#contemoprary art

[thebrainscoop]

The Brain Scoop: Is Taxidermy ART?

We talk a lot about the scientific merit for taxidermy and habitat dioramas - and I’m a bit bias (I mean.... we didn’t crowd source a brand new diorama for some striped hyenas for nothin’). But given the extreme skill and talent required to create good taxidermy - how does it fit in the broader conversation about contemporary art? Is it art? -- and who decides? 

We went to the World Taxidermy Championships in Peoria, Illinois to ask the taxidermists themselves! 

This is our second video from the WTC; the first is here: I Waited 4+ Years For This: The World Taxidermy Championships!

Do you think taxidermy is a valid form of art?

[vonbalthesser-blog]

ERIK NIEDLING Untitled #3 (Pyramid Paintings), 2014

https://paddle8.com/work/erik-niedling/60076-untitled-3-pyramid-paintings/

[courtneystubbert]

AE: How will NOOART address the space between digital art that lives online and that which resides only in the gallery? RSH: This is a pretty hot topic, actually. I’ve heard strong arguments either way from both artists and collectors. I would like to see it as a debate, with voices from the purists side (those who want their digital art to be absolutely nonphysical and openly distributed) and those who, like myself, are interested in that boundary with the physical, voicing their opinions.

http://hyperallergic.com/105059/a-journal-for-art-thats-purely-digital/