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  • Porn In Church: 30 Years of Charles Atlas

    Art Fag City
    Whitney Kimball
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:22 am
    Screenshot from "Son of Sam and Delilah," 1991, Charles Atlas (courtesy openvault.wgbh.org)Marginalized culture loves to watch the mainstream played out on its own terms — to make itself visible within the imagery that bombards us. It was fitting, then, that last night’s screening of seven videos by upcoming Whitney Biennial artist and longtime documenter of queer culture, Charles Atlas, took place on a small screen in the empty nave of the Judson Memorial Church.  A queer congregation of at least sixty young professionals chatted and contentedly sipped beers as we pulled…

  • The Artist’s Drug of Choice

    Art & Musings
    ShaylaMaddox
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    What’s your poison? Chocolate? Video-games? LSD? Self-consciousness? Artists have become notorious for substance use, addiction, and a good measure of crazy, which is probably intertwined with our ability and our need to make art. Not that all of us are crazy (yeah, right) and not that we’re all addicted to chemical head changes. Or… are we? As artists, our way of processing things, everything, is a bit different than people who don’t have the inclination to make art. We feel everything strongly, we see color differently, we look past reality into a world that…

  • Character Design: Cupcake

    Coolvibe - Daily Digital Art Inspiration
    Vhaddyz
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:06 am
    Character Design by ErAn Croitoru, Israel. Tools: 3ds max, Photoshop, VRay

  • New Brain Painting: Brain Rhythm | 24"x24" | Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

    Hunter Art
    4 Oct 2011 | 11:25 am
    It's DONE!!! Finally!!!!I'm very happy to introduce you to the 6th painting in my Brain Series.(c) Michelle Hunter 2011Brain Rhythm24"x24"Acrylic on Stretched CanvasThis painting came a long way. Things were smooth sailing until I hit the part with the grill. Did not anticipate having to make soooooooo many circles and how long that process was going to take. Let me first take a couple of steps back.In the Beginning....The concept, in general, was to paint what parts of the brain are most active when it comes to music. While doing further research, I learned that different parts of the brain…

  • Jason Martin - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg - January 28th 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

    ArtSlant - Openings this week
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:16 pm
    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents a solo exhibition with new works by Jason Martin. The artist was born in Jersey in 1970 and currently lives in London and Lisbon .Martin's works, which centre on the modernist categories of the gestural and monochrome, appear as a consistent exploration of a subtle characteristic style constantly refined over the years. For each work, he constructs a special comb of the same size as the length of the ground, and uses it to score fine lines in the freshly applied paint, thus creating different kinds of surfaces according to the material of the ground (usually…
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  • Jason Martin - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg - January 28th 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

    20 Jan 2012 | 6:16 pm
    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents a solo exhibition with new works by Jason Martin. The artist was born in Jersey in 1970 and currently lives in London and Lisbon .Martin's works, which centre on the modernist categories of the gestural and monochrome, appear as a consistent exploration of a subtle characteristic style constantly refined over the years. For each work, he constructs a special comb of the same size as the length of the ground, and uses it to score fine lines in the freshly applied paint, thus creating different kinds of surfaces according to the material of the ground (usually…

  • Paolo Icaro - P420 Arte Contemporanea - January 28th 9:00 AM - 11:00 PM

    17 Jan 2012 | 3:34 pm
    Press release On the 28th of January two personal exhibitions will open in Bologna, one at the historical gallery Studio g7 (Via Val d’Aposa 4/A) and the other at the younger p420 Arte Contemporanea (Piazza dei Martiri 5/2), both dedicated to the artist Paolo Icaro (Turin, 1936). Born from the collaboration between these two Bolognese galleries, this double personal exhibition shows Icaro’s artistic development in just over a dozen years and it aims to analyse a crucial moment in the work of the Turin artist, whose research has provided a thoroughly personal contribution to the…

  • - Minneapolis Institute of Arts - January 28th 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    14 Jan 2012 | 4:46 pm
    By looking at single leaves from books dismembered long ago, one can reconstruct the history of book illustration. Here you can see comparisons of painted and printed works, as well as objects that combine both processes. In many cases, the printed works were made to simulate their painted predecessors, but sometimes influence ran in the opposite direction. Witness the ingenuity printers brought to mass production. Some attempted to print text and image from a single surface or to employ modular elements that could be re-used and re-combined. Others applied the exacting, fine art of…

  • Group Show - Tampa Museum of Art - January 28th 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    4 Jan 2012 | 10:33 pm
    One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, John Cage (1912- 1992) created sound and performance works that broke through boundary after boundary. In celebration of his enduring legacy and the 2012 centenary of his birth, the Museum is pleased to present John Cage's 33-1/3 - Performed by Audience – an interactive installation guest curated by Jade Dellinger.  Conceived in 1969 as an "audience participation" work, John Cage’s original "score" simply stipulated that the gallery be filled with about a dozen record players and two- to three-hundred vinyl records. Museum visitors…

  • Don ZanFagna - Tampa Museum of Art - January 28th 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

    4 Jan 2012 | 10:27 pm
    Don ZanFagna (born 1929) has been active since the 1950s and is known for his stunning works that fuse creativity with futuristic warnings. Between 1968 and 1974, ZanFagna created Cyborg Notes, a series of “cybernetic metaphors” that focus on the future problems that DNA mixing might cause. These metaphors take the form of collages of signals or warning of things going wrong. According to the artist, “these works incorporate humans and machines, cloning, eco-architecture and landscape, biology and technology and make use of dark humor, skepticism, irony, and futuristic symbolism.” The…
 
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  • H.O.R.T.U.S. (Hydro Organism Responsive to Urban Stimuli)

    Regine
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:03 am
    With HORTUS, the architects from ecoLogicStudio are inviting the public to become cyber-gardeners and "invent new protocols of urban biogardening." There's a bright green carpet on the floor and hundreds of intravenous-style bags are suspended above our heads. The bags are in fact photo-bioreactors and they form a 'greenhouse' that hosts nine different species of algae, from chlorella to algae found in London's canals. Visitors can blow into flexible plastic tubes, fostering the growth of the algae with their carbon dioxide and activating the oxygen production continue

  • Interview with Jani Leinonen

    Regine
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:47 am
    The Finnish artist is the only person i've heard about who was actually arrested for pretending to guillotine a cheap Ronald Mc Donald statue. With the help of a friend, i got in touch with Jani Leinonen and bombarded him with questions about the beggars signs he's been exhibiting at the Venice Biennale, his crazy sexed-up versions of cereal boxes for children, his successful attempts at selling contemporary art works by the bulk as if they were vegetables and of course i was curious about the aftermath of the Ronald affair continue

  • Magazine review - MCD#65 The culture of green tech

    Regine
    22 Jan 2012 | 5:18 am
    The culture of green tech is a timely publication. 2009 saw plethora of festivals, exhibitions and conferences dedicated to sustainability, 'greener planet' and ecology. I attended so many of them i ended up turning into a cynical eco-phobic. The following year, culture moved to other issues but the relevance of an artistic reflection on green tech is as high as ever. The magzine proposes an intelligent, critical view that goes beyond the monolithic 'green is beautiful' moto and looks into the dilemma and contradictions of green tech continue

  • Samsung Art + Prize

    Regine
    17 Jan 2012 | 10:13 am
    The press view for the Samsung Art+ Prize at BFI Southbank in London dragged me out of bed earlier than usual today. I don't know if the prize is the UK's first digital media art competition as it claims to be, but it is remarkably good. The selection of artworks at least. I'm far less enthusiastic about the way it is exhibited continue

  • Health & Safety Violations - interview with Ben Woodeson

    Regine
    15 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am
    A wire brush spins around randomly, threatening your open-toe sandals. A motion activated vacuum pump sucks out the air from a sealed gallery space: the longer the viewers remain inside, the less air for them to breathe. A cobble stone is rotating on a rope. The sole purpose of that kettle is to spread red acrylic paint on your shoes. An electric fence used to control livestock on farms criss-crosses the path that leads to an art gallery or the bar. Elsewhere a randomly activated tripwire awaits visitors... continue
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  • The Art of Video Games: Announcing GameFest

    Georgina
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:06 am
    Join us for the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters To celebrate the opening of The Art of Video Games exhibition, we will be holding three jam-packed days of events and activities from Friday, March 16 through Sunday, March 18, 2012. The schedule kicks off on Friday with panel discussions that include industry pioneers such as Don Daglow and RJ Mical, as well as innovative contemporary game designers such as Kellee Santiago and Ken Levine. Following this is a keynote presentation by Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and often considered to be the father of electronic gaming…

  • Q and Art: Silhouettes

    Alida
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:49 am
    This post is the first of an ongoing series on Eye Level: "Q and Art" and is the successor to our series "The Best of Ask Joan of Art." Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art was the longest-running arts-based electronic reference service in the country. We retired the service late last year but want to continue to bring you interesting questions and answers about art and artists from our archive. Left: an unidentified artist's hollow-cut silhouette of Evelyn Byrd, center: M. A. Honeywell's cut-and-pasted silhouette Lady, right: George Catlin's painted silhouette Mr. Fred H. Robinson Question: I…

  • Pilgrimage: Five Questions with Annie Leibovitz

    Howard
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Annie Leibovitz, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 2009, © Annie Leibovitz. From Pilgrimage (Random House, 2011) Pilgrimage is a personal journey by photographer Annie Leibovitz, celebrated over the decades for her astute portraits of the cultural landscape. In Pilgrimage, the landscape is real: out of the photographer's studio and into icons of America, from the homes or workplaces of Elvis Presley to Ralph Waldo Emerson to Georgia O'Keeffe, from Niagara Falls to Yosemite Valley to Emily Dickinson's home in Amherst, to the work of photographers Alexander Gardner and Ansel Adams, to name a…

  • Five Questions: Opera at the Renwick

    Jeff
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Washington National Opera Principal Coach for the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Ken Weiss provides some insider information on how he selected the artists and repertoire for the upcoming January 22 performance in the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon, in a discussion with Jo Ann Gillula, Chief of External Affairs at the museum. Washington National Opera Domingo Cafritz Young Artist Program, Photo by Harold Dorwin Eye Level: Traditionally, the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists program has presented operatic scenes at the Renwick. This performance opens with art songs by Richard Strauss. Can you tell…

  • Renwick Postcard Competition

    Georgina
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:02 am
    Cross stitch postcard celebrating the Renwick's 40 years by Katie Crooks. The Renwick Gallery is celebrating a milestone year in 2012, its 40th! To give our audience a chance to participate in the fun, we're holding a postcard design contest. We want to see how visitors (both onsite and online) translate the best in American craft, decorative arts, exhibitions, and programs on a mail-worthy 5 by 7 inch space. And most of all, we are excited to see the creative way in which you see the Renwick Gallery. Yes, you! If you haven't created a design yet, you really should. The deadline is 11:59 p.m.
 
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  • Manifest Destiny Edition: Smell Art, Queens, and Multi-Million Dollar Embezzlement

    Art Fag City
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:36 am
    John Gast, "American Progress" (c. 1872)Surprise, surprise: Queens is the new Bushwick. [via Artinfo, WSJ]Smell art: the final frontier? [Hyperallergic]Yes. The French ministry of culture acknowledges perfumery as art [via Hyperallergic tweet: graindemusc.blogspot.com]Upper East Side art dealer Robert Scott Cook of Cook Fine Art faces up to 20 years in prison.  The 62-year-old was charged with $4 million fraud after selling 16 works by Renoir, Matisse, and Picasso without telling the owner or giving him the proceeds.  [via Artinfo, WSJ]We just almost got hit by an asteroid.

  • Porn In Church: 30 Years of Charles Atlas

    Whitney Kimball
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:22 am
    Screenshot from "Son of Sam and Delilah," 1991, Charles Atlas (courtesy openvault.wgbh.org)Marginalized culture loves to watch the mainstream played out on its own terms — to make itself visible within the imagery that bombards us. It was fitting, then, that last night’s screening of seven videos by upcoming Whitney Biennial artist and longtime documenter of queer culture, Charles Atlas, took place on a small screen in the empty nave of the Judson Memorial Church.  A queer congregation of at least sixty young professionals chatted and contentedly sipped beers as we pulled…

  • Your Weekend Itinerary: A Guide to the 2012 Outsider Art Fair

    John Gawarecki-Maxwell
    25 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Various paño drawings by an unknown artist.The Outsider Art Fair, one of the most high-profile annual exhibitions of folk and self-taught artists, will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this weekend.  The fair has long been a hotbed for presenting interesting outsider art from around the world and trends within the field, and from the looks of the schedule, this year’s fair – which opens this Friday, January 27, and runs through Sunday the 29th – will be no exception.  A number of notable new exhibitors will be in attendance, including James Brett, the renowned…

  • Is “The City Dark” Self-Parody?

    Reid Singer
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Image via Wicked Delicate FilmsI’m a trusting person. Living in New York, I can believe that Ian Cheney, an amateur astronomer since his teenage years in Maine, might miss seeing the stars at night, and feel deprived. Even before seeing his documentary, The City Dark, I could also believe that the inescapability of electric lighting in modern cities might lead human beings towards a precarious, imbalanced connection to nature. I also believe that this is sad.What I won’t believe is that Cheney actually expects audiences to listen to him harp on something so obvious for the…

  • Monday Links! Damien Hirst and a Cage Fighter

    Art Fag City
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:49 am
    It’s Monday. The holidays are over. Spring is a long way off. The weather’s crappy. Republican voters can’t pick a favorite between an unrepentant adulterer, an outspoken homophobe, and a careerist creep. You need something to lift your spirits. Voila: the Hall and Oates Hotline. [Gizmodo]Two people have completed the Damien Hirst spot challenge. Hirst, an occasional painter sent to punish humanity for its hubris, offered a free artwork to anyone checking in at all 11 Gagosian locations worldwide during his current mega-exhibition. One of the two - Jeff Chu, an editor…
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  • 19 Art Documentaries You Shouldn’t Miss

    Alyson Stanfield
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    With so many good documentaries about art available, it’s time to update my list. Add them to your queue, watch them online when you can, or find clips on YouTube. These are too good to miss. Tops on My List The PBS series art: 21. A pioneering series on artists making art today. Don’t miss a single episode. How to Draw a Bunny  – The mysterious art, life, death of Ray Johnson. I haven’t seen it in a long while, but it made an impact and is still at the top of my list. The Woodmans – I watched this in 2011 and had to move it toward the top of the list. The…

  • If Everyone is an Artist

    Alyson Stanfield
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Joseph Beuys famously said “Everyone is an artist,” referring to his belief in a universal human creativity and the power of art to bring about revolutionary change. Beuys Felt TV performance. Photo by Lothar Wolleh. Lately, many thinkers have been using the word “artist” to describe someone who acts as a force of change – who does something different to shake up the status quo and make us look at life and work in new ways. Read Seth Godin’s definition of art. Read his book Linchpin to see how he uses “artist.” Godin is so influential (I am a…

  • 15 Steps to Take After Completing Your Artwork

    Alyson Stanfield
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    On the heels of last week’s post about the importance of systems link to last week, here’s a system framework inspired by a question from Kerry Thompson. What do you do after you’ve finished a work? ©2011 Kerry Thompson, Café Friends Nursery. Acrylic on cotton canvas, 61 x 77 centimeters Finish the Details The work shouldn’t be considered complete until you do the following with the physical piece. Sign it!
 Sign your art wherever you can, and however you do it best. Add the date on the front, back, or underneath – where and when it’s appropriate for your medium. 
Many…

  • You Are in Charge

    Alyson Stanfield
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:21 am
    There are six principles of no-excuse art marketing that guide my teaching and my book. The first principle, I believe, is the most important. It states: You are in charge of your career. You have control over words, prices, artwork, and your image. People will take as much from you as you give them, so guard this power to remain in charge of your destiny. Accept 100% responsibility for your actions and make no excuses. It might seem as though your power is in the hands of galleries, curators, granting agencies, collectors . . . anyone but you! But all of these people have only as much power…

  • Twitter Tweekly via @abstanfield

    Alyson Stanfield
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    #Photographers How important are the national portfolio reviews? What do they do for your career/biz? .@wtek challenges all #artists to make a bowl on Super Bowl Sunday – 2/5. Accept? hammermarks.wordpress.com/super-bowl-cha… Holy Cow! How to Succeed at Selling to a Niche Market twrt.me/2216b2 via @ArtsyShark Physical media has stronger emotional impact than e-marketing ow.ly/8q3RR via @marciasmantras How to use Pinterest in your art marketing via @meganauman ow.ly/8pNdY Got your G+ vanity URL yet? ow.ly/8vb0E It looks like this: gplus.to/abstanfield Amazing intvw re de Kooning show.
 
 
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  • Hidden Information: The Work of Jim Sanborn

    Yin Ho
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:04 am
    Jim Sanborn's cryptographic sculptures, pieces on atomic energy, and large-scale projections might already seem familiar. Installed in front of the CIA headquarters, the ciphers in his sculpture Kryptos have puzzled many a code-cracker (three out of four of the coded sections have been solved), and he has been the subject of several museum shows. The artist answered a few questions we had on his work via email:      There's often something hidden in plain sight in your work.  In public installations like Kryptos (at the CIA plaza) and A Comma, A in Houston, among others (I'm thinking…

  • Feb 10th at the New Museum: Untitled (mobile.app) + (one more thing..), JODI 2012 (premiere)

    Rhizome
    25 Jan 2012 | 3:22 pm
    At this event, renowned Dutch collective JODI will premiere a new mobile application, outfitted for iPhone and Android, that is invested in “Motion/ Figure/ Posture Actions.” The application records users’ quotidian movements and turns them into choreography—one that captures our awkward, mundane, frustrated, addicted interactions with our ubiquitous devices. This focus on dynamics of control, as well as the psychology and behavior produced by technology, is at the core of JODI’s work. For this presentation, the collective will present and discuss the work, and hired performers will…

  • This Week on Rhizome Community Boards: I'm Here and There, Jobs, Opportunities, and More

    Rhizome
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:21 pm
    Recently added to the Artbase: I'm Here and There by Jonas Lund Through a custom browser extension, Lund has opened his personal web browsing to a level of full transparency and public scrutiny. At imhereandthere.com the URL of the website the artist is currently browsing is published in real time. When the artist visits a new site the work automatically refreshes – providing a mirror to the artist's life and browser  Events/Lectures/Exhibitions: French new media artist Maurice Benayoun at Streaming Museum's Fourth anniversary celebration, New York, NY, Tue Jan 31 2012, 6PM Being…

  • Physibles

    Rhizome
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    The Pirate Bay just announced a new file type available on the site: "physibles," digital files for 3D printing. It expects in 20 years you'll be downloading sneakers. In the meantime there are lawn darts and plastic toys: We're always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from analog to digital, it's time for the next step. Today most data is born digitally. It's not about the…

  • Sexts from Patricia Lockwood

    Brian Droitcour
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:35 am
    Image by altffour Editor’s Note: “"Tricia u MUST join Twitter to network with Poets" *tricia joins twitter, falls in with a million Comedy Fuckers, forgets what poem even is*” — @TriciaLockwood, September 2, 2011 Patricia Lockwood is an actual poet—published in the New Yorker, even!—who has inappropriately touched the imaginations of a thousand followers with her “sexts.” Born around the time of the Anthony Weiner scandal, the genre congeals gobs of glowing poetry from networked life’s greasy stew of blunt spam copy, collaged pop culture, and constant little spells of…
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  • New Year's Contemplations: Getting Down & Dirty

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:52 pm
    In a lot of ways I feel like I'm kind of starting over.The past few days I've been going back and reading old posts here, getting a feel for how I've grown as an artist.  A lot of the old tone was clueless, bright eyed, and optimistic.  Art was an exciting adventure that I was just setting off on.Since then, I've gone on creative tears and had some creative droughts as well.  I've won awards, sold my art, had it praised, and had it ridiculed.  I've shown my work in coffee shops, community centers, galleries, businesses, and museums.  I've made incredible artist…

  • Cbabi Bayoc's "365 Days With Dad"

    8 Jan 2012 | 9:13 pm
    I know this space is usually reserved for talking about my personal projects but I thought it would be ok to break from that to showcase another artist's work that is currently very inspiring to me.Cbabi Bayoc is a local painter who I always considered a really good role model.  He and his wife own and operate a bakery that specializes in vegan fare.  When I see him at shows and events he usually has at least one of his kids in tow, without appearing to mind that fact.  We've met and talked on a few occasions(though I wouldn't expect him to know who I am) and he always…

  • Art Dimensions Meeting......Almost.

    6 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am
    Last night I attempted to make the ArtDimensions monthly "networking meeting" and had my car break down a few blocks away.  Literally in the same spot as the last time it broke down on me.  Waiting for AAA made me late, then finding out that my battery was shot (the guy recommended not shutting my car off) and deciding to run directly to Autozone to get my battery replaced (warranties FTW!) made me even later.  As I imagined, by the time I arrived there were only about 4 or 5 people left, but there was a reason that I continued on.  I had a new painting to deliver for…

  • Dr. Sketchy's - December 2011

    19 Dec 2011 | 11:12 pm
    Yesterday was the December edition of Dr. Sketchy's, a drawing event hosted at Van Ella Studios.  It's hosted more or less monthly with local (and not so local) burlesque performers acting as models.  Always a lot more fun and energetic than most of the other drawing groups I've attended.  I arrived late this time, missing the shorter "warm-up" poses.  I think I did pretty well for the time I had though:Drawing groups are where I do the most experimenting with techniques.  The piece immediately above these words was made using pencil, paint, inkpen, marker, &…

  • Full Contact Art Appreciation

    4 Dec 2011 | 9:56 pm
    I've been doing a bit of thinking about art and the way that it is appreciated around town.  I love that there are things that bring art to the people such as Citygarden, but then again, I have a small problem with it. It bothers me when people get too "familiar" with the artwork. Don't get me wrong.  There is certainly a place for human interaction with artwork and it's surroundings.  The pictures below illustrate that:While certainly unappealing to see, this gentleman is at one with his surroundings.This sculpture is designed in such a way as to encourage human…
 
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  • New York delivers a Bronx cheer for SOPA and PIPA

    18 Jan 2012 | 5:05 pm
    Barry and I were a part of a large - but very polite and stunningly geeky - crowd of, eventually, one to two thousand people gathered today (Jan. 18) in Midtown. We were outside of the Manhattan offices of senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer. Both are co-sponsors of the latest egregious Congressional attack on the Internet, the tech industry generally, and, in its ultimate implications, the basic right of free speech: It's a Senate bill called the Protect Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA. The House has its own version, called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA,. Both bills were…

  • the Chelsea Hotel: now living with ghosts?

    12 Jan 2012 | 11:23 am
    Patti Smith performing for the one percent at the Chelsea Wednesday night UPDATE: Citing the wishes of the Chelsea's tenants, Patti Smith cancelled Thursday night's concert, to which they had been invited. Her statement appears on her web site. Score another one for the 99%. The Chelsea Hotel seems to be attracting more tourists than ever these days; do they know that what they have come to photograph is now a shell, that it has already been destroyed, in a process begun three and a half years ago? We live almost directly across the street from it, and I have passed by its front doors almost…

  • the NYCmarch2DC: an odyssey chronicled

    23 Nov 2011 | 5:43 pm
    Nov 12: outside of Princeton someone stops their car to offer food to the marchers on their way to D.C. The march from Occupy Wall Street in New York has now arrived in D.C. I expect we will be hearing more from them, although the holiday no one can escape in this country may be responsible for a small delay. Several days ago NYCmarch2DC posted this long account covering five days of their march from Liberty Park in New York to McPherson Square in Washington D.C. The text had been, as they wrote, "composed by multiple marchers and so contains distinctly different writing styles", but it isn't…

  • Union Square Occupied by smarts

    18 Nov 2011 | 12:30 am
    I love Occupy. Along with thousands of others I was in Union Square on Thursday afternoon. There I was struck by the minimalism of the sentiment expressed by the sign shown at the top (and also the color, of course), and I snapped a picture of it before it was clear to me that it was only a part of the message. When the marcher passed I got the other side; it wasn't until I was home that I read the smaller lettering at the bottom. But a really smart demonstration, one with even the faintest smell of revolution, is just not complete without a sign in French. The text is from a longer slogan,…

  • NYPD occupies Liberty Park for 16 hours

    17 Nov 2011 | 1:38 am
    the scary warning-light trailer parked on lower Broadway at the edge of Liberty Park almost says it all I rushed downtown on Tuesday afternoon when I learned via Twitter that at around 3 o'clock the New York State Supreme Court was expected to announce its verdict on whether, or how, Occupy Wall Street would be able to resume its occupation of Liberty Park. It had been unliberated by the NYPD barely 12 hours earlier. I needn't have hurried, for it was more than two hours later that the decision was finally announced. At about that same moment I was on my way back home in order to fulfill at…
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    Jeffrey Hayes: Contemporary Still Life Paintings

  • In progress

    Jeff Hayes
    24 Jan 2012 | 3:45 pm
    I start the glazing today. The first step is going to be applying a preliminary on the gold cloth.

  • "Sushi Triplet with Chopsticks"

    Jeff Hayes
    22 Jan 2012 | 1:36 pm
    (click image for larger view)"Sushi Triplet with Chopsticks", 2007Oil on canvas, 12 x 24 inches (30 x 60 cm)$1500 (purchase information)I only recently started eating and enjoying sushi, but I've been painting it for years; a well prepared plate of sushi is a work of art in itself. From 2007, this is one of my absolute favorites in the series, and also one of the largest.

  • Captive Lemon

    Jeff Hayes
    16 Jan 2012 | 11:40 am
    (click image for larger view)"Captive Lemon", 2007Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches (75 x 60 cm)$2500 (offers are considered)"Captive Lemon" is from 2007; about the time I started to adopt the style I paint with now. It's interesting to see some of the early choices I made to capture the sense of realism; in particular the exaggerated refractions and other light effects.Although I would probably paint this differently today, I like this piece a lot, and am always proud to show it.

  • New Archive and Waiting List

    Jeff Hayes
    13 Jan 2012 | 1:59 pm
    (click image for larger view)"Silver Creamer and Peeled Orange"Oil on panel, 5 x 6 inches (12 x 15 cm)I've expanded the archive page on my website to include selected paintings going back to 2007. This gives a broader view of my work, and lets me display some older pieces that I like but haven't shown in a while.I've also added a new Waiting List feature: All of my previously sold works will now have a link to contact me beneath them (for instance on this painting's detail page). If you're interested in owning a similar piece, you can send me an email and I will add you to my waiting list.

  • Cork, Shaker, and Shotglass

    Jeff Hayes
    10 Jan 2012 | 9:32 pm
    (click image for larger view)"Cork, Shaker, and Shotglass"Oil on panel, 5 x 5 inches (13 x 13 cm)$450 + shipping/insuranceFraming options are available.Purchasing OptionsWith Gold Leaf Frame $485.00 USDWith Black Frame $485.00 USDWith Mocha Frame $485.00 USDUnframed $450.00 USD
 
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    tom moody

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    tom moody
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:33 pm

  • invasion of the giant one bit gifs, part 2

    tom moody
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:20 pm
    In response to the post Invasion of the Giant One Bit GIFs, Beau Sievers adds that bit-depth can't be understood without sampling rate. Just saying a work is "1-bit" is saying close to nothing. Hadn't thought of it that way but that's interesting. What would sampling rate be in GIF terms? Not the frame rate, because slowing it down or speeding it up doesn't change the size of the GIF. Rather, it's the number of frames. You can reduce the GIF size by (i) decreasing the bit depth from millions of colors to sixteen colors, or to black and white, and (ii) removing frames so that the basic motion…

  • Neither of these things happened

    tom moody
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:07 am
    1. Brian Droutcour explained what poetry was going to be in a "new media" context. The web has many outlets for literati -- the equivalent of small press publishing -- as well as online versions of established academic journals that continue a tradition of writing and evaluating poetry. So what was an "art and technology" website going to bring to the table in terms of redefining or recontextualizing the poetic narrative impulse? In a cogent essay, Droitcour traced the origins of "new media poetry" back to the early 20th Century avant gardes, in particular experiments in cross-mediation by…

  • css for crisp edges?

    tom moody
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:25 am
    Nullsleep posts some CSS code that you could add to a web page to make browsers read your GIFs and pixel art correctly when resized. The illustration above, showing an image resized using the bicubic (smooth) and nearest neighbor (sharp) methods, is his; it gets across clearly how ugly "smoothing" can be for an exquisite design. The problem is, 99% of developers can't see this, and will continue to insist that mandatory, "on by default" edge smoothing is what we all want and need when we surf the web. ("Smoothing" doesn't just occur when you zoom, it happens anytime someone codes an image's…

  • "Monk 2022"

    tom moody
    22 Jan 2012 | 8:57 pm
    "Monk 2022" [4.9 MB .mp3] More synthetic jazz combo stuff, with dramatic piano chords trying diligently to stay in the approximate tonal range of a quavery '60s style modular moog (not actually a Moog but whatever), while an imagined drummer with an unfiltered cigarette hanging out of his mouth keeps the thing regimented.
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    Dennis Hollingsworth

  • Painting

    Dennis
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:26 pm
    re-evolution #399 40"x30" 2012...

  • Something's Happening

    Dennis
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:31 am
    I'm off to New York this weekend to attend Henry Taylor's opening at PS1. It's going to be a whirlwind tour. I'll take and post a few pics along the way, stay tuned....

  • DriveBy LA: Bamboo Lane

    Dennis
    25 Jan 2012 | 6:15 pm

  • PressPausePlay

    Dennis
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:08 pm
    At ninety minutes, this video might seem a bit drawn out, but the duration of this presentation is part of their point. It's worth checking out if you have the time....

  • Hybrid Performance

    Dennis
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm
    (Hat Tip/Source)...
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    Miami Art Exchange » MAEX Art Blog

  • Third Avenue Art District Annual ArtWalk

    Onajide Shabaka
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:28 pm
    Saturday, Feburary 4, 6-10pm Downtown Fort Lauderdale Girls’ Club | 117 NE 2nd Street | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 33301 The Third Avenue Art District in downtown Fort Lauderdale celebrates its 17th Annual ArtWalk with nine artists opening their studios to the community. Girls’ Club and Francie Bishop Studio will be open for visitors 6-10pm and Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale will be open from 6-9pm. This group of eleven professional artists has focused its efforts on creating a visual arts district in Fort Lauderdale. In the professional world, these artists are national and…

  • Rijksakademie Residency: Final Call for Entries

    Onajide Shabaka
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:18 pm
    Rijksakademie Residency: Final Call for Entries January–December 2013 Apply before February 1, 2012. www.rijksakademie.nl/apply The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (est. 1870) aims to develop top talent in the international visual art world and promotes the position of art and artists in today’s society. By offering artistic, theoretical and technical support the Rijksakademie creates an environment in which about 50 emerging professional artists from all over the world can, for a maximum of two years, work on deepening, broadening and accelerating their…

  • Bass Museum of Art Introduces the Lindemann Family Creativity Center

    Onajide Shabaka
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:11 pm
    Miami Beach, FL. (January 2012) — On Sunday, January 29, 2012 the Bass Museum of Art will introduce the Lindemann Family Creativity Center. The museum will commemorate the opening of the center with an inauguration ceremony and ribbon cutting at 12:30 p.m. followed by family activities from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. as well as a fortune telling by artist David Rohn,also known as “The Amazing Ultran.” Regularly scheduled family day activities will also take place in the museum’s café from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. “Finally, we have a place to experiment, essentially create a laboratory for artistic…

  • Columbus Museum of Art First Graphic Novelist Residency

    Onajide Shabaka
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:52 pm
    (Columbus, OH) – The Columbus Museum of Art and Thurber House are pleased to announce a collaboration for their first Graphic Novelist Residency. The three-week residency, supported by a grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, is designed to provide a graphic artist/writer with an opportunity to develop a work-in-progress. The recipient will receive a stipend and housing in the two-bedroom apartment located in the boyhood home of author and New Yorker cartoonist, James Thurber. The first recipient of the residency is Paul Hornschemeier, Ohio State University alumnus and author of…

  • Mangrove Mud Womp exhibition at FAU Fort Lauderdale campus

    Onajide Shabaka
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pm
    “Total Disappearance, v.1 (video still)” archival pigment print on Canson paper [Narrated video] Jan., 2012 – Onajide Shabaka is thrilled to announce the opening of “Mangrove Mud Womp,” a solo exhibition of work by multimedia artist, featuring prints, drawings, videos, and sculpture at Second Avenue Studio, on the downtown Fort Lauderdale campus of Florida Atlantic University. The show centers on Shabaka’s interactions in Anne Kolb Nature Center’s mangrove estuary. Conceptually derived from exploring materials archived by him from his elderly relatives relocated to Florida…
 
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  • Interview with Wim Wenders

    Jeremy Meckler
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Our two interim program managers got a chance to talk to Wim Wenders about his new documentary, Pina which has its Minnesota premiere at the Walker this Wednesday. Read the interview or listen to it below. Wim Wenders was also at the Walker in 1991 for a Regis Dialogue and Retrospective. Wim Wenders on the set of Pina If the player isn’t working, you can listen to the interview here. Wim Wenders: I have glorious memories of the Walker Art Center Jeremy Meckler: I know that you and Werner Herzog have worked together a lot in the past, and I just thought it was interesting that you both…

  • Grotesque Animals: I’ll Tell You Yours If You Tell Me Mine

    SuperGroup
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:47 am
    To spark discussion, the Walker invites local artists and critics to write overnight reviews of our performances. The ongoing Re:View series shares a diverse array of independent voices and opinions; it doesn’t reflect the views or opinions of the Walker or its curators. Today, Jeffrey Wells from SuperGroup shares his perspective on Thursday night’s Out There performance of El Pasado es un Animal Grotesco (The Past Is a Grotesque Animal) by Mariano Pensotti. Agree or disagree? Feel free to share your thoughts in comments! In Lightsey Darst’s recent article about the Out There series,…

  • India Journal: Studio visits with Bharti Kher and Subodh Gupta

    Darsie Alexander
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:25 pm
    A detail of a work in progress by Bharti Kher. Walker chief curator Darsie Alexander is in New Delhi for the India Art Fair, which runs January 26–29. This is the first of her dispatches from the road. The India Art Fair, now in its fourth edition, opened to throngs of art enthusiasts a few days ago — throngs being a word that takes on new meaning in India. The place was jammed, shoulder-to-shoulder with curious onlookers, teenage gawkers, and a few curators like myself looking slightly bewildered and overwhelmed by the sheer abundance of art and human bodies, all seeming to press up…

  • ‘Oops’ – “It Is What It Is!” comic by Todd Balthazor

    Susannah Schouweiler
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:02 pm
    About the artist: Todd Balthazor is a satirical, often anthropomorphic illustrator, fine artist, muralist and children’s art instructor from St.Paul, MN, with a BFA in illustration from the College of Visual Arts (CVA).  He has done artist residencies at Jackson Elementary and the St. Paul University Club, and his work has been displayed in venues both locally and abroad, including: illustrations in the Altered Esthetics Gallery (Minneapolis), the Walker Art Center blog, and multiple Red Leaf Press publications (St. Paul); visual narratives at the Adugyama Art Exhibition (Ghana, Africa)…

  • Perform Me a Picture

    Abigail Anderson
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:37 am
    Who wouldn’t be curious about a place called The Museum of Everyday Life? And who wouldn’t want to know what that museum’s Chief Operating Philosopher is up to? Well, as it turned out, the woman bearing this title recently visited Minneapolis so I seized the opportunity to find out more. Clare Dolan performing cantastoria Last Saturday I witnessed Mild Light, an evening of cantastoria performed by Clare Dolan. Ushered into the In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, I took a seat close to the stage. I was, I confess, hopeful that Dolan could clear up my ignorance surrounding this term…
 
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  • shows to see

    Martin
    21 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pm
    a list to myself and the worldLES-gerald ferguson @ canadanicholas buffon @ callicoontrevor shimizu @ 47 canalletha wilson + @ toomer labzameghan petras @ blackston (WITH jeffrey scott matthews, more)UES -lee bontecou @ freedmanartalfred jensen @ pace 57thsarah mceneaney @ tibor de nagyMidtown-forrest bess @ christies (3/1)BROOKLYN -rick briggs + adam simon @ valentinecarrie pollack @ minus spacebromirski/labine/riley @ storefront bushwick (2/10)katharine bradford/ej hauser/tamara gonzalez/lauren luloff/joanne greenbaum @ journal gallerySOHO-hugh scott douglas @ clifton beneventob…

  • boats and trolleys

    Martin
    15 Jan 2012 | 10:42 pm
    Nice paintings at an antiques/junk shop in Istanbul.boats and trolleys... Istanbul scenes, maybe for tourists? but still really good... there is a famous trolley in Istanbul.oh i am just noticing that nice sile bezi fabric it is on...the paintings were throughout the shop - lots of other art/treasures/junk too... but it was easy to identify these as all being by the same artist.i pulled them out from wherever and propped them for most of these photos.the shopkeeper. he couldn't speak english but we were able to communicate enough to know that he is a musician and doesn't have any idea who the…

  • carpets

    Martin
    9 Jan 2012 | 3:54 pm
    Carpets, at the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum, in Istanbul.more of my Istanbul photos here.ragged....

