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Woopidoo

31 Oct 2009 | 7:04 am

I was asked a few questions by a student journalist at City University London recently..1) First of all can you tell me a little bit about your work? What themes do you explore in your art and why? What do you strive to achieve through it?I basically just paint what I want, how I want. I have no social or moral message to give. I stopped selling paintings 18 months or more ago, with no intention to start selling again until I can no longer fit in my house, which has brought about a change in how I see painting. I'm now thinking more about conceptual art and looking at ideas more than thinking…
Artnear iPhone Application

Woopidoo

26 Oct 2009 | 8:04 pm

I can't honestly say how useful this application is as I don't own an iPhone, but it sounds like a good idea. It's a free application (I believe there is also a pro version for a small fee) available from iTunes which guides you to art museums, exhibitions and galleries around the world. If it does what it's supposed to do it would be a must have for art travelers."Admittedly, we are still missing lots of info, but already have over 12,000 artists and 2600 galleries in our system - but we can only be as good as the people who provide us the info... Anyway, we developed this tool to make…
Basquiat - The Lost Prince

Woopidoo

23 Oct 2009 | 6:42 am

Basquiat is my favorite movie about an artist.It's hard to make a good artist look interesting as they're usually just working.
Why do we Make Art?

Woopidoo

22 Oct 2009 | 10:22 pm

I sometimes wonder why? What's the point? Why make art at all?It's usually only after days like today, days that are physically, mentally and emotionally draining.Everything will be alright tomorrow.
Damien Hirst Shop

Woopidoo

19 Oct 2009 | 8:34 pm

I'm susbcribed to a whole bunch of newsletters and am bombarded with all kinds of promotional emails, most of which I never open. But one that I always open is from Other Criteria. It is a collective of artists, pushing all kinds of limited editions, prints, and publications, but I really only look at what Damien Hirst is selling.I find the man endlessly fascinating. How can a man that sells deckchairs and clocks still pull off auction sales like he does? I'm sure I'll tire of him someday and hate him for what he's doing to art, but that day hasn't come yet. I still love him, even if I don't…

Arts Journal Daily News
Time To Close The Rock Hall Of Fame?

6 Nov 2009 | 7:48 am

"The Hall of Fame is a notoriously top-down institution, with an elite group of insiders making up a nominating committee that pre-selects their own idiosyncratic idea of the worthy candidates. So all of us lowly peons are only allowed to vote for 5 out of 12 possible candidates, which judging from this year's nominees makes for slim pickings."...
The Bookless Libraries?

6 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am

"The scientists have mostly gone online with their library needs. Cutting-edge scholars in the humanities are building new disciplines and online environments are are, in effect, libraries themselves; they are diffuse, collaborative, non-hierarchical, always changing."...
The Future Of College

6 Nov 2009 | 7:43 am

"What is the future of this thing called college? What became quickly and painfully obvious in their deliberations is that the center will not hold. In something of an irony, higher education leaders acknowledged here Thursday that the very system that put them in the position to run the nation's colleges and universities is no longer fit to groom their successors or the rest of the U.S. work force."...
EU To Give Teeniest Tiniest Protection To Those Accused Of Illegally Downloading Media

6 Nov 2009 | 7:32 am

"Some members of the European Parliament felt nobody should lose their connection until after they had been prosecuted in a court for illegally downloading content. The new rules take the form of an amendment to a much wider revision of all Europe's telecoms regulations."...
Pianists As Super Heroes (Okay, Virtuosos, Then)

6 Nov 2009 | 7:25 am

"Today's virtuosos and super-virtuosos are reluctant members of the club. Many of the younger generation are shunning the repertoire and the older ones are shunning the label. So why are pianists wary of being associated with this tradition?"...

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Diary of a Gallery Girl

ArtReview magazine

Subject: Off the record Date: Friday, Nov 7, 2008 10:10 From: gallerygirl@artreview.com To: office@artreview.com"We're all just feeling so terribly nostalgic", gushes my new boss to the museum's director of exhibitions, waving her glass of champagne dangerously close to the photographs she’s referring to. The exhibitions director visibly flinches, and no wonder – even though my glamorous new boss, head of an art foundation for 'site-specific happenings and situations' (their words), has obviously had some very expensive work done to her pretty little nose, she can't be more than a day…
Sheika-maker: At the Art Paris-Abu Dhabi art fair

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By Lynn ChenArt fairs in emerging markets are always a gamble and such was the case at Art Paris-Abu Dhabi last week, the satellite branch of the Parisian fair, back in the United Arab Emirates for a second year. Besides the general lack of organization and indifferent sales, the fair was marred by the behavior of one errant collector.The woman in question was said to be a sheika in the Abu Dhabi royal family and a prominent collector on the local scene. She made the rounds of the 59 gallery booths in the opulent gold-laden ballroom of Emirates Palace Hotel and pointed her royal finger at…
The flawed thinking behind buying art as an investment

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By Franklin BoydOnly a month ago – well after the Crisis had kicked off – Forbes was breathlessly reporting that some billionaires had managed – inadvertently or otherwise – to 'hedge' their balance sheets by investing in fine art. Eli Broad, for example, had lost approximately $2 billion in his equities portfolio over the previous year, the magazine reported, but the 'soaring value' of his art collection (it increased by $1.9b in the same time, according to a recent appraisal) had nearly made up for it.Well, I've got some bad news for Mr Broad and anyone else with art on the balance…
Turin Triennial

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By Laura McLean-FerrisThere was a buoyant mood in Turin on Wednesday 5 November 2008 as the city awoke to the news of Barack Obama’s election to the US presidency. The 2nd Turin Triennial and the 15th Artissima Art Fair were both opening in the north Italian town in the same week, and the place was full of artists and arts professionals in high spirits. A sunny disposition like this is extremely rare in an artworld forever clad in mourning black.A peculiar day, then, for Daniel Birnbaum’s melancholy triennial to open. 50 Moons of Saturn focuses on the melancholic spirit, a subject that…
Rio favela painting itself out of a corner

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By Brendan McGetrickA couple of weeks ago a minor miracle took place in Rio. In Vila Cruzeiro, a favela in the Penha section, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the completion of a painting. Along a winding concrete staircase that extends from the favela's main street Rua Santa Helena, a duo of Dutch artists known as Haas & Hahn created a 2000 square-metre mural. With the help of three friends from the neighborhood, Haas & Hahn had spent nine months meticulously painting a carp-filled river in the style of a Japanese tattoo, and as the unveiling party started some parts of the…

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MAO Art Buy of the Month.. by Catherine Opie only $650 !!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

1 Nov 2009 | 11:19 pm

OK.. this one if going to sellout very quickly. So act now.. or it will be gone. This is a photograph by a MAO favorite artist... Catherine Opie. You probably saw Catherine Opie's huge blockbuster solo show at the Guggenheim Museum last year, or bought her amazing photobook.. Catherine Opie American Photographer. Anyway.. Catherine Opie is possibly one of the most important American photographers of her generation, MAO frequently thinks of her as the Walker Evans of the 21st Century. No matter if you love her work or not.. every viewer MAO knows will certainly have something to say once…
Diane Arbus Photo Up for Auction at the Aperture Benefit!!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

29 Oct 2009 | 10:50 am

Diane Arbus Photo Up for Auction at the Aperture Benefit!! Check it out here... Yes.. so far this rare Diane Arbus photo has a current bid of only $1,750. Welcome to the Art Recession...That's too low to be believed!! So..one of the most important photographers in history has a photo for sale at Monday's Aperture Benefit auction. Can you ask for a better opportunity to add something amazing to your art collection? This is one of her very standard 14.25 in x 14.25 in, Gelatin Silver Prints made by photographer Neil Selkirk for the Arbus Estate. We've seen similar…
The Aperture Foundation Benefit and Art Auction is Coming!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

26 Oct 2009 | 9:11 pm

The Aperture Foundation Benefit and Auction is Coming! YES my little MAO-ettes.. one of the best art charities around is having their annual fund raising party. As every devoted MAO reader knows.. we can't do enough to support this charity. Tickets are still available..for both the Auction, and the Dinner.Here are the details... Aperture Foundation Benefit & Auction - Honoring Joel Meyerowitz, Howard Greenberg, and Susana Torruella LevalAuction Featuring works by Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Atta Kim, Malick Sidibé, and moreMONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009The Lighthouse, Chelsea…
Edward Burtynsky Photos.. Defied Recession Gravity

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

23 Oct 2009 | 7:45 am

Edward Burtynsky Photos.. Defied Recession Gravity. For those long time MAO readers.. it will come to no surprise that MAO is an avid fan of Canadian Photographer Edward Burtynsky. Yes.. we know.. Edward's work is big, colorful, over-hyped, straightforward, expensive, often pretty, very "corporate", safe, etc.. just about everything most fine art photography scholars and contemporary art snobs love to poke fun of.. but yes.. MAO loves his images. But.. here's a little secret.. The auction world LOVES Burtynsky Too!! So while photo auction results have been…
For Those Interested in Emerging Photographers... Here's the show for You!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

19 Oct 2009 | 11:17 am

Emerging Photographer Show at the Randall Scott Gallery opens on Thursday. This is one not to miss. The show is curated by Art Blogger, Photolucida Juror, and totally crazed obsessed avid photo collector.. Ruben Natal-San Miguel... aka ArtMostFierce. Ruben has scoured the earth to share with us, his newest, hot, amazing photo art discoveries. So for those art collectors interested in the bleeding edge, inexpensive cutting edge of Art Photography and to find out who's going to be hot in 3 to 5 years.. you have to see this show. We're sure…

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Michelle de Metz - The Englishman's Gallery - November 7th 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

20 Oct 2009 | 4:51 am

Solo exhibition of abstract expressionist paintings that endeavors to make tangible the most intangible aspect of people we all know--their personalities. The non-figurative, abstract paintings explore a vast variety of stereo-types and colorful characters you can find in most town & country settings, presenting them in pure vibrant colors, primarily in oil on architectural supports, panels, and medium to XL canvases, that all seem to question "what is your type?" Utilizing colors, values, textures, fluid and and carved up compositions the artist works to effectively create picture of…
Vitaly Komar - Ronald Feldman Gallery - November 7th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

18 Oct 2009 | 4:10 pm

The Feldman Gallery will exhibit paintings by Vitaly Komar from his new series, New Symbolism. The paintings visualize inexplicable ties between unrelated images and concepts that refer to the history of the former Soviet Union, religious iconography, and ancient symbols. The paintings are both representational and abstract. New Symbolism is intended to suggest a movement to restore the sundered connection between art and certain historical and timeless myths and to point to a new direction for the avant-garde. In his new work, Komar synthesizes irony with spirituality based on his…
Group Show - New Century Artists Inc. - November 7th 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

17 Oct 2009 | 1:23 pm

The New Rochelle Art Association's 1st Annual Art Exhibit.
Group Show - Center for New Media and the Arts - November 7th 2:00 AM - 5:00 AM

15 Oct 2009 | 9:35 am

In a society as complex and technologically sophisticated as ours, the most urgent projects require the coordinated contributions of many talented people. Whether the task is building a global business or discovering the mysteries of the human brain, one person can't hope to accomplish it, however gifted or energetic he or she may be. There are simply too many problems to be identified and solved, too many connections to be made. ~ Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman BETHEL, CT – We are all familiar with the artist as an…
Kendrick Mar - Dutch Kills Gallery - November 7th 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

10 Oct 2009 | 10:30 am

This is a solo exhibition from one of the Dutch Kills Gallery artists, Kendrick Mar. There will be free drink, and live performances.

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A Guest + A Host = A Ghost - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection at DESTE Foundation in Athens

Regine

4 Nov 2009 | 11:01 am

In a series of symbiotic encounters and parasitic relationships, the solo presentations are often interrupted by incongruous presences or perturbed by unusual juxtapositions: drawings by Kara Walker surround a tomb by Urs Fischer; Maurizio Cattelan's homeless man kneels down in front of Kiki Smith's Bat Woman; Robert Gober's haunted rooms incorporate Gregor Schneider's architectural fragments, etc. continue
Rechnender Raum (Calculating Space) at the Share Festival in Turin

Regine

4 Nov 2009 | 9:43 am

Calculating Space is a delicate sculpture made of sticks, strings and little plumbs. The fragility and transparency of its structure reveals as much as it hides the logic and functioning of the machine. Its units operate like a very basic artifical neural network continue
November programme for the VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics

Regine

2 Nov 2009 | 12:59 am

The VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd., Adam Zaretsky and Waag Society's temporary research and education institute on Art and Life Sciences, will be focusing this month on body art continue
Venice Biennale: the Finnish pavilion

Regine

2 Nov 2009 | 12:13 am

This year the wooden pavilion, designed by architect Alvar Aalto in 1956, hosts a collection of Fire & Rescue Museum by Jussi Kivi. The artist's museum project is based on his long-term passion of collecting every imaginable item that ever has had something to do with firefighting continue
Smoke and Hot Air

Regine

29 Oct 2009 | 1:37 am

The installation echoes the artist's concern for the relentless threats against Iran made by many countries in recent years. Sentences that include "attack Iran" are scavenged from Google News and spoken using a text-to-speech synthesizer. The voice is then picked up by a microphone, analyzed, and translated into rhythmically corresponding smoke rings from a quartet of smoke ring makers continue

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Smithsonian: New Exhibitions
African Art Museum: Yinka Shonibare MBE

November 10, 2009 - March 7, 2010
Air and Space Museum: Moving Beyond Earth

November 19, 2009 - New Permanent (new opening and closing dates)
American Art Museum: What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect

October 2, 2009 - January 24, 2010
American History Museum: Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings

November 13, 2009 - February 15, 2010
American History Museum: Holidays on Display

November 13, 2009 - Nov. 2010 (TBA) (new opening date)

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Picture This: Albert Paley's Portal Gates

Mandy

6 Nov 2009 | 6:18 am

Left: the museum's David DeAnna, contract art handler Jorge Herrera, and Justin Chambers move the right gate into place. Right: Herrera, DeAnna, and Jerry Hovanec finish the installation. Our exhibitions' team was up and at ‘em early on October 27 to unpack and reinstall sculptor Albert Paley’s Portal Gates at the museum's Renwick Gallery. For the past two years, the beloved pieces were off-site as part of Albert Paley: Portals & Gates, an exhibition organized by the University Museums, Iowa State University. Commissioned by the Renwick Gallery in 1974 to adorn the…
Dave Hickey and the State of the Arts

Howard

4 Nov 2009 | 11:35 am

"My ten millionth grandfather was Jonathan Edwards," critic Dave Hickey told us last week as part of the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series at American Art. He added, "But I'm not going to give you any of that." What he did give us, instead, was a thought-provoking hour on the nature of contemporary art in America and how ideals of art and the artist in society were shaped centuries ago. From the Roman Republic to the Florentine Renaissance to the downtown New York art world that emerged after World War II, Hickey riffed on the themes of paganism, materialism, commerce, success, and…
Discovering 1934: The Stories Behind the Paintings

Howard

30 Oct 2009 | 10:30 am

John Cunning's Manhattan Skyline "What kind of highway signs did they have in Minnesota in 1934?" was just one of the questions Ann Prentice Wagner, guest curator of the exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists, needed to answer to place the paintings in context. "I was asking and answering questions of the kind that I hadn't had previously," Wagner told an enthusiastic audience who attended her lecture the other night at American Art. Berenice Abbott's Brooklyn Bridge, Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn, from the series Changing New York The exhibition marks the seventh-fifth anniversary of the…
Halloween 2009: Goblin Lanterns by Helen Hyde

Howard

30 Oct 2009 | 6:27 am

Goblin Lanterns by Helen Hyde For the ghostly and ghoulish among you, I found Helen Hyde's Goblin Lanterns of 1906. The artist, born in New York in 1868, moved with her family to San Francisco two years later, where her father prospered in a business associated with the gold rush. Educated at Wellesley and the California School of Design, she found her inspiration in Japan and moved there in 1899. A woodblock printmaker, she considered Tokyo her home, and Japanese women and children were her frequent subjects. Later, she became disillusioned with the encroaching industrialization and…
In Memoriam (with a Personal Story): Ruth Duckworth

Mandy

23 Oct 2009 | 6:35 am

A Ruth Duckworth sculpture adorns my bookcase. Earlier this week I was saddened to read in an email that sculptor Ruth Duckworth had passed away at ninety on October 18th. We are frequently confronted with obituaries of artists that signify the end of an era. Just this year we’ve lost Andrew Wyeth, Merce Cunningham, Michael Jackson, and Irving Penn, among others. But Ruth held special significance for me, because I had planned several public programs to highlight her retrospective at the museum’s Renwick Gallery in 2006. In September of that year, we listened with wonder as Ruth spoke to…

Art Fag City
Best Link Ever! Someone Still Cares About Fred Durst!

Karen Archey

6 Nov 2009 | 12:44 pm

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via fredandme.com Did Fred Durst do it all for the nookie? We’re not entirely sure we care what the rapper’s career motivations are, but someone apparently does. This week’s Best Link Ever, fredandme.com offers documentation of the Limp Bizkit frontman’s various career stages via fan photos of the singer and ecstatic groupies. Notably, as of late Durst seems to have grown out of his alt-rapping garb, retiring his backwards baseball caps and soul patch-goatee combo for a more sensible, House MD-style full salt and pepper beard and cabbie hat.
Fresh Links!

Art Fag City

6 Nov 2009 | 8:31 am

Abroad - Scots Aim Lasers at Mount Rushmore and Other Landmarks - NYTimes.com I’m not sure how I feel about this.
Fresh Links!

Art Fag City

6 Nov 2009 | 8:24 am

Worst. Press. Release. Ever. Hanoi 9-1-1 Former senior editor of Modern Painters, Lyra Kilston takes the e-flux email service to task, citing Vietnam University of Fine Arts as a spinner of misguided curatorial pomp. Does she have no respect for ArtReview’s “Power” ranking for founders Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda? They did quite well for themselves, clocking in at number 8.
Fresh Links!

Art Fag City

6 Nov 2009 | 6:35 am

25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2009 — Joao Ribas - The Boston Globe MIT curator Joao Ribas informs us that this article is a parody. Our favorite part of the interview is when he rationalizes his early childhood tie wearing. “I was a proper child. And then I discovered that all of my intellectual heroes also wore ties, so that was convenient.”
BREAKING! 18th Most Powerless Person in the Art World Spotted at LES Gallery Non-ironically Wearing Khakis!

Art Fag City

6 Nov 2009 | 5:21 am

POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Blogger Tom Moody takes a picture of the gallery/artist Reena Spaulings‘ buzzer, in the hopes of unlocking what some have named “the final mystery of the art world.” The final mystery of course being, why they are so famous. Always on the prowl for the art worlders who made Hyperallergic’s list of the top 20 most powerless people in the art world, we snapped this picture yesterday of blogger Tom Moody, who snags their number 18 spot. Fullfilling their criteria for the position by non-ironically wearing Khakis at a lower east side gallery, Moody…

Artopia
Jung's Secret Book, Aboriginal Paintings, and Mandalas

Artopia

2 Nov 2009 | 12:15 pm

What do these images have in common? Top left is from "Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya" at the Grey Art Gallery, N.Y.U., 100 Washington Square East, to Dec.5. Top right is from "Mandala: The Perfect Circle: at The Rubin Museum, 150 W. 17, to Jan. 11. Lower middle is from "The Red Book of C. G. Jung" at The Rubin Museum, to Jan. 25. Codes, Maps, and Building Plans Some images and objects we can only see as art by separating them from use, and, therefore, since use is meaning, separating them from…
Ken Friedman: Fluxus Prodigy

Artopia

18 Oct 2009 | 12:38 pm

Refluxions A recent exhibition at the Stendhal Gallery in Chelsea gave pause for thought. And another chance to play catch-up with Fluxus, during what might be a Neo-Fluxus period. Solidified just before Conceptual Art per se,Fluxus was truly international. To the accusation that Fluxus is just Dada in sheep's clothing, Fluxians would reply that unlike Dada, their religion accentuates the positive rather than the negative. Fluxus is often humorous, but humor in art is no laughing matter. Fluxus humor is not what the Surrealists called "black humor." It doesn't go for the…
Allan Kaprow: The Retread

Artopia

4 Oct 2009 | 5:50 pm

William Pope.L,YARD (To Harrow), 2009; "reinvention" of Allan Kaprow'sYARD, 1961 Part One: Art By the Yard Allan Kaprow's Yard, now in its 15th reincarnation, celebrates the new quarters (32 E. 69th St.) of Hauser & Wirth, formerly only of Zurich and London. From beyond the grave, Kaprow (1927-2006) is still posing questions of authority, authorization, and notions of the artist as author rather than maker. The Hauser & Wirth exhibition (to Oct. 24) is by our esteemed forebearer because the gallery has commissioned three celebratory reinventions…
Fluxus Redux

Artopia

18 Sep 2009 | 6:53 pm

Fluxconcert Performance The End of The Art World, Again Art galleries are closing down. Well, perhaps not enough of them. And, let's face it, museums are dull. As an exercise in nostalgia, we now have O'Keeffe, Kandinsky, and are looking forward to Man Ray, and (in Philadelphia) Gorky. But only Man Ray at the Jewish Museum promises revelations -- concerning his hidden identity. Wait a minute, we all knew he was Jewish, didn't we? Oh, we are on to those museums, peddling proven pleasers. And then the new penny-saving trick is to offer fake exhibitions of…
Governors Island: New Haunts for Art

Artopia

19 Jul 2009 | 1:10 pm

The Plot Site-specific art has subjects. Content needs to be parsed. In the best examples, the artworks initiate a kind of dialogue between place and viewers, illuminating where we are. Dreary forms of personal expression are at least once removed.Furthermore, it gets art out of galleries, museums and penthouses. What I have never said before is that site-specific art harkens back to a time before easel paintings and the tchotchkas and mementos that now pretend to be sculpture. Unlike murals and monuments, however, the site-specific…

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Recording available for artists’ rights phone call with John T. Unger

Alyson Stanfield

6 Nov 2009 | 7:47 am

John T. Unger is an artist based in Michigan who uses scrap metal or his creations. He is perhaps best known for his Great Bowls of Fire: sculptures that double as firepits. Yesterday, John was my guest on a call on which he gave us insight into a copyright lawsuit that has been brought against him and how it might affect other artists. You can listen to that 30-minute call here. John T. Unger, Waves O' Fire. Recycled steel. Design ©2007-09 John T. Unger. Neither John nor I are attorneys, so this recording shouldn’t be construed as legal advice. You should always consult an…
Deep Thought(s) Thursday: Do you owe your gallery?

Alyson Stanfield

5 Nov 2009 | 6:40 am

Here are two scenarios for you. Let’s tackle both (notice the plural in today’s post title). Pam Spika Nicholson, Momentum. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. ©The Artist Scenario 1 I have paintings in a gallery but I also do summer outdoor art festivals. Someone who has never step foot in the gallery sees my work on the gallery’s website and looks me up. He finds my website and decides to come to an art festival to see other work. He then wants me to do a custom painting. Do I pay the gallery owner the 50/50 commission on the custom painting even though the client never set foot in…
Sending your first email blast–what to say

Alyson Stanfield

3 Nov 2009 | 8:24 am

An email blast is a message you send to a number of people simultaneously. Someone emailed me once that “email blast” sounded violent and undesirable. She was right. It’s probably not the best terminology to use, but we’re stuck with it. It’s appropriate because an email blast is a big burst that happens all at once, rather than a trickle of messages or mailing pieces. Lee McVey, 3 Young Cottonwoods, Autumn. Pastel, 12 x 16 inches. ©The Artist Email blasts are often promotional. They can be newsletters, announcements, invitations, or the like. Because they are promotional, you may…
Art Marketing Action: Finish Off the Sale & Follow Up

Alyson Stanfield

2 Nov 2009 | 6:46 am

Someone buys a piece of art directly from you. You’re about to hand over the art, but then you wonder if you should be providing anything else at the same time. Consider including the following six items with each sales transaction. Leiann Klein, Cowgirl Hardware. Linocut, 16 x 12 inches. ©The Artist A receipt of sale Your business card A brochure about your art Instructions on caring for the art Copyright notice Certificate of Authenticity–if needed The fifth item on the list is important. Most buyers will not know or may not understand that you retain copyright or what that even…
Free call about how one artist is fighting to protect artists’ rights

Alyson Stanfield

1 Nov 2009 | 8:36 am

Artist John T. Unger – creator of copyrighted sculptural Artisanal Firebowls – is getting an unwanted education in copyright law. His court case could have far-reaching intellectual property implications for the original work created by other artists and creative entrepreneurs. Join us on this special call to find out how it could affect you. A Conversation with John T. Unger ©Preston S. Cole, TAPS Photography Thursday, November 5 4pm ET, 3pm PT, 2pm MT, 1pm PT 30 minutes FREE As John explains it, he has had to spend over $50,000 so far to defend himself against an imitator who…

John T. Unger
Defend Art: The First 24 Hours

John T. Unger

28 Oct 2009 | 9:32 am

Wow. I am amazed at what has happened since I published the page on my site about the lawsuit brought against me by FirePitArt. I knew my friends would care. I expected a few blog posts and hopefully some support to help me continue to defend my art, but the response has been far beyond anything I could have imagined. I am awed, humbled and inspired by the way this story has spread and the incredible number of people who care… and by how deeply they care. I want to thank you not only for your financial support, but more importantly, your emotional and moral encouragement during this time.
The Fine Art of Recycling

John T. Unger

21 Oct 2009 | 12:43 pm

If my job as an artist is to fill the world with "more things," I feel it is equally important that I reclaim materials from the waste stream to make space for my work. I believe that creative re-use has the potential to spark new ways of looking at the world… if one thing can be turned into another, what else can we change? Successful recycled art and design encourages creativity in others— it’s alchemical, magical, subversive, and transformative by nature. My sculptural work is a way of demonstrating in concrete physical terms that the world and the items in it are not as obvious,…
Face of Spades Masks from Recycled Shovel Blades

John T. Unger

22 Apr 2009 | 11:49 am

Inspired by traditional mask designs from all over the world, each Face of Spades carving is made from 100% recycled materials— breathing new life into the atoms of the abandoned. Shovels retired after a life of hard labor are reborn as playful, intriguing masks— faces peering back as if astonished by their own renewed existence. From whimsical, cartoonish expressions exaggerated for impact, to hauntingly beautiful adaptations of traditional tribal designs, the collection features 24 designs resplendent in their individuality. Stoic or serene, silly or insouciant, their glances enhance…
Amazing Great Bowl O Fire installation in Utah

John T. Unger

5 Nov 2008 | 10:40 am

Dale Ayers is an architect in Park City, Utah. He just sent me some amazing photos of his Great Bowl O Fire firepit installed at his home in the Promontory development outside Park City. The fire bowl with gas burner is accessible from the deck, but what I really love is the way that it can be viewed from inside the house against the backdrop of the open landscape. This is definitely one of the coolest installations I've yet seen. There are more photos of Dale's home and firebowl in my flickr set of customer photos here.
Animated walkthrough of container studio and home

John T. Unger

5 Nov 2008 | 10:20 am

The video below is generated from the 3D model built by architect Greg La Vardera, who worked with me this year to design a new home and studio building built from shipping containers. I had planned to put the building up this year but the economy ran into a little snag just as we reached the finance stage of the project. Oops. I have a new project coming up soon that I hope will be able to raise funds to erect the building without loans… If you'd like to know more, please subscribe to the RSS feed for this site. I'll announce the project as soon as it's ready to launch. In the mean time,…

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Music Review | New York City Opera: City Opera Returns in Its Newly Inviting Home

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

6 Nov 2009 | 11:49 pm

The company opened its 2009-10 season on Thursday night with a celebratory program, “American Voices,” and for once at an opening-night gala, there really was a great deal to celebrate.
Exhibition Review | 'A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy': At the Morgan, the Jane Austen Her Family Knew

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

6 Nov 2009 | 11:47 pm

“A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy,” a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, includes many personal letters and early manuscripts by the author.
Dance Review | Nancy Garcia and Chase Granoff: Looking Back, and Taking It Forward

By GIA KOURLAS

6 Nov 2009 | 10:39 pm

Nancy Garcia and Chase Granoff take historical references seriously in two new works being performed at the Kitchen.
Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Swirling Sonorities, With Asian Poems Translated Into German

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

6 Nov 2009 | 10:37 pm

Neeme Jarvi conducted the New York Philharmonic in Alexander Zemlinsky’s “Lyric Symphony” on Thursday at Avery Fisher Hall.
Bridge: Wondering What to Lead? Listen Closely to the Bidding

By PHILLIP ALDER

6 Nov 2009 | 10:36 pm

The North American Open Pairs title is decided at the Spring North American Championships, which will be in Reno, Nev., in March.

