Here's another artist's studio. This is the workspace of American artist Garric Simonsen. If you like Cy Twombly or Willem de Kooning you'll enjoy browsing through Garric's work on his website.See Garric's paintings and works on paper at his Website Here.See more Art Studio photos.
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Art Studio of Garric Simonsen
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Being in the Flow or the Zone
26 Jun 2009 | 5:42 amHere's an interesting quote from Robert Genn's latest newsletter called "Transartistic meditation," which is something like Transcendental Meditation."Studies of "flow" and "the zone" have been done using all stripes of artists. This is where the artist gets into a relaxed, intuitive state somewhere deep down in the lizard brain and the good stuff rains down like ripe pomegranates. Tired of rotten apples, I was curious about these concepts as well." Robert GennI have never been able to figure why artists would want to waste their time meditating as they drink from the same pond while they… -
FBI Top 10 Art Thefts
24 Jun 2009 | 9:22 pmArt crime is big business with an estimated $6 billion in losses annually! Here's a list of the FBI's Top 10 art crimes at the moment..Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts - The significant Statue of Entemena was recovered in 2006 but there are still many pieces missing.Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft - Thieves stole as much as $300 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston in 1990 with paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Manet being among them.Theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco - Back in 1969 thieves stole Caravaggio's Nativity… -
Art Studios and Workspaces
24 Jun 2009 | 8:41 pmI enjoy looking through artist studios so much that I decided to make it a semi-regular thing. So if you have a few photos of your art studio or workspace and would like to share them, please send them to me.Make sure the images are under 1mb in size as they don't have to be MASSIVE and my inbox clogs up. Include a short paragraph about your space if you wish and your website address if you have one. Artist studios from all creative people are welcome and it doesn't have to be a beautiful working space.. it just has to work for you.Here's the studios so far (listed alphabetically so that my… -
Gail Sauter's Painting Studio
18 Jun 2009 | 11:57 pmHere's another artist's studio. This one belongs to Maine artist Gail Sauter.So many artists that I know have dogs hanging around their studios. Painters seem to be dog people more than cat people.And little gems like this come out of her studio..Update: Here's a few more photos of Gail's art studio (which was originally a Victorian Dry Goods Store) and her studio pooch. Gail says "I don’t get a lot of foot traffic here in Kittery, but that allows me to work and hanging out my welcome flag does draw in a sale now and then. I do think that we, as artists, are largely invisible to the public…
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NYC's Film & TV Tax-Credit Fund Runs Out Of Money
2 Jul 2009 | 9:21 am"New York City has exhausted its budget for tax incentives for film and TV productions as of Tuesday, city officials announced.... 'New York City's "Made in NY" tax credit for qualified film and television production -- the only one of its kind administered by a city in the U.S. -- has reached its full allocation of $192.5 million and funds are no longer available for new applications,' the NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting said."... -
In Open Library, Imagining Books As Networked Objects
2 Jul 2009 | 8:59 amThe Open Library's goal "is to create a single page on the web for every book that has ever been published; an enormous, searchable catalogue of information about millions of books. ... But with information about books already being processed by hugely popular websites such as Google and Amazon, the question remains - why bother?"... -
Restored Fresco Said To Reveal Michelangelo Self-Portrait
2 Jul 2009 | 8:43 am"The restoration of frescoes by Michelangelo in the Vatican has revealed what is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist. The face is in a wall mural in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel or Cappella Paolina, according to Maurizio De Luca, the Vatican's chief restorer. The chapel, which is used by the Pope and not open to the public, was unveiled this week after a restoration costing €3.2 million (£2.7 million)."... -
What Rub Might Do With Gehry, He Did With Vinoly In Ohio
2 Jul 2009 | 8:29 amWhile Timothy Rub, incoming director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, "brings to his new job a resume strong on all the essential art-world skills, one of the qualities that surely impressed the Philadelphia trustees is his ability to manage a big construction project and a big architectural ego." This is key as the museum embarks on a $500 million expansion designed by Frank Gehry.... -
Gap Founder Gives Up On Plan For Presidio Art Museum
2 Jul 2009 | 8:03 am"Gap founder Donald Fisher and his family have decided to abandon their efforts to build a contemporary art museum at the Main Post of San Francisco's Presidio.... The question now is whether the Fishers will invest additional time and money on a local proposal, trusting the word of critics who have said they would like to see the renowned collection stay in the city as long as a museum was built at a less sensitive location."...
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Diary of a Gallery Girl
Subject: Off the record Date: Friday, Nov 7, 2008 10:10 From: gallerygirl@artreview.com To: office@artreview.com"We're all just feeling so terribly nostalgic", gushes my new boss to the museum's director of exhibitions, waving her glass of champagne dangerously close to the photographs she’s referring to. The exhibitions director visibly flinches, and no wonder – even though my glamorous new boss, head of an art foundation for 'site-specific happenings and situations' (their words), has obviously had some very expensive work done to her pretty little nose, she can't be more than a day… -
Sheika-maker: At the Art Paris-Abu Dhabi art fair
By Lynn ChenArt fairs in emerging markets are always a gamble and such was the case at Art Paris-Abu Dhabi last week, the satellite branch of the Parisian fair, back in the United Arab Emirates for a second year. Besides the general lack of organization and indifferent sales, the fair was marred by the behavior of one errant collector.The woman in question was said to be a sheika in the Abu Dhabi royal family and a prominent collector on the local scene. She made the rounds of the 59 gallery booths in the opulent gold-laden ballroom of Emirates Palace Hotel and pointed her royal finger at… -
The flawed thinking behind buying art as an investment
By Franklin BoydOnly a month ago – well after the Crisis had kicked off – Forbes was breathlessly reporting that some billionaires had managed – inadvertently or otherwise – to 'hedge' their balance sheets by investing in fine art. Eli Broad, for example, had lost approximately $2 billion in his equities portfolio over the previous year, the magazine reported, but the 'soaring value' of his art collection (it increased by $1.9b in the same time, according to a recent appraisal) had nearly made up for it.Well, I've got some bad news for Mr Broad and anyone else with art on the balance… -
Turin Triennial
By Laura McLean-FerrisThere was a buoyant mood in Turin on Wednesday 5 November 2008 as the city awoke to the news of Barack Obama’s election to the US presidency. The 2nd Turin Triennial and the 15th Artissima Art Fair were both opening in the north Italian town in the same week, and the place was full of artists and arts professionals in high spirits. A sunny disposition like this is extremely rare in an artworld forever clad in mourning black.A peculiar day, then, for Daniel Birnbaum’s melancholy triennial to open. 50 Moons of Saturn focuses on the melancholic spirit, a subject that… -
Rio favela painting itself out of a corner
By Brendan McGetrickA couple of weeks ago a minor miracle took place in Rio. In Vila Cruzeiro, a favela in the Penha section, hundreds of people gathered to celebrate the completion of a painting. Along a winding concrete staircase that extends from the favela's main street Rua Santa Helena, a duo of Dutch artists known as Haas & Hahn created a 2000 square-metre mural. With the help of three friends from the neighborhood, Haas & Hahn had spent nine months meticulously painting a carp-filled river in the style of a Japanese tattoo, and as the unveiling party started some parts of the…
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Modern Art Obsession
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Save the Date: June 24th.. for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 10% Charity Event
12 Jun 2009 | 11:31 amSave the Date: June 24th.. for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 10% Charity Event. It's a new great event during Gay Pride Week NYC.. focused on Gay Artists! Here's the event website : http://www.rhmfoundation.org/10percent/index.html There's A Silent Art Auction Featuring Over 70 Works Donated by LGBTQ ArtistsA fundraiser during gay pride week—open to everyone! And no, the auction is not a bunch of bull dyke and giant penis pictures. Wednesday, June 24th from 6 to 9pm at 28 Wooster Street, the former home of art recession road kill Guild and Greyshkul Gallery. Tickets… -
MAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print !
5 Jun 2009 | 2:37 pmMAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print ! OK..My little MAO-ettes.. this is a great buy. So the Aperture Foundation got artist Thomas Allen to donate this amazing print for their First Annual Summer Party on June 18th. So, anyone who buys a party ticket for $150, gets this cool hot print for free! The print is an 8 x 10 signed C-Print, in an edition of 250. So, Even if you can't make it to the party.. the print is worth well over $150. More info on Photographer Thomas Allen, you'll find it here. This great print and party event tickets can be purchased… -
Heritage Auction House to Open in NYC.. and Senior Jobs are Available!
28 May 2009 | 7:44 amHeritage Auction House from Dallas, Texas to open up offices in NYC.. and now senior JOBS are now available! Well the one good thing a recession does for business is it opens up new opportunities for those looking to seize the day! While the stuffed peacocks at Sothebys, and Christies have been taking massive losses, cutting expenses, laying off staff, Bloomsbury, Bonhams.. and now Heritage Auction Houses are all expanding in New York City!! YEA!! Now if they would just start cutting their auction fees! So if you're looking for a new job in the Art… -
Hauser & Wirth to Open in NYC! Is this a Good Time to Open an Art Gallery?