  • Favorites 2011

    Martin
    1 Jan 2012 | 1:24 pm
    Hagia Sophia - I was in Istanbul for six weeks!!! courtesy of Jasmine Justice and Jesse Farber.Meridith Pingree, Magic Curtain, at Freight and Volume.Joshua Abelow's Art Blog Art Blog - Ross Bleckner let Josh have his NYC studio for six months, Josh let people curate shows.... he hosted nine two-week shows and a one-night Bro-Out. Thanks Josh!Best Shows Not Seen By Me - Gina Beavers one-night show at PACS.... as seen by Andrew Russeth, and Lori Ellison + Lawrence Swan at Valentine.... as seen by James Kalm. Regretfully missed both.... BUT - Gina is having a solo at Nudashank opening in…

  • Meridith Pingree

    Martin
    26 Dec 2011 | 3:19 pm
    Meridith Pingree, Magic Curtain (2011), at Freight + Volume 7/2011I'm making a short list of 2011 favorites and top of the list is Meridith's Magic Curtain, but I saw it the day before I went to Istanbul and never posted it, so... HERE IT IS!!strings of sparkly beads... insanely labor-intensive... together the strings creating a pattern - but a shifting pattern - as the individual 'wipers' slowly rotate, lifting/dropping sections of bike chain, which lift and lower the strings of beads... slo-mo curtain raise and drop, like an ocean swell.etherealMeridith Pingree... as seen on James Kalm!
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  • News – FiberPhiladelphia, new Woodmere curator, art replaces nightclubs, and more!

    chip schwartz
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:16 am
    News FiberPhiladelphia gets underway March is fast approaching, and so are a number of events as part of FiberPhiladelphia, the annual Philadelphia textile and fiber arts festival. In fact, Mayor Nutter will kick off the March 2 ceremony at Moore College of Art and Design by proclaiming March 2012 as Fiber Arts Month. The first event is the opening of In Material: Fiber 2012 on Friday, January 27 at Arthur Ross Gallery. Mi-Kyoung Lee, "Untitled", 2011 (detail) Twist ties, wire New curator at Woodmere Matthew U. Palczynski is the new curator at the Woodmere Art Museum. Palczynski…

  • Interview – Sarah Stolfa on making your own opportunity and printing for Zoe Strauss

    roberta
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:56 am
    For the Daily News article on the Philadelphia photography community I talked with a number of artists and others in that community. Here’s the first of several interviews I’ll put up in the next week or so. Others coming up are Martin McNamara, Stephen Perloff, Grisha Enikolopov, Al Wachlin, Jr and Harris Fogel.  Note: this post is a re-publish of one that was somehow vaporized in our recent blog transition. The day I talked with Sarah Stolfa of PPAC, their website had briefly crashed from all the traffic they were getting from Living Social, a coupon site, where they had some…

  • We’re back! Check out our new look and tell us what you think

    libby and roberta
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:10 am
    Hey, check out our new pages of great content, now in a fantastic streamlined form.  Our tech guru, Samantha Slade, and her design partner Angela Miles, of Two Scarves did a fantastic job with the design.  And we are looking for your feedback.  See anything that’s wobbly, or a link that’s broken, send us a note or put it in comments.  Comments are now working!  Your friends, Libby and Roberta

  • New changes coming to artblog!

    libby and roberta
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:54 am
    Dear readers, we are excited to announce we’ve done a redesign and are going to debut it very soon!  The artblog will continue to serve up great content by our wonderful team.  And soon the content will be packaged in a cool, new format.  We will be transitioning the blog to the new design today–so we won’t be accepting comments for the next 24-36 hours.  Come back tomorrow for delicious content in our brand, spanking-new design!  And thanks for reading artblog.  Your friends, Libby and Roberta  

  • 1967 and 2011 – Nadia Hironaka and Matt Suib at Locks Gallery

    chip schwartz
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:22 am
    The gigantic first floor space at Locks Gallery is occupied this month by the massive, multi-channel video installation 1967 by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib. The collaborative project by the husband and wife team uses appropriated footage from cinema and protest videos to raise questions about political dissent, utopian movements and the role of mass media in driving protest movements in general. Photo courtesy of Locks Gallery. Across all the walls are floor-to-ceiling projections and interspersed amongst the few round columns in the big room are projectors, speakers, wires, headphones,…
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    AO Art Observed™

  • Hannover: Eva Rothschild ‘Hot Touch’ at Kunstverein Hannover through January 29, 2012

    G. Linden
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:43 pm
    Eva Rothschild, Natural Beauty (2009). All images courtesy of Kunstverein Hannover Hot Touch is on now at Kunstverein Hannover, an exhibition dedicated to the work of artist Eva Rothschild, her first ever in Germany. Creating work that is both new and referential, the artist recalls the mid-20th century concept and tradition of Minimalism, and the fragile, [...]

  • New York: ‘Grisaille’ at Luxembourg & Dayan extended through January 28, 2012

    G. Linden
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (2011) Luxembourg & Dayan‘s Grisaille explores the use of a generally monochromatic color palette in works spanning multiple centuries. The exhibition is divided between the gallery’s new space in London and the 77th Street location in New York; the show began in London in October, overlapping with the New York show throughout [...]

  • 25 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pm

    A. Bregman
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:11 pm
    ‪ Abu Dhabi’s Louvre, $27 billion Zayed National Museum, and Guggenheim openings delayed to 2015, 2016, and 2017 respectively from their 2013-2014 previous deadlines, though substantial work has been completed. [AO Newslink] Read the article via Reuters

  • 25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm

    A. Bregman
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    ‪Marina Abramovic hosts ‘Silent Party’ where guests wore mufflers and lab coats without speaking, to coincide with her film showcase of “The Artist is Present” at Sundance Film Festival. [AO Newslink] Read the article via NY Times

  • Los Angeles: Ellsworth Kelly ‘Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles’ at Matthew Marks Gallery through April 7th

    A. Bregman
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:45 am
    Ellsworth Kelly, Orange Relief with Blue (2011). All Images via Matthew Marks. American abstract painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly has unveiled a so-called ‘shop sign’ for the inaugural exhibition of the latest Matthew Marks Gallery in West Hollywood, California, while the gallery continues to maintain four spaces in New York City. The sign is a [...]
 
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  • go into detail

    pve design
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:45 pm
    This was a commissioned work of art for a client to give as a holiday gift and the timing was tight.  I completed the work, observing all the details of the original photo and it did cross my mind that I thought perhaps the house front hand rail at the steps was a bit odd but who am I to question.  When  I sent the image of the artwork to my client she e-mailed back that the railing had been removed by the owner and her client as this was for a gift.  I immediately re-did the artwork without the hand rail at the steps and in my holiday haste, I failed to get a scan without…

  • draw your mind

    pve design
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:45 am
    What sort of tools would you need to draw your mind? Have you ever seriously thought of your mind as a tool? Did you know that there is an app for mind tools and a site?Several years ago, I had the great pleasure of working with a facilitator on several areas which helped me see my life on a wholesome path.  Through guided sessions and experiments, I discovered how to look at my life as a rainbow.  I was fascinated to find mind tools provided the above chart.  What sort of tools or charts do you find helpful in planning and achieving goals?

  • benchmark

    pve design
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:50 am
    How delighted was I to snap this lovely bench in the snow last weekend on my early morning walk in the midst of a snowfall.  I have always loved black and white.  I think this deserves to be framed which inspires me to take more of my own photographs of things that strike my fancy.  It will be a sort of "benchmark test" as I admire so many other photographers.  Would you like to see more of my photographs or shall I just stick to what I do best and draw or paint it?  I am on the bench.

  • she

    pve design
    24 Jan 2012 | 4:56 am
     She who rocks the cradle rules the world. She dreamt of abstracts, monograms and dots. She is a night owl.She began collecting art at the young age of 2.Surely you will want to play along....Now you try it, she___________________.  Leave a comment with she______________.all images from interiormagasinet

  • year of the dragon

    pve design
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:26 am
    The year of the dragon. Dragons seem to be everywhere I look.Now what boy would not love to have this dragon paper on his wall?If not on the wall, then what about a lamp or a pillow with a dragon?Or a book with a dragon tattoo. Take some time to have a little fun today, as many celebrate the year of the dragon for the Chinese New Year.  Having traveled to China many years ago and having been fortunate to celebrate in China was something I shall never forget.  The pops of red are everywhere you go. along with red envelopes handed out for good luck.The symbolism of…
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  • Ever Wonder What an Internet Protest Looks Like?

    JazJaz
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:22 am
    Just don’t rouse the sleeping beast! [F*ck Yeah Headlines] To stay updated, please follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. You can also subscribe via email to the daily newsletter, or a weekly digest of the most popular posts. Related Posts Federer Excited by His Own Form [Comic] Let Out The Creative Beast The Bob Dylan Message Generator Don't Drink the Water - Art Print Beasts of Burden - 3 Comic Book Teasers For Free Don't Taze Me, Bro - Tshirts

  • Split Screen Bohemian Rhapsody

    JazJaz
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:53 am
    Richie Castellano’s one man cover tribute to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” almost made me stand up and applaud. He is that good! [Video Link] To stay updated, please follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. You can also subscribe via email to the daily newsletter, or a weekly digest of the most popular posts. Related Posts Cover of Bohemian Rhapsody by Rick Miller Kermit Sings Radiohead's Creep Opening Night of 'Bad Dads': An Art Show Tribute to the Films of Wes Anderson Kevin Tong's Silk Screen Prints on Wood Stop Motion Digital Magazine Cover Ron Turner Pulp Cover Collection

  • Sandman Painting

    JazJaz
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:34 am
    Sandman, a 21" x 18" watercolor by Roger Cruz, a Brazilian graphic artist. To stay updated, please follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. You can also subscribe via email to the daily newsletter, or a weekly digest of the most popular posts. Related Posts A Brief Illustrated History of the World New Artwork By Brazilian Artist André Azevedo Brazilian Artist André Azevedo's Latest Artworks Time Magazine - Top 10 Graphic Novels Winners of the 2011 "Your Art Here" Contest Announced Stunning Illustrations by Nathan Manire

  • Mao in Pop Culture - A Photo Series

    Daniel
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:45 am
    Mao Zedong has been one of the most controversial and alienating figures in history. While his actions caused the death of countless millions in China (and not to mention the wiping out of an entire generation of intellectuals), there is also no doubt that they set a chain of events that led to the country’s present status as that of an emerging superpower. Though it’s been decades since his death,Chairman Mao is still revered, and even worshipped by some of the people of his country. With his death, Mao, like Che Guevara, became a cult icon, appearing on everything from t-shirts to…

  • Episode IV: A New Hero - Batman vs. Star Wars Mashup

    JazJaz
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:20 am
    I’m loving this arguably epic mashup of Tim Burton’s Batman and the poster of the Lucas’ first Star Wars film, by DA user ninjaink. Episode IV: A New Hero is a 1989 American epic superhero opera film, written and directed by Timothy Burton. It is the first of six films released in the El Caballero de la Noche saga: two subsequent films complete the original trilogy, while a prequel trilogy completes the six-film saga. Groundbreaking in its use of special effects, unconventional editing, and superhero / gothic storytelling, the original movie is one of the most successful and influential…
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  • Leeside Skateboard Mayhem

    Jeff
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:06 pm
    When people ask me what Vancouver is like, this is the video I’ll show them. Watch the video in all its glory below.

  • Guy Laramee

    Jeff
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:55 am
    Stunning landscapes carved out of books, sculptures by Guy Laramee.

  • Rob Sato

    Jeff
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:46 am
    Works by Rob Sato.

  • Sana Park

    Jeff
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:38 am
    Drawings by Sana Park. Los Angeles.

  • Stefan Kürten

    Jeff
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:53 am
    Paintings by Stefan Kürten.
 
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    Slightly Lucid

  • The brownie camera and sharing photographs

    Aislinn Leggett
    5 Jan 2012 | 7:12 am
    Happy New Year to you all and all the very best for 2012! I have a question for you. Did you take any pictures when ringing in the new year? most likely you did or somebody at your party did. I know I did and I know I took a lot and I wasn’t the only one at our little gathering. What was your camera? I was going between an iphone and a Leica M6. It used to be that people took a few snaps a year but now we’ve seemed to gone trigger happy, having an obsession of documenting every second of our life. I recently found these photos of people being photographed with their Brownie…

  • Happy Holidays, 2011

    Aislinn Leggett
    24 Dec 2011 | 11:00 am
    © Aislinn Leggett - Lemay Family This is my grandfather dressed as ol’ Santy, posing for a Christmas snap with his grandmother. My grandfather is now 95 years old, although less nimble and less of a partier he still gets that twinkle in his eye and is very much alive. So for this holiday season I wish you all to never loose that spark and happiness. Enjoy your family and friends and I’m looking forward to another year with you all.

  • Alexander Henderson – Winter 1870s

    Aislinn Leggett
    21 Dec 2011 | 10:02 pm
    © McCord Museum - photographer Alexander Henderson. Cutting ice, St. Lawrence River near Victoria Bridge, Montreal, QC, circa 1870 Winter hasn’t yet arrived in Montreal. Sure it’s getting a little cold but no snow. I haven’t really been wearing my winter boots yet. Every year winter seems to be arriving a little later and summer stays a little longer. I don’t love winter, on the contrary I’m one of those that usually hibernates and only goes out when necessary. All this to say is that it feels odd this warmish weather. So to revive winter and all it’s…

  • Iva Zimova

    Aislinn Leggett
    16 Dec 2011 | 3:42 pm
    © Iva Zimova - The Rural People of Afghanistan I don’t know many photographers, or I should say people, like Iva Zimova. We have been friends for a while now but I had heard so many stories about Iva before even meeting her that  I can’t pinpoint the exact moment we talked or met. I know it was between 2003 and 2005 because I was in the photography program at Dawson, which she had aslo studied at and consequently had the same teachers as I did, hence the stories. I do remember being a little intimidated at first because it was one of the first times I was meeting somebody…

  • Restoring Photographs

    Aislinn Leggett
    4 Oct 2011 | 2:08 pm
    still from "Back in the frame" on Guardian UK, August 31, 2011 March 11, 2011, the devastating tsunami hit Japan and killed over 15,000 people and left thousands without homes. I couldn’t imagine then nor can I now, how it would be to experience such a traumatic event. Recently, I came across a documentary on the Guardian website, showing a mass movement of volunteers restoring photographs that were damaged in the diaster. It is a short documentary but very much worth your time. I work with found photographs, I buy discarded family albums and what it seems is that the…
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    The Stickley Museum At Craftsman Farms

  • Don’t Miss this Pull-Out-the-Stops Good Time!

    admin
    18 Jan 2012 | 5:51 pm
    Tweet You are invited to our Annual GPI Kick-Off Party!  Come to the 25th Annual Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference a day early and kick off the weekend with an evening of casual fun and entertainment in the Homespun Shops of Biltmore Industries, just steps from GPI. Join us on Thursday, February 16 for the festivities.  Begin the evening at our welcome table in the Estes-Winn Memorial Automobile Museum (open just for us!), enjoy local beers and wines during cocktail hour, and choose one of two seatings to indulge in a dinner menu that embraces the regional fare. Author, historian,…

  • Are You a High School Student with a Passion for Architecture or Design?

    admin
    11 Jan 2012 | 11:42 am
    Tweet Then Get Ready for the Second Annual Stickley Design Invitational! We are proud to announce the second annual Stickley Design Invitational will be held on Saturday March, 31st.  This annual program offers talented teens the opportunity to test their skills, build resumes, and interact with architects, interior designers, design professionals, and other students who share their interest and proclivity for architecture and design.  It is a fun, yet intense, full-day design challenge in which students must use both their talent for design and their understanding of Mr. Stickley’s…

  • Thank you! Our Challenge Grant Was a Success!

    Heather
    5 Jan 2012 | 2:39 pm
    Tweet Together we made it happen! Thanks to your gifts and the gifts of hundreds of generous supporters like you, we met our December goals and were awarded the $7,500 challenge grant!  Overall 2011 annual fund donations totaled $94,000 in support of educational programs, building care and maintenance, and the day-to-day operations of the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms.  Your 2011 support:  Helped protect and preserve a National Historic Landmark; Introduced thousands of children to a world of history and culture; Gave visitors with limited mobility opportunities new ways to…

  • What’s Behind the Closed Doors?

    admin
    17 Nov 2011 | 3:08 pm
    Tweet Did you think everything gets quiet here when winter comes and we are only open on weekends?  You’d be surprised! Yes, of course we are still open for group tours and scout programs — but the Log House has been bustling with activity all week.  Volunteers are busily decorating for our annual Holiday Open House, taking place on the first two weekends in December.   During this event, the Log House will be decked out for the holidays in period style and with a focus on Stickley’s own ideas.  Utilizing holiday greens, pinecones, and the home’s forest palette, the…

  • Original Oil Lamp on View

    Heather
    21 Oct 2011 | 1:54 pm
    Tweet Oil lamp as it appeared in "the Craftsman" magazine 100 years ago. One of the rare objects on view right now is the Grueby oil lamp that we believe was original to the Log House. The oil lamp must have been a favorite of Gustav Stickley. It appears in several times in The Craftsman magazine photos of the Log House (see one photo above), and is shown in more than one location. The vase base was donated to the Stickley Museum in 2007 by Stickley great-granddaughter Barbara Fuldner, but it has not been on view until now. It is now fully restored to its original appearance, thanks…
 
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  • Why do so many auto dealer websites suck?

    admin
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:54 am
    Apparently bad websites are a truly international phenomenon. Google “Bad Websites” and the image at the left is the very first image you’ll find. So let’s start by defining, “bad”. A bad website is a brochure, it speaks AT the visitor without engaging them. It’s design is outdated and it doesn’t balance functionality, usability and aesthetics in any meaningful way. I look at a lot of auto dealer websites. There are a handful of dealerships out there who have inspirational websites. Websites that even manage to get most things right. What…

  • Influence

    admin
    2 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    I just finished reading “Influence” by Robert Cialdini. Really, a very interesting book. It explores the way others are able to influence our decision-making to their point of view. I’ve heard it said that sales is easy, you just have to convince someone that what you are selling is worth more to them than that big stack of money they are holding. Simple, right? One way you do that is through exerting influence. According to Cialdini’s research (as well as a number of other cited studies), there are six basic types of influence: Reciprocity Consistency Social Proof…

  • Stimulus • ZMOT • FMOT • SMOT

    admin
    4 Oct 2011 | 2:41 pm
    Google’s new e-book on the Z-MOT or Zero Moment of Truth doesn’t really tell us anything we didn’t already know, but it does clarify a few points. Based on a Proctor and Gamble study conducted some years ago, the basic idea is that there are three stages to making a buying decision. Stimulus (generally advertising, word-of-mouth, etc.); the First Moment of Truth when the buyer is standing in the aisle at the store and choosing which product to take home; and the Second Moment of Truth, where the buyer gets the product home and discovers that it either meets their…

  • Affiliate Programs?

    admin
    14 Sep 2011 | 1:47 pm
    This is the first posting for a category I’m calling the “Idea Mine”. The concept is to provide snippets; short ideas for things we can do to help market our dealerships. I welcome your feedback. Some of these are already in the planning stages for my dealership, others are still in the research stage.   Create an affiliate program for blogs and websites across southwest Michigan. According to my research, there are about 8,000 blogs and websites that are local to Southwest Michigan. As opposed to advertising, I suggest we create a series of different sizes banner and…

  • Causal Marketing – Charity Begins at Work

    admin
    1 Aug 2011 | 11:36 am
    Business and charity. The two are not mutually exclusive. In fact, and excuse me putting on my marketing guy hat for a moment, doing good is good for the bottom line as well. Since I’ve come on board as marketing manager at Express Auto, we’ve focused our attention particularly on causal marketing. Identifying causes that we believe in and that our staff can stand behind, while at the same time specifically targeting local non-profits that have their own public relations machinery. Now, be careful what you take away from that last sentence because the operative there is, “…that…
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    New Art

  • Leave the Work Alone

    7 Jan 2012 | 11:22 pm
    Let's set the background.Andre Lepecki:What dramaturgy as practice proposes is the discovery that it is the work itself that has its own sovereign, performative desires, wishes, and commands. It is the work that owns its own authorial force.This seemingly fairy-tale description of creation was once made clear for me by Alexander Kelly. Whenever working on a piece, there is always a point where the question that takes over the process is: What does the work want? But here's another question: Why? Why is it the work's work?After all, beyond a question of "ethics" (Lepecki uses the term), it is…

  • After Fishing

    7 Dec 2011 | 8:25 am
    "Last will and Testament" by Mariusz Hermanowicz (with Zygmunt Hermanowicz) was an instant crush for me.After his father's death, Mariusz Hermanowicz discovers, among the things the father left, boxes filled with fishing lures of his father's own design. Some of the lures are finished, many seem more like prototypes, projects. There are also drawings, parts, materials. A universe of lures.The father, you see, loved fishing. But he was never satisfied with the lures he had. He kept saying how he would make some of his own, which would allow him to catch many more fish. And kept picking things…

  • Looking at the robots, I think

    23 Nov 2011 | 8:08 pm
    David Lewandowski, going to the storeRobot maker Azusa Amino recently won the Robot Japan 2 Dance competition with his 23-centimeter-high Toko Toko Maru robot. - they are the un-ego, the dream of letting go of the source. They are a life whose source is the non-live, whose origin is not identical, so a different, non-human causality comes into place. The source, here, is the source-code. And that makes all the difference. Saying it is matter brought to life explains nothing. Think, rather, of metamorphosis, of alchemy, of things becoming not-themselves. (Of us becoming not-ourselves).

  • The House

    4 Nov 2011 | 9:23 pm
    This house which is almost gone. Which still has the lines and weight of a house, yet could very well be called landscape. This house which is a set of floors engraved with memories that no one you know could ever read. Things, as people, come and go, yet we believe them to be different, we invest what is left of our faith in this space or that. It's what you think as you move the objects around, pretty damn self-conscious, pretty certain that this armchair in this place is pure iconoclasm. You'd rather it were a farm. You would prefer it to be pragmatic, and you would strive for it to…

  • The Political Sight - Konrad Pustoła's 'Views of Power'

    31 Oct 2011 | 1:15 pm
    What do you see?This, here, is an image of power.Pure and simple, it is what a specific person with power sees. Out of the window. Every day.Some of the Views of Power, a project by Konrad Pustoła, could be postcards. They are annoyingly nice. Others - most of them, actually -  seem violent in their chaotic setting.And so, the game begins - can you match the picture to the person? Does it tell you something more about who the person is? Or is it vice versa - the person informs your view of what this view is?After taking the pictures, Pustoła posted them on billboards in every possible…
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    NEWSgrist - where spin is art

  • Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act

    NEWSgrist
    18 Jan 2012 | 10:08 am
    Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act [petition link at bottom] Congress needs to hear from Artists! The PROTECT-IP act would censor the net, in the name of protecting "creativity" (read: copyright). The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites-- they just have to convince a judge that the site is "dedicated to copyright infringement." The law could definitely pass, but it's close. * Artists (musicians, actors, writers, media-makers, etc) need to speak out against the law. Your statement is powerful because the corporate music and film lobbies push these laws in…

  • SOPA: Where We're At (via @Techdirt)

    NEWSgrist
    17 Jan 2012 | 7:04 pm
    Via Techdirt, 1/12/2012: SOPA/PIPA: How Far We've Come; How Far We Need To Go from the not-over-yet dept On October 26th, I was flying from San Francisco to Washington DC to meet with folks in the House of Representatives to explain why they should be careful about making the same mistakes as the Senate with its anti-piracy bill, PROTECT IP (PIPA). We had been assured by Rep. Bob Goodlatte that Congress had heard the myriad complaints about PIPA and that the House version would take them into account. Instead, as the plane I was on flew over the Rocky Mountains, I started getting a flood of…

  • Stop SOPA Infographic

    NEWSgrist
    17 Jan 2012 | 6:59 pm
    Via: http://sopacountdown.com/

  • For Immediate Release: Dana Bell / Alasdair Duncan / Don Voisine @ THEODORE:Art opens 1/14

    NEWSgrist
    10 Jan 2012 | 12:14 pm
    Dana Bell / Alasdair Duncan / Don Voisine14 January – 3 March 2012 Opening reception: Saturday, January 14, 2012: 6-8pm Theodore:Art http://www.theodoreart.com 56 Bogart St. Brooklyn - L train to Morgan stop MAP --> http://tinyurl.com/TheodoreArt The unity of the thing remains mysterious as long as one considers its different qualities as so much data belonging to worlds entirely distinct from sight, from smell, from touch, etc.~ merleau ponty.Theodore:Art is pleased to present the first exhibition in our new home in Bushwick: work by Dana Bell, Alasdair Duncan, and Don Voisine.These…

  • "A" is for Art, "B" is for Bushwick

    NEWSgrist
    10 Jan 2012 | 11:14 am
    Photo: Joy Garnett. Found Art (Ingraham St. - Bushwick) Unmonumental 593 As we prepare to launch Theodore:Art in its new space at 56 Bogart Street in Bushwick Brooklyn, it's been encouraging to read articles in the art press, blogosphere and even in the mainstream media that anticipate the continued development and flowering of the "Bushwick art scene" with enthusiasm. Here are a few excerpts from recent articles starting with the latest and going back to June 2011: The New Criterion: Gallery chronicle by James Panero - January 2012 Manhattan is the center of the art world. So why schlep to…
 
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    Latest Activity on artreview.com

  • ValeryRybakow joined Petra's group

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:05 am
    ValeryRybakow joined Petra's groupLondon Art StudiosA group in which to publicise available art studios in London, get info on whats out there, price ranges, contact details etc. For anyone looking for, or wanting to rent a studio space. :-)

  • ValeryRybakow joined ART+'s group

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:04 am
    ValeryRybakow joined ART+'s groupParis Art Networkgroup for art lovers visiting or living in Paris and getting together on regular basis to enjoy art events, exhibitions, private artists studio visits, collector warehouses tour and other art discussions, in search of the next trends in ParisSee More

  • ValeryRybakow joined Marc Johns's group

    28 Jan 2012 | 3:04 am
    ValeryRybakow joined Marc Johns's groupDrawingContemporary drawing. For people who draw, or enjoy drawing.Don't be shy - join us!See More

  • Blog post by REDCAT

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:49 pm
    Blog post by REDCATMing Wong: Making ChinatownSunday, February 5, 2012 to Sunday, April 1, 2012 | Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–6 pm Ming Wong: Making ChinatownOpening reception: Saturday, February 4 | 6-9pmFor his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Ming Wong creates a series of videos and scenic backdrops that center around the making of Roman Polanski’s seminal 1974 film Chinatown. Shot on location in the Gallery at REDCAT, Wong’s reinterpretation, Making Chinatown, transforms the exhibition space into a studio backlot and examines the original film’s constructions of language,…

  • Blog post by Said Dokins

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:47 pm
    Blog post by Said DokinsSaid Dokins gana segundo lugar en el Premio de la Juventud Ciudad de MéxicoEl artista visual Said Dokins gana el segundo lugar en el premio de la Juventud Ciudad de México 2011 en la categoría de Actividades culturales y artísticas.Una felicitación a todos los premiados, es un honor compartir con todos ustedes, menciono especialmente a Karla Lizbeth Zúñiga Chávez A.K.A. Fanzye (mención honorífica) y Clara Gabriela Meyra Segura (Segundo lugar en labor social), amigas y colegas que admiro mucho y con quienes he crecido y compartido experiencias…
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    ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News

  • Red Pill, Blue Pill - Is Engagement An Either/Or Thing?

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:01 am
    What if our audiences are confined by our predetermined ideas about what they are? A professor who began to get hundreds of thousands of views online wonders why he confines himself to a classroom with only a few dozen students....

  • London's National Gallery Assistants Stage Work Actions

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:34 am
    "Used to standing quietly in the shadows while the spotlight shines on a Leonardo or Caravaggio or Velázquez, the National Gallery's warders - or assistants, as they are known these days - do not tend to draw attention to themselves. But, at the moment, that is exactly what they are doing. Last week's two-hour stoppage, which saw between 30 and 40 assistants walk off the job, forced the temporary closure of around 35 rooms, though not the blockbuster Leonardo exhibition."...

  • Know A Narcissist? It's Probably Tough On Him Too

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
    "A new study has found that men who are full of themselves may actually be stressed out by their own narcissism."...

  • Of Art And Imaging Analysis

    27 Jan 2012 | 10:27 am
    "There are manifest deficiencies of understanding on the crucial relationship between the discoveries that are being made through advances of technical analysis, and the original painterly/artistic means by which the art-objects-under-investigation were produced by artists in the first place."...

  • Mapping The World Of Art

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:53 am
    "My-ArtMap is a social network exclusively for the art and art market. Like the Art World, it is populated by art professionals, including auction houses, galleries, museums and art collectors. The site just exited beta, shortly after acquiring many new members from Spain, Italy and Germany. It is heavily focused on Europe, at least for the time being."...
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    Artworld Salon

  • Occupy Museums, MoMA and insta-history

    Jonathan T. D. Neil
    20 Jan 2012 | 4:08 pm
    One week ago today the Occupy Museums (OM) offshoot of OWS staged a protest inside MoMA during which a banner was unfurled and promptly confiscated by MoMA security.  (Read a decent account here.)  Today, in a cheeky but perhaps brilliant move, OM sent a letter to MoMA’s Acquisitions Committee claiming that the “confiscation” of the banner was in fact a “unilateral acquisition” of a work of art that is by, and so belongs to, OM.  In the letter, the banner, which quoted Camus and called for the end of the Sotheby’s lockout of its art handlers, was…

  • Museums & Mission Statements

    Ian Charles Stewart
    10 Dec 2011 | 11:20 pm
    Our own András Szántó has just written an interesting article for the Art Newspaper on the purpose of museums; at least as proclaimed by those museums’ own mission statements.  (You can watch a video of a related discussion, hosted by András at Art Basel Miami Beach here.)   The article covers an analysis done by András and fellow Art world analyser Adam Levine of the mission statements of 60 museums around the US (you can see the accompanying Wordle graphic above) and seeks to draw conclusions about the state of strategic thinking at these grand institutions based on the words…

  • On seeing a performance of exploitation…

    Jonathan T. D. Neil
    11 Nov 2011 | 10:23 pm
    Making its way across the web as I write is a story about the exploitation of performers at the hands of Marina Abramović.  ARTINFO is running the best recap of the story, and Hrag Vartanian at Hyperallergic has picked it up and carried it as well, but here’s a brief: Abramović was tapped by LA MOCA to produce a performance work for the Museum’s annual gala.  The outcome?  Each table at the gala comes with a performer getting paid $150 to sit under it on a slowly-rotating lazy-susan with his or her head protruding up through the table’s center, which carries the…

  • Artoon

    Pablo Helguera
    21 Oct 2011 | 7:15 am

  • Occupy the museums … or, simply don’t

    Edward Winkleman
    20 Oct 2011 | 7:57 am
    I have been watching and, in spirit, am all for the Occupy Wall Street protests because I feel the issues being raised need to be discussed. I truly wish the banks would get involved, to help balance out the conversation, but apparently they’re too busy raking in record profits. That said, I find the Occupy the Museums notion a bit too misguided (and more than a bit ironic) to let it go without comment. In a nutshell the message of the Occupy the Museums effort is : Museums, open your mind and your heart! Art is for everyone! The people are at your door! Let’s begin with the fact…
 
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  • Record Rise for Orientalist Paintings – artmarketblog.com

    theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:19 pm
    Record Rise for Orientalist Paintings – artmarketblog.com As the art market continues to rebound, and new buyers continue to emerge from the middle east, the demand for top orientalist paintings has risen significantly over the last twelve months.  Exceeding the market high seen during the 2007/2008 boom, the prices being paid for the work of many orientalist artists have reached record highs. Christie’s 26 January 2012 Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors held at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York saw the fifth highest auction price achieved for…

  • Jan 2012 Art Market Blog Press Update – artmarketblog.com

    theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)
    19 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm
    Jan 2012 Art Market Blog Press Update – artmarketblog.com Just a few recently published articles that I wrote.  Hope you enjoy !! In Recognition of an LA-Centric Art Market Trend http://www.fabrikmagazine.com/content/in-recognition-of-an-la-centric-art-market-trend/ Latest London Contemporary Art Auction Roundup http://www.arterynyc.com/2011/12/october-2011-london-contemporary-art-auction-roundup/ Pearls prove a collectors best friend http://www.worthpoint.co.uk/2012/01/pearls-prove-a-collectors-best-friend/   image: Painting by Frederick Hammersley   **Nicholas Forrest is an…

  • Singapore to Conquer French Contemporary Art Market – artmarketblog.com

    theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)
    13 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
    Singapore to Conquer French Contemporary Art Market – artmarketblog.com Having focused recent posts on the Southeast Asian art market, I found it particularly interesting that Artprice have announced that Singapore should soon overtake France in the field of Contemporary art sales.  Although 2011 was a better year for France than 2010, the French art market is still lagging behind other major art market centres.  Currently fourth in world art market rankings, France may be heading further down the list if Singapore continues to rise through the ranks. Evidence of the growing profile…

  • Why Indonesian Artists are Hot Property – artmarketblog.com

    theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)
    6 Jan 2012 | 10:02 am
     Why Indonesian Artists are Hot Property – artmarketblog.com My previous post revealed some recent auction results that suggest that the market for the work of some of Indonesia’s top artists is gaining strength.  One of the factors that has contributed to the strength and resilence of the market for Indonesian art is the existence of a cross cultural dialogue between east and west that is due to the Dutch colonisation of Indonesia that ended in 1942.  This dialogue is not limited to the influence of Eestern art on Indonesian artists; many Western born artists such as Walter…

  • Indonesian Art Soars at Hong Kong Auction – artmarketblog.com

    theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)
    30 Dec 2011 | 12:52 pm
    Indonesian Art Soars at Hong Kong Auction – artmarketblog.com On the 26th of November 2011, an auction was held in Hong Kong of Modern and Contemporary Art that produced results which allude to a continued desire for the work of the top modern and contemporary Indonesia artists.  The auction was held by United Asian Auctioneers, “a consortium of four of Asia’s leading modern & contemporary Asian art auctioneers – Asian Art Auction Alliance (A|A|A|A) the overseas arm of Japan’s Shinwa Art Auction, Korea’s K-Auction, China’s Beijing Hanhai Auction…
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    MAKING A MARK

  • What are the priorities for an aspiring artist?

    Katherine Tyrrell
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    California Sunset by Albert Bierstadt - a model for all aspiring painters of Californian landscapes? What do you think are the priorities for an aspiring artist? I received an email the other day... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • 14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration - Intent to submit

    Katherine Tyrrell
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    The 14th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation in Pennsylvania takes place in the Autumn / Fall of 2013. However in order to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • How to become a member of the Society of Botanical Artists

    Katherine Tyrrell
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    This is a post about how to become a member of the Society of Botanical Artists (SBA). "Membership" is a term used in this post to denote botanical artists who have achieved the status of member... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Society of Botanical Artists Annual Exhibition 2012: Call for Entries

    Katherine Tyrrell
    23 Jan 2012 | 1:45 pm
    The Society of Botanical Artists is to be congratulated on having an informative and accessible "how to" webpage for those wanting to submit to artwork to its Annual Exhibition and/or become a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • 22nd January - Who's made a mark this week?

