for only £14.99 (RRP£19.99) Europe €17, USA $24 plus p&p    The multi-award-winning international series on contemporary art by Madcap art geek and award-winning documentary-maker, Ben Lewis.                Series 1 MAURIZIO CATTELAN is the court jester of the ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=280 COMING SOON - PPV STREAMINGAll Titles coming on line soon for download streaming direct to your computer, consol or webTV. BEN LEWIS ART FILM COLLECTION is stocked by major Museums and Galleries across Europe including The Tate Modern, The Saatchi Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery, National Gallery Scotland (UK) The ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=279 COMING SOON - PPV STREAMINGAll Titles coming on line soon for download streaming direct to your computer, consol or webTV. CLICK HERE 4 WEB SHOPBEN LEWIS ART FILM COLLECTION is stocked by major Museums and Galleries across Europe including The Tate Modern, The Saatchi Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery, National Gallery ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=277 All titles will be soon available for download streaming direcct to your computer, consol or WebTV.WATCH THIS SPACE  http://artsafari.tv/?p=111 The most comprehensive exhibition of Chris Ofili's work to date, featuring over 40 paintings as well as pencil drawings and watercolours is on display at the Tate Britian from 27 January to 16 May 2010.  Since his emergence int he mid 1990's, Ofili hs built an international reputation with his ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=269 Ben Lewis in his capacity as Guest editor of www.fadwebsite.com was asked some of his friends what was the future of art?Hans Ulrich Obrist Co-Director, Serpentine GalleryAs a curator I am often asked about future trends in art. I don’t think we can predict nor prescribe the future of art. ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=268 Spanish street graffitti Artist ESCIF Opens with a new exhibition "AROUND THE WALL"Friday 16th April 201018:00 - 21:00 hrsPOW, 46-48 Commercial Street, London E1 6LTNative of Valencia, Spain, Escif creates amazing characters in surreal worlds. Escif is part of the XLF crew, more a social than hard core crew, they ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=257 TAKASHI MURAKAMI Few artists have risen to global fame via a handbag but everyone knows Takashi Murakami’s art thanks to the multi-coloured bags he designed for Louis Vuitton – bootlegs of which you can buy from African tradesmen in any Mediterranean city. Murakami recoloured the Vuitton logo pattern in his own ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=191 Award-winning documentary-maker, internationally published art critic and all round Art Geek,  Ben Lewis is heading off on safari once more to find out who's hot and why Art Safari broke the mould of Contemporary Arts Documentary when it first launched in 2003.  The original 4 x 28' series was an ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=195 SANTIAGO SIERRA Santiago Sierra is the Che Guevara of contemporary art – an anti-capitalist radical and a leftwing revolutionary. No one has made more confrontational politicized works than Santiago Sierra. In one work in Germany in 2006, he filled a former synagogue with exhaust fumes from cars parked outside. Visitors could ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=193 SOPHIE CALLE Strange things happened to Conceptual Art, the driest of art movements, in the nineties: it became colourful with Damien Hirst, hilarious with Maurizio Cattelan, ornate with Matthew Barney and, with Sophie Calle -romantic. Like Barbara Kruger, John Baldessari, Victor Burgin and Susan Hiller, Calle uses photographs and text, and ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=192 WIM DELVOYE In the course of making my second series of Art Safari, I acquired my second tattoo. It’s on my back, on my right shoulder and it shows Mickey Mouse on a crucifix with Minnie weeping at the base. It’s signed ‘Wim Delvoye’. Somewhere in a tiny farmstead on ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=190 COMING SOON - PPV STREAMINGAll Titles coming on line soon for download streaming direct to your computer, consol or webTV. BEN LEWIS ART FILM COLLECTION is stocked by major Museums and Galleries across Europe including The Tate Modern, The Saatchi Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery, National Gallery Scotland (UK) The ... http://artsafari.tv/?p=179