Quick nod to my mate Fats, who was on hand last Sunday at the Tate Modern for Bring the Noise. Upset I missed the day. For photographers, his use of the time to help educate the public on new trends and technologies is worth noting.

From Tate Channel.

Robbie Cooper is a British photographer and video artist. His new work, titled “Immersion” films people through a screen. In the above Wallpaper* Video he describes his intent and the particularities of the technique.

“Robbie Cooper: Immersion” is currently on view through September 5, 2010, at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK.

Very good short clip from PBS detailing Shaquille O’Neil’s first stab at curating an exhibition. Chuck Close, for one, is very complimentary.

Size DOES Matter is on view at FLAG Art Foundation (545, W. 25th Street, New York, 9th Floor), through May 27, 2010.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s contribution to Philagrafika 2010 is a video installation of Japanese artist Tabaimo. Born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1975, Tabaimo (Ayako Tabata) focuses on communal space fusing traditional wood cuts and manga into her video imagery.

From Philagrafika -

Project Description for Philagrafika 2010 The Graphic Unconscious

On view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Dolefull House (2007) is a single-channel video installation in which a pair of giant hands systematically arranges western-style bourgeois furnishings in an oversized dollhouse. The rooms become increasingly cozy and orderly until the calm is infiltrated by an unwelcome presence lurking behind the walls and a seemingly mundane situation dissolves into a gory surrealistic scene. A giant wave washes everything away and the Sisyphean process of furnishing the empty house begins again. The western doll house acts as a façade behind which the underlying life-force tries to assert itself.

More stills from the Dolefull House (2007) after the jump.

Great series from TATE Channel. Sad to see it end.

In the last installment of our Sound & Vision series, English Post-Punk singer Mark E Smith gave us a brief tour of his rise to fame with The Fall and the early influence of angry British Surrealism on his music.

The Frick Collection is the latest institution to join the fray at the excellent artbabble.org. In anticipation of their new exhibition, Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery, they have excitedly announced the arrival of Watteau’s Les Plaisirs du bal. The painting is discussed in the above video.

Masterpieces of European Painting includes eight more brilliant examples from the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s collection and runs through May 30, 2010.

Artist and musician Billy Childish interviews himself in this recent segment from Tate Channel.

In Part 5 of our Sound and Vision series TateShots went to visit famed Punk rocker and former ‘Stuckist’ artist Billy Childish at his studio in Kent.

After being expelled from school, Childish trained as a stonemason in Chatham dockyard. Born Stephen Hamper, he got the name Billy Childish from a mate in one of the punk bands he was in as a teenager. Since then Childish been as prolific a painter as he is a musician, and in this interview he talks about how his approach to making music art and poetry is often the same:

‘I’m interested in the elemental, not impressing myself and not impressing others. I fail, I often impress myself and I have sometimes impressed others’

I rarely highlight corporate art projects, but felt that this video of Mister Cartoon, Cope2, and Sen2 had some interesting elements. For one, it shows a full on desire by the client (MetroPCS) to appeal to an “urban” customer. Secondly, it is nice that there is an element of the organic… the guys seem (on the surface) to be having a laugh and enjoying the night. The resulting art isn’t groundbreaking, for sure, but the clear corporate intent certainly limits innovation. Its urban art explicitly targeted to an uptown audience. And, an LA legend in the Bronx. What?

Finally, I’m hoping this might spark some conversation among readers. What do you all think about the appropriation of graffiti by marketers, and further more is this a positive of damaging approach by MetroPCS?

Something light to end the day as well.