22 May 2009 | 6:24 amYes... you read that correctly.. A New Contemporary Art Gallery is actually not closing opening up in New York City! Yea! London's Hauser & Wirth Gallery is planning to open on the upper east side of New York City in September! But, with the US economey crashing, is this a Good Time to Open an Art Gallery? Maybe, we shall see, a huge economic recovery might just be several years away around the corner. So here's the exciting email we got this morning... Hauser & Wirth, widely considered Europe’s most influential and acclaimed gallery of… -
A New Art Investment Fund Has Been Started By Castlestone Management
21 May 2009 | 6:51 amA New Art Investment Fund Has Been Started By Castlestone Management with offices in London and New York. The alternative asset class investment adviser has started a brand new Art Investment Fund with 25 million dollars of partner's money.. and it is now open to additional investors! Hmm.. maybe it's a good time to buy Contemporary Art? No? What do you think? FYI.. But, So far they've already purchased $16 million in art, in mostly the free falling contemporary art market, and plan to purchase another $9 million over the next few months. (Photo #1,…
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Benjamin Degen, Julia Goldman, Anya Kielar, Dana Schutz - MUSEUM 52 - (At Bowery) - July 2nd 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Alessandro Ayuso, Gina Beavers, Deedee Cheriel, Molly Crabapple, Valerie Crosswhite, Megan Hays, Sara Hubbs, Kazuko Minokami, Aurora Robson and Chris Uphues - McCaig Welles Gallery - July 2nd 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
1 Jul 2009 | 10:22 amlittle creatures: A group exhibition presented by McCaig-Welles GalleryJuly 2 - August 2, 2009. Opening Reception: Thursday July 2, 2009 Exhibiting Artists: Alessandro Ayuso, Gina Beavers, Deedee Cheriel, Molly Crabapple, Valerie Crosswhite, Megan Hays, Sara Hubbs, Kazuko Minokami, Aurora Robson and Chris Uphues.A woman made a manA man he made a houseAnd when they lay togetherLittle creatures all come out- David Byrne “Creatures of Love” Lyrics. Little Creatures. 1985McCaig-Welles Gallery is pleased to present little creatures, a group exhibition curated by Megan Hays. Selecting works… -
Isaac Lin, Andrew Jeffrey Wright - Cinders Gallery - July 2nd 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
30 Jun 2009 | 9:39 pmCinders Gallery is proud to present a 2 person show with Philadelphia artists Isaac Lin and Andrew Jeffrey Wright, who are old friends, collaborators, and founding members of the Space 1026 Collective. With a joyful color palate, a side-splitting humorous side, and an endearing sincerity, these seemingly lackadaisical yet awesomely prolific artists perfectly represent the attitude and nonchalance of Space 1026's decade-plus history of serious art-making. There are multiple elements of Arabic calligraphy, musical notation, graffiti, and geometry in Isaac Lin's drawings, prints, and paintings. -
Group Show - Pavel Zoubok Gallery - July 2nd 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
22 Jun 2009 | 1:38 amIn 1971 the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlin posed the question, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” - opening the door to a wave of Feminist inquiry that has changed the face of art and art history. Within the more narrowly defined history and practice of collage, one can also ask the question, “Why have there been so many great women collagists?” Daughters of the Revolution: Women & Collagebrings together thirty-four artists, whose work has helped to re-define this quintessentially Modernist art form. When Clement Greenberg wrote of the “Pasted Paper… -
Group Show - Agora Gallery - July 2nd 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
18 May 2009 | 1:28 amAgora Gallery is pleased to present The French Perspective, an exhilarating survey of contemporary art from France. There are a remarkable variety of styles represented in this exhibition, truly profound works that delve into humanity's deepest creative roots. Some of these talented artists are tremendous painters and sculptors while others explore experimental techniques and new media. Art lovers will undoubtedly be enamored by this selection of works from our neighbors across the Atlantic. Exhibition Dates: June 27, 2009 - July 17, 2009Reception: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00…
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Self-Portrait Machine
2 Jul 2009 | 1:38 amJen Hui Liao's Self-Portrait Machine is a device that takes a picture of the sitter and draws it but with the model's help. The wrists of the individual are tied to the machine and it is his or her hands that are guided to draw the lines that will eventually form the portrait continue -
Toys
1 Jul 2009 | 12:34 amA fictitious company called ENT International has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Some of the items listed in the catalogue of the bankruptcy clearance auction are perfectly mundane, others are fictitious. Put together they offer a detailed insight into the inner workings of a large corporation closely inspired by the Enron scandal continue -
The ExtraRoom, a space to achieve psychological alterations
29 Jun 2009 | 11:44 pmDirectly influenced by the 50s and '60s experiments, ExtraRoom puts the sensory deprivation practice in a near futuristic scenario, when mind reading technologies are in common use and thoughts are not private anymore continue -
Daimlerstrasse 38 or How to get a fox to shoot portrait of itself
28 Jun 2009 | 12:12 pmDanish artist and environmentalist Tue Greenfort's photo series, Daimlerstrasse 38 lured foxes living in the industrial area in eastern Frankfurt with frankfurter sausages towards a hidden camera continue -
Green Revolution
23 Jun 2009 | 2:22 amThe artists brought together for this show reveal an imagery that has been inspired by the current mutations in our environment. They deal with diverse matters such as Chernobyl, global warming and the rise in oil rates. At times close to science-fiction, these artists imagine new stories which pay witness to the curiosity and fears derived from this changing reality continue
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Smithsonian: New Exhibitions
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African Art Museum: Artful Animals
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African Art Museum: Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Highlights (new title)
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Air and Space Museum: Alan Bean: Painting Apollo, First Artist on Another World
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Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center: Berlin Airlift -- A Legacy of Friendship
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American Art Museum: Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
June 19, 2009 - January 10, 2010
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Eye Level
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Robert Motherwell’s Monster for Charles Ives
2 Jul 2009 | 11:34 amRobert Motherwell's Monster (for Charles Ives) Robert Motherwell, known as an intellectual painter, has sometimes been called the spokesperson for the abstract expressionist movement. He painted in a style that often involved spontaneously generated images on large fields of canvas. Fifty years ago, in 1959, he created Monster (for Charles Ives). It has a white circle slightly off center that looks like a porthole on a ship looking into fog. As the title suggests, a hulking animal, made up of brown brushwork on a dirty white ground, looms. The composition is reminiscent of Motherwell's… -
In this Case: More 1934 in the Luce Foundation Center
25 Jun 2009 | 1:19 pmWaterfront—Brooklyn by Harry Shokler It was August last year when visitors on my tour started to pause a bit longer in front of cases 34b to 38a. All of a sudden the public’s interest was piqued by these paintings of industry, a hard day’s work, and the American heartland. Now almost a year on, recent economic events have brought these pictures of the "American Scene" from the 1930s sharply into focus. Many of those paintings originally shown in the Luce Foundation Center now feature in the exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists, currently on display at the American Art Museum. The… -
In This Case: Death of Rubén Salazar
23 Jun 2009 | 8:54 amFrank Romero's Death of Rubén Salazar As the saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Similarly, in the Luce Foundation Center, our staff members have an array of "favorites." Bridget loves folk art, Ed enjoys our new Fairfield Porter (new to Luce, not the museum), and Georgina loves the Roman glass vessels and everything technology related. I am attracted to pieces that embody my passion for Spanish language and Latino culture. Frank Romero's Death of Rubén Salazar is just one example of our diverse collection of Latino art in the Luce Foundation Center. Frank Romero… -
Looking at 1934: Lily Furedi's Subway
18 Jun 2009 | 3:17 amLily Furedi's Subway, part of the exhibition 1934: A New Deal for Artists The other day while taking the Metro (that's D.C.-speak for subway) to the Smithsonian, I spotted something on the floor below the seat across from me. When I got up at my stop, I took a closer look and noticed that it was a little two-sided brush. Too small for even the smallest artist (though I recently learned that Mughal miniaturists often used a brush made of no more than one or two squirrel hairs), it was a brush for applying makeup—some blush or eyeliner, perhaps? Throw in a little lipstick, and that's… -
Portraits of Women Artists
16 Jun 2009 | 9:44 amWomen Artist Portraits, part of American Art's Juley Collection on Flickr Commons To celebrate Women’s History Month, a selection of women artist portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, part of the photograph archives at the American Art Museum, was added to Flickr in March. Peter A. Juley (1862–1937) and his son Paul P. Juley (1890–1975) headed the largest and most respected fine arts photography firm in New York. Between 1896 and 1975, the Juleys photographed hundreds of thousands of artworks and many artists. The American Art Museum acquired the firm's photographic…
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Art Fag City
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Magical Elves Casting Director Nick Gilhool Dishes On Bravo’s New Reality Show
2 Jul 2009 | 12:43 pmNathan Coley, There Will Be No Miracles Here, 2006, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute What will Bravo’s new reality show The Untitled Art Project look like? Not even the actress Sarah Jessica Parker’s Pretty Matches Productions and the Emmy-nominated Magical Elves know all the details yet, but the basics have been released. Thirteen aspiring artists compete for a gallery exhibition, cash prize and a national tour. I spoke to the Director of Casting for Magical Elves Nick Gilhool yesterday in an attempt to get a better sense of who they’re looking to cast in the show. Sadly no decisions about… -
Fresh Links!
2 Jul 2009 | 11:45 amRevisiting Tarkovsky - Film Society of Lincoln Center The Film Society at Lincoln Center screens ALL of Tarkovsky’s films, July 7th through July 14th. Also, don’t miss the US Premiere of “Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky”. -
Do Canaries Have Accents? Notes From Berlin: Rebecca Morris
2 Jul 2009 | 6:40 amPOST BY: KAREN ARCHEY Rebecca Morris installation at Galerie Barbara Weiss. Photo Karen Archey AFC Associate Editor Karen Archey was fortunate enough to spend some time in Berlin during our recent European art tour. This series of reviews reflects a handful of galleries we visited throughout May and June. Galerie Barbara Weiss Zimmerstrasse 88-91 10117 Berlin Rebecca Morris Is Rebecca Morris a well informed master painter or a trite new age hippy? It’s hard to tell. Her solo effort, Shards and Skywindows, reeks of early Nickelodeon-era craft projects (think fimo beads, puff paint, gak, and… -
Fresh Links!
1 Jul 2009 | 9:45 amReaders’ Photos: What’s in Your Phone? The NYTimes’ LensBlog is asking readers to submit their most interesting cell phone photos. Winners will be posted in a gallery on the blog. Current competition? Sumptuous peacock feathers and a wall full of deer heads taken with an iPhone at a taxidermy sale in Texas. -
Fresh Links!
1 Jul 2009 | 8:52 amCremaster Fanatic: Matthew Barney Meets the Smurfs? Cremaster Fanatic points out some interesting omissions in AFC’s post comparing Cremaster with a recent Smurf convention.