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Solo performance of Ellen Fullman presented by KRAAK, Gent, Belgium, 2005

Ceci Moss

6 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am

In 1981 I began developing the “Long String Instrument,” in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings, fifty or more feet in length and installed in a performance space. Listening to the instrument has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. The instrument is acoustic. Wooden box resonators are mounted on a wall and twenty to thirty strings terminate into each resonator soundboard. Performers walk between pathways of strings suspended at waist-height. The instrument is played by “bowing” with rosined fingertips while…
auf drei (2005) - Florian Tuercke

Jenny Jaskey

6 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am

8 piano-strings, tuned in c-major, length: 26,25 ft, three resonance-bodies: pine, maple
Playing the Building (2008) - David Byrne

Ceci Moss

6 Nov 2009 | 8:30 am

(Source for image and video: Creative Time) Creative Time presents Playing the Building, a 9,000-square-foot, interactive, site-specific installation by renowned artist David Byrne. The artist transforms the interior of the landmark Battery Maritime Building in Lower Manhattan into a massive sound sculpture that all visitors are invited to sit and “play.” The project consists of a retrofitted antique organ, placed in the center of the building's cavernous second-floor gallery, that controls a series of devices attached to its structural features—metal beams, plumbing, electrical…
A Small Migration (2004) - Shawn Decker

Ceci Moss

6 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am

A Small Migration was a piece first presented as part of the show “Sonic Differences” which was a part of the Biennial of Electronic Art Perth, in 2004. This work is a direct extension of my previous “physical” installations, with this project extending both the scale and complexity of my previous installations, as well as the nature and complexity of my work with hybrid physical/computational systems. A Small Migration consists of many piano wires strung roughly 8 or 9 feet above the ground across an open gallery or public space. The wires are fixed at the ends with tuning blocks, so…
109 Lighting Books (2009) - Airan Kang

Ceci Moss

5 Nov 2009 | 12:00 pm

"109 Lighting Books" in the group exhibition "Textual Landscapes" at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (Source: Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery)

Artistic Mission
Destroy This Painting - Part 2

5 Nov 2009 | 9:11 am

At this point I've gotten another layer on top of the painting. Will be adding more texture and metallic colors with each layer. Only have a short time to finish it. Back to work!
An Awakening

1 Nov 2009 | 9:45 pm

Today was all about shopping for post-Halloween deals. My daughter and I hit up several of the stores that pop up this time of year in search of cool stuff on the cheap. All we ended up with was a set of vampire fangs and a domino mask. For someone who loves Halloween like I do, this was a little surprising. I just wasn't feeling it this year.While we were out and about we decided to check out a "new" sculpture in Chesterfield. It's a second casting of J. Seward Johnson's "The Awakening". The original is located near Washington D.C. and was electronically scanned to make a new mold for this…
Destroy This Painting

31 Oct 2009 | 10:34 pm

"Remastered" is just around the corner and I'm about halfway done with my first piece. Up until this point I've followed the original to make sure that it was true to it. Now I'm going to destroy this painting:Since the days when I first started throwing a pencil around the consensus of the other artists who inspired me was that it was totally uncool to copy anything. Those schoolyard lessons still affect the way I work, so I'm going to use it to my advantage. I don't really like that I've made something so similar to another person's work so I'm going to keep painting until it becomes my…
New Work In Progress - "Remastered" Exhibition

27 Oct 2009 | 7:48 am

Here is a peek at my first painting for the "Remastered" show: The painting is based on Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Son" and at this point is pretty faithful to the original. My next step is to continue painting it without regard for the look of the original and making it my own. I'm going to add a lot of texture and unexpected colors and continue to accentuate the varied sheens of the different paints. Should be pretty interesting when it's done.
An Elegant Evening Amongst the Riff Raff

26 Oct 2009 | 8:36 am

Saturday night my wife and I celebrated our anniversary a few weeks late by attending the special concert that the St. Louis Symphony that evening. It was kind of a big deal for two reasons: it was the first gala concert they've had since 1999, and the guest soloist was none other than Yo-Yo Ma. It was a great performance, my wife was moved to tears. (Yes, I know I should have vacuumed before I took this photo.) Since we were all dressed up and in the city we decided to check out "Riff Raff's Halloween Art Show" at Koken Art Factory. I had entered this show last year, and had a great time,…

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15 Oct 2009 | 7:13 pm

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Kehinde Wiley, "Louis XVI, The Sun King"

24 Jun 2009 | 10:47 am

Kehinde Wiley, Louis XVI, The Sun King, 2006.Cast marble dust and resinFrom an edition of 250Height: 10 inchesWidth: 9.5 inchesDepth: 3 inches
Alex Katz, "Man with Pipe"

23 Jun 2009 | 10:41 am

Alex Katz, Man with Pipe , 1984.Aquatint Etching on Hahnemuhle Papier RivesFrom an edition of 188Height: 19.75 inchesWidth: 26 inches
Claudia Hart, "The Tenth Indian"

22 Jun 2009 | 11:37 am

Claudia Hart, The Tenth Indian, 2007.Lambda photographic printFrom an edition of 6Height: 50 inchesWidth: 40 inches
Swoon, "‘Untitled’ For ‘ Something Else’ Exhibition"

18 Jun 2009 | 10:34 am

Swoon, ‘Untitled’ For ‘ Something Else’ Exhibition, 2004.ScreenprintHeight: 17.7 inchesWidth: 24 inches

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7 Nov 2009 | 12:24 am

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6 Nov 2009 | 10:45 pm

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6 Nov 2009 | 9:40 pm

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Encontros on the Behance Network

6 Nov 2009 | 8:25 pm

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Nikhil Chopra, as Yog Raj Chitrakar, at the New Museum

6 Nov 2009 | 10:27 pm

Nikhil Chopra settled into his temporary home in the lobby-level Glass Gallery at the New Museum on Wednesday. I've heard and read many criticisms of this space since the opening of the new building. I don't have a problem with it myself, and in fact I think it's an inspired device. Especially with the right installation, meaning a powerful concept (however subtle it might be), it effects a bridge between the formal, clean white spaces of the Museum above and the vibrant life on the Bowery outside. At the same time it shares its (ideally) seductive offerings with the various functions of the…
Obamas dump Alma Thomas following wingnuts' stink

4 Nov 2009 | 9:28 pm

Alma Thomas Watusi (Hard Edge) 1963 acrylic on canvas 47.5" x 44.25" I thought it was a joke, but the story seems to be true. The Painting by Alma Thomas, one of the 45 artworks the Obamas chose to borrow from national museums to hang mostly in the private quarters of the White House, has quietly disappeared from the list. [By late October, "Watusi (Hard Edge)"], which had been the only painting listed for the East Wing - and reportedly destined for Michelle Obama's office - was no longer on the list. The Hirshhorn confirmed that it had been sent back, but no one involved with the White House…
Bloomberg squeaks in: Obama's cowardice saves his skin

4 Nov 2009 | 9:33 am

The White House switchboard lit up with calls from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s emissaries several weeks ago with a message that was polite but firm: The mayor is going to win re-election, they said. We think the president should stay out of the race. lead paragraph of the lead article in the Late Edition of today's Times Did Bloomberg really tell Obama he'd better not support Thompson? Did Obama refrain from supporting Thompson because of the Republican mayor's implied theat? Does Obama need Bloomberg that much? Did Bloomberg need a no-show Obama in order to win? This whole scenario looked…
Brooklyn Rail cover: Powhida's New Museum cartoon

3 Nov 2009 | 11:06 am

go to large, high resolution image here Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words, especially if it's been drawn by William Powhida. The artist's editorial cartoon, addressing the current weird curatorial course of the New Museum, completely fills the cover of the Brooklyn Rail out tomorrow. I wrote this post back on September 25th, immediately after reading the NuMu's press release announcing a metamorphosis which will find it installing a series of museum-wide shows displaying the collections of one or more of its own wealthy trustees and curated by those collectors' favorite…
vote for Billy Talen

2 Nov 2009 | 4:16 pm

I would argue that Gawker* doesn't quite go far enough in its condemnation of Bloomberg's candidacy, since it stops a little too short of suggesting the obvious alternative. I have no hesitation myself in endorsing the Billy Talen for mayor over Thompson. Thompson (unless he's actually working for a Bloomberg victory) ran an extraordinarily incompetent campaign, and he finally appears to be something of a fool (okay, just for starters, look at where he stands on bike lanes). Talen is the candidate of a significant political party, the Green Party, but you may never have seen him or heard him;…

Jeffrey Hayes: Contemporary Still Life Paintings
Revisions

Jeff Hayes

20 Oct 2009 | 1:28 pm

detail from Kaleidoscope: Chinese Pipe and GlassBefore revision (left), and after (right)Most of the last 2 weeks was spent paying attention to some family issues, and then getting over an ugly cold (I don't get sick all that often, but when I do...). Though it didn't leave much time for work, when I did sit down at my easel, I worked on revising an earlier painting. Revision is something I haven't done all that often, since I don't ordinarily keep works around for long after they're finished. This year, though, I made the decision to hold on to a number of pieces until the economy improves a…
Almost there

Jeff Hayes

5 Oct 2009 | 8:37 pm

In progress: untitled still lifeoil on panel8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm)A few more hours' work and this will be finished. Since I probably won't photograph it again until it's dried and varnished, I thought I'd put this final in-progress shot up.Working on this painting in particular, I found myself mindful of how colors become grays as the objects turn away from the light. This is a very well-known phenomenon, but still beautiful to observe, and gratifying to capture.
In Progress

Jeff Hayes

2 Oct 2009 | 7:33 am

In Progress: untitled still lifeOil on panel8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm)As I mentioned a few days ago, I've been painting some slightly larger pieces, so I thought I'd give a glimpse of what's in the works. This is actually a piece that I very nearly threw out. I started it about 6 months ago, completed the underpainting, and then decided I didn't like it. It's rare for me to not finish paintings, but this one wound up on the shelf, and after a while I almost put it in the trash. I looked at it with fresh eyes this week, decided it had potential, and continued with it. Now that I'm into it, I…
The First Four Years

Jeff Hayes

30 Sep 2009 | 4:28 pm

I was mentioning to a friend this afternoon that I hadn't posted to my blog for about a month. Realizing how sad that actually sounded, I thought I'd write an update. I also realized that I've been blogging for exactly 4 years now; my first post was on September 29, 2005. I guess that makes me something of an old hand.This blog started with several motivations, and I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from the project. For the most part, I'm very pleased with the way it's unfolded. It's been a place to talk about and show my new work, a gallery to sell paintings, and on rare occasions a…
6 Fragments

Jeff Hayes

31 Aug 2009 | 6:24 pm

As I mentioned in my previous post, I've been slack about posting, but certainly not about painting. Here are half a dozen new fragments."Fragment: Eggshell, Knife, Imari"Oil on panel, 2.5 x 3.5 inches (6 x 9 cm)Purchase Information"Fragment: Silver Teapot Handle"Oil on panel, 2.5 x 2.5 inches (6 x 6 cm)Purchase Information"Fragment: Lemon Marmalade"Oil on panel, 2.5 x 2.5 inches (6 x 6 cm)Purchase Information"Fragment: Glass and Copper"Oil on panel, 2.5 x 2.5 inches (6 x 6 cm)Purchase Information"Fragment: Cherries in Silver"Oil on panel, 2.5 x 2.5 inches (6 x 6 cm)Purchase…

tom moody
halftones

tom moody

6 Nov 2009 | 6:38 am

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Taking It Out on the Piano

tom moody

6 Nov 2009 | 6:06 am

Visited several galleries yesterday on New York's Lower East Side. Some 40 spaces have popped up in the last couple of years, mostly small, one or two room, well-appointed oases of white-walled serenity in a zone of commercial clutter and urban rot. The northern anchor for this array of map pins is the New Museum, where guards inspect visitors at the door for cheekbones and personal elegance (not really, but at least half the gallerygoers at any given time seem fashion model gorgeous--even the visiting curators--what ever happened to the arts professionals with middle-aged paunches and bad…
Reena Spaulings

tom moody

5 Nov 2009 | 9:02 pm

"Can we come up?" "We're closed." "When's the next show opening?" "Uh, mid-December." "Any remnants of the last show you could show us? Anything at all on the walls?" "No." "OK, goodbye then."
Walking the Bitmap Path

tom moody

4 Nov 2009 | 6:25 am

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waves, 1999

tom moody

1 Nov 2009 | 9:34 pm

photocopies, linen tape on stretcher, 40 x 40 inches (two shots of the same piece - oops on the change in color cast) still unwrapping and sorting. another keeper - holding up well for being basically fragile. individual tiles drawn in MSPaint

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One is silver and the other...

5 Nov 2009 | 11:07 pm

What's that old girl scout rhyme? Make new friends, but keep the old... (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/makenewfriends.shtml)I kept humming this tune to...
"Life is Living" Houston Kick-Off

5 Nov 2009 | 11:00 pm

Life is Living, Marc Bamuthi Joseph's (http://www.myspace.com/bamuthi) national campaign to connect urban street arts with environmentalism and sustainable living,...
eGrants! Get your HAA eGrants!

5 Nov 2009 | 10:56 pm

The Houston Arts Alliance Announces is fixin' to hand out more hotel tax money to Houston artists through their Individual...
Gallery Unknown and Canal Street Gallery

4 Nov 2009 | 9:08 pm

DISCLAIMER: Once again, I have used a lot of words (including a back assward type of pigeon Spanish) and...
Fresh Air

4 Nov 2009 | 2:13 am

Art Critic Carol Diehl, in her recent post Observation on Observation (http://artvent.blogspot.com/2009/11/observations-on-observation.html) , has written an excellent essay about the...

Dennis Hollingsworth
Painting

Dennis

6 Nov 2009 | 4:34 pm
Super Fluid

Dennis

6 Nov 2009 | 4:32 pm
Ahora

Dennis

6 Nov 2009 | 8:28 am
This & That

Dennis

6 Nov 2009 | 8:27 am
The CGS Panel

Dennis

5 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm

"Because I am hard, YOU WILL NOT LIKE ME!" Last week, I participated in an event at my alma mater, Claremont Graduate School (CGS). It was a presentation and panel discussion whose ultimate topic was about life after art...

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Prospectives.09 International Digital Arts Festival

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4 Nov 2009 | 4:02 am

November 12- 14, 2009, University of Nevada, Reno http://www.unr.edu/art/prospectives09.html Exhibit > Present > Perform > Project > NetArt Prospectives.09 is the international festival showcasing the work of graduate and Phd candidates working across a diverse spectrum of digital arts practice. The festival showcases the work of 37 artists and performers from throughout the United States and internationally [...]
DIGICULT_DIGIMAG 49 / NOVEMBRE 09_ONLINE

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4 Nov 2009 | 3:36 am

http://www.digicult.it/digimag E’ online la nuova Issue di Novembre di DigiMag, mensile online di arte e cultura digitale del progetto Digicult. Un altro numero unico, ricchissimo di contenuti, che continua a sorprendere i suoi stessi creatori per partecipazione e competenza da parte di autori vecchi e nuovi, nonchè per disponibilità e volontà di partecipazione da parte degli [...]
Curator´s Project 2009 of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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31 Oct 2009 | 1:28 am

Which life? Between Calling and Career Curator: Sabine Breitwieser Opening: 5 November 2009, 7 pm Exhibition dates: 6 November - 5 December 2009 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | Studio Building Lehárgasse 8 | 1060 Vienna | Austria Phone (+43 1) 588 16-0 http://www.akbild.ac.at Share this announcement on: Facebook | Delicious | Digg | Twitter | In conformity with the tradition to ask an internationally [...]
A.I.R. / HMC, BUDAPEST, Hungary 2010

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31 Oct 2009 | 1:22 am

“understanding of world cultures” The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc.® (HMC), 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, invites interested visual artists, writers, performers to submit application for its residency program in Budapest, Hungary. HMC is dedicated to promoting international art and the understanding of world cultures, through high quality art exhibitions, cultural exchanges and related educational programs. Based in [...]
Visionsonic Streaming

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31 Oct 2009 | 1:18 am

http://www.visionsonic.net/visionsonictv.html Here is the video streaming time table. we should be on time. we stream everything in direct!! Big Up to TV PLAIZ for the streaming!! http://teleplaisance.lautre.net/ voici le programme du streaming video, nous diffusons tout les live en direct depuis le centre! un grand merci a TV PLAIZ!!! http://teleplaisance.lautre.net/ October 30th 15h30 MÉCANIQUE DES FLUIDES 16h30 NTH SYNTHESIS 18h00 ETIENNE DE FRANCE 18h45 [...]

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Verge Art Fair Debuts in Miami

Editor

6 Nov 2009 | 3:34 pm

Verge Art Fair Debuts in Miami: “The defunct Bridge Art Fair, a non-profit memorable for dubious art, has been reincarnated as Verge and comes to Miami Dec. 3-6 at the Catalina Hotel. The fair has been trimmed down to about 20 exhibitors. The selection committee boasts notable names including Richard Feigen, Dan Cameron, James Yood and Beth Rudin DeWoody. Exhibitors: Antidote Brooklyn, NY Carl van Brunt Beacon, NY ecoartspace NY, NY Front Room Gallery Brooklyn, NY Galerie CP Paris, France Gitana Rosa Brooklyn, NY MANIAC …
New American Airlines Terminal Walkway – MIA

Editor

4 Nov 2009 | 4:36 pm

An online friend posted this image today at American Airlines terminal walkway where we find the public art of Michele Oka Doner (terrazo flooring with cast brass sea forms of plants and animals). It’s not always easy to just drive to the airport to specifically look at art so, we’ll let our friends capture an image or two to share. He says, “The new AA terminal is great. Finally a serious airport.” I guess I should also add that by being very connected using various social media applications, I am able to share this. Perhaps, we should reschedule our workshop on…
Rubells Present “Beg Borrow and Steal”

Editor

2 Nov 2009 | 5:02 am

Rubells Present “Beg Borrow and Steal” Rubell Family Collection in Wynwood, Miami “The Rubells’ cheekily titled show is presumably not a commentary on art collecting in a recession. The Miami-based Rubell Family Collection mount their annual must-see Art Basel Miami Beach-timed show, inspired by Picasso’s quote, ‘Good artists borrow, great artists steal.’ Beg Borrow and Steal includes 260 artworks by 74 artists owned by the Rubells, and runs Dec. 2-May 29, 2010. The idea for the show originated in 2005, during conversations between Don and Mera Rubell and artists…
Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009

Editor

28 Oct 2009 | 7:52 pm

Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009: “Roy DeCarava, who turned Harlem into his canvas, has died. Sherry Turner DeCarava – Roy DeCarava A slide show of Mr. DeCarava’s work is on the Lens blog. by Randy Kennedy Roy DeCarava, the child of a single mother in Harlem who turned that neighborhood into his canvas and became one of the most important photographers of his generation by chronicling its people and its jazz giants, has died. He was 89. His death was announced by Sherry Turner DeCarava, his wife and an art historian who wrote frequently about his work. Mr. DeCarava…
NEWS FLASH: TERRY RILEY OUT AS DIRECTOR OF MIAMI ART MUSEUM

Editor

26 Oct 2009 | 1:07 pm

TERRY RILEY STEPS DOWN AS DIRECTOR OF MIAMI ART MUSEUM While the community is still developing a relationship with the staff of Miami Art Museum, we will miss former Director, Terry Riley. Miami, FL, October 26, 2009 – Aaron Podhurst, Chairman of the Board of Trustees today announced that Terence Riley has resigned as Director of the Miami Art Museum (MAM), effective immediately. Mr. Riley will be resuming his role as partner at Keenen/Riley Architects, with various design and consulting projects in New York, Spain and Mexico, and will continue to work with MAM as a consultant through June…

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VendorBar @ Editions | Artists’ Books Fair, X-Initiative, Nov. 5th - 8th, 2009

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:59 am

Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn announce VendorBar, our newest curatorial endeavor hosted by the Editions | Artists’ Books Fair 2009 Nov. 5th - 8th, 2009. VendorBar presents artists who will directly engage the public by presenting actions, exchanges and services that result in the production and distribution of artists editions made specifically for the event. As part of this year’s “E|AB’09 Special Events” series, VendorBar offers a unique site where interaction supersedes transaction. PARTICIPATING ARTISTSARTifariti - Western Sahara Collective, Andrea Beeman & Ken…
Call For Artists: Postcards From The Edge Benefit 2010

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:39 am

Postcards From the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS Hosted by ZieherSmith, NYC DEADLINE: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Visual AIDS invites artists to donate a 4" x 6" original work on paper for our 12th annual Postcards From the Edge benefit. Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are all welcome. Artists must be 18 years or older to participate. Only one entry per artist. Postcards From The Edge is an exhibition and benefit sale of original postcard-sized works of art by established and emerging artists. All works are exhibited anonymously, and the identity of the artist is…
Christina McPhee's Poetics of the Partial

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:21 am

TESSERAE HOT PINK CALI AQUEDUCT, 2009, HD video still. Total running time: 5 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. West Coast artist Christina McPhee, recently interviewed in the BOMB Magazine blog: Interview: Christina McPhee By Melissa PotterThroughout the ’80s, Christina McPhee used drawing and painting to investigate landscape and its relationship to time through work at archaeological and geological sites. By the mid-’90s, she began new media explorations of human technology and the environment by mining traumatic memory patterns and what they might uncover about geomorphologies in sites…
KERPLOW! Powhida on Cover of Brooklyn Rail

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:07 am

via MAN: Artist William Powhida on the NuMu's "suicide" New York-based artist William Powhida, who frequently satirizes art world figures and conventions in his art, has taken on the New Museum's "suicide" in his latest work. Excerpted above, Powhida's drawing details "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality," and includes James Wagner, Lisa Phillips, Marcia Tucker, Jeff Koons, and plenty of others who are somehow engaged in the NuMu's self-injury. You can see the drawing here at Powhida's website (click on it for a high-res image). New Yorkers will see it on the cover of the next…
Closings (East Village) 184

joy garnett

2 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am

Closings (East Village) 184, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

The Best Part
Olsson & Barbieri

5 Nov 2009 | 5:05 pm

Check out these incredible handmade bags by Italian craftsmen Olsson & Barbieri. Each bag is produced in no more than 50 numbered pieces a year, with minor revisions in between, making each product individually unique.
Poster of the Day

5 Nov 2009 | 5:04 pm
Megarealms

5 Nov 2009 | 4:41 pm

Megarealms, an exhibition by San Francisco-based artist and illustrator Maxwell Loren Holyoke-Hirsch is opening tonight at Fecal Face Dot Gallery.
Gabriel Usadel

4 Nov 2009 | 5:12 pm

Chi-town artist Gabriel Usadel is a busy man with an incredible portfolio to show for it.
Jordan Jelev

4 Nov 2009 | 5:07 pm

Calligraphy is making a comeback lately, especially in the work of Bulgarian artist Jordan Jelev.

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See UNSEEN

Lisa Hunter

21 Oct 2009 | 8:44 am

Tomorrow night, my blog buddy Ruben makes his curatorial debut with a group photography show, UNSEEN, at the Randall Scott Gallery in DUMBO. Ruben is one of New York's most enthusiastic advocates for emerging photographers. Go see the show, and you will be too.UNSEENArtist's ReceptionOctober 22nd 6pm-8:30pmRandall Scott Gallery111 Front Street #204BrooklynLocated on the corner of Front and Washington Streetsin-between the bridges. Subway stops: The F (York St) or the A or C (High St).Photo: Nadine Rovner, one of the many talented photographers in the exhibit
Book of the Year: 1959

Lisa Hunter

3 Oct 2009 | 7:20 pm

Feel that cool snap in the air? It's time to put away the summer reading; no more pink novels with pictures of shoes on the cover! It's time for a real book. I recommend 1959: The Year Everything Changed, by my friend Fred Kaplan. He makes a fascinating argument that, while 1968 hogs all the credit for being earth-shattering, 1959 was really the year everything became modern. You'd be amazed how many key events happened in unheralded 1959, from the introduction of the microchip to FDA approval of the birth control pill.1959 was a turning point in the visual arts too, with museums finally…
So there, Chelsea!

Lisa Hunter

11 Sep 2009 | 4:16 pm

New York may have a slew of gallery shows opening this week, but Montreal is in full-on photography mode. The Mois de la Photo starts this week, with events and exhibitions all over town; and simultaneously, we have the World Press Photo exhibition. If you like contemporary photography and photojournalism, Montreal is the place to be.
Domesticated in New York

Lisa Hunter

9 Sep 2009 | 11:50 am

OK, this is exciting enough to shake me from my summer blogging torpor. As you may know from reading The New Yorker, the fabulous Amy Stein is finally having a solo show in New York. If you're in NYC, go to the opening for me -- I'm miserable about missing it. (But there's one coming up in Quebec...)Domesticated | Amy SteinSeptember 10 - October 31ClampArt521-531 W 25th Street (ground floor)New York, NYP.S. Ruben at ArtMostFierce informs me that her work will also be at auction in Phillips de Pury's "Art Now" auction on September 26.
Psst! Breakfast of Champions, on sale

Lisa Hunter

23 Jun 2009 | 1:17 pm

Cereal Art, purveyor of fun art multiples, has a 40 percent off sale right now. The super secret sale code is JUNESALE. Shh. Image: Hank Willis Thomas & Ryan Alexiev's Obama-in-cereal portrait, available as a limited edition print or poster.

Modern Art Notes
See you Monday

Modern Art Notes

5 Nov 2009 | 5:42 am

Back next week. Must look at art.
Five things I think I think

Modern Art Notes

4 Nov 2009 | 5:12 am

1.) I enjoyed the reception to William Powhida's drawing about the problems at the New Museum. I was disappointed that several commenters/publications celebrated Powhida while completely missing the point: In the New York Press, Mike Spence asked if "this is just an example of one artist sounding off until he is brought into the circle." Well, no. This issue at this museum fits Powhida's interests and practice as perfectly as anything Powhida's uber-'menace' Zach Feuer might do. Flavorwire's Kelsey Keith declared that somehow Urs Fischer makes the ethical issues around showing private…
Artist William Powhida on the NuMu's "suicide"

Modern Art Notes

3 Nov 2009 | 6:50 am

New York-based artist William Powhida, who frequently satirizes art world figures and conventions in his art, has taken on the New Museum's "suicide" in his latest work. Excerpted above, Powhida's drawing details "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality," and includes James Wagner, Lisa Phillips, Marcia Tucker, Jeff Koons, and plenty of others who are somehow engaged in the NuMu's self-injury. You can see the drawing here at Powhida's website (click on it for a high-res image). New Yorkers will see it on the cover of the next Brooklyn Rail.Related: The next issue of The Art…
A season of books on Dorothea Lange

Modern Art Notes

2 Nov 2009 | 8:07 am

In this week's New York Review of Books, Jonathan Raban examines two new books about Dorothea Lange: Linda Gordon's Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits is a biography and Anne Whiston Spirn's Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field is an in-depth look at Lange's experiences in 1939. Raban clearly has something he wants to say before he jumps into the books: His essay puts Lange's Farm Security Administration work in an interesting European-derived context... a context which he thinks is strangely (but appropriately) applicable to the American West. In a…
Weekend roundup

Modern Art Notes

2 Nov 2009 | 5:04 am

The Globe's Sebastian Smee explains how Krzysztof Wodiczko is bringing the voices of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to the ICA Boston. Richard Lacayo examines Arshile Gorky in Philly in Time. Christopher Knight 'reads' R. Crumb's Bible at the Hammer.

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Jeff Soto: Melbourne Part II

5 Nov 2009 | 6:50 am

Jeff blogs the 2nd half of his trip to Melbourne to speak at this year's Semi-Permanent.
Jeremy Fish Studio Visit

3 Nov 2009 | 4:03 am

A preview of his first museum show opening Saturday Nov 7th @The Laguna Art Museum.
Kelsey Brookes Studio

3 Nov 2009 | 1:40 am

A look into the studio of this San Diego based artist as he prepares for his solo show @Quint Contemporary opening Nov 20th.
Jeff Soto: Melbourne

2 Nov 2009 | 2:13 am

Jeff's trip to Melbourne to speak at this year's Semi-Permanent.
Free Fridayz: Distracted Pilots

30 Oct 2009 | 8:57 am

What's not to be distracted by? Loads of dials and what a view?! Next weeks theme: Fashion Victim.

OUPblog » Art
What is Art?