    Katherine Tyrrell
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    David Hockney The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 2 January  iPad drawing printed on paper  144.1 x 108 cm; one of a 52-part work  Courtesy of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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    Two Coats of Paint

  • Adolph Gottlieb lamented the end of the underground --in 1966

    Sharon Butler
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:26 pm
    Yesterday I went to The Phillips Collection in Dupont Circle where Joseph Marioni is having an elegant solo show of monochromatic paintings through the end of the weekend. The Phillips, which opened in 1921, was founded by Duncan Phillips,  a champion of Modern art and, particularly, American artists, many of whom he knew personally. Adoph Gottlieb must have been one of his friends because this unusual Gottlieb entered the Phillips collection in 1963--the year it was made. I looked up Gottleib, who with his wife Esther Gottlieb founded the Gottlieb Foundation to support struggling…

  • A makeshift studio in Georgetown

    Sharon Butler
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    Since I'll be spending more time in DC, and I have to paint for two upcoming shows, I turned the apartment into a makeshift studio. The natural light, ceiling height and wall space in the apartment are excellent, although I can't work on too many things at once unless I spread out into the rest of the place--which is often the case. In my new work, I"m thinking about the monumental sculpture I saw recently at the National Gallery's Sculpture Garden. I just started three 60 x 72 inch unstretched canvases. Working with acrylic pigments and binders, I can work on small sections of the paintings…

  • Barry Reigate's political geometry

    Sharon Butler
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:13 am
    While doing some research the other day, I ran across work by British artist Barry Reigate (b. 1971). In London Reigate is primarily known for his lecherous cartoon imagery of disembodied breasts and Disney characters, but geometric forms like cubes, spheres and pinwheels are also embedded in his large-scale paintings. In his October 2011 exhibition at Paradise Row, Reigate included geometric sculptures and earnest gouaches of geometric volumes, and I wondered if he was in transition, perhaps moving away from the pop culture references. According to Reigate, the gouaches, which have…

  • From the Gardner's collection: Anders Zorn

    Sharon Butler
    22 Jan 2012 | 4:10 pm
    Last week the long-anticipated Renzo Piano wing opened at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.  For the first time in its history, the Gardner will have space for both temporary shows organized from the collection and exhibitions of contemporary art. Curator Oliver Tostmann, who I ran into at a gallery reception in DC this week, told me that he plans to focus on singular masterpieces from the collection, borrowing work from other museums to put the objects in context. His first exhibition centers on a work by Anders Zorn (February 18, 1860 – August 22, 1920), the artist who…

  • Quick study: Batman, love advice, internships, and the new videographer in town

    Sharon Butler
    22 Jan 2012 | 2:40 pm
    "Batman Returns," Joyce Pensato's show at Friedrich Petzel, was in Time Out New York's Top Five and listed as ArtCat's Top Pick this week. Incorporating color in her new paintings, Pensato presents crazed images of Batman, assemblages of toys, ephemera, stuffed animals, and photographs. Looks good.  • The January issue of Art in America just arrived here -- better late than never. Faye Hirsch writes about Arlene Shechet's clay sculpture. "With an awkwardness so skilled it becomes elegant, Shechet demonstrates a mastery over everything that can go wrong in ceramics, harnessing wrongness…
 
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    Studio Notes

  • Archangel Michael

    26 Jan 2012 | 12:48 am
    Arcangelo, 24 x 20, oil on linenThis is a painting that I did recently of Archangel Michael. The original sculpture was created by Flemish sculptor and architect Peter von Verschaffelt in the 18th century, and it stands outside Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome. Peter did the hard part. I just painted it. 

  • Edges

    18 Jan 2012 | 1:23 pm
    Sierra Rocks, 9 x 12 oil on linenThis is my first demo of the year, which I did for my landscape concepts class last week. I used a photo that I took last summer during my trip to the Eastern Sierras with a bunch of unruly hooligans artists.Among other things, I wanted to emphasize using edges effectively. The basic idea is this; we have at our disposal a couple of options when it comes to edges –sharp,  soft, and lost – and we need to use them deliberately, intentionally, and strategically. There are reasons why we use one type of edge over another, and it should never be done…

  • Metamorphosis

    11 Jan 2012 | 11:51 am
    No, not Kafka. I'm talking about making big changes to a painting and giving it a new lease on life. This painting is not finished but I've spent quite a lot of time on it. I've been thinking about my decision making processes on this particular painting. There's so much going on (which was, now that I look at it, the main problem with the picture) that many conflicting ideas had be resolved.  I got confused at every turn, but in rare moments of clarity I told myself "this is important. I need to write this down before I forget and become confused again". And so here are some…

  • Shape Driven

    6 Jan 2012 | 11:53 am
    Take A Seat, 16 x 12 inches, oil on linenIn designing a painting, I often look for and rely on strong shapes to carry the composition. Aside from the fact that the shapes are interesting to look at –that's a given. I mean who wants to look at something boring?– strong shapes are extremely helpful in simplifying a picture.Consider this; In order for the viewer to understand what it is he is looking at, the thing must have visual information which communicate its identity. One can do this without color obviously, which is simpler than rendering something in full color. (You can look at a…

  • A 2-Day Workshop in September, South Bay

    4 Jan 2012 | 9:58 am
    Hey art enthusiast in the Bay Area! I just scheduled a two-day workshop in September. Yes, it's almost ten months away, but I thought I'd throw it out there for those of you who wish to plan ahead. (I give you fair warning; this workshop will be filled long before September!)This is a plein air painting workshop hosted by the good folks at the Society of Western Artists in Redwood City, California (25 min. South of San Francisco). Open to all levels but some outdoor painting experience is highly recommended. (If you have none, hey, you got ten months to get out there with your…
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    An Artist's Journal

  • A Nice Morning In The Studio

    Martha Marshall
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:36 pm
    WIP View 1 WIP View 2 This morning turned out to be a  joyful smearing of paint – on canvas, on panels, and all over my hands. I had spent way too many hours this week at the computer working on digital art, which can be addicting in its own way, but can be physically draining too. It’s good to change focus for a little while. I finally broke out of my fear of going larger with some collage on canvas. Well, I guess you can call it collage, though for now it’s mostly paint, and lots of texture. I want to shake my fixation on the idea that canvas=paint. The collage elements…

  • Another New Discovery

    Martha Marshall
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:42 pm
    Haiku 9, Acrylic and Collage on Cradled Masonite 8 x 8 x 2" As you may recall from reading this blog, I like to buy art books. Exactly a year ago, give or take a few days, I wrote in this post that I had bought Art Revolution by Lisa L. Cyr. I’ve enjoyed reading the book off and on over time and, as with all good art books, every time I pick it up it shows me something in a new way. So I’m currently reading it again with my coffee in the mornings. This time I decided to look for Lisa online, to possibly see more works by her. I found not only a beautiful website, but her new…

  • A Surprise Painting

    Martha Marshall
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:05 pm
    It's Still Winter - Acrylic and Graphite on Cradled Panel, 8x8" This painting is the perfect example of how unpredictable my process is. Look at the before version below (with apologies for the bad photo.) Remember all that splattered and smeared and troweled color? All it ended up doing was create a very interesting texture when covered with white and gray and lines. It was probably the least promising of the three pieces I’d started. But I went out there tonight and decided to transform it into one with a neutral palette. I like it now. Work In Progress, Before Version…

  • Thinking About What If

    Martha Marshall
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:07 pm
    Enduring Stories - Collage, 5x7" on 8x10" backing It was good to be in the studio today. It is a warm and welcoming feeling, and everything that happens is a new discovery. It felt so good to just explore the possibilities of papers and texture and colors. The collage shown above is composed of hand painted and weathered papers. Right now I am thinking about collage on a very large scale, primarily because of the show that’s coming up. I want to see what happens if I try to translate some of these ideas onto canvas or a large panel. Of course as always I will share what…

  • Like Driving A Car At Night

    Martha Marshall
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:18 pm
    Tierra 7, Acrylic on Panel, 10x10" “E.L. Doctorow once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”  ― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life These are beautiful…
 
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  • A page from march of last year

    offkilterart
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    A page from march of last year. Where did last year go? http://www.offkilterart.com

  • Portrait of a friend. Ink and watercolour

    Alberto Cuadra
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:22 am
    Portrait of a friend. Ink and watercolour.

  • From 30,000 feet – Ink and Watercolour

    Uncle Bob
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:21 am
    From 30,000 feet – Ink and Watercolour Notes from my travel journal (we cross the Atlantic on our way to the USA) Thursday 29th September 2011 (4.20pm) We have just crossed the Atlantic Ocean. This is the first time anyone from my generation on my side of the family has done this and it the first time for both Margaret and me. Ewan and Andrew, of course, have been to NYC before. Thinking about my father who saw service in WW2 on minesweepers and convoy duty in The Royal Navy. During this time he travelled a lot up and down the west coast of Africa and in the Mediterranean Sea. He was only…

  • Acrylic and ink in Moleskine

    martinsdoodles
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:15 am
    Acrylic and ink in Moleskine

  • Last day of my Chicago trip last fall

    monkey steve
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:11 am
    Last day of my Chicago trip last fall. Sears/Willis tower from the lakefront, and waiting in the train station to go back to Michigan.
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    Art Print Issues by Barney Davey

  • Art Marketing: Why Word-of-mouth Trumps Social Media and Strafrangers

    Barney Davey
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:47 pm
    It would be wonderful to have you participate in the 2012 smARTist Telesummit. It starts next week. I've watched its growth over the past six years, and presented at the last three. This year has the best speaker lineup ever, IMHO. Modern Art Marketing: A Blessing and a Curse Visual artists have the blessing of easy access to the most powerful set of art marketing tools every developed for solo practices and small businesses. They come in the form of free or affordable websites, blogs, e-commerce, email blast software, social media platforms, online press releases and more.   Google+ Races…

  • 12 Mistakes Every Artist Should Avoid In 2012

    Barney Davey
    16 Jan 2012 | 10:50 pm
    Ideas to Improve Your Art Business This Year Learning how avoid mistakes is critical to success in the art business. Today, I'm honored to publish this guest post by Gary T. Kerr. He is the is president of Fine Art Impressions, Charlotte, NC. It is one of the most highly respected art printing studios in the industry. 12 Mistakes Every Artist Should Avoid In 2012 1. Signing your art with just your initials Why? There are no famous artists that did so. And, when you sign a painting with your initials, you are secretly saying; “I’m not ready yet.” There will be exceptions to this, but…

  • Ten Art Marketing Points to Ponder for 2012

    Barney Davey
    11 Jan 2012 | 9:33 pm
    Art Marketing Is a Learned Skill That You Can Master. This post is a reblog with very minor changes from one I published in 2008. The advice stands up well four years later. Here Are Ten Points to Ponder for Your 2012 Art Marketing Plans: Create a realistic marketing plan and a budget that is neither too optimistic nor timid. Realize the most successful CEOs are serious planners who leave as little as possible to chance. They know getting things done revolves around executing achievable plans. Break your plan down incrementally so you can fully comprehend the necessary steps and how to…

  • Three Words and Three More Words

    Barney Davey
    8 Jan 2012 | 3:51 pm
    Ariane Goodwin, founder and creative force of the smARTist Telesummit asked me, as a returning presenter, to pen a blog post for the smARTist blog. I'm repeating that post here and adding three more important words I came across recently. Blogger extraordinaire, Chris Brogan, talked about how he concentrates on creating THREE WORDS that sum up all that he will focus on for the coming year. His ideas, as expected, are thoughtful and practical. You can read them on the link above. Brogan uses this Three Words in lieu of New Year’s Resolutions. I loved the idea, never having found resolutions…

  • 2012 smARTist Telesummit Early Bird Closes Friday, Jan 6

    Barney Davey
    5 Jan 2012 | 10:48 pm
    Tomorrow is the last day to save $60 on the smARTist Early Bird Special Get Your Free Download Link Here If you missed the call with smARTist founder and creative force, Ariane Goodwin, and me, you can listen to it now. Use this link to download the mp3 file: http://smartist.com/live-telesummit/barney-ariane-recording/ To listen will be worth your time whether you join this year's telesummit. We ran over the hour and could have kept going for another hour or two. This annual art career and art marketing workshop event has been used by thousands of artists to help them propel their art careers…
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  • Christopher Peterson

    Charley Parker
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:35 pm
    Christopher Peterson is an illustrator known in particular for his rock posters. He also does a variety of illustration, storyboards, set designs and exhibit concept designs. Originally from New York, Peterson studied at the Art Institute of Boston and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. His clients include Time Magazine, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Readers Digest, Fortune, McGraw-Hill, Watson-Guptill, Macy’s, Courvoisier, Warner Brothers, Joe Boxer and Bill Graham Presents, among others; and his rock posters have included such performers as Paul…

  • Thomas Hovenden

    Charley Parker
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:25 pm
    19th century painter Thomas Hovenden was noted both for his work as an artist and for his role as a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. As a painter, Hovenden painted domestic scenes, historical events and to some extent still life subjects. He is noted in particular for his depictions of African Americans, both in domestic and historic contexts, such as his well known depiction of The Last Moments of John Brown (images above, top), now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has a zoomable high resolution version on the website. Hovenden’s interest…

  • Felideus (Juan Parra)

    Charley Parker
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:55 pm
    Based in Madrid, Spain, Felideus (pen name for Juan Parra) has worked as an art director, animator, screenwriter and graphic designer for film and video productions, and is now a freelance illustrator, designer and writer. As a writer and illustrator, Felideus has worked on book projects and in comic books. He works both in traditional media like watercolor, acrylic, pencil and ink, and in digital media, using applications like Photoshop and Painter. Felideus maintains a blog which also functions as his website, though the Portfolio section is labeled as Under Construction, and points to his…

  • Janet Ternoff

    Charley Parker
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:28 pm
    Self taught New York artist Janet Ternoff finds great fascination in the facades and interiors of buildings. She works in a realistic style, at times with considerable detail. She works in a range of sizes, from 8×10 to considerably larger. Her series of exteriors of bars, stores and restaurants feel in a way as if portraits of the establishments, with lots of attention to details of signs and other characteristics of the facades. She also has a series of surface and subway trains as wall as a series of interiors that I particularly enjoy, particularly when they feature staircases in…

  • Carel Fabritius

    Charley Parker
    21 Jan 2012 | 8:59 pm
    Carel Fabritius was a Dutch painter whose adopted name comes from the latin for carpenter, or if more broadly used, craftsman. Fabritius studied in the the studio of Rembrandt, and is generally considered to be Rembrandt’s most talented pupil, and the only one to really break free of the master’s influence and develop his own style. This is notable in particular in the contrast of his color and texture filled portrait backgrounds with Rembrandt’s deep pools of darkness. His use of cool color harmonies is also distinctly different from the color choices of his master. On…
 
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    The Earthly Paradise

  • Art Revolution: David Hockney's "A Bigger Picture"

    21 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    “Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?” - David Hockney, via Bloomberg The art world has been a-flutter over the past several days with a (largely) manufactured battle between two of its stars: David Hockney and Damien Hirst. Hockney mania, the Telegraph reports, has overloaded the Royal Academy website, leaving servers crashing in its wake. Meanwhile, Hirsts "retrospective" of his infamous spot paintings (you know, the ones he didn't actually paint?) has barely registered, except as something for art critics to mock gleefully. It could be that gallery…

  • The Art History Carnival Returns in February

    17 Jan 2012 | 4:41 pm
    The Art History Carnival will be returning to The Earthly Paradise on a regular basis starting in February! The February edition of the Art History Carnival  will be posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2012. You can submit articles for inclusion in the carnival until 48 hours before the issue comes out (Monday, January 30, 2012). What kind of blog articles will be included? Posts covering all periods and art mediums are welcome, as are posts discussing art criticism, architecture, design, theory and aesthetics. All submissions will be carefully reviewed, so please, no spam. What is a Blog…

  • Netflix for Books

    3 Jan 2012 | 4:44 pm
    I love reading, and I'm a huge consumer of print media - approximately 20 books a month, plus countless articles. I use the library out of necessity. It would cost me around $6,000 a year to buy all the books I read, so the library is my best choice for affordable access to the books I want to read. I love ebooks, which are slightly more affordable and can't be easily digested by my two toddlers, but once again, I can't really justify buying 20 or more ebooks a month (after all, how many books can my kids destroy per month?). But I do get tired of lugging all the books back…

  • Washington Apple Cake

    14 Nov 2011 | 1:57 pm
    Washington Apple Cake, a photo by theearthlyparadise on Flickr.There are dozens of recipes for "Washington Apple Cake" out there, but this one is special for a couple of reasons. The first is that the recipe for this cake was handed down to me from my Great-Grandmother (whom I believe discovered it in the newspaper). The second is that it contains a lot more (and different) spices than most apple cakes! Most ask for no more than two teaspoons of cinnamon, whereas this recipe calls for two tablespoons, plus a 1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg. The cinnamon might seem excessive when you are making the…

  • I'm back!

    7 Nov 2011 | 2:42 pm
    I'm back! I have been enjoying time with both my lovely daughters (the youngest of whom - shown above - is now just a little over 2 months old). This time I really allowed myself to take a break from blogging, social media etc., and it's been a wonderful experience. That said, I feel that it's just about time to return to the virtual world! I definitely have missed you all, and hopefully there are some readers left, since I realize that three months is an eternity in blogging! I also have to admit that one thing that has kept me from coming back sooner is that I've been having a bit of an…
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    Artlog

  • Rachel & Rodin

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Few contemporary artists have the opportunity to show alongside one of their historical inspirations—especially a master of Impressionist sculpture—but British artist Rachel Kneebone is fortunate. Her show of porcelain works which opened last night at the Brooklyn Museum is dotted with (and in fact outnumbered by) Auguste Rodin bronzes, and this is only the artist’s first museum presentation. Kneebone’s large-scale sculptures draw heavily from historical motifs in sculpture such as mourning, death, ecstasy, and vitality and on a basic level her works are often figurative. Kneebone and…

  • DUOX Will "Customize Your Strife"

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Few artists use obscure materials such as Zebra Cakes, fish tanks, and keychains with such lyrical efficacy as the Baltimore-based duo DUOX, a collaboration between Malcolm Lomax and Daniel Wickerham. Their installations often aim to implicate viewers through movement or interaction. In 2010, DUOX self-organized their Museum of Modern Twink at a makeshift art venue in Baltimore, participating in the city’s Pride festival. The show featured logos, images of dismembered body parts, floral cushions, magazines, and microphones into which visitors could speak, among other objects. Altogether,…

  • Explore the LES Through the Bowery

    25 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    The Lower East Side is saturated with a rich artistic tradition, which you’d be more familiar with if not for your cherished tradition of getting saturated whenever you’re down there. Celebrate both neighborhood customs at Artlog’s Lower East Side Art Crawl, a two-and-a-half hour tour of thirteen Bowery-proximate galleries on Saturday, February 4. The event, lasting from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., grants you access to the New Museum, plus a baker’s dozen of top-notch art houses, each of which will welcome crawlers with contemporary exhibitions from up-and-coming locals, including a monotype…

  • This Week in NYC

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    This week is a good time to catch some of the fantastic lecture and performance series at New York’s premier cultural institutions. On Tuesday evening, Clifford Owens and Mickalene Thomas speak at MoMA and Israeli artist and filmmaker Yael Bartana speaks at the Guggenheim. If you can’t make it, both are a part of ongoing lecture series, so be sure to check the museum calendars. At the New Museum, Raed Yassin will perform a “multimedia saga” using footage from Egyptian B-movies and vintage Arabian Pop LPs. All day Sunday, MoMA PS1 celebrates the opening of its Henry…

  • 2012 Biennial Preview

    24 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    The biennial continues to grow in popularity this year with just about every corner of the world dabbling in some form of the genre. Biennials are notoriously difficult beasts, stirring up heated debates surrounding the nature of curation and representation, particularly vis-à-vis under-served communities. This is partially due to the fact that biennials set up impossibly ambitious objectives to fulfill, aspiring to gauge the temper of contemporary artistic practice as a whole, while assessing whether or not the given artists reflect broader cultural concerns. This year’s bumper crop…
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    Culture Monster

  • PST, A to Z: ‘The House That Sam Built,’ ‘In Words and Wood’

    Sharon Mizota
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:03 pm
    Pacific Standard Time will explore the origins of the Los Angeles art world through museum exhibitions throughout Southern California over the next six months. Times art reviewer Sharon Mizota has set the goal of seeing all of them. This is her latest report. Charles and Ray Eames may be the most celebrated PST designers, but two exhibitions centered on midcentury woodworker Sam Maloof give them a run for their money. “The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985” at the Huntington, and “In Words and Wood: Sam Maloof, Bob Stocksdale and Ed Moulthrop,”…

  • Vermeer's 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' coming to San Francisco

    Mike Boehm
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:01 pm
    You may have seen Scarlett Johansson impersonate her onscreen; now you can see her in the flesh, or, should we say, in the oil: Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With A Pearl Earring” will come to the De Young Museum in San Francisco next January, the first stop on a three-venue American tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, the Hague. The Dutch museum is sending 35 paintings on a two-year tour, announced Friday, first to the United States, then to two museums in Japan, while it undergoes renovations. “Girl With a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings From the Mauritshuis,”…

  • 'American Idol' producer Nigel Lythgoe joins Music Center board

    David Ng
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:52 pm
    Nigel Lythgoe, the uber reality-TV producer who was instrumental in launching Fox's "American Idol" and "So You Think You Can Dance," is joining the board of directors of the Music Center in downtown Los Angeles, the organization announced Friday. Lythgoe is one of three new appointments to the Music Center board. The others are Julia A. Stewart, the head of DineEquity, the parent company of the Applebee’s and IHOP chain restaurants; and Bertrand Valdman, a senior vice president at Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison. The Music…

  • Dance review: La La La Human Steps with U.S. debut of 'New Work'

    Laura Bleiberg
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:48 pm
    “Dancing in the dark” would make an impeccable subtitle for Édouard Lock’s provocative “New Work,” which had its U.S. debut at the Irvine Barclay Theatre on Thursday night. The ultra-athletic artists of Lock’s company, La La La Human Steps, whirled, kicked and wriggled at highest velocity. This iconoclastic style has brought both celebrity and notoriety to the Montreal choreographer. In “New Work,” Lock has gone one step further, designing a nearly dark lighting scheme, brightened only by precisely angled overhead and side spotlights. The dancers' faces and bodies were…

  • Monster Mash: Dudamel to Carnegie Hall; Charlie Chaplin musical

    David Ng
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:45 am
    New York, New York: Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the Simon Bolivar Symphony at Carnegie Hall next season. (New York Times) Summer tradition: The Public Theater in New York said its two Central Park productions this year will be Shakespeare's "As You Like It," starring Lily Rabe, and a revival of the musical "Into the Woods." (Playbill) Movie legend: The new musical "Becoming Chaplin" is expected to open on Broadway during the 2012-2013 season. (Theatermania) Accused: A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4-million fraud for selling works by Picasso,…
 
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    Culturepush

  • Redsteam – The Blazing Art of Big Guns, Creepy Zombies & Cute Critters

    Michele Adriaens
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:33 am
    “The Blazing Art of Big Guns, Creepy Zombies and Cute Critters” is a concept Art & 3D for Video Games Exhibition featuring selected concept, environment and 3D art produced by Redsteam Creative Studio for Gameloft’s published games. Redsteam Creative Studio, founded in 2009 by Arthur Hugot, Global Art Director of Gameloft, specializes in pre-production artistic assets – concept art, environment designs, illustrations and high-poly 3D models. This specialized studio plays an essential role in the production of Gameloft’s games, converging art into the science of video…

  • Spotted! Brian Lee

    Michele Adriaens
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Brian Lee is an Interactive Art Director student at Hyper Island, Stockholm, graduating this June. When not in front of the computer, Brian is playing with his Konica T-3 or writing a soundtrack for a scriptless film. “Or I could be listening to Jeff Buckley’s “Grace”, or wondering why the dialogues are so perfect in Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” and “Before Sunset”. Nick Drake does the trick at times as well. I believe that common sense in combination with technology and a great user experience, can make the world a better…

  • Spotted! Wayne Lim

    Michele Adriaens
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Opening alongside Derrick Ng at the Something About Seeing exhibition was Wayne Lim. Wayne is a practicing artist who graduated with a Diploma in Fine Arts from LASALLE, College of the Arts. He participated in several group shows over the last couple of years, including ‘Kriyaworks’ (2010) at LASALLE’s Praxis Space, ‘Is That A Temple?’ (2010) at Evil Empire, and ‘TRANSPORTASIAN’ (2009) at the Singapore Art Museum. Wayne enjoys posing critical questions with no answers. His current work revolves around the realm of image and sight. “Something About Seeing is a series of…

  • Spotted! Derrick Ng

    Michele Adriaens
    22 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Last Friday, LASALLE unveiled their latest exhibition featuring work by emerging artists and recent graduates Wayne Lim and Derrick Ng. Titled Something About Seeing, the exhibition invites viewers to look beyond the images and their substance in order to critique and discuss the production and process of the work. Today we are looking into the work of Derrick Ng,  a Bachelor in Fine Arts from LASALLE who is currently working as a freelance photographer and assistant. “In my work I observe that the juxtaposition of the images addresses the importance of different elements such as,…

  • Spotted! Pandora Wong

    Michele Adriaens
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:01 am
    Pandora Wong took some rather amazing photos of Pulau Ubin, and her camera gives us an interesting view of an island so often considered solely as a cycling or camping destination. “In the face of urbanization, Singapore is gradually losing its natural landscapes to make way for residential and industrial areas,” Pandora explains. “The rapid pace of modernization has accelerated this process, leaving few untouched places. Pulau Ubin is one of these few remaining rural landscapes in Singapore, However, the island faces an uncertain future as Singapore continues to develop…
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  • What are you looking forward to in the new year?

    admin
    3 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    Its the new year, we have just been through the holiday season where a lot of us took liberties to slothfully lay about. (don’t feel bad I did it too.) But now it’s the first blogoff of 2012, and lets face it we only have about 4 left before the world ends. Anyway, what am I looking forward to in 2012? I am looking forward to this being the year digital died, music already died in 1959. Then Disco died (which really wasn’t music) in July 1979, then video killed the radio later that year in September 1979. Next to die, well its digital. I look at what has been happening with…

  • Thumbtacks

    admin
    13 Sep 2011 | 6:15 pm
    Thumbtacks are what hold ideas together on a designer/artist’s note board. For some reason when I am venturing into a new body of work, nowadays that includes building a menu or just gathering ideas about food, I need a space to just let ideas hang out and be visible. Thumbtacks are really the only tool that allows you to do this easily and affordably. Think about it, you get a cork board and some thumbtacks. Thumbtacks are really the only tool; tape isn’t reusable like a thumbtack, post-it notes fall off too easily, and staples are plain annoying. These simple little items with…

  • The secret of my success

    admin
    9 Sep 2011 | 11:35 am
    Ok, I’m lying a little bit in the title but seriously everyday I follow this simple rule to try and keep a little more stress out of my life. It also helps me keep a little perspective on what I should actually be spending my energy and time focusing on.

  • Why the GOP is failing to run the government like a buisness

    admin
    5 Aug 2011 | 3:39 pm
    On the extended cut of The Daily Show last night was the interview with Senator Dick Durban (D Illinois) where him and Jon Stewart discussed the debacle that was the debt ceiling debates. In that interview Senator Dick Durban (D Illinois) explained that he and some of his fellow senators from both parties had spent 16-18 months working on a composed solution to how we would not only cut spending but increase revenue. He explained by limiting the solution to only one or the other would significantly hurt one or the other. Spending 16-18 months on a solution, and then disregarding because it…

  • What one thing did you really want when you were a kid?

    admin
    2 Aug 2011 | 7:39 pm
    Teddy Ruxpin, I remember begging my parents to get this for me when I was just a little kid. I remember wanting it sooo bad, that it was the coolest thing ever. Needless to say i nver got one, and I forgot about having one a little while later. This is probably one of the more important time in my life, because this was the first THING that I can remember really wanting as a kid. There was something about it. It actually told you stories, albeit in a creepy animatronic way, but stories nonetheless. I never got it, and this was a good thing. Throughout my life there was always that new thing…
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    David LaMorte

  • Update: Dino Eli Found

    davelamorte
    3 Jan 2012 | 8:45 pm
    {Mp3} In turns out that Dino is alive and well in NY. I should have realized that Dino Eli actually never went missing. I’m glad that Dino is okay and that he is addressing his own personal demon. From what I gather Dino skipped out to try to drum up some buzz and to take a break from the stress of the gallery. He is trying to handle his personal issues and get back to work. I was definitely annoyed when I found out I was worried about nothing, but now I’m just concerned about my friend. I’m just trying to pretend he was doing some kind of Vito Acconci impression. I hope he…

  • Life’s Short, Work Faster. 2011. Marker, colored pencil, and ink on paper. 11″ x14″.

    davelamorte
    9 Nov 2011 | 11:11 am
    David LaMorte. Life’s Short, Work Faster. 2011. Marker, colored pencil, and ink on paper. 11″ x14″.

  • Art House

    davelamorte
    8 Nov 2011 | 9:30 am
    This Saturday (November 12, 2011) I am (DavidLaMorte.com going to exhibit as part of the Art House event (facebook event link). The Art House is a multidisciplinary arts event that features music, performances, and visual art. The show will be at 25 Huntington Street in New Brunswick and will run from 8pm-11pm. I don’t have an exhibitors list, but the show is going to feature 20+ local artists and performers. I would love to meet some new people and see some familiar faces as well. Feel free to come by, say hi, and enjoy the event. {Mp3 link} The podcast link will eventually be posted…

  • David LaMorte. Too Seriously. 2011. Marker, colored pencil, and ink on paper. 11″ x 14″.

    davelamorte
    7 Nov 2011 | 10:59 am
    David LaMorte. Too Seriously. 2011. Marker, colored pencil, and ink on paper. 11″ x 14″. This piece was a big hit with the teenagers at the Highland Park Art Fair. They really lost it when the saw the Nyan Cat in the picture. I wish I was joking, but I was happy that it got such a great reaction, even if that reaction was high-pitched and squeaky.

  • Touch. 2011. Marker and ink on paper. 11″ x 14″.

    davelamorte
    5 Nov 2011 | 11:58 am
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    ArtPlantae Today

  • Researchers Study Renaissance Herbals to Preserve the Botanical Tradition of the Ancient Mediterranean

    ArtPlantae Today
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
    Cultural anthropologist, Emanuela Appetiti, and historian of science, Alain Touwaide, believe that cultures would not have invested time and energy into medical formulas if they were not effective. To preserve traditional therapeutic remedies before they are lost forever, Emanuela and Alain founded the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions. The Institute is a research [...]

  • Seminar to Address Evolution & Scientific Illustration

    ArtPlantae Today
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:35 am
    The second session of the lecture series, Images in the Service of Science, will be held this week at the University of Burgundy. Presenting will be Richard Somerset from the University of Nancy 2 (France). Somerset focuses on the relationships between science and literature and the history of ideas in the 19th century. On Friday, [...]

  • Study the Anatomy of Trees at Brenton Arboretum

    ArtPlantae Today
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:30 am
    See what’s new at Brenton Arboretum at Classes Near You > Iowa: Brenton Arboretum, Dallas Center www.thebrentonarboretum.org The Brenton Arboretum is a 140-acre arboretum established in 1997 featuring 2,600 trees and shrubs. Most of the more than 175 species of trees and shrubs are organized by species to ease learning and to emphasize the importance [...]

  • Small Student-Centered Painting Workshops in Oregon

    ArtPlantae Today
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:25 am
    Botanist and botanical illustrator, Jeanne Debons, will teach small, student-focused painting workshops beginning next month. The following invitation from Jeanne has been posted to Classes Near You > Oregon: Jeanne Debons Studio, Bend www.jeannedebons.com Botanist and botanical illustrator, Jeanne Debons, teaches small student-focused painting workshops at her Oregon studio. Dr. Debons received her Ph.D. in [...]

  • Exhbition of Edible Botanicals Opens Tomorrow

    ArtPlantae Today
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:15 am
    Colored pencil paintings and drawings of edible plants, both wild and cultivated, are the focus of Botanical Edibles…Wild and Cultivated, a new exhibition featuring the work of SUNY ULSTER Artist-in-Residence, Wendy Hollender. Tomorrow’s opening festivities will include a special slide presentation by Wendy that will be followed by an opening reception in the Muroff Kotler [...]
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    1stAngel Arts Magazine

  • Harlequins Enigma Releases Octagon Volume 3 – Battle Without Dishonour – Hip Hop Album

    1stAngel
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:25 am
    Battle Without Dishonour is an instrumental hip hop album and contains some of Age Riisnes' all-time favourite tracks in the dance genre

  • Artists Personal Choice – Holly Martinson – 1stAngel Arts Magazine

    1stAngel
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:44 pm
    Artists Personal Choice is a series of posts where the artist themselves show us some of their favourites from their own work. Our artist in this post is, Holly Martinson Lindenhurst, NY – United States —————– Holly Martinson Fine Art.com I was born and raised on Long Island. Being surrounded by water since I was [...]

  • Artists Personal Choice – Lawrence Costales – 1stAngel Arts Magazine

    1stAngel
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Artists Personal Choice is a series of posts where the artist themselves show us four favourites from their own work. Our artist in this post is, Lawrence Costales Lake Elsinore, CA – United States —————– Mostly self taught, I began to seriously study what makes a good photo by studying great paintings. In 1988 I [...]

  • Artists Personal Choice – Bernice Williams – 1stAngel Arts Magazine

    1stAngel
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:27 pm
    Artists Personal Choice is a series of posts where the artist themselves show us four favourites from their own work. Our artist in this post is, Bernice Williams Chicago, IL – United States —————– Originally I studied painting and sculpture. My first photography course was undertaken primarily out of curiosity but it soon became my [...]

  • Artists Personal Choice – Steven Michael – 1stAngel Arts Magazine

    1stAngel
    21 Jan 2012 | 6:43 pm
    Artists Personal Choice is a series of posts where the artist themselves show us four favourites from their own work. Our artist in this post is, Steven Michael Nashville, TN – United States —————– Please follow Steven Michael Photography and Art on Facebook by clicking on this link Facebook. And also check out my blog [...]
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    Art Threat

  • Historical truth is in the outtakes - Friday Film Pick: A Film Unfinished

    Ezra Winton
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:40 pm
    A Film Unfinished (2010, Germany-Israel) had so much festival hype that when I couldn’t get my hands on a screener, I feverishly pre-ordered the film from Amazon – a practice I seldom initiate. When the handsomely designed DVD package arrived I watched it instantly, and as soon as the film ended, I decided the praise was inflated but not unworthy. An act of cinematic brilliance worthy of Best Picture I did not find, but, I was pleased to discover an engaging, gorgeous, poetic and inventive archival documentary full of mystery and awe. So, since today is the day the UN named…

  • Reclaiming the Mainstream - Comopolitan magazine gets the alt media treatment

    Annie Fitzgerald
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:29 am
    100 Best Sex Tips of the Year. Bigger, Better Pleasure. Shrink Your Inner Thighs! The Smile That Gets You What You Want. The Sexy Confidence Men Can’t Resist. The above are samples of headlines from just the past five issues of Cosmopolitan magazine, a periodical that touts itself as being “for women”. Reading these headlines however, it seems as though this publication is more interested in catering to men, rather than offering a source of empowerment, sexual or otherwise, to women. The articles tantalize young women who are still recovering from the throes of adolescence, the blows to…

  • Is Enbridge using art to greenwash the Northern Gateway?

    Stefan Christoff
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:19 am
    Enbridge Landscape, an illustration by Harpy. Protests voicing opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project are quickly expanding. Public hearings on the controversial tar sands oil transport route — attracting hundreds of participants on the first day and igniting incendiary statements by Conservative politicians — provide evidence that political battles over Northern Gateway will come to shape contemporary debates on environmental justice in Canada. Stretching from Alberta across northern British Columbia and into the ecologically sensitive coastal port of Kitimat, the…

  • And the Oscar goes to…another white guy - Academy Awards #84 give middle finger to women, again

    Ezra Winton
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:33 pm
    The above video demonstrates how, waaaaaay back in 2009, most movies didn’t pass the Bechdel Test for women in movies, a simple three-part process to determine whether women are afforded positive representation in any given film or not. Not only does the latest batch of Oscar nominations miserably fail the Bechdel Test en masse, they also fail to represent non-male, non-white makers of cinema. The list for this year’s best of the best is as dismally bereft of diversity as other years before, and this might not be surprising if it weren’t for all the amazing women and…

  • Does girly Lego promote gender stereotypes?

    Rob Maguire
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:20 pm
    A screenshot from the Lego Friends website. Critics are seething after Lego announced its new line of toys designed for girls. The super slim, anatomically incorrect Lego Friends figures have been accused of promoting damaging gender stereotypes and body dissatisfaction. Lego responded to the controversy by saying they were just giving girls what they wanted. They explained in a statement that the new line was the result of “four years worth of comprehensive, global research with 3,500 girls and their moms to understand what would make LEGO play more interesting for more girls.”…
 
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    Art Slam

  • Eco-Friendly Art Supplies for Kids

    Lucrecer
    16 Jan 2012 | 11:35 am
    In 2009, I wrote a post about becoming a more eco-friendly artist and shared the links to some of my favorite sites who are liked minded in my desire to be more environmentally friendly. Instead of doing a rehash of the previous post, because I still like the companies I shared, I decided to do one for children. All of my children enjoy making crafts, drawing and doing art. In my search for amazing products, I came across a few I absolutely love: Glob Natural Paints – My middle child LOVES to paint. Honestly, the girl paints more than I do and we never seem to have enough of it in our…

  • Choices I Have Made: Happiness and Doing the Work

    Lucrecer
    15 Jan 2012 | 11:11 am
    I am a firm believer in happiness being a way of life. At least, it is for me. I did not make resolutions this year. Instead, I set my mind to a few things. First being I was going to be happy. Period. No more false or unrealistic expectations of myself or others. I was going to stay grounded and focus instead on finding the positive in all of my situations. I must say, this has been critical in my happy being off the charts lately. I can honestly say with all the challenges facing me lately, I am happier than I have ever been because I know these are only temporary situations. They have no…

  • It’s What Blissdom Means to Me

    Lucrecer
    11 Jan 2012 | 8:11 pm
    For me, Blissdom has been a conference where I get a chance to see wonderful friends and make new ones. It is an opportunity to learn something new and return home inspired and filled with so many ideas, I am close to bursting from excitement. It is a chance to relax and experience things I might not normally. It is an opportunity to let some of my favorite brands know how much I love their products and how they enhance my life. Blissdom ’12 will be great this year because I took the time to nurture friendships and get to know people deeper than their twitter handle. That is what I plan…

  • Project 333

    Lucrecer
    5 Jan 2012 | 12:07 am
    During the holidays, I ran across this simplicity project called Project333. Basically, you choose 33 pieces for your wardrobe that you will wear for 3 months. In my quest to simplify my life, I knew I had to give this a try. I am so serious about committing to this, I started a board on Pinterest with all kinds of great ideas. How about you join me? I found one other person in Cincinnati who is going to give it a go.