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Artopia
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Kusamarama: Art and Anxiety (Part II)
7 Jun 2009 | 2:33 pmSamuel Johnson Had It (And So Did Howard Hughes) Samuel Johnson suffered from the need to engage in threshold rituals, was prone to repetitive step-counting and continual praying. Yayoi Kusama can't stop painting dots and loops. At one time she also covered chairs, sofas, and entire rooms with stuffed "penises." Obsessive compulsive disorder is obsessively referred to by the mental health profession as OCD. Are capitalized initials easier to remember than words? Are capital letters… -
Francis Bacon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
31 May 2009 | 8:22 amFrancis Bacon, Painting, 1946 Bacon Fat When it comes to Francis Bacon (1909-1992), less is more. The current "Centenary Retrospective" at the Metropolitan, on view through Aug. 16, is ample proof. One picture at a time can be quite effective, but seeing any Bacon that once might have taken your fancy (perhaps out of some deep-seated perversity) along with others of the same or far too similar ilk destroys any credence he might once have had as a major artist. A deep appreciation of Bacon's fat is greatly helped if you are 13. That was… -
Strike Will Cripple Art Industry in 2010
25 May 2009 | 4:58 amReceived: Art Strike 2010-13 The refusal to labor is the chief weapon of workers fighting the system; artists can use the same weapon. To bring down the art system it is necessary to call for years without art, a period of three years...when artists will not produce work, sell work, permit work to go on exhibitions, and refuse collaboration with any part of the publicity machinery of the art world. This total withdrawal of labor is the most extreme collective challenge that artists can make to the state. The years without art… -
'The Pictures Generation' at the Met
21 May 2009 | 12:47 pmNot Every Picture Tells a Story "The Pictures Generation (1974-1984)," now at New York's Metropolitan Museum through Aug. 2, proves that pictures will not cure you of photography, any more than the hair of the dog will cure you of rabies. The exhibition offer as many insights about photography as it does about spinach. The so-called "Pictures Generation" was never an art movement; it was hardly a trend. That two of the artists… -
Oldenburg at the Whitney
20 May 2009 | 4:10 amIce Bag Restored Centered around the artist's newly restored Ice Bag - Scale C (1971) -- it inflates! it slumps! it rotates! -- Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films (through Sept. 8) is drawn primarily from the Whitney permanent collection. Occasioned by the dire economics of the moment, this is one of those exhibitions that proves necessity can be inspiring. Who knew that the Whitney owned so many tasty Oldenburgs? We love the absurdity of the Giant BLT (1963), French Fries and Ketchup (1963), and of course…
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Art Biz Blog
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Deep Thought Thursday: Show it again, Sam
2 Jul 2009 | 3:53 amWhen is it okay (if at all) to exhibit previously-shown art?Are there hard and fast rules?Are there loose guidelines that you abide by?Here's the message from Jeanne Guerin-Daley that prompted this:I find myself wondering if it would be okay to exhibit work which has been shown before. I certainly understand that an artist shouldn't keep showing 3-year-old work over and over again. But if one shows a work in one venue, and it doesn't sell, then maybe a year later, that same artist gets a chance to show in another venue, maybe in another state or at least in another area, and that… -
Find your way around Twitter
1 Jul 2009 | 9:05 amIn earlier posts about Twitter, I gave you guidelines for your Twitter username and told you about the @ and # symbols.By popular demand, I’m going to share with you some additional basic information that will help you to better understand how Twitter works. This won’t be too helpful if you aren’t registered for your free Twitter account, so go ahead and do that now (using the username guidelines I provided earlier).Quick VocabularyA tweet is a Twitter post (also called an update). It contains 140 or fewer characters (not words--characters) and has the Twitter user’s name (aka… -
Podcast: Include prior connections on your mailing list
29 Jun 2009 | 7:01 amAre you assuming--perhaps incorrectly--that certain connections are separate from your art connections? Regardless of the type of work you did before diving into your art career, every contact you have made is valuable. Include previous connections on your mailing list. As I share in this week's podcast, it's all about cultivating collectors! [3:52] Related Art Marketing Action newsletter (a written version of this podcast) Cultivate Collectors for your art (online class begins July 8)Don't shrink your mailing list just yet (newsletter)I'd Rather Be in the Studio! (book, pages… -
@abstanfield Tweekly
27 Jun 2009 | 5:16 amAnother opportunity to see what you missed if you hadn't looked at your Twitter screen at just the right time. Check out Marcia Yudkin's nwsltr this week: Take the Pain Out of Pricing (re the pricing format you use) [Note to future readers: only current edition is on this site, but you should definitely subscribe. It's a great newsletter!]RT @ArtistTaraReed: If u missed the Art Licensing call last night, see what Paul Brent & I discussed-another great hour! @crobe posted a "reward chart" for her summer goals--"fill in the castle". Anyone do anything… -
Book recommendations for wealth and finance
26 Jun 2009 | 8:48 amI'm no expert here, but these are four books that I have found useful in our financial support group. Smart Women Finish Rich by David BachIt is in this book that Bach explains the latté factor and what it means for your savings. I have three Bach books on my shelf and I find them quite similar (there's another lesson about making money in that fact alone!). The Energy of Money by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.I haven't gotten as much out of this book as I can. We started reading it, but never got around to discussing the whole thing. The subtitle is "A Spiritual Guide to Financial and…
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NYT: Arts
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With Agreement Near on Service for Jackson, Custody Battle Looms
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Art Review | Dan Graham: Bouncing Around a Visual Echo Chamber
2 Jul 2009 | 3:55 pmAt the Whitney Museum, a handsomely installed, often engrossing,yet overly didactic and visually low-key retrospective of Dan Graham’s work. -
Movie Review | 'Kambakkht Ishq': The Bollywood Sign
2 Jul 2009 | 3:39 pmBollywood casts a proprietary eye on Hollywood in “Kambakkht Ishq.” -
Keep the Music, Add the Views
2 Jul 2009 | 3:36 pmThanks to the ingenuity and one-upmanship of local concert promoters, yet more concerts are turning up in the most unusual and amazing places. -
Movie Review | 'Nollywood Babylon': Inside the Nigerian Film Industry
2 Jul 2009 | 3:36 pm“Nollywood Babylon” profiles the explosive success of this truly populist cinema.
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Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest
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F'Book: What my Friends are doing on facebook (2009) - Lee Walton
2 Jul 2009 | 9:45 amKatie Minton is monochromatic. from lee Walton on Vimeo. Rick Silva is self-editing. from lee Walton on Vimeo. In Lee Walton's most recent project, he will perform what his Friends on Facebook are doing. -- FROM THE ARTIST'S WEBSITE -
I'll Replace You (2008) - Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
2 Jul 2009 | 8:30 amI'll Replace You from Jennifer & Kevin McCoy on Vimeo. This film is an experiment in outsourcing everyday life. In it we hired 50 actors to take over all aspects of our daily routines and roles as parents, spouses, professors, artists and friends. The actors play opposite their real counterparts - our kids, our students, our friends, in our studio, presenting our work. -
Take Care of Yourself (2007) - Sophie Calle
2 Jul 2009 | 7:00 amIn this “tour de force of feminine responses…executed in a wild range of media,” Sophie Calle orchestrates a virtual chorus of women’s interpretations and assessments of a breakup letter she received in an email. In photographic portraits, textual analysis, and filmed performances, the show presents a seemingly exhaustive compendium with contributions ranging from a clairvoyant’s response to a scientific study, a children’s fairytale to a Talmudic exegesis, among many others. Examining the conditions and possibilities of human emotions, Take Care of Yourself opens up ideas about… -
The Question of Freedom at the Open Video Conference
1 Jul 2009 | 10:00 amDoes free video uploading and downloading equal democracy? I asked myself this question during the recent Open Video Conference, organized by the Information Society Project at the Yale Law School and the Open Video Alliance, an umbrella coalition for the development of an “open video ecosystem”: a “movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video.” Conference sponsors include Mozilla, Redhat, Intelligent Television, and Livestream. The conference was held at New York University’s Vanderbilt Hall, home of the NYU Law School from June 19-21, 2009. I attended several… -
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Artistic Mission
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Inspiration
28 Jun 2009 | 9:00 pmHere's the latest chapter of the video blog. In it, I tackle the huge subject of artists and their inspirations, all in less than 10 minutes. Enjoy:Also, my friend Genevieve Esson was one of 9 painters to be selected to decorate a lion sculpture as part of a fundraiser University City is doing to raise money to restore the big Liongate on Delmar. You can see all of the lions here. Hers is #3 and it is simply amazing. -
Brevity
27 Jun 2009 | 9:54 pmI painted this today during my live paint at Paste in Soulard during their Grand Opening today. It was like a million degrees out and thus the turnout was light, but the store is very nice. I brought my daughter with me and the two of us painted together all morning. I'm proud of her for tolerating it in the name of spending time with me.I have no idea what it means. If there are any art therapists in the audience feel free to leave a comment/diagnosis..... -
Shooting The Breeze
26 Jun 2009 | 8:20 pmHere's another progress shot of my latest painting. I'm calling it "Mischief":I'll probably add a little something to the background. Even though I do like the solid color and think it works well with the lines/subject matter of the painting, I still feel the need to fool with it. I'll probably just to a thin glaze wash over it just to add some visual interest without taking away from the composition.Tomorrow I'll be live painting at Paste, a new arts & crafts store opening in Soulard. I'll be there doing my thing from 11 am until about 4 pm. There will be other artists and also some… -
Shows On The Horizon
22 Jun 2009 | 8:50 pmI've been in kind of a weird head space the last few days, but it's a good thing. I've got the plans for a few new paintings.This Saturday, June 27, I will be live painting from 11 - 4 at the Grand Opening of Paste art & craft supply (click the link for address & directions). I will also have work on display toward the end of July at the Contemporary Art Museum as a part of the Open Studios event.It feels good to have some shows coming up soon, since I've slowed down a bit in that area. I've added an info box at the top right of the screen that lists events like these and links to… -
Continuation
21 Jun 2009 | 10:01 amHere is Part 2 of yesterday's video:
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2009 Garden of Memory Music / Performance Walk-Through Event at Chapel of the Chimes
7 Jun 2009 | 12:45 pmI’ll be performing next at the annual Garden of Memory performance walk-through event at Chapel of the Chimes, in Oakland, California, where I have performed every June 21st for the past several years, usually with the Cornelius Cardew Choir, a new music/sound art vocal ensemble. This is an amazing and totally unique performance event, which features a who’s who of the San Francisco Bay Area’s New Music scene and often includes composers, musicians and vocalists who cross musical genres. It is held in a historical landmark, a Julia Morgan-designed colombarium that has over… -
I’m Performing with the Cornelius Cardew Choir at the San Francisco Public Library on May 17th…
