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Imagine you’re watching TV in the middle of the night and this comes on and you’re like, “Hey! Who has the remote. Wait… What?” 

No one stole the remote, it’s artist Andrew Kuo’s Now and Later! Look closely at the show titles.

Art Breaks is co-curated by Creative Time and MoMA PS1 for MTV. The videos air on the tube on MTV and are online at: http://artbreaks.tumblr.com/.

Behind the scenes of Divya Mehra’s very funny Art Breaks video, On Tragedy (Did you hear the one about the Indian?), which “references” Richard Prince’s classic reversal of the American Express tagline “Don’t leave home without it,” in front of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

New Art Breaks videos are co-curated by Creative Time and MoMA PS1. They air on MTV and can all be found here on our Tumblr. This making-of video was directed by Creative Time Video Fellow Jay Buim.

The Creative Time Holiday Guide to the Galaxy

This has been a great year for Creative Time. We’ve been to Mars, sent 100 images into space, put art back on MTV and partied on the beach in Far Rockaway. To celebrate we’d like to share some tools for your intergalactic adventures in 2013: 

1. Tom Sachs’ Indoctrination Station at Park Ave Armory may be closed but there’s still time to take home a piece of Tom Sachs Space Program: Mars. Sachs’ third and LAST edition of Nugget playing cards are the perfect stocking stuffer and source of entertainment for your journey to the next frontier. Each card features a unique Tom Sachs image and are kid tested, Kanye approved. 

2. Are you ready for lift off? Don’t forget to grab a copy of Trevor Paglen’s The Last Pictures. His book features the 100 images reflecting our times (and currently in geosynchronous orbit); perfect for your first interaction with extra-terrestrials. Don’t believe us? Just ask the NYTimes. 

3. The holiday season (much like space travel) is all about accessories and trinkets. Our retro and SUPER stylish Creative Time fanny pack can hold all of them. Just trust us, this pack will give you a fanny that is out of this world! 

4. With your copy of The Last Pictures, a set of Tom Sachs’ cards, and your Creative Time fanny pack you’re just about ready for interplanetary adventures. All you need are some sweet, new digs. Try on this SSION red doggy shirt with an image from Cody (SSION) Critcheloe’s Art Breaks video now on MTV and online.

Creative Time wishes you luck on your epic adventures and we look forward to another year of groundbreaking art in the public realm.

**If there’s still some cash left in your budget after stocking up on materials for space travel feel free to donate to Creative Time!** 

Do you love Cody Critcheloe (SSION) and TWEET about him every day? Mention @creativetimenyc and #artbreaks so we can fangirl together! 

The Art Breaks video, Sometimes I Think About You Every Day, is a thirty-second spot that replaces a commercial on MTV, but here’s the whole music video for SSION’s song PSY-CHIC. 

Round 2 Art Breaks Artists: Cody Critchloe (SSION), Andrew Kuo, Divya Mehra, and Guido Van Der Werve || Round 1: Mickalene Thomas, Rashaad Newsome, Mads Lynnerup, Tala Madani, and Jani Ruscica

Art Breaks is co-curated by Creative Time and MoMA PS1 for MTV. The videos air on the tube on MTV and are online at: http://artbreaks.tumblr.com/.

Just added to MTV’s Art Breaks Tumblr page, Divya Mehra’s hilarious riff on artist Richard Prince’s 1985 spoof of Amex ads of the time.

On Tragedy (Did you hear the one about the Indian?), 2012.

Additional Credits:

Director: Divya Mehra

Producer: David Guinan

Director of Photography: Matthew Nauser 

Assistant Camera: Alex Hadjiloukas

Still Photographer: Liz Magic Laser

Production Assistant: Richard Bailey

Production Assistant: Lizzie Micek

Hair and Make Up: KT Jarvis   

Thanks to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Art Breaks is co-curated by MoMA PS1 and Creative Time. Find more videos online (http://artbreaks.tumblr.com) or catch them on the tube on MTV!

Round 2 of Art Breaks videos co-curated by Creative Time and MoMA PS1 launches on MTV today! Watch them on the tube on MTV or follow our Tumblr and we’ll post them over the next few weeks.

Guido van der Werve

Concert for Piano and the Exact Volume of Tears Cried on Earth at any Given Moment (or 211,5 liters per second), 2012.

Additional Credits:

Camera: Ben Geraerts

Sound: Irene van de Mheen

Thanks to: 

Camelot Amsterdam

Van der Kamp Pompen Zwolle

Jani Ruscica’s collaboration with fellow Finnish artist Sini Pelkki, Screen Test (For A Living Sculpture), is one of five videos currently airing on MTV as part of the Art Breaks series curated and commissioned by Creative Time and MoMA PS1.

A new batch of Art Breaks videos breaks later this summer! You can search #ArtBreaks on Twitter to see what people are saying about this series or use the hashtag to weigh in with your own take.