  • 2012 Book List

    Lucrecer
    4 Jan 2012 | 7:38 am
    This year, I want to read. A lot. I asked for book recommendations and received an amazing and diverse list of books. I am sharing here in case you want to explore new books and genres you are not used to reading. First book I plan to read is The Shack. I was told this book is amazing. I have to thank my friends on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ for the great suggestions. It Happened On the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott Ahabs Wife Or the StarGazer by Sena Jeter Nusland Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C.
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    About.com Art History

  • Guess the Artist

    22 Jan 2012 | 9:56 pm
    Your clues this week are: The artist was American, but moved to Europe at age 27 and, with the exception of one brief return trip to the US, lived as an expatriate for 51 years. The artist attended the Académie Julian in Paris for only three months because Gustave Boulanger (French, 1824-1888), a professor there, advised that nothing remained to be taught or learned in the artist's training. The artist was born a twin. While the twin married and had children, the artist (a devout Roman Catholic) remained single and celibate, and lived with another sibling who did the same. And The artist…

  • Guess the Artist

    15 Jan 2012 | 10:59 pm
    Your clues this week are: Though this is a drawing and the artist is best known for painting, the first formal art instruction this French artist received was in sculpture. More than anyone had before, the artist studied color theory and optical effects by reading chemical and mathematical treatises. A major influence on the artist was the 1827 book Essay on the Unmistakable Signs of Art by the author -- and I am not making this up -- Humbert de Superville. And The medium (Conté crayon) and support (Michallet paper) seen above are important clues. Michallet paper has two sides: smooth…

  • Guess the Artist

    8 Jan 2012 | 11:06 pm
    Your clues this week are: The artist was a French Huguenot, born and raised in Switzerland following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The artist was famous for portraiture ... a long time ago. Today the artist's name is fairly obscure. An inveterate traveler, the artist spent four years in Constantinople and wore Turkish clothing (including a fez) forever afterwards. And Among the artist's many sitters were: Pope Clement XII; Bonnie Prince Charlie; the Empress Maria Theresa; Madame de Pompadour; Augusta, Princess of Wales; the Earls of Sandwich and Bessborough; the French royal family;…

  • Guess the Artist

    1 Jan 2012 | 10:55 pm
    Your first clues for 2012 are: The artist was born in France, but only according to modern boundaries. A "Northerner," this artist was the first non-Italian to travel to Rome and sketch its antiquities. The artist kept the Prince-Bishop of Utrecht, Philip of Burgundy, well supplied with erotic nudes. (Well, erotic in their day. Now? Not so much.) And The three sitters in this portrait are royals whose father was known by the sobriquet "The Tyrant" due to murderous actions in Sweden. Of the three, only the two girls made it adulthood, and the youngest girl -- the baby here -- had her portrait…

  • I Guess They ARE Making New Leonardos

    31 Dec 2011 | 4:51 pm
    I kid, I kid! Once upon a time Yours Truly jokingly said, "They're not making new Leonardos these days," never guessing that "they" might, however, discover some. Here I will point you towards "Salvator Mundi - The Newly Attributed Leonardo da Vinci Painting," wherein we both learn how to spot a priceless piece by the Florentine Master. Actually, the spotting sounds like the easy part. It appears to be the cleaning and authenticating that takes years and beaucoup bucks. Image Credit: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452-1519) Christ as Salvator Mundi, ca. 1499 onwards Oil on walnut 65.5 x 45.1 cm…
 
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    My Minutia

  • New Site, a Fresh Face!

    Teresa McFayden
    13 Jan 2012 | 7:13 pm
    Sorry for the delay in posting, but I've been busy....moving. My blog! I can now check off one of my New Year's resolutions. Yay!! I am closing the door on this blog and I invite you to visit my new site. It's so pretty over there, if I do say so myself.   Click here to go see: http://www.teresamcfayden.com/ Bookmark the new site so we can keep in touch!

  • An update on a Wednesday

    Teresa McFayden
    4 Jan 2012 | 4:31 pm
    I hope you are enjoying the new year! I have been spending time with these three yahoos lately. Nuts...that's all they are. The boys have started back to school, and my daughter leaves to go back to school soon. Waaa...I'll sure miss that smile and our "girl power" around here. When they aren't around, I've been prepping for Letter Whimsy E-Workshop! I am soooo looking forward to this Course. I want to play, to create, to stretch the limits...make cool schtuffs and to inspire others to do the same! It's time, too. I can feel it. I love being a mom oh yes I do,…

  • Wrapping up this year

    Teresa McFayden
    31 Dec 2011 | 9:55 am
    Before I put 2011 to sleep for good, I just had to share what landed on my door step yesterday. I recently participated in a fun Stocking Swap with several talented ladies, hostessed by Carrie Harney. She went to a lot of work..there was a large group of girls in this swap. My sweet swap partner had to back out at the last minute, so Carrie stepped in and treated me to all of this. So sweet!   She made the journal (so great), and I gotta say I love the goodies she added. Thanks Carrie!! Here is a photo of the stocking I did for my partner, Carrie Harney. She wanted a white…

  • Hey, wanna letter better?

    Teresa McFayden
    28 Dec 2011 | 7:17 pm
    Art journaling and doodley doos have slowly been coming back to life for me now that the holidays have past. By the way, we had a great Christmas weekend, hope you did too! Some great family time which I was so looking forward to. Even craved it I think. I've been able to carve out some creative time now, and oh how I've missed that. I'm sure you can relate. Here's a peek what I have been up to: I'm gearing up for a FABULOUS new E-Workshop! Can't wait! If you love art journals, and pretty hand lettering, you will love this new course. I've been wanting to devote a…

  • Two More Sleeps 'Til Christmas

    Teresa McFayden
    23 Dec 2011 | 2:06 pm
    Can you believe it? The big day is almost here! Are you ready? I'm close...so close. One of the biggest things at our house is the food. I've made a menu to share with you. I'm sure you have your own, and like ours, it's full of traditions.   The brownies are my hubby's grandma's and they are so fabulous. The peanut butter balls are my Mom's and we are already on our 3rd batch of them. Crazy teens. The chili on Christmas Eve is a tradition, so is the strata and ham. Anyway, as you can see I have lots of baking and prepping in front of me. Before I go I just…
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    Daily Art Fixx - Art Blog: Modern Art, Art History, Painting, Illustration, Photography, Sculpture

  • Douglas Miller: Drawing

    Wendy Campbell
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Louisville, Kentucky based artist Douglas Miller studied at Ringling College of Art in Sarasota and the University of Louisville,  holds  a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and apparently, plays a mean ukelele. “Through an intuitive process of accumulating and scattering lines, digressions in narratives, and often-abandoning subjects, drawing is a dynamic and fundamental part of myself. A part that is both embedded in history and continually changing. I work in the same way that an author revises text, constructs sentences, edits words, deconstructs sentences, and rubs out ideas. The objective…

  • Boris Indrikov: Painting

    Wendy Campbell
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    More cool stuff from Moscow based painter Boris Indrikov. To see visit Indrikov.com or check out his profile on Deviant Art. Related posts:Boris Indrikov: Painting Sebastien Feraut: Painting Cristian Blanxer: Painting

  • Eduardo Flores: “Let Me In” @ Artishox Gallery

    Wendy Campbell
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    DAF favourite Eduardo Flores (aka BAYO) has a new exhibition entitled “Let Me In” on at Artishox Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium. Of his work Flores says; “The way people internalize what happens in the world is unique to the individual. My work shows how this can lead a person to different internal extremes. My aim is to reflect the resulting consciousness and anxiousness through a series of questions related to one’s state of being.  My current body of work depicts the inner debate that confronts the ego as a mediator for the demands of individuality and as a…

  • DAF Group Feature: Vol. 92

    Wendy Campbell
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Your Monday Mixx – on Tuesday – Enjoy! Related posts:DAF Group Feature: Vol 48 DAF Group Feature: Vol. 84 DAF Group Feature: Vol. 28

  • Édouard Manet:1832-1883

    Wendy Campbell
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Born on January 23, 1832, Édouard Manet was a French painter and a key figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Manet’s father wanted him to attend law school however Manet wanted to study art. His father’s rejection of this idea led Manet to apply for the naval college but he failed the entrance exam. In  1848, Manet worked as an apprentice pilot on a transport vessel and upon his return to France in June 1849, he failed the naval examination a second time. At this time, his parents gave him permission to study painting. Manet studied with the classical painter…
 
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    iconophilia

  • concrete poetic

    Nigel
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pm
    Put your critical eye to the test! Found at Anonymous Works…

  • The Great Game

    Nigel
    16 Dec 2011 | 2:05 pm
    Nobody knows just when a board game titled “Safe Travel through Afghanistan” was invented. Most likely, it was some time in the 60s or 70s, when it was safe to travel in Afghanistan.  Not earlier, given the presence of the Ariana Boeing 727 in the center of the image. Nevertheless, here it is, reproduced in the form of a carpet, probably made in the last few years. Perhaps it was some mad spirit of ironic optimism that caused this to be transformed into a furry picture?  Or some lost-in-translation lack of understanding of the contemporary implications of the original graphic?

  • shopping for authenticity: the global reach of dot-painting

    Nigel
    9 Dec 2011 | 3:00 pm
    Move over NY subway grafitti style! Here comes dot-painting…  And if you want to bulk-order your boomerangs, you can go here. These treasures (and the background research) is thanks to Bill Kruse, in Djakarta airport.

  • new street art in Kandahar ups the ante…

    Nigel
    4 Dec 2011 | 2:56 am
    Some months ago I wrote about the growing phenomenon of “street art” at the KAF base in Kandahar, in south-eastern Afghanistan. There was even a response to the incarceration of Ai Weiwei here and there on the concrete blast walls.  Now we find the Australian official war artist Ben Quilty getting in on the act. His variation on the Australian coat of arms is a radical challenge to iconographic analysis. While the Australian War Memorial has mentioned his mural in passing in last week’s pre-publicity, we are yet to see them publish a photograph of the work, or to offer an…

  • yet another Boetti effect?

    Nigel
    1 Dec 2011 | 6:51 pm
    Our translation of the Arabic texts above does not substantiate the claim made in the subtext on this page. The words on the atlas are the names of countries and oceans.  The text above the map on the left wall reads: “What do my enemies do to me, I, [with] my paradise and my orchard…” And above the map on the left the text appears to read: “The Crusaders’ occupation [and the] Muslim’s initiatives” The former quote would seem to be a version of a text attributed to Ibn Taymiyyah: “What can my enemies do to me? My paradise and garden are in my chest,…
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    Jeannine Cook's Blog

  • Seeing the Marvellous

    27 Jan 2012 | 2:41 pm
    Flying high above Georgia's hinterland in the dusk, I was watching all details of the land below disappear into soft evening haze. Suddenly, a marvellous swirled flash of silver and golden glints leapt from the darkness below. I gazed enthralled, for it was truly beautiful in its sinuous elegance. Then it was gone - the light and our position in the sky had changed. I later deduced that it must have been the Oconee River in its middle reaches.The magical image stayed in my mind's eye, and I have finally tried to translate it into a silverpoint drawing... as yet unscanned. But I keep feeliing…

  • The Financial Rewards of Art and Culture

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:48 pm
    It is not an easy time to be a member of the arts community, no matter what role each of us plays in it. On a personal level, one's colleagues all talk of funding difficulties, slow art sales, diminished public support. In the press, there are frequent reports of slashed funding for the arts and culture; today, I was reading that the Prado Museum in Madrid, flagship of Spain's museums, has had its Government support cut by six million euros and counting. Hard times... but at least the Prado is fighting back. They are now going to open seven days a week, something to celebrate.Yet at the same…

  • Artists' Egos

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pm
    An aspect of the art world that the general public often talks about is an artist's ego - it is part of the domain of artistic myths and legends. Everyone, at one point or another, has heard about an artist seemingly behaving like a prima donna. It makes good copy for a reporter or writer and interests many readers.Nonetheless, artists themselves seldom think specifically about ego or how they might be perceived as having a large ego. Usually we are all too involved with our artwork and artistic endeavours, and anxious to ensure its visibility, success and survival. There is usually such a…

  • Abstract Organisation

    12 Jan 2012 | 9:45 pm
    Thinking further about composition and the fact that the path to achieving a successful painting or drawing often takes one into abstraction reminded me of a quote that I had found by British painter, Royal Academician and art professor at St. Martins, Frederick Gore. He was writing about abstract art back in the mid-fifties, rather against the tide of art in England at the time. He remarked, "The meaning of a figurative work of art lies in its abstract organisation."During his long and productive life, Gore produced a huge body of work, often working en plein air, and frequently travelling…

  • Today's Realities in the Art World - as per Mat Gleason

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:44 pm
    Once in a while, thanks to all those links that artists post on Facebook, one stumbles on an interesting article that is a tonic to read. Today's art article by Mat Gleason of the Coagula Art Journal - " Twelve Art World Habits to Ditch in 2012" - is worth a read in the Huffington Post.Lots of what Gleason said is pretty obvious, but it is worth having a robust reality check.
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    The Official Blog of Park West Gallery

  • The Detroit News: For Kids, Art’s From the Heart

    Park West Gallery
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:05 pm
    Preschoolers paint mural bound for auction block Jan. 21, 2012 — Painter Tim Yanke didn’t mind if his class of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds made a mess of the canvas stretched before them at the Oakland Livingston Human Services Agency. … Continue reading →

  • Park West Gallery Sponsors Kids Art Project for OLHSA Fundraiser

    Park West Gallery
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:31 am
    Local artist Yanke works with Pontiac children on art project for fundraiser Jan. 18, 2012 — In Pontiac, 68 kids between three and five years old were armed with paint brushes on Wednesday and given 50 feet by 10 feet … Continue reading →

  • Vote for Park West Gallery in Hour Detroit’s Best of 2012 Contest

    Park West Gallery
    19 Jan 2012 | 1:26 pm
    It’s time to vote! Park West Gallery is competing in HOUR Detroit’s “Best of 2012” contest! The annual poll celebrates metro Detroit’s finest restaurants, services, businesses and people. HOW TO VOTE: 1) Visit www.hourdetroit.com/Hour-Detroit/Best-of-Detroit-2012-Online-Ballot and complete the “Your Information” section. 2) Scroll halfway down … Continue reading →

  • Chicago Art Magazine – Park West Gallery Visits Paris: A Lifetime of Lebadang

    Park West Gallery
    17 Jan 2012 | 11:10 am
    Chicago Art Magazine recently published a feature on the Park West Gallery contemporary artist, Lebadang. Following is an excerpt from “Park West Gallery Visits Paris: A Lifetime of Lebadang.” On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, Vietnamese artist, Lebadang, is … Continue reading →

  • A Departing Moment with Csaba Markus

    Park West Gallery
    11 Jan 2012 | 11:45 am
    Park West Gallery presents our new exclusive video series: “A Departing Moment.” Spend an intimate moment with eight prominent Park West Gallery artists. In this first episode, you’ll hear from Hungarian contemporary artist Csaba Markus. And don’t miss upcoming episodes, … Continue reading →
 
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    JetPak Studio

  • New 15 minute Sketch..."Jamin' on Sunday"

    22 Jan 2012 | 11:13 am
    Looking forward to the first jam on Sunday after a long week of being snowed in is what inspired this week's result of the 15 Minute Sketch Challenge...Let me know what you think.-MC

  • NEW Winter Promo Card

    21 Jan 2012 | 3:58 pm
    It's been about 3-4 months since my last Promo Card, so I put one together to send out asap!Let me know what you think.-MC

  • Snow wrapped in Ice Night!

    19 Jan 2012 | 9:56 pm
    It's been several days of snow this week that shut down the area. Today we got more snow with freezing rain that coated all the snow in ice. My Townhouse looks like "The Shining" on the outside!MC

  • My NEW Book in the mail...

    17 Jan 2012 | 10:26 pm
    Well... ain't this something? Got home from work today and saw a box waiting for me at my front door.From Capstone Press... the Atlantis book I illustrated last summer!

  • New 15 minute Sketch..."Twit Hair"

    16 Jan 2012 | 9:42 pm
    Late posting this from the weekend. It was a bit busy even though I was a bit stranded by the snow...Notice the Twitter Bird in her hair?-MC
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    The Artful Manager

  • A recurring chrysalis

    Andrew Taylor
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:12 am
    My colleague Paul Beard was telling me about the Smith Center for the Performing Arts now in development in Las Vegas, and remarked that it was actually two entirely different creatures living in the same space. The day before it opens, it will be a construction site with one set of demands and challenges. The day after it opens, it will be a complex expressive enterprise with a whole different set of operating requirements.He likened it to an insect that enters a cocoon or chrysalis as one kind of animal, and departs as another kind.That transformation is part of what makes it so difficult…

  • SOPA and PIPA untangled

    Andrew Taylor
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:18 am
    If you use the Internet, you likely have heard or read rumblings about legislation currently in Congress about Internet piracy. SOPA and PIPA were the inspiration for a blackout of several major web sites this week over concerns that the legislation would 'break' the Internet through their requirements, and change the nature of what and how we share online.If you're interested in the larger dynamics at work, particularly related to creative content in an online world, take a look at Clay Shirky's recent talk at the TED offices. Useful. Thoughtful. Kinda scary, too.

  • The rise of the 'edge-pert'

    Andrew Taylor
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:51 am
    A recurring theme at this year's Arts Presenters conference in New York was boundary crossing. Artists and arts organizations were celebrated for dancing with unexpected partners -- city planners, farmers, inner-city kids, health professionals. Other speakers encouraged such new connections and new commitments to becoming relevant to communities in non-traditional ways. There was also much talk about silos, about the insular structures of deep experts in arts organizations, in higher education, in scientific knowledge. Here, again, the call arose frequently to find or build partnerships…

  • Power, Influence, and Performing Arts

    Andrew Taylor
    6 Jan 2012 | 7:09 am
    I'm attending the Association of Performing Arts Presenters annual conference in New York this weekend, along with six of my MBA students from the Wisconsin School of Business. For the seventh year running, the student team has been commissioned by Arts Presenters to prepare and present a conference session on an emerging issue in the presenting field, funded by the association's William Dawson Research Internship fund.The topic this year is 'Power, Influence, and Performing Arts' (you can find past topics online here). And, as in the past, the student team has explored the issue through the…

  • Sustaining, breakout, and disruptive innovation

    Andrew Taylor
    5 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am
    'Innovation' is the buzz word at many arts conferences these days, and among many funders. With so many things changing in our environment -- all of the STEEP variables at once (Sociological, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political) -- innovation in programming, practice, business process, strategy, and such seems a best way through.But as we're busy innovating, this Co.Design article reminds us that not all innovations are alike.  It suggests three broad types of innovation:Sustaining innovations in products or services are incremental. They help any organization raise the bar…
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    The Present Group Journal

  • Another Art Subscription: Art Practical’s Mail Art Subscription

    eleanor
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:21 pm
    We love it!  In honor of their fiftieth issue, “Printed Matter,”  Art Practical is embarking on a new venture that rethinks how their editorial work could reach an audience and enter their homes and lives.   Each month for 6 months a different artist will choose an article that resonates with them from the AP archive, create an offset limited edition print in response, and send each subscriber a postcard, the print, and the original article.  It is limited to 150 subscribers and costs $150 for the six month subscription. Learn more about AP’s Mail Art…

  • Upcoming: Julia Goodman

    eleanor
    20 Jan 2012 | 12:25 pm
    We’re excited to announce the next artist for TPG’s Subscription:  Julia Goodman images courtesy of Klea McKenna of In The Make Julia earned her BA in International Relations and Peace & Justice Studies at Tufts University in 2001. She began making paper in her backyard in 2003 and completed her Master’s in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts in May 2009. Since graduating she spent the summer in Inverness, California at the JB Blunk Residency and the fall in New York, completing a studio internship at Dieu Donne papermaking studio. In 2012, Julia looks…

  • Annotated Links for TPG 19: Listen, Look, and Read.Artists utilizing sound, text, and storytelling

    eleanor
    20 Dec 2011 | 11:21 am
    Joe’s Links: LISTENING: Artists using Sound: Ubu Web:  Ubu Web is an amazing reference for both recorded sound and film/video. Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller use sound to make their work.  One of my favorites was a project they did in Berlin Writers Reading their own work: T.S. Eliot reads the wasteland. John Giorno: I love the way Giorno uses his whole body when reciting his work. Audio Archives: Stanford University’s Archive of Recorded Sound has a very nice list of links to archives all around the internet – many of which allow streaming and/or downloads. I had fun…

  • Records of Drawings by Christine Kesler

    eleanor
    19 Dec 2011 | 7:02 pm
    To begin writing about Joe Hardesty’s work for Audio/Visual, the latest edition of The Present Group, I began by holding my test pressing of the new issue: examining the forms within the stiff cloth-covered record case, the sheaves of paper printed with elegantly composed text, sliding the record itself out of its paper sleeve—considering the package as an object. I appreciate the simplicity of this set and see Hardesty’s philosophy and austere sense of materials at work here. Hardesty’s newest work revolves around time- and text-based experimentation, while utilizing a strict economy…

  • Interview with Joe Hardesty

    Oliver
    18 Dec 2011 | 7:15 pm
    Eleanor Hanson Wise and Oliver interview Joe Hardesty about his recent issue of The Present Group, Audio/Visual
 
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    The Aesthetic Elevator

  • Intentional Observation: Water, partially crystalized

    pcNielsen
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:41 pm
    Filed under: Intentional observation

  • Recent Playfulness: Mighty ugly nihonga (red)

    pcNielsen
    14 Jan 2012 | 8:23 am
    There wasn’t much information with the nihonga starter kit that I received, so I’ve had to rely on the interwebs to learn the craft. Further, the pigments are not labeled, so I don’t know if they are actually made up of the minerals that die-hards will grind themselves. Regardless, I’m getting my feet wet with the kit and hope to further my skills throughout the year. Filed under: Art, Drawing, Painting

  • Recent Playfulness: Mighty ugly felt

    pcNielsen
    8 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am
    I love working three-dimensionally; I’ve prefered it to drawing or painting for the past 10 years plus. However, when it comes to portraying certain aspects of one of my few favorite subjects, storms on the prairie, I’m starting to wonder if certain two-dimensional media will serve me better. Actually, I’ve been wondering this for more than a year now. So about six months ago I started messing around with felt (still three-dimensional) and nihonga — a Japanese technique I first heard of about six years ago now when introduced to Makoto Fujimura — after my wife gave me a…

  • Christmas XII

    pcNielsen
    5 Jan 2012 | 9:58 am
    Via Gordon College Tanja Butler’s Mondrian and the Magi Filed under: Art, Christmas, Painting

  • Christmas XI

    pcNielsen
    4 Jan 2012 | 6:21 pm
    Filed under: Christmas
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    Living the Dream

  • Fun with crayola

    Shadra
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:41 pm
    Here is today’s rockin’ drawing from rockin’ Lexington Market. Below are a few experiments with Crayola and watercolor. Me likey.

  • January News

    Shadra
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:23 am
    Lots of things brewing in January! You can see them all here.

  • Eliza is an NAACP Nominee

    Shadra
    22 Jan 2012 | 3:14 pm
    Congratulations also goes out to Jerdine Nolen for her nomination of ELIZA’S FREEDOM ROAD for an NAACP Image Award! A much deserved honor for a fantastic book!  

  • WHITE WATER is an NAACP Image Award Nominee

    Shadra
    19 Jan 2012 | 2:59 pm
    Congratulations to Candlewick Press, Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein on being nominated for an NAACP Image Award for WHIITE WATER (illustrated by yours truly)! What an accomplishment~ Tune in to the 43rd annual Image Awards on February 17th. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees~

  • Reflecting on 2011

    Shadra
    22 Dec 2011 | 8:01 am
      What a year! I moved to a new city and completed my first semester as an illustration professor. I’ve met some wonderful new friends and even managed to make a bit of art. I wasn’t as productive as I hoped I’d be, but I learned a little more about myself and made some personal strides nonetheless. I have learned to let go of things that aren’t meant for me and embrace those that are with no fear. I have learned that getting everything you want at once is probably more stressful than not getting the one thing you think you want the most. At the end of the day…
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  • Color, Composition and Beyond at the Delaware Art Museum

    22 Jan 2012 | 6:45 pm
    Started class with Al Staszesky at the Delaware Art Museum today.  The class starts half an hour later than it used to.  So I thought it might be enough extra time so I felt I could get up in time.  Took about 2 hours to get there this morning, but by the time I get to the other side of New Jersey, school has started and by the time I get on I-95, most people have gotten to work.  I chose this still life set up from the four Al had set up because of the colors and it looked like several options for composition. It has been a while since I have painted still lifes or…

  • Jetman Flight at Grand Canyon West

    19 Jan 2012 | 6:45 pm

  • Stained Glass Window Journal

    11 Jan 2012 | 8:08 am
    Mark 4:41 Stained Glass Window Journal The Luther Store at Holy Trinity LBI One of the windows at Holy Trinity now available on a journal.

  • Life is Grace

    5 Jan 2012 | 5:59 pm
    Getting more designs up into the cafepress shop for Holy Trinity. 

  • cowboys herding cats

    31 Dec 2011 | 4:17 pm
    Just for fun.
 
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  • What’s it like working at the gallery?

    karin
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:01 am
    As we begin to feel that the new year really has started, it seems like a good time to answer one of those questions that so often gets asked by visitors to the gallery and in curious emails. It might even be something that you’ve asked yourself. The question is ‘What’s it like, working in the gallery?’ In many ways this is hard to answer precisely. It varies from person to person, and from day to day. Installation days, for example, are unlike any others – in fact they deserve a separate post all to themselves! – but even more ordinary days can be full of surprises. The…

  • Art news round-up

    karin
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:33 am
    Art news from around the world: 3 of the 10 most expensive works sold at auction last year were by Chinese artists. Welcome to the new art market. Larry Gagosian sued for selling works it is said he had no right to sell. The Arab Spring has helped Arab art to flourish. Britain has talented young artists – and they’re totally different to the YBA. Could street art represent one of Australia’s most important cultural movements? Latin American art – why it has its own identity. Popular stories from the week: Reimagining famous paintings – part of an age old…

  • Art news round-up

    karin
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:26 am
    Art news from around the world: A Guggenheim in Helsinki – watch this space. Hockney on headlines, his history and why he loves his iPad so much. Light and space in an exhibition that really is ‘Phenomenal.’ Want to get more out of an art fair? Try this… Social change through art – now there’s a prize for that. Popular stories from the week: Did you know Van Gogh was a preacher before he returned to his paints? 6 drawings from the period survive. The reason we like art so much? Because it gives us pleasure, says Jonathan Jones. Around the world in 6,237…

  • Exhibition: Figuratively Speaking; Degrees of Abstraction; Portal to Enigma

    karin
    12 Jan 2012 | 9:12 am
    Make art part of your new year by visiting Agora Gallery’s upcoming exhibitions. Let the harmony, joy and resonance of Figuratively Speaking add new vitality to your day, become intrigued by the charm and mystery embedded in the works of Degrees of Abstraction and feel the thrill of being poised on the brink of inspiration and discovery as you examine the art of Portal to Enigma. The exhibitions begin on January 17, 2012 and continue until February 7, 2012. The opening reception will take place on January 19, 2012. Entrance is free and all art lovers are warmly encouraged to attend. There…

  • Art news round-up

    karin
    9 Jan 2012 | 8:21 am
    Art news from around the world: Hockney was right to criticize Hirst – but on the other hand, he was wrong. So do you teach the poetry or the craft? Polar bears or dinosaurs? Looking for trends in the art year ahead. Art conservation – online. Irish art: a conduit for a critical conversation. World’s most visited museum? The Louvre, again. Popular stories from the week: Warming up winter – sculptures from the ice and snow festival certainly make the cold more interesting. Why it’s not true that everyone is a curator. LA exhibit for the nanny whose compelling…
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  • Eye Exam: Who Will Crit the Crits?

    Jason Foumberg
    17 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    By Jason Foumberg After an artist posted his art video on YouTube, he received dozens of comments from strangers: “Nobody in their right mind would do this”; “This is what crack does to you”; “This sucks gay ass”; “You just wasted 15 seconds of my life!” The artist then adapted these crude criticisms and repeated [...]

  • Review: The Wroclaw School of Printmaking/Chicago Cultural Center

    Jason Foumberg
    17 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    RECOMMENDED Looking at Chicago Cultural Center’s exhibition of the Wroclaw School of Printmaking, one gets the sense that there might be more time in Wroclaw, Poland, than we have here. Three galleries filled with large, complex, detailed and technically brilliant prints provide evidence that artists in Poland have time to concentrate on dense, romantic images. Printmaking [...]

  • Review: Laura Mackin/Three Walls

    Jason Foumberg
    17 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    RECOMMENDED Images flash by in an instant, zooming in on the random minutiae of a life. A cat playing on a fence, the scenic backdrop of a mountain range, a happy couple in wedded matrimony. Laura Mackin’s video “Zoom (Dean 1962-2006)” from her solo exhibition, “120 Years,” splices, edits and reconfigures the personal home videos of [...]

  • Review: Mary Borgman/Ann Nathan Gallery

    Jason Foumberg
    17 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    RECOMMENDED Over the past decade, Mary Borgman has done one thing, and done it well: monumental, sixty-foot-high charcoal portraits of handsome, multi-ethnic young dudes, often with their shirts off, set against a glowing background. These are young adults in that exciting, though sometimes dangerous period of self-discovery before settling into the responsibilities of family and [...]

  • Review: Viktoria Sorochinski/Catherine Edelman Gallery

    Jason Foumberg
    17 Jan 2012 | 4:00 am
    RECOMMENDED From 2005 through the present, Viktoria Sorochinski has been photographing the relation between Anna and her daughter Eve, not as a documentary of the vicissitudes of their bond, but through Sorochinski’s imagination of the many forms it might take in her staged and directorial color scenario shots. What Sorochinski’s images lose in spontaneity and [...]
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  • Happy Lunar New Year Dragon!

    Lisa, CREATIVEGoddess
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:03 pm
    Popular and healthy, Dragons tend to be energetic and always full of life and enthusiasm. With a reputation for being fun-loving and brave, they tend to be too soft-hearted, allowing others to take advantage. Your Planet: Saturn Your Element: Earth Your Direction: E-SE Your Buddist Patron: Amida Nyorai Are you a Dragon? Add your name below! Dragon Years: 1928 1940 1952 1964 1976 1988 2000 2012 Famous people born under the sign of the Dragon? They include Colin Farrell, Courtney Cox, Emily Browning, Sandra Bullock, Teri Hatcher, Grispin Glover, Cillian Murphy, Scott Caan, Emma Stone, sara…

  • Lisa Stewart Will Go Dark on January 18

    Lisa, CREATIVEGoddess
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    503: Service Unavailable Lisa Stewart is offline today, because the US Senate is considering legislation that would certainly kill us forever. The legislation is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), and would put us in legal jeopardy if we linked to a site anywhere online that had any links to copyright infringement. This would unmake the Web, just as proposed in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). We don’t want that world. If you don’t want it either, visit AmericanCensorship.org for instructions on contacting your Senator. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has more information on…

  • Santa Claus is Coming to Town

    Lisa, CREATIVEGoddess
    24 Dec 2011 | 3:07 pm
    Happy Christmahannakwanzakah!! Lisa & Andrew

  • New Product: Leather & Sterling Silver Loop Earrings

    Lisa, CREATIVEGoddess
    11 Dec 2011 | 2:17 pm
    New in the shop this Fall are our colorful carved leather loop earrings. Unique like you, this fabulous pair of leather loop earrings makes an edgy statement like no other. Handpainted and carved leather highlights Lisa’s calligraphic line and hang from a sterling ear wire. Water resistant and feather weight, you’ll forget you’re wearing them! (click each image to enlarge) [View with PicLens] Unique Lisa Stewart Design Hand Crafted Leather Half inch long Sterling Silver Earwire Ships in ECStewart Gift Box Many color choices. Some say “too many.” Shop now for your Leather…

  • Piedmont Craftsman Fair Custom iPad Case Winner

    Lisa, CREATIVEGoddess
    10 Dec 2011 | 10:26 am
    Announcing the Piedmont Craftsman Fair Custom iPad Case Winner Thank you all for coming out to see us at our first Piedmont Craftsman Fair show and introducing yourselves. We loved hearing your great comments, encouragement, and specially loved collaborating on new products with you. For all of you who stopped by and entered your name, we’ve also sent you an email. If you want to be notified that you’ve won, you’ve got to stay on the list -at least until your name is drawn. We only want to have a bit of fun; please don’t make this tough on us. Congrats to: Genie Cohen…
 
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  • Last few days to save on The Goal Wheel for Artists – Goal Setting System That Leaves Lots of Room for Creativity!

    Tara Reed
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    The sale price of $27 ends on Tuesday, January 31st – have you taken advantage of this deal yet?  Not only do you get an audio and transcript, you get an eBook with lots of worksheets to print out and use as well as “Goal Mail” every month for the next 12 months to keep you on track.  I created The Goal Wheel for Artists™ because I needed a better way – it works for me and I think it can work for you too. I took things that worked for me from other goal setting ideas I’ve learned and tried along the way and kept what worked.  It’s not too hard. …

  • What a great Art Licensing Ask Call with Attorney Kyle-Beth Hilfer!

    Tara Reed
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    It’s been a while since we had a legal expert on the line – I hope you were able to dial in and learn lots!  Attorney Kyle-Beth Hilfer has lots of experience in art licensing and general intellectual property law – of course her answers are not to be construed as legal counsel just food for thought. (Disclaimers are very important! If you have a specific issue, contact her or the attorney of your choice!) What we covered on the call… • How to find and how to handle copyright infringements online • Do manufacturers shy away from artists with an attorney and…

  • The Ask Call with Attorney Kyle-Beth Hilfer is tomorrow – will you be joining us?

    Tara Reed
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    We sure hope so!  I’m really excited for you to get to know AttorneyKyle-Beth Hilfer.  She first came on my radar in a discussion on the Art of Licensing group on LinkedIn.  She also blogs occasionally about licensing.  I decided it was time to bring in a new legal expert for a new perspective and we have a great call planned – we hope you take the opportunity to listen and learn! So… if you have signed up for an Ask Call before, you should receive or have received an email reminding you of all the dial-in details. If not, head to www.AskAboutArtLicensing.com to get signed up and…

  • How to Understand Art Licensing Contracts eBook buyers get a discount on consulting with Maria Brophy

    Tara Reed
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    You read that right!  While chatting with Maria last week she told me that she wants to offer artists who have purchased our eBook – How to Understand Art Licensing Contracts, $50 off a consultation with her regarding, well, contracts. You know the old saying – Different Strokes for Different Folks, right?  Well while I do my own contract reviews and negotiations, I don’t choose to consult with artists on contract related issues.  It just isn’t an area that gets me excited, it’s something I have to do to do my business. Maria is just the opposite, she LOVES…

  • IRS Mileage Deduction Allowances for 2012

    Tara Reed
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    At the beginning of each year I double check what mileage deduction rate the IRS is allowing for business travel – and if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know I like to pass it on! 2012 mileage deductions are the same as July-Dec 2011 – 55.5¢ / business mile. To see the official announcement and details, go to http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=250882,00.html Keep more of your hard earned money by taking every deduction you can for your business! Here’s to your creative success! – Tara Reed  
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    Happy Famous Artists

  • David Shrigley @ Hayward Gallery

    Intelligensius Anarchus
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:03 am
    Brain Activity, a solo exhibition of David Shrigley, opens on Feb 1st @ Hayward Gallery. It will be the artist’s first major survey show in London, covering full range of his diverse practice (besides drawing also photography, books, sculpture, animation, painting and music) and including new pieces and site specific installations. Besides the show itself, you’ll have a great opportunity hear Shrigley discuss his inspirations and influences during Artist Talk on April 23rd (book in advance). The exhibition will run till May 13 2012.

  • Valentine Uhovski wins the Spot Pilgrimage

    Intelligensius Anarchus
    22 Jan 2012 | 4:13 am
    Valentine Uhovski, a former Russian child star and co-creator of the controversial high-society-skewering Socialite Rank site and contemporary art platform ArtRuby, has been the first one to collect all 11 spots in the Hirst Spot Challenge pilgrimage! Starting in New York on January 12th and ending @ Gagosian’s Davies Street space in London @ 2:30 p.m this Friday, Uhovski did the 11 Gagosian galleries (3x New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Athens, Rome Geneva, Paris, 2x London) in mere 8 days, beating the 2nd winner – journalist Jeff Chu – by couple of minutes. Tan Wong…

  • Olek @ Tony’s Gallery

    Intelligensius Anarchus
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:52 am
    One city’s loss is another city’s gain: Olek – the artist known above all for crocheting a christmas coat for the Wall Street’s iconic bull statue – is residing in London since couple of months & the city streets are getting brighter! Moreover, her first solo show opens @ Tony’s gallery next week. Drop by at the opening reception on Thursday 26th January from 6 to 9 pm, dressed to the occasion. Don’t have any sharp objects on you. And if you bring some Polish vodka, Olek might even reveal couple of crochet secrets in exchange for a bottle……

  • Maryam Najd @ Künstlerhaus Bethanien

    Intelligensius Anarchus
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:58 pm
    An exhibition of Iranian-born & Berlin-based artist Maryam Najd, opens on 19th January 2012 in Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Maryam will present new works from the ‘Non Existence Flag Project’, dealing with the symbolic and semiotics employed in the formation of national identities. Mostly abstract paintings are also accompanied by some figurative works, such as Happy New Year My Love, depicted here, a painting of various country’s national flowers, arranged into a bouquet that nods to Jan Breughel.