14 May 2009 | 10:38 pmOn Sunday, May 17th, from 2:00-4:00 p.m., the Cornelius Cardew Choir will present new music choral works at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch, at 100 Larkin St. (at Grove) in San Francisco, as part of the library’s music series. The choir engages audiences and each other with surprising vocal sounds and innovative music making. I’ll be performing as a member of the group, which crosses boundaries between what we consider “music,” “sound art” and “text” and often features original compositions by choir members… -
Abundant Sound Gardens—Art Exhibit and Performance at Meridian Gallery, on May 13th
11 May 2009 | 10:42 pmPhoto of Stuart Dempster, composer and musician Meridian Gallery and Meridian Music: Composers in Performance present Abundant Sound Gardens, a joint commemorative concert and exhibition, presented by Stuart Dempster and Suiren, a.k.a. Renko Ishida Dempster, in memory of musician/composer Toyoji Tomita, whose generous volunteering of his time and knowledge made Meridian’s move into 535 Powell Street in 2007 possible. I’ll be performing as a member of the new music/sound art vocal ensemble, the Cornelius Cardew Choir, which will be improvising along with Stuart Dempster and Suiren. -
Experimental Cardew Choir Performs Works by Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & other Contemporary Composers
16 Mar 2009 | 1:16 amUpdate on my performances—the Cornelius Cardew Choir will be performing this week at Laney College, in Oakland, California, at: Thinking Globally / Singing Locally Laney College World Music Series Thursday, February 26, 2009, at noon 900 Fallon St., Oakland, California (BART to Lake Merritt station) Room G-189, which has a street entrance on the corner of the G Complex buildings at Fallon St., near 10th St. See the campus map More information is available here. Free Admission to the Public. The program will feature the following works by contemporary composers, including several by members… -
More on my Performance in #4 in the Series, Greenlief@50—Five Concerts Celebrating the Saxophonist’s 50th Birthday
16 Feb 2009 | 8:34 pmAs mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be performing tomorrow night, February 17th, in #4 of the series, Greenlief@50—five concerts celebrating the saxophonist’s 50th birthday. That would be none other than Phillip Greenlief (photo above), who is not only a fine saxophonist, but a well-respected composer, music teacher and leader in the Bay Area experimental music scene. Phillip’s own Evander Music web site is the best source for more information about his career, recordings and calendar of upcoming performances. Here is the program for the concert: Concert #4 Tuesday, Feb…
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Kehinde Wiley, "Louis XVI, The Sun King"
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Claudia Hart, "The Tenth Indian"
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Swoon, "‘Untitled’ For ‘ Something Else’ Exhibition"
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Scott Kahn, "Blue Bedroom"
16 Jun 2009 | 11:44 amScott Kahn, Blue Bedroom, 1999.Oil on LinenHeight: 24 inchesWidth: 28 inches
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Shane Hope at Winkleman
6 Jul 2009 | 11:01 pmShane Hope cartoon_trace_atoms=1 2009 archival pigment print 60" x 48" [detail] [two details of Shane Hope's 2009 48" x 48" archival pigment print, "Hyperneckerdeathcube"] [detail of Shane Hope's 2009 48" x 48" archival pigment print, "On Graphite"] Shane Hope's, "Your Mom Is Open Source", opened last Friday at Winkleman Gallery, and it's a doozy. I already knew this artist was on to something both "outstanding" and "unique" [cf. definition of this quaint adjective], but I hadn't seen his latest work, and until last week I could only imagine how magnificent his prints (such a modest word)… -
"finally Utopia" disperses Pocket Utopia
25 Jun 2009 | 9:53 amBen Godward Goddess (with post-modern tits) 2009 dimensions variable, mixed media with beer [installation view, without the beer] After this Sunday it looks like it's going to be up to those who were touched and enriched by the unique creative society which centers on Austin Thomas's storefront in Bushwick to continue its mission elsewhere - or perhaps everywhere. The artist-run space is described in the press release for this, the final show, as: . . . a social sculpture. It is also a gallery and a post-studio artist residency that blurs the lines between artist, dealer, gallerist, viewer… -
old media and the Iran crisis
21 Jun 2009 | 1:18 pmThe Iranian protest movement is using social media in innovative ways to organize and get their message across. In this June 9 photo, a supporter of Mir Hossein Mousavi films an election rally. - Spiegel Online The exigencies of the continuing crisis in Iran have eclipsed the importance of traditional media institutions virtually overnight. Because of a frightened theocracy's police controls and its effectiveness in blocking both access to and the filing of news, the role for television, radio and newspaper news reporting during the unraveling of one of the most important stories of the… -
Chicago's shiny bean, Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate"
18 Jun 2009 | 1:56 pmAnish Kapoor Cloud Gate 2004-2006 polished stainless steel 33' x 66' x 42' [detail of installation] I think I expected to be charmed by Anish Kapoor's sculpture in Millenium Park, but when Barry and I encountered "Cloud Gate" on the first full day of our visit to the city two weeks ago I thought it was even better than the reviews had reported - and even more fun than its billings. But it's also an incredible photo opportunity, and this was one of those rare times I totally went with it. The underside of what Chicagoans had early on dubbed "the Bean" is described as an omphalos, or navel, a… -
first third of the [Chelsea] High Line opens
17 Jun 2009 | 3:39 pmlow down on the High Line Barry and I visited the newly-opened first stretch of the High Line last Thursday, in spite of a light mist which probably reduced the crowds of the curious that afternoon. The experience was more lovely than I had dared to expect. My favorite things are its physical position (three stories above the street snaking around and through some other interesting structures, often within view of the Hudson), the handsome naturalistic plantings, and the fact that it's only a few blocks from our apartment. It's a really, really wonderful thing. Its delights start even before…
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Jeff Hayes: Contemporary Still Life Paintings
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Kaleidoscope: Magnifying Glass No. 2
30 Jun 2009 | 3:19 pm"Kaleidoscope: Magnifying Glass No. 2"Oil on panel, 5 x 5 inchesPurchase InformationKaleidoscope.From the Greek: καλός (kalos), "beautiful" + είδος (eidos), "shape" + σκοπέω (scopeο), "to look at, to examine".Roughly, “looking at beautiful forms”This is the next painting from my Kaleidoscope series. I decided to challenge myself to push the realism a little further here, and spent some time working on the bubbles and deformities in the glass, as well as the knots on the oriental rug. Although I did not aim to paint each individual knot, I was definitely going for the… -
Three Fragments
26 Jun 2009 | 7:43 am"Fragment: Reliquary No. 1"Oil on panel with gold paint, 3.5 x 2.5 inchesSold"Fragment: Reliquary No. 2"Oil on panel with gold paint, 3.5 x 2.5 inchesPurchase Information"Fragment: Reliquary No. 3"Oil on panel with gold paint, 3.5 x 2.5 inchesSoldThese fragments are just a little bit of fun; I wanted to combine what I've been doing with the Kaleidoscope paintings and the moorish arches I'd painted into the borders of a few of the fragments a while back. I also recently saw a book about medieval reliquaries, and was really taken by the beauty of those small, exquisite objects. -
iPhone Art
24 Jun 2009 | 10:10 pmIt's not all about paints and brushes and harsh solvents... my friend Chris Howard (who is among other things a noted author) is doing some neat digital artwork... on his iPhone. Check it out here.The iPhone is just one of those things that make you divide your life into Before and After. -
Kaleidoscope: Magnifying Glass No. 1
23 Jun 2009 | 6:12 pm"Kaleidoscope: Magnifying Glass No. 1"Oil on panel, 5 x 5 inchesPurchase InformationKaleidoscope.From the Greek: καλός (kalos), "beautiful" + είδος (eidos), "shape" + σκοπέω (scopeο), "to look at, to examine".Roughly, “looking at beautiful forms”Although a lot of work is involved in a painting like this, I really enjoy the fact that this series allows me to produce work that has a more spontaneous, unstudied feel. For years, random groupings of objects sitting around my studio have caught my eye, leading me to admire some particular aspect of the combination. I've spent a… -
In progress video: Kaleidoscope
22 Jun 2009 | 6:51 pmThis is an in-progress video of the next of my Kaleidoscope series. It's not the whole painting, but I did think it would be fun to show the magnifying glass come alive.I'll post the finished painting tomorrow.
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Tumblarity Contest
2 Jul 2009 | 7:00 amWas somewhat amused to see my handiwork on lovegifs, a tumblr site that, as explained on lalblog, is thought by some to be out of bounds in appropriating others' animated GIFs without credit. As I explained in my post I took the frames for "my" GIF from a 3D modeling page that cpb linked to. It was three images of a traffic cone, one in full color and two stages of wire frame. They are slightly different sizes, so when put together in sequence they appear to throb. Saving them at a lower resolution altered the color scheme and contributed subtly to the throbbing effect. It is both my work and… -
collage 2008-9 - animations
1 Jul 2009 | 8:52 amFive Frames: html page with embedded 1.5 MB animated GIF Three Frames: html page with embedded .8 MB animated GIF I guess you would call these pages internet art, a vestige of the abstract expressionist and cubist painting traditions incorporating elements of collage, photography, animation, cartooning, web design, and pseudoscience. I have posted lower res versions of these before; these are the most photographically accurate versions to date. html page design: Seamonkey Composer -
Dan Graham Ad Copy
30 Jun 2009 | 6:01 am"Dan Graham has always pointed beyond in his work: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, beyond the medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self. Beyond all these categories and into the realm of the social, the public, the democratic, the mass produced, the architectural, the anarchic, and the humorous." Text cut-and-pasted from the website of the Whitney Museum, describing the catalog for its recently-opened Graham retrospective. The pounding rhythm and faulty parallelism amuse, but also epitomize the kind of priestly incantation spoken or sung over contemporary art. We must be assured… -
Beyond the Catalog
30 Jun 2009 | 5:36 am"Dan Graham has always pointed beyond in his work: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, beyond the medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self. Beyond all these categories and into the realm of the social, the public, the democratic, the mass produced, the architectural, the anarchic, and the humorous." (From the website of the Whitney Museum, describing the catalog for its recently-opened Graham retrospective.) beyond the art object His glass pavilions have been placed indoors and outdoors in locations as remote as the Arctic Circle in Norway. beyond the studio The photographer and art… -
recut trailers
28 Jun 2009 | 10:43 pmIf David Lynch directed Dirty Dancing: [YouTube] If David Lynch directed Return of the Jedi: [YouTube]
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Testsite unravels
1 Jul 2009 | 10:47 pmTestsite (http://www.fluentcollab.org/testsite/index.php/projects/index/8), the Austin exhibition space arm of the Fluent Collaborative, is taking a sabbatical until 2010, citing challenging... -
Rodeo Ho Ho
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Jerry Saltz needs a blog
1 Jul 2009 | 3:48 amJerry Saltz has been using Facebook for a while now, and gaining some well-deserved press. His posts range from... -
Gallery Speed Dating in June: Part Four
29 Jun 2009 | 2:58 amFluent-Collaborative’s Testsite 09.3 – Common Sense Sheila Pepe Elizabeth Dunbar (http://www.inthegalleriesaustin.com/reviews-200702.html) May 31st – July 5th Question:... -
18 Hands Gallery
28 Jun 2009 | 1:25 amDisclaimer!!!! This is not a review, rather ceci une pipe! 18 Hands Gallery 18 Hands Gallery (http://www.18handsgallery.com/) is an art space...