Joanna

4 Nov 2009 | 8:32 am

Joanna Ng, Intern Roger Scruton is currently Research Professor for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences where he teaches philosophy at their graduate school in both Washington and Oxford. He is a writer, philosopher, and public commentator and has specialized in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. In his book Beauty, Scruton explores various notions of beauty and comes to the conclusion that beauty is not determined by subjective feelings, but universal values that are rooted in rational thought. In the following excerpt Scruton discusses beauty in the…
Why Republicans Shouldn’t “dance”

Rebecca

22 Oct 2009 | 8:19 am

Jennifer Fisher, is Associate Professor of Dance, University of California, Irvine, and co-editor of When Men Dance: Choreographing Masculinities Across Borders with Anthony Shay, Assistant Professor of Dance and Cultural Studies at Pomona College. The book offers a progressive vision that boldly articulates double-standards in gender construction within dance and brings hidden histories to light in a globalized debate. In the original article below Fisher looks at the Tom DeLay’s appearance on “Dancing with the Stars.” You can watch the video of his appearance here.
The Peak-Performance Myth

Rebecca

6 Oct 2009 | 8:45 am

Gerald Klickstein is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a renowned classical guitarist. His book, The Musician’s Way: A Guide to Practice, Performance, and Wellness, is a roadmap to artistic excellence which provides an inclusive system for all instrumentalists and vocalists to advance their musical abilities and succeed as performing artists. In the excerpt below we learn about the value of being prepared. When I play, I make love – it is the same thing. -Arthur Rubinstein, pianist If you’ve read much about performing, then…
Humorous Quotations

Rebecca

30 Sep 2009 | 8:21 am

I’m having a rough day so I thought it might help my mood to browse through the Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations edited by Ned Sherrin. Below are some quotes the restored the smile to my face. Mistakes and Misfortunes “My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents…is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.” – Robert Benchley 1889-1945: Chips off the old Benchley (1949) ‘Safety Second’ on premature calls of a win in Florida in the presidential election of 20oo: “We don’t…
On Hammerstein and Sondheim

Rebecca

29 Sep 2009 | 9:35 am

Geoffrey Block, Distinguished Professor of Music History at the University of Puget Sound, is the author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical From Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber. The book offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America’s best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals, as well as a riveting history. In the excerpt below we learn about how Hammerstein mentored Sondheim. Sondheim, a native New Yorker whose father could play harmonized show tunes by ear after hearing them once or twice, was the beneficiary of a…

Tate | Press Releases
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic

5 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

6 November 2009 | Tate LiverpoolAfro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
Tate Liverpool gets Night Fever: Step back in time and re-live the 1970s with ‘Magic Mirror Ball’

2 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

3 November 2009 | Tate LiverpoolTate Liverpool gets Night Fever: Step back in time and re-live the 1970s with ‘Magic Mirror Ball’
Pioneering research project on acrylic paints – findings revealed

29 Oct 2009 | 5:00 pm

30 October 2009 | TatePioneering research project on acrylic paints – findings revealed
BP Saturdays: Spooky Tate 2009

29 Oct 2009 | 5:00 pm

30 October 2009 | Tate BritainBP Saturdays: Spooky Tate 2009
The Tate Liverpool Shop: Get creative with your Christmas shopping

29 Oct 2009 | 5:00 pm

30 October 2009 | Tate LiverpoolThe Tate Liverpool Shop: Get creative with your Christmas shopping

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catch up on nyc stuff of note

Martin

5 Nov 2009 | 8:21 pm

Heather Cook in Abstract Abstract at Foxy Production.Heather Cook at Foxy.Georganne Deen in Pink Panther, Amy Smith-Stewart's show at Kumukumu.Oscar Tuazon and Eli Hansen, in Wood, at Maccarone.Corey McCorkle at Maccarone. Detail.David Kennedy Cutler at Derek Eller.Katherine Bradford at Red Flagg. Last show at Red Flagg... they've changed the name to Coleman Burke Gallery.
Agathe Snow

Martin

31 Oct 2009 | 8:57 pm

Agathe Snow, in Space Out/On Time, at Canada (last month).Agathe Snow
shows to see

Martin

28 Oct 2009 | 10:00 pm

LES -Ethan Greenbaum and David Scanavino, Mastercraft, opening TONIGHT at Satori.CHELSEA - Nicole Eisenman at Leo Koenig, opening this Friday 10/30.BROOKLYN - system:system through 11/1... featuring Inna Babaeva, Kai Vierstra, Meridith Pingree, Mike Hein, Saira McLaren, Anya Keilar and many MORE... at St. Cecilia’s Convent, 21 Monitor St, Brooklyn.SOHO - Corin Hewitt and Molly McFadden at Recess, with a reception 11/6.David Kennedy Cutler taking a break from helping out Corin. David had the very strong show (scroll down) that recently closed at Derek Eller.
Joanne Greenbaum

Martin

27 Oct 2009 | 8:50 pm

Joanne Greenbaum, Hollywood Squares, at D'Amelio Terras... CLOSES 10/31st.Joanne Greenbaum reviewed by Roberta Smith 3/14/97.Joanne Greenbaum reviewed by Holland Cotter 12/4/98.Joanne Greenbaum reviewed by Ken Johnson 4/20/01.Joanne Greenbaum reviewed by Roberta Smith 9/18/09.
John Ruppert

Martin

26 Oct 2009 | 10:13 pm

John Ruppert, at John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY.

theartblog
Interview with Marianne Bernstein: Shelter, Tatted, and so much more

libby

6 Nov 2009 | 9:17 am

Curator and artist Marianne Bernstein last month created the Welcome House in LOVE Park, and tonight she brings you Shelter at the Painted Bride. (The m.o. is similar–invite some terrific artists to work within the constraints of a show while giving them considerable freedom to interpret those constraints.) A book of her photographs, Tatted, is scheduled for release in December. In the Spring, she did a performance for the First Person festival based Tatted. And for Gallery Joe she is curating an exhibit due to open in 2010. Marianne Bernstein, one of the photos she took of people who…
November Maps & Listings Update

kelani nichole

5 Nov 2009 | 5:21 pm

In our first two months we’ve received contributions from over 80 local galleries & art spaces to our new Maps & Listings feature. We’re working to make this system more friendly and useful to you! Here is an update on where we’ve been with our maps, and where we’re going. *NEW FEATURE* we’ve added a monthly sorting option that allows you to browse future shows and also lets you look back to shows that closed in previous months. In addition, you can see what’s closing this week to make sure you catch not-to-miss shows before they’re…
Pew goes MacArthur on us

libby and roberta

5 Nov 2009 | 1:05 pm

After 18 years of handing out the biggest regional prize in the arts, Pew Fellowships in the Arts has changed its m-o. Well, they’re still handing out prizes– the coveted 12 grants of $60,000. But the process is changing in 2010 in two significant ways. First, and probably most importantly, Pew has switched from an open call for applications to a MacArthur genius grant secret nominating process. Second, there’s no longer a 4-year rotation of categories with painting one year, sculpture another, etc. etc. Now, it’s open season for all categories every year. This came…
Interview with Sarah Amos–the printer’s territories

guest writer

4 Nov 2009 | 1:51 pm

Post by Judith Stein Sarah Amos is an artist with a consummate mastery of printmaking. In this new body of work, her third show at Cynthia Reeves Gallery in Chelsea, she pits macro against micro, playing bold, dramatic shapes against delicate forms and textures. In her handsome, large-format prints, shapes that resemble beaded curtains or louvered shutters both define the surface and tantalize, giving us a peek but limiting our visual access to the space behind and below. But once we navigate around these arresting, gatekeeper images, a seeming infinity of nuanced space opens. Sarah Amos,…
Adad Hannah in Montreal

stefan zebrowski-rubin

4 Nov 2009 | 10:56 am

I first came across the work of Adad Hannah at Montreal’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s inaugural triennial exhibition focusing on Quebec artists held over a year ago. Hannah’s photographs taken at the Prado Museum showed viewers (now subjects) engaged with the art in active ways: a woman leaned in to kiss a statue of Eros, two men looked into a mirror in front of Velasquez’s Las Meninas. In Las Meninas itself, a mirror at the back of the room has been interpreted in various ways in art historical literature, and Hannah’s layering of a second mirror once again questions the role of…

National Gallery of Art, Washington-Video and Audio
Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns

3 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am

November 2009 - Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art, Washington The prints of Jasper Johns are heralded for their beauty as well as their conceptual and psychological complexity. A group of the artist's working proofs—prints pulled during the working process on which Johns made drawn and painted additions, recently acquired from the artist by the National Gallery of Art—are showcased here as independent works of art for the first time. On the occasion of the exhibition, curator Fine talks to host Barbara Tempchin about this extraordinary body of…
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850–1900

20 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

Late nineteenth–century art is usually identified with airy and colorful impressionist paintings and the radiant atmosphere of Paris. But in the shadowy recesses an art of a very different kind thrived. Prints, drawings, and small sculpture from the period present an alternative vision in depictions of the inner worlds of emotions, anxieties, and fantasies. Mainly stored away rather than openly displayed by their owners, the works in this exhibition appealed to artists and audiences devoted to a private aesthetic experience. Peter Parshall, the Gallery's curator of old master prints, talks…
Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986–1995: A Conversation with the Photographer

13 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

>October 2009 - Sarah Greenough, senior curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and photographer Robert Bergman. Using a handheld 35mm camera and available light, American photographer Robert Bergman spent nearly a decade making a series of large color portraits that address not only his subjects' physical presence but also their psychic state. On the occasion of Bergman’s first solo exhibition, Greenough talks to the artist about his exceptional ability to reveal the common humanity of each of his subjects.
Hendrick ter Brugghen's "Bagpipe Player"

6 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

October 2009 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator, northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Dutch artist Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588–1629) is the most important of the Utrecht Caravaggisti, artists who traveled to Rome in the early decades of the 17th century, and who returned to Utrecht having embraced the radical stylistic and thematic ideas of Caravaggio. In this podcast produced on the occasion of a new acquisition, Wheelock talks to host Barbara Tempchin about Ter Brugghen's Bagpipe Player, the first painting of this stylistic group to enter the Gallery's…
Arshile Gorky: Ararat (Excerpts)

6 Oct 2009 | 6:00 am

Years after campaigns against minority Armenians in Turkey caused his family to disperse and his mother to die before his eyes, Gorky found a 1912 photograph taken in the city of Van upon which he based drawn and painted portraits of The Artist and His Mother. The video Ararat (Excerpts) investigates the fraught history of Gorky's lost childhood through his protracted work on the image of himself at age 12, standing beside his mother Shushan. Derived from the feature-length film Ararat written and directed by Academy Award®-nominated director Atom Egoyan.

tinku tales
Commissioning work

1 Nov 2009 | 8:26 am

I had an inquiry from a friend who was interested in a work from our Elena Popova show that is no longer available. We looked through several other pieces and nothing jumped out at her. At that point I suggested that she may want to consider commissioning a piece since she was keen to buy something from that particular artist. I remember when I was in my 20s, I had no idea that it was even an option to commission art. I should add here that there are artists who don't work on commissioned pieces, but for the most part, the artists I represent do. When I work with a collector on a commission,…
Save the date: The Art of Travel opening Nov. 6th

25 Oct 2009 | 6:08 pm

Mark your calendars for the final exhibition of 2009 at tinku gallery. The Art of Travel brings together the work of Suzanne Dell 'Orto, Lori Kent, Mike Piergrossi and Brigid Watson – four American artists who lived in Venice for a period in the 1990s. The show is inspired by the Alain de Botton book of the same name, in which he invites his readers to consider the notion of travel as a self-reflexive endeavour. This exhibit explores notions of memory, place and time through interior and exterior experiences that resonate with each artist and inform the way in which they move through the…
Sculptures: John T. Unger

19 Oct 2009 | 7:54 pm

Earlier this year I had a dinner party in the gallery. Yes, right inside the small, 400 sq.ft gallery I put up a dining room table for 12, set beautifully with works from ceramic artist Mary Anne Davis. I invited a diverse group of friends and we ate while passersby peeked in curiously. After a few drinks, the conversation turned to the question of what is art? A heated debate ensued over whether art needed to be functional or whether functional objects could be considered art. I was thinking of this when I was looking through the portfolio of John T. Unger, an artist known for his firebowls…
Ed Burtynsky: Oil

13 Oct 2009 | 6:04 pm

I spent Canadian Thanksgiving weekend in New York City, treating myself to a little getaway with a close friend. When I was last in NYC a couple of months back, I saw two blockbuster museum shows, but this time decided to just pop into a couple of galleries. Not just any galleries though. I went to the mothership, i.e. Gagosian Gallery* in Chelsea to see a piece by Takashi Murakami. It was my first time seeing Murakami's work in person and it didn't disappoint. On the surface, his paintings may appear like Hello Kitty on acid, but his work incorporate elements of Japanese mythology that…
The Art of Travel

7 Oct 2009 | 10:08 pm

When I was a teen my grandfather used to chuckle that I had fire under my feet, meaning I couldn't stay still. Flash forward 2 decades and not much has changed. In September alone I broke a personal record, traveling 70,000 km in 3 weeks (don't try this at home!) It's a strange feeling how one can zip from one country to another in a matter of hours. I often feeling like I am in a time machine, not an airplane. Given my love for travel and my love of art, it is fitting that the November show at the gallery is titled The Art of Travel. Guest curated by Brigid Watson, the show is inspired by…

Art of the Day
cast leaf2

6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

cast leaf2Elis Cooke
One Of Us Peed On Ur Carpet

6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

One Of Us Peed On Ur CarpetLeigh Elise Not sayin whooooooo. But it was mos definitly one of us. Now guess where! Ab ...read more
Red Tea Cup SOLD

6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

Red Tea Cup SOLDGwen Bell This is the first of 3 cups I'm doing for a commission. I've painted this one before ...read more
The Day Is Ending (Brodick Castle, Arran)

6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

The Day Is Ending (Brodick Castle, Arran)John Wright A view of Brodick Castle This was painted in pastels on pastel paper. It is not ...read more
Metal and Clay Snail Candle Holder

6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

Metal and Clay Snail Candle HolderChristina A Kapono I found this cool old metal Snail candle holder at the thrift store and brought him h ...read more

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Go See-New York: Marc Quinn ‘Iris’ at Mary Boone Gallery through December 19th 2009

rebeccaanne

6 Nov 2009 | 10:39 am

Iris (We share our chemistry with the stars) MQ 2801 (2009) by Marc Quinn, via Mary Boone Gallery Currently on view at Mary Boone Gallery is Iris, featuring new paintings by Marc Quinn. Each work depicts large renditions of the iris of the human eye spotted and permeated with bright colors. Such new works refer back to Quinn’s recurring themes of the body and identity, flesh and the spirit. The works examine the significance of the eye, which since Biblical times have been likened to representations of the soul. The works also recall earlier works by Quinn such as Self (1991), in…
AO On Site Auction Results – New York: Sotheby’s Impressionist/Modern Sale November 4, 2009 – “An Incredible Thing to Experience”

Jane

5 Nov 2009 | 3:17 pm

Jeune Arabe, Kees Van Dongen (1877) sold for $13.8 million – a new record for the artist In contrast to the slim pickings made available to buyers at Christie’s Modern and Impressionist Evening sale on November 3, last night’s sale at Sotheby’s offered many iconic works that had bidders excited and which resulted in an auction that Simon Shaw, Head of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department in New York described as “a shot in the arm for the art market. A real vote of confidence.” The evening’s auctioneer Tobias Meyer, Sotheby’s…
Go See – New York: Dan Flavin ‘Series and Progressions’ at David Zwirner through December 23rd 2009

rebeccaanne

5 Nov 2009 | 7:48 am

The Nominal Three (to William of Ockham) (1963) by Dan Flavin, via David Zwirner Now on view at David Zwirner in New York is the city’s biggest Dan Flavin show in over a decade. Last month the gallery announced that it would have exclusive rights over the Estate of the New York minimalist who died in 1996. Series and Progressions opens at David Zwirner’s West 19th Street complex in Chelsea on November 5th. Curated by Tiffany Bell, the exhibit reveals Flavin’s use of progressives and serial structures which the artist incorporated throughout his career. Press Release…
Newslinks for Wednesday November 4th, 2009

manan

4 Nov 2009 | 7:38 pm

Performa 09 party via Artinfo -To benefit Performa 09, party designer Jennifer Rubell invites 600 guests to “Creation” held at X Initiative in Chelsea in New York, where 3,600 drinking glasses, a pyramid of unshelled peanuts and 2,000 pound hillock of honey-soaked ribs were among the excess of food being served (Performa 09/ Food for Thought) [The Moment] -In related, To mark the start of Performa 09 MoMA invited Fischerspooner to stage a show (Performance Art Enters the Museum) [Artinfo] -In related, At Haunch of Venison in New York Marina Abramovich, Leandro Erlich, Mickalene…
AO on Site New York – Art for awareness, Lance Armstrong brings an impressive group of artists together for his Stages exhibition and auction, Art Observed was on site to speak to those involved

manan

4 Nov 2009 | 3:43 pm

Futura, Jules de Balincourt, Dustin Yellin, Eric White, Tom Sachs, Shepard Fairey, Jeffrey Deitch, Lance Armstrong, Mark Parker, Geoff McFetridge, José Parlá, Dzine posing in front of a painting by Cai Guo Qiang; photo courtesy of Black Frame A day before seven bicycles with frames designed by contemporary artists, and used by Lance Armstrong in his comeback season for July’s Tour de France, raised $1.3 million, an exhibition of artwork commissioned to benefit the legendary cyclist’s cancer foundation opened at Deitch Projects. Launched in Paris at Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin,…

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beau parlor

pve design

6 Nov 2009 | 3:00 am

pve design artwork, created for Eddie Ross for Rooms with a view ~ "The after"When I first moved to New York City, I was on an internship and needed a spot to live that would be 1. affordable as well as 2. clean. I lived at the "Webster" on 34th street which was both. For a mere $74 dollars a week, I had my own room and 3 squares a day. At breakfast I could pack up my lunch which would be a boiled egg, a yogurt and some fruit. Buffet style suited me just fine. Whenever a suitor would call, they were not allowed upstairs, only in these rooms which were referred to as "Beau Parlors" - I…
chick lit

pve design

5 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm

Each week, I make my trek to the local library and nearby "Second Hand" shop to see what might peak my inner chic. I found these wonderful lamps that I immediately thought of her.So, I rang her and told her that I thought of her and she said, oh, yes, send them my way.I can only imagine the chic shade that will be added to top off these little gems. The base would be lovely painted a high gloss blue or orange. They would be sweet on a book shelf or a slim entry table. Albert Hadley thinks that overhead lighting is a "tragedy." I would have to agree that small lamps are so chic. I brought them…
faux real

pve design

5 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am

Can you imagine these are "faux" real?My son came home with a bunch of friends and one boy asked if the fruit was "for real?"My son replied, no, we eat faux fruit here, it is much tastier and never goes bad. Gotta love teens!Love to win these sunny silk "faux fleurs" to add to my kitchen. They are created by these lovely ladies which this... blogger posted so graciously posted about. Sophie Dahy is going to select a winner and you can select your favorite bunch with $300 to spend. How good is that? Welcome to my kitchen which is a popular spot for our family as well as bunches of sunny…
ruff and ready

pve design

4 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am

17th century Anna Rosina Marquat sporting a "Ruff"If I could pick any time to travel to, I would want to go back in time to the 17th century purely for my very own fascination with nothing other than the "ruff." Back in the day of my Fashion History lessons, I learned how a ruff served a practical purpose, being that the wearer's dandruff would not show as well as protect one's clothing. The daily hair washing was non-existant. The "Ruff" workroomA ruff did limit freedom of movement, but I do quite love the look of one as well as having my very own case to stow it away. I am ready for a…
infinity

pve design

3 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am

Do you have anything in your wardrobe with infinite possibilities? This cashmere scarf has been calling out to me. I am off to look for a soft scrumptious Cashmere yarn like this fromhere. Lobster Pot Cashmere Yarn from purl soho,Lobster Pot cashmere in a lovely wintry whiteIt would be my modern day "ruff"Knitting with my circular needles which I refer to as "idiot's delight." A soft cozy scarf, no ends, just a loose circle to slip on and go places. Infinity and beyond. Do you have an infinity scarf?

Just Natasha
Fall in Washington

natashawescoat

6 Nov 2009 | 8:49 pm
Limited Edition of 30 Cat Speak II

natashawescoat

6 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm

Now taking orders for “Cat Speak II” one of the concept pieces to my new Black Cat series – Limited Ed of 30 signed 8×10 prints $40 - Send your request to art@natashawescoat.com and I will send you a Paypal invoice.
Art at auction

natashawescoat

5 Nov 2009 | 3:51 pm

IMAGINARY SOLSTICE Original 18×24 painting on gallery wrapped canvas $455 RUBY DRIFTER Original 22×28 painting on gallery wrapped canvas $375 OCHRE TUNDRA Original 22×28 painting on gallery wrapped canvas $400
New series being born

natashawescoat

3 Nov 2009 | 5:59 pm

Here are samples from concept art I’m working on for a new series, done in mixed media. Cat Speak 2 Black Cat Jig
$50 Art Requests

natashawescoat

3 Nov 2009 | 7:27 am

For $50 donations, I will create a small artwork illustration. Just send $50 to art@natashawescoat.com with your detailed request and I will create something fun, and I may broadcast the creation live on my Ustream.tv channel!

JazJaz
Chairwhore

Daniel

2 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am

No, no whores on this site. Just a lot (and I mean a lot) of chairs of all sizes and shapes. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: Wallets Made From Recycled Comic Books Virtual Modded Cars Video iPod leaked photos. Type Tray Protects Delicate Parts From Laptop’s Heat Top 10 List of the world’s fastest Cars TIWE – Cool Concept OLED Watch
Beat the recession!: Married To The Sea Webcomic

Daniel

30 Oct 2009 | 11:50 am

Someone should try this (no, you really shouldn’t!). More hilariousness here. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: The Secret Origins of Ada Lovelace – Comic Strip Killing Newspapers T-shirts Fight Club – Funny Comic Strip Drawing The Rooster Teeth Comic – Time Lapse Video A Day in the Life of Batman and Aquaman – Webcomic Time Traveler – Comic Strip From Married To The Sea
Weapons Carved into Wooden Desks

Daniel

30 Oct 2009 | 9:02 am

Just how good is this guy? The artworks of Ben Turnbull, a London-based artist, are a statement on “the contemporary American political system.” He takes familiar symbols from American pop culture, and subverts them to unsettle and provoke the viewer. The art of Ben Turnbull. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: X-Ray Art Gallery Of Albert Koetsier War is Terrorism – Street Art Vintage Menus and Brochures Flickr Gallery Vintage Cigarette Ads Underwater Sculpture Park Gallery Underwater Photography Gallery
Astro Boy Art By Ashley Wood

Daniel

29 Oct 2009 | 8:59 am

Just some of the wonderful art created by artist and illustrator Ashley Wood, for the official comic book based on the Astro Boy movie. [via Super Punch] Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: Wonder Woman and the Phallic Menace – Comic Book Covers Wonder Woman And The Doubles – Retro Comic Book Covers Watchmen – Condensed Version Created in MS Paint Wallets Made From Recycled Comic Books Ron Turner Pulp Cover Collection Retro Italian Adult Comic Book Covers Gallery
Video:What Does a Pickle And an OLED Display Have in Common?

Daniel

26 Oct 2009 | 8:12 am

Vladimir Bulovic, a professor at MIT, gives us a simple demonstration of how OLEDs work. By running an electrical current through an ordinary pickle! Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: Zune Phone – Microsoft’s Answer To The iPhone Zune Hack to make it a Portable Hard Drive. Youtube – Mahatma Gandhi Pole Dancing Video Underwater Armageddon – Nature’s Great Events Documentary TIWE – Cool Concept OLED Watch TinEye Image Search – Review

BoraMag - All Things Cool » Arts
When a song begins to form in my head…

BoraMag

31 Oct 2009 | 5:19 pm

A true innovator of electronic music, Imogen Heap. An interview… "When a song begins to form in my head, or if I’ve managed to pry it out of there, it does generally have a shape — just the broad strokes in terms of dynamic; where it’s going to pull and push. That’s its body. The other half is [finding] its heart. Does it get you? Does it actually make you feel anything after all the clever stuff? I’ve always been fascinated by people who, on an extreme level, experience this with color synesthesia. I’d love to work with someone who really…
Francine LeClercq Art

BoraMag

15 Oct 2009 | 7:04 pm

Large scale painting installation using thermochromic ink which allow the work to be perceived as monochrome or image depending on the temperature of the room and the proximity of the viewer. FRANCINE LECLERCQ 3:2 September 29 – October 24, 2009 SOHO2O CHELSEA GALLERY 511 West 25th Street, Suite 605 New York, NY 10001 The work consists of painted cells measuring 3 x 2 inches; 3:2 is the aspect ratio in photography now adopted for the LCD screens of digital devices such as the cameras, cell phones and the likes. They will fill the walls of Gallery II. The clear association is to our…
When Jean Paul Gaultier Meets Martin Solveig

BoraMag

20 Sep 2009 | 8:22 pm
The Disturbing Art Of Francis Bacon

BoraMag

12 Jun 2009 | 6:18 am

Up for seeing the works of a disturbed artist? I thought so. Head on over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Francis Bacon exhibit. His work has some serious shock value and you can see the impact on people just by watching their faces when they are looking at these pictures. One part Pan’s Labyrinth, one part The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, the creature-like characters in Francis Bacon’s paintings will surely freak you out. Related articles by Zemanta Art Review | Francis Bacon: If Paintings Had Voices, Francis Bacon’s Would Shriek (nytimes.com) Tragic Hero: A…
Sonar Festival Comes To NYC May 12th

BoraMag

5 May 2009 | 8:28 pm

Spain’s music, video and film festival Sonar is organizing a day of special concerts and performances in New York in a very unusual venue in the city, the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), with a top class line-up that combines multimedia art ideas with experimental electronica and latest generation pop, and which includes both Catalan and American artists. Sonar’s arrival in New York is thanks to a collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull, as part of the events entitled “Catalan Days: Music and Media from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. The SonarSound NY bill includes…

Arts & Animation Videos
balls 1° episode "the box"

6 Nov 2009 | 8:39 am

a funny video of balls... Blubby met a box...Author: ballsvideoKeywords: balls color funny animation 3D episode Added: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:39:45 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
Art Institutes Poster Design

6 Nov 2009 | 8:39 am

For high school seniors interested in pursuing a creative arts education, The Art Institutes announces The Art Institutes and Americans for the Arts Poster Design Competition, a program which awards up to a full-tuition scholarship to study at a participating Art Institutes school. To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/artinstitutes/40685/Author: multivuKeywords: The Art Institutes Poster Design Competition high school seniors student graphic design arts education scholarship Americans for the Arts 2010 MultiVu 40685 Added: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:39:20 GMTVideo…
Bank Of America in holland

6 Nov 2009 | 7:42 am

3d studio Jerobon50 animatie en films jerobon50@yahoo.com Tel: +31652600263Author: JEROBON50Keywords: Bank Of America in holland Added: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:42:30 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
Stu - Megablast by TOONDRA

6 Nov 2009 | 6:38 am

Experimental animation music video for Stu (8 bit and electro musician from Swizerland). Animation created by TOONDRA animation studio (www.toondra.ru)Author: satimKeywords: toondra stu megablast animation cartoon 8 bit music art experimental design creative flash Added: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:38:44 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
UP: 99 Red Balloons

6 Nov 2009 | 6:08 am

A short AMV I made of the movie Up to Nena's song 99 Red Balloons.Author: DannyAndSam4EVERKeywords: Disney Pixar 99 Luftballons Red Balloons Nena Added: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:08:38 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com

BOOOOOOOM!
Factory Magazine

jeffhamada

6 Nov 2009 | 3:05 am

People keep saying that print is dead, but amazing publications keep showing up at my door. Enter Factory Magazine. Keep your eye on these hooligans, Vancouver is exploding right now!
Lukasz Wierzbowski

jeffhamada

6 Nov 2009 | 2:50 am

More photos by Lukasz Wierzbowski.
Tyson Anthony Roberts

jeffhamada

6 Nov 2009 | 2:27 am

Paintings by Tyson Anthony Roberts. Seattle.
Yann Faucher

jeffhamada

6 Nov 2009 | 2:15 am

Photos by Yann Faucher.
Donny Nguyen

jeffhamada

5 Nov 2009 | 2:09 am

Sketches by Donny Nguyen. Toronto.

Sprayblog
Herakut live painting Berlin 08.10.09

Herakut live painting Berlin 08.10.09
Spraygraphic Featured Artist: Kara W.

Spraygraphic Featured Artist: Kara W. Kara W. is a talented Photographer and Artist from Mesa, Arizona. Her Creative Project Section is filled some really amazing photos and paintings. Check out her profile.
Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.2 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo. Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations
Koren Shadmi Artwork

Koren Shadmi's Artwork is amazing...check it
An Introduction to 16 Street Artists in Latin America

Paredes que Hablan :: Nunca from I.Sat on Vimeo. “Paredes que hablan” (Talking Walls) - An Introduction to 16 Street Artists in Latin America Produced by INJAUS for I SAT, “Paredes que hablan” (Talking Walls) its a series of sixteen short films showcasing street artist in three cities of Latin America: Sao ...

Slightly Lucid
Gabor Szilasi – Intérieurs couleurs

Aislinn Leggett

5 Nov 2009 | 9:32 am

© Gabor Szilasi - Maison mobile, chez Madame Perron, Les Éboulements, 1977 The colour interior series titled Intérieurs Couleurs 1976-1978 by Gabor Szilasi was also created in rural areas in Quebec. As I have said here before, interiors of people places are a fascination for me. And these images of 1977 are so amazing. This is a coincidence on my part, for choosing all the images taken in the same year – but happy I did. I find it highly interesting to view three different dwellings from the same year, same province, in towns that are in quite close proximity, which have such divers…
Gabor Szilasi – Le Québec Rural

Aislinn Leggett

4 Nov 2009 | 7:33 pm

© Gabor Szilasi - Jeanne Lessard, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, 1973 This work from Gabor Szilasi is from his series Le Québec Rural 1970-1976. This was probably a very interesting period to photograph, first because of the impact of the Quiet Revolution in 1960s and secondly because of the political flare in the 1970s. I believe this is an incredible series and the documentation extremely important for Canada’s history. This period in the province was significant and capturing these people in moments of their daily lives, the simplicity of the images along with the people seeming so…
Gabor Szilasi – The early years

Aislinn Leggett

3 Nov 2009 | 9:00 pm

© Gabor Szilasi. Lac Balaton, Hungary, 1954 These images are from Gabor Szilasi’s series Hongrie (Hungary) 1954-1956. The one above is a really stunning and beautiful image and one that was almost never printed. The anecdote about the image can be heard by Szilasi himself explaining his first thoughts of the shot in this short clip. Szilasi bought a Zorkij camera in 1952. Mostly self-taught, he photographed the everyday, his friends and his family and in 1956 documented the Hungarian Revolution. Shortly after he fled the country and immigrated to Canada in 1957. The beginnings of…
Gabor Szilasi – Prix Paul-Émile Borduas

Aislinn Leggett

2 Nov 2009 | 8:38 pm

© Gabor Szilasi - The Water Garden in early Morning mist, Giverney, summer, 1998. Image from Stephen Bulger Gallery This week I will be taking a look at Hungarian born, now Montreal based photographer Gabor Szilasi. His 50 years of photography work is now being celebrated in Montreal and Ottawa with a retrospective exhibit titled The Eloquence of the Everyday. Not only is Mr. Szilasi’s work being admired through art institutes but he has also recently won the Paul-Émile Borduas Prize. This is a very prestigious prize in Quebec named after one of the most renowned painters from Quebec…
November Inspirations

Aislinn Leggett

2 Nov 2009 | 9:30 am

Beginning of November is here – time for a short link list of current inspirations. Women in Photography is a curated website by Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips and a project of the Humble Arts Foundation. This site is a great resource to find and view works by talented, established and emerging, women photographers. Not trying to rush through, the team does bi-monthly posts. Giving time for the viewer to appreciate the work exhibited. Prison Photography is a blog about the practice of photography in sites of incarceration by Pete Brook. I find this blog really interesting because of such…

Reckon | The Whole World's a Stage
Douglas Gibb Morton Douglas Gibb Morton: 1926-2004. Part of the...