  • Gary Hume @ White Cube

    Intelligensius Anarchus
    17 Jan 2012 | 3:39 pm
    Opening tonight: The Indifferent Owl, a solo show of Gary Hume, presenting new paintings & sculptures of the artist. The exhibition, his first in London for over four years, brings together a large and varied body of new work that will occupy both the Hoxton Square and Mason’s Yard galleries. The exhibitions will run till 25th of February 2012. Gary Hume (born 1962) attended Goldsmith’s College in London. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and the Bienal de São Paulo in 1996, the same year he was nominated for the Turner Prize.
 
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  • Weekend Playlist 7

    20 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    To listen to previous weekend playlists - click through to our music page

  • TA-ZE Premium Olive Oil Store - Toronto, Canada

    18 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Toronto’s latest TA-ZE store, at 120 Adelaide Street West, is only 800 square feet in size, but it is airy and uncluttered. TA-ZE is a chain of retail stores focusing on premium olive oils and related product. Ta-ze means fresh in Turkish, and the company is rooted in the long traditions of olive-oil production. Its product comes from six provinces in the Aegean region of Turkey, from 33 co-operatives that include more than 28,000 olive producers. The purity and clarity of the oil is reflected in the minimalist store concept designed by Toronto-based Burdifilek, led by managing partner…

  • Coffee Time, L'Hotel de Vendome, Paris

    17 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Wine tasting is passé and the English have already perfected the High Tea, and nothing surpasses the Japanese tea ceremony. So what’s next? The creative minds at L'Hôtel de Vendôme in Paris set their eyes on “High Coffee.” They don’t call it that, but it certainly looks and feels like it.   Every afternoon, superior gourmet coffee varieties are served according to the expertise of France’s Best Roaster of 2011, Antoine Netien, and Tom Clark, owners of Paris’s high-profile Coutume Café, and importers and roasters of vintage…

  • Luzi Bombon - Madrid

    12 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Luzi Bombón in Madrid is the latest restaurant creation of the Barcelona-based Grupo Tragaluz. The group’s beginnings date back to 1987, when mother and son, Rosa Maria Esteva and Tomas Tarruella, opened El Mordisco in Barcelona. Now, 20 restaurants and one hotel -- OMM in Barcelona -- later, their brand is a strong, established player in the Spanish hospitality market. Luzi Bombón on Paseo de la Castellana offers madrileños Mediterranean brasserie food from early lunch in the garden to late-night drinks in the bar with live DJs. The mid-century minimalist interior…

  • Dr. Seuss Told By The People of Burning Man 2011

    9 Jan 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Based on Dr. Seuss's final book (Oh, The places You'll Go) before his death, this is a story about life's ups and downs, told by the people of Burning Man 2011. Genius idea Teddy Saunders
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  • P(art)icipating

    Daniel Edlen
    21 Jan 2012 | 1:42 pm
    On Feb.4 a music-inspired group art show called Pink Noise will open at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, New Jersey. These pieces of mine will be included! They contacted me late last year about participating so it's the first show for me of 2012. Woohoo! You can see work from other participating artists at http://www.parlor-gallery.com/?page_id=2426Also coming up early this year, I'll hopefully be participating in First Fridays in Las Vegas! Close to the strip, a few blocks north of The Stratosphere they apparently have a growing monthly nighttime shindig. I'm planning on getting a…

  • Yule (b)Log

    Daniel Edlen
    13 Dec 2011 | 1:34 pm
    The weather in southern CA has been perfect for our 1st holiday season here. Just perfect.We love the gloom.We love feeling the need to be warm and cozy.We love the warmth of family.I was glad to be included in the 1st Holiday Sale at the Santa Monica Art Studios because my mother has her studio there.And I sold the Louis Armstrong!He went to a fellow who delighted in twice telling me how his father loves Louis, how he loves Louis, and how his 4 year old granddaughter now loves Louis. Beautiful.I hope all the pieces that are being given as holiday gifts this year bring joy and delight. I know…

  • On The Record Label

    Daniel Edlen
    16 Nov 2011 | 11:48 am
    Stark white. Lou Reed was the 1st piece I painted with white acrylic straight from the tube, no gray. It was on a demo record, which I thought was appropriate at the time. Demos usually have a white label.I hadn't thought of sharing the importance of the label until I was commissioned to paint on this Matisyahu album which also has a white label. The art of the record label is wonderful. It has its size constraint like what I do does as well. And it seeks to both brand the album, connecting it to the record company, and unify the record with the album cover art.Historically, usually, the…

  • Die By The Drop

    Daniel Edlen
    4 Nov 2011 | 12:27 pm
    "the hardest decision you will ever have to make / lies underneath your fingers" - dead wax inscriptionBy L.PhelpsI've been thinking a lot lately about changes. About who I am. About what direction my life is going.Fifteen years ago, I was a different person. I was young, idealistic, and thought that anything and everything was possible. I was half right. Anything and everything is possible. I was only half right about this because I made a gigantic miscalculation.It's up to me to make it happen.It's not that I am lazy. Far from it. I am a stubborn ass. If I set my mind on something, there is…

  • Showing Up

    Daniel Edlen
    11 Oct 2011 | 10:53 pm
    This past month or so has been busy! I've had 30-some pieces in a solo show at a restaurant in Pacific Palisades (http://prlog.org/11636808) and now 21 of those pieces are up in Santa Monica near the airport for their upcoming Open Studios show.Also, a Laguna Beach gallery, AR4T, is showing 4 pieces as part of a group show called Heaven's On Fire. The timing was perfect for me to find and contact this great gallery in a great location.I was able to do this all because I've been working on showing myself and my art a bit more professionally. Since I'm trying to support my family with my art,…
 
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  • An Interior with Style

    Diana Brennan
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:28 am
    Yesterday, I had the pleasure of meeting the wonderful Laura of Lolalina at her home so she could style some of my photographs.  You'll have to head on over to her post for the all of the juicy styling and interior photography tips, but here's a teaser for you:See you over at Lolalina!

  • Picnik and Product Photos - Transitioning to Google +

    Diana Brennan
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:35 pm
    The bad news... I posted my Picnik tutorial the day before Picnik announced it was closing up shop on April 19, 2012.The good news... You can use the same tools to edit product photos using Google +Here's how:So, big sigh of relief, editing your product photographs is still just as easy!

  • Pantone + Pinterest = Inspiration

    Diana Brennan
    23 Jan 2012 | 8:27 am
    Perhaps you've heard the buzz about Pantone's new Spring 2012 Color Report.  I'm not crazy about "Tangerine Tango", the color of the year, but I do love some of the other hues they've chosen.  "Sodalite Blue" is my favorite of the bunch (no surprise there, it's a dark, rich, beautiful blue), and I also like the grouping of "Driftwood", "Cockatoo", and "Starfish".What's Pinterest got to do with this?  Well, Pantone's lovely Spring 2012 colors inspired me to put together a mood board featuring a couple of my photographs.  And what better place to find stunning home decor…

  • Two Quick Steps to Fix Your Product Photographs

    Diana Brennan
    18 Jan 2012 | 12:52 pm
    A blogger friend of mine, CereusArt, recently posted about her product photography woes.  She had been working hard to improve her shots, using a light tent, and doing her best to edit the photographs after taking them.  But she still wasn't pleased with the results.Product photography is not easy, even when you're a photographer.  When I saw her images, I immediately thought of a way I could help her "fix" them using my favorite free photo editor, Picnik.  The video below provides a tutorial, and I hope both you and CereusArt will find it useful!Before & After image…

  • The Creation of a Photograph: A Short Story

    Diana Brennan
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:13 pm
    It is a cold, winter day with beautiful, clear skies.  Knowing the sun sets early at this time of year, my husband and I head south towards the coast.  On the way, we discuss which beach we should go to - one of our favorites?  One we haven't visited in a while?  We choose the URI Bay Campus, which he has never been to, and arrive as the "golden hour" begins.  The setting sun tinges the sea and the sky with pink.  It draws out the silken textures of the waves coming gently ashore.  The lights on the Newport Bridge across the bay come on, twinkling in the…
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  • SCREAMERS

    Karen Penrith
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:26 am
    After some of the stunned amazement had worn off and I could manage to unlock my hands from being claws gripping into my kitchen cupboards, my knees had stopped shaking with fright, and the streams of tears had slowed, practical solutions had to be thought about to what we were dealing with, how to cope, manage... organise.... research had to be done, information had to be found, comparisons had to be made to other similar bodies, an artist of comparable capacity to find a level.  We had to devise ways and means of keeping everything together and to keep it all safe so that people would be…

  • Are you free to think? Think again…..

    Chandrani Mukherjee
    16 Jan 2012 | 5:30 am
    Why would an artist take the pain of painting if he can click a shot and create art. The gap that remains between photography and photorealism is that, photography binds us to capture what we see before us. It only allows the liberty in changing the angles, hence the points of view. But art gives one, the liberty to shape the vision, shown by nature to ones own. The clear articulation of Sagar Bhowmick’s work speaks for the effectiveness of the style itself. Reality of the artist’s mind does not converse with the viewer by the multilayered expressionist opaqueness. But it takes us back to…

  • Artetc. news & views January 2011 issue is now available

    Chandrani Mukherjee
    11 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am
    Welcome dear reader to the New Year, with yet another new thought from the editorial desk of artetc. news & views. After the enthusiastic response with which you had accepted our last two issues on Cutting Edge Art Practices in India, we thought it would be a refreshing diversion to take a close look at some of India’s most successful Modern Masters. Coincidentally, most of them emerged from what is now known to be one of the most successful art movements in the country—namely the Bombay Progressive Artists Group. Right from the highest auction record holder in Indian art—S H Raza,…

  • A Dense web of Balances

    Chandrani Mukherjee
    9 Jan 2012 | 1:00 am
    Each sculptor and their practice and method in this show carries the essence of their language, life, success and how their work helped to unfurl the epoch and understanding of a practice- about their own experience and understanding that is profound and timeless.  Contemporary Sculpture in India and the works of the 20 sculptors living in India scrutinize the living reality, which is diverse, but direct and different position of art confront the viewer in an overwhelming and dizzying fashion-exciting that it contrasts the work of major sculptors with widely disparate styles. This is the…

  • Artetc:newsnviews, issues of January and February 2012'

    Chandrani Mukherjee
    19 Dec 2011 | 12:05 am
    The formation of Progressive Artists Group in Bombay in 1947, was the symptom of a ‘Spirit’ or ‘Zeitgeist’ of Modern Indian Art during the few years before and after the Independence which we achieved during the same year.The independence in 1947 was a “moment” of continued nationalist fervor combined with a fresh nationwide excitement and optimism, inspite of the heavy suffering due to the partition of the sub-continent. Calcutta during the mid 1940s had witnessed artists like Somnath Hore and Chitta Prasad among others who responded to the Bengal Famine. Those who gathered…
 
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    Tara Reed Designs

  • Are you a creative entrepreneur trying to find that fit between your passion and your business?

    Tara Reed
    3 Jan 2012 | 5:07 pm
    I am quite honored to have been asked to participate in the newest online course (I hate to call it that because I really believe it is going to be so much more than that!) by Kelly Rae Roberts and Beth Nicholls. When I look at the other people involved I pretty much pinch myself and say “Really? Little ol’ me gets to do this?” It is so exciting to be a part of something that says “Yes! You can have your art and your cake too! No need to starve! No need to sell your soul! Find your passion and find your way…” I fully expect to be blown away, inspired, and…

  • Great stocking stuffers for a dollar at Office Depot!

    admin
    19 Dec 2011 | 9:00 am
    I was so excited the other day when I wandered through Office Depot hoping to find the coffee and fashion products… I was OVER-THE-MOON excited when I did! Almost a year in the working, the coffee and fashion themed note cards, spiral bound notebooks, weekly list pads, magnets, sticky tabs are now available at an Office Depot near you – and for only $1 each! Great for the car, stocking stuffers, whatever – I said they were only a dollar right? Here is a photo of my first products to be in Office Depot – if you find yourself in the store be sure to check them out!

  • What I’ve recently learned about raccoons…

    Tara Reed
    13 Dec 2011 | 9:40 am
    My fiancé and I are doing and getting lots of work done on our new-old house.  The other day we were having some cool Red Cedars trimmed and the dead wood removed so they don’t fall on our house in a windstorm.  I was surprised when I got a call from our fabulous tree guy – Joe – saying, “there are raccoons in one of the trees, I can’t do the work there.” What?  Raccoons in  a tree?  My experience with raccoons has been limited to campground sitings, trash can sightings and yes, I’ll say it, road kill sightings.  I have never seen or heard of a…

  • Marcus – a die-hard duck at age 9!

    Tara Reed
    28 Nov 2011 | 9:00 am
    Meet Marcus – my very-soon-to-be nephew.  At 9 years old he’s about as big an Oregon Duck fan as you will find in the state.  He loves all things yellow and green… don’t even TRY to talk to him about the Beavers… you’ll get a grade-A glare.  This is what happens to a child who grows up with two Duck parents – he becomes an early fan. Go Ducks! Saturday was the “Civil War” game in Oregon – when the University of Oregon (Ducks) play Oregon State (Beavers).  It’s quite a state-wide event.  Marcus went to the game with his…

  • Happy Halloween!

    Tara Reed
    31 Oct 2011 | 9:26 am
    May today be whatever your heart desires – frightening, sweet, fun or nothing at all! – Tara Reed
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    Art Licensing Blog

  • Last few days to save on The Goal Wheel for Artists – Goal Setting System That Leaves Lots of Room for Creativity!

    Tara Reed
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    The sale price of $27 ends on Tuesday, January 31st – have you taken advantage of this deal yet?  Not only do you get an audio and transcript, you get an eBook with lots of worksheets to print out and use as well as “Goal Mail” every month for the next 12 months to keep you on track.  I created The Goal Wheel for Artists™ because I needed a better way – it works for me and I think it can work for you too. I took things that worked for me from other goal setting ideas I’ve learned and tried along the way and kept what worked.  It’s not too hard. …

  • What a great Art Licensing Ask Call with Attorney Kyle-Beth Hilfer!

    Tara Reed
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    It’s been a while since we had a legal expert on the line – I hope you were able to dial in and learn lots!  Attorney Kyle-Beth Hilfer has lots of experience in art licensing and general intellectual property law – of course her answers are not to be construed as legal counsel just food for thought. (Disclaimers are very important! If you have a specific issue, contact her or the attorney of your choice!) What we covered on the call… • How to find and how to handle copyright infringements online • Do manufacturers shy away from artists with an attorney and…

  • The Ask Call with Attorney Kyle-Beth Hilfer is tomorrow – will you be joining us?

    Tara Reed
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    We sure hope so!  I’m really excited for you to get to know AttorneyKyle-Beth Hilfer.  She first came on my radar in a discussion on the Art of Licensing group on LinkedIn.  She also blogs occasionally about licensing.  I decided it was time to bring in a new legal expert for a new perspective and we have a great call planned – we hope you take the opportunity to listen and learn! So… if you have signed up for an Ask Call before, you should receive or have received an email reminding you of all the dial-in details. If not, head to www.AskAboutArtLicensing.com to get signed up and…

  • How to Understand Art Licensing Contracts eBook buyers get a discount on consulting with Maria Brophy

    Tara Reed
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    You read that right!  While chatting with Maria last week she told me that she wants to offer artists who have purchased our eBook – How to Understand Art Licensing Contracts, $50 off a consultation with her regarding, well, contracts. You know the old saying – Different Strokes for Different Folks, right?  Well while I do my own contract reviews and negotiations, I don’t choose to consult with artists on contract related issues.  It just isn’t an area that gets me excited, it’s something I have to do to do my business. Maria is just the opposite, she LOVES…

  • IRS Mileage Deduction Allowances for 2012

    Tara Reed
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    At the beginning of each year I double check what mileage deduction rate the IRS is allowing for business travel – and if you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know I like to pass it on! 2012 mileage deductions are the same as July-Dec 2011 – 55.5¢ / business mile. To see the official announcement and details, go to http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=250882,00.html Keep more of your hard earned money by taking every deduction you can for your business! Here’s to your creative success! – Tara Reed  
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    Stark Insider

  • Facebook IPO filing next week, $75-$100 Billion valuation (hang on to your hats)

    Clinton Stark
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:41 pm
    Are we in the midst of a social bubble, or this time are we really headed to Economy 2.0? We should find out more next week. Facebook, in a surprise move (I don’t know of anyone predicting such an early move), will likely file for IPO next week. Though the plans could change, the timing suggests a certain amount of confidence with the economy, and Facebook’s desire to take advantage of a hot window of opportunity. Sources told WSJ that Morgan Stanley is close to inking a deal to underwrite the offering, which is expected to bring a valuation of $75 to $100 billion. At the top end,…

  • On Location: Zin is in at ZAP Wine Festival

    Monica Turner
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:45 pm
    We’re on location! If you simply dig that feisty California red grape, Zinfandel, then the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco is the place the be. The Rock ‘n Roller of wine once again stars in the 21st annual ZAP (Zinfandel Advocates and Producers) wine festival. Stark Insider takes you inside the vino-happy event which features tastings, good eats, and a whole bunch of socializing bru-ha-ha. In other words: it’s a heck of a fun way to spend the weekend. In this segment, Loni meets up with Bitchin’ Kitchin’s Nadia G to talk about wine, food, and…

  • Simply the Best: Pinchas Zukerman

    Cy Ashley Webb
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:35 am
    When explaining the magic of the violin, Joseph Marchese, author of The Violin Maker turns to the veritable Grove encyclopedia: “The violin is one of the most perfect instruments acoustically.”  According to Grove, this acoustic perfection is why the violin ranges from sweet Vivaldi chatter, to  the pathos of the second movement of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, to the rapid flights in Paganini’s Caprice No. 16 in G minor, and everything in between. The argument can be made that more than any other instrument, the violin’s got soul. If you throw Pinchas Zukerman into the mix, the…

  • Hands-on: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Beta (looking good!)

    Clinton Stark
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:23 am
    Adobe’s beta of Lightroom 4 is now available for download (it expires March 31), and if you’re into photography, as a pro or hobbyist, I highly recommend you take a look. Here are some of my test results after a few weeks of testing the software. First, a confession. I’ve never been a big fan of Lightroom. The interface is cumbersome, non-intuitive and getting simple things done, like re-sizing a photo for example, requires too many steps. For daily stuff I instead count on Picasa. It’s fast, and a quick and dirty way to get results without jumping through hoops. I…

  • Google’s open model helps boost Android share of tablet market

    Clinton Stark
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:15 am
    Android: Offers consumers more choice. Google’s Android OS had a strong Q4. I read this morning that, according to Strategy Analytics, Android’s share of the tablet market now stands at 39%. Sales more than tripled in the quarter. It’s also worth noting that Google released Ice Cream Sandwich in December for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone on Verizon; although not yet available on tablets, it did help steer a lot of attention Android’s way. We knew that Apple couldn’t maintain a stranglehold on the tablet market forever. It was first to market, and it reaped…
 
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    EBSQ: Art Meets Blog v2.0

  • EBSQ Friday Five: Fresh Pressed in January

    Amanda Makepeace
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:03 am
    1. Salt Shaker by Delilah Smith 2. Dragon Lore by Melia Newman 3. New Year Poppies by Torrie Smiley 4. Numbers by Vicky Knowles 5. Seclusion by Kimberly Vanlandingham Have a wonderful weekend! Filed under: Artseen, membernews Tagged: art, artist blogs, ebsq, friday five, January, links, news, paintings

  • EBSQ Facebook Artist of the Week: Susan Brack

    Amanda Makepeace
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    Who and where are you? I’m Susan Brack of Enchanted Sleigh Studios. I’m a self taught folk artist living in Indiana. I’m lucky to have been able to live most of my life in a rural setting. Our area is rich in farm land, crafting culture and antique shops. While raising my family, I taught quilting and followed the arts and crafts show circuit selling my original folk art dolls, bears and Santa figures. I think that early influence can still be seen in my work today. How were you introduced to Facebook? My daughter Rachel Sharp is also an artist living in Scotland. Which made…

  • Art Seen: Year of the Dragon

    Amie Gillingham
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:01 am
    Today starts the fortnight celebrating the Year of the Dragon. According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Dragon embodies boldness, passion, and fiery independence. Kung Hei Fat Choy! Faces of Faery 109 by EBSQ Artist Jasmine Becket-Griffith Dragon Fire by EBSQ Artist Nico Niemi Silver Celtic Knotwork Dragon Brooch by EBSQ Johanus Haidner Dragon Square 7 by EBSQ Artist Emily J White A Knight and His Dragon by EBSQ Artist Susan Brack Dragon Eye ACEO by EBSQ Artist Christina A Kapono [View more dragon art at EBSQ] Filed under: Artseen Tagged: art, artists, Artseen, chinese new year, dragon, dragon…

  • Pinterest For Artists: 5 Creative Ways To Share Your Work

    natasha
    20 Jan 2012 | 11:54 am
    by Natasha Wescoat The newest craze in social networking is the highly attractive and addictive Pinterest. Drawing artists, designers, jewelers and other creatives, it’s a fun place to compile your favorite things, pictures you love or sharing dream ideas. Immediately, when I was introduced to it, I couldn’t understand why you would want to use this site. It reminded me alot of the popular fashion bookmark networks and we already had Facebook to share our obsessions. Why use Pinterest?  This is where it gets interesting… 1. It’s completely visual. Sharing and…

  • EBSQ Friday Five

    Amanda Makepeace
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:52 am
    1. Circle Play – I’ve been watching artist, Cyndi Agathocleous’ art evolve over the last two years. Her latest geometric abstracts are some of my favorites. 2. With a thankful heart – Congratulations to Teresa Cowley!! Her portrait, Angela, was accepted into the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, “Faces of Winter 2012″ Exhibition! 3. The Artist’s Magazine Honorable Mention – More congratulations are in order for scratchboard artist, Sandra Willard!! 4. A boatload of greeting cards – Carmen Medlin has been busy on Zazzle! 5.
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    Art Fashionista

  • How to Choose the Right Pair of High Heels

    warlck20
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:10 pm
     A girl should always have a pair of black patent leather pumps that go with anything from jeans to suits. Next, a strappy open toed high heel is a must for fancy occasions and nights out at the bars and clubs. Finally, a nude high heel is a wise choice because this ladylike color will go with dinner out with friends or Sunday afternoon tea. After these three choices, you can pretty much use your imagination and fill your closet with any high heel. The next part in completing your shoe wardrobe will be actually shopping for your new heels. There are several things that you should keep in…

  • Fashion designer Elizabeth Anne combines purses & boots

    warlck20
    19 Dec 2011 | 7:30 pm
    Lady GaGa’s “Just Dance” was a huge hit that captured many women’s imaginations, but it was the line “I lost my keys, I lost my phone” that really got Canadian fashion designer Elizabeth Anne thinking. Elizabeth, a 27 year old hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, came up with the unique concept she calls “Purse n Boots” in 2009, when she began work on a pair of designer boots with interior pockets specially made to fit smart phones, keys, credit cards and cash. She calls them, appropriately, “the world’s first purse for your feet”. A unique idea, but hasn’t…

  • Bare Lifts

    Dyn
    6 Nov 2011 | 1:22 pm
    BareLifts: The Better Bra Replacement One of the most difficult parts of being a woman is having to find the right bra. Many women rely on trial and error in their quest to find the right bra. The straps, sides and underwire of a bra can dig into the skin and cause discomfort for many women. Some bras will fit the left or right breast, but not both (What can you do in this situation?). Not to mention the fact that wearing the latest fashions often call for a strapless bra, which can present a whole other list of issues. Now there’s great news for every woman looking to get that lift and…

  • Designer Discount Club?

    warlck20
    31 Oct 2011 | 1:08 pm
    Our goal is to provide an unbiased review about Designer Discount Club. Here at Art Fashionista we take advantage of statistical data to make our observations 100% objective. We would like to give you the reader informed knowledge of the company in question: Designer Discount Club. Getting started, let’s briefly describe exactly what this site is. Description from the publisher “Designer brand names and fashions, at up to 70% off An exclusive, private shopping experience Members receive preferred treatment Receive fresh and current sale info and updates, daily 100% fully-certified…

  • The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Ways To Lose Weight Fast!

    warlck20
    31 Oct 2011 | 12:30 am
    With obesity rates rising and Hollywood’s newfound praise for thin women, more and more people are seeking out weight loss options. There are dozens of advertisements on television for weight loss programs, systems, drugs, and secrets. Some are tried and true, while others are pure fiction. Whether you plan on dropping pounds for health or vanity, it’s important that you learn the facts before committing to anything. There are many good and bad methods of losing weight. It is very important to remember that, even though websites and friends may encourage them, you should still…
 
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    museworthy

  • A Little Bird Told Me

    artmodel
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:28 pm
    Charlie “Bird” Parker, the legendary jazz saxophonist and bebop giant, famously said, “If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn”. Assuming that’s true, I could play a hell of a song right now about modeling for art classes. I have no clue what a song like that would sound like, but it would be authentic that’s for sure! Indeed, I have lived it. Whew, I’m tired. I worked all week, Saturday and Sunday, and today. Now I’m home and ready to do absolutely nothing but relax. In 1946, Bird suffered a nervous breakdown in a hotel…

  • Finding Composure

    artmodel
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:57 pm
    I have neither the will nor the energy right now to discuss at length the unhinged madness of the world in which we live. Who am I kidding using the word “discuss”? There is no discussion. There’s only hysteria, fear-mongering, verbal abuse, and the insidious effects of groupthink. In my lifetime, I can’t recall a period in our culture of more overheated rhetoric, more histrionics, or more twisted priorities than the times we are in now. What’s most disheartening to me are the sheer numbers of people who refuse to analyze anything in depth and can thus be tricked…

  • Golden Jam

    artmodel
    16 Jan 2012 | 2:57 pm
    For today’s Music Monday, I am posting a video that I have fallen so in love with I can’t even estimate how many times I’ve watched it. With over five million views on YouTube, this is musician Drew Arcoleo jamming with his friend’s dog, a golden retriever who clearly digs the music. If this video doesn’t make you smile, then you must have a defect or deficiency in your personality. So watch and enjoy as an adorable Golden Retriever gets its groove on Thanks to Jonah Goldberg of the National Review for posting this on his Twitter. Filed under: animals, music,…

  • Saturday Stuff

    artmodel
    14 Jan 2012 | 11:17 am
    Happy Saturday y’all! May I ask that you take a brief break from your weekend football viewing preparations to read Museworthy? You can buy beer and chips later, ok? Just passing on word that I’ve been hearing from several folks in my art modeling travels, that the Renaissance Portrait exhibition at the Met is a must-see. A must MUST see. I’m due for a visit to the Met myself, so I’ll be checking it out soon hopefully. Busy modeling schedule in the next few weeks but the show is up until March 18th. So plenty of time. Time is running out, however, for London-area…

  • At the Theater with Everett Shinn

    artmodel
    10 Jan 2012 | 11:53 am
    Hello friends. This post was supposed to go up yesterday for Music Monday. I planned to write it when I got home from work but something came up that put me in a crummy, unsettled mood. It’s not a big deal, I just have a sensitivity to old unwelcome emotions being stirred up. So I sulked most of the night and neglected my blog I wanted to share these images of Everett Shinn paintings. Shinn was a member of the Ashcan School, a talented group of American realist painters who explored urban subjects and daily life in New York City. Although not an organized group in any official way,…
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    Templatic » News

  • Reviews WP Theme: Rate your favorite movies, books, products

    Team Templatic
    19 Jan 2012 | 4:26 am
    Almost two weeks ago we teased new themes that are coming in the near future. Today is the day you get to see the first of those three themes, a new niche theme that we hope you’ll like – Reviews. Reviews WordPress theme is primarily aimed at enthusiasts who’d like to review things on their website. You can review pretty much anything; from movies to books, from gadgets to software.With Reviews you (as admin) can add multiple products or services, show descriptions in tabs (with a specially created ‘tabber’ shortcode) insert images and your rating. Also, there…

  • What’s cooking at Templatic?

    R.Bhavesh
    6 Jan 2012 | 7:46 am
    First off I’d just like to say Happy New Year to all of you on behalf of the whole Templatic staff! If 2011 was kind to you we all hope 2012 will be just as good; if it was bad, hopefully 2012 will be better. We’re a few days into the new year and everyone is getting back to work, we at Templatic are working on some cool new themes which will show up at our theme store in the near future.Let’s see what’s coming soon!The following theme will be the first one to land at Templatic this month. As the screenshot suggests, it is a review theme targeted for bloggers and…

  • Templatic Tips of the day – December 2011

    Vedran
    2 Jan 2012 | 4:33 pm
    Just like last month here’s another overview of all templatic tips of the day. If you’re a twitter user you can access all our tips with the #templatictip hashtagTemplatic tips of the day for December 2011December 1 Having problems with spammers in RealEstate? Visits the following link and get rid of them forever http://templatic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=5928   December 2 Here’s a very interesting tutorial on how to exclude specific content from WordPress search…

  • Christmas 2011 offer: Buy 1, Get 2 Free

    23 Dec 2011 | 3:19 am
    Update: Because of some issues with our demo site the offer is extended for 2 days, until January 4th 2012!Just like previous years, Christmas offer on Templatic themes is back again!Starting from today and ending on 31st December 2011 you get a total off THREE themes for the price of ONE. There’s no coupons, no conditions. If you buy before 31st December 2011, you are in.Here’s how it worksGrab any theme of your choice from templatic themes store.Once you purchase a theme, head over to this page and claim two additional bonus theme of your choice (of equal or lower value)Our…

  • Beta version of GeoPlaces V4 is now available

    R.Bhavesh
    23 Dec 2011 | 3:10 am
    As you know, the development of GeoPlaces V4 started back in first week of September this year. Almost 4 months since then and here we are with beta (almost final) version of the GeoPlaces theme just in time as a Christmas gift for you. This means that the features and additions are done. Now we test the theme thoroughly once again and at the same time get critical feedback from early adopters in the forum so everyone can get a stable, perfect theme for their project.Though there are lots and lots of improvements and additions, I’d love to introduce to some of the important one in here.
 
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    Feed the Beauty

  • The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

    Sophie Lumen
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:52 pm
    I’m not ashamed to admit that books were my first friends (after ‘Love’ my stuffed bunny). If you are a book lover, a story collector, a dreamer– let it load, make a cup of tea and take a timeout this weekend to watch this touching short by author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg. This is cutting [...]

  • Do You Dream of Flying?

    Sophie Lumen
    15 Jan 2012 | 3:13 pm
    I’ve had flying  dreams all my life.  One of my favorite books as a child was ‘The Queen Who Flew’. So I loved this well produced, crazy-fantastic video of  The Worlds Fastest Flying Human Being 2010,  wingsuit flyer Espen Fadnes. The sounds are real, the background music fits beautifully. Filed under: Community Art, Uncategorized Tagged: dream [...]

  • The Birthright

    Sophie Lumen
    13 Jan 2012 | 1:41 pm
    The Birthright We who were born In country places, Far from cities And shifting faces, We have a birthright No man can sell, And a secret joy No man can tell. For we are kindred To lordly things, The wild duck’s flight And the white owl’s wings; To pike and salmon, To bull and horse, [...]

  • When this video is over you feel like you do at the end of a really good book

    Sophie Lumen
    31 Dec 2011 | 3:54 pm
    Winter Essence- Tender musical arrangements by pianist Sherry Klinedinst paired with the elegant eye of my friend, photographer Wendy Kaveney. Happy New Year and very best wishes to my wonderful subscribers, xoxoxo. Filed under: Community Art, FTB Soul, Photographers Tagged: inspirational winter video, Sherry Klinedinst, Wendy Kaveney

  • Mother’s Song

    Sophie Lumen
    29 Dec 2011 | 1:53 pm
    it’s quiet in the house so quiet outside the snowstorm wails the dogs curl up noses under their tails my little son sleeps on his back his mouth open his belly rises and falls breathing is it strange if I cry for joy? Anonymous (19th century), translated from the Inuit Stephen Berg/Translator Artwork by Janet Kigusiuq [...]
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    Hyperallergic

  • Art Hack Day Is Tomorrow at 319 Scholes

    Hrag Vartanian
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:37 pm
    Tomorrow, the doors of 319 Scholes open for the public unveiling of the 48-hour projects that were created during Art Hack Day at the East Williamsburg art/tech space.Today, Hyperallergic got a guided tour by Nahana Schelling and Olaf Mathé of the behind the scene action that the invited team of hackers are producing as they realize their digital projects.319 Scholes is a hotspot for the tech/art nexus that has a natural home in New York. Art Hack Day aims to bring ”together hackers whose medium is art and artists whose medium is technology.” The space is rich with…

  • Is Twitter Going to Censor? Ai Weiwei Threatens to Quit Tweeting

    Hrag Vartanian
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:22 pm
    As the power of the online world and social media increases, there are more and more attempts at curbing its ability to move freely across borders.Yesterday, Twitter announced that it will start censoring tweets in certain countries as a concession to governments as the service expands globally. On the official Twitter blog they wrote:As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there.This is obviously an issue of major concern for…

  • Goodbye, For Now

    Liza Eliano
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:40 pm
    Liza Eliano on her last day at Hyperallergic. (Click thru for a pic of her first day)Dear Hyperallergic peeps,Today is my last day at Hyperallergic, and as much as I hate saying goodbyes, I can’t leave without reflecting on the amazing journey this has been. Next week I will start as a publicity assistant at Random House, but Hyperallergic will always remain on my mind and close to my heart.During my seven months at Hyperallergic, I have been challenged and inspired every day. As the editorial assistant I found my stride writing news and opinion posts on some of the stories, big and…

  • Photographer Looks Out On the Edge of Detroit's High Rises

    An Xiao
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:34 pm
    Dennis Maitland's show on the edge of a high rise in Detroit. Image by Dennis Maitland.LOS ANGELES — Standing atop buildings in skyscraper-bound cities like New York and Hong Kong, we’re bound to look out. And across. And somewhat downward. But never down, like straight down. Aside from gimmicky glass balconies like the ones in the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower), building codes and a general acrophobia prevent most of us from contemplating the ground many stories beneath our feet. Dennis Maitland on the edge of Detroit. Image from…

  • Shit Art World People Say

    An Xiao
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:55 am
    It was going to happen. After the stellar success of Shit Girls Say, the meme has since covered race, gender, sexuality and everything else, even life as men of cloth.Sh*t Art World People Say brings the popular meme to the hallowed sidewalks of Chelsea. Brought to us by the brilliant interns at Creative Time — “We couldn’t resist,” they said — the video tackles the contrived, kitschy, evocative language of the art world in the rapid style of the meme. (I just wrote about art world memes this week. Is this the first time the art world is joining a meme?)As it turns out,…
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    Healing Through Multiple Sclerosis

  • Elevation

    Cathy
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:06 am
    detail of hand-panted textile _____________________________ ” It is important to have a sufficiently elevated life condition so that you will be able to calmly accept whatever happens in life, striving to put problems into proper perspective and solving them with a positive attitude. Happiness blossoms forth from such a strong and all-encompassing life condition.” — Daisaku Ikeda _____________ I installed a new support in my bathroom.. Keep in mind that I am an artist And care deeply about aesthetics. So- WHAT is a girl to do with the VISUAL ASSAULT Of this elevated commode…

  • The Fall

    Cathy
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:13 am
    detail of ceramic sculpture ___________________________ As a gymnast in my youth my events were the balance beam, floor exercise and uneven parallel bars. These are not team sports. Success in each depends on a laser-beam confidence and will. I think back on what it took to walk, spin, leap and roll on 4 inches of wood standing 5 feet off the ground. The action and spiritual quest of harnessing interior worlds to behave and serve me in a desired outcome is territory I have never tired of. Back then, a fall was humbling. These days it is life threatening. It’s all the same, though.. same…

  • Pretense

    Cathy
    15 Jan 2012 | 9:52 am
    textile design, silk jersey, 1985 ________________________________ I lived in the seedy part of Boston’s South End in the 80′s creating hand-painted textiles for men’s and women’s wear. I was surrounded by people eager to shock, startle and roar their way through life by separating themselves out from the masses in some way and finding a smidgeon of identity in this way. Oh my goodness… I felt so lost and uncool. I came to work each day and built an energetic bubble around myself and communed with color and brushes, dyes and fabric. I have spent my life trying to…

  • RE-FINE

    Cathy
    9 Jan 2012 | 10:51 am
    monoprint, 30″ x 40″, 1990 __________________________ I see that when I intake the correct (for me) ‘food’ I have more than enough energy to live well. My goal is to nurture this precious gift of Life With attitudes, activities and awareness; Each acting as clean fuel For my Self As QUEEN! Of my personal landscape. I could easily regard the outward impression I may leave people with: that a severe narrowing is taking place as my body shifts into ‘needs-support-to-function’ mode, as a truth. The thing is- I am unsure of much of anything that fits into the…

  • “I’d Call AAA…..”