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Ahora
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Insurrection, Stock Footage, and a Closing Reception this Weekend
1 Jul 2009 | 7:13 amSaturday 11am: The Coming Insurrection 2pm: Stock footage workshop Sunday Noon: The Three R’s’… Review, Response and a Reception We have three classes at The Public School this weekend - one will be a reading group, one will be a functional stock footage company, and one will be a closing reception for Tom Leeser’s exhibition at the Distributed Gallery. The closing [...] -
P2P Networks and Processes Seminar - July 6 - 10 / Medialab-Prado
1 Jul 2009 | 7:04 amThe 4th Inclusiva-net Encounter: P2P Networks and Processes will take place in Medialab-Prado Madrid from July 6 to 10, 2009. The goal of this international meeting is to debate about social and cultural potentials of these peer-to-peer networked systems, as well as their feasibility as an alternative model of knowledge production, based in collaboration, decentralization and [...] -
Online Film Project_apartment666
29 Jun 2009 | 7:42 ama web-based shortfilm project from berlin/germany, experimenting with specific ways of storytelling on the web. archive of beginnings. In 15 episodes one can see on www.apartment666.com a Variation about the beginnings of a story. 15 characters are going to enter the Apartment , to make a new beginning and leave their past behind. 15 times the first few [...] -
Save the Date for a TAE Fundraiser
29 Jun 2009 | 7:34 amSAVE THE DATE Sunday July 19, 5-8pm A Summertime Sundowner at The Mandrake Bar in Culver City To raise funds for the programs of Telic Arts Exchange Please put us in your calendar for an early evening of cocktails, classes, food and music. Invitations and information coming soon. __ Telic Arts Exchange is a non-profit organization that provides a place for [...] -
newmediaFIX Is Taking a Few Days Off, Back on June 29
22 Jun 2009 | 7:17 amnewmediaFIX will be back on June 29. Please visit us then.
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MetLife Innovative Space Awards (ISA)
1 Jul 2009 | 11:08 amThe development of affordable living and working spaces for artists plays a powerful role in the production of their work. These spaces provide a stable foundation from which artists may vigorously pursue their work and shape the communities they inhabit. Through direct engagement and influence, the presence of culturally rich activity contributes to the of culturally rich activity contributes to the overall health and vitality of communities at a variety of scales. Exemplary artist spaces support the diverse and unique practices of individual artists, cultivate creative enterprise in local… -
Open Call To Artists: A Book About Death
30 Jun 2009 | 8:16 amOpen Call To Artists: A Book About Death: “I’m not typically a fan of open calls (uncurated shows tend to attract those who can’t), but I can get behind a solid show concept employing the format. One such case can be seen in A book About Death, an exhibition asking over 1000 artists to produce an unbound book of 500 post cards. Conceived by Matthew Rose, the show couldn’t be more timely; it’s been a big year for death. Not to state the obvious, but Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett’s death last Thursday gives us all quite a bit to respond to. Art Fag City, however,… -
New to the South Florida landscape
28 Jun 2009 | 6:56 amAlthough for many this is new, I knew about this space coming into existence before ground was broken from a conversation I had with Ms. de la Cruz two years ago. I hope to see it open soon. I think it has some very interesting possibilities and, has already opened some dialogue about their collection. An artful gift to the South Florida landscape: “At a time when most art institutions are cutting costs, collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz are adding another significant player to the Miami art scene — a long-anticipated warehouse space in the Design District to showcase their… -
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Buoyed by Facebook, Jerry Saltz Writes Letter to MoMA Curator
25 Jun 2009 | 4:29 amAnyone who says that Facebook cannot foment serious discussion is wrong. This ongoing Facebook discussion led to quite a bit of feedback, most of it thoughtful and interesting. And, this will not be the last time Facebook will be the vehicle for something important in art. People: Buoyed by Facebook, Jerry Saltz Writes Letter to MoMA Curator: “After having launched a discussion about MoMA’s representation of women, the art critic has now sent a letter to Ann Temkin, the museum’s curator of painting and sculpture. NEW YORK—A couple of weeks ago, New York magazine art critic…
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Censorship in Bordeaux
30 Jun 2009 | 3:51 pmvia e-flux: Marlene Dumas, included in the exhibition, with one of her "obscenities." Photograph: Martin Godwin.June 30, 2009 "Presumed Innocents", the trial: 10 years later Bordeaux Judge Reopens Decade-Old Child-Porn Charge Against Curators Marie-Laure Bernadac, Henry-Claude Cousseau, and Stéphanie Moisdon Indicted at the end of 2006, after six years of investigations, long period during which no element was produced that could have fed the prosecution (the specialized unit for minors and the rectorship gave a favourable opinion) and after the attorney general of Bordeaux called for a… -
Closings (UES) 106
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Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 173
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Found Art (UES): Unmonumental 172
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Last Chance: Tainted Love
27 Jun 2009 | 7:01 amGreat show, open today through Sunday. Don't forget to check out the installation in the alley by fierce pussy, pictured above and below.via email:Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomon. Featuring: Luis Camnitzer, Jose Luis Cortes, fierce pussy, General Idea, Gran Fury, Matt Lipps, Catherine Lord, Charles Lum, Ivan Monforte, and Wu Ingrid Tsang.La MaMa La Galleria 6 East 1st Street Exhibition continues thru Sunday, June 28, 2009Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 1-6PMTainted Love was reviewed in The New York Times by Holland Cotter."This smart group exhibition,…
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Sam Flores Sneak Peek
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Mundane Details
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Heike Weber
1 Jul 2009 | 3:56 pmEnjoy the crazy-intricate installations and papercuts of German artist Heike Weber.
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Recent Announcements
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Summer Films at the National Gallery of Art
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The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle | July 3 through September 7, 2009
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National Gallery of Art Summer Lectures Explore Exhibitions, and Intertwined Works of Art
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An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture | July 4 through November 1, 2009
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The Intrepid Art Collector
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Psst! Breakfast of Champions, on sale
23 Jun 2009 | 1:17 pmCereal Art, purveyor of fun art multiples, has a 40 percent off sale right now. The super secret sale code is JUNESALE. Shh. Image: Hank Willis Thomas & Ryan Alexiev's Obama-in-cereal portrait, available as a limited edition print or poster. -
Books plus
22 Jun 2009 | 7:09 pmWhat should a recession collector choose: books or art? How about both. Juliana Beasley and Shen Wei both have book-plus-photo editions out right now, for under $300. Shen Wei's is a portfolio of his best "Almost Naked" images (suitable for framing), while Juliana Beasley's knock-out "Lap Dancer" book comes with a spectacular color print. If you've been itching to treat yourself, here's where to start. -
Help Humble!
30 Apr 2009 | 9:37 amThe Humble Arts Foundation needs your financial help, and generosity never felt so good: Support the organization by buying fabulous limited-edition photographs at 30 percent off the normal price. (Use the code HAF30 to get your discount).Humble is one of the best, most important resources for emerging photographers, and I can personally vouch for the quality of their limited editions. Besides, who wouldn't love Susana Raab's print of Playboy bunnies serving tofu hot dogs while dressed in lettuce bikinis? -
Zoe Strauss's I-95 show is this weekend!