6 Nov 2009 | 11:08 pm

Douglas Gibb Morton Douglas Gibb Morton: 1926-2004. Part of the Regina Five, which helped the development of Abstract Art in Canada.
Levi van Veluw

6 Nov 2009 | 7:17 pm

Levi van Veluw
Levi van Veluw

6 Nov 2009 | 7:07 pm

Levi van Veluw
Craftzine.com blog : Erwin Wurm’s Gulp Erwin Wurm is...

6 Nov 2009 | 6:43 pm

Craftzine.com blog : Erwin Wurm’s Gulp Erwin Wurm is one of my favorite contemporary artists. He often uses people and clothing in his work, either as models for photographs or molds for sculptures. His work is often funny, silly, while at the same time awkward and unsettling. This one’s called Gulp. [via VVORK]
Art of Projection Art of Projection, edited by Stan Douglas and...

6 Nov 2009 | 3:53 pm

Art of Projection Art of Projection, edited by Stan Douglas and Christopher Eamon. Art of Projection investigates the historical and contemporary use of projected images in art, from the screen to the exhibition space and back again. Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, Mieke Bal and Beatriz Columina, address precedents for the projection of images in space, including nineteenth-century magic lantern shows and the novel spatial/temporal representations pioneered by Surrealist and experimental filmmakers during the early and mid-twentieth century.

The Stickley Museum At Craftsman Farms
Must-See In Morris County

Travel Everywhere! discusses the Must-See Museums in Morris County, NJ, including the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms: Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms is the only house Gustav Stickley, the foremost spokesman for the American Arts and Crafts Movement, designed and built for himself. Stickley, known for his Mission furniture, revolutionized American ...
Ernest Gimson and the Inspiration of William Morris

Join us for this fascinating lecture by Mary Greensted at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 10 at the Grolier Club. Mary Greensted’s talk will examine the influence of William Morris, father-figure of the Arts and Crafts movement, on the ideas and work of one of the most important British ...
A Conversation on Art Pottery

We are pleased to announce a special opportunity for Stickley Museum members. Show your current Stickley Museum membership card for a $10 discount on A Centennial Conversation: Art Pottery Discovery Day, a special educational program featuring David Rago, Suzanne Perrault and Decorative Arts Curator Ulysses Grant Dietz. The event ...
More Photos Of The Farms

Flickr member AbbyB recently added a collection of amazing photos of Craftsman Farms! This may be my favorite: Originally uploaded by AbbyB. as part of Craftsmen Farm - a set on Flickr Don't forget, you can always share your own photos or browse pictures of the Farms online in our Flickr group.
Stickley Museum Hosts Book Launch Reception and Lecture

The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms is hosting a Fall Members’ Reception and Book Launch for the new edition of Gustav Stickley’s Craftsman Farms: A Pictorial History, on Saturday, October 24, 4:00 p.m. This edition was funded by a special project grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission. The book was ...

Clifford the Big Read Blog
That’s it. No More Marvels.

Clifford

27 Oct 2009 | 5:45 am

For the most part, I don’t buy monthly books anymore. I usually wait till the trade paperback comes out. Partly this is a reaction to the way comics are being market driven, as opposed to story driven these days. By market driven, I’m refereing to the endless diarrheal stream of non-stop multi-book royal Mongolian clusterfuck cross-overs coming from Marvel and DC of late. Case in point… I pointed out to Brian, my friendly neighborhood comic shop owner, thata I wasn’t buying any Marvel comics. I’d heard some good things about Nova and asked about it. I really like…
Valiant Comics – My Story

Clifford

6 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

I came into Valiant Comics in mid 1992, and was there while it was one of the was one of the largest companies in the American comic book market (going on to sell more than 80 million comic books in its first five years). My route to Valiant was a somewhat circuitous one. I’d just sold Starchilde Publications, the company through which I’d been publishing my role playing game, Justifiers RPG. Though the new company had kept me on, along with my friend and collaborator James Perham, they were struggling and paychecks were not what you’d call regular. James and I had a mutual…
DC Comics | As The Lemmings Get Into Their Starting Blocks…

Clifford

6 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

Well according to this LA Times article, the parent company of DC Comics has reacted to the Marvel Comics sale to Disney with a typical panicked response. Yes, we’re number two, we’ve been number two for a long time now, and Disney just laid a bunch of cash on our biggest competitor. So what do we do? Restructure the company and put people in charge who have no comics experience whatsoever. Really? The Harry Potter lady? This is the best you can come up with for revamping your corporate structure? I shouldn’t be surprised though. The last time DC felt threatened by Marvel…
The Idea (Courtesy of Alan Moore)

Clifford

5 Oct 2009 | 9:00 am

I picked up Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics today at Detroit Comics. This is a great treatise on writing for comics specifically and a fairly damning critique of current comics in general. At least where comics is concerned, Moore seems to endorse Sturgeon’s Revelation, “90% of everything is crud.” Before I was out of the first chapter, I had a revelation of my own. Moore’s presentation of his workflow includes an explanation of the importance of the idea, an underlying premise on which the story is built. The idea is completely distinct from, but integral to the…
WTF is Wrong with DC? Public Enemies – Batman & Superman

Clifford

30 Sep 2009 | 10:49 am

Public Enemies is the latest straight to DVD animated film featuring the iconic Superman/Batman team. While I personally find the story a little reminiscent of the last season of Justice League, its good to see the Bruce Timm style animation. All the great voice actors we’ve come to associate with these roles are back to, Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor, Kevin Conroy as Batman. The interplay between the characters, the big blue boy-scout caught on the outs with the law and forced to go underground with Batman. There’s a lot to chew on here, but Wired Magazine offers a lengthy review of…

Art News Blog
Questions and Answers

31 Oct 2009 | 7:04 am

I was asked a few questions by a student journalist at City University London recently..1) First of all can you tell me a little bit about your work? What themes do you explore in your art and why? What do you strive to achieve through it?I basically just paint what I want, how I want. I have no social or moral message to give. I stopped selling paintings 18 months or more ago, with no intention to start selling again until I can no longer fit in my house, which has brought about a change in how I see painting. I'm now thinking more about conceptual art and looking at ideas more than thinking…
Artnear iPhone Application

26 Oct 2009 | 8:04 pm

I can't honestly say how useful this application is as I don't own an iPhone, but it sounds like a good idea. It's a free application (I believe there is also a pro version for a small fee) available from iTunes which guides you to art museums, exhibitions and galleries around the world. If it does what it's supposed to do it would be a must have for art travelers."Admittedly, we are still missing lots of info, but already have over 12,000 artists and 2600 galleries in our system - but we can only be as good as the people who provide us the info... Anyway, we developed this tool to make…
Basquiat - The Lost Prince

23 Oct 2009 | 6:42 am

Basquiat is my favorite movie about an artist.It's hard to make a good artist look interesting as they're usually just working.
Why do we Make Art?

22 Oct 2009 | 10:22 pm

I sometimes wonder why? What's the point? Why make art at all?It's usually only after days like today, days that are physically, mentally and emotionally draining.Everything will be alright tomorrow.
Damien Hirst Shop

19 Oct 2009 | 8:34 pm

I'm susbcribed to a whole bunch of newsletters and am bombarded with all kinds of promotional emails, most of which I never open. But one that I always open is from Other Criteria. It is a collective of artists, pushing all kinds of limited editions, prints, and publications, but I really only look at what Damien Hirst is selling.I find the man endlessly fascinating. How can a man that sells deckchairs and clocks still pull off auction sales like he does? I'm sure I'll tire of him someday and hate him for what he's doing to art, but that day hasn't come yet. I still love him, even if I don't…

New Art
Anonymous. 3 works by Armin Rohr

3 Nov 2009 | 1:53 pm

I can't get these pictures out of my head.Especially the last one is mesmerizing. Is it peaceful? Mysterious? Haunting? Creepy? Brutal?The mass in the first two paintings that makes up a threatening, or at least disquieting block, is here replaced by three distinct figures. The space is neither claustrophobic, as in the first one, nor agoraphobic, as could be claimed about the second (notice the ceiling moving up above the horizontal line that "closes" the picture). In the third picture, the space is abstract. It is the water we often feel is the closest to the sky. So what's the matter?
If You Want To Cry

1 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pm

...cry to this.My Mother, My Son by Mary FreyAnd another one, less obvious, but no less gorgeous - Bathroom Landscape:Every once in a while the question comes back lurking: are there things that are not to be shown? Or rather: not to be worked at? Do you imagine this - a woman standing in the room with a camera, waiting for the right moment so she can take a picture of her son carrying her mother? Hold her up just a bit honey... Just a little more...And yet, this is one of the most touching pictures I have seen in quite a while.(via)
Zoonoia

1 Nov 2009 | 4:00 am

From the crazy guys at Koerner Union comes the most original dog portrait of 2008:...and the most unappealing digital album of 2007 - Ready Made. Which is also an accomplishment of sorts.
In A Sentimental Mood

27 Oct 2009 | 5:02 am

Sonnet 44If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,Injurious distance should not stop my way;For then despite of space I would be brought,From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.No matter then although my foot did standUpon the farthest earth removed from thee;For nimble thought can jump both sea and landAs soon as think the place where he would be.But, ah, thought kills me that I am not thought,To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,But that, so much of earth and water wrought,I must attend time's leisure with my moan,Receiving nought by elements so slow,But heavy tears,…
Workingg

26 Oct 2009 | 8:45 am

Just so you don't think I'm ignoring you - check out some great projects by Marc Kremers:As found, a site with images found on the net... Fantastic.The wonderfuly anarchist Tex Server.And some of Marc's animations can be found here.

NEWSgrist
VendorBar @ Editions | Artists’ Books Fair, X-Initiative, Nov. 5th - 8th, 2009

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:59 am

Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn announce VendorBar, our newest curatorial endeavor hosted by the Editions | Artists’ Books Fair 2009 Nov. 5th - 8th, 2009. VendorBar presents artists who will directly engage the public by presenting actions, exchanges and services that result in the production and distribution of artists editions made specifically for the event. As part of this year’s “E|AB’09 Special Events” series, VendorBar offers a unique site where interaction supersedes transaction. PARTICIPATING ARTISTSARTifariti - Western Sahara Collective, Andrea Beeman & Ken…
Call For Artists: Postcards From The Edge Benefit 2010

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:39 am

Postcards From the Edge benefit for Visual AIDS Hosted by ZieherSmith, NYC DEADLINE: Thursday, December 10, 2009 Visual AIDS invites artists to donate a 4" x 6" original work on paper for our 12th annual Postcards From the Edge benefit. Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and mixed media are all welcome. Artists must be 18 years or older to participate. Only one entry per artist. Postcards From The Edge is an exhibition and benefit sale of original postcard-sized works of art by established and emerging artists. All works are exhibited anonymously, and the identity of the artist is…
Christina McPhee's Poetics of the Partial

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:21 am

TESSERAE HOT PINK CALI AQUEDUCT, 2009, HD video still. Total running time: 5 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. West Coast artist Christina McPhee, recently interviewed in the BOMB Magazine blog: Interview: Christina McPhee By Melissa PotterThroughout the ’80s, Christina McPhee used drawing and painting to investigate landscape and its relationship to time through work at archaeological and geological sites. By the mid-’90s, she began new media explorations of human technology and the environment by mining traumatic memory patterns and what they might uncover about geomorphologies in sites…
KERPLOW! Powhida on Cover of Brooklyn Rail

joy garnett

4 Nov 2009 | 6:07 am

via MAN: Artist William Powhida on the NuMu's "suicide" New York-based artist William Powhida, who frequently satirizes art world figures and conventions in his art, has taken on the New Museum's "suicide" in his latest work. Excerpted above, Powhida's drawing details "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality," and includes James Wagner, Lisa Phillips, Marcia Tucker, Jeff Koons, and plenty of others who are somehow engaged in the NuMu's self-injury. You can see the drawing here at Powhida's website (click on it for a high-res image). New Yorkers will see it on the cover of the next…
Closings (East Village) 184

joy garnett

2 Nov 2009 | 10:23 am

Closings (East Village) 184, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).

ArtReview.com
Donatella Giordano added a photo:

7 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am

Donatella Giordano added a photo: Donatella Giordano-Trance
nicola di caprio's profile changed

6 Nov 2009 | 11:56 pm

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W.T.Richards left a comment for Monesque

6 Nov 2009 | 11:54 pm

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alison williams commented on the group HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT
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ArtsJournal.com
Time To Close The Rock Hall Of Fame?

6 Nov 2009 | 7:48 am

"The Hall of Fame is a notoriously top-down institution, with an elite group of insiders making up a nominating committee that pre-selects their own idiosyncratic idea of the worthy candidates. So all of us lowly peons are only allowed to vote for 5 out of 12 possible candidates, which judging from this year's nominees makes for slim pickings."...
The Bookless Libraries?

6 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am

"The scientists have mostly gone online with their library needs. Cutting-edge scholars in the humanities are building new disciplines and online environments are are, in effect, libraries themselves; they are diffuse, collaborative, non-hierarchical, always changing."...
The Future Of College

6 Nov 2009 | 7:43 am

"What is the future of this thing called college? What became quickly and painfully obvious in their deliberations is that the center will not hold. In something of an irony, higher education leaders acknowledged here Thursday that the very system that put them in the position to run the nation's colleges and universities is no longer fit to groom their successors or the rest of the U.S. work force."...
EU To Give Teeniest Tiniest Protection To Those Accused Of Illegally Downloading Media

6 Nov 2009 | 7:32 am

"Some members of the European Parliament felt nobody should lose their connection until after they had been prosecuted in a court for illegally downloading content. The new rules take the form of an amendment to a much wider revision of all Europe's telecoms regulations."...
Pianists As Super Heroes (Okay, Virtuosos, Then)

6 Nov 2009 | 7:25 am

"Today's virtuosos and super-virtuosos are reluctant members of the club. Many of the younger generation are shunning the repertoire and the older ones are shunning the label. So why are pianists wary of being associated with this tradition?"...

Artworld Salon
An artists speaks out against neo-orientalism

Jonathan T. D. Neil

3 Nov 2009 | 5:10 pm

In the wake of the October auctions in London, Kamrooz Aram wrote a piece about the appendage of “Arab and Iranian” artists to Sotheby’s sale of Contemporary Art (full disclosure: I assisted Aram in the editing of his piece and ushered it up online). Aram rightly points out that this was of course not the first time an auction house or other outlets have used ethnicity as a means to promote a broad spectrum of art works which might otherwise bear no connection to one another; nevertheless, it was the first time that one of Aram’s works had been put up in such an…
Artoon

Pablo Helguera

28 Oct 2009 | 6:54 am
Political nostalgia

The Transom

26 Oct 2009 | 6:15 am

Catherine Spaeth on Nancy Spero and political art: Nancy Spero’s death the Sunday before last invites reflection upon what it means for an artist to be politically engaged at this time. Today the New York artworld appears to be more at home with the post-feminism of Lisa Yuskavage, Marylin Minter and Vanessa Beecroft. It may well be that, above all, it is Nancy Spero’s importance in the history of political engagement and feminism for which she will be remembered. Her dismembered and spewing “female bombs” were a personal and unflinching personal protest of war. Before self-identified…
Saudades of a collection

Pablo Helguera

18 Oct 2009 | 11:09 pm

Only a few hours ago the art world learned of a tragic event: on Friday night nearly 2,000 works by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica perished in a fire. It is an incalculable loss of the work of someone who is increasingly recognized today as one of the most influential Latin American artists of the XXth Century. Although the actual number may be lower, the initial and estimate of the lost works was a mind-numbing 90% of Oiticica’s entire production. The collection at that moment was temporarily located in the house of Oiticica’s brother, Cesar Oiticica, because of a dispute between…
Let’s all pretend it’s all going to be OK

Ossian Ward in London

15 Oct 2009 | 6:24 am

Witnessing the first throngs of yet another busy fair opening, it’s odd to observe what a delicate house of cards this whole art world of ours is, not to mention that I am sat in the ironically flimsy tent of the Frieze Art Fair, this year given an even more precarious feel by a mysterious dent caused by Monika Sosnowska’s crash-landed sculpture which was removed from the roof before the opening (amazingly because the artist felt it looked too dishonest). Across town, away from the moneyed aisles of the fair (where everyone is kidding everyone else that it’s a good year) is an…

Modern Art Notes
See you Monday

5 Nov 2009 | 5:42 am

Back next week. Must look at art.
Five things I think I think

4 Nov 2009 | 5:12 am

1.) I enjoyed the reception to William Powhida's drawing about the problems at the New Museum. I was disappointed that several commenters/publications celebrated Powhida while completely missing the point: In the New York Press, Mike Spence asked if "this is just an example of one artist sounding off until he is brought into the circle." Well, no. This issue at this museum fits Powhida's interests and practice as perfectly as anything Powhida's uber-'menace' Zach Feuer might do. Flavorwire's Kelsey Keith declared that somehow Urs Fischer makes the ethical issues around showing private…
Artist William Powhida on the NuMu's "suicide"

3 Nov 2009 | 6:50 am

New York-based artist William Powhida, who frequently satirizes art world figures and conventions in his art, has taken on the New Museum's "suicide" in his latest work. Excerpted above, Powhida's drawing details "How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality," and includes James Wagner, Lisa Phillips, Marcia Tucker, Jeff Koons, and plenty of others who are somehow engaged in the NuMu's self-injury. You can see the drawing here at Powhida's website (click on it for a high-res image). New Yorkers will see it on the cover of the next Brooklyn Rail.Related: The next issue of The Art…
A season of books on Dorothea Lange

2 Nov 2009 | 8:07 am

In this week's New York Review of Books, Jonathan Raban examines two new books about Dorothea Lange: Linda Gordon's Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits is a biography and Anne Whiston Spirn's Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field is an in-depth look at Lange's experiences in 1939. Raban clearly has something he wants to say before he jumps into the books: His essay puts Lange's Farm Security Administration work in an interesting European-derived context... a context which he thinks is strangely (but appropriately) applicable to the American West. In a…
Weekend roundup

2 Nov 2009 | 5:04 am

The Globe's Sebastian Smee explains how Krzysztof Wodiczko is bringing the voices of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to the ICA Boston. Richard Lacayo examines Arshile Gorky in Philly in Time. Christopher Knight 'reads' R. Crumb's Bible at the Hammer.

Modern Art Obsession
MAO Art Buy of the Month.. by Catherine Opie only $650 !!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

1 Nov 2009 | 11:19 pm

OK.. this one if going to sellout very quickly. So act now.. or it will be gone. This is a photograph by a MAO favorite artist... Catherine Opie. You probably saw Catherine Opie's huge blockbuster solo show at the Guggenheim Museum last year, or bought her amazing photobook.. Catherine Opie American Photographer. Anyway.. Catherine Opie is possibly one of the most important American photographers of her generation, MAO frequently thinks of her as the Walker Evans of the 21st Century. No matter if you love her work or not.. every viewer MAO knows will certainly have something to say once…
Diane Arbus Photo Up for Auction at the Aperture Benefit!!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

29 Oct 2009 | 10:50 am

Diane Arbus Photo Up for Auction at the Aperture Benefit!! Check it out here... Yes.. so far this rare Diane Arbus photo has a current bid of only $1,750. Welcome to the Art Recession...That's too low to be believed!! So..one of the most important photographers in history has a photo for sale at Monday's Aperture Benefit auction. Can you ask for a better opportunity to add something amazing to your art collection? This is one of her very standard 14.25 in x 14.25 in, Gelatin Silver Prints made by photographer Neil Selkirk for the Arbus Estate. We've seen similar…
The Aperture Foundation Benefit and Art Auction is Coming!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

26 Oct 2009 | 9:11 pm

The Aperture Foundation Benefit and Auction is Coming! YES my little MAO-ettes.. one of the best art charities around is having their annual fund raising party. As every devoted MAO reader knows.. we can't do enough to support this charity. Tickets are still available..for both the Auction, and the Dinner.Here are the details... Aperture Foundation Benefit & Auction - Honoring Joel Meyerowitz, Howard Greenberg, and Susana Torruella LevalAuction Featuring works by Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, Atta Kim, Malick Sidibé, and moreMONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2009The Lighthouse, Chelsea…
Edward Burtynsky Photos.. Defied Recession Gravity

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

23 Oct 2009 | 7:45 am

Edward Burtynsky Photos.. Defied Recession Gravity. For those long time MAO readers.. it will come to no surprise that MAO is an avid fan of Canadian Photographer Edward Burtynsky. Yes.. we know.. Edward's work is big, colorful, over-hyped, straightforward, expensive, often pretty, very "corporate", safe, etc.. just about everything most fine art photography scholars and contemporary art snobs love to poke fun of.. but yes.. MAO loves his images. But.. here's a little secret.. The auction world LOVES Burtynsky Too!! So while photo auction results have been…
For Those Interested in Emerging Photographers... Here's the show for You!

MAO - Modern Art Obsession

19 Oct 2009 | 11:17 am

Emerging Photographer Show at the Randall Scott Gallery opens on Thursday. This is one not to miss. The show is curated by Art Blogger, Photolucida Juror, and totally crazed obsessed avid photo collector.. Ruben Natal-San Miguel... aka ArtMostFierce. Ruben has scoured the earth to share with us, his newest, hot, amazing photo art discoveries. So for those art collectors interested in the bleeding edge, inexpensive cutting edge of Art Photography and to find out who's going to be hot in 3 to 5 years.. you have to see this show. We're sure…

Art Market Blog
Web-Based Fine and Decorative Arts Personal Shopper Service Goes Live at NicForrest.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

6 Nov 2009 | 2:34 pm

I have been keeping you all in suspense for quite a while in relation to the big new project I have been working on over the last year. Finally I can announce the details of the project which you can see below: Nic Forrest – nicforrest.com For Immediate Release Web-Based Fine and Decorative Arts Personal Shopper Service Goes Live at NicForrest.com Sourcing Items of Fine and Decorative Art Made Easy with Launch of Innovative Global Online Personal Shopper Service for Discerning Interior Decorators London, November 6, 2009 — NicForrest.com is the home of a new global web-based fine and…
Zoo Art Fair 09 Fails to Deliver – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

1 Nov 2009 | 7:16 am

Zoo Art Fair 09 Fails to Deliver – artmarketblog.com This year’s Zoo art fair was a rather interesting event primarily because of the new venue which consisted of several disused Victorian warehouse buildings in London’s east end that were divided into three sections (Zones A, B and C). Unfortunately (in my opinion) Zoo were kicked out of their usual venue at the Royal Academy of Arts after London gallery Haunch of Venison leased the space. Zoo weren’t entirely to blame for the circumstances that they found themselves in and as much as I would like to say that they triumphed over…
Contemporary Art Bubble on DVD – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

26 Oct 2009 | 7:04 am

Contemporary Art Bubble on DVD – artmarketblog.com Since I wrote a post on the fantastic film ‘The Great Contemporary Art Bubble’ by art critic Ben Lewis in which Ben investigates the surprising boom in the worldwide contemporary art market, many people have emailed me asking where they can see the film. I am pleased to be able to inform all those people and anyone else interested in seeing the film that you can now purchase a 90 minute extended version of the documentary from Ben Lewis’s website for 14.99 pounds (€17.00 or US$24.00 each) plus £2.00 postage and…
Frieze Art Fair 09 Review – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

24 Oct 2009 | 7:31 am

Frieze Art Fair 09 Review – artmarketblog.com 'The Couple' by Louise Bourgeois Over the last month or so I have attented twelve art and antique fairs in London which have left me with plenty to write about and the need for a few days rest. Although the fairs themselves were frought with issues the general mood was positive and the outlook optimistic. Dealers have reported good sales in most cases and seem to be in a very optimistic frame of mind as the market continues to pick up. The biggest fair I attended was the Frieze Art Fair which is one of the most important contemporary…
Sir Francis Barry – The Forgotten British Master – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

17 Oct 2009 | 4:55 am

Sir Francis Barry – The Forgotten British Master – artmarketblog.com Victoire Feux d'Artifices, Moscow by Francis Barry One of the things that excites me more than anything else is discovering an artist who has not yet received the recognition that they deserve and having the opportunity to help that artist achieve the success that their work is worthy of receiving. Usually these artists are emerging contemporary artists who are just beginning their career as professional artists but I was recently introduced to the work of an artist who has been dead for almost 40 years –…

Making a Mark
Techie - Customize your art news

Katherine Tyrrell

6 Nov 2009 | 10:00 pm

I learned yesterday, courtesy of a tweet from Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team at Google, that it's possible to customise Google News to obtain news on very specific search terms.If you're... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The state of Technorati - and the blogosphere in 2009

Katherine Tyrrell

6 Nov 2009 | 5:29 am

Last month Technorati relaunched itself, messed up my blogs and issued another report on the state of the blogosphere. This is my perspective on why Technorati still needs to pull its socks upThe new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Louvre Museum in Paris

Katherine Tyrrell

5 Nov 2009 | 6:15 am

One of the museums I spent a lot of time in while in Paris was the Louvre Museum which is the most popular museum in the world.The Louvre is physically huge, its collection is very extensive - and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Shortlist for Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2009 announced

Katherine Tyrrell

4 Nov 2009 | 7:43 am

Images of the works shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2009copyright the artists / courtesy of Parker HarrisSix artists have been shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2009. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Making A Mark is now on Facebook

Katherine Tyrrell

3 Nov 2009 | 12:46 am

I'm giving Facebook another whirl. Two years ago I was deterred by their governance arrangements and slack attitude to certain activities and haven't been back for a very long while.However... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Two Coats of Paint
Sharon Horvath: Condensed visionary fictions

Sharon Butler

6 Nov 2009 | 5:36 am

Sharon Horvath, "Nightbed," 2002-09, dispersed pigment, ink and polymer on canvas, 70" x 76" Sharon Horvath, "About the Car," 2006-09, dispersed pigment, ink and polymer on canvas, 46" x 54." Sharon Horvath, "The Goodbye Door(2),"2007, dispersed pigment, ink and polymer on canvas, 22" x 30." In New York, award-winning art critic Jerry Saltz gives Sharon Horvath's show at Lori Bookstein a thumbs up. "The overlooked painter Sharon Horvath excels at creating condensed visionary fictions at small scale. In her new series, 'Parts of a World,' her crustily elegant depictions of maps, microcosms,…
Hyperallergic, Jason Andrew, Brooke Moyse, and me

Sharon Butler

5 Nov 2009 | 8:09 am

On Hrag Vartanian's new blog, Hyperallergic, I contributed a short interview with Jason Andrew this week about Jack Tworkov and the New York School. Andrew is the curator and archivist for the Estate of Jack Tworkov and was the mastermind behind the recent retrospective of Jack Tworkov’s work — the final show at the UBS Art Gallery. A prominent figure in the Bushwick art scene, Andrew is also the founding director of Norte Maar, which encourages, promotes, and supports collaborations in the arts. Go to Hyperallergic to read the interview. Brooke Moyse, "Forest M.E. 2009, oil on canvas, 60…
Seeing

Sharon Butler

5 Nov 2009 | 7:38 am

Matthew Miller, "Self Portrait," studio view, 2008, oil on canvas. Annie Wildey, details unknown. Phillip Thomas, details unknown. "Social Curiosities: Matthew Miller, Phillip Thomas, Annie Wildey," New York Academy of Art, New York, NY. Through Dec. 13, 2009. Paintings by the Academy's 2008/2009 fellowship recipients. The New York Academy of Art stresses perceptual study and traditional methods, so expect some finely crafted paintings. Brad Guarino, "An Imprecise Center of Gravity," 2009, oil on canvas, 48 x 90." "Brad Guarino: Man to Man," Jorgenson Auditorium at the University…
Tuymans booksigning at The Strand on Saturday

Sharon Butler

5 Nov 2009 | 5:49 am

Luc Tuymans will be signing copies of his new book, published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition on view now at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio. The show will travel to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Tuymans at The Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street, Saturday, November 7, 2-3:30 PM. Related posts: Luc Tuymans anticipates "steady sales" "It's like I don't know what I'm doing...and it's very strange"
Meredyth Sparks sampling constructivism

Sharon Butler

2 Nov 2009 | 10:49 am

Meredyth Sparks at Gallerie Frank Elbaz, installation view. Meredyth Sparks, "Extraction," 2009, digital scan, foil, glitter, digital print, 43.25"44.75" Lillian Davies reports in ArtForum that Meredyth Sparks, in her latest exhibition, “Everything We Have Loved Is Lost,” continues to pursue the gaps between the original and its repetition, referencing the work of Kazimir Malevich in much the same way she previously sampled images of 1970s cultural icons. "For 'Extraction,' 2009, a series of colorful, sparkling works, Sparks uses glitter, aluminum foil, and digital scans of these…

Studio Notes
We Take A Short Break

4 Nov 2009 | 12:38 pm

Artist Eric Cator just featured my work on a recent post on his blog, Paintblog and said some nice things about me. It always feels great to get positive feedback, especially in these times of uncertainty. His blog is a great resource of many artists whose work I was not familiar with, but nevertheless very impressive. I'm reminded that my little slice of the art-world is indeed, just that; a little slice. There's a whole big world of art out there, and if I don't put the effort to seek out what's new and exciting, I'll remain a little fish in a little pond. Which leads me to this question;…
Painting Tonally; More Figure

2 Nov 2009 | 8:06 am

Alexis, 14 x 11 inches, oil on linenThese were done this weekend. I was trying to think of what else I could tell you on this series of posts, and it occurred to me that breaking things down and offering small bits of wisdom (not my wisdom because I haven't any, but pieces of collective painting knowledge) like my last post, might be easier to digest than to go on and on about a broad and elusive topic like tonalism.So when my friend Don Hatfield called me up this weekend and told me that he was teaching a workshop in my neck of the woods and would I bring my easel and spend a couple of days…
Painting Tonally; The Figure again

30 Oct 2009 | 9:31 pm

Here's a little rule of thumb–and this is just a rule of thumb, not written in stone or anything– if your center of interest is in light, keep the shadows very simple. If your center of interest is in the shadow, keep the lit areas very simple.The sketch on the left is light dominant; all the action and subtleties happen in light, and nothing happens in shadow. The sketch on the right is shadow dominant. The good stuff happen in shadow, and the lit areas are kept very simple, devoid of any modeling.Whether the center of interest is in light or shadow is a decision you need to make before…
Painting Tonally; The Figure

29 Oct 2009 | 9:20 am

Lost in Thought, 18 x 14 inches, oil on canvasThis painting is available. Please email me for details.I'm posting this painting as a good example of a simple light-on-dark structure. Just like the light-on-dark carousel horse painting, the lit area is very light and the background very dark. There is very little reflected light, except where light is bouncing off of parts of the figure itself (compare cast shadow on her left thigh with the form shadow of her head, which receives no reflected light) There is virtually no ambient light. In the studio, there was actually plenty of ambient light…
Painting Tonally; The Figure

26 Oct 2009 | 4:31 pm

Tin Can Blues, 16 x 12, oil on linenThis is Mike. When the model didn't show up one night, he volunteered to sit for us. I handed him the guitar and asked him to just get comfortable. The environment was made up as I painted.If you're new to my blog, or even if you've been following it for a while, you may be surprised to see that I actually paint things other than trees and buildings. In fact, I love painting the figure; I just don't show them.But since we've been talking about painting tonally and moved from the landscape to urban structures to still lifes(arguable. but humor me), it seems…

Watercolor Artist Network
Creativity Workshop: Pour It On

F+W Publications, Inc.