    Cathy
    31 Dec 2011 | 10:56 am
    detail of painting __________________ It is New Year’s Eve day and instead of a recap of my year, I feel like telling you about the most recent event that made me really happy.. Sort of a ‘talisman moment’ to guide my year as I see it. Instead of making a list of resolutions, I will use the feeling of what I am about to tell you to move into a new year and know I want more of THIS: My brother, sister-in-law and niece and nephew came to visit me. They drove from Denver in their motor home with the two dogs, jeep in tow and many tools to help me make my new and beloved home…
 
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    The Curious Brain

  • advertising on gif’s

    thebrainbehind
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:19 am
    Now if converse was behind this…it will be the best advertising ever! Dead cheap and extremely shareable!! Hmmm maybe there is a business idea here in the making “advertising on gif’s ” via iamforeverinlovewithyou

  • How Return Of The Jedi Should Have Ended

    thebrainbehind
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:16 am
    Another brilliant instalment from How It Should Have Ended

  • Sad Stuff on the Street

    thebrainbehind
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:09 am
    I just fell in love with this blog! A photo blog that collects images of sad stuff left on the street! What a concept! Go check it out here

  • Twitter In 1991

    thebrainbehind
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:46 am
    hahaha absolutely brilliant! Via buzzfeed

  • I Might

    thebrainbehind
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Another great song by Wilco. Perfect for Fridays The video is teaser listen the full song from the soundcloud
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    The Nahmias Cipher Report

  • Aboriginal Anger on Australia Day

    Ayanna Nahmias
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm
    26 January 2012 – Today is Australia Day which commemorates the establishment of the first settlement at Port Jackson, now part of Sydney, in 1788. Originally, instituted for the exclusive enjoyment of the white settlers, the country has more recently tried to promote the holiday as an opportunity for Australians to come together to celebrate [...]

  • Nollywood | Bollywood

    Ayanna Nahmias
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:14 pm
    Lagos, Nigeria is one of the most populace cities in Africa. It is also the seat of the Nigerian film industry which began in 1992 and is known as Nollywood. It is the third largest film industry in the world after India‘s Bollywood and Hollywood in the U.S. Nollywood produces 2,500 films a year most [...]

  • Population Me

    Ayanna Nahmias
    21 Jan 2012 | 9:40 pm
    I first heard this song as I was driving home the day I lost my job. My position was abolished due to a ‘reduction in work force.’ I was comfortably numb as I packed the detritus of an eight year tenure into the boxes maintenance provided. I hastily bid adieu to the people with whom [...]

  • Yu Jie, Chinese Dissident | U.S. Asylum?

    Ayanna Nahmias
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:43 pm
    Yu Jie, age 38,  is a writer and Chinese dissident who was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Yu has been a strong proponent of freedom of speech and an active participant in China’s human rights movement. In 2006 as vice-president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center he and two other dissidents met with President George [...]

  • Inspiration for Compassionate Living

    Ayanna Nahmias
    15 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pm
    "There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man." Alan Paton. In an effort to bring balance to our reporting for every post that we write about bad behavior, we will post another story about the good that man possesses and the manifestation of this kindness. These inspirational posts will hopefully help us to own ourselves and our actions.
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    A Journey Round My Skull

  • Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson

    Will
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:25 pm
    2009 self-portrait by Icelandic artist Helgi Thorgils Fridjónsson, via a recent Czech exhibit of his works

  • Bagaría on Mars

    Will
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:43 am
    This is a martian-heavy companion to my huge 50 Watts post on Spanish caricaturist Luis Bagaria. Most are from the 1924 series "Bagaría on Mars." This is a martian-heavy companion to my huge 50 Watts post on Spanish caricaturist Luis Bagaria. Go there for more info and images.

  • Mikalojus Vilutis 2

    Will
    20 Jan 2012 | 11:38 am
    Here's my promised post of earlier work by Lithuanian artist Mikalojus Vilutis (born 1944). I've gathered them from around the net, mostly from an auction house (so some of them are watermarked). Here's the Illustrarium page for Mikalojus Vilutis, who is known as a master of sillkscreen/serigraphy (the method used for most of the works featured here). See the first post 1973 1973 1971 1973 1978 1990 1984 1995 'Fortune Teller,' 1991 1989 See the first post

  • Hiroshi Manabe

    Will
    16 Jan 2012 | 10:40 am
    I featured this last one in the first Space Teriyaki post: Bio by Ben Ettinger Hiroshi Manabe 真鍋博 1932-2000. Born in Ehime prefecture. Manabe is one of the most famous illustrators of the postwar period, having been the person who brought a certain degree of respectability to the art of the book illustration. He pioneered his own personal style characterized by highly colorful scenes full of clean, flowing lines, where both man and nature are uniformly stylized in a way that seems to speak of his very personal idealistic, hopeful stance towards the future. (This blazing 1960s vision of…

  • Egene Koo

    Will
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:29 pm
    I found myself browsing a lot of Korean art today. It can be maddening to translate names. Here's a work by Egene Koo. On 50 Watts: The Diagram Queen, works by Korean artist Minjeong An (born 1981)
 
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    Mosaic Mandalas

  • Artistic Creative Process-How Fun is This!

    LindaMosaic
    23 Jan 2012 | 3:41 pm
    Remember last post that I talked about using wedi panel as the support for the two big mosaics I recently did on commission? [well, 30" diameter is a BIG mosaic work for me!]  At left is a sample piece.  I put the mechanical pencil next to it for size reference.  You can see the waffle pattern I mentioned.  The dark gray color is the cement coating/layer.  I glued down several ceramic tiles so that I could test the adhesion...Wow!  Not only does Weldbond "adhese" securely, it seals the surface [not that it needed it]. Also another mosaic artist told me that the waffled surface does not…

  • The 'End of Day' Mosaic project

    LindaMosaic
    19 Jan 2012 | 5:45 pm
    I'm often asked: what inspires your mosaic mandala designs?  My quick and simplistic answer is "trees."  However, there is a deeper, more intuitive answer. In September of 2010 I wrote a post introducing my work in mosaic in which I use a round support and trees in the abstract as their central theme:  "...I considered three things: one) the basic structure or support for a work; two) a new abstract study and three) painting materials.  What evolved was a circular structure, a study of trees in abstract and tiny ceramic tiles as the painting medium...." I love trees.  For awhile I…

  • The Mosaic of Hannah's Quilt

    LindaMosaic
    9 Jan 2012 | 11:45 pm
    I wonder what it is about the excitement of a new grandchild that fuels the engine of "making."  Before our grandson was born I crocheted him a blanket.  Every single, double and half-double crochet stitch was a complete joy over the weeks it took to complete.  Somehow the hands-on do-it-myself-ness of the experience seemed to increase my love for this little fellow I had yet to meet face-to-face. And now, it's Hannah's turn.  My daughter and son-in-law discovered that a little girl was on the way and named her Hannah.  It's been so sweet during this waiting time wondering what she will…

  • 3 Reasons Twitter is Awesome for Artists

    LindaMosaic
    26 Dec 2011 | 12:00 pm
    What? You were expecting the Twitter company's little bird icon? Naw...my George is just too irresistible to pass up as an icon [although it's very hard to get him to stand still long enough for a portrait]. Here it is, the day before Christmas 2o11 - Christmas Eve.  I have a quiet afternoon and decided to get my year-end blog post wrap-up done while I can as next week is full through New Year's Day.  I thought about what I could or should write about and decided on Social Media as it applies to my life as an artist. I use Social Media and do I think other artists ought to utilize the…

  • An American West purse for an American West girl

    LindaMosaic
    24 Dec 2011 | 4:45 pm
    What does a girl get herself for her birthday? What does an artist get herself for her birthday? This year I wanted to get something that accomplished several things [as if a gift has to actually accomplish something!]: 1. be unique...meaning it is, if not one-of-a-kind, then nearly so 2. be artistic and exude fine craftsmanship; as an artist who works in the exacting minutia of tiny ceramic tile mosaic, I clearly understand and speak the language of detail, of painstaking one-at-a-time-ness.  My mosaics [whether in Moroccan ceramic tiles or Orsoni Smalti] are put to my designs one tile at a…
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    art attack

  • American Craft Endeavors Pot Luck Dinner Updates

    Howard Alan Events
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:17 pm
    For all of our fine crafters we wanted to give you an update on our Pot Luck Dinner Schedule. The following three shows will have our fun Pot Luck Dinners: Feb 18 ­ Dunedin March 10 ­ Coconut Creek Villages ­ April 7 No Pot Luck this weekend at St Pete, sorry. We hope everyone has a wonderful show! We look forward to seeing you all at St. Pete this weekend.  Here are a few fine crafters who posted on our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/AmericanCraftEndeavors: Ladyfish Designs Karen’s Kreations  

  • More Artists : 9th Annual St. Armands Circle Art Festival

    Howard Alan Events
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Because the 9th Annual St. Armands Circle Art Festival will begin TOMORROW – we wanted to give you a sneak peek of a few artists you will be able to meet at the show this weekend! Take a look below: John Cheer : Pottery Hetty Metzger : Paper Marcus Ryan : Mixed Media Chris Klassen : Paintings Robin Smillie : Photography Don’t see the artist you were looking for above? You can check-out our Participating Artists List HERE. Join with us in the discussion on Facebook & Twitter!

  • The Coconut Creek Spring Craft Festival at the Promenade

    Howard Alan Events
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
    The Coconut Creek Spring Craft Festival at the Promenade  March 10th & 11th, 2012  Saturday & Sunday 10am – 5pm We are excited to return to The Promenade at Coconut Creek, an open air high-end shopping and dining experience. Coconut Creek is located north of Coral Springs and just South of wealthy Boca Raton.  The upscale streets of the Promenade provide us with a fabulous venue to exhibit your fine crafts.  The location at the busy intersection of Wiles and Lyons Road will give us ample exposure, adding to our already large media plan. Art and craft enthusiasts will enjoy this…

  • QR Codes

    Howard Alan Events
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:32 pm
    A QR Code stands for Quick Response, you might have seen them popping up in stores and magazines.  I saw this one in Michael’s.  A QR Code is a barcode that is read by mobile phones that have downloaded a reader app.  The QR code actually started as a way to quickly track automotive parts but has spread in popularity because of the quick way it can share a lot of information.  They are in common use in Japan and Europe and are now taking hold in the USA.  Our goal at Howard Alan Events is to have every artist hang a laminated card in their booth with their QR code posted so patrons…

  • Susan G Komen Coconut Point Shopping Spree Giveaway a Success!

    Howard Alan Events
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:45 pm
    Howard Alan Events would like to personally thank the artists who have donated to our Susan G Komen Coconut Point Shopping Spree Giveaway.  We knew our artists had big hearts but we were blown away by the generous and giving nature you have shown.  The popularity of our Art Festivals gives us the unique opportunity to reach so many people and to really make a difference. To date we have raised over $20,000 for this important cause and there are still donations coming in!  All proceeds from the Shopping Spree Giveaway benefit Susan G Komen SWFL Breast Cancer Research. The drawing will…
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    AutomotiveArtists.com

  • Brian James

    AutomotiveArtists.com
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:10 pm
    About The Artist: Brian was born, and grew up in Birmingham. The two great passions in his life at that time were art and design, and cars. He decided to follow art as a profession and studied graphic design at Birmingham College of Art in the late sixties. Whilst there he designed the now familiar and iconic Union Jack flag painted on a Bowler hat, which won a national graphic design competition. A few years ago the original hat was sold by Christie’s in London to the New York Museum of Design. After graduating, Brian went into advertising as an art director for 7 years, during that period…

  • Timothy Raines

    AutomotiveArtists.com
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:53 pm
    About The Artist: Timothy Raines has been sketching automobiles since childhood and over time, moved to realistic sketches to complex, moving and dynamic splashed art on canvas representing the best brands in Automotive. Tim claims among his corporate clients, the likes of Aston Martin NA and Michelin and has dozens of private client automotive art enthusiasts. Tim also is licensed by Major League Baseball and the Collegiate Licensing Corporation. Categories: Classic Car, Exotic Car, Motorsport, Illustration Website: http://www.timothyraines.com Social Networks:…

  • Le Mans-Movie-Fascination Painting

    AutomotiveArtists.com
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:01 pm
    Hi everyone, This is another new painting of mine. I have called it “Le Mans-Movie-Fascination”, because when I was 18 years, I saw this famous movie and for us we lived behind the Iron Curtain in “socialist” Czechoslovakia, it was like from the empire of dreams… (as wel as Frankenheimer´s movie Grand Prix). The scene is from last lap, Steve McQeen is driving Porsche 917 No. 21 on the third place. Best regards, Jiri

  • Porsche 911 and Lamborghini Miura Pencil Drawings

    AutomotiveArtists.com
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:46 pm
    Here are Gábor’s latest additions to his blog. The Miura is the part of my V12 mid-engine Lambo-series, the Porsche was the result of an own carspotting. Gábor Vida

  • 2012 is Car Art’s 10th anniversary!

    AutomotiveArtists.com
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:23 pm
    2012 is Car Art’s 10th anniversary! Time for a Top 10 list At Pebble Beach last year I saw one of my all-time favorite cars: the 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, designed by Sergio Scaglietti. That day, August 20, it sold for $16.4m. — a new world record for a car at auction (previously $12m. for another TR in ’09.) Exactly three months later, Scaglietti passed away, aged 91. The maestro had also co-designed the legendary 250 GTO, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Collectors clearly covet his cars. What about fine artists? Our Ferrari Gallery is the biggest of…
 
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    RedDot Blog

  • Join Xanadu Gallery’s Virtual Book Club | de Kooning – An American Master

    Jason Horejs
    23 Jan 2012 | 11:35 am
    After our last book club meeting in November where we discussed Caravaggio | A Life Sacred and Profane, participants voted to read de Kooning | An American Master as our next book club selection. Even though I read this book when it was first released in 2005, I'm excited to revisit the book as I feel it is not only one of the best artist biographies I have ever read, I consider it my favorite book of the last decade in any genre. I'm not alone my esteem for the book - it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography, and the National Book Critics Circle Award , along with toping many best-of lists…

  • State of the Art 2012 Survey | Some Initial Results

    Jason Horejs
    18 Jan 2012 | 2:47 pm
    Several weeks ago we launched our first State of the Art Survey. My intention with the survey was to get a sense of what the art market in general is looking like from the perspective of the individual fine artist. The survey is somewhat informal, and certainly not scientific, but I think it teases out some interesting perceptions of the market, as well as sales trends. Keep in mind that these figures were self-reported and anonymous, so you can take them with a grain of salt or two. Participation Let’s begin looking at the numbers by discussing participation. Over the 10 days the…

  • A Conversation with Eden Maxwell, Artist and Author of “An Artist Empowered”

    Jason Horejs
    10 Jan 2012 | 12:45 pm
    Join us for a Free Webinar on January 12 Registration is Free but Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/223780602 The new year is, for many, a time both of reflection and goal-setting. As we head into 2012 I invite spend some time reflecting on the bigger picture and join me for an online conversation with Eden Maxwell, author of an Artist Empowered: Define and Establish your Value as an Artist – Now.   Maxwell’s book is a primer for artists looking to uncover the purpose and value (and we’re not just talking about monetary…

  • 5 Simple Steps to Extraordinary Customer Service from AT&T’s Head of Retail

    Jason Horejs
    9 Jan 2012 | 1:58 pm
    I recently ran across an article on Forbes.com about Paul Roth who is the President of Retail for AT&T’s roughly 2,300 stores. As you will read in the article, Roth is revitalizing AT&T’s approach to retail with the goal of making them the best retailer in the country. While Roth is applying the principles delineated in the article to selling phones and services in a retail setting, the principles are excellent and apply directly to those of us who are trying to sell more art, be it at a show, an open studio or in a gallery setting. I don’t mind tooting my own horn a…

  • Debate: Should an Artist Create all of Their Own Work?

    Jason Horejs
    5 Jan 2012 | 1:48 pm
    Artist David Hockney recently took a swipe at Damien Hirst: A small note on the posters for David Hockney’s forthcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy contains a sly dig at another superstar artist about to launch a major exhibition. The note reads: “All the works here were made by the artist himself, personally.” Read about the artist’s competing shows in the Guardian’s recent article. The Guardian is also running an informal poll (be sure and vote) to discover the general populace’s opinion on the matter. When I voted it looked like 86% of readers agreed…
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    CRAFTS IDEAS FOR KIDS

  • MAKING A PAPER FLOWER– ORIGAMI TULIP

    Crafts ideas for kids
    26 Jan 2012 | 3:23 pm
    While waiting for better sunny days and spring,we can make a spring garden with lots of tulips. We will make it with kids, using only paper and our imagination. Origami is the traditional ancient Japanese art of paper folding. Using origami we will make a origami flower – tulip in this case. The material for Read more ...

  • 3D CARD WITH WINTER PINE

    Crafts ideas for kids
    17 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    When the holidays end, the children rejoice winter sports, especially if they have snow outside. There are many children’s games that can be arranged outside. However, since it is not recommended to long stay in the cold air, children left much time for leisure and home activities. If you want to spent interesting time with Read more ...

  • NEW YEAR’S CAP

    Crafts ideas for kids
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Teachers and educators have a great opportunity to make interesting things with children before Christmas and New Year. Detail that will make the whole atmosphere of the holidays more beautiful is this interesting hat.Preparation of hat is simple, even for youngest age of children. For this cute little hat is required following material:     two Read more ...

  • HOW TO MAKE CANDLESTICK HOLDER WITH KIDS

    Crafts ideas for kids
    23 Dec 2011 | 9:36 am
    In this article, we will introduce you and easy way of making candlestick holder from colored paper. This Christmas candlestick holder will perfectly decorate children’s table during holidays. The material for the work:      colored paper      old  CD      cardboard tube      scissors      glue for paper Cut colored paper into strips about 0.3 Read more ...

  • 3D GREETING CARD – CHRISTMAS TREE

    Crafts ideas for kids
    15 Dec 2011 | 1:46 pm
    Winter is a time of many celebrations and an opportunity to send various greeting cards to love persons. Three-dimensional crafts are for children very attractive. In this article, we will describe making 3D greeting card with a winter and Christian motif – Christmas tree. Material for the work: blue card for the rotary blue colored Read more ...
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    Original Oil Paintings by Pati

  • Stop SOPA If You Love Your Online Art

    Pati Springmeyer
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:03 pm
    I support compliance with intellectual property laws - after all, I am an artist and a creator of "content" that is available on the internet - images of my original oil paintings. I try to appropriately signal my rights with the © symbol. But there is a move afoot that could decimate the online art community and all of our digital freedom through the overreaching efforts of the entertainment industry.Why should artists care? Isn't this all just about pirated movies and music? Not by a long shot! Read on........ {CURRENT UPDATE BEFORE WE LOOK AT HOW WE GOT HERE - This looks like the end of…

  • Why Beauty Matters

    Pati Springmeyer
    26 Nov 2011 | 9:28 pm
    I started my training as a classical painter some twenty years ago, when figurative painting executed in the classical style received the same response as velvet panels with tigers painted on them.  Like the one's found in strip mall art fairs back in the 70's 80's.Story in point:  my husbands family are academicians, with a few purchases of modern art installed in their home.  As a newlywed,  I remember standing before one of their newest acquisitions, an abstract expressionist painting prominently displayed in their living room.  There was awkward silence as I…

  • Ares Am I

    Pati Springmeyer
    2 Nov 2011 | 12:45 am
    Here's my latest painting just off the easel titled Ares Am I, 9" x 12",  oil on archival board.© 2011 Pati Springmeyer, all rights reserved

  • Belly Dancer Two

    Pati Springmeyer
    28 May 2011 | 12:11 pm
    This new piece, just finished, is the second in my series on the beautiful redheaded belly dancer. I have painted it in a somewhat looser style than strict realism - how would you say, realism with impressionistic leanings? Medium rare realism?©2011 Pati Springmeyer all rights reserved, 9" x 12" oil on linen

  • Artist Date

    Pati Springmeyer
    26 Apr 2011 | 9:32 pm
    I've taken myself to San Luis Obispo, at the prompting of my husband that I need to "zoom out"  and fill my artistic well.  The photo below is taken from one of the hairpin turns, and is a good example of "zooming out", or "getting altitude".   At this point, I started to feel like it was a good idea that I was not in my studio.  And so, here I am in the lobby of a charming bed and breakfast, Petit Soleil, wishing I had brought my paints, now that I see how authentic the interior has been done. Being a Francophile, I love everything french ( except the men), and am happy…
 
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    Kisses & Chaos

  • 10 Cents a Throw! Win the Lady a Prize!

    alli
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Okay.  I admit it.  I’m pissed.  One of my favorite seasons, my beloved autumn (my other faves are winter and spring…and sometimes summer) completely passed me by last year.  In the midst of all the chaos that was (is) my life I blinked and it was gone!  Halloween?  What’s that?  Carnivals?  State Fairs?  Huh?  Where?  And don’t even get me started on not getting to ride the giant swinging pirate ship thing or listening to Van Halen’s “Panama” at ear drum destroying decibels while riding the mullet of rides, The Himalaya. (Do you want to go…

  • I Need That Like I Need A Hole in the Head: A Brief History of Trepanning

    alli
    23 Jan 2012 | 4:42 pm
         Trepa-what?  Trepanning.  It’s an extremely ancient practice where a hole is drilled and a portion of the skull is removed for relief from a variety of ailments.  Yeah.  You heard me.  They drill a hole in your head. Thank god we don’t do that anymore right?  Hehehe.  Wrong.  There are still people who practice trepanning to this vary day (actor Hugh Grant has mentioned in interviews he has relatives who engage in the practice).  I can already hear you:  “You drill a hole WHERE?!?!?!  WHY?!?!?!  Why the hell would anyone want to do that?”  Well that is precisely…

  • 5 Things To Do When Your World Falls Apart

    alli
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
    Life, though amazingly beautiful, has its traumas.  For the past 5 months I have been dealing with a massive trauma of my own and I am trying to find my footing amidst all the chaos and sadness.  I, admittedly, have little to no idea how to handle this life change and I’m sure some of you are, have been or will be in the same boat with a pivotal and earth-shattering situation of your own someday. It’s an inevitability of life that along with joy and love comes pain and sadness.  They cannot exist without each other.  So what are we to do when everything familiar and precious comes…

  • Girl, Your Nails are Nasty

    alli
    17 Jan 2012 | 8:30 am
     Thanks to Walgreens for underwriting this post. I was paid as a member of the Clever Girls Collective, but the content is all mine. Visit http://www.discoverbeautywithin.com/. My hands, specifically my fingers and even more specifically my nails are wrecked.  I have a nasty habit of destroying them when I’m stressed…and I have been seriously stressed for the past 5 months.  I don’t pick my nails.  (I apologize in advance for grossing you out…Sorry.)  I have  a habit of picking at my cuticles.  Yup.  Gross I know.  But I also know there are some of you with the same bad…

  • The Number 1 Secret To Being Perfect

    alli
    12 Jan 2012 | 3:41 pm
    This video speaks for itself.  Just remember gals:  You are beautiful.  You.  Right now.  Just as you are.  We are all imperfectly perfect.  All of us.  Now try to watch this without laughing your ass off.  Enjoy. Kisses & Chaos, Alli Woods Frederick Tweet
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    Visual News

  • Finding Love in Unexpected Places

    Jessica Czeck
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:28 am
    Sometimes the smallest gestures can turn a frown upside down. Brooklyn-based street artist, photographer, and actress Katie Sokoler was inspired by a song called “Mr. Blue” by Catherine Feeny to spread a little love throughout her neighborhood. She painted bright, tiny hearts on a bunch of pebbles and spread them throughout the city in places where they would almost blend in, but to find one would bring joy to an unsuspecting passerby. Sokoler was particularly motivated by a line in the song that goes, “Mr. Blue, don’t hold your head so low that you can’t see the sky,” so she put…

  • Ad Ethics: When to Take Leo Burnett’s Name Off the Door

    Benjamin Starr
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:12 am
    Just what exactly makes a company “good,” especially when that company is an advertising agency? Leo Burnett, founder of the eponymous ad agency, had a pretty good handle on the answer to that question back in 1967 when he made his retirement speech titled “When to take my name off the door.” Now, on the 75th anniversary of the firms beginning, a Brazilian design studio has made a stylish retro animation to celebrate the executive behind such iconic advertising campaigns as the Pillsbury Doughboy, Tony the Tiger and the Marlboro Man. If you’re addicted to…

  • AT&T Archives: Logo Re-design Video Pitch

    Paul Caridad
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:50 pm
    In the late 1960s, designer Saul Bass had the innovative idea of re-designing the bell system logo- removing the text and focusing on a simple symbol. Rather than pitching his design proposal in print, the designer created this 27-minute film and showed it to the company’s executives. Bass included the implications for the symbol and created a whole marketing plan for the company- even down to the design of telephone vans, uniforms, and hardhats. Needless to say, the execs were quite impressed- so much so that his plan was implemented immediately and his proposed logo represented the…

  • The Family Tree of Type

    Paul Caridad
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:41 pm
    The Bauer Type Foundry, founded in 1837, celebrated their 100 year anniversary with the release of this beautifully illustrated “Bauer’s Family Tree of Printing.” The company designed linotype typefaces for letterpress printers, so their designs dictated the font of media text centuries ago. The phylogenetic map traces visual history of the foundry’s evolution of text. If you’d like your own print copy of the visual, you can purchase the “Bauer’s Family Tree of Printing Types” (in German) at Lehmanns Media. In today’s digital world, there is not much need for a type foundry.

  • Interactive Hand-Drawn Map of Central Reykjavík

    Benjamin Starr
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:20 pm
    Whether it’s remote far-away places, strikingly majestic scenery or creative music unlike any other, Iceland has a lot of reasons to beckon you… and this new hand-drawn map brings its capital city to life with a perfect fit for the beautiful country. Illustrated from an elevated isometric view, the colorful map features central Reykjavík, population 120,000, and covers a surprisingly large area of the small city, from the new Harpa Concert Hall (which will soon feature James Taylor, Elvis Costello and a production of La Bohème) to the cities iconic Church of Hallgrímur……
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    Createquity.

  • Occupy and the Arts: Curating by Consensus in Lower Manhattan

    Katherine Gressel
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:36 pm
    by Katherine Gressel In late September 2011, I started following Occupy Wall Street’s (OWS’s) Arts and Culture committee with the goal of understanding, and critiquing, its organizational structures for a Createquity article. However, I soon found that the same way the movement as a whole resists neatly following one set of demands (though its anti-corporate greed and income disparity message has always been clear), its Arts and Culture activities resist falling into one organizational model—or at least the systems are constantly evolving. This is especially the case now, well into the…

  • Cool jobs of the month

    Ian David Moss
    22 Jan 2012 | 2:59 pm
    Connectivity Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Basic Job Function: Ignite the “explosive engagement” between theatre artists and the community that powers Woolly’s mission statement—by working to expand the Woolly family, deepen the audience experience in our theatre, and link our productions to the civic discourse that happens every day in the nation’s capital. Specific Duties and Responsibilities: Identify local stakeholders, institutions, and events that may resonate with each individual play Facilitate discussions between artists, staff, Board, and audience members to…

  • Writing Fellowship Deadline EXTENDED to 11:59pm tonight

    Ian David Moss
    17 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am
    After a couple of requests, I’m extending the Createquity Writing Fellowship deadline by 12 hours. If you were thinking about it but thought you missed your chance, now’s your shot! Full application information and instructions here. TweetRelated posts: Reminder: Createquity Writing Fellowship Deadline Coming Up Apply for the Spring 2012 Createquity Writing Fellowship Apply for the fall 2011 Createquity Writing Fellowship

  • Around the horn: Santorum edition

    Ian David Moss
    14 Jan 2012 | 10:32 am
    ART AND THE GOVERNMENT – DOMESTIC Fractured Atlas officially comes out against the PROTECT-IP Act, also known as SOPA. The same week, the Senate and House remove the most controversial provision. Coincidence? I think not. The state of Connecticut is rebooting its arts agency giving strategy under new leader Kip Bergstrom. The mayor of Boston is “asking” local museums and other large nonprofits to pay the city 25% of the property tax they would otherwise owe if they were for-profit institutions, leading to a bill in the seven figures for some organizations. I’m a…

  • Two journal opportunities of note

    Ian David Moss
    11 Jan 2012 | 10:23 pm
    First: a brand-new journal focusing on entrepreneurship in the arts, co-founded by Linda Essig of the Creative Infrastructure blog and Arizona State University’s p.a.v.e. program, and Gary Beckman, a professor at North Carolina State. I’m honored to serve on the editorial board for this new initiative, along with blogosphere favorites Andrew Taylor, Diane Ragsdale, and others. Here’s the announcement from Linda: Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts (ISSN 2164-7747), the first ever peer-reviewed research journal in the field of arts entrepreneurship, will be…
 
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  • Wendy Wahl

    Kate
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:25 pm
    Oh Pinterest, how I love thee – another day another inspiring piece of installation art! This time the artist is Wendy Wahl, who creates installation art pieces using recycled encyclopedias, world books, and dictionaries. How cool are those? They’re like trees made of paper…how meta is that? Wendy talks about it as a process of “considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earth’s species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and…

  • Chris Wight

    Kate
    22 Jan 2012 | 6:21 pm
    I love porcelain, but within the porcelain family there is a sub-category of bone china, which I think is even finer quality from a material standpoint. Chris Wight, who I learned about from the awesome blog, Murmure Visible, works with bone china to create amazing table art pieces that push the boundaries of the material itself. He casts his pieces and then drills away parts of them with a hand drill it looks like in the pictures. He does perforate the castings, which is pretty cool. Reminds me of the totally insane pieces of Tony Marsh. Chris also appears to be at the cutting edge of new…

  • Zoe Williams

    Kate
    19 Jan 2012 | 11:48 pm
    I have no idea how I haven’t heard about New Orleans native, Zoe Williams, until this week – needlefelting to the limit, I love it. I must get 50 or 75 newsletters a day and there are some I never open but Lost at E Minor has some really crazy stuff and this week, Zoe was it. Those are needle felted rabbits feet mounted like traditional taxidermy. I have looked at some amazingly weird and wonderful taxidermy before from the likes of Rachel Denny, Elaine Bradford and others but this might just be my favorite. I love these little animal noses (rabbits again, a favorite of mine). I…

  • Hong Seon Jang

    Kate
    16 Jan 2012 | 3:22 pm
    I’m horizontal on my couch this afternoon after a morning adventure to the new CrossFit location here in Boston – wow, what a killer workout. Since I’m largely immobilized and it’s a semi-holiday here for MLK Day, I’ve been perusing the internet and came upon Hong Seon Jang. As the lover of unique uses of materials I was really into Hong’s work – the above piece is called Zip City and is made of zip ties of all things. It’s helpful for him to have included the person in the photo for scale. I particularly like how it moves from the walls to the…

  • Nnenna Okore

    Kate
    11 Jan 2012 | 10:02 pm
    Nnenna Okore uses mostly biodegradable, recycled materials to create her amazing sculptures and wall art / installations. I was looking at artists using repetitive patterns and came across the Nigerian-born artist’s great pieces. Made of paper, wax and thread the above piece, “Abandoned History” is quite large, 60 x 70 x 10 inches in depth. I love that it looks almost like quartz or mica flakes, or even mother of pearl. Off all things, those red items are actually clay connected via twine. I like the idea of a series of like final shapes comprised of a variety of shapes to…
 
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    ArtStormer

  • “Stoned” Paintings in Oil by Carly Waito

    Betsy Wills
    27 Jan 2012 | 5:53 am
    In a brilliant marketing move, a tourist-saavy city council self-declared the city of  Franklin, North Carolina the “gem capital” of the world.    Here you can “go panning” for sapphires, rubies, and any number of chunky, occluded stones.  If you are in the region, you can channel your inner prospector and join the hunt which involves hours of sifting dirt over a flume.  People with keen eyes and lots of patience can go home with some whopper-sized prizes.  Pretty tempting if you can spare the time. If you can’t make the trip, you might consider calling…

  • “The Power of Myth” Paintings by Alan Jeffries

    Betsy Wills
    26 Jan 2012 | 6:01 am
    On Sunday we celebrated Chinese New Year with some generous friends who know what to do with ingredients like red bean paste (hóngdòu shā, 紅豆沙).  2012 is the Year of the Dragon.  Eastern culture reveres the dragon as a mythical creature who is both enchanted and a sign of intense good fortune.  Western culture has traditionally viewed the dragon as something to be hunted and slain.  Yin and Yang I guess. Artist Alan Jeffries paints his own mythology.  Plenty of food for thought. Filed under: Abstract, art, Artist, contemporary art Tagged: Art, Chinese dragon, ChineseNewYear,…

  • “Goldfish Salvation” Japanese Artist Riusuke Fukahori

    Betsy Wills
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:25 pm
    O.K.  This I WANT.  Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori creates GORGEOUS 3D sculptures with patience and grace.  Please take a moment and enjoy this video of his amazing technique. Filed under: Acrylic, art, Artist Tagged: 3D painting, goldfish, Goldfish Salvation, Japan, Painting

  • “Razor’s Edge” Works by Elliott Puckette

    Betsy Wills
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:06 am
    As liberating as the web has been for information flow, it has many limitations.  Often I want to post the work of an artist but hesitate because the screen simply doesn’t do it justice.  Such is the case with the work of Elliott Puckette.  Layers and layers of pigment are applied to gessoed canvas then scratched through with a razor blade resulting in a calligraphy-like image. Gallery representation:  Paul Kasmin Gallery  Filed under: art, contemporary art, Fine Art, Ink, Painting Tagged: canvas, Contemporary Art, Elliott Puckette, fashion, gesso, London, New York, Painting, Pen…

  • “Buttoned Up” Sculptures by Augusto Esquivel

    Betsy Wills
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:36 am
    Airports are depressing by design, but on top of this, they are shopping wastelands  Think about it, where else is there such a captive audience and yet all that occupies the real estate are  fast food establishments and shops with names like the “Spirit of the Red Horse”?.  Are you kidding me?   Offering some relief, many municipalities have tried to inject a bit of public art into the mix.  One of my favorites is in the Chicago Midway Airport.   If you’ve been there, you have no doubt seen a hanging sculpture of a bird constructed entirely of miniature toy bombs and…
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    Painters' Table - Art Magazine: Daily Painting Links on Artist Blogs, Painting Blogs and Art Websites

  • Henry Taylor Paints a Picture

    Brett Baker
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:20 am
    Michael H. Miller profiles painter Henry Taylor. A retrospective of Taylor's work will be on view at MoMA PS1 from January 29, 2012—April 9, 2012. Miller writes that "Mr. Taylor conflates abstraction and realism in his work, giving it the feeling of bluntness (and mischief) found in someone like Alex Katz, but the way he hunts down his subjects transforms his practice into a process of earnest documentation." Miller continues noting that Taylor "is a figurative painter, but not a realist, yet somehow his paintings capture resemblance through mood and texture…

  • Painting Canada

    Brett Baker
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:33 am
    Sarah Milroy reviews the recent exhibition Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Milroy writes that "Ross King [recently] debunked the popularly held Canadian view of these artists as pioneer woodsmen-savants, revealing instead their ties to the painterly traditions of Britain, France and Holland. This well-timed exhibition thus allowed us the opportunity to reconsider their accomplishments in light of this argument, demonstrating how their passionate love of the land was married to a painterly sophistication honed in dialogue…

  • Wendy White: Interview

    Brett Baker
    26 Jan 2012 | 5:18 pm
    Oliver Kann and Frederik Frede interview painter Wendy White. The post also includes an extensive photo gallery by Fette Sans. White, who began her career as a sculptor, comments "I started painting in the early to mid 90's. I just fell in love with the problems of painting, the problems of surface, and capturing things in a two-dimensional surface, but I always wanted it to be a sculpture painting hybrid somehow. So I was making individual works, and they were gaining closer proximity to each other. I would literally do a painting, and a sculpture on a pole, that would sit in front…

  • Paint & Process: Philip Guston

    Brett Baker
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:10 pm
    Frank Hobbs blogs some thoughts about the painting process by the painter Philip Guston as well as a link to a video of Guston in his studio painting and discussing his work. Hobbs quotes Guston: "Destruction of paintings is very interesting to me and almost crucial. Sometimes I find that what I destroyed five years ago I'll paint now, as if when the thing first appears you’re not ready to accept it. There's some mysterious process here that I don’t even want to understand..." read more