29 Apr 2009 | 4:32 pmW.C. Fields famously declared that he'd rather be dead than in Philadelphia. Clearly he never envisioned a Philly powerhouse like Zoe Strauss. Strauss's annual I-95 exhibition, held outdoors rain or shine under the I-95 ramp, has become a pilgrimage for photography lovers. It's not only a chance to see over 200 photos by La Divina Strauss, it's also a great chance to collect:Sunday, May 3th, 20091pm to 4pm Under I-95 at Front St. and Mifflin St., PhiladelphiaZoe Strauss has all the trappings of fancy art world success -- prestigious grants, Chelsea openings, a slot in the Whitney Biennial, a… -
After the Fallout
29 Apr 2009 | 1:59 pm"People are not supposed to live here; wild boars, rabbits and deer thrive in the lush greenery...What Don [Weber] found was a haphazard community of survivors and emigrants from other cities, who told him they preferred Chernobyl's rural peace to the urban blight of Ukraine's industrial zone...Were they afraid of dying early? No, people told him, they were afraid of modern life."- afterword to Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl.One of my favorite new photography books is Donald Weber's Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl. Weber has an unusual background for a photographer -- he was an ultra distinguished…
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Modern Art Notes
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Happy Fourth (updated)
2 Jul 2009 | 6:13 amEnjoy the long weekend. See you Monday.Fresh from the morning papers: The Fishers abandon their plans for a Main Post-based contemporary art museum in the Presidio. Preservationists rejoice. -
Still-life Wednesday: Toledo's new Thiebaud
1 Jul 2009 | 10:28 amContinuing, sort of, from here and here...The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired Wayne Thiebaud's 1963 Roast Beef Dinner (Trucker's Supper), at left.Roast Beef Dinner is a quintessentially mid-20th-century American still-life. It's a square meal of the sort one would expect to find at, well, a truck stop. The white bread recalls industrially-processed Wonder Bread. The tomatoes look culinarily pro forma rather than a considered part of the meal, and the plating of the food is as bland and unimaginative as possible. (Those aren't French french fries, those are American-cut fries, too.) Like… -
Still-life Wednesday, part two
1 Jul 2009 | 8:30 amContinuing from this morning...Luis Melendez, the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th-century, elevated simple, rustic objects into palace decorations for royals. A survey of his still-life paintings is on view at the National Gallery of Art until Aug. 23. This painting is the creatively-titled Still Life with Apples, Pears, Cheese, Jug, Boxes and Cask from 1760-1765. It's in a private collection.The NGA show is small and dense: Thirty-one paintings installed in just two-plus cavern-like galleries in the NGA's East Building. The hanging is plenty assembly-line, but in this… -
Still-life Wednesday, part one
1 Jul 2009 | 6:04 amThroughout the day I'll be featuring some food-centric still-lifes on view now at American museums. Today's last post will feature a new museum acquisition.This is Job Berckheyde's The Baker (~1681), on view at the Worcester Art Museum. Berckheyde was a minor painter of city scenes, church interiors (mostly of St. Bavo's) and this unusual (mostly) still-life painting. Bread was a big deal in the Netherlands -- Vermeer's biggest contemporary collector was a breadmaker who may have accepted paintings in lieu of payment. According to WAM, the baker is tooting his own horn to announce that the… -
Five things from the Worcester Art Museum
30 Jun 2009 | 8:05 am1.) The Worcester Art Museum is the best American art museum you probably haven't been to. The European collection is deep and full of good paintings and the American collection (and installations) are top-notch.2.) Worcester's Jacob van Ruisdael might be the best 17thC Dutch seascape in an American museum. (Wanna disagree? Tweet me and I'll share your picks.)3.) Worcester's early American collection can go up against almost anyone's. Have a browse here to see what I mean. (Roberta Smith, who criticized the National Gallery of Art's American installation for being stale would probably love…
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Free Fridayz: Summer Party
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London Ramblings
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Eric Yahnker Interview
29 Jun 2009 | 9:17 am"I personally get a kick out of the cable guy who can appreciate my work on his own terms, while the academic art critic can excavate further and appreciate it on theirs." -
Jeff Soto: London Part 2
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Alexis Mackenzie Studio Visit
24 Jun 2009 | 2:04 amHer show opens Fri. June 26th at Park Life in San Francisco. We stopped through for a preview.
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OUPblog » Art
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Henry Ford Learns the Most Expensive Art Lesson in History
1 Jul 2009 | 12:18 amFrom the Cadillac to the Apple Mac, the skyscraper to the Tiffany lampshade, the world we live in has been profoundly influenced by the work of American designers. Below is an extract from Design in the USA by Jeffrey L. Meikle, part of the Oxford History of Art series, which discusses automobile design and the marketing strategies by Ford and General Motors in the 1920s. The automobile was the most significant technology of the twentieth century, transforming the way almost all people lived, worked, and identified themselves. More than any other manufactured artefact, it engaged the… -
Red Snow: Tokyo A Cultural History
26 Jun 2009 | 7:44 amStephen Mansfield is an author and photojournalist who has been living on the edges of Tokyo since the late 1980s. His book, Tokyo: A Cultural History, looks at how Tokyo grew from a fishing village along a marshy estuary to one of the world’s largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. We learn that for all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the excerpt below Mansfield looks at piece of Tokyo’s history that has lived on in literature. An extraordinary event occurred in 1701 that electrified the entire city. Because of… -
Book Models
5 Jun 2009 | 7:03 amPurdy, Director of Publicity As a former childhood model who appeared on the cover of a Time/Life book, in the July 4th 1976 issue of the New York Times Magazine, in a few book of portraits by Duane Michals, and in a photo essay in the premier issue of Parenting Magazine, not to mention turning up as hotel art in DC and San Francisco, I have often felt a kindred spirit with Danny Bonaduce as my cutest, brightest moments piqued so early in my life. I am not bitter and do not miss the near celebrity I almost enjoyed from my modeling years, but I recently befriended a publicist at an imprint in… -
The Sinister Side: Titian’s Diana and Actaeon
26 Nov 2008 | 12:46 amJames Hall was an art critic for The Guardian, and is now a freelance art historian and writer. His latest book is The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art. In the piece below he considers Titian’s painting Diana and Actaeon, which has been in the British news recently thanks to a campaign to raise enough money to keep the picture in the UK and stop it being sold on the open market. Here James examines right and left in the painting. £50 million for Titian’s Diana and Actaeon? That’s the amount the National Galleries in London and Edinburgh have to raise by… -
The Beatles, Robots… and a Giant Spider:OUP UK’s Kate FT heads to the BA Festival of Science
10 Sep 2008 | 12:21 amAs I mentioned in my post last week, this time of year is always busy for us publicists thanks to the number of festivals that take place up and down the country. In another dispatch from the front line of PR, OUP UK’s Head of Publicity, Kate Farquhar-Thomson, regails us with her tale of giant-spider-avoidance in Liverpool during the British Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual Festival. It was with great excitement that I booked my trip to Liverpool for the BA Festival of Science. An annual event, the BA (British Association for the Advancement of Science) moves…
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Pop Life: Art in a Material World
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Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2009 Supported by Sotheby’s
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Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely
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Late at Tate: Fool Spectrum
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BP Exhibition - Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain
25 May 2009 | 4:00 pm26 May 2009 | Tate BritainBP Exhibition - Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain
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Philip Smith Responds
29 Jun 2009 | 8:35 pmPhilip Smith, the single member of the original five-artist Pictures show not included AT ALL in the thirty-artist Met show, responds in a letter to Art in America.Regina Hackett on Philip Smith's art, and on his exclusion from the Met show.CultureGrrl Lee Rosenbaum talks to original curator Douglas Crimp.Carefully Aimed Darts' Historical Erasure at the Pictures Generation. -
Chuck Webster, PLUS Charles Thomas O'Neil
26 Jun 2009 | 10:28 pmChuck Webster, Glyph From An Italian Fireplace, 2007.Color and Form: The Language of Abstract Art, curated by Hellmut Wohl, at The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA. It's Chuck Webster and Charles Thomas O'Neil, with a small selection of older work from the museum's collection.Chuck Webster is one of the artists included in Bob Nickas' upcoming Painting Abstraction. WHO ELSE??Cactus, 2004 above To Paul Klee (Workshop), 2007.Lazy Bridge For Luca Signorelli, 2007 above Fragment, 2008.Heartbeat, 2007and RAAH, 2004PLUS:Charles Thomas O'Neil Charles Thomas O'Neil -
Israel
22 Jun 2009 | 9:10 pmThis old man was standing outside taking a photo of the gallery with his cell phone... he was taking photos up and down the street. I asked him why he was taking all of these photos and he said because he had lived here for 25 years and it was his first time back in 50 years.I took this photo of Israel at 5 Rivington, where Thierry Goldberg is now. ArtLoversNewYork's Simon Cerigo and Nancy Smith had their studio and home here, from 1987 through 1996. Richard Prince's Spiritual America was at this address, 1983.RELATED: Check out the Lost Art of New York map being created at 16 Miles of… -
random
22 Jun 2009 | 12:00 am“Bruce Nauman, the Sam Shepherd of Contemporary Art” - Francesco Bonami. What are some other examples of this? I know I’ve read them but can’t recall any.Peter Schjeldahl "motherfucker"!- in comments responding to Geoff Dyer.retard roundup:1. Chris Sharp, 2/11/08, for Flash Art - reviews Joe Bradley, Dan Colen responds in comments... discussed on anaba 11/10/08 and 1/05/09 (many great comments).2. Charlie Finch, 12/11/08, for Artnet - on Marlene Dumas' retarded references.3. Jerry Saltz, 1/09, for NYMag and Artnet - on going "full retard"4. Chris Sharp again, 4/28/09, for ArtReview -… -
Christoph Buchel Appeal
13 Jun 2009 | 10:39 pmChristoph Buchel Vs. Mass MoCA continues.... read the briefs -1. Buchel's Appeal, 3/2/092. Mass MoCA's Brief, 4/3/09.3. Reply Brief for Christoph Buchel, 2/22/09.The case was argued last week in the U.S. Court of Appeals... click here to listen to the audio. I can't tell how it is going to go at all. Buchel has new counsel. Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts for Buchel, with the New York law firm of Wachtell, Rosen, Lipton & Katz and the Boston law firm K & L Gates.UPDATE: Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is now Assistant Director of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Sergio was a strident Buchel…
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A glimpse through time at the Arts League
2 Jul 2009 | 2:20 pmEntering the gallery at the University City Arts League last week was like looking into a time capsule. The exhibit there, Hidden Gems of West Philadelphia, is from the collection of Sylvia Egnal, one of the UCAL founders and long time supporter. She’s almost 98! Andy Warhol, Flowers, silk screen; this was one of the successful sales, and listed at $4,000 it had the highest asking price in the exhibit. The art on the walls reflects a number of bygone eras, a sort of time line of the interaction between Egnal’s taste and art world trends. It is to Egnal’s credit that some… -