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Jani Ruscica
in collaboration with Sini Pelkki
Screen Test (for a living sculpture), 2012

Additional Credits
Living sculpture: Magnús Logi Kristinsson
Living sculpture (hands): Miia Pelkki
Cinematographer: Anu Keränen
Camera assistant: Nea Salminen
Make-up: Salla Yli-Luopa
Costume: Emmi Leeve
Color Grading and Post-Production: Inka Ruohela / Generator Post

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Watch Mads’ MTV Art Breaks video here: Astrobright (Fake and Temporary)

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Artist Bio: Mads Lynnerup (b. 1976, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Mads Lynnerup uses a variety of media to create humorous and poignant works based on observations of his immediate environment. In his video for MTV, Astrobright (Fake and Temporary), Lynnerup focuses on the antithetical landscapes of contemporary art and fitness, finding that these seemingly disparate worlds are, in reality, both obsessive and fanatic in their own way. As an artist who recently started a personal exercise regime of his own, Lynnerup is fascinated with how pieces of generic gym equipment look and operate as objects in fitness centers. This seemingly mundane observation is a launching point for the artist’s ongoing attempt to break open the static nature of art objects displayed in galleries and museums. For his Art Breaks piece, Lynnerup worked with his own personal trainer, Tim Adams, to create a series of short fitness routines outside of the gym environment. Lynnerup recently earned an MFA from Columbia University in New York and has shown his work nationally and internationally at such venues as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; MoMA PS1, NY; and Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.

Mads Lynnerup lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Website:
http://www.madslynnerup.com/

Articles And Links:
Austin 360: Playful New Exhibit Wants You To Touch
SF Weekly: Artist Mads Lynnerup’s New Routine
Kopenhagen: Interview
New York Times: Smooth And Safe At Pier 94
Baer Ridgway Exhibition: You Are The Artist, You Figure It Out
Art Lies: Mads Lynnerup
ARTFORUM

Video Links:
Madslynnerup.com
Plastic Gymnastic
If You See Anything Interesting…

Gallery Links:
Lora Reynolds Gallery
Eli Ridgway Gallery

Mads Lynnerup’s ”Astrobright (fake and temporary)” (2012) is one of five videos currently airing on MTV as part of the Art Breaks series curated by Creative Time and MoMA PS1. 

Behind-the-scenes fact: The very fit guy in this video is actually Mads’ personal trainer.

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Robin Cembalest (executive editor of ARTnews) puts Art Breaks in context with Creative Time’s history. Here’s MTV’s Tumblr for the project: http://artbreaks.mtv.com/ More videos coming this summer!

letmypeopleshow:

What Art on Yonder MTV Breaks:

When MTV president Stephen Friedman started devising strategies to attract young viewers back to the network, he revisited the edgy programming that helped made MTV a success the first time around. That’s when he decided to reinvent Art Breaks, the influential series of artists’ videos the network premiered in 1985. But to develop high-quality art videos that would be appropriate for the small screen, he wanted a major institutional partner: the Museum of Modern Art.

That’s when he called Anne Pasternak. Pasternak, who runs the much smaller and scrappier Creative Time, an East Village-based nonprofit that produces unconventional public-art projects, had already worked with MTV, choosing videos by avant-garde artists for its high-definition Times Square screen. As an effusive art historian with a direct line to major New York power players in the worlds of art, fashion, music, and politics, Pasternak reached out to MoMA director Glenn Lowry. And so a collaboration was born.

What lured Friedman wasn’t just Pasternak’s extensive rolodex: it was the savvy, slightly subversive way that she and her team manage to produce edgy, thought-provoking art that is accessible to the mainstream. If you have lived or traveled to New York in the last three decades, you have no doubt experienced a public-art piece staged by the adventurous, socially progressive, and at times self-consciously wacky organization, though you might not know it. Commandeering everything from deli cups to ATMs to carpets in Grand Central Station, an old market on the Lower East Side, and the Coney Island Boardwalk, the organization has brought the transformative vision of art to places—and institutions—that were neglected, underused, or invisible. It helped Mierle Laderman Ukeles celebrate sanitation workers with a street dance mirroring their movements; put Gran Fury’s activist AIDS messages on city buses; brought life to New York’s waterfronts with performances on the Hudson waterfront and under the Brooklyn Bridge.

This energy and accessibility was a major draw to Friedman, who must consider the diverse sensibilities of his global audience of 600 million viewers. The Art Breaks, he notes, take what MTV’s music videos do “to a very different level. They’re complicated and entertaining in a not clearly linear way.” The first videos, by artists including Rashaad Newsome, who specializes in “hip hop heraldry,” and Mickalene Thomas, best known for her bedazzled portraits of black women, began airing this spring. The next batch arrives in August. 

Read more in my story in Manhattan Magazine.

SWAG THE MIX TAPE VOL.2

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Courtesy Rashaad Newsome Studio

Tehran-born artist Tala Madani’sUnder Man is becoming a popular favorite among the new video art pieces we selected in collaboration with MoMA PS1 for the revival of MTV’s “Art Breaks.” 

This entrancing video by Rashaad Newsome will air on MTV as part of our curatorial collaboration with MOMA PS1 to revive “Art Breaks” and get innovative new video art on the tube!

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Rashaad Newsome
SWAG the Mixtape Vol. 2 , 2012

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Announcing our collaboration with MoMA PS1 to bring back MTV’s “Art Breaks” and put video art back on the tube. Preview Mickalene Thomas’s video and read more about the project in the New York Times ”Arts Beat” — http://nyti.ms/Hss0Vr

The history behind our new partnership with MoMA PS1 to bring “Art Breaks” back to MTV is pretty amazing. Check out this 1985 “Art Break” featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat, the visual artist who gets more mentions in today’s hip-hop than anyone except perhaps Picasso.  

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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Art Break, 1985