  • Vita Petersen: In Pursuit of Sensual Form

    Brett Baker
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:31 am
    David Cohen remembers Vita Petersen (1915-2011) on the eve of the exhibition Vita Petersen: In Black and White: The Last Works at the New York Studio School, on view from January 27 - March 10, 2012. Cohen writes that Petersen, "one of the last survivors on the New York School, died this last October in her ninety-sixth year. She was indefatigable in her pursuit of sensual form; when an eye condition made it impossible for her to continue to work in color she switched to black and white. It is not fanciful to see in her last works... a nostalgia for the vibrancy and surprises of color…
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    Dead Doodles

  • Basil's Fury

    Dan
    22 Jan 2012 | 3:30 pm
    Basil Fawlty takes out his frustration. Fawlty Towers is one of those classic British sitcoms. It never seems to get any less funny no matter how many years pass. So I thought it should get a doodle. This is one of my favourite scenes. Basil's legendary anger gets the better of him when the car won't start and so he pays it back in his own special way. I think its the utter uselessness of it that gets me. There's almost no danger of the car being damaged but he rages away it at regardless. It could also be that John Cleese just looks extremely funny swinging wildly at an inanimate object. If…

  • Horrible Weapons

    Dan
    14 Jan 2012 | 7:23 am
    Horrible weapons as used in some classic horror movies Horror movies for me are all about the weapons. There are sharp ones, blunt ones and the more off the wall ones! So here is a selection of my favourites. If you had this little lot available I reckon you would be able to survive most zombie outbreaks without too much trouble. Bonus points if you can name the films they come from too. In this case points don't win you prizes but you do get to be proud of your geekiness! This is a slightly modified version of the design that I submitted to Threadless. Now that their 90 day period is…

  • Urk Urk's Gaffi Stick Emporium

    Dan
    8 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm
    Urk Urk's Gaffi Stick Emporium. The best Gaffi Sticks in the Jundland Wastes Urk Urk is the Tusken raider equivalent of Hatori Hanzo. If you need a quality Gaffi stick, he's the one to get it from. Just head out into the Jundland Wastes and follow Beggar's Canyon. It's just behind the big rock, you can't miss it! Plenty of bantha fodder is available for all our patrons, just make sure you come in single file to hide your numbers. I don't think its possible to run out of ideas for Star Wars designs. Urk Urk is the way I refer to the Tusken Raider that knocks Luke out. I thought that they must…

  • Dragon Army Emblem

    Dan
    2 Jan 2012 | 2:24 pm
    Ender Wiggin's Dragon Army Emblem You might have noticed that I'm a little bit of a sci-fi nut. And once in a while its good to indulge the geekiness inside. So when I started thinking about doing a little something to do with Ender's Game, I knew I should just get it out there to stop me dwelling on it too much. So after imagining obscure pictures of people floating around pointing guns I thought I would make it simpler and just go for an emblem instead. I only got around to reading Ender's Game quite recently, (the shame!) but I'm glad I did catch up, what a great book. And now I hear that…

  • 2011 over and out

    Dan
    31 Dec 2011 | 9:38 am
    Its that 'recycle an old doodle' time of the year! I don't usually write lots of boring stuff in these posts but I figure that once a year can't hurt. This year I decided to get back into drawing after carefully avoiding it for too long. So when I discovered sites like Zazzle and Redbubble it came as a bit of a surprise that I hadn't found them before. After a bit of the usual artistic doubt (but what if people think my drawing is rubbish, what if these places are a scam, etc.) I got a bunch of stuff out there on the internet. A good chunk of time and effort later and I now have something to…
 
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    Oil Painting Techniques Lessons Blog

  • Automotive Painting

    admin
    28 Jan 2012 | 3:18 am
    A car with an excellent paint job is one of life’s true joys. It’s like being the kid with the best bike in the neighbourhood or the biggest piece of birthday cake. Whether you drive a ’47 Eldorado, a ’66 Beetle or an ’07 fortwo, a great paint job will take your vehicle from ho-hum to headturner. Actually creating a great automotive paint job takes skill and finesse. Automotive painting is one of the most arduous and painstaking tasks in crafting an automobile. It can also be one of the most costly. If you are on a budget, there are options for you. Some paint…

  • Cave Painting Book – Get specialized in your art

    admin
    18 Jan 2012 | 4:53 am
    Get entered into the world of art show your art to the world with cave painting book. From childhood we all are found of painting some of them have made to do painting as a subject in school but some of them where found of doing it. Painting is a best way to express your feeling and emotions to other. Cave painting is one of the paintings which are painted on cave or rocks walls and ceiling. It’s a very unique and fine art to show your talent and express your feeling’s and thought with other. This painting is usually dating to prehistoric times and even it has the same and much value in…

  • Oil Painting Book – Learn the art of painting

    admin
    8 Jan 2012 | 7:57 am
    Most of us like to draw and paint. Some of us are born artist while some of us are just fun painters. Now days one can find different types of painting books in the market. These painting books provide you with steps by steps guidelines to improve your drawing and painting skills. One of such types of painting book is Oil painting book. If you wish to learn or polish the art of oil painting why not try an Oil Painting book. Today one can find different types of painting books in the market. Some of these painting books are more instructional while some are very informative. Any of these oil…

  • Auto Paint How To: A Basic Guide

    admin
    28 Dec 2011 | 3:18 am
    Whether you are just interested in re-spraying a small area to cover up some paint chips, or want to treat your car to a custom paint job that will let you enjoy envious stares from every pedestrian you pass, you will need to follow a few basic rules, and have the right tools to hand in order to carry out the work to a high standard. The first thing to mention about auto paint jobs is that you should always work in a well ventilated area. Paint fumes can include a number of solvents that can leave you feeling light headed and even poison you if you inhale them, so make sure there is free…

  • Commercial Painting Budgets

    admin
    18 Dec 2011 | 4:53 am
    If your maintenance budget for the current operating year has a taken a hit, you may be wondering how to get a commercial painting project accomplished along with everything else. Two possible solutions to project budgeting are purpose driven spending and changing the contracting process. Purpose Driven Spending The most common view of a painting project is simple maintenance and facilities up-keep. Justifying painting and coating projects as preventative maintenance is relatively easy because the surface treatment can prevent damages to the underlying structure. If the budget separates…
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    Fluxblog

  • ALEJANDRA LAVIADA

    peter
    28 Jan 2012 | 5:47 am
    Alejandra Laviada (b. 1980) lives and work in Mexico City Her work explores photography’s shifting role and relationship to other artistic media, such as apinting and sculpture. Via Junk Culture

  • SCOTT GARNER

    peter
    27 Jan 2012 | 6:13 am
    Still Life is an interactive gallery piece that takes traditional still life painting into the fourth dimension with a motion-sensitive frame on a rotating mount. Years ago Scott had the idea of a still life painting that wasn’t so still, but could never quite wrap his head around how to build it. After various experiments and explorations, he settled on Unity 3D as the ideal tool to make it happen.

  • TONY “TEMPT” QUAN

    peter
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:21 am
    After being diagnosed with ALS and rendered almost completely paralyzed, legendary L.A. graffiti artist Tony “Tempt” Quan gets his voice back through technology that reads the movement of his eyes and enables him to create art and write once again. Via Boooooom

  • 666 EVENTS

    peter
    23 Jan 2012 | 7:17 am
    Sixhundred and sixtysix events

  • ISABEL M. MARTINEZ

    peter
    21 Jan 2012 | 8:13 am
    I like her photography but I’m not as sure about the presentation of her as an artist. When did we start to talk about art this way? Anyway, good pics. “As an artist, she is interested in the phenomenological aspects of human experience. Perception is a recurring theme within her practice, and has become a foundation for her to explore the possibilities and limitations of photography. She approaches the medium as a means of visual transcription for ideas reflecting on the notions of time, space, simultaneity, and duration. In doing so, experimentation and process have come to…
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    Airbrush | Free Stencils | DIY Compressor

  • How Much Does Airbrush Art Cost?

    by serzomanik
    23 Jan 2012 | 9:27 am
    Every beginner or even advanced artist doing airbrush has heard this question: “How Much?“. What I mean is that every time when you paint for someone, if it’s just a friendly favor...

  • Preparing Surface For Airbrush – Part 3

    by serzomanik
    13 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    How many times did you get to paint plastics along with other surface like metal? These days car – it’s not just a piece of metal on wheels but a bunch of plastic details as well. I know...

  • Iwata-Medea Studio Series Power Jet Pro Double

    by serzomanik
    12 Jan 2012 | 12:47 am
    Iwata-Medea Studio Series Power Jet Pro Double Description: Featuring the powerful twin-pump, 1/6 Hp motor, the Power Jet Pro compressor is equipped with twice the features of the Power Jet L

  • “How to Airbrush” from AirbrushTutor

    by serzomanik
    6 Jan 2012 | 9:36 am
    This is a kind of short bio from one awesome guy. In the Internet spheres he is known as “Airbrush Tutor“. Why Tutor? His specialty are video tutorials for airbrush beginners. His videos...

  • DIY Compressor by Albastrelu Viorel

    by serzomanik
    3 Jan 2012 | 5:38 pm
    Just a few weeks ago I received a question from one of my facebook follower asking me if I can share his work with my audience. He has build his own “DIY” air compressor. The nice thing...
 
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    Pat Fiorello - Art Elevates Life

  • Lake Como View

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:05 am
    Lake Como View12 x 16Oil Paintingby Pat FiorelloHere's another painting  of  one of my favorite views of Lake Como in Italy from the shore of  a small town of Varenna.This is part of my current painting series "Enchanting Italy" that I'm working on for an upcoming show at the Frameworks Gallery in Marietta GA. The show opens 3/29.

  • Kathy Anderson workshop -Pansies Galore!

    23 Jan 2012 | 8:18 pm
    Pansy Dance12 x 16Oil Paintingby Pat FiorelloLast week I spent a few days at the Scottsdale Artists School taking a workshop with Kathy Anderson. Like me, Kathy loves painting flowers and we spent 3 days surrounded by pansies from the local nursery.  Above and below are a couple of my paintings from the workshop.Here I am on right with Kathy Anderson on left at the workshop. Kathy's demo painting is in the background and below is a closer peek at her amazing work.Here is some of our inspiration- pansies galore- and a few geraniums too!

  • Over the Poppies

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:23 pm
    Over the Poppies8 x 16Oil Paintingby Pat FiorelloWorking on a series called " Enchanting Italy" for an upcoming show. This painting is based on several photo's from a workshop I taught in Italy. Tried the panoramic format for a change.                

  • Hydrangeas- Close-Up

    13 Jan 2012 | 1:56 pm
    Hydrangeas- Close-Up8 x 10Oil Paintingby Pat FiorelloTried something a little different here. Had a large bouquet of flowers  of hydrangeas and roses and did a close up of a portion of it for a little more abstract viewpoint.

  • Terry's Fountain

    11 Jan 2012 | 6:34 am
    Terry's Fountain9 x 12Oil Paintingby Pat FiorelloNFSI did this painting awhile back but had been holding off posting it since it was a surprise Christmas gift for a friend. My friend Terry, who lives in Charlotte, has a lovely fountain with plants near his front door. One day while I was visiting I noticed the sunlight on the fountain. I thought it might make a fun, special and unexpected painting for him so I snuck a few photo's when he wasn't looking then painted it when I got back to my studio. One of the best things about being an artist is the ability…
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  • UN peacekeepers atrocities unpunished

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:05 am
    I'm sorry to bring a subject that is not happy and may shock some people. But you can do as many: close the page and search for a game or even look at the beautiful pictures at this blog. In 1997 William Norman Grigg rite the article Beasts in Blue Berets about the atrocities committed by UN peacekeeping forces. About the picture above: "First published in the United States on the cover of the June 24th issue of the left-wing weekly Village Voice, the photograph depicts two Belgian paladins of the new world order giddily holding a Somali child over an open flame.  Other series of…

  • Angry heart

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:32 am
    ...yes angry... As a bug destroyed the posts I'll have to reformat an average of 800 posts that lost their paragraphs, the worse since it became very hard to read them, and all the formatting that took me time and patience to do will have to be redone. Google Plus? Why on earth another social network? I have one already... blah blah... I think many people think the same. NO! No walking for you today... A friend got inspiration from my work three times and didn't say anything... ok... no problems. This should make this person angry not me... (surely this person will never see) Why do I keep…

  • Urgent: Avoid loosing all blogspot's pictures by not deleting Google plus albums

    26 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am
    The left image is the replacement you'll have if you delete your Google+ album. I have already seen two blogs that had all their pictures removed so I decided to search the reason to protect myself. When I visited my profile at Google+ I had the surprise of finding all my blog's pictures, including those who are in draft, in an album. I felt a little invaded cause I didn't add them but as all we do over the internet is not private I recovered from the shock without even needing to go to a therapist. I thought about deleting but... I don't use Google+ because I have a Facebook…

  • Coloring through optical illusion

    25 Jan 2012 | 9:54 am
    1  stare at the red star on the girl’s nose for 30 seconds; 2  look at the white rectangle;    3  tell me what you see. Source: Moiillusions 

  • Neuroscientist: the only profession in a near future

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:51 am
    "We are our brains and our souls and minds are what our brain is" is already considered as true. It leads to no other conclusion: Neuroscience has reached the uppermost of the human knowledge and is studying humanities and sciences with excellence and accuracy. In a near future there will be only one possible profession: neuroscientist. (some people wonder why people who have mental problems are not healed but it is a detail) I just received my diploma and I'm very proud. Get yours too or it will be impossible to find any kind of job. Here.
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    Juanele - Eye on the arts in Buenos Aires

  • Happy New Year and Goodbye!

    Rick Powell
    3 Jan 2012 | 9:53 am
      I’m constantly amazed by the diversity, depth and creativity of the artists in Buenos Aires, especially when I look at ArtInfo and scratch my head wondering at the taste and sanity of those participating in the international art market. Two words: Damien Hirst. Here in Capital Federal, I keep wondering why Buenos Aires doesn’t get more global attention, other than for its street art. Perhaps it’s because, for the most part, artists here have gone their own way, even from each other. Sure, there are microtrends but they really don’t last long and no one pays them…

  • Weekend Portfolio: Prehispanic Mexican gods

    Gabriela Schevach
    30 Dec 2011 | 9:42 am
      In Mexican Pre-Hispanic societies, art had very different purposes than in the contemporary Western context. It related to religion, its rituals and the worship of the gods. Here we present a selection of pictures of the Pre-Columbian statues exhibited at Fundación Proa until January 8th. Gods, Rites and Crafts of Pre-Hispanic Mexico Through January 8th, 2012 Fundación Proa Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tuesday – Sunday, 11 AM – 7 PM   Sign up for the free Juanele Weekly.

  • Assume the perpendicular

    Gabriela Schevach
    28 Dec 2011 | 6:00 am
      Vision orients oneself in space, ignoring certain relevant details that make it possible to distinguish one zone from another. When walking down the street, a necessary coordination between the eyes that observe and the feet that move happens almost naturally. With the camera against the face, the photographer looks through the viewfinder, facing perspective from a single point. Bruno Dubner, Photography from the series Ajeno At MAMBA, Bruno Dubner has installed a line of photographs that starts on a wall and continues on the adjacent one, turning around half the room. They are located…

  • Weekend Portfolio: Teko van Kuyk

    Gabriela Schevach
    24 Dec 2011 | 6:00 am
        Bio from the artist I’m Teko van Kuyk, 23-years old, and I’m a visual artist. I was born in Switzerland and at age two I moved to New Zealand. When I was 6, I moved to Brazil. I think I’ve always drawn, actually, I can’t remember a time in my life when I haven’t done it. As a child, I attended painting and drawing workshops. I’ve been living in Buenos Aires for the last five years and since then I have been dedicated to painting. My production has a sensitive character — based on human qualities and relations in general, but, above all, on love. Behind those…

  • Indy Eye: December 2001 and 2011

    Rick Powell
    22 Dec 2011 | 8:02 am
    The Indy Eye is a weekly gallery from The Argentina Independent. Click the thumbnails to open a full-window gallery.   The streets of Buenos Aires exploded on 20th December 2001 with police repression to the protestors who took to the streets starting the night before. The financial collapse and the extreme loss of wealth shocked the system. People were beaten, fired upon with water cannons, rubber bullets and eventually lead bullets, leaving to 39 dead. President de La Rúa fled the Casa Rosada by helicopter prompting a government collapse that saw the country welcome four new…
 
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    Artcards Review

  • Velveteen by Joseph Montgomery @ Laurel Gitlen

    Gabriella Radujko
    20 Jan 2012 | 3:17 pm
    Jean Arp used seashells and blood; Jean Dubuffet, butterfly wings and glue; Bruce Conner, nylon hosiery and nails.  Joseph Montgomery uses nonesuch provocative materials in his assemblages, part of the show Velveteen, now on view at Laurel Gitlen, the polished, new gallery on the Lower East Side.  Instead, he uses what one would find in the garage of the average do-it-yourselfer–canvas, clay, lacquer, oil, sheet metal, and plastic—weaving, painting and affixing them on panels averaging 12.5”x 10.5” x 3” deep. Less noteworthy than the use of found, masculine materials, is the…

  • Perspectives 2012 at ICP

    Carissa Pelleteri
    18 Jan 2012 | 10:37 am
    Anna Shteynshleyger, Masha, 2002. © Anna Shteynshleyger, Courtesy the artist. Perspectives 2012, opening on January 20 at the International Center of Photography (NY), is the second installment of an exhibition series that focuses on innovative artists working in photography and video. These small group exhibitions highlight the individual ideas and achievements of an engaging and eclectic group of talented artists. The aim of the series is to stimulate conversations about contemporary art and to showcase outstanding artworks that might not otherwise come to wide attention. Chang The Jiang…

  • Artcards talks to David van der Leer

    Cielo Lutino
    16 Jan 2012 | 9:28 am
    BMW Guggenheim Lab exterior view from East 1st Street, NYC (Photo: Paul Warchol) Last winter I stood on a cold subway platform and told Y about my new crush: David van der Leer. “Who is he?” she asked, distracted. She was peering down the dark tunnel, hoping to see train lights headed our way. It was one of those very snowy late nights in New York, and we had fallen victim to the slow timetable of weekend trains. I don’t know, I said. Some curator at the Guggenheim. Y turned her gaze on me. “You don’t even know who this dude is?” she asked. I shrugged and told her I liked what…

  • Brad Farwell’s Die Transfer Process @ LMCC Governors Island

    Gabriella Radujko
    4 Jan 2012 | 4:12 pm
    Whereas Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy famously eliminated the camera altogether to make photograms by capturing light directly, Brad Farwell retains the camera, but not the lens for his ongoing series Die Transfer Process. The artist was one of twenty artists-in-residence showing at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Final Open Studios in Building 110 on Governors Island on December 9, 2011. The wall installation features about a dozen unique, 35mm transparencies shown with Polaroid slide mounts, atop custom light boxes staggered on a white wall covering approximately 6’ x…

  • Destroy All Monsters at Prism Gallery

    Lee Foley
    17 Dec 2011 | 12:19 pm
    Mike Kelley, Mall Culture, 2000 Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 138 inches, Courtesy of Prism Gallery In the 1970’s, a typical suburban youth wouldn’t conceive of declaring a new art movement. A more natural mode of rebellion would be to start a band. At Prism Gallery in West Hollywood, Mike Kelley curates the first retrospective of work by the original artists in Destroy All Monsters. “Return of The Repressed: Destroy All Monsters, 1973-1977,” presents Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara and Jim Shaw as members of an experimental band and art collective.This expansive exhibition highlights a…
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    kiran's Art world

  • Happy New year..!! :)

    31 Dec 2011 | 11:40 am
    Happy New year Friends..!!!! :D :DDuring this year….Thanks to those who hated me..They made me stronger person..Thanks to those who loved me..They made my heart bigger..Thanks to those who were worried about me..They let me know that they actually cared..Thank to those who left me..They made me realize that nothing lasts forever.. Thanks to those entered my life..They made me who I’m today.Just want to thank you for being there in my life whatsoever I might have meant to you…Wish you and your family a wonderful and a successful year ahead…. - shared from a friend's status :)

  • Sailu's Vennello godavari...!!!!!

    25 Dec 2011 | 8:34 am
    Vennello godavari is a book written by beloved sis/friend sailu :)It has full of emotions..love..feelings..and defintely by the end of the last page, you will have a special feeling and joy for reading such lovely lines througout the book...And glad to say that i did a painting after reading the story and it is published in the book..Thanks a lottttt sailu :)This is how it looks in book :D

  • It's a Full moon day..!!!

    11 Dec 2011 | 8:40 am
    I did this sketch as Dileep asked me to and he explained me in the below way...It should be a full moon day without any clouds...And the moon light should be reflected in the water.....And near the riverbank , a girl along with the kids should be playing with a ball which is made with leavesAnd a guy should be watching this...I tried to do the same..Please let me know if i could have added some more thing....People who knows telugu can read his beautiful lines here :)Thanks Dileep..I really enjoyed sketching this :)

  • Happyyyyy Diwali.. :D

    25 Oct 2011 | 11:19 am
    Helloooo friends...............how are you?This is a paper art i tried this time...:)...tell me how is it?Tried my photograpghy skills too...:P Let this diwali burn all your bad times and enter you in good times.Happy Diwali every one :)

  • krishna's teasing...

    3 Sep 2011 | 11:59 pm
    Helloooooo Back with one of my pencil sketch... I did this for one of the annamayya keerthana where krishna is teasing gollabhama.. Thank you Bhaskar ji for your request...i really enjoyed while sketching it...:)
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    Growing Unique- an Artist’s Journey

  • Pleasant Surprise

    Rennata Tropeano
    4 Jan 2012 | 9:49 am
    Originally posted: http://www.rennatatropeano.com/growingunique/2012/01/03/pleasant-surprise/ Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton I have always loved the wonderfully intricate repeating patterns of William Morris, but have always thought them fairly impossible to create.  However while playing with doodles for the Sketch book challenge doodle theme, I filled a page with flowers and leaves and vines and them colored in parts of it. When I finished I was quite happy with it. It was fun, whimsical and a relaxing way to spend part of an afternoon.

  • Catching up on AEDM

    Rennata Tropeano
    6 Nov 2011 | 2:29 pm
    I am happy to report that we have power again. It has been an interesting week. I have been amazed at what all was accomplished in the space of a week. Yesterday I finished felting this hat. It is supposed to have a nice pillbox shape with a scalloped edge. In reality it has much more of a bubble effect. I know that it still needs to have a stiffener added, to help it hold its shape, I use have not gotten to that step. Peeking out from underneath is my first attempt at a hat stand. What I can say about it is that it works. I will need to play around with the design to get it to work the way I…

  • Drawing in the dark.

    Rennata Tropeano
    1 Nov 2011 | 8:56 pm
    We still do not have power. This is the fourth evening.  I was hoping to be able to sketch and then watercolor sketch a series of photos I chose for this month I may have to rethink this, but I am giving it a shot.

  • Ready, Set Goal II

    Rennata Tropeano
    5 Oct 2011 | 10:02 pm
    Originally published http://www.rennatatropeano.com/growingunique/?p=155 As I mentioned yesterday, I have been thinking a lot about goals and how to achieve them. As I start to prepare for Nanowrimo, I am taking stock of other goals that I have for October, November and December.   The fourth Quarter of the year. It is a very busy time of the year. A time to prepare for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.  Yet smack dab in the middle of all that, I choose each year to participate in a pair of creative challenges, Nanowrimo, and Art Every Day Month.  I also have managed to…

  • Taming the Teacup

    Rennata Tropeano
    1 Oct 2011 | 9:44 pm
    Originally published http://www.rennatatropeano.com/growingunique/?p=147 The hardest part about learning to draw is learning to see.   Even though I used the lines of the towel to help me,  My own learned perceptions still came into play. I drew the plate bigger and rounder than it is. On the other hand, I drew the open part of the cup as much more of an ellipse. In this image I have used a graphics program to layer the two images together. I find that this can be helpful in helping me “see” what is off. This comparison also shows the difference in color. Yes, I am drawing a…
 
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    Art & Musings

  • The Artist’s Drug of Choice

    ShaylaMaddox
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 am
    What’s your poison? Chocolate? Video-games? LSD? Self-consciousness? Artists have become notorious for substance use, addiction, and a good measure of crazy, which is probably intertwined with our ability and our need to make art. Not that all of us are crazy (yeah, right) and not that we’re all addicted to chemical head changes. Or… are we? As artists, our way of processing things, everything, is a bit different than people who don’t have the inclination to make art. We feel everything strongly, we see color differently, we look past reality into a world that…

  • Taken by surprise or how it ended

    JessicaDoyle
    16 Jan 2012 | 8:39 pm
    When you make assumptions about something, especially someone, it can become hyperbolic to an enth degree that perhaps you don’t realize until well after the climax. It’s so easy to generalize and compartmentalize people’s actions and words into man-made stereotypes that we forget that none of us fit into them, nor should we fit into them. We may carry or display a few of the stereotypical characteristics but ultimately we are all at least a little bit unique in how we adapt to situations that arise that took us by surprise. You kind of get to a point where you know you have…

  • The Highs and Lows (of making art)

    ShaylaMaddox
    11 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Sometimes I just want to slap myself. I have terrible mood swings regarding my art. One minute I think my work looks great and my career is going to be swell and everything is awesome. The next, I downward spiral into despair that nothing looks good, nothing is working, I’m a hack, it’s going to fail, people will laugh and mock and cry. It’s all part of my process. Generally at some point during every single painting I’ve ever made, I love it; I think it’s the best work I’ve ever done. At another point, with every single painting I’ve ever made, I…

  • Fish illustration and some thoughts in no particular order and why I give up…

    JessicaDoyle
    10 Jan 2012 | 12:45 pm
    Why is it that when you really like someone you get all crazy and can’t contain yourself and blurt out the wrong things and repeat yourself, asking the same questions over and over from sheer excitement because you do indeed like the man. These last few months have been nothing but extraordinary for me and I’m desperately trying to plant my feet on the ground again which over the last week has happened in a most intense and disastrous way. I need downtime and traditionally January through to April have been the months when I steel the time to be alone or in one on one calm…

  • I Think I’m Giving Up Cable (and other signs the apocalypse is nigh)

    ShaylaMaddox
    4 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    I‘m a wannabe minimalist. I dream of location-freedom and spend a lot of time figuring out ways to be more nomadic. You know, just in case I start traveling all over the world at a moment’s notice. In fact, this year I’ve decided to participate in the 100 Thing Challenge. I hate being owned by stuff. Stuff doesn’t prove anything about your success in life, other than that you like to accumulate stuff. It is not memories, it is not living. It’s just stuff. Stuff and things. I think it all started about 7 years ago when we decided to live without a microwave. We…
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    The art of Christian Bocquee

  • Frog Orchestra

    25 Jan 2012 | 12:36 am

  • Lockyer arts festival

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:29 am
     Giving a small workshop with children's book illustrator Craig Smith. Together we had a go at turning a volunteer model into a character. Thanks to our brave model and all who joined in!

  • Happy new year

    16 Jan 2012 | 7:23 pm
     Hi, greetings from 2012!I am back, and will posting again regularly. I hope this year is off to a good start for you.I've just returned from a trip to the Lockyer valley, a region which experienced some of the worst of the 2010-2011 Queensland floods. This past week I was honoured to have the opportunity to give some illustration related presentations at a four-day arts festival held there.Above are some drawings from the trip. I don't know the name of the trees, but majestic would probably be a good word to describe them. The top location sketch inspired the illustration below it. I…

  • Tree study in pen

    22 Dec 2011 | 4:40 pm
    I left my paints at home by accident so was only able to do a pen drawing. In the end it forced me to try and make it work as lines only which was good practice I think.Have a safe and happy Christmas wherever you are, see you on the other side of the silly season!

  • Horse Paddock II

    20 Dec 2011 | 5:21 am
     
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    CreativePanes

  • Justin Mezzell

    CreativePanes
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:32 pm
    The designs of Justin Mezzell Justin Mezzell is an illustrator and designer currently based in Orlando, Florida. He specializes in illustration, digital art, and UI/UX design and has a portfolio filled with a range of design styles, including some great iconography and film inspired designs. I’m a designer and admirer of art, space, and the natural world. I am always learning. Also, Creative Director at Maven Creative. See more of Justin Mezzell here: justinmezzell.com

  • Liam Brazier

    CreativePanes
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:06 am
    The illustrations of Liam Brazier Below is a brilliant collection of illustrations by UK based illustrator Liam Brazier. In this collection you can clearly see inspiration drawn from superheroes and films but his work is produced in a style unique to Liam. We particularly love the 2001 series of images. Limited edition, signed prints are available via Etsy here: etsy.com/liambrazier Now in my thirties *gasp* I have had illustration and animation work displayed in, at, and for the likes of Samsung, Battersea Power Station, Dazed & Confused, Creative Review, Design Week, Glastonbury,…

  • Tavis Coburn

    CreativePanes
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:25 pm
    The illustrations of Tavis Coburn Illustrator Tavis Coburn graduated from California’s prestigious Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Illustration and since then has gone on to create a great body of work. This has been for leading publishing, advertising, and music companies, such as: Time, Rolling Stone, GQ, The NFL, Nike, Lexus Sony/BMG, Island/Def Jam, and Universal Music. Travis is represented by Dutch Uncle. Tavis’ unique style is inspired by 1940s comic book art, the Russian avant-garde movement, and printed materials from the 1950s/60s.  Over the years…
 
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    arttextstyle.com

  • Exhibition News: Green from the Get-Go at the Wayne Art Center a “Must See”

    arttextstyle
    7 Jan 2012 | 6:51 pm
    Green From the Get Go: Jiro Yonezawa, Hisako Sekijima, Jan Buckman, Dona Anderson, Gyongy Laky, Chris Drury, John McQueen, Dail Behennah and Christine Joy Green From the Get Go: Valerie Pragnell; John McQueen; Dawn MacNutt; Mary Merkel-Hess; Naoko Serino; Kay Sekimachi; Marien Hildebrandt There are just two weeks left to see the Green from the Get Go: International Contemporary Basketmakers at the Wayne Art Center in Pennsylvania. The Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery, where the exhibition is hung, is an attractive space with high walls and ceilings. Green From the Get Go: Chris Drury…

  • Guest Post Alert: Crafting Modernism by Carol Westfall

    arttextstyle
    26 Dec 2011 | 1:00 pm
    In her second post, Carol Westfall reviews Crafting Modernism Music Rack Wendell Castle, 1964 REQUIRED PHOTO CREDIT: Purchased by the American Craft Council, 1964 at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York CIty through January 15, 2011. http://arttextstyle.com/guest-posts-carol-westfall 

  • Exhibition News: Collection Focus: Dorothy Gill Barnes and David Ellsworth at the Racine Art Museum through January 15, 2012

    arttextstyle
    12 Dec 2011 | 8:25 am
    Dorothy Gill Barnes and David Ellsworth are drawn to working with wood to create sculptural forms, however each has a different approach to using the material.  Collection Focus: Dorothy Gill Barnes and David Ellsworth at the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin spotlights the use of organic materials, primarily wood and bark of various trees. Although each artist’s work is very different in terms of structure and the process of creation, their sculptural objects and vessels will be displayed together to establish a visual and critical survey of their similarities and differences. Dorothy…

  • Books Make Great Gifts 2011: Artist Recommendations

    arttextstyle
    6 Dec 2011 | 10:51 pm
    This year we asked the artists we represent just one question: What was the most enjoyed/most inspirational book you read this year?? Here are their wide-ranging replies: Nancy Moore Bess and her friend, artist Sharon McCartney share studios with for occasional “play dates” that involve hours of restorative art chat, small handwork and book sharing. It was Sharon, Nancy says. who introduced me to the exhibition catalogue, El Anatsui at the Clark (Clark Art Institute). “I had seen ads for his work,” adds Nancy, “but the catalog was more than glorious photographs…

  • Guest Post Alert

    arttextstyle
    28 Nov 2011 | 4:00 am
    Fiber Futures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers Carol Westfall first Guest Post is up. To Read FibernFutures: Japan’s Textile Pioneers, click Guest Post Above; Hitomi Nagai (1954- ). Birth, 2011. Cotton; waffle weave. 79 x— 43 x— 11 in. (200 x— 110 x 28 cm). Photo: Mareo Suemasa.    
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    Hunter Art

  • 13 Jan 2012 | 5:36 pm

    13 Jan 2012 | 5:36 pm
    The Brain Series: A series illustrating how various parts of ourbrain impact our behavior and vice versaThis post will be updated with new work soon. Stay tuned or chose to be notified via email by completing this brief form: http://eepurl.com/OUkJClick on the blog links below the images to read more about the work.All rights reserved (c) Michelle HunterCreative commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/Brain Rhythm (c) 2011 Michelle Hunterhttp://hunterart.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-brain-painting-brain-rhythm-24x24.html Zzzzzzz (Sleep) (c) 2011 Michelle…

  • Participating in CurateNYC at Rush Arts Gallery in Chelsea

    6 Dec 2011 | 6:36 am
    Hello there,I'm pleased to share with you my experience with CurateNYC. My brain painting Don't You Remember" was among the 150 winning artworks out of over 1,500+ submissions. The postcard of the painting is on display at Rush Arts Gallery (526 W. 26th street Suite 311) in Chelsea. View my submission profile here on the CurateNYC website.Haven't heard of CurateNYC? Well it's a program supported by New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and Full Spectrum Experience, Inc. run by Brian Tate and Danny Simmons. Submissions were for NYC residents only and we…

  • Participation in Mobrit Society's Season One Finale [Video]

    22 Nov 2011 | 5:42 pm
    Hello all,In a prior post from April, I wrote about my "Brain Painting Wins Top Prize at Social Tapestry hosted by Mobrit".Their monthly winners were then invited to show one piece of artwork for their Season One finale which took place Friday November 4th at Hype Lounge in NYC.Instead of showing "Don't You Remember?" I chose to show "First Aid". Hosted by Drago, the event begun with artist introductions with each of us entering the spot light and talking for a couple of minutes about the work we chose to show. After all artists were introduced, we all went back in front of the crowd to…

  • New Brain Painting: Brain Rhythm | 24"x24" | Acrylic on Stretched Canvas

    4 Oct 2011 | 11:25 am
    It's DONE!!! Finally!!!!I'm very happy to introduce you to the 6th painting in my Brain Series.(c) Michelle Hunter 2011Brain Rhythm24"x24"Acrylic on Stretched CanvasThis painting came a long way. Things were smooth sailing until I hit the part with the grill. Did not anticipate having to make soooooooo many circles and how long that process was going to take. Let me first take a couple of steps back.In the Beginning....The concept, in general, was to paint what parts of the brain are most active when it comes to music. While doing further research, I learned that different parts of the brain…

  • My Interview with C3Stories

    3 Oct 2011 | 3:00 pm
    Hello there, Recently, C3Stories began releasing 3 minute videos as part of its Story-on-Story project with resident artists, film makers, composers and other artists living in the New York City area. We are artists that are making the time to do what we are passionate about even if we have day jobs and other responsibilities. Is that something you can relate to?View my interview below. Hear in my own words what I struggle with and what advice I have to offer to other artists out there that feel that they can't make the time to do what they love.[Should play…
 
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    We Love Creativity

  • Guice Mann Documentary

    Brooks
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:57 am
    Charlie Malta, aka the Guice Mann, is a favorite artist and friend of We Love Creativity. He recently released a short documentary that was filmed and edited by Cooper Sevell. We hope you enjoy a behind the scenes look into the life of the Guice Mann.

  • Design and Illustration by Alex Westgate

    Brooks
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    Alex Westgate is an amazing designer and illustrator from Toronto, Canada. When not creating new designs, Alex can be found touring with his band, riding his bike, or eating pizza. We instantly became fans of his work when introduced to it on Dribbble. Now for our exclusive interview with Alex Westgate, enjoy. Who is Alex Westgate? I am a graphic designer, illustrator, musician, bike rider and cat person. What city do you currently call home? Toronto, ON Can you walk us through a typical day in the life of Alex? Being a freelance designer/illustrator, student & member of a touring band…

  • Fall Into December Recap

    James
    22 Dec 2011 | 12:49 am
    Green Flash Gallery was packed to the gills last Saturday for “Fall Into December.” The exhibit showcased a collection of North County artwork, curated by Matty Davis. The joint was rocking’ with tunes from Shake Before Us, who fed our ears with sounds that made our feet tap. Miho Gastrotruck was parked out front, pumping out gourmet viddles all night. Oceanside Aleworks provided a keg of spirits, quenching the thirst of the crowd, and keeping the vibe alive. We were able to snap a few photos of the festivities, enjoy. Artists included: Raul Casillas, Gareth Changala, Ariel…

  • Jolby and Friends

    Brooks
    13 Dec 2011 | 7:00 am
    Jolby is a design, illustration, and art direction team made up of Josh Kenyon and Colby Nichols. Josh creates the textures and patterns, while Colby creates the characters and the layouts. Their illustrations and designs bring us back to a time when the amount of likes you had on Facebook and number of followers on Twitter didn’t matter. In short, their work puts a smile on our face. Now for our exclusive interview with Jolby. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed putting it together.