Frenz at Fleisher-Ollman
1 Jul 2009 | 3:09 pmThe standout piece at Fleisher/Ollman’s Frenz exhibit is more than a standout. It’s outta heeeere. The exhibit includes work by 11 artists selected by singer-songwriter Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The work in the show is a suprising mix of homey and slick, the result of what I imagine is one guy’s personal taste mixed with loyalty to his posse of frenz. But after seeing Lori Damiano’s video animation, Lord I: The Records Keeper, 2003-2009, I think I want to be frenz with her, even though she lives on the West Coast. Lori Damiano, Lord I: The… -
West Prize is looking for a few good artists
1 Jul 2009 | 8:28 amIt’s time to apply for the West Prize, now going for its second round, with a grand prize of $25,000 cash plus $100,000 of purchase money distributed among the 10 finalists, who came from across the U.S. and abroad, with the Philadelphia collaborators, brothers Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala, taking home the big one. The Dufala brothers won last year's West Collection grand prize. Here's their 2007, Ice Cream Truck Tank, mixed media, 8’ x 6’ x 13’, on display at the West Collection's home, SEI Corporation in Oaks. The purchases go to the West Collection, whose curator,… -
Weekly Update — First Friday picks and why
1 Jul 2009 | 5:32 amHere’s my Weekly First Friday picks. Sarah Gamble recently received one of the coveted Pew Fellowships. But before that, her year was a mess. Her house was struck by lightning and vandalized. She lost her job. And she got sick and wound up in the hospital. In her show Unemployment Paintings at Bambi Gallery , Gamble displays the fruits of her turbulent year in a handful of new work. One standout piece is an untitled painting of a dark and quirky castlelike house bleeding from one side while a rainbow sits on its other shoulder. Gamble paints from imagination and her colorful, heavily… -
Michael Jackson–the medium, the message, the art
30 Jun 2009 | 7:28 pmI read this observation about Michael Jackson in Friday’s Times: Michael Jackson will be remembered as a great and widely imitated mover. Other things about him will be remembered too, but it is amazing how many of them are apparent in his dancing. The sweet boy, the angry dissident and the weirdly glamorous star are all there; and so is the androgyne who gives off conflicting male/female signals in the course of a single number.–Alastair Macaulay Michael Jackson as his dream self. Image from http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/04/15/michael_jackson_auction_called_off Not…
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National Gallery of Art, Washington-Video and Audio
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Judith Leyster, 1609–1660: Part 2, Leyster's Technique
30 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amJune 2009 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Frima Fox Hofrichter, professor of the history of art and design, Pratt Institute, New York. Dutch artist Judith Leyster's 400th birthday is celebrated at the Gallery with an exhibition of 10 of her most engaging paintings, joined by some 20 works by 17th-century contemporaries, as well as musical instruments of the period depicted in the art. In the second of this three-part podcast, produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Wheelock talks to Leyster scholar Frima Fox… -
Judith Leyster, 1609-1660: Part 1, An Introduction
23 Jun 2009 | 6:38 amJune 2009 - Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., curator of northern baroque painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Frima Fox Hofrichter, professor of the history of art and design, Pratt Institute, New York. Dutch artist Judith Leyster's 400th birthday is celebrated at the Gallery with an exhibition of 10 of her most engaging paintings, joined by some 20 works by 17th-century contemporaries, as well as musical instruments of the period depicted in the art. In the first of this three-part podcast, produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Gallery curator Arthur Wheelock talks to Leyster… -
Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction
16 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amJune 2009 - Judith Brodie, curator and head of the department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington. English artist Stanley William Hayter has been widely celebrated for his influence on creative printmaking in America and Europe. In this podcast, produced on the occasion of the Gallery exhibition Stanley William Hayter: From Surrealism to Abstraction, Judith Brodie talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the range of Hayter's work in the exhibition, including his surrealist engravings, linear abstractions inspired by motion and mathematics, and fully worked… -
Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde
9 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amJune 2009 - Matthew Witkovsky, chair and curator, department of photography, the Art Institute of Chicago. Jaromír Funke, a leading figure in Czech and Slovak photography between the world wars, blazed a path with his compatriots—a group of committed amateurs—toward photography as a modern form of art. In this podcast, produced on the occasion of the Gallery exhibition Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde, Witkovsky talks to host Barbara Tempchin about the Czech photographer's influential role in this movement. -
Talk about Art
2 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amTalk about Art is a six-minute documentary film that highlights visitors to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Among the visitors who share their thoughts on art are people from all walks of life—including students, a taxi driver, an architect, a security guard, and a hairdresser. These are not art historians, but art is a common bond for them, and definitely a force in their lives. For some art is a way to connect to the past; for others it is a way to see the world around them in a different way. Listening to their side of the museum experience may get you talking about art as…
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Women Artists
1 Jul 2009 | 5:13 pmI was in the bookstore the other day, in the Art History section, and picked up a book called Women Artists by Margaret Barlow. There are so many names in there that are completely unfamiliar to me, and it struck me how odd it is that in 2009 we still need to have a book devoted to this subject. Imagine how funny it would seem to publish a book called Male Artists.What is the reason for the lack of awareness of female artists? Director Pamela Tanner Boll explores this subject in the film Who Does She Think She Is?, a film which I have yet to see but is on my must-watch list. The trailer… -
tinku Cube(d)
27 Jun 2009 | 10:48 pmA couple of months ago I wrote about entering a nationwide competition sponsored by Nissan to find the 50 most creative Canadians, to whom they would each give a new Nissan Cube car. I decided to compose a series of short stories depicting imaginary road trips with some of my favourite artists, both living and deceased. What surprised me most was how something that started off as a contest ended up inspiring me to learn the stories of the artists I admire and let my imagination take me around the world.Many of you read my stories and voted throughout the campaign. And to you I have much… -
17 seconds
21 Jun 2009 | 2:02 pmIs 17 seconds enough to communicate something? Make a first impression? Wow someone? Piss someone off? Make someone laugh or cry? Journalist Jaime Woo once did a video series called Toronto in 6 words, which included a short clip from yours truly. He is now trying to see what he can communicate in 17 seconds, and the first clip is from our last opening, where he interviewed artist Brigid Watson on her show. Check it out for yourself - the circus music alone is worth a listen. -
Ignore Everybody: Hugh MacLeod
20 Jun 2009 | 9:21 amI don't know about you, but I find everywhere I look (either online or face to face) there are people who are self-proclaimed experts. But dig a little deeper and you will see they are like the Emperor with no clothes, with very to add to the equation.Once in a while though I come across a guy like Hugh MacLeod, who is the real deal. Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist who makes his living both by publishing fine art prints via the internet and consulting other companies on web 2.0. I first heard of Hugh only a year ago, by reading his blog which receives over 1 million visits a month, and following… -
Leah Sandal's Playlist
11 Jun 2009 | 7:21 pmLeah Sandals is a well known Canadian art critic, writing for publications including the National Post, Canadian Art and NOW Magazine. I also follow her feed on Twitter, where she posts links to interesting art reviews as well as her own blog posts, including this hilarious one where she unleashes her inner rock star to compile a music playlist fit for art critics.Have a look and a laugh here
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Art of the Day
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Peachy-Gold Snapdragon Blossoms
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmPeachy-Gold Snapdragon BlossomsSarah Schoenfeld I love high contrast images, and I'm really passionate about light objects on black b ...read more -
In Bloom
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Nobody Was Going to Tell Penelope That Pigs Can't Fly
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmNobody Was Going to Tell Penelope That Pigs Can't FlyLeigh Elise Acrylic painting with vintage papers and photographs, decoratibe paper, pen and ink, ...read more -
Prickly Pear Bloom Triptych
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmPrickly Pear Bloom TriptychClaudia Goodell This was a fun piece to complete, and now I want to paint more desert flowers. Specia ...read more -
Little John
1 Jul 2009 | 5:00 pmLittle JohnKerry Lynn Nelson Here's a cute little bright-eyed john mule to add to your stable! With juicy str ...read more
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AO Art Observed™
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AO On Site – Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Wednesday, July 1st, ‘The Living and the Dead’
2 Jul 2009 | 3:22 pmJust Trying To Break The Ice… by Michael Caputo. “The Living and the Dead” is a collaborative show of over 50 artists, including Amy Yao, Brian Belott, Anicka Yi, Uri Aran, George Condo, Justin Matherly, Haim Steinback, and dozens of others. The art is an almost bewildering mix of styles and mediums, ranging from wooden statues to fishing poles, giant ice cubes, elastic, and deep-fried q-tips. The show opened last night at Gavin Brown`s Enterprises, and runs from July 1st – Aug. 7th. Related Links: Gavin Brown’s Enterprise [Official Site] Summer Group Shows, Part II… -
Go See – New York: Arcangel, Pinard, Routson at Team Gallery through July 31, 2009
2 Jul 2009 | 10:49 amStill from Cory Arcangel’s ‘Drei Klavierstücke, op. 11′ via Team Gallery Team Gallery’s current exhibition is a group show of three video artists from the gallery’s roster: Cory Arcangel, Guillaume Pinard, and Jon Routson. It follows a similar three-person show of abstract work by its artists in January. The exhibition includes a number of video pieces, in both large and small formats, as well as a sound piece by Routson and two prints by Arcangel in his Photoshop series – a similar print was in the New Museum’s triennial, Younger Than Jesus. -
Bernie Madoff associate Ezra Merkin forced by New York State to sell $300M art collection
2 Jul 2009 | 9:21 amEzra Merkin, via Guardian UK. After weeks of negotiation with the Attorney General’s office, J. Ezra Merkin has agreed to sell an art collection appraised by Christie’s at $310 million. After taxes and other fees — the New York Times reports that Merkin was paying $60,000 a month on insurance, and owed $42 million to previous owners as well as $19.3 million on a loan used to purchase the artwork — profits from the sale amount to $191 million, to be frozen in escrow pending the outcome of the Attorney General’s suit against the suspected Bernie Madoff feeder. -
Go See – Brussels: John Baldessari at Greta Meert Gallery through July, 25th 2009.