5 Nov 2009 | 5:57 am

Pat San Soucie explains how she painted Bright Landscape (above; watermedia and crayon on paper, 30x22): "I wetted the entire surface before pouring red, yellow and blue acrylic mixes, then used aquarelle crayons to create circle and oval shapes. I also played with small dots of complementary colors, adding metallic pigments and scrubbing to accentuate tree shapes and ﬁeld forms. Additional contrasts of smoky grays added the ﬁnal touches."You'll find the artist's 10-step paint pouring demo in the December 2009 issue of Watercolor Artist. Create a rich, textural…
One Artist Retweets Her Way to a Free CD

F+W Publications, Inc.

30 Oct 2009 | 11:23 am

Last week, we rolled out our WCAwards program on our Twitter feed (@wcamag). Here's the deal: We tweet about special offers or deals we know about, you retweet the news, and then we enter you in a drawing for a free prize. We're really very excited about all of this because we LOVE giving away free stuff and once we realized that Twitter could give us a quick and easy way of giving away all manner of awesome Watercolor Artist swag, we were hooked on the idea. So, we're quite pleased to announce that artist, crafter and blogger, Verna Grant (@studiovee), is the winner of our…
5 Insider Tips for Entering Art Competitions

F+W Publications, Inc.

29 Oct 2009 | 8:18 am

In case you haven't heard, we wrapped up the judging of our Watermedia Showcase competition a few weeks ago (Sorry, no spoilers here. You're going to have to wait for the February issue to see the winners announced.), and just a few weeks before that, a colleague and I juried a local arts fair. In general, I love to jury shows. For one thing, I love looking at great art, plus shows are a great way to find new talent to feature in the magazine and gauge trends—Are there more abstracts than usual this year? Is mixed-watermedia still hot? As a juror, I always approach a competition…
All Media Art Competition

F+W Publications, Inc.

28 Oct 2009 | 6:41 am

If you missed the deadlines for our Watermedia Showcase Competition and you're still interested in earning recognition (and cash!) for your work, check out the latest competition sponsored by our sister title, the Artist's Magazine. Here are the deets on the All-Media Online Competition:PRIZES: Grand Prize Award: $500 7 First Place Awards: $100 each The Grand Prize winner and all 7 First Place Winners will receive complimentary subscriptions to The Artist's Magazine and $100 worth of North Light Books. Honorable Mentions receive complimentary subscriptions to The Artist's…
Notes from North Light: Your A to Z Guide to Watercolor

F+W Publications, Inc.

27 Oct 2009 | 8:14 am

A strong drawing will allow you to paint loose while still retaining a good likeness. Follow along with this advice for painting people from Grant Fuller's Watercolor A to Z: 1. Draw from reference, checking your proportions. 2. Wash the figure and background together, leaving areas of white paper for the lightest lights. 3. Work darker and smaller, strengthening shapes. 4. Finish sparingly, adding some details, but allowing the viewer's imagination to fill in the blanks. For those of you not familiar with this 2008 North Light book, you can learn more about Watercolor A to Z in…

An Artist's Journal
Another Work in Progress (Or Maybe Finished?)

Martha Marshall

6 Nov 2009 | 8:12 am

Untitled – Acrylic on Canvas, 12 x 12 x 1.5″ Looking at this painting on screen halfway convinces me it might be finished. Here it is in two of its previous incarnations, shown in two stages along with the five that I’ve been working on. I kind of like it. Sometimes when I “kind of” like something, it will grow on me. Maybe I’ll put this one aside for a while and think about it. But it does have the deep texture and sense of accumulation of layers over time that I like. Honestly, I would be doing all this in encaustic, but I just haven’t been able to…
More Autumn Colors in Paint and Photos

Martha Marshall

4 Nov 2009 | 8:41 am

Untitled and Unfinished – Acrylic on Canvas, 12 x 12″ This is another of the five works in progress from last week. Each one will now receive attention on its own, even though I started working on all of them together. I just need to resolve it compositionally in some way. But I do like where the colors are headed. More layers will unify it more. And here’s a little something from my camera again today. I am going crazy taking pictures of my new surroundings. We visited a friend’s cattle ranch at dusk on Monday, and here are some of the pictures from that visit. Please…
Autumn Colors

Martha Marshall

3 Nov 2009 | 7:57 am

The colors of autumn have always been a thrill for me. But they are especially wonderful this year, because it’s my first time in many years to live in an area where I can see them first hand. I loved these amazing orange leaves and tree skeleton against the most gorgeous blue sky. I played a bit with the image in the second and third frames. The leaves are already half gone from a lot of the trees. I know because they are all over my yard. Raking comes next. That I do remember.
Work In Progress

Martha Marshall

29 Oct 2009 | 3:44 pm

This is one of the five pieces that I’ve been working on. All are 12 x 12″ canvases. Everywhere you see white is Golden Pearlescent Glaze. Much to do on this one before I feel it’s a painting.
Ready for Halloween

Martha Marshall

28 Oct 2009 | 2:11 pm

Looks like our neighborhood is ready for Halloween . . . A view down our street with fall colors Our neighbor dog Lucy, who was rescued when she was following the garbage truck, skin and bones. She now has a rhinestone collar, but isn’t wearing it today. Our house Our front porch — click on the picture and look carefully at the screen opening for doggie noses and eyes. They’re ready too!

Kirsty Hall
Sequin Update

Kirsty

30 Oct 2009 | 10:46 am

Kirsty Hall: Back of Sequin Apron, Oct 2009 I’ve been working steadily on my sequin apron and it’s coming along; I’m trying to do at least an hour on it every single day and progress is being made but it’s just very s-l-o-w. I’m currently on the outside of the pocket and should get that finished this week. A few weeks ago I completed the inside of the pocket – a masochistic pursuit as it was awkward to sew and seemed to take forever but it was SO worth it. Kirsty Hall: Inside of Apron Pocket, Oct 2009 Kirsty Hall: Inside of Apron Pocket, Oct 2009 I find…
Review: Crush It!

Kirsty

20 Oct 2009 | 12:11 pm

I am not an entrepreneur, in fact, having spent the last seven years pretty much failing to make any money at my art, I’m kind of the opposite of an entrepreneur! Yet I loved Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk. I’ll say upfront that I’m a fan of Vaynerchuk – I find his enthusiasm completely infectious – and I liked this book. He is someone who tends to divide opinion but even if you normally find him a bit ‘over the top’, I’d recommend giving this book a go because his natural exuberance is somewhat restrained in print format. You could also read this…
Autumn Morning

Kirsty

15 Oct 2009 | 8:14 am

It’s very definitely autumn now, as evidenced by the first proper mist of the season on Tuesday. Kirsty Hall, Morning Mist, October 2009 This was the sight that made me run back inside for my camera! Isn’t this leaf just incredible – it looks as though it’s been gilded or sprayed with gold paint but it’s completely natural. Kirsty Hall, Leaf Turning Gold, October 2009 The spiders really pull out all the stops at this time of year. I am always astounded when I go out in the morning to find metres of silk spanning entire corners of the garden – how do they…
Facebook Fan Page

Kirsty

13 Oct 2009 | 6:32 am

In case you just can’t get enough of me, I’ve started a Facebook fan page for my art. I’m not quite sure what I’ll be doing with it yet but I’m trying to make it a little bit different from my Twitter and this blog, so that it’s worth joining. Tags: news
Ecstatic Moments

Kirsty

8 Oct 2009 | 9:37 am

I’m currently doing Alyson Stanfield’s Blast Off course. It’s challenging and intense but I’m finding it incredibly revealing and useful. One of the daily lessons was about reconnecting with what made us want to be artists in the first place. Here’s what I wrote on the subject: …………….. I’ve been thinking back to some of the ecstatic points in my life that made me an artist. 1. I would have been about 16 – 17. I was still in secondary school and we were taken on a visit to Glasgow university. I had some free time and went…

Skinesart.com
Hanguk girl mixmedia 2009

Sudjino

6 Nov 2009 | 4:43 am

Hanguk girl mixmedia 2009
This wasn’t planned very well

Melissa Graf

6 Nov 2009 | 4:43 am

This wasn’t planned very well; I expanded out from the head, and lost patience when it came to the water! (I also cropped some melted chocolate off at the top.)
The screen door

Rudat

6 Nov 2009 | 4:43 am

The screen door
Sketch of Inna. I used ArtPen Rotring

Nikira

6 Nov 2009 | 4:42 am

Sketch of Inna. I used ArtPen Rotring, filled ink converter with J.Herbin ink. May be I should try to color it in Photoshop?
This is also from a photo and I had tons of fun

roseindigo

6 Nov 2009 | 4:42 am

This is also from a photo and I had tons of fun doing the bricks with a small flat brush. Seems watercolor is ideal for that because you get the variation in color so easily, just like bricks have. Here you can see what is meant by “arrested state of decay” where they used some sort of caulking on the window panes instead of replacing them.

Art Print Issues
Why Higher Pricing Sells - Works Selling Fine Art

Barney Davey

3 Nov 2009 | 10:41 pm

(Every now and then, I like to repost information from outside sources that adds value to the conversation. I hope this helps you find a way to raise your fine art sale prices. Read the previous post to learn higher prices are working for Hazel Dooney. Cheers, Barney) Why Higher Pricing Sells - By Michael Masterson People like to feel superior. As a marketer, understanding this universal desire can help you do an awful lot of selling. By appealing to your prospects’ pride, you can persuade them to pay more — sometimes much more — than what you could get by appealing to any other…
Hazel Dooney: A Courageous Uncompromising and Successful Visual Artist

Barney Davey

1 Nov 2009 | 11:05 am

To get to know about Hazel Dooney is easy. She arguably is the most transparent artist, in regards to how she reveals her life and how it aligns with her art, one might encounter. If you take the time to read through her prolific revealing Self vs. Self blog, you will realize it is not easy to be Hazel Dooney. Not only does she live a transparent life, she also produces her work and conducts her business at a frenetic pace despite a bi-polar affliction that easily could be the reason for never achieving success or even trying for it. While the international success she has achieved…
Shhh! How to Sell Art with Silence

Barney Davey

18 Oct 2009 | 2:56 pm

Listen to a podcast of this post here Artists can discover lots of advice about marketing on this and other art business blogs. When it comes to finding ideas for direct methods to help sell art, not so much. Read on to get an easy-to-learn potent art sales technique. Attention-Interest-Desire & Action Lead to Sales. Whereas marketing is the activity that leads to art sales, selling begins when you pose closing questions to a potential buyer. By design, marketing draws attention, grabs interest and creates desire in a potential buyer. Selling moves the process from interest and…
How Lucky Do You Feel? - Global Climate Change Options

Barney Davey

14 Oct 2009 | 10:59 pm

Today is Blog Action Day. Along with 7,000 other bloggers, I have agreed to blog about Global Climate Change, the topic overwhelmingly chosen by participants. While I am inclined to believe it is more likely to be happening than not, I know some very smart people who believe it is a trumped up hoax. Like many Americans, if not most, you will find me concerned and in the middle on this and most thorny topics. In the case of global climate change, I am certain taking no action is wrong. I can't find fault with improving gas mileage, saving the rain forest, finding clean alternative fuels,…
Join Me at the 2010 SmARTist Telesummit

Barney Davey

13 Oct 2009 | 10:45 am

SIGN UP NOW to get on the Early Notification List about the 4th Annual SmARTist Telesummit in January. That way you will be first in line when registration opens mid-November! This year is slated to be the best yet to help you advance your art career! I will present "How to Use the Print Market to Create a Second Income." It's guranteed to be practical and informative. You will discover how dramatic changes in the market place have affected the art print market and what you can do to prosper from them. Click here to listen to the description of my presentation. Come join me there!

Lines and Colors
Peter de Séve (update)

Charley Parker

5 Nov 2009 | 7:52 pm

Peter de Séve, a terrific illustrator, New Yorker cover artist and character designer for animated feature films, who I wrote about back in 2006, has a new children’s book (Hooray!), a new blog (double Hooray!) and is the subject of a new monograph (triple Hooray!). The children’s book is The Duchess of Whimsey, written by his wife, Randall de Séve, the blog is called A Sketchy Past, the Art of Peter de Séve, and the monograph is titled the same, A Sketchy Past, the Art of Peter de Séve (look for the link to download a beautiful PDF preview of the book…
Butch Belair

Charley Parker

4 Nov 2009 | 4:41 pm

Butch Belair is a photographer and digital artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He indicates that he drew extensively as a child, but lost interest in drawing for a time and only returned to the practice a few years ago. He began to carry a pen and sketchbook and draw his surroundings, and has since added watercolor to his sketching materials. Belair says he considers drawing his form of meditation, an escape from the stresses of working, and devotes time to it whenever he can. His watercolor sketches of city scenes, particularly those of row homes or industrial and commercial structures, are…
Don Ivan Punchatz (1936-2009)

Charley Parker

2 Nov 2009 | 8:20 am

Don Ivan Punchatz was one of the outstanding talents in late 20th Century illustration. It’s unlikely that you have not seen his illustrations somewhere, whether on book covers or in magazines like Time, Newsweek, Playboy, Esquire, Rolling Stone, National Geographic or National Lampoon. Personally, I remember being struck by his cover illustrations for the Avon editions of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Punchatz had a versatile range, a solid command of painting technique, and a wild imagination. He particularly excelled at conceptual metaphor, carrying complex ideas through…
Donato Giancola paints “The Mechanic”

Charley Parker

31 Oct 2009 | 8:28 pm

Donato Giancola, the renowned science fiction and fantasy illustrator that I wrote about previously last year and in 2005, has a new instructional DVD (more details here), published by Massive Black Media, in which the camera follows him through the creation of “The Mechanic” (larger version here), an painting that was created specifically for the demonstration. While you might expect a painting developed for an instructional DVD to be more quickly realized than Giancola’s highly finessed professional work, he turns in a work worthy of the 18 Chesley Awards he has garnered,…
Jon Foster (update 2)

Charley Parker

29 Oct 2009 | 8:38 pm

Jon Foster, who I wrote about previously here and here, has a new web site. It is simultaneously wonderful and frustrating. It’s wonderful, of course, because it features even more of Foster’s elegant, painterly, and superbly accomplished illustrations, old and new; and now includes a terrific section of sketches. It’s frustrating because it simply doesn’t do justice to how good his paintings are. Size and resolution, as they often are in web galleries, are the limitation here. You can certainly get a taste by browsing through the site, but I have to emphasize that…

Art History Newsletter
Digitizing the Quran

From The Baltimore Sun: In a quiet, windowless room deep inside the Walters Art Museum, a digitization specialist places a 900-year-old Quran into the cradle of the Stokes Imaging System ... It's painstaking work, photographing one of the most important collections of Islamic manuscripts in North America, and slow. But scholars ...
Obituary: Claude Lévi-Strauss

From the AP: Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100 ... During his six-decade career, Levi-Strauss authored literary and anthropological classics including "Tristes Tropiques" (1955), "The Savage Mind" (1963) and "The Raw ...
Rose Debate Continues

Former Northwestern University dean Rudolph H. Weingartner and Princeton University Art Museum director James Christen Steward duel in the pages of Inside Higher Ed over the Rose Art Museum. Weingartner: ... I said to myself “good for them” when reports first surfaced last winter that Brandeis intended to sell its collection ...
Chicago Preview

CAA has posted online the paper titles for the Chicago conference (Feb 10-13). A few piqued our interest: "'Forget Bourriaud’: Queer Relationally and/as a Queer Aesthetics of Existence" “Interrogating Photography’s Indexical ‘Identity Crisis’" “Autofiction as Dissidence: Julius Koller's Extra-Terrestrial Alter Ego” “The Concept of Anukrti in Rasavada in Abhinavabharati” “Posthysterical: The Study of Comics ...
Joyce Hill Stoner

The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles conservator Joyce Hill Stoner: An art conservator who set up North America's first doctoral program in preservation studies, at the University of Delaware, has been named to a new chair in material culture, the study of societies' artifacts ... In 1990, Ms. Stoner set up ...

The Earthly Paradise
A New Arrival

5 Nov 2009 | 6:38 am

As some of you guessed from my last post, our lovely little girl arrived last Wednesday evening. She is an absolute treasure, as you can see!
Van Gogh on Babies

29 Oct 2009 | 6:38 am

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. If there is a "ray from on high," perhaps one can find it there. (Letter 242)Vincent Van Gogh
John Knight's Pre-Raphaelite Photography

22 Oct 2009 | 9:11 am

Photographer John Knight has a passion for the Pre-Raphaelites (and for vintage and fine art photography in general). Knight's specialty is the Art Deco period (his studio is actually called Art Deco Studio), but he began his work recreating Pre-Raphaelite images after using two models he felt strongly resembled Jane Morris and Lizzie Siddal. Since then, Knight has recreated a number of iconic Pre-Raphaelite images for modern audiences. And here we have John Knight's photographic interpretation of the painting: Of course, Knight uses a great deal of image editing software in order to…
Leonardo da Vinci's Fingerprint Discovered on Painting

15 Oct 2009 | 8:41 am

Last year I did a post about a debate raging over whether or not the painting The Marriage Portrait of a Young Woman (pictured above) was an original Leonardo da Vinci. One year later and the controversy is far from over. The battle is still raging among art experts over whether or not the painting is actually by da Vinci. Most recently, a lab in Paris has discovered a fingerprint in the upper left hand corner that appears to belong to Leonardo da Vinci(it kind of surprises me that they are not able to tell definitively if the fingerprint matches - especially with all that pricey forensic…
Memphis Brooks Museum Hosts "Masterpieces from Museo de Arte de Ponce"

8 Oct 2009 | 10:49 am

Now through January 10, 2010, the Memphis Brooks Museum will be hosting an exhibit of 56 paintings entitled "Masterpieces from Museo de Arte de Ponce." The Museo de Arte de Ponce is well-known for it's spectacular Pre-Raphaelite collection, which will be featured prominently in this exhibition. However, the show will also feature paintings from a number of different periods, and includes works from Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens and the Belle Époque master James TissotThe Brooks Museum has a couple of events on October 15, 2009 to celebrate the collection, including a "Tea and Tour" from…

Dali House
Booga-booga!

Dorseyland

30 Oct 2009 | 5:30 pm

Relax, kids, it’s only Granddad’s gas mask from the Great War! Halloween was a lot more fun back in the olden days when they could make scary stuff out of such authentic materials as elephant ivory, not that the elephants ever raised any objection to plastic once it was invented. This ivory model of a skull has a cylinder at the base that family physicians pushed to activate the eyes, tongue and lower jaw and demonstrate what was wrong with family members’ heads — and to scare the daylights out of everyone. It’s one of those historical artefacts now regarded as…
Hurry up, Hallowe’en, Part 3

Dorseyland

20 Oct 2009 | 8:11 am

Werewolves! Seen ‘em with my own eyes!
That guy on the Net

Dorseyland

16 Oct 2009 | 6:50 am

Unless you read Russian, Alex Andreev may be destined to be one of those modern artists who thrives on cyber-fame, but on the strength of his images alone. Someone, most likely the busy webmaster at the photo factory EnglishRussia.com, posted a pile of Andreev’s pictures and they went viral, but unfortunately no one’s been able or willing to produce more information about the artist or his technique. Andreev’s very clever website is packed with creativity in several genres, but it’s resolutely in Russian, and who’s going to trust the online translators to tackle…
Digging up and dusting off Poe

Dorseyland

10 Oct 2009 | 7:26 pm

I see the City of Baltimore is burying Edgar Allan Poe again today, which might confirm the common wisdom that you can’t keep a good man down except that it’s the city that keeps digging him up every year. He’s still decent tourist bait in that economy-throttled town. And who could blame them even if it were just for fun (which it also is)? Poe is dear to many readers’ hearts, including mine. Last year I tracked his final meanderings up and down the US Eastern Seaboard on Google Earth, wrote it all up and posted it on my personal blog, Dorseyland, with my own…
Skying and sighing with John Constable

Dorseyland

3 Oct 2009 | 6:20 am

“Storm Clouds over Hampstead” When last we saw John Constable, he was sitting nervously in the waiting room at Sotheby’s this past July, next to JMW Turner, both of them fingering paintings of theirs that were up for bids. Turner had every reason to lack confidence in his unsaleable watercolour, as explained in this post, but it sold for a very handsome price. No one wanted Constable’s cloud study, though — at least not for the envisioned haul of £300,000 to £500,000. A shame: His views of clouds, though never intended for exhibition, are pensive yet full of…

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Guggenheim Announces Short List for the Hugo Boss Prize 2010 by staff

6 Nov 2009 | 6:41 am

“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS AG have announced the short list for the Hugo Boss Prize 2010. Established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art, this biennial award is administered by the foundation and juried by an international panel of museum directors, curators, and critics. The finalists for the eighth presentation of the prize are Cao Fei, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Given to an artist whose work represents a significant development in contemporary art, the…
Thanks for the Memories - Sotheby’s to Sell a Gift by Warhol by staff

6 Nov 2009 | 6:39 am

“One spring day in 1965, during her senior year in high school, Cathy Naso, a wide-eyed girl from Brooklyn, stepped off a dingy freight elevator and into Andy Warhol’s legendary Factory. Though she was there to write about Warhol for a French class assignment, as fate would have it, the Factory needed receptionists. So, much to her surprise, she and several classmates were enlisted. “I went there with a friend to do an interview, and suddenly we were the ones being interviewed by Ondine,” Ms. Naso said, referring to the actor who was a regular at the Factory.” ...
Play With Fire�Festival

5 Nov 2009 | 7:01 am

Picked for: 2009-11-07Coming from as far as Italy, Switzerland and Germany these artists are celebrating the breadth and depth of video possibilities through art. @Harvestworks in SoHo Saturday!
Christie's Amasses $65.67 Million in a Sparse Impressionist Sale by staff

4 Nov 2009 | 5:33 pm

“Christie’s scored beyond all hope on Tuesday night in a sale of Impressionist and Modern art that was alarmingly thin. Of the 40 paintings and sculptures offered, 28 realized an aggregate $65.67 million. In a market starved for goods, the modest signs of an apparent economic recovery in the United States stimulated art buyers. Artists represented by works currently in high demand consistently exceeded expectations.” ... Contributed by Danielle Mund
Off the Wall: White House Drops Painting by staff

4 Nov 2009 | 5:30 pm

“As Heidi Klum repeatedly and sternly intones on “Project Runway,” speaking of the fashion world: “One day you’re in and the next day – you’re out.” The same might be said of art, even, it turns out, at the White House. ARTnews has reported that the White House has quietly de-listed a painting by Alma W. Thomas that it chose last month, among some 45 pieces borrowed from several Washington museums, to decorate the private White House residence and the West and East Wings.” ... Contributed by Danielle Mund

Culture Monster
Broadway's 'Spider-Man' gets a new producer, leading man -- but still no opening date

David Ng

6 Nov 2009 | 4:09 pm

Has "Spider-Man" been rescued from its own financial mess? On the heels of reports that the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" faces significant financial obstacles and may not even open, promoters of the troubled Broadway production have announced a new producer as well as a leading man. A Friday afternoon press release announced that rock impresario Michael Cohl has joined the team as lead producer. It also stated that Jeremiah J. Harris, who was already announced as a producer, has taken the role of second producer on the show. Cohl is a veteran producer and…
Louis Prima's widow speaks out against 'Louis & Keely' musical

David Ng

6 Nov 2009 | 4:03 pm

The stage musical “Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara” has been a runaway hit with critics and audiences since opening in Los Angeles more than a year ago. It extended its run seven times at the Geffen Playhouse and is scheduled to go on a national tour next year. But one key person is not happy with the show. The widow of legendary Las Vegas crooner Louis Prima has come out against the biographical musical, saying that the production is “almost 100% falsehoods” and a “totally untrue, disrespectful, hatchet job” of her late husband. In a statement issued Friday, Gia Maione…
In New York, City Opera tries to turn a page

Kelly Scott

6 Nov 2009 | 4:00 pm

If judged only by the Dom Perignon flowing in the lobby and the American melodies flowing from the stage last night at the State Theatre -- which for the next 50 years, it was announced, will be named “The David H. Koch Theatre” -- New York City Opera would appear to be back in business. The real test will be this weekend, when City Opera has to get down to business and earn its audience back with two productions of full operas, “Esther” on Saturday night and “Don Giovanni” on Sunday afternoon. The “People’s Opera,” as the company is sometimes called, has had a rough two…
Dudamel tackles Verdi's Requiem

Mark Swed

6 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm

Gustavo Dudamel is back in town, and Thursday night he conducted a magnificently theatrical performance of Verdi’s Requiem that felt like his first real concert as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. All Los Angeles, of course, knows that last month Dudamel began his tenure with a free event at the Hollywood Bowl, and that was followed by nervous-making high-profile programs in Walt Disney Concert Hall the next week. But now that the media feeding frenzy has somewhat died down, and he has been away for three weeks, Dudamel has returned to Disney for a month of relatively…
Art review: Jeanne Silverthorne at Shoshana Wayne Gallery

Jennifer James

6 Nov 2009 | 2:00 pm

Rubber can be a funny material. It’s bouncy and used to make things like whoopee cushions and rubber chickens. Jeanne Silverthorne takes advantage of these associations to poke fun at artistic genius by reproducing its hallowed site — the studio — almost entirely out of rubber. At Shoshana Wayne Gallery , the installation includes a faux-wood patterned rubber chair and easel, a trash can full of rubber light bulbs, several rubber shipping crates and of course, rubber plants, complete with ambitious rubber ants. Silverthorne seems to exhort us not to take art so seriously, but her…

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Small Thoughts, Big Ideas

Michele Adriaens

5 Nov 2009 | 6:51 pm

What do you get when you release 15 accomplished industrial designers from their strict corporate guidelines; and give them permission to “design anything they want”? To find out, visit the “Small Thoughts, Big Ideas” exhibition, held at The Arts House, from 20-29th November. Known as The Little Thoughts Group, the participating designers are practicing professionals, working for electronic, automotive, computer, furniture, sports and other companies – in Singapore as well as various parts of Asia. Their work is the expression of their different backgrounds and deeply personal…
Spectra-Bailaesta

Michele Adriaens

4 Nov 2009 | 4:55 am

Witness the beauty of dance represented by colours in the form of energy, creativity, originality and vigour in this festival of dance (Bailar+Fiesta)! Spectra-Bailaesta is a kaleidoscopic showcase of a hybrid of dance featuring modern contemporary and Asian ethnic dance by young dance talents along with young and aspiring choreographers and experienced dance artists. Featuring choreography by Peter Gn, SPROUTS competition winner Gianti Gaidi and finalist Khairul Shahrin Johry (Maya Dance Theatre), Arvind Naidu, Zulfikar Ali, Sufri Juwahir, Ajith Bhaskaran Das from Suvarna Fine Arts…
Jon Chong’s “State Of My Mind”

Michele Adriaens

2 Nov 2009 | 8:01 am

One could never imagine 29-year old Jon Chong, who holds an Engineering PhD from the NUS and SMA, as the latest aspiring singer songwriter to hit the scene, releasing his debut album titled “State of My Mind’. Having written songs for over a decade to capture and express his thoughts and experiences, Jon views music as a natural extension of who he is. In his songs, he delves honestly into the themes of life and love and why, and stirs us to consider our unique place in the world. Jon about his music: “I strongly believe in the power of music to influence lives for the better. I…
Banner Shuffle: Winnie Goh

Michele Adriaens

31 Oct 2009 | 9:11 am

On a typical day, Winnie Goh -affectionately-known-as Winnmills- dreams up plans to take over the world whilst staring at Adobe Photoshop. She is most fascinated by the marriage of word and image. Her style has been largely influenced by street and popular culture, as defined by its grungy edge and subject matter. “My illustration techniques are largely self-taught,” she adds. ”My belief holds that if you suck right now, it doesn’t mean you’re going to suck forever. You can do anything you set your mind to. Just keep doing your thing.”
Spotted! Mandy Wu

Michele Adriaens

29 Oct 2009 | 9:01 am

Throughout her academic life, Mandy Wu has been trained in Sciences. While pursuing a bachelor degree in Chemistry, she decided she needed a creative outlet. “Going into jewelry design was a natural choice, because I see jewelry as instrumental in telling stories and evoking emotions,” Mandy explains. “Plus, I have always been intrigued by the amount of detail and personality a single piece of jewelry can add to an outfit.” For her 09/10 collection, Mandy sought to capture the dark romantic essence of one’s transition from girlhood to womanhood. Mandy:…