  • Kady Jesko

    Brooks
    17 Nov 2011 | 7:00 am
    Kady Jesko is a graphic design and art student from Detroit, Michigan. She enjoys chocolate milk, nice people, and swings. On her spare time, Kady designs fonts and logos that will put a smile on any designers face. Now for our interview with Kady Jesko. Enjoy. What city do you call home? Detroit, Michigan How long have you been a designer? About two years or so. What tools are a must for designers? Illustrator for sure. Tablet or pencil and paper? Pen and paper, I do not care for pencils. Can you walk us through your creative process? I’ll sometimes take an idea that I have and either…
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    The Fantasy Art Blog

  • Second Life Fantasy Photography by Yasmina Siamendes

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Fantasy Art contributions from talented Second Life photographers and photomanipulators: Featuring Second Life photographer Yasmina Siamendes: This blog posts at 0600h PST every day. RSS feeds might be slower, so please visit us at http://blog.fantasy-art-and-portraits.com

  • The Fantasy Art of Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince

    26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Visit the Fantasy Art of Computer Games for more fantasy art from Dark Parables: The Exiled Prince This blog posts at 0600h PST every day. RSS feeds might be slower, so please visit us at http://blog.fantasy-art-and-portraits.com

  • The Fantasy Art of Awakening: Moonfell Wood

    25 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Awakening: Moonfell Wood is a fairy tale hidden object game with beautifully illustrated fantasy artwork. The story is continued from Awakening: The Dreamless Castle.For more artwork from Awakening: Moonfell Wood, visit The Fantasy Art of Computer Games. This blog posts at 0600h PST every day. RSS feeds might be slower, so please visit us at http://blog.fantasy-art-and-portraits.com

  • The Fantasy Art of Battle for Middle Earth

    24 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Battle for Middle Earth is a fantasy strategy video game that loosely follows the events in J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings and very closely follows the visualization in the Peter Jackson (director) Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy. For more fantasy artwork from Battle for Middle Earth, visit The Fantasy Art of Computer Games. This blog posts at 0600h PST every day. RSS feeds might be slower, so please visit us at http://blog.fantasy-art-and-portraits.com

  • The Fantasy Art of Second Life

    23 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Fantasy Art contributions from talented Second Life photographers and photomanipulators: by bluterbin by Poet ScarboroughThis blog posts at 0600h PST every day. RSS feeds might be slower, so please visit us at http://blog.fantasy-art-and-portraits.com
 
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    Yew Tree Nights

  • A Space of Time

    jodi
    19 Jan 2012 | 6:08 am
            Sometimes I miss thunderstorms dearly.  The weather here does not crash and clatter about in the way it did where I grew up.  I miss frozen lakes and snow piled up into dirty grey mountains by the roadside, and sweeping white drifts everywhere else, days trapped in the belly of winter where no one expects anyone will venture out, and so the world becomes a wild, empty place to roam through and shape at will. In the winter, ridiculously bundled in warm clothing, we would lose the sense of having bodies at all.  Except, in the bathroom a…

  • Hip Hip Hooray!

    jodi
    12 Jan 2012 | 3:26 pm
       Last night the new year arrived on the north coast of Scotland in the tiny fishing villages which keep to the old Julian calendar holidays.  In Burghead a fiery procession wound its way sunwise through the town, bringing bits of luck to the doorsteps of the people there.On top of a flame-covered hilltop, the last bit of the Clavie, which is the name for the burning barrel carried through the town, burnt to the ground as people cheered.  And so, the new year began.There used to be celebrations like this one in many towns on the north coast of Scotland, but this is the…

  • A pane of glass, and the dream of summer and winter.

    jodi
    29 Dec 2011 | 7:53 am
       Coming back down the hills, over the river, and toward home after a walk in the thrashing wind, there is a sheltered stopping place where flowers bloom even in the darkest days of winter.  Outside, gales of wind, howling and roaring, shake the metal frame of the arboretum and scratch at the glass.  We walk from room to glowing room of the greenhouse, listening to the creaking and watching clouds roll darkly beyond the glass sky.It is strange to walk in a hothouse at night.  Almost empty of people, there are shadowy corridors with only a little bit of coloured light…

  • The sky touches every last thing.

    jodi
    15 Dec 2011 | 11:54 am
       Only some fat flakes of snow whirled down as two men in their winter hats erected scaffolding on the house across the street.  We took our old route down to the sea, looking for evidence of the snow all the while, but there were just some pockets of frost that the sun forgot to chase away from mossy grasses. Little, glittering shards of the sky flew past and bit us. Small birds came running on their wings, back and forth to the tree at the window, and now the tree is bare of every last rowan berry.  Now there is only a thrush that comes and sits on the chimney pots…

  • Der Nikolaus

    jodi
    6 Dec 2011 | 9:56 am
       Since today is the 6th of December, the feast of St. Nicholas for those who celebrate it, I thought I would send my own little Nikolaus out to you.  My father used to tell me that on this day every year, in the town where he was born in Germany, Der Nikolaus would visit in the evening.  As he passed through the streets, parents would run out of their houses to call him in for a meeting with their children.  All the children knew that the visit of this big, rough-looking man in his worn red coat wasn't a great cause for celebration.  The meeting between Der…
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    MonkeyWorks Illustration

  • C is for…

    Dave Mott
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:49 am
    Cats, Cars, Clouds, and Cupcakes.

  • B B B

    Dave Mott
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:57 pm
    Alright on to the letter B, with a nod to my soft-spot – Bears. If this project doesn’t kill me, it should turn out nicely.

  • The Start of the Letter Project

    Dave Mott
    22 Jan 2012 | 11:48 pm
    This is the beginning of a new project. I’ll be illustrating a complete alphabet, each animal featuring the letter like this one.

  • Friday Night Sketching – The Bobs

    Dave Mott
    20 Jan 2012 | 9:06 pm
    Office Space Bobs. I am working on a series of illustrations for an HR company. Not that I could use this sketch, but it was a good chance to take a break.

  • Catwoman’s Day Off

    Dave Mott
    18 Jan 2012 | 9:25 am
    Selina Kyle spending her day off shopping online for killer boots.
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    Inside/Out

  • Behind the Scenes from Zagreb

    David Senior
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:00 am
    Sanja Iveković. Tragedija Jedne Venere (Tragedy of a Venus). Zagreb: Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, 1976 This short account is meant to give a brisk bibliographic tour of a few routes that lead to the current MoMA Library exhibition Scenes from Zagreb: Artists Publications of the New Art Practice. Five years ago, the library received a catalogue from an exhibition of artist’s books by Mladen Stilinović. The show had traveled to the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven and Platform Garanti in Istanbul in 2007, and the catalogue represented a complete view of the Croatian artist’s book…

  • Opening Day at Print Studio

    Sarah Kennedy
    26 Jan 2012 | 9:10 am
    This display wall features Print Studio editions made on day one. Print Studio opened on Monday, January 23—and right away visitors began arriving to make the first prints. Having spent much of last week installing graphics, printing equipment, and furniture into the mezzanine of MoMA’s Education and Research Building—including translocating the Reanimation Library from Gowanus, Brooklyn, to its “mid-Manhattan branch” at Print Studio—it was exciting to finally see the studio in action. Drawing from the classic CMYB (Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black) printing color palette,…

  • Suited for Subversion…and Peace, Love, and Understanding

    Pamela Popeson
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:31 am
    Ralph Borland. Suited for Subversion. 2002. Nylon-reinforced PVC, padding, speaker, and pulse reader. Fund for the Twenty-First Century. Photos by Ralph Borland and Pieter HugoRalph Borland designed Suited for Subversion as a protest tool that could provide protection from police batons during protest events, and at the same time serve to creatively disarm any baton wielders that protesters might confront. For physical protection, Borland‘s civil disobedience suit uses a nylon-reinforced PV shell stuffed with polyurethane foam. The suit is fitted overhead like a super-shielding…

  • This Is New York

    Jocelyn Meinhardt
    20 Jan 2012 | 10:04 am
    I bore myself (and many others, I’m sure) with how often I mention that I grew up in New York City and how much it’s changed over the years—also, did you happen to know about A and have you gone to B yet or eaten at C—and OMG don’t ever D at E because insert lengthy anecdote here. But I can’t help it! Like many of my fellow natives and non-native (yet no less New York-y) New Yorkers, I’m in a very serious criticize-it-because-I-love-it-so-much relationship with the big, old apple, and probably always will be. Few things reflect how complex the city is, and indulge my endless…

  • Inviting Consultants to the Design Table

    Zak Kostura
    19 Jan 2012 | 10:34 am
    The Museum of Modern Art and The Buell Center invited a series of team participants and observers who attended workshops for MoMA’s exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream—which opens in February—to reflect on the project. Here are thoughts from Zak Kostura, a member of Visible Weather’s team. Sketch of some structural considerations. Drawing courtesy of Zak Kostura When it comes to the delivery of a truly integrated, modern building design, timing is crucial. Often, experts knowledgeable in fields such as sustainability, environmental comfort, structure, and…
 
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    RKA in LA

  • We’re Going Boal-istic!

    RKA
    24 Jan 2012 | 5:45 pm
    We made it! I am writing from Café R.E.D., a fair trade coffee shop and food solidarity network here in Xela, Guatemala, where 500 artists from all over the world have come together for the 2nd Latin American Reunion of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Over the course of 10 days, my compañera Raquel and I will be taking courses in participatory theater techniques, facilitating community workshops, exploring social transformation through the forum, and exchanging ideas with artists and activists from 25+ countries–with the goal of spreading the tool of social theater throughout the…

  • Away We Go (For 10 Days of TO)!

    RKA
    20 Jan 2012 | 2:40 am
    Tomorrow at this time, my tocalla Raquel and I will be surrounded by 500 other artists and activists in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala at the opening of the 2nd Latin American Reunion of the Theatre of the Oppressed. The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) was pioneered by Brazilian artist Augusto Boal as a means of activating audiences, turning spectators into spectactors, and encouraging these players to become the protagonists of their own lives. TO is a powerful tool for social change and its methods are used around the world as a means of helping people understand and transform their realities. (In…

  • Write Your Own New Year’s Metaphor…

    RKA
    31 Dec 2011 | 3:26 pm

  • What Would Jesus Buy?

    RKA
    24 Dec 2011 | 9:54 am
    ‘Tis the season—but for what, exactly? Last week, I decked my wall—on Facebook, that is—with some yuletide-inspired food for thought about the real meaning of Christmas and, in only a few hours’ time, had racked up nearly 100 responses from people of varying faiths, all vehemently defending their visions of Christmas against mine. I started the debate when I shared a “feel good” link I found on my feed about anonymous donors paying off Kmart layaway accounts across the country. The original poster wrote that it was exactly this type of act that Jesus Christ himself, the man…

  • Salsa and Sexism: Are You Mouthing Misogyny?

    RKA
    23 Dec 2011 | 12:55 pm
    It is after midnight and I’m in a taxi on the way back to my barrio, mouthing the lyrics to a song on the radio that I’m proud to know the lyrics of when, suddenly, I stop (fake) singing. Spanish is my second language and memorizing song lyrics doesn’t come as easily to me as it does in English—if I can successfully sing along to a song in a café or on the radio, I wave the useless ability like a flag. But, as I silently croon in my cab tonight, I realize that, in my quest to hone my dual language lip syncing abilities, I have paid absolutely zero attention to the content of the…
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    All Art News

  • Exhibition at Turner Contemporary shows how JMW Turner revolutionised landscape painting

    All Art News
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:54 am
    MARGATE.- Eighty-eight works by Britain’s best-loved painter, JMW Turner, many from Tate’s collection, will go on show in the major exhibition Turner and the Elements at Turner Contemporary in Margate from 28 January –13 May 2012. The exhibition, including a number of works featuring Margate and the north Kent coast, illustrates how his painting technique and the influence of the latest scientific and technological developments of his time, revolutionised landscape painting. JMW Turner was a frequent visitor to Margate spending time there as [...]

  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement returns Pissarro painting stolen from French museum in 1981

    All Art News
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:52 am
    WASHINGTON, DC.- An art piece stolen from a French museum more than 30 years ago is finally on its way home to France. On Wednesday, U.S. officials repatriated “Le Marché aux Poissons” (The Fish Market), a monotype by Camille Pissarro, to French Ambassador François Delattre. Officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY); and Interpol Washington, U.S. National Central Bureau; attended a ceremony on Jan. 25 at The Kreeger Museum in [...]

  • Exhibition of Magnum contact sheets on view at the International Center of Photograpy

    All Art News
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:50 am
    NEW YORK, NY.- Often compared to an artist’s sketchbook, a contact sheet is the photographer’s first look at what he or she has captured on film, and provides a uniquely intimate glimpse into the working process. It gives a behind-the-scenes sense of walking alongside photographers and seeing through their eyes. Through May 6, 2012, Magnum Contact Sheets are on view at the International Center of Photograpy, revealing how Magnum photographers have captured and edited their best shots from the 1930s to the [...]

  • Galerie Jaeger Bucher in Paris opens exhibition by the Portuguese artist Miguel Branco

    All Art News
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:49 am
    PARIS.- From 28 January to 31 March, 2012, the gallery presents an exhibition of the artist Miguel Branco entitled Deserto. Born in Castelo Branco, Portugal in 1963, Miguel Branco studied at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts and has been the director since 1998 of the Painting Department of AR.CO. (Centre of Art and Visual Communication of Lisbon). His works have been shown at international institutions such as the MUDAM in Luxemburg, the CAM—Centre of Modern Art of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation [...]

  • Paper does not blush: A group exhibition opens at Galerie Michael Janssen in Berlin

    All Art News
    28 Jan 2012 | 1:47 am
    BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen announces Paper does not blush, a group exhibition with artists of the gallery program. The exhibition focuses on works on paper, including prints, illustrated books, and selected drawings, that explore and manipulate the materiality of paper itself. On view are works by Yoshitaka Amano, Gianfranco Baruchello, Meg Cranston, Lili Dujourie, Monique van Genderen, Emil Holmer, Christof Mascher, Christoph Steinmeyer, Shaan Syed, Joris Van de Moortel and Mario Ybarra Jr. Yoshitaka Amano gained fame in the 1970’s creating anime, [...]
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    Design For Mankind

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    erin
    27 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    Here’s what’s floating about my inbox this week!:1. The official 2011 Google pillow has been released! 2. So proud of my friend Karen on her poster launch. 3. Tim Balon’s wall designs? Insanity! 4. Bailey Doesn’t Bark’s teaspoon plate is so quirky, yet chic! 5. A DIY geometric necklace? I’m all over it. 6. Beautiful, wearable textiles from Upstate.Happy weekend, friends! See you Monday!

  • artful interiors.

    erin
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 am
    The perfect pairing to kick off the weekend!LINKS: LITTLE PAPER PLANES & NORM ARCHITECTUREArtful Interiors is a weekly guest series from Laura Burkhart.

  • plywerk.

    erin
    26 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pm
    Canvases are yesterday’s news – display your photos and artwork by mounting them on eco-conscious bamboo or maple, courtesy of Plywerk. Happy framing!!!LINK: PLYWERK

  • aaron straup cope.

    erin
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    I love this piece from Aaron Straup Cope. It reminds me of my stretch marks, which are aplenty!LINK: 20×200

  • femke agema.

    erin
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    Femke’s latest collection was inspired by the Mayan predictions that the world would end in 2012. Enter: apocalyptic fashion. Craziness!LINK: FEMKE AGEMA
 
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    Sideroom.com

  • The Adventures of SIDEROOM.COM

    Shea O'Neill
    25 Jan 2012 | 2:17 am
    Dear Friends You may have been wondering where we’ve been for the past month. Fear not, we are still alive and have been off on adventures again. As I write this the SIDEROOM.COM team are spread across the globe causing creative mayhem in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Auckland and Chile. We apologize to you all for the lack of updates, but be assured we are collecting amazing stories along the way and as always plotting great schemes for creative world domination. You will hear about it all very soon. Thank you to everyone who has sent in submissions. I promise we haven’t forgotten you and…

  • endemicworld.com | Videos

    Shea O'Neill
    14 Dec 2011 | 7:34 pm
    Check out these sweet videos our friends at endemicworld.com have released  to showcase some of their creative collaborators. The Making of Endless Summer from endemicworld.com on Vimeo. The Cut Collective – New Zealand from endemicworld.com on Vimeo. More from endemicworld.com

  • Alice Fennessy

    Shea O'Neill
    12 Dec 2011 | 11:42 pm
    Alice Fennessy’s work employs her personal dreams as subject matter, allowing her to re-imagine banal aspects of every day life through painting. Her work consists of oil paintings on denim and velvet; textiles that are stooped in the traditions of bogan fantasy art. The work aims to mine these suburban appropriations of dream art, as seen in countless album covers, on panel vans and in cheap op shop reproductions, as these references relate to her personal experiences and background. Her work aims to explore the place where the banal meets the fantastical, representing the symbolic…

  • Natalie Britten

    Shea O'Neill
    12 Dec 2011 | 12:59 am
    Natalie Britten is an emerging portrait artist and comedian. She gets a bit lonely sometimes, when sitting inside painting all day and she also loves collaborative work. So she has come up with a way to include other people in her painting process. Is there something you’d love to see turned into a painting? It could be anything, from a person to an animal, from a beach scene to you’re favorite movie poster, you could even inspire her with a word. Natalie can make anything happen. Send her an idea (natalie@nataliebritten.com) or post to her facebook page “The Natalie…

  • Kate Lepper

    Shea O'Neill
    7 Dec 2011 | 12:46 am
    Sensual tactility, delicious colour, yielding forms, playful surfaces, humorous propositions and incidental absurdity are all nutritive qualities. Kate Lepper’s easy aesthetic, drawing on toys, furniture, clothing, and utensils, seeks to seduce with unsophisticated accessibility. Often involving vegetables, plants or animal remnants and plastic, psuedo functional objects and installations attribute emotional experience to the inanimate, and suggest unlikely uses for the useless. [View with PicLens] More on Kate here
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    If It's Hip, It's Here

  • Three New York Meat and Cheese Lovers Go Vegan For 6 Weeks and Get Vegucated.

    laura sweet
    28 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, Vegucated is a award-winning documentary that follows three meat and cheese-loving New Yorkers from different backgrounds who, for six weeks, adopt a vegan diet and a whole new way of thinking about food.Now, personally, I love my artery clogging animal parts and fat-laden dairy so much I fear I'd never participate in such an experiment. Nor, do I want to know the ugly truth behind how my meat is treated and prepared (I've seen all those tragic PETA films). That being said, the trailer for this documentary made me feel instantly shamed…

  • Stay On Coasters for Wine Glasses. Now That's An Idea That Holds Water.

    laura sweet
    27 Jan 2012 | 7:00 pm
    This falls under the "Now, why didn't I think of that?" category. Mother and daughter fashion and design team from Iceland, Dimmalimm, did and call them "Stay On Coasters." Cute felt coasters that attach to the bottom of your wine glass, attractively absorbing any condensation the glass may leave on a surface.The coasters, which slip onto the base of your glass in two sizes, perform double duty - protecting surfaces and helping to distinguish ownership of the beverage.above: Hibiscus, Fest and Citrus are the three designs available.The wool/ rayon blend of coasters absorb condensation and can…

  • Burn Wood, Baby, Burn. The Incredible Pyrographic Art of Julie Bender.

    laura sweet
    27 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    When I first came across these, I found it so hard to believe they were actually wood burnings. The intricate rendering of texture, the detail and the overall appearance seems as though it'd be virtually impossible to create with a pyrographic tool. Julie Bender has shown me otherwise.NOTE: all the images in this post are copyrighted by the artist and may not be reproduced or used without express written permission from Julie Bender.Wood burning (aka Pyrography) is an old-fashioned art and nowadays often reserved for camp arts and crafts projects. Artist Julie Bender elevates the centuries…

  • I Dare You To Throw A Stone. Glass Houses & Furniture by Carlo Santambrogio and Ennio Arosio.

    laura sweet
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Santambrogiomilano, the brainchild of architect and ideator Carlo Santambrogio, is an entrepreneurial reality which realizes projects in glass with an exclusive character, unique pieces that can integrate themselves in all environments of daily life.To showcase his glass furnishings collection named Simplicity (the individual items of which are shown later in this post), he has designed two transparent glass concept homes.The collection named SIMPLICITY was born from the collaboration between Carlo Santambrogio and the designer Ennio Arosio with the aim of giving “transparent” shape to a…

  • Chanel Wine With Karl Lagerfeld Label Goes Perfectly With His Orrefors Wine Glasses.

    laura sweet
    25 Jan 2012 | 5:00 pm
    above: Wine label and Wine glasses designed by Karl Lagerfeld of Chanel.Back in October, fashion and wine blogs were sharing the news that Chanel Creative Director Karl Lagerfeld was illustrating a wine label, expanding his already enormous repertoire as a legendary fashion guru, film director, photographer, product designer and more. As a matter of fact, he recently designed a selection of glassware for Orrefors, which includes... you guessed it, wine glasses.above image of Karl Lagerfeld courtesy of Celotto/GettyKarl Lagerfeld for Château Rauzan-SéglaThe winery, Château Rauzan-Ségla,…
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    The Main Loop

  • Ballpoint Pen - A Humble Medium

    Sergio Lopez
    19 Jan 2012 | 8:39 pm
    This round of drawings started with me forgetting 90% of my tools at home. Oops!I tried to make do with what I had, but it was getting really annoying having only a blunt pastel tool, charcoal powder, an eraser pencil, and a blending stump. You just can't do much with it.I went out to my car and dug around for anything else... I found a Verithin pencil.... ...and a ballpoint pen. It'd been a really long time since I'd used a pen for life drawing. It's a good exercise to try to not have an eraser to fall back on. Being as direct as you can will make you quicker.This one was…

  • Randy Sexton Workshop - Weekend Warrior

    Sergio Lopez
    9 Jan 2012 | 1:58 am
    This weekend I took advantage of my prize for taking top honors at the 2011 Valona Paintout this year. What was that prize you say? Why, it was a workshop with the extremely fine painter Randy Sexton. It was a lot of fun. Although I didn't need as much instruction as the rest of the class, I really enjoyed the practice time that I got in. I did as many clunkers as those halfway worth showing, as is expected with doing these quick studies. I've been familiar with doing quick studies ever since I took a class with Craig Nelson back in the day, so I think I was ahead of the pack. The other…

  • Figure Drawing - New Tools

    Sergio Lopez
    30 Dec 2011 | 2:49 pm
    Hey everyone, here are a bunch of drawings from the last few months. I held back on posting most of these because I had so many paintings to post before, but I am just about caught up with all of that so here are some new sketches.These next drawings are from when I crashed Henry Yan's drawing workshop at the Academy of art. Man, I miss the 2-minute intense gesture drawings, and she was great. These were so much fun to do. They never do two-minute gestures in Sebastopol, but they get you warmed up really well.10-minutes20-minute drawings done with mostly vine charcoal.These next drawings were…

  • Oil Painting - Pismo Beach, California

    Sergio Lopez
    24 Dec 2011 | 8:03 pm
    "Rosy Air" 10x18 in. Oil on Linen Mounted on PanelMerry Christmas everyone! Not that it's that cold around here, but I hope this painting reminds you of warm days at the beach after a long day of playing, or sunbathing, or watching your dog chase waves around.Share on Tumblr •NewsletterFacebookTumblrDrawings For SalePrints For SaleGoogle+

  • iPhone 4S Test - Head Drawing in Vine Charcoal

    Sergio Lopez
    15 Dec 2011 | 12:34 am
    Shot a video using my iPhone. Wanted to see how well the quality is captured. Fortunately it did quite well. More paintings demos coming soon.Share on Tumblr • Newsletter Facebook Tumblr Drawings For Sale Prints For Sale Google+
 
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    Mixed-Media Map Art - Blog

  • Friday Favorite: Cotton Bird Designs

    27 Jan 2012 | 5:41 am
    I just love these little song birds and boat sculptures hand made with vintage maps!Visit Cotton Bird Designs' amazing Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/cottonbirddesigns!TGIF!Mary^

  • New Work Wednesday: Long History

    25 Jan 2012 | 5:37 am
    _My new painting this week is entitled Long History. _This painting layers Hawaiian maps, encaustic, text, olivine, a vintage compass image, acrylic media and paint on a small stretched canvas. For this painting, I also created a cardboard cutout, painting and distressing the cardboard, then made a cutout window and added text. I learned this technique at Mary Beth Shaw’s Parts is Parts workshop last March. When my sister visited last weekend, she saw the cardboard cutout from the workshop in my studio and asked about it (see the image below). She also told me she liked it! Her comment…

  • Iceland Travels & Techtonics

    23 Jan 2012 | 5:50 am
    I was fortunate enough to recently visit Iceland – a dream come true for me with its 130 volcanoes!Below I am sharing photos I took in Iceland along with Ted Kooser's poem entitled Tectonics – a friend passed this poem on to me after seeing my exhibition at Renaud Spirit Center and reading from my artist statement: I am captivated by the idea that geological shifts and transformations seem to parallel both individuals and their relationships: continually changing, varying, shifting and developing, too. _ Valley between tectonic plates that grows 2 centimeters wider each year.

  • Friday Favorite: Laura Moriarty

    20 Jan 2012 | 5:41 am
    This Friday’s Feature artist is Laura Moriarty!I love her geologically inspired sculptural paintings and encaustic monotypes!She writes:I work at the boundary of painting and sculpture, making installations and pedestal-based works that are an elaboration of visual information. Referencing diagrams found in earth science textbooks, I study the way events and phenomena occur in the geological time scale, creating micro/macro records in paint of what happens below a terrain's surface. Accretionary Wedge (and detail), 2011, encaustic on panel,12 x 12 x 7 in. Caldera (and detail),…

  • New Work Wednesday: Summer Days

    18 Jan 2012 | 6:06 am
    _My new painting this week is entitled Summer Days. _This painting layers Hawaiian maps, metallic tape, Wood Icing, encaustic, text, olivine, mica, acrylic media and paint on a stretched canvas.Comments please!Thanks so much for visiting my blog!Hope you're having a wonderful week!Mary^
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    secretly important

  • should art be free? part 2, the answer

    brianssnider
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:30 am
    Yesterday we examined the question, should art be free?  Today I will begin by giving you the short answer, no.  If we don’t want to loose an already dwindling artistic community, somehow, someway, someone needs to be paid.  The online piracy problem is not one we can ignore, if we do nothing SOPA/PIPA will return and eventually pass.  The entertainment industries just have too much money and too many lobbyists to let the industry be eaten away by illegal file sharing. Because art has never been free, and it’s not going to be anytime soon, we have to look to alternatives:…

  • should art be free? part one, the question

    brianssnider
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:02 pm
    Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. -andy warhol Last Wednesday many of our favorite websites went dark in protest of the proposed PIPA and SOPA bills.  A week later it seems that protest brought enough attention to the broadness of the bill to at the very least postpone the vote.  Count it as a victory, if just a temporary one.  Rather then using this time to gloat about the victory to the supporters of SOPA, we should spent it discussing the problem of piracy and copyright protection.  Like the war on drugs the war on internet piracy is going to…

  • wait, what? eric deggans and a leap backwards for the female image

    brianssnider
    24 Jan 2012 | 12:39 pm
    A few weeks ago I was in the car with my wife listening to NPR.  Amidst the barrage of 2011 retrospectives and best of lists was a story titled, Bridesmaids No More: TV’s women get all the laughs.  TV/media critic Eric Deggans coined 2011 as the year of the funny female on TV.  He used the New Girl, Whitney, Up All Night, Two Broke Girls, and Kristen Wiig’s performances as Michele Bachmann on SNL to prove his point. Never mind the absence of geniuses like Amy Poehler on Parks and Recreation, Tina Fey of 30 Rock, or Kate Aselton who breaks down the shield of machismo surrounding fantasy…

  • toms shoes contest last chance

    brianssnider
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:24 am
    You may not have realized it, but for months and months now we’ve been running a contest here at the website: if you subscribe to secretly-important.com via email, you will automatically be entered for a chance to win a pair of toms shoes.  We’ve set a date and decided that January 31st will be the final day to subscribe and be entered for that chance to win. Here’s how to do it. Either click on the right side of the screen where it says subscribe and enter your email or just click this link here.  Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner (remember to verify your subscription…

  • the soft hills and karl blau @ the sunset tavern 1/21

    brianssnider
    20 Jan 2012 | 6:22 pm
    Here in the PNW the snow is beginning to melt, and the Seattleites suffering from cabin fever are emerging from their dens.  What better way then to reintroduce yourself into society then with a really great show at the Sunset Tavern in Ballard. Karl Blau, who has appeared on the website a number of times with a song of the week and two podcasts, will be performing with the delightful indie folk rock band The Soft Hills, who we’re currently working on setting up on interview with.  The Soft Hills are promoting the release of their latest album (the bird is coming down to earth), which…
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    Bollea - Floral Design Gallery

  • Lovely table arrangement

    bollea
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    Table arrangement featuring thistle, dahlia buds and seeded eucalyptus. Created by April Peet of April Flowers.

  • Nice wedding bouquet

    bollea
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm
    Bouquet made with milva roses, purple sweet peas, blue and green hydrangea, mango mini callas and blue delphinium. Created by April Peet of April Flowers.

  • Vintage style bouquet

    bollea
    22 Jan 2012 | 8:51 am
    Bouquet made of white peonies, white garden roses, billy balls, scabiosa pod, jasmine vine, white scabiosa and white hydrangea. Created by April Peet...

  • Picasso calla lilies bouquet

    bollea
    22 Jan 2012 | 8:35 am
    Are you familiar with this fantastic bloom? As far as calla lilies go, this one is the most amazing of them all! Isn't that a gorgeous color combo...

  • White carnation pomander

    bollea
    22 Jan 2012 | 8:25 am
    Beautiful wedding pomander designed with white carnations for the flower girl. Created by Erin Volante Floral.
 
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    Art Blog by Isabelle Bryer

  • Dilka Bear's Alien Madonnas

    Isabelle Bryer
    24 Jan 2012 | 10:43 am
    There is a long list of excellent artists that can be found on Etsy. Today I would like to share with you the art of artist and illustrator Dilka Bear. She is Italian and lives in Trieste. However, her work...

  • My 3 Love Messengers

    Isabelle Bryer
    17 Jan 2012 | 7:46 pm
    I have been painting legged birds from way back. They show up in various artwork, when a regular 2-wings-2-regular-feet bird just won't be enough. Yesterday I started these three small formats. My plan was to paint each bird carrying on...

  • The Mythological Language of David Hochbaum

    Isabelle Bryer
    10 Jan 2012 | 8:53 am
    For a couple of years now I have been keeping images of New York artist David Hochbaum in my secret art files. Not that anyone in my house is even remotely interested in what I am up to when it...

  • Young and Promising

    Isabelle Bryer
    5 Jan 2012 | 1:53 pm
    People are copying my work. And I mean cool young people. I am not going to waste that one chance to brag today because I just received the coolest email. A few days ago I got an order on my...

  • How Michael Jackson fell in love with Martine

    Isabelle Bryer
    31 Dec 2011 | 10:42 am
    I am a huge fan of beautiful illustrations. As far as I am concerned a children's book with a well written and compelling story and well matched images is a small treasure. I have a pretty nice collection of these...
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    NewMediator.org

  • UPDATE – Dino Eli Found

    Newmediatorart@gmail.com (David LaMorte)
    2 Jan 2012 | 8:31 am
    {Mp3} In turns out that Dino is alive and well in NY. I should have realized that Dino Eli actually never went missing. I’m glad that Dino is okay and that he is addressing his own personal demon.  From what I gather Dino skipped out to try to drum up some buzz and to take a break from the stress of the gallery. He is trying to handle his personal issues and get back to work. I was definitely annoyed when I found out I was worried about nothing, but now I’m just concerned about my friend. I’m just trying to pretend he was doing some kind of Vito Acconci impression. I hope…

  • Dino Eli is Missing

    Newmediatorart@gmail.com (David LaMorte)
    30 Dec 2011 | 11:16 am
    {Mp3} According to reports on Facebook, gallerist Dino Eli of the Dino Eli Gallery and the Orchard Windows Gallery has been out of contact with his family and friends for about a week. He was last seeen on December 23, 2011. For any more info or to provide your own information please visit the links bellow. His Nephew’s Facebook page. Dino Eli’s Facebook Page. The blog of Artist Terry Ward.   Thank you, NewMediator.org  

  • Thunk Tank Afterward

    Newmediatorart@gmail.com (David LaMorte)
    20 Dec 2011 | 9:06 pm
    Today we are going to talk about the opening of the now closed Thunk Tank: Corpus Absurdum show at the Dino Eli Gallery and Jeffrey Songco’s upcoming solo show at Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco.{Click to Play} Jeff Songco who is a friend of NewMediator and one of the artists in our first group show, is having his first solo show!  The show will be at Steven Wolf Fine Arts in San Francisco, January 7 to February 18. The work is going to deal with issues of sexuality and Jeff’s own sexual identity. The description of the show on the gallery’s sight discusses the…

  • Dino Eli Gallery

    Newmediatorart@gmail.com (David LaMorte)
    2 Dec 2011 | 3:20 pm
    Still preparing for the Thunk Tank Art Show. Saturday, Dec. 3 from 6-9 PM This episode we discuss the upcoming artshow Thunk Tank: Corpus Absurdum and my experiments with Etsy. Thunk Tank: Corpus Absurdum opens Saturday December 3rd from 6-9pm at the Dino Eli Gallery. I included an exerpt from Thunk Tank of an interview with the owner and curator at the Dino Eli Gallery, Dino Eli. It was a great interview, and I’m even more excited to be part of the show. Later on Thunk Tank I was informed by Bronwyn that Dino wanted me to be listed as the “guest curator”. So when ever you…

  • Thunk Tank Coming

    Newmediatorart@gmail.com (David LaMorte)
    22 Nov 2011 | 3:30 pm
    Dave LaMorte talks about the upcoming Thunk Tank artshow a the Dino Eli Gallery and about OWS. The artshow is coming together nicely as we approach the opening on December 3rd. We even have some audio from WFMU where we talk about the show. If you are looking for an alternative to big businesses on Black Friday, check us out on our Etsy site. Put your cash in the pocket of an independent artist and artisan. {Links: Thunk Tank Kickstarter Dave LaMorte’s Etsy WFMU {Mp3 Link}
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  • Next Stop: Sundance Film Festival

    Emily Gray
    21 Jan 2012 | 9:44 am
    by Emily GrayThat’s right, this week Fractured Atlas is headed to Park City, Utah to present at and generally enjoy the Sundance Film Festival. If anyone is planning to be there, you can catch me hanging around the festival from Sunday, January 22 through Wednesday, January 25. I’ll also be stationed at our table at the Filmmaker’s Lodge all morning on Tuesday, January 24. For anyone planning to attend, our friends at Kickstarter have graciously extended an invitation to their sure-to-be-amazing party Monday, January 23! Click here to RSVP. And of course, let us know if you…

  • Regional Dispatch: Choosing Missoula

    Sarah McLellan
    20 Jan 2012 | 4:30 am
    by Sarah McLellanEditor’s Note: We are excited to share the first post in a new series called “Regional Dispatch.” Fractured Atlas’ membership spans all fifty States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and beyond, and each state, region, and locale has stories to tell about the arts community in which they live. We want our members to share these stories with us and talk up their communities - tell us what’s special, what’s unique, what’s amazing in their corner of the art-making world. First up is Amy Martin, a musician/songwriter/teacher who fills us in on…

  • More Arts Groups Sign On to Oppose SOPA/PIPA

    Adam Huttler
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:23 am
    by Adam HuttlerLast week I told you why Fractured Atlas is opposing SOPA and PIPA, a pair of bills in Congress that claim to protect the rights of artists but would be both ineffective at that goal and damaging to the technical fabric of the internet. We were the first major arts organization to take this stand, and we took some heat for it, but I believe we also moved the needle on our community’s understanding of these complicated issues. Today I’m happy to report that a number of our colleagues at major national arts service organizations have joined the cause. This morning a…

  • New Look, New Logo, New Website

    Adam Huttler
    17 Jan 2012 | 7:45 pm
    by Adam HuttlerFractured Atlas has gotten a face lift! Actually, it’s more like radical reconstructive surgery, and boy was it overdue… If you’re reading this on our website (as opposed to in an email or feed reader), then you’ll already have noticed the new logo, color scheme, and web design. This is the first serious refresh since 1999, when we debuted the old Atlas/Atlas logo. That one was quite literal minded, and (to my eternal chagrin) made a lot of people think of Ayn Rand. The new logo, by contrast, is pretty abstract and something of a Rorschach test. Is it a…

  • Congratulations to Recently Approved Fiscally Sponsored Projects!

    diannedebicella
    16 Jan 2012 | 6:30 am
    by diannedebicellaIn December our board approved 111 projects from 26 states.  These projects applied for fiscal sponsorship in November.  Check them out! 17 A Third Place and Creative Writing Space Africans Vs African Americans: Healing the Sibling Rivalry Aqui Estoy ATM & RiverCubes Ayazamana Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project Be A Remedy Beata Moon Berkshire Actors Theatre Boobies Portrayed Boockvor Productions Brancy Arts BRASS Brooklyn Night Bazaar Carnival Clark Wester Productions clean socks project Clove Creek Dinner Theater LLC Creative Youth Darker Side of god - the Film Dirty…
 
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