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Andrew Kuo (b. 1977, Queens, NY)

Andrew Kuo obsessively compiles data on musical events and personal experiences through humorous and vibrant abstractions in the form of meticulously drawn diagrams. For Art Breaks, Kuo uses video to present a new graphic in the form of cable interface.  His film, entitled Now and Later, is inspired by artist Chris Burden’s work Through the Night Softly, which aired during commercial breaks on a local LA television station for the duration of one month in 1973. In Now and Later, Kuo presents a digital menu that, as it scrolls, reveals a series of channels, titles and summaries that together tell a story. As previous viewers of his work will find familiar, Kuo’s text encourages closer inspection to piece together the narrative. Andrew Kuo’s iconographics regularly appear in the New York Times music section. His work has appeared in solo exhibitions at Taxter and Spengemann, New York, Franklin Art Work, Minneapolis, and Artists Space, New York.  Recent group exhibitions include shows at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, and Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. Kuo’s upcoming solo exhibition will open in [April] 2013 at Marlborough Gallery in New York.

Andrew Kuo lives and works in New York, NY.

Articles And Links: 

The New York Times Art Beats: Andrew Kuo

Marlborough Chelsea Gallery

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.

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/.

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

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.

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