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tinygrants: Official Launch

Marissa

17 Oct 2009 | 12:08 pm

Just a note to officially launch the tinygrants website! I’m pretty pumped about this project, and I can’t wait to hear some feedback from friends and strangers alike. A few things: 1. Subscribe for email updates. I will send information about the projects that receive funding, as well as monthly updates about the status of the overall project. 2. Donate. Donations to supplement my personal investment will be very much appreciated. Every little bit helps, and will contribute to the facilitation of relational projects in the Toronto-area. Some of your donation may be used to cover…
Dance at Nuit Blanche 2009

Marissa

28 Sep 2009 | 10:08 am

There is a huge influx of dance events, manifested in myriad forms, at this year’s Nuit Blanche. I’ve already published my picks for Zone A, Zone B and Zone C, but if you’re a fan of dance — be it watching or participating — be sure to check out the programs highlighted below. (Images and descriptions lifted from the Nuit Blanche website.) ZONE A Dead Philosophers’ Limbo, 2009 Susie Burpee Court House 361 University Avenue (Outdoor rotunda underpass in the Garden of Justice) Click here to view this location on a map. Dead Philosophers’ Limbo is a…
Nuit Blanche 2009 Recommendations: ZONE C

Marissa

27 Sep 2009 | 8:44 pm

Zone C (South/West) curator Makiko Haro has titled her zone, Urban Disaster/Catastrophe/Survival Actions. The three projects recommended below certainly make good on the theme by facilitating nebulous people-sculptures, mobile dwellings, and collective architecture. Zone A recommendations here. Zone B recommendations here. (Images and descriptions lifted from the Nuit Blanche website.) It all starts on October 3rd at 6:55pm. FIRE AND SAUSAGE: Small Mercies, 2009 Tom Dean Visual Art Parking Lot at Liberty Street and Hanna Avenue Click here to view this location on a map. The fires and the…
Nuit Blanche 2009 Recommendations: ZONE B

Marissa

27 Sep 2009 | 6:17 pm

How do I pick just three for Zone B (Downtown South)? Curated by Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher of DisplayCult, and accessible by the Yonge-University subway line (start at Union) this zone is packed–and I mean packed–with a ton of multimedia, performance, installation and sculpture by some of Canada’s (and the world’s) best known artists, including Rebecca Belmore and IAIN BAXTER&. I won’t waste another minute. Here’s what you need to see. Zone A recommendations here. Zone C recommendations here. (Images and descriptions lifted from the Nuit Blanche…
Nuit Blanche 2009 Recommendations: ZONE A

Marissa

27 Sep 2009 | 11:32 am

It’s hard to believe that the 2009 incarnation of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is just around the corner. Happening this Saturday, October 3rd from 6:55pm to sunrise, this year’s catalogue of art-related debauchery is looking pretty good. Zone A, in Downtown North — most of which is accessible by the Yonge-University subway line — features 53 projects, some curated by Gregory Elgstrand and others by Thom Sokoloski. Here’s what I think you should make a point to see. Zone B recommendations here. Zone C recommendations here. (Images and descriptions lifted from the Nuit…

ArtPlantae Today
Apples, Art & Community

ArtPlantae Today

6 Nov 2009 | 2:15 pm

Saturday is a big day for community. On a national level, it is National Bookstore Day and we encourage you to acknowledge your favorite bookstores and booksellers on this day that celebrates the unique culture of bookstores. Thank you to Publisher’s Weekly magazine for launching this nationwide celebration. On a regional level, there an event we [...]
National Bookstore Day Celebration

ArtPlantae Today

6 Nov 2009 | 1:59 pm

National Bookstore Day was created by Publisher’s Weekly to celebrate the unique culture of independent bookstores. ArtPlantae Books is joining fellow Indies and celebrating with special online savings. Browse the shelves and look for books with the savings code NATLBKDAY. Use this code at checkout to save 20% on selected titles. You’ll find The Art [...]
Plants, Art, & Connections at The Women’s Conference

taniamarien

2 Nov 2009 | 7:52 am

There are venues and then there are venues. The Women’s Conference is quite the venue. The Women’s Conference is unique for two reasons. First, it’s huge. Tickets for the event sold out and this means that about 25,000 people were in attendance — most of them women. There were some men, but not many. I [...]
Journal Style Sketching Class in December

ArtPlantae Today

2 Nov 2009 | 7:45 am

Update now at CLASSES NEAR YOU > CALIFORNIA: Jane LaFazio, Plain Jane Studio www.plainjanestudio.com Jane is a mixed media artist and a member of the San Diego Sketchcrawl group. In addition to the sketching classes below, Jane teaches workshops in collage, mixed media, and quilting. She also teaches workshops for children. A detailed class schedule can be viewed [...]
Quick Sketching Workshop Now Available

ArtPlantae Today

2 Nov 2009 | 7:40 am

UC Riverside schedule is updated at CLASSES NEAR YOU > CALIFORNIA: University of California, Riverside UCR Extension www.extension.ucr.edu Quick Sketching for Travel (Art 839.6) – Saturdays, January 23 & 30, 2010; 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. Workshop participants will use fine and wide-line drawing tools to sketch animals, people, and architecture. They will also learn about parallel, angular, and [...]

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Weekly Caption Contest 2 WINNERS

THE IMAGE WAS WINNER IS Tony Murray “OK”,”Repeat after me”, “I will not eat any more birds!” Runners up are Katnipdrunk My mother told me there would be days like this. and Stephane Trahan Zip it…Don’t even think about going there… Their prizes are... well, this post actually :) Well done all!! How will you do on the one thats up now?? Weekly ...
Istanbul-Based Vehbi Koç Foundation Funds New Galleries for Ottoman Art at Metropolitan Museum

In recognition of a generous gift of $10 million from the Istanbul-based Vehbi Koç Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the designation of two new galleries for Ottoman Art as the Koç Family Galleries. To be part of the Museum's galleries for the art of the Arab Lands, ...
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Turkey’s “Dirty Stories” challenge censors and public memory

Michael Lithgow

1 Nov 2009 | 9:05 pm

Every country has its dirty stories. In Canada, we could point to the continuing theft of land and resources from First Nations; the environmental devastation and human cost of the Alberta tar sands; or the Highway of Tears (to name a few). In the case of Turkey, a particularly dirty story from their recent past is the 1980 coup that saw hundreds of thousands of detentions, and widespread human rights abuses including torture, lengthy jail terms, and executions for political dissidents and civilians. It is not a popular memory. This month, the exhibition “Dirty Stories” opened at the BM…
CanWest continues anti-satire lawsuit, despite looming bankruptcy

Ezra Winton

27 Oct 2009 | 7:29 pm

CanWest, that venerable Canadian media giant, has recently admitted to creaking fiscal osteoporosis and looks ready to accept a government handout, despite years of slopping up good old neoliberal free market journalism across the country. Whether they fall gently (a.k.a. with a helping but “invisible” hand) or with a resounding thud remains to be seen, but I’m hedging a guess that hundreds of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to coast will not miss an institution that so constantly ignored the liberal and progressive currents of society (not to mention the…
Community television up for grabs: Public hearings announced

Michael Lithgow

25 Oct 2009 | 5:05 pm

The fate of one of the most democratic elements of the Canadian broadcast system is up for grabs. This week in Ottawa the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced public hearings to decide the future of community television in Canada. Unlike the private and public elements, community television is founded on the idea of public access – to equipment, studio facilities, training and airtime. But the ‘how and why’ of managing Canada’s community channel assets has come under increasing scrutiny with the advent of online alternatives and the recent…
Disney admits Baby Einstein is a fraud

Rob Maguire

24 Oct 2009 | 8:56 pm

Disney’s Baby Einstein videos are no more educational than crayons are nutritious. The company is offering refunds to anyone who has purchased their insanely popular videos, arguably caving under the pressure of a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. The CCFC filed the complaint back in 2006, based on the lack of credible evidence that screen-based media can educate children under two. It wasn’t long before Disney removed educational claims from their Baby Einstein products. Millions of parents must feel like they’ve…
Refugee crackdowns incite Angry Chickens?

Rob Maguire

23 Oct 2009 | 2:49 pm

Just when you thought it was safe to visit your local drive-thru, political troubadour Geoff Berner sets the record straight. There are some really Angry Chickens in Europe, and he’s speculating it just might have something to do with the recent crackdown on refugees across the continent. The following account is an except from Berner’s newsletter. In parts of Europe, you may remember that I told you that Burger King, in its wisdom, was selling a product called the Angry Whopper. I am pleased, as your Cultural Correspondent, to report to you that they have added new items to their…

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Using What You Have to Art Journal

admin

6 Nov 2009 | 2:12 am

This year, I made a commitment to myself to be a more eco-friendly artist. Part of that commitment was to not purchase anything new unless I absolutely needed it. I love pretty paper. LOVE IT, but I have not purchased any new decorative paper in well over three years. Honestly, I don’t need it. I still have a small stash of scrapbook papers I sometimes use in my art journals. As of late, acrylic paint or watercolors have been my chosen medium for my backgrounds. I also do not purchase new sketchbooks when I start a new journal. I like to repurpose previously used journals or books…
Let the Music Play

admin

5 Nov 2009 | 2:12 am

I know I have said before how much I enjoy strumming my guitar. It makes me smile to think about the first time I held it and wondered if it was too big for me. I wondered if my fingertips would ever not be so sore. I wondered if I would be able to actually play a tune that people could make sense of. I am happy to report the guitar fits me nicely, my fingertips have recovered and I can play music that people enjoy. I am so glad to have this instrument in my life.
Color Inspiration **Red**

admin

4 Nov 2009 | 2:08 am

I was looking through my Flickr photostream and noticed the colors I shoot most often. One of them is red. I love the fire and vibrance of red in food, flora and clothing. It constantly inspires me. I have a challenge for you. First, pick a color. Now, for the rest of the week, go around and shoot everything you see in that color. What I like about this concept is the inspiration it has for future projects or series of work. So, go ahead, get to shooting and please share a link to your color inspiration in the comments.
NaBloPoMo & Online Classes

admin

3 Nov 2009 | 2:01 am

I have obviously lost my mind, but I decided to give it a try and participate in NaBloPoMo, also known as National Blog Posting Month. The goal is to post every day for a month. Consider me officially having started yesterday. Funny thing is, when I started blogging about seven or eight years ago, I used to post almost daily. Over the years, I have gotten out of the habit of writing and making art daily, so this will be an interesting experiment to say the least. Now, my plan is to share something interesting each day. Today, I share with you one of my latest digital pages. This one is…
Brandi Reynolds **Guest Art Slammer**

admin

2 Nov 2009 | 2:24 pm

I am thrilled to share Brandi Reynolds with the Art Slam community. Brandi authors the blog, Joy Rebel and her spirit more than shines through with her art, photographs and writing. I hope you enjoy learning more about her, her rebellious missions and how to find and nurture your authentic voice. Brandi, I see that you have been published in the latest issue of Artful Blogging. Tell me what that was like learning your blog was going to be featured? I was thrilled of course! This is the first time I’ve put my blog ‘out there’ for any kind of publication and I am so grateful…

Letter to Jane
Interview With The Virgins via LOOKBOOK.nu

Tim

6 Nov 2009 | 10:20 am

When Rich Girls came out there was not a person out there that didn’t have that song stuck in their head. My professors had it on their iPods, the kids I worked with were singing it, and lyrics were on at least a third of my friends Facebook status updates. While everyone was waiting for The Strokes to come back The Virgins took over and became THE example of New York rock and roll. With catchy hooks and a sound and attitude that led back to their influences from 70’s clubs like CBGB and Max’s Kansas City. Their self titled album has been critically acclaimed and their live…
White Rabbits Live

Tim

5 Nov 2009 | 3:08 pm

For my Portland readers, White Rabbits are playing at the Wonder Ballroom tonight, definitely a show you won’t want to miss. Here’s a video of their recent performance on Jimmy Kimmel to give you a taste. You don’t have too many chances to see them for a while so I would suggest you try to make it tonight. 11/5 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR 11/6 – The Biltmore Cabaret – Vancouver, BC 11/9 – Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN 11/10 – Turner Hall Ballroom – Milwaukee, WI 11/11- Schubas – Chicago, IL (SOLD OUT) 11/12…
Fool’s Gold Remixes

Tim

4 Nov 2009 | 11:18 pm

Mad Decent recently released their remix of Fool’s Gold single Surprise Hotel. While not bad I love Memory Tapes remix of Nadine even better so I decided to post both of them. Don’t forget to check out my interview with Fool’s Gold. Fool’s Gold – Nadine (Memory Tapes Remix) Fool’s Gold – Surprise Hotel (Mad Decent Remix) Post from: Letter to JaneFool’s Gold Remixes
Interview With Jody Rogac

Tim

4 Nov 2009 | 2:39 am

There’s one thing young artists sometimes overlook doing as they are starting out and that’s reaching out to the people already in the profession they want to do. Just leaning how to do something in college doesn’t solve things, going out and finding a path brings up a lot of questions. This is why I’ve been so happy with Letter to Jane’s Artist Interview Series, and to have it include great artists such as Jody Rogac. Rogac is one of my favorite photographers working these days. Her images are soft and inviting, her simple style and attention to details lets her…
Last Night: Art Brut

Tim

3 Nov 2009 | 5:25 pm

Watching Art Brut live upheld every expectation I had. Humorous stories, great music, and even one of the amps caught on fire on stage. Art Brut really are one of the great live acts around, I mean if you listen to any of their albums, you can tell that it’s going to translate really well live. Art Brut is more than just a group of people playing some songs, Eddie Argos takes you through what feels like a late night shows, giving in depths views on a variety of different subjects, great little stories about Iggy Pop and David Bowie, and jokes around with the audience all while the band…

About.com: Art History
In Which the Definitions of "Arts" and "Humanities" Confuse Me

3 Nov 2009 | 3:35 pm

So, today the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities named 26 nominees to this largely ceremonial post. Which is cool because, hey! It's honestly thrilling to see a guy so busy trying to find a large enough tow truck to pull the US economic bus out of the ditch give even a passing nod towards something so crucial (to some of us) as the Arts and Humanities. And the Honorary Chairman of the PCAH is First Lady Michelle Obama, a lovely, genuine human being with larger issues on her agenda. Please don't suppose that I suppose Barack and Michelle Obama stayed up late over the course of…
Mr. Art Critic on DVD

1 Nov 2009 | 7:13 pm

The independent film Mr. Art Critic was released on DVD a couple of weeks ago. Now, normally I don't "do" video reviews, but this opportunity was too good to pass up for several reasons. First, I have an extremely short, top secret list of art critics whose reviews I love to loathe and so was wondering if this comedy might shed some light on their ceaseless causticity. (The answer: not really; this isn't a documentary.) Secondly, I was curious to see a comedic treatment applied to the terribly, terribly serious business of reviewing gallery shows and juried competitions. We've probably all…
Wordless Wednesday - Two Witches

27 Oct 2009 | 7:45 pm

Hans Baldung Grien (German, 1484/85-1545) Zwei Hexen (Two Witches), 1523 Oil and tempera on limewood 65.3 x 45.6 cm (25 11/16 x 17 15/16 in.) Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main Photo © Ursula Edelman (If you are looking for subtlety here, forget about it. During the Northern Renaissance, witches were portrayed as evil women. Malevolent, naked, seductive women. Sinister, smirking, Fall of Man-causing women. Much like Eve in the Book of Genesis, minus the mitigating Satan/serpent flimflam factor. You can read all about this I-wish-I-could-say-it-no-longer-exists mindset here in "Christian…
An Atypical Art Theft Investigation Ending

24 Oct 2009 | 2:21 pm

Remember that art theft over a month ago, where an entire Warhol series went missing? And how there was a $1 million reward for information leading to their recovery? Well, we can all kiss the promise of reward money goodbye. The insurance company withdrew it about 10 minutes after collector Richard L. Weisman withdrew his claim. "Withdrew his insurance claim?" I can almost hear you ask (as I did). Yes. It went something like this: Owner withdraws insurance claim worth up to $25 million. The LAPD Art Theft Detail, somewhat untactfully, publicly remarks that this is a "curious" move. Owner…
Fairey 'Fesses, Defense Decamps

18 Oct 2009 | 3:57 pm

So, if you've been playing the HOPE home version all of these months, the latest on the Shepard Fairey/Associated Press/Mannie Garcia hate triangle is that Shepard Fairey has apparently sabotaged his own Fair Use case. Depending on which news source you read, he either lied, submitted false evidence or made an error about which photograph was the basis for the HOPE image, and then either panicked, forgot or neglected to mention one or more of the first three actions. Unfortunately for Shepard Fairey, any one of the above nine possible combinations has made it practically impossible for his…

The Old Gold
Some Things

Jon Lutz

4 Nov 2009 | 8:22 am

Upcoming: Matthew Fisher's Lonesome George opens Nov. 6@ ADA Gallery in RichmondUp now: Ivin Ballen @ WinklemanClosing soon: ABCyz 2009 @ SilvershedGreat stuff on KCLOG as of late...esp. The Deli Storeroom's THE REAL WORLD, The Dirty Dirty's PsuedonymousMore from that show at The Dirty Dirty site
P. Shrinermacher

Jon Lutz

26 Oct 2009 | 8:18 am

Daily Operation participated in ABCyz 2009 and featured the work of P. Shrinermacher. The show will be open by appointment until Nov. 7. ABCyz is a collaborative art exhibition of NYC-based contemporary art collectives, curatorial groups and art publishers, each of which was formed in the last four years. A group show of group shows, ABCyz is a salon-style exhibition of independent out-of-pocket exhibitions, recession-style creative processes and guerilla promotions. In the late 80s and early 90s, artist Lance Rutledge sent anonymous letters, paintings, and art objects to various NY…
This Weekend: ABCyz 2009 and The Real World

Jon Lutz

20 Oct 2009 | 9:50 am

!Friday Night @ Silvershed, 119 West 25th St., PH, NYCABCyz 2009 is a collaborative art exhibition of NYC-based contemporary art collectives, curatorial groups and art publishers, each of which was formed in the last four years. A group show of group shows, ABCyz is a salon-style exhibition of independent out-of-pocket exhibitions, recession-style creative processes and guerilla promotions. MORE HERE.My project, Daily Operation, presents Yours, P. Shrinermacher for ABCyz 2009... In the late 80s and early 90s, the artist Lance Rutledge sent anonymous letters, paintings, and art objects to…
Studio: Gianna Commito

Jon Lutz

14 Oct 2009 | 4:56 pm

Here are a few new works from Gianna's really productive summer. Check out my previous posts/interview with her here and her blog here.
Studio: Erik den Breejen

Jon Lutz

6 Oct 2009 | 5:51 pm

More of Erik den Breejen's work here.

Celestial Dreams
Digital art & a song for Samhain ( & Halloween)

Leah

1 Nov 2009 | 7:28 am

Happy Samhain! Happy Halloween! I’m a day late on posting this- i fell asleep before finishing it yesterday :p **** A cloaked & hooded druid pauses to take in the night scene before heading off to join the shadowy figures dancing around the night’s celebratory bonfire. *** This digital art painting was partially inspired by the song “All souls [...]
Watch me sketch~ Daybreak

Leah

30 Oct 2009 | 7:20 am

Sketching out painting ideas; Daybreak Watch a video replay of this quick sketch artwork being created at: http://apps.facebook.com/graffitiwall/show.php?rn=fe2b206c13fbe794cad7dd497eafed54 *** Posted in Sketches & Doodles
Life Quotes: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the…” continued

Leah

29 Oct 2009 | 7:19 am

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Music Monday: Let’s Live For Today

Leah

26 Oct 2009 | 6:04 am

I love this song! <3 The Grass Roots – Let’s Live For Today When I think of all the worries people seem to find And how they’re in a hurry to complicate their minds By chasing after money and dreams that can’t come true I’m glad that we are different, we’ve better things to do Let others plan their future, I’m [...]
Sketched out

Leah

23 Oct 2009 | 6:12 am

True story. Posted in Sketches & Doodles

The Artery Magazine
Jesse Penico

laura

11 Oct 2009 | 9:55 am

I pull Jesse Penico out to remind myself that there are original kids coming out of art school...
Tony DiMauro

laura

11 Oct 2009 | 7:43 am

"When I was in grade school, I played this old-school post-apocalyptic video game called Wasteland all the time. I was obsessed with it, and began to think in terms of real post-apocalyptic survival situations..."
Ashleigh Fedo

laura

3 Oct 2009 | 6:22 pm

Atlanta based business owner and artist Ashleigh Fedo writes in.
Visit Syracuse

laura

29 Sep 2009 | 9:29 am

Revisit Syracuse with new eyes, ears and a thirst for emerging art.
Brian Hubble

matt

28 Sep 2009 | 3:26 pm

"I choose to make art because I have something to say, and this is one way for me to say it. But I think in most cases, art chooses you, not the other way around. How deep."

My MiNuTia
A quick hello

Teresa McFayden

5 Nov 2009 | 12:10 pm

and a lil peek at a project that's almost done. I've loved this quote for forever: This was taken with my phone (no time to drag out the camera). Things are ever busy at Silver Bella HQ...which is the best feeling. This time next week we will be kicking off the best and the biggest art weekend in the midwest! Gaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! I can't even believe it's almost here! Locals can still get tickets to Bella Market! Order those here. For a complete list of the vendors, go here.Hoping to pop in again in this next week. I can't wait to show you my Workshop Kits. We'll see.
A No Budget Centerpiece

Teresa McFayden

2 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am

Our son's Cross Country Banquet is coming up. Here's a this year's minimum cost and high impact solution: I got 20 wine bottles and created the Jones Soda like labels for them in Photoshop, adding a photo of the boys team on ten bottles and then the girls team on the other ten bottles. I printed them on sticker paper and...voila! Another gal on the committee will fill the bottles with fresh yellow flowers. Throw some ribbon on the table and we're good to go. Looking forward to celebrating all of the team's hard work this season!
It's a me, Mar-io!

Teresa McFayden

31 Oct 2009 | 4:35 pm

Trick or Treaters on the loose! Hope you aren't frightend by life sized video game characters or blind refs: This Mom is just glad he didn't want to be a scary creepy blood curdling googly eyed goblin this year.
Squash and Acorn Love

Teresa McFayden

28 Oct 2009 | 5:50 am

Perhaps you've seen these in blogland here and there. I'm so in love with them I can hardly stand it. I've had the kit for a while, and lacked the time to make them. In fact, the kit was almost put away for next year. But in less two hours they were done. Yay! So glad I made them! They are my favorite Fall decor this year! Kim Hendricks (Olive Juice & Co.) did a fabulous job with this kit. Wonder what she has up her sleeve next? Can't wait to see! Another favorite for Fall are these felted acorns: They come in lots and lots…
Just keepin it real

Teresa McFayden

27 Oct 2009 | 10:23 am

We went to my daughter's XC meet this past weekend. Six hour drive through the Fall countryside. Nice. Love this shot of the girls on the starting line. I was on my knees when I took it! Here she is finishing up the 5K. Now, waiting her turn in the shoot after the race. Not a "pretty" shot, but ya know what? It's good to see young women being strong. Oh, she loves her lipgloss and glittered headbands... don't get me wrong there. But I'm a firm believer that strength is very beautiful. So is she.

Faith Towers Photography
Another Flickr Beauty

26 Oct 2009 | 4:36 am

Fungi Macro Abstract, originally uploaded by scilitIt is always amazing to watch new technology take shape; some applications and websites become popular, some don't. And its not always clear why. Flickr, a site with millions of photographs in no particular order from all around the world, has become an internet sensation. Some pretty awful photographs can be found; but hidden amongst these are some gems such as "Fungi Macro Abstract." Photographs like this one make me understand the Flickr phenomenon. Have you found any Flickr masterpieces lately?
A Flickr Beauty

23 Oct 2009 | 4:34 am

Columbia Park-4613, originally uploaded by BrianBosworthPhotographyI found this striking image this morning while browsing Flickr....Click here to see the rest of Brian's photostream.
The Best Game Ever...

18 Oct 2009 | 3:05 pm

...if you love typography. Click here.
Something A Little Different

1 Oct 2009 | 5:16 pm

These photos are a departure from my current work, but who doesn't like seeing photographs of a couple about to be married? Lately I have been focusing on the type of work that I typically post on this blog - abstract nature photography - but every now and then I like to shake things up a little. I forgot how much I love taking engagement photos!
Its A Small World

28 Sep 2009 | 5:56 pm

Imagine my surprise as I was surfing the blogosphere, and I ran across the work of a girl I went to school with! Zaria Forman's work is brilliant.... take a look at the blog link here.

artPark
Things I learned from the Internet

Rob Jones

4 Nov 2009 | 7:41 am

There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart. >>> Are Liberals smarter than Conservatives? An interesting discussion. >>> In what is perhaps the first project of its kind, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has put English-language translations of 902 of Vincent van Gogh's personal letters on line. >>> Damien Hirst, arguably the richest and most powerful artist in history, has received the critical pasting of his life, but there's a sense that our whole perception…
From the art auction front

Rob Jones

3 Nov 2009 | 2:45 pm

In September 2008, we posted about the sale of a particularly nice Alan Dehmer photograph ("Low Country", pictured right) that we made to Michael Danoff. Mr. Danoff was the curator and buyer for the famed Neuberger Berman-Lehman Brothers Collection. This story focused on the fact that Lehman Brothers had declared bankruptcy and we were watching what was going to happen to the Company's extensive art collection (which Alan's piece was now a part of). Through contacts and news sources, we were assured the collection would remain intact. Subsequently, we have seen the Lehman Brothers Collection…
Pre-selling Art

Rob Jones

30 Oct 2009 | 6:08 am

Here is an interesting way for an artist to pre-sell his work prior to a major exhibit: Tim Tate (a Migration favorite artist) is exhibiting again this year at SOFA Chicago (a Migration favorite fair). During the week leading up to the November 5 Preview Opening of SOFA, Tim has taken a piece scheduled to be shown at SOFA and listed it on ebay. The piece, titled "Summer of Love", will be priced at $12,000 in Chicago, but bids on ebay start at $9,500. See the listing here. Tim is a well known and highly recognized artist. If anyone can make this strategy succeed, it will be him. Potential…
Street Art

Rob Jones

29 Oct 2009 | 12:06 pm

Street artists add color to our life – and ask little in return. Here is a slideshow of photos of an artist (who goes by Cristophe) and his dog in Paris. He created a pastel self portrait with his dachshund in front of the Pompidou Center. The photographer who took the shots says this: he has no greed...doesn't know today's head-lines...has no idea about memory cards or computers....but,...he knows about life on the street, art, his accordion, a good calavados and to take good care of his dog...for some that does the trick...just look in his eyes...that's life!.. The world could use more…
The fall Art Fairs are upon us

Rob Jones

28 Oct 2009 | 1:32 pm

October, November and December mark the height of the art fair year. It all starts in London at the Frieze Art Fair and culminates with December’s art-fair-orgy in Miami, Florida (featuring over 20 art fairs in just one week). Needless to say, every gallery’s bean counter has their eyes focused on Frieze. Last year, galleries exhibiting at Frieze (through clinched teeth smiles and drippy mascara) wept doom and gloom and endless talk of the global recession affect on the art market. This year, the reports have been quite positive. Participating galleries reported clear evidence of renewed…

Daily Art Fixx
Ian Francis: Painting

Wendy Campbell

6 Nov 2009 | 7:54 am

Ok, I have to admit that I kind of ran out of time today and was reminded of painter Ian Francis by a website I visit often called Art Shout - an “instant art portfolio” that features a variety of cool art daily. “Ian Francis was born in 1979 in Bristol, England, and graduated from the University of the West of England with a degree in Illustration. His work concentrates on the particulars of modern experiences — things like television, world events, celebrities, and day-to-day living. He held his first US solo show at BLK/MRKT in 2007.” (from Fecal Face 2008) To see…
Dmitry Ligay: Illustration

Wendy Campbell

5 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am

Today’s images are by illustrator Dmitry Ligay. There’s not much biographical information about this talented Uzbekistan based artist, but you can see more of Ligay’s collection of work on Behance Network.
Joanna Kustra: Photography

Wendy Campbell

4 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am

At first glance, I thought these portraits were paintings but they are actually photos by Polish photographer Joanna Kustra. Born in 1984, this young artist studied linguistics and began taking pictures as a hobby. Self taught, in a few short years, Kustra has turned her passion into a career. She currently lives and works in Krakow and London. For more information about Joanna Kustra, visit her website qstra.pl.
Erik Natzke: Flash Paintings

Wendy Campbell

3 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am

Today’s images are by Adobe Flash artist Erik Natzke. Natzke is an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology. With a keen awareness for how and where to push the limits of the medium without isolating the audience, Erik is a consistent risk-taker. Imagination, adventure, and a desire to amaze as much as entertain are all part of the driving forces behind his work. Named one of the Top 10 Young Designers by HOW magazine, Natzke’s commercial, as well as personal, works have received numerous awards within the fields of both design…
David Choe: Painting

Wendy Campbell

2 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am

The images shown today are by American artist David Choe. Born in 1976 in Los Angeles, California, Choe is is one of the most diverse and prolific artists working today. His art, photos, and writing have been featured in Giant Robot, and Vice magazine among numerous other publications. His client list includes Marvel Comics, Levi’s, IBM, and Nike. Choe has spoken and lectured at Princeton, DUKE, Dartmouth and other art colleges. He has designed and created fine art, murals, movie sets, movie posters, album covers, shoes, t-shirts, toys, calendars, commercials, cars, magazines, books,…

Reflections of a Glass Artist
She loved it!

6 Nov 2009 | 6:17 am

In my post on Monday of this week, I published a picture of Lexi's Dream, which is one of my fused bowls that Lexi described to me from a recent dream she had.Last night, I presented the bowl to Lexi. She loved it! She said that it was even prettier than the one in her dream. It had more depth. The only thing it didn't have was real gold, which I truly don't know how to incorporate gold into glass...I can do silver or copper inclusions. And given the price of gold, that would be cost prohibitive. She saw how I worked at replicating the gold color she described with this lovely, almost lemon…
Fallen Leaves

4 Nov 2009 | 7:49 pm

Fallen Leavesphoto by Daniel KrucoffI'm still amazed at times how ideas come to me for something. Do you ever find this happening with your creative process? I was working on Lexi's Dream mentioned in an earlier post. And as I was cutting the strips of glass that went into the construction of that bowl, I saw all these pointed pieces of glass that were discarded from the strips I used to make Lexi's Dream. They sort of called out to me and the more I looked at all those glass shards, I thought, a cluster of them would create a wonderful autumnal effect.So this is the result of thought process…
Lexi's Dream

2 Nov 2009 | 7:58 pm

Lexi's DreamRecently I hit "The Wall", you know, that period of creative block. My friend and mentor, Lexi Erickson, helped me to work through this block. One of the things that Lexi told me was that I needed to let go of some things in order to grow in other areas of my work. She felt one of the things I may need to let go of was some of my work as it relates to glass.Now I truly love working with glass. Yet I knew deep down she was right and I have let go of some of my glass work. However, I feel that I will continue to create my fused glass bowls and the occasional stained glass…
Featured Artist at Top Artists' Directory

26 Oct 2009 | 7:09 am

I am so happy to announce that I have been chosen as the Featured Artist this week at Top Artists' Directory. I am truly honored.Stay tuned, I am working on some new fused bowls and will be sharing pictures of them in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, please visit Top Artists' Directory as I think you will agree, there is a lot of talent there....consider joining too! Thanks.Have a great week of creativity. Aspire to be more as an artist and person.
Artist Interview with Daniel Krucoff

20 Oct 2009 | 7:09 pm

I have some great news to share.... Dan is a Featured Artist at Whopple.com. You can read the interview here and see some of his latest photographs from our trip to Estes too. I think it provides some interesting insights into his approach to photography, along with his inspirations. Hope you enjoy.

iconophilia
anything goes

Nigel

5 Nov 2009 | 12:03 pm

As handsome as the James Angas may appear standing in the forecourt of the National Portrait Gallery, your Iconophile does wonder whether amoebae have personalities worth celebrating… Move it a few hundred meters to the east to the National Gallery of Australia, and it wouldn’t have to carry the burden of portraiture. The spin that explains the work is less than convincing. While Angas has a wide ranging oeuvre, better known for his squished Bugatti at the AGNSW, it’s his grip on three dimensional math that’s the common thread. Incidentally, that’s a portrait of…
mystery ziggurat

Nigel

5 Nov 2009 | 12:02 pm

Meanwhile, a few hundred meters to the east of the National Portrait Gallery, another trophy sculpture is emerging from the rubble of the “New Look” of the National Gallery of Australia. This is the outside of the new James Turrell, an aspect which will only be of forensic interest to architecture students once the work is completed. For a survey of recent Turrells, go to designboom and fuel your curiosity…
scary invisible sculpture goes commercial

Nigel

5 Nov 2009 | 12:01 pm

This is not a commercial. This is. Your Iconophile has been techo-gazumped. The invisible readymade below (Maquette for an Invisible Sculpture) was first exhibited in DECOR in Canberra, in August 1993, (a show curated by Kevin Henderson).
Morandi @ Hely

Nigel

29 Oct 2009 | 1:03 pm

It’s The Week of the Vessel on Iconophilia. The most intense expression of this theme is to be found at Patsy Hely’s exhibition “around & about” at Helen Maxwell Gallery in Braddon, Canberra. Not only does Hely make exquisite cast and surformed porcelain vessels, she then uses them as the support for her elegant and engaging genre paintings (in under & overglaze colours). The forms, colours, and translucent materials of her objects/images cohere in a beautifully distinctive way. Hely records her subjects like a visual diary – the images that catch her eye…
plasticity, style, function

Nigel

29 Oct 2009 | 1:02 pm

The specific function of a watering-can seems to have stimulated designers to stretch the limits of plasticity. But how does it feel to water your plants with an award-winning icon? Especially one made of extruded plastic? Dutch-born Monika Mulder’s award winning Vallö (2001) (above) is currently part of Democratic Design: IKEA at the International Design Museum in Munich. The great Danish designer Erik Lehmann Hansen seems to have seen the humble watering can as an excuse for a playful exercise in style, echoing the geometric purism of his predecessors. But somehow he has exaggerated…

The Official Blog of Park West Gallery
Secret Images. Picasso and Japanese Erotic Prints

Park West Gallery

6 Nov 2009 | 8:42 am

UKIYO-E, or “pictures of the floating world”, is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. Park West Gallery Japanese Woodcut Collection >> ________________________________________________________ BARCELONA, SPAIN /AFP/ — The Japanese prints that inspired some of the erotic works of Pablo Picasso are [...]
Artist Birthdays November 6 – EVERETT SHINN

Park West Gallery

6 Nov 2009 | 6:12 am

EVERETT SHINN (November 6, 1876 – May 1, 1953) Nationality: American Field: Painting Art Movement: Ashcan School ARTiFact: He spent a year (1890) working at the Thackery Gas Fixture Works designing light fixtures, but was fired for doodling in the margins of his plans. Artist Quote: “It’s just that the uptown life with all its glitter was more good-looking… Ah, the clothes then, the movement of [...]
Rembrandt in Focus at the National Museum Wales

Park West Gallery

5 Nov 2009 | 8:06 am

For over 40 years, Park West Gallery has been a world-wide source for collectors of original etchings by Rembrandt Van Rijn, the artist viewed by so many as the greatest etcher of all time. Park West – Rembrandt Website >> _______________________________________________________ CARDIFF, WALES — A special loan of Rembrandt van Rijn’s (1606-1669) Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet from Penrhyn Castle is on view at National [...]
Artist Birthdays November 5 – RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON

Park West Gallery

5 Nov 2009 | 7:09 am

RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON (November 5, 1876 – October 9, 1918) Nationality: French Field: Sculpture Art Movement: Cubism ARTiFact: The brother of artist Marcel Duchamp, he changed his surname to distinguish himself from his famous sibling. Artist Quote: “The sole purpose of the arts is neither description nor imitation, but the creation of unknown beings from elements which are always present but not apparent.” Notable Artwork (shown below): The Large Horse, [...]
More Customer Reviews for Park West Gallery

Park West Gallery

5 Nov 2009 | 6:29 am

Park West Galleries can be found on numerous cruise ships throughout the world, offering passengers a unique opportunity to view and collect artwork from a multitude of artists. Next time you find yourself on a cruise vacation getaway, be sure to stop in to browse the Park West Gallery Collection onboard! ________________________________________________________ “Dear Art Auctioneer Tom: We are overwhelmed [...]

Art of Mike Cressy
Abstract Art Update...

4 Nov 2009 | 1:48 pm

4 Brand NEW Abstracts! Come and check them out on imagekind.com and pick a few for holiday gifts.http://mikecressy.imagekind.com/store/Images.aspx/97e5fe65-5006-4c0e-9745-c778120eb248/AbstractSee you next post!-MC
Bunches of NEW Abstracts!

1 Nov 2009 | 7:10 pm

Dig man,...sweet new Abstracts to dazzle your eyes!Set on Highbeam and scan them crazy shapes...Hope you dig 'em!See you next post...MC
Nov 1st leftover Monsters from the night before...

1 Nov 2009 | 11:17 am

These poor monsters didn't get a chance to have scary fun last night... there is always next year. Till then they'll be contracting at Santa's workshop to help finish off all the gifts that need to be done before Xmas!Hope everyone had a cool, ghoulish night!!!-MC
Happy Halloween Everyone!

31 Oct 2009 | 12:21 pm

Hope you have a safe and fun Halloween!!!See you next post...BOO!
Catching up with NEW Abstracts!

25 Oct 2009 | 8:05 pm

Here is some of the latest Abstracts. I've got another batch waiting to be posted but I'll do that later in the week.I've been on a bit of a role with the abstracts lately. I hope to make over 100 by the end of the year. I've got 92 of them posted on http://www.imagekind.com/GalleryProfile.aspx?gid=97e5fe65-5006-4c0e-9745-c778120eb248Check 'em out when you get a chance!See you next post!

Community Arts Network
Arts Ed: Did We Shy Away from the Heavy Lifting?

5 Nov 2009 | 12:47 pm

"We took the road of least resistance and ... shied away from the heavy lifting: the work of public policy," says Janet Brown, director of Grantmakers in the Arts, in the GIA blog (11/3/09). In "What's Up with Arts Education?" Brown asks "why forty years of funding has not produced the desired results." We should, she says, have done "the work of harnessing the will of the people to advocate for schools and children. ... Instead, we’ve asked them to support artists in the classroom and to allow children to visit the museum, symphony or ballet once or twice a semester [and] asked our arts…
Obama Names Celebrities to PCAH

5 Nov 2009 | 11:54 am

President Obama has named 25 new members to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, which combines representatives of federal cultural agencies with presidential appointees from the private sector. The list includes celebrities like Edward Norton, Anna Wintour, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Sarah Jessica Parker and Yo Yo Ma. Cultural critic Arlene Goldbard is not impressed. As she says in her latest blog post (11/5/09), "there is not a single appointment reflecting the knowledge and perspective" of the community artists and teaching artists who support the Obama arts platform and are…
Activism & Social Justice in the Traditional Arts, S.F.

5 Nov 2009 | 11:29 am

"Standing Up/Acting Out: Activism & Social Justice in the Traditional Arts" is a panel discussion during the upcoming "Performing Diaspora" symposium at CounterPulse in San Francisco. The panel addresses the question: Can tradition-based forms of cultural expression be used to convey messages of political protest and express social justice-oriented concerns related to class, gender, race? Other topics in the symposium, November 7, 2009, include criticism and aesthetics, representation and appropriation. It's co-presented by CounterPULSE and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts in…
Iowa State Writing Students Reach Out

4 Nov 2009 | 9:44 am

Iowa Poet Laureate Mary Swander’s poetry classes at Iowa State University are collaborating on "More Than Words," an "accessible" poetry and art event, December 1, 2009. Swander's classes and the Iowa Department for the Blind partnered to create “tactile poetry," says Riki Saltzman, Iowa ARTS Council accessibility coordinator, in Iowa Arts News (11/09). It's a new, nonvisual way “to enjoy poetry that is more accessible to the blind. They are recording poems that they’ve infused with music and sound, and some are creating tactile pieces of art to go with the poetry.” They'll present…
Kingsolver on Political Art & Dissidents in U.S.

4 Nov 2009 | 8:34 am

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver wonders why "politics have such a peculiar relationship to the arts in the United States," in New Hampshire's Portsmouth Herald (10/20/09). Talking with interviewer Deborah Mcdermott about her new novel, "The Lacuna," Kingsolver says, "Art and politics are considered fairly inseparable in other parts of the world, but why not here? I had a feeling it happened during the McCarthy era, but why would it last 50 years? Why didn't we get over it? What happened in the middle of the 20th century that left us so suspicious of political art? . ... After Sept. 11, 2001, the…

THE HOBBYSHOP HERO
Solebox X Saucony - Shadow 90

1 Nov 2009 | 5:11 am

www.solebox.com/WORDS FROM THE HEROYou may or may not have heard of SOLEBOX but chances are if you are A Sneaker Freak, you are well aware of the name. You also may or may not remember A previous post on this site that I did which featured one of my favorite sneakers of all time, the SOLEBOX x PUMA R698 Now, by Clicking on the Sneaker pictured about or THIS LINK you will warp to one of my most detailed post in HobbyshopHero History.Once again, the Elusive SoleBox is set to release A Sneaker that I would love to own, tho probally will never have the chance to even hold hahahaha. Saucony isn't…
Mini MPC 2000XL Sampler and SP1200 Drum Machine USB Flash Drives

31 Oct 2009 | 11:10 am

www.hiphopflashdrive.comWORDS FROM THE HEROIt's crazy the ideas that we come up with sometimes. I remember vividly the 1st time I came across A CD in which you could customize yourself..... Hahaha you think about that now and Burned Cd's aren't anything special, but imagine A time before that technology was Available to the wide public. I grew up making mixtapes by the dozens each week, and everyone knows that the ultimate way to a teenage girl is thru the making of a custom mixtape. Lucky for me, my friend Celph Titled was one of the 1st people to get ahold of the Burned CD tech, so when my…
ST/MiC "Honest Music" in stores now!!

29 Oct 2009 | 5:53 pm

WORDSFROMTHEHEROIn 2005 , I was Blessed to meet some of the most talented musicans whom all became close friends of mine. Of that group, I met Brian (Dj Ragz) and Corey (mudd) whom combined formed the ultra Classic DuoThe Jazz Addixx! Thru that relationship I was introduced to another Amazing human by the name of ST/MIC.During that time, I was living with Fan, turned best friend/roomate, Will Widdoss who became my Favorite Wordsmith of all time, next to Median. I started working with the Jazz Addixx on the reg, and began to do the same with St MIC. Unfortunately my personal life took…
Superdeux ‘Auto + USBoombox’ Release Event

28 Oct 2009 | 5:35 pm

Superdeux is releasing his amazing ‘Auto + USBoombox’ next month, and Kidrobot will be helping with an awesome release event. The Auto + USBoombox is a brilliant retro-inspired vinyl toy that would make LL Cool J proud. Available in four wicked fly colorways, each version comes with a USB-boombox with a different custom soundtrack on each one! Superdeux will be at Kidrobot’s San Fransisco location for the release of ‘Auto + USBoombox’ on November 4th, 2009, so fly girls and sucker M.C.s alike should get down there and show him some love.| THE DRUMLOVE EP + DOWNLOAD LINK >>>>>…
Humör Spring / Summer 2010 Collection

28 Oct 2009 | 5:22 pm

Humör Spring / Summer 2010 Collection Streetwear brand Humör from Kolding, Denmark, gives us the first insight to its spring / summer 2010 collection, which is influenced mainly by underground music. The color range is dominated by loud and strong colors. Another major source of inspiration is Tokyo’s Shibuya area, where the fashion crowd is giving an entirely new meaning to the word paintbox. The entire collection will be available at Coutie.| THE DRUMLOVE EP + DOWNLOAD LINK >>>>> http://www.sendspace.com/file/995cds

The Artful Manager
Oh, the power(lessness), the absolute power(lessness)

The Artful Manager

5 Nov 2009 | 10:18 pm

If you're getting tired of 'top 20' lists of people who are richer, smarter, more attractive, better connected, and more interesting than you are, the folks over at Hyperallergic have a ranking for you! In response to the Art Review 'top 100' power-brokers in the art world, they suggest The Top 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World. Among them:Independent curators without trust funds -- There's a saying, ''No trust, no love.''Artists who can't speak English, French, German, or Spanish. While the world is filled with approximately 6,800 languages, artwork must adhere to the linguistic…
What if the 'new normal' is really the original normal?

The Artful Manager

4 Nov 2009 | 6:29 am

Neill Archer Roan posts a rather interesting thought on his weblog about what we're all calling the 'new normal' for our economy, our society, and our work: what if the past 50 years were the exception, not the rule, to human history? What if the conditions we all considered to be 'normal' as we built our businesses, our industries, and our common sense were actually anomolies? He quotes a recent interview with Jim Collins in Fortune, who says: It turns out that 1952 to 2000 was an aberration. We had a combination of tremendous stability brought on by two monolithic superpowers --…
Thoughts on the 'portfolio career'

The Artful Manager

2 Nov 2009 | 7:17 am

If you thought you were just bouncing from gig to gig, juggling multiple part-time or limited-term jobs in the arts and elsewhere, or just patching together a living from a seemingly diffuse bundle of clients, employers, and projects, you may not have realized that you were engaging in the job strategy of the future, the portfolio career. The phrase and the concept seem to be popping up in organizational theory circles as a way of capturing an age-old practice that's becoming an emerging trend.The ''portfolio worker,'' defined by organizational and management theorist Charles Handy a few…
An artist's alternative to material wealth

The Artful Manager

29 Oct 2009 | 10:39 pm

In an era when our economy is in flux, and many are revisiting their penchant for buying more stuff, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats offers another way: buy the opposite of stuff. His upcoming exhibit on The First Bank of Antimatter (BoingBoing blog here, and here's the exhibition site) suggests a mirror marketplace to reinvigorate our current one. Says he:"Economic equilibrium is upset by our unbalanced pursuit of material wealth.... My plan is to offset materialism with modern science, by exploiting the economic potential of antimatter, which is the physical opposite of anything made with…
Signs that you've stayed too long at the party

The Artful Manager

28 Oct 2009 | 10:30 am

In this job market and this economy, it's challenging to consider leaving a job. But it's never a bad idea for any cultural manager to at least ask the question: Am I in the right place, doing the right work? CompassPoint's Tim Wolfred offers six signs that it might be time to move on. Among them:I keep returning to this thought: the organization needs to go in a new direction (or to a new level) and I'm not the right person for it.I'm burned out and I know it. I don't think I'm burned out, but other people think I am. I can't stand my board anymore . . . and/or, I can't seem to please the…

ArtKritique
On Peter Greenaway's Last Supper

6 Nov 2009 | 11:47 am

Peter Greenaway's work is full of, perhaps, unintentional ironies, firstly that one so interested in reviving cultural 'visual literacy' should make films that are so wordy. Secondly, here at the North Melbourne Town Hall's Arthouse, his multimedia installation of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper' explores paint and place through projection on a facsimile of the original. Image and object have
On God of Carnage @ Sydney Opera House

20 Oct 2009 | 4:45 pm

Sometimes it's actually better to know what to expect. I must have assumed that 'God of Carnage' the Sydney Theatre Company's production of a play by French writer Yasmina Reza would be serious. By 'serious' I don't even mean sober, let alone miserable, just about things that were serious, things that might make us question our relationship with one another, our surroundings or even ourselves.
On Guy Maestri @ Tim Olsen Gallery

17 Oct 2009 | 11:02 pm

Sometimes the laptop screen can be overly kind to art. Just as internet dating promises everyone is a Venus or Adonis pictures in an exhibition can promise a thrilling assignation when you encounter them online. In the painted flesh you know immediately that this isn't going to work. Guy Maestri's exhibition, Google Earth, at Paddington's Tim Olsen Gallery looked so good in pixels, his eerie
Vernon Ah Kee @ KickArts Gallery Cairns

12 Oct 2009 | 3:17 pm

It's worth taking your time with the work of Vernon Ah Kee.When so much conceptual art opts for predictable shock and the comfortable confrontation it is easy to imagine that anything that has such an immediate impact is similarly shallow. Not so. The two whole room installations at Cairns Kick Arts Gallery, 'Waru' and 'Belief Suspension' have a depth that's warm, angry serious and witty and
On Jon Cattapan @ Kaliman Gallery

20 Sep 2009 | 11:04 pm

The eerie beauty of Jon Cattapan's work surges with life and energy. His exhibition at Kaliman Gallery (which I'm woefully late in reviewing) is one of the more engaging, relevant and lush shows of new painting I've seen this year. The works on show stem from a commission by the Australian War Memorial that saw him join the Australian peacekeeping force in East Timor. It's a great testament to

The Present Group Journal
Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era

eleanor

23 Oct 2009 | 1:31 pm

Julia Bryan-Wilson, director of the Ph.D. program in visual studies at the University of California, Irvine, investigates in her new book the movement to create a new recognition of artists as workers and laborers in the 60’s and 70’s. Their efforts created some change within the museum structure, yet it continues to be a struggle today, as seen with efforts of W.A.G.E. and our “State of the Arts” project led by Joseph del Pesco. Julia Bryan-Wilson on Artforum.com: THE MORE INTERESTED I became in the legacies of the Art Workers’ Coalition and the New York Art…
Art Subscriptions on the Rise

eleanor

22 Oct 2009 | 6:18 pm

Know what I have been a little delinquent in doing? Charting the growth of art subscriptions. I’ve been doing it in my head, but now I’d like to finally share with you just what has been happening in the world of art via subscriptions. 1. Papirmasse #5 May 2009 by Kirsten McCrea “Papirmasse is a magazine, original art, and social experiment rolled into one.” Papirmasse is a monthly edition that gets delivered quarterly. It is a poster-sized double sided print folded to fit in a 9 x 12 envelope. For the most part, one side is an image and the other is mostly…
Save the Date: NYC Editions and Artists’ Books Fair

eleanor

22 Oct 2009 | 2:13 pm

We’re going to be part of this Fair from November 6th through 8th. It’s free and will be neat and fun so come and see us. There will be lots of great exhibitors and there will be editions made on site and sold from Dim-Sum style rolling carts. Hurrah!
Open Call For TPG13 - Deadline 11/9/09

Oliver

16 Oct 2009 | 2:09 pm

Our next review date for TPG13 is NOVEMBER 9th, 2009. The Present Group a quarterly art subscription service,seeks proposals from artists for projects that are reproducible in intent. We are looking for projects that will result in a limited edition, artist multiples, or a single work that consists of multiple parts. Every year TPG subscribers receive limited edition works from 4 different contemporary artists.A $500 honorarium is awarded to each season’s artist.Artists must submit a proposal to submit[at]thepresentgroup.com or via USPS: The Present GroupAttn: Submission593 8th St.
Perfect Sunday

eleanor

5 Oct 2009 | 7:16 pm

It started with Pear Ginger Muffins and Julia Child’s Omeletts (we ate them too fast to take a picture) Yes. That is a pad of butter on my steaming muffin. Layer your pleasures people. Here’s the recipe, adapted from Nigella’s Pear Ginger Muffin recipe: -Preheat oven to 400. -In a large bowl, mix 1 cup white flour, 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and 1 tsp ground ginger, 1/8 tsp of salt. -In another bowl, mix 2/3 cup sour cream, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 tbs honey (warm), and 2 large eggs. Fold into the dry…

The Aesthetic Elevator
Art collectors buying locally

pcNielsen

2 Nov 2009 | 7:44 am

From a recent Wall Street Journal article titled Local Artists Are on the Rise: From Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Turin, Italy, contemporary-art collectors are passing on works by international art stars and skipping far-flung art fairs and auctions. This year, they’re buying local. In Detroit, major collector and steel company executive Gary Wasserman says he’s stopped buying works by England’s Anish Kapoor and China’s Yue Minjun so he can focus more on buying “powerfully Midwestern” art by artists like Brian Carpenter, whose $1,000 photographs often…
New blog at pcNielsen.com

pcNielsen

31 Oct 2009 | 1:16 pm

I spent quite a bit of time today working on the website showcasing my sculpture. It’s better organized, at least according to the scheme of the theme I’m using. And I’ve also added this blog. The tentative plan is to post studio related entries there and reserve The Aesthetic Elevator’s space for more philosophical meanderings. In all likelihood activity on the Elevator will lessen while the overall depth of the subject matter hopefully deepens. Keep up with the most recent posts on both blogs by subscribing to their feeds via an RSS reader, such as Google Reader.
International Artist Day

pcNielsen

25 Oct 2009 | 11:16 am

Apparently today is International Artist Day. My request as an artist on International Artist Day is for a full year of subsidized dedicated studio time. Think someone will grant my wish? I’m really not one for all these self-declared holidays, but the following list of celebratory suggestions from the Artist Day’s website is worth sharing: 1. Visit a gallery and explain why you’re there. 2. Purchase a piece of art to support an artist. 3. Visit an artist’s studio. 4. Take an artist out to lunch and explore their world. 5. [And the perfunctory] Come up with your own…
Business as the generic major

pcNielsen

23 Oct 2009 | 4:19 pm

Last night I vegged in front of the Gilmore Girls. The wife had it on again while she knitted something called a shadowbox (like a giant scarf-slash-shawl) from some more of her recycled sweater yarn. I’ve seen the television series enough already, but after my first early day of retail employment it was more about the sitting than the amusement. I think she’s in the fourth season, Rory’s first year at Yale. Rory is trying to make the editor of the Yale Daily News happy with her writing, and takes to heart his advice to write what she feels. This manifests itself in a…
Another use for clay

pcNielsen

20 Oct 2009 | 8:46 am

From yesterday’s Lio: Posted in Ceramics

The Old Gold
Some Things

Jon Lutz

4 Nov 2009 | 8:22 am

Upcoming: Matthew Fisher's Lonesome George opens Nov. 6@ ADA Gallery in RichmondUp now: Ivin Ballen @ WinklemanClosing soon: ABCyz 2009 @ SilvershedGreat stuff on KCLOG as of late...esp. The Deli Storeroom's THE REAL WORLD, The Dirty Dirty's PsuedonymousMore from that show at The Dirty Dirty site
P. Shrinermacher

Jon Lutz

26 Oct 2009 | 8:18 am

Daily Operation participated in ABCyz 2009 and featured the work of P. Shrinermacher. The show will be open by appointment until Nov. 7. ABCyz is a collaborative art exhibition of NYC-based contemporary art collectives, curatorial groups and art publishers, each of which was formed in the last four years. A group show of group shows, ABCyz is a salon-style exhibition of independent out-of-pocket exhibitions, recession-style creative processes and guerilla promotions. In the late 80s and early 90s, artist Lance Rutledge sent anonymous letters, paintings, and art objects to various NY…
This Weekend: ABCyz 2009 and The Real World

Jon Lutz

20 Oct 2009 | 9:50 am

!Friday Night @ Silvershed, 119 West 25th St., PH, NYCABCyz 2009 is a collaborative art exhibition of NYC-based contemporary art collectives, curatorial groups and art publishers, each of which was formed in the last four years. A group show of group shows, ABCyz is a salon-style exhibition of independent out-of-pocket exhibitions, recession-style creative processes and guerilla promotions. MORE HERE.My project, Daily Operation, presents Yours, P. Shrinermacher for ABCyz 2009... In the late 80s and early 90s, the artist Lance Rutledge sent anonymous letters, paintings, and art objects to…
Studio: Gianna Commito

Jon Lutz

14 Oct 2009 | 4:56 pm

Here are a few new works from Gianna's really productive summer. Check out my previous posts/interview with her here and her blog here.
Studio: Erik den Breejen

Jon Lutz

6 Oct 2009 | 5:51 pm

More of Erik den Breejen's work here.

Living the Dream
November Events

admin

29 Oct 2009 | 8:14 am

I finally wrapped my second book, A PLACE WHERE HURRICANES HAPPEN by Renee Watson. It debuts this June with Random House. In the meantime, I will be making three appearances in November. On November 12th, the Cleveland Public Library is graciously hosting an exhibition of the original artwork for OUR CHILDREN CAN SOAR, which was published with BloomsburyUSA. They have invited me to be a part of the opening exhibition and to talk about my work. If you’re in Cleveland, please come by! On November 21, I will be at the Brooklyn Museum’s Children’s Book Fair with Zetta Elliott…
Coming to a tv/computer near you!

admin

4 Oct 2009 | 9:10 pm
Baltimore Book Fair Recap

admin

29 Sep 2009 | 5:32 pm

The Baltimore Book Fair was a great success! I had a chance to see some old friends, meet a few new little people and share my love of books and drawings. The best part of the day was when, while illustrating on stage with a few kids, I needed to draw a road. I drew two lines diminishing to a single vanishing point (art lingo for those in the know ). One young girl says, “that doesn’t look like a road!”. I say “you’re right”, add dotted lines down the middle (also toward the vanishing point), after which I hear a loud “that’s so AWESOME!”…
Inspiration

admin

26 Sep 2009 | 8:00 am

I was hanging out with my friend Tae a few weeks back and stumbled upon two killer books that everyone must see. First, there’s ALL THE WORLD illustrated by Marla Frazee and Liz Garton Scallion. I haven’t seen a more perfect book since Jonathan Bean’s AT NIGHT or Zetta Elliott’s BIRD (shameless, I know). See a detailed synopsis, and behind the scenes look here. From the publisher: All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now. Following a circle of family and friends through the course of a day from morning till night,…
Baltimore Book Fair

admin

23 Sep 2009 | 3:13 pm

Hey Baltimore! Come out this Sunday to see yours truly and Zetta Elliott at the 14th annual Baltimore Book Festival. We will be presenting BIRD, Sunday, September 27th at 1:00PM. Look for us at the Children’s Bookstore Stage. Now, to find that top hat and cane….

An Artist's Journal: Daily Paintings by Felicia Marshall
"European Cathedral"

Felicia Marshall

1 Nov 2009 | 6:25 pm

5"x7"acrylic on hardboardI get lost in the grandness of cathedrals. I was amazed by the detailed work on the front of this cathedral in Europe. I grew up southern baptist so a church with such elaborate art decorating the exterior or for that matter the interior was just something you didn't see. I sometimes shy away from white objects. I find that you have to think and plan out the painting a little bit more than when your pallet is not as limited. It is however a great accomplishment when I am able to pull it off.SOLD
"Zora as A Fairy"

Felicia Marshall

31 Oct 2009 | 9:36 am

6"X6"acrylic on hardboard"Happy Halloween" This is Zora as a fairy. I never got to go trick or treating as a kid, so I never appreciated Halloween until I became a mother. In my house Halloween marks the beginning of the holidays. This image is from a past Halloween. This year everyone went for the darker costumes. My little princess was determined to be a vampire this year complete with makeup. I managed to talk the others down from their original grim reaper costumes into ninjas. I already miss the good old days when girls were princesses and boys were superheros.SOLD
"Mama Sissy"

Felicia Marshall

18 Oct 2009 | 7:35 pm

5"x7"acrylic on hardboardThis is my grandmother in her youth she turned one hundred years old today. Wow one hundred years old. I can barely get my head around the number. As young children my siblings and I called her Two Mama because she was like our second mother. Most family members call her Mama Sissy, and to everyone else she’s known as Miss Sissy. Everybody in her small town knows her, and I guess they should considering she is 100 years old. Her real name is T.C. which simply stands for T.C.She is history. She lost her two sisters to Tuberculosis in their twenties at the height of…
"Mitilda"

Felicia Marshall

14 Oct 2009 | 7:31 pm

5"x7"acrylic on hardboardI am always fascinated with old family photographs. I guess I’m like a kid in the since that I can’t imagine many of my relatives as a younger version of themselves. When I looked at Aunt Matilda as this very young woman, I can’t help but wonder what her ambitions were, her hopes, and dreams. I am very pleased at the way this painting turned out. It was a treat to paint from start to finish.SOLD
"Kenya"

Felicia Marshall

12 Oct 2009 | 9:01 pm

"5x7"acrylic on hardboardI have been working on this painting for sometime now. I am glad I can finally post it tonight. How adorable if I may say so myself. I can never resist a cute kid with a great smile. Kenya has what my husband calls a whole face smile. I love the way I was able to capture the bronze glow of her face. I always say sunlight makes the best lighting. This painting is a perfect example of great lighting. I was really happy to get the high contrast in so many areas of the portrait.SOLD

Art On Display
Yuta Onoda

syed syahrul

6 Nov 2009 | 7:57 am
Victor Angelo

syed syahrul

3 Nov 2009 | 3:57 pm

Victor Angelo implements his belief in the human touch as he thoughtfully formulates subtle gradations of opulent colour into timeless masterpieces. Exhibitions featuring Victor Angelo include the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, Museum of International Contemporary Art, Modern Art Museum in Brazil, Museum of Fine Arts, La Jolla Athenaeum, Oceanside Museum of Art, Museum of Living Artists, Art Institute of San Diego, Hunter Museum of American Art in Tennessee, Museum of International Contemporary Art in Brazil, Fine Arts Museum in Beijing, Flash Art Museum in Italy, Fine Arts Museum in…
Sam Soulek

syed syahrul

30 Oct 2009 | 5:11 am
Remi Juliebø

syed syahrul

6 Oct 2009 | 7:05 pm
Chromasia

syed syahrul

28 Sep 2009 | 5:36 pm

Reborn Dolls Blog
Reborn Maddy Lin

6 Nov 2009 | 4:25 pm

Maddy Lin came to me as a blank Tabatha sculpt. As soon as I saw her I fell in love with her and wanted to strive to take my time with her and do the
Reborn Baby Charlie

6 Nov 2009 | 4:24 pm

Charlie was reborn from the Asher reborn doll sculpt by Donna Lee. He was a pleasure to bring to life. Enjoy his picture!
Gorgeous reborn Brianna-Lee

6 Nov 2009 | 1:46 pm

Do you think the realism in the Madeline reborn doll kit is unREAL...? This little cutie is the 20 sculpt by Bergit Gutzwiller. Creating Brianna-Lee
Reborn Lily Rose

6 Nov 2009 | 1:45 pm

Lily Rose started out as a Morgan reborn doll sculpt by Aliena Peterson. Im so thrilled with how her complexion turned out!! She has beautiful green
Reborn Baby Christina

6 Nov 2009 | 12:57 pm

I saw the Hannah reborn doll kit by Elly Knoops and thought she was the most beautiful kit, so naturally I had to reborn her! I always reborn babies

A Planet Named Janet
Animal Stackers on the Wall, Purdy paint brushes and curtains.

6 Nov 2009 | 11:19 am

The Animal Stackers painting fits perfectly in this spot. My daughter is currently 6 months pregnant and they only just finished installing hardwood floors by themselves the week before I arrived. They did a really nice job.While at my daughter's, they wanted the nursery painted. Carribean green was their color choice. It took 4 coats of paint. 1 coat of white to cover the initial wall color that had patches of green test paint all over. 1 coat of carribean green mixed with some white. Then 2 coats of carribean green itself. And 4 times to cut in along the molding and ceiling.When we went to…
Animal stackers -- done, I think.

31 Oct 2009 | 5:40 pm

Pending approval, I do believe I am done for the most part.
Nearing completion of Animal Stackers.

30 Oct 2009 | 9:31 am

Made changes again. Decided that the animals got lost on the blue diamonds in the background, so lighten them some. May end up lightening them some more, but for now I am okay with them. Warmed up the pink in the elephant to that of the flamingo and started cleaning up the blanket. At this point I am planning on whatever pattern to include orange - maybe just a big star. Blocked in a bird on the elephant trunk, a mouse in the cheetah's paw and a chicken on top of the alligator. Yet to sketch in a frog. Planning to put it on top of the flamingo or monkey, or maybe both.
Finalizing some decisions on Animal Stackers

29 Oct 2009 | 8:23 pm

Done painting for the day. Added spots to the cheetah and cleaned up the lines around most of the animals. Started on the elephants blanket. Got some correcting to do on the black and white border. Not sure what kind of a pattern I will use on the blanket. Also have a few more creatures to add to the stack.
Yet another change to Animal stackers

28 Oct 2009 | 8:19 pm

While I liked the soft colors of the diamonds in the background in the previous progresses, I was not happy with how they went with the other colors that were developing. I thought that I needed to darken the blue. Didnt care for that. But whitening the pale cream diamonds made the difference. And you will also note that I changed the elephant to pink.

Agora Art
The Art of Miniature

Karin

5 Nov 2009 | 2:43 am

The announcement of the winner of Nikon’s ‘Small World’ photomicrography competition last month reminded us of the beauty to be found in the (very) small components that make up our world. The company has been running this competition annually for over thirty years, and the high caliber of the entries over the years has made its publication of each new year’s photographs an eagerly anticipated event. This year’s memorable images included a flowering plant anther, an anglerfish ovary and a rusted old coin. The special thing about these and all the other images is…
The art of fashion

Karin

29 Oct 2009 | 7:47 am

Exhibition receptions are generally busy, colorful affairs, when the gallery fills up with people all chattering, questioning, admiring and exploring the art on display. It’s a time when individuals from many different walks of life and from diverse backgrounds end up all in the same room, and to an extent sharing the same experience. There is always something exciting and marvelous about such a combination, and receptions can be exhilarating events. One of the the factors which contributes to the unique atmosphere is the variety in clothing which includes smart, casual, and every shade…
Exhibition: Altered States of Reality; Elements of Abstraction; Portals of Perception

Karin

14 Oct 2009 | 3:26 am

Glimpse the world as captured through the lens of a camera in Altered States of Reality; experience a rich kaleidoscope of color, form and texture in Elements of Abstraction; discover the spirit behind the visuals presented in Portals of Perception. Altered States of Reality provides a glimpse of the world as captured through the shifting yet focused view of a camera lens, the transformation of technology, and through the artists’ own inner vision. The gifted artists participating in Altered States of Reality offer us a perception of the world as seen through a complex, enigmatic fusion…
Guest Post: Buying Art from the Heart by Angela Di Bello

Karin

12 Oct 2009 | 7:00 am

I’ve always been interested in what motivates artists to create, and how they choose their subjects or themes. Although there is, naturally, a good deal of variation as to detail, there is a very strong uniting feature in the answers I have received over the years: Artists paint (/sculpt/draw/photograph) what they love, or what moves them deeply in some way. That is what motivates them, the ability to produce something that speaks to what is dearest to them and deepest inside them, and the need to make use of that ability. I had never really considered things from the other end before…
Barry Flanagan

Karin

4 Oct 2009 | 5:18 am

Known for his skillful work in bronze, Barry Flanagan was a remarkable sculptor and his death on 31st August 2009 caused both critics and admirers to reflect on the iconic nature of many of his works. He began his career working with simple materials such as sand, material and rope, exploring the concept of form and well represented in groundbreaking exhibitions in the 1960s relating to that notion. It was in the late 1970s, by this time working in bronze, that he first began creating the hares that were to become his most famous signature. The lively, striking sculptures are to be found all…

Newcity Art
Best art exhibit of the last year?

brianhey

3 Nov 2009 | 4:06 pm

This is your last chance to weigh in on this and many other questions. The polls close at midnight on Wednesday so sharpen your mental pencil and get over to http://newcity.bestofchicago.sgizmo.comto get started!
Eye Exam: Keeping Calm and Carrying On

Jason Foumberg

2 Nov 2009 | 8:59 pm

By Jason Foumberg “Why do all the work?” asks Nadine Nakanishi of traditional printmaking techniques. The rhetorical question is often posed to her and Nick Butcher, who together run Sonnenzimmer, a silk-screening poster-design studio in Roscoe Village. A shopper at the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco stopped at their booth to ask why he shouldn’t [...]
Review: John Chiara and Sean McFarland/Swimming Pool Project Space

Jason Foumberg

2 Nov 2009 | 8:58 pm

RECOMMENDED This two-person show is a conceptually rather than aesthetically driven conversation between two Bay-area photographers who use experimental methods to capture uncanny landscapes. John Chiara’s epic, faded Cibachrome prints of ocean and suburbs are taken with immense homemade cameras, limiting his options for subjects to places he can drive or hold the camera, creating [...]
Review: Jane Fulton Alt/Chicago Cultural Center

Jason Foumberg

2 Nov 2009 | 8:58 pm

RECOMMENDED If, as Aaron Siskind said, one of photography’s great services is to “redeem the ruins,” then there could be few greater challenges to fulfilling that purpose than imaging the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward in 2005. Jane Fulton Alt rose to the occasion and came back with color photographs [...]
Review: Carroll Dunham/He Said-She Said

Jason Foumberg

2 Nov 2009 | 8:58 pm

RECOMMENDED The naked bathing woman, like the wine-and-bread still life, is one of those enduring standards of modern painting. Presumably it has been just a matter of multitasking necessity, as the artist likely consumes his subject after completing the painting. Naked bathers have shed their clothes in front of Picasso, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir and so many [...]

Art Licensing Blog
Trade Show prep time – some great advice from SURTEX

artisttarareed

6 Nov 2009 | 9:06 am

In case you didn’t know, SURTEX has an eZine called “On the Surface” that they use to help promote and inform artists and manufacturers alike about the show and the art licensing industry. This month’s issue had a great article called “Countdown to SURTEX 2010″ and I really liked it. I was given permission to reprint it here (why re-create the wheel, right?) COUNTING DOWN TO SURTEX 2010 In our month-to-month, step-by-step march to SURTEX 2010, October brings us to what licensing veteran and public relations pro Kay Degenhardt calls “the most…
Advertising… how do you get the word out that you have art for licensing?

artisttarareed

5 Nov 2009 | 8:27 am

I have had several questions recently about advertising and in a recent tele-seminar with Paul Brent the question was asked again. With January trade shows quickly approaching and the spring and summer not far behind, I decided today was a great day to do a little post about it. Websites Paul answered that he has his website, which he considers advertising, and you should too. We’ve talked about it before but it bears repeating: it is essential to have some sort of online presence. Blog platforms have evolved so much that at times you aren’t sure if you are on a website…
FTC Guidelines for Bloggers & Online Disclosures to Change on December 1st – Part 2: HERE’S MY PLAN

artisttarareed

4 Nov 2009 | 7:21 pm

As promised and because I’m tired of formulating a plan and just want to have a plan (because I can change it later if I need to…) here is my current plan for compliance. First let’s talk about a website that has 6 pre-defined association definitions and you can simply link to them. it is www.cmp.ly the listings are numbered between zero and five… zero being: DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL CONNECTION I have not received any compensation for writing this content and I have no material connection to the brands, topics and/or products that are mentioned herein. So to tell you…
FTC Guidelines for Bloggers & Online Disclosures to Change on December 1st – Part 1: HERE’S WHY

artisttarareed

3 Nov 2009 | 9:24 am

I’ve mentioned this FTC regulation change in passing and have promised to blog about it. This is such a big and intricate topic that I’ve decided to break it into two parts – Part 1 is the “WHY” and Part 2 will be the “HOW”. I’m still working to figure it myself – what it means to me as a blogger and as a business with an affiliate program – and what I will do to stay in compliance, thereby avoiding the $11,000 fines. (Ouch! That would hurt! This is important!) It is interesting that this issue has become a legal requirement –…
Five things I was reminded about business while handing out candy on Halloween…

artisttarareed

2 Nov 2009 | 8:30 am

Saturday, October 31st, at about 6:30 pm, like any suburban mom in a flat neighborhood with houses close together, I sat braced for the onslaught of trick-or-treaters. Would I have enough candy? How many times would the door bell ring and how long? What cute or scary characters would come to call? We were fortunate in Portland this year – it was dry and not too cold. The kids wouldn’t freeze and the parents walking them around wouldn’t either. I wouldn’t be stuck with huge bags of candy to tempt me because of cold, wind and rain forcing kids to cut their trek…

Quadri Famosi
Albrecht Dürer

Eleonora Vignaroli

4 Nov 2009 | 7:25 am

Figlio di Albrecht il Vecchio, proveniente da Aylas, Albrecht Durer, nasce a Norimberga il 21 maggio 1471 (trzo di diciotto figli). Fin da bambino lavorava nella bottega del padre. Verso i 13 anni di età, eseguirà il suo primo autoritratto( 1484), che eoggi si trova all’Albertina di Vienna, delineato già con mano sicura e a punta d’argento. Nel 1486, entra nello studio di Michael Wolgemut, un importantissimo pittore e silografo della città. A partire dal 1490, viaggerà per l’Europa per 4 anni. In questo periodo, Durer giunge a Basilea dove inizierà la sua piu intensa…
Lo stupro di Montalto a Domenica Cinque

Eleonora Vignaroli

25 Oct 2009 | 7:51 am

stupro montalto Ciao WEB, ho deciso di scrivere qui, questo articolo per fare in modo che veramente molte persone leggano quello che accade in alcuni posti d’Italia alle soglie del 2010. Probabilmente, in questi giorni avrete letto o ascoltato dell’ ennesimo strupro collocato sta volta a Montalto, ma io lo riassumo per i meno aggiornati: 8 adolescenti stuprano nella pineta una coetanea. A 15 anni, un’altra vita tormentata, un’ altra ragazza che dovrà fare una gran fatica per ricominciare a vivere. Ho appena seguito Domenica Cinque, c’è stato un dibattito…
Arte Contemporanea in Mostra

Eleonora Vignaroli

23 Oct 2009 | 3:54 am

web progetto MILANO COMUNICATO STAMPA Oggetto: Arte Contemporanea in Mostra “(Ele)menti a confronto” 28 ottobre – 22 novembre 2009 Sede espositiva: Galleria Eleonora D’Andrea Contemporanea Via Settembrini, 26 – 20124 Milano tel. 3408596967 e-mail: gallery@elexpo.it Vernissage: mercoledì 28 ottobre 2009, dalle ore 17.30 alle ore 19 (su invito) entrata libera dalle ore 19.00 Orari apertura galleria al pubblico : lunedì – mercoledi ore 15.00 – 19.00 giovedi -venerdi -sabato -domenica (solo su appuntamento) Entrata libera A ottobre nella città di Milano si inaugura (Ele)menti a…
Fulmine scopre il tesoro del Duomo di Parma

Eleonora Vignaroli

22 Oct 2009 | 2:52 pm

duomo di parma Un fulmine ha colpito l’ Angelo d’Oro del campanile del Duomo di Parma alle 2.29 bloccando l’orologio. Si è scagliato diretto sulla croce tenuta in mano dall Angelo d’Oro originando un principio d’incendio. I vigili del fuoco sono intervenuti prontamente con diverse squadre. L’ Angelo d’Oro che si trova sul campanile è una copia collocata ai primi del ‘900; l’originale, del 1200, si trova al Museo diocesano. Il campanile del Duomo, è in stile gotico, e fu eretto tra il 1284 e il 1291 dopo la demolizione della…
Anna in America, Associazione Onlus, sindrome di Rett

Eleonora Vignaroli

17 Oct 2009 | 9:05 am

Faccio un ulteriore appello ai miei lettori, se fra di voi c’è qualcuno che può soffermarsi a vedere questo video, e poi collegarsi subito con il sito di Anna, lo faccia. Vi prego, Anna sta per partire per l’America, con la prospettiva di essere sottoposta a cure indispensabili per la sua malattia, la sindrome di Rett. 3 COSE: - SENSIBILIZZAZIONE - RACCOLTA FONDI - COMPRENSIONE Vi ringrazio davvero di cuore per l’attenzione. Clicca qui per vedere il video incorporato.

Nothinglikeit - Because most things are funnier when you flatten them!
We Do Windows!

Nothinglikeit

5 Nov 2009 | 1:58 pm

Out and about this week - traveling and visiting friends and family. I'm at Mom and Dad's for a few days and while out with Mom shopping on Wednesday, we talked about their need to replace the windows in their house.25 years old with single pane windows that badly need to be re-glazed - it was time to do something. A few phone calls to window companies had been a bit discouraging. $19,000 for 13 replacement windows sounded like a little bit too much.We stopped by Home Depot and talked to the window expert and he told us how to measure for a replacement window. We went back to the house, took…
A Spooktacular Halloween!

Nothinglikeit

1 Nov 2009 | 11:03 am

I'm not a photographer, but I played one this weekend...Charles and I volunteered to setup and run a photo booth to benefit Friends of Topsail Park here in Florida. It was a big fund raising event Friday and Saturday night with a Scary trail, a Trick-or-Treat trail, and a Fantasy Land game area where kids could win lots of prizes. Our photo booth was setup to the side of the game area and boy were we busy!This is the background we started out with:Pretty cool, right? It's just a large tarp painted to look like a dungeon. It looked great in our garage but we forgot to imagine what might happen…
Tucker Grows!

Nothinglikeit

25 Oct 2009 | 5:48 pm

I thought he would never catch up with those giant ears and that extra long tail but I'm amazed at how fast my kitten is growing! He eats constantly (when we let him) and continues to delight us. Here's his growth progress, in photos, over the last two weeks:Tucker - 10 weeksTucker - 11 weeksTucker 12 weeks
It's a wonder...

Nothinglikeit

20 Oct 2009 | 7:44 am

That's what the older gentleman said while scanning the newspaper headlines. "It's a wonder we don't blow up the entire planet with all of this science and technology and stuff."He's right you know. And he's wrong. And then there's every possibility in between.The human race has learned more in the last 50 years than it did in all of the time before that combined. Also amazing - The more we know, the more we realize how little we know."It's greek to me" - I often hear this idiom which is a literary way of saying "I don't get it."We should update that phrase for this century to "It's GEEK to…
Back to the Business at Hand...

Nothinglikeit

14 Oct 2009 | 2:00 pm

OK, being an artist and running a gallery was a blast. It was an exciting 10 days (actually 2 months if you count the prep time) but now I'm eager to get back to my other activities. In the next few weeks I'll start listing some of my original art in my ArtFire shop and may even have a few silly coasters completed to bring my ETSY shop back to life as well.Efforts with our local feral cat "Trap-Neuter-Release" program are still going strong. We're up to 45 cats spayed/neutered since September 1st and hope to reach 200 by the end of the year. I'm using my creative energies to promote this…

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William Hundley (via albino_octopus)

6 Nov 2009 | 9:31 pm

William Hundley (via albino_octopus)
William Hundley

6 Nov 2009 | 9:15 pm

William Hundley
William Hundley

6 Nov 2009 | 8:59 pm

William Hundley
William Hundley

6 Nov 2009 | 8:44 pm

William Hundley
William Hundley (via albino_octopus)

6 Nov 2009 | 8:40 pm

William Hundley (via albino_octopus)

Happy Famous Artists
blow up sheep

6 Nov 2009 | 1:31 am

click here to get your own, inflatable, life sized sheep.[via bredna rockwell for elle]
r.i.p.: claude lévi-strauss dies at 100

4 Nov 2009 | 3:26 am

the french philosopher & anthropologist died on saturday, aged 100.click here for the obituary by the guardian and here for a short bio
cristi pogacean

3 Nov 2009 | 1:18 pm

and another rising star from the transylvanian region ;-)click here and here
aesthetic terrorist vlad

3 Nov 2009 | 1:02 pm

click here to see more works of vlad nanca, here to follow his blog, and here to admire his awesome terrorist balloons (couple of which will hfa soon have in their possession - thnx vlad!)
showtime: nomad

3 Nov 2009 | 6:40 am

click here for nomad and here for his solo show @ circleculture gallery.[via urbanartcore.eu @ flickr]

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6 Nov 2009 | 11:21 am

6 Nov 2009 | 11:21 am

M11X aka Mikal Hameed URBAN AUDIO MANIFESTO #1 Nov 13th – Dec 12th Opening Reception: Nov 13 2009, 7:00 RONIN GALLERY 1924 Echo Park Ave. Los Angeles CA 90026 For more info please call 323.284.8782 or visit www.theroningallery.com or info@theroningallery.com www.mikalhameed.com
21 Oct 2009 | 12:39 pm

21 Oct 2009 | 12:39 pm

Christophe Côme Cristina Grajales is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of works by Christophe Côme November 5th - December 24th, 2009 Originally trained as a sculptor, Christophe Côme works with wrought iron that is paired with industrial glass and crystal. Shaped by hand, his work is known for its fine quality of craftsmanship and attention to detail. This exhibition will focus on a collection of unique furniture and lighting designs that illustrate the progression and experimentation in Christophe Côme's work over the years. Cristina Grajales is pleased publish a limited…
19 Oct 2009 | 8:59 am

19 Oct 2009 | 8:59 am

NO LONGER EMPTY Object title: LOT 193-38B Artist: Rey Parlá Artist Statement: For the No Longer Empty exhibition, I am presenting a portable "ready-made object" in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp. The image of LOT 193-38B shows the property of 51 | 53 Bergen Street, the present location of The Invisible Dog, between 1939 and 1941. I have made the image my own creation by retouching the original through digital manipulation and placing the photographic document into a non-traditional A-Frame or “real estate” display, as part of an ongoing invisible sale perhaps. The U.S. government used…
16 Oct 2009 | 5:43 pm

16 Oct 2009 | 5:43 pm

Daiske: Open StudioSaturday, October 17th and Sunday the 18th from1 pm to 6 pm October 17th, Saturday 6-8pm Reception PartyLocation:24 Garfield Place　Brooklyn R train to Union Street Station
16 Oct 2009 | 9:48 am

16 Oct 2009 | 9:48 am

Up next at Deitch Projects, Lance Armstrong and Nike unite to launch STAGES09, a global art exhibition to raise funds and awareness for the fight against cancer. Artists: Cai Guo-Qiang Rosson Crow Jules De Balincourt Dzine Shepard Fairey Futura Andreas Gursky Kaws Geoff McFetridge Yoshitomo Nara Catherine Opie Os Gemeos Jose Parla Raymond Pettibon Lari Pittman Richard Prince Ed Ruscha Tom Sachs Kenny Scharf Eric White Christopher Wool Dustin Yellin Aaron Young LIVESTRONG is honored to announce that 25 world-renowned artists have donated their time and creativity to support the global fight…

Daniel Cool - Gay Art
Ikea-Team

6 Nov 2009 | 6:28 am

Engagierte IKEA-MitarbeiterV.l.: Zuzana Polakova (HR Manager Germany), Xenia Mohr (Diversity Manager), Steffen Allmendinger (Referent Arbeitsrecht) und Jette Keppler (Employer Branding Specialist Diversity Expert).Jette Keppler ist in der Deutschlandzentrale die Vertreterin des fair.quer-netzwerks. Das Netzwerk setzt sich für die Interessen von Lesben, Schwulen, bis und Transgender ein.IKEA engagiert sich sehr dafuer, dass sich alle Menschen gleich welcher Hautfarbe, Herkunft, koerperlichen Verfassung und natuerlich auch sexueller Orientierung sich bei IKEA wohlfuehlen !Diversity bei IKEADie…
Queens

6 Nov 2009 | 4:16 am

QUEENSAcryl painting on canvasGlitter in silver40 x 40 cm2009
H-CROSS

6 Nov 2009 | 4:10 am

H-CROSSAcryl painting on canvasGlitter in silver80 x 80 cm2009
Ikea

6 Nov 2009 | 4:01 am

IKEAAcryl painting on canvasGlitter in silver50 x 70 cm2009
Danksagung DIE LINKE

3 Nov 2009 | 11:20 am

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negin sairafi
The End of Autumn

neginsairafi

2 Nov 2009 | 6:48 pm

I was a little late this year but fall is not over yet. My favourite season is coming to an end and thankfully I managed to capture a few shots…
Gone too soon

neginsairafi

2 Nov 2009 | 5:13 pm

Watching “This is It” last night was an almost surreal experience. I went in not knowing what to expect and left feeling incredibly inspired, but terribly sad. I’m trying to find the perfect words to describe Michael, but every time I come up with a list of adjectives, I feel that I’ve fallen short. I know people have mixed feelings about him (and I don’t particularly care), but no one can deny his brilliance, not even the skeptics. The media portrayed Michael as a shy, weak and crazy man time and time again, but in this documentary I saw a side of Michael that put the media to…
Photography Assignment #1 – Capturing Autumn

neginsairafi

28 Oct 2009 | 11:46 am

I’m putting together a photography course and group for all you photo enthusiasts, but in the meantime I want to start these great photography assignments that you can all do on your own time. Assignment #1 – Capturing Autumn There’s not a lot of time left to capture the beautiful colors of fall so this is the first assignment and it’s an easy one. The photos submitted will then be displayed on my blog for the world to see! Requirements: 1) One, high resolution photograph encapsulating your perspective of Autumn -Get creative -Think about your composition…
Chasing Success – What I’ve learned so far

neginsairafi

26 Oct 2009 | 10:38 am

Focus Narrowing your focus and concentrating your energies on one thing is the most important first step to take when chasing success. There are only so many hours in a day, so no matter how much of an over achiever you may be, you will eventually run out of fuel. Have a committed relationship with your career; try not to stray, stay faithful and loyal and the results will astound you. Get comfortable with getting uncomfortable Put yourself in situations that make you uncomfortable. Don’t hesitate to contact anyone, regardless of their position or how little you may know them. You will only…
Propaganda

neginsairafi

19 Oct 2009 | 4:02 pm

Haven’t posted in a while but I’ve been keeping busy! Fabulous shoot for Propaganda on Yonge. Great store with fantastic clothes and accessories. Client: Propaganda www.shopaganda.ca Stylist: Robin Vengroff Hair & Make-up: Molly Adey Models: Kelleth Cuthbert (Next Models) & Randi Chapados (NAM Models) Assistant: Rashel S. Thanks to all for your time and talent and a special thanks to Kelleth and Randi for producing such great work despite the cold weather. Enjoy!

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a nomad’s house – photo

Meryem Yildiz

6 Nov 2009 | 9:49 am

makeshift jackstraws; scattering a handful of sticks & tricks to base the reading of destiny
Sutra: A Review

Sylvain Verstricht

5 Nov 2009 | 2:41 pm

Last year, when Flemish/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui had come to town to present Myth, the show only made a lukewarm impression on me. Still I found myself looking forward to his new show, Sutra, which is presented by Danse Danse this week at Place des Arts. It’s probably because, while Cherkaoui is still concerned with issues surrounding faith, Sutra seemed like an entirely different deal. This time, Cherkaoui is surrounded by seventeen monks from the Shaolin temple, including a twelve-year-old boy. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with monks from the Shaolin temple in Sutra, photo by…
Pylon – free mp3 + video + other great mp3s!

Risa Dickens

5 Nov 2009 | 1:00 pm

When I read about Pylon’s rerelease I dug up the video below and it’s perfect, watch it when you have time, think about music and plans and qualities of life, ok? Free play. This from the helpful and presumably girly David, over at Girlie Action. ;) DFA Records just re-released Pylon’s legendary sophomore record, ”Chomp.” As a Georgia boy myself, I’m really excited to be helping out with this record — Pylon were the kings of Athens, GA back in the ’80s. The band helped found Athens’ legendary 40 Watt Club back when it was just a dingy loft…
Dent May and his Marvelous Ukulele in a Bathroom – video

Risa Dickens

5 Nov 2009 | 5:28 am

Discovered via i guess i`m floating blog today, this ukulele heart breaker rattling the stall walls with his catchy catchy longings.
Feathered Racer Cuff

Project-Transaction

4 Nov 2009 | 11:47 am

Add some edge to your look with this simple, elegant design from Project TransAction. This euro inspired cuff is entirely handmade from super soft reclaimed black leather. Features cutout negative space with some subtle accents left intact for a more dynamic and fun effect. A sleek and sexy look on any wrist. The simple design secures to your wrist with one steel snap. Sizing Guide: XS (6-6.5″) S (6.5-7″) M (7-7.5″) L (7.5″-8″) XL (8″-8.5″)

theLightGalleries
Sat 7/18 “ART & SOLE 2″ Custom Shoe Art Exhibition Closing

The Light Gallery proudly presents: "ART & SOLE 2" Over 40 featured Artists customized kicks! Sponsors Toms Shoes PUMA IPATH OCEAN MINDED Converse Come Join us Sat June 13th for an extraordinary Custom Shoe Art exhibition. Sponsored by Toms, Puma, Ipath, Ocean Minded, Converse & Nike. Over 40+ artists using shoes as their canvas! Featured Artists: Chor Boogie Bigtoe Gregory P. ...
5/9 *LIVE*Global Phlowtations Artists Comittee Reunion
*Postponed* “The Art of Digging 2″ Record Swap & Art Show

The Return of "the Art of Digging" record swap & Music themed artshow contact us at thelightgallery@gmail.com for vendor & art submission info
4/24 “VIVA SIEMPRE” Closing Reception 8pm-12am

DO NOT MISS your Last Chance to see over 100 pieces of original art in person!! Mark Your calendars for the closing reception of this legendary exhibit.. Dj Knoe on the wheels Free Refreshments 714.642.7899 more info 8pm-midnight
5/16 “Moment” All Photography Showcase

5/16/09 The Light Gallery Presents a Photography showcase. This will be part of an ongoing quarterly series. Featured Photographers: Chad Williams Keith May Beth Stirnaman Mason Roset Geoff Shivley Edgar Hoil Kasey Murray Grace Anderson Paolo Von Borries E.T.7 8-11pm Free Admission

Vinyl Art
'Tis The Season

d.edlen

5 Nov 2009 | 2:58 pm

As we near my wife's due date, time is getting wacky. It's almost my birthday! Then all the holidays. Man.Imagine throwing a wedding into the mix?The fellow up in Canada who has commissioned these pieces is getting married early December. My wife and I got married late December,