1 Jul 2009 | 9:26 pmJohn Baldessari, ‘Raised Eyebrows/Furrowed Foreheads: Airplane (Concorde),’ 2009. Via ArtNet. Currently showing at the Greta Meert Gallery in Brussels are seven pieces from the latest series by American artist John Baldessari. The selection represents a continuation of previous series, in which Baldessari explored fragmented body parts, abstraction of facial expressions and the relationship between separate parts and the whole. His former series, which came under the titles of ‘Noses & Ears, Etc.’, ‘Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees)’,… -
Go See – London: Jeff Koons ‘POPEYE SERIES’ at the Serpentine Gallery opens tomorrow, through September 13, 2009
1 Jul 2009 | 10:31 amPopeye, part of the new Jeff Koons exhibition at the Serpentine by the same name. Jeff Koons’s first major exhibition in a public gallery in England opens tomorrow. The show at the Serpentine features works drawn from public and private holdings, and some new works on display for the first time. The “Popeye Series” “creates a world beyond taste,” appropriation art at its finest. The extraordinary and the mundane are put side by side: Popeye and and Olive Oyl are embedded in multi-layered paint. Garbage cans and chairs, chains and even the occasional…
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happy sneaky sketch
1 Jul 2009 | 6:00 pmhappy sneaky sketch artist at workWhile I was at the sketch night, I was fascinated by those around me, lost, deep in their thought, or the act of capturing the live model. I turned to my left and there was this young man looking so determined to sketch, to get it all down on paper. It was his bright taxi cab yellow tee-shirt and red hi-tops that caught my eye - and the slouch of his body gave off a casual air. I snuck this sketch in which made me happy today. Do you enjoy observing those around you and getting a sneaky peak? -
happy sketch night
1 Jul 2009 | 3:56 ampve design sketches from sketch night at the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORSI went here last night. My sketch book needed to get happy.Three hours of sketching, live music and models.If my sketchbook were any happier, it would scream.Thanks to this artful gal for giving me the heads up.How do you make time for happy hours for you? -
happy as a clam
29 Jun 2009 | 9:00 pmHow happy as a clam would you be to spend an evening here, sharing New England Clam Chowder and happy conversation? I have always loved homes that are the perfect shade of buttery yellow. What color makes your home happy as a clam? -
happily ever after
29 Jun 2009 | 6:00 ampve design illustration - june weddingJune is almost over. This is a month that traditionally is full of love and marriage. This illustration was created for a wedding that took place on an island. With love and marriage there is no one person that can attain this by themselves. It takes two to create a strong and passionate love. Tell me, what is the one thing that you are committed to that helps you to live and to love happily ever after? -
happy mail
28 Jun 2009 | 12:00 amAt last, my happy little postcards arrived and I have been busy sending them out. Be kind enough to e-mail me your address and I would be happy to send you a post-card.e-mail to pve at pve design dot com. I love sending mail out as much as I love getting happy mail! (nothing like a little shameless self promotion!)Happy monday.
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The Abbeville Manual of Style
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Abbeville vs. Chicago: Blog Titles
2 Jul 2009 | 10:58 amThroughout the long mock war we’ve waged against The Chicago Manual of Style, we’ve always preferred to tangle with their print edition, largely because the paint-peeling shade of orange they chose for the cover has provided such a goldmine of cheap jokes. Today, however, we came across an item on their Web edition—the color scheme of which favors light blue, with the orange merely an accent—that hit far too close to home for us to ignore. Chicago Online, your palette may be muted, but our indignation is not. The offending passage runs as follows: Q. How would you treat… -
The Bibliophilia of Michael Jackson
1 Jul 2009 | 9:49 am(Jackson and books photos courtesy Wikimedia) Until now we’ve resisted adding to the welter of Michael Jackson death coverage, preferring to leave celebrity news, gossip, etc. in the capable hands of other blogs. But after this morning’s LA Times story on the singer’s reading habits, we could no longer remain silent. Jackson a fan of art and architecture books? Who knew? If only we had, our sales representatives mutter… Actually, while it’s unlikely that marketing to a star of Jackson’s wattage would have been possible or even desirable, there’s… -
Look Back in Angkor
30 Jun 2009 | 8:29 amAngkor, by Jon Ortner Jon Ortner, author of Abbeville’s 2002 volume Angkor: Celestial Temples of the Khmer Empire, has recently revisited the subject of Khmer temples in an excellent text/photo essay on the National Geographic website. Like the book, and in the best Abbevillian spirit, the essay combines exotic locales, arresting images, and suspenseful travel yarns. Here’s a quick snippet: I looked through the military binoculars the guard handed me. Across the valley, surrounded by thick piles of sand bags, was a bunker. In it was a group of young soldiers, members of the… -
Fireworks Art
29 Jun 2009 | 1:39 pmCai Guo-Qiang, Closing Rainbow: Fireworks Project for the Closing Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Courtesy www.caiguoqiang.com So you want to get into the July Fourth spirit, but as a sophisticated Manual of Style reader you find patriotic fervor slightly gauche. What to do? Well, you could always ditch America and take a jaunt to Bilbao, where the Guggenheim Museum is currently featuring a retrospective on conceptual artist and fireworks master Cai Guo-Qiang. Or you could stay home, light a sparkler, and check out this Wall Street Journal slideshow of Mr. Cai’s… -
From the Comments: British Humor
26 Jun 2009 | 8:36 amThanks to the eloquent contributions of Vincent, a commenter from the UK, Monday’s post on the Economist’s in-house style guide has turned into a discussion of a certain elusive quality of British humor. Unsurprisingly, Vincent’s description of that quality far surpasses our own: I would call it playful and ultimately affectionate. If I were to characterise the British gentlemanly code of behaviour, now obsolescent, it is to be silent about that which you despise or hate, and to be very restrained about that which you love passionately. So one’s utterances are…
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Natasha's Art Candy
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Video – Favorite things: Royksopp
1 Jul 2009 | 11:05 amThe Girl and The Robot is one of my very favorite videos from one of my favorite bands right now, Royksopp! -
New art at auction
29 Jun 2009 | 6:00 pmGOLD PENCHANT Original 24″x30″ painting on gallery wrapped canvas $550 -
Video Karaoke for SM4SC
26 Jun 2009 | 9:19 pmLearn more about how you can be a part. DARE someone on Twitter to a karaoke challenge when you donate to sm4sc.com! natashasartcandy.com Music: Unforgettable – Nat King Cole -
Create Live AZ This Thursday
26 Jun 2009 | 1:39 pmThursday, July 2nd @ 2pm (MST)/5pm (EST) I will be doing a LIVE painting demo at Liberty Market, which will be in conjunction with host: Brent Spore of iboughtamac.com and Starving Designer, who will be doing demo work on NatashasArtCandy.com with designers who come out. Izzy Video will be streaming the show LIVE in HD! This [...] -
New art at auction
25 Jun 2009 | 4:32 pmRUBY FIRES 3 pc (16×20) painting on gallery wrapped canvases $250
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JazJaz
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Lassie on Twitter
1 Jul 2009 | 8:05 amIf Lassie had a Twitter account… More fictional tweets from historical figures and celebrities. [via Historical Tweets] Related Posts: Status Calendar Is Like Twitter For Real Life Updates Original Sketch of the Twitter UI -
The Nest That Sailed The Sky – Music Video Animated Using Processing
30 Jun 2009 | 12:04 pmThe visually-splendid animated creations of Ireland based animator and composer, Glenn Marshall, have always been quite impressive. His surrealistically-beautiful video for Peter Gabriel’s “The Nest That Sailed The Sky” won an award of distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica. The music video was created using Processing, an open source programming language created for the electronic arts and visual design communities. Related Posts: MusicBox – Music Mapping and Visualization Software Animated Music Video for Radiohead’s – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi Track -
Award Winning Documentary on Shark Human Interaction
29 Jun 2009 | 9:14 am“Gimme a Hug”, a documentary by the Protect The Sharks Foundation, won the Palm De Bronze at the 35th Mondial De L’image Sous-Marine film festival in Antibes, France. The documentary shows sharks exhibiting some markedly unexpected behavior, quite contrary to their image as blood thirsty, mindless killing machines. You can order the documentary here. [via The Presurfer] Related Posts: Underwater Armageddon – Nature’s Great Events Documentary Ubuntu B-Boys – A Short Film About Breakdancers in South Africa The Secret of Yogic Levitation in India -
The Hippie Batboy
29 Jun 2009 | 2:27 amAwesome illustrations by graphic designer Richard Perez on Flickr. Related Posts: The Art of Brazilian Artist André Azevedo Select Illustrations From Tom Gauld’s Sketchbook Portraits As Living Deads – Celebrities As Zombies My First Dictionary – For Adults Only Gallery of Artistic Industrial Tanks Friendly Childhood Monsters By Relleno De Mano -
Michael Jackson, RIP
26 Jun 2009 | 3:09 amPhoto Credit: Life Much ink has been spilt about Michael Jackson in the past few years, the man’s life has been opened up, dissected, carved up and consumed by both adoring fans and perennial haters alike. Michael made a lot of mistakes, a lot being of the indefensible kind. But his musical talent and genius was undeniable – a lot of us practically grew up listening to his songs. Eventually, we moved on to more “cooler” stuff, and we vehemently denied ever being fans of his. We grew more distant, repulsed, no doubt, by the bizarre circus that his life had become. It was with…
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BoraMag - All Things Cool » Arts
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The Disturbing Art Of Francis Bacon
12 Jun 2009 | 6:18 amUp for seeing the works of a disturbed artist? I thought so. Head on over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see the Francis Bacon exhibit. His work has some serious shock value and you can see the impact on people just by watching their faces when they are looking at these pictures. One part Pan’s Labyrinth, one part The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, the creature-like characters in Francis Bacon’s paintings will surely freak you out. -
Sonar Festival Comes To NYC May 12th
5 May 2009 | 8:28 pmSpain’s music, video and film festival Sonar is organizing a day of special concerts and performances in New York in a very unusual venue in the city, the Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC), with a top class line-up that combines multimedia art ideas with experimental electronica and latest generation pop, and which includes both Catalan and American artists. Sonar’s arrival in New York is thanks to a collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull, as part of the events entitled “Catalan Days: Music and Media from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands. The SonarSound NY bill includes… -
Breathtaking action photography by Zach Gold
16 Feb 2009 | 5:51 pmA graduate of the producer of fantastic designers, Parsons School of Design, in 1997 Zach Gold has been selected as one of the Top 100 artists in New York City under 35 by New York Art Directors Club. He was one of the first artists in the world to successfully blend the subtle complexities of both camera and computer to produce photorealistic digital art. In the Fall of 2001, during New York’s annual fashion shows he was named “one of the ten photographers changing photography”. He worked with celebrities such as Iman, David Bowie, Steve Carrell, David Beckham and Iggy Pop. -
Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance
4 Feb 2009 | 9:17 pmHere is an incredible stop-motion, freeze-frame video by Oren Lavie and Yuval & Merav Nathan and it features photography by Eyal Landesman. The song is called “Her Morning Elegance” from Oren Lavie’s album “The Opposite Side of the Sea”. Enjoy this beauty! -
The Dancing Octopus
20 Jan 2009 | 10:01 pmA wonderful experimental video by Reza Dolatabadi featuring Apex Twin-like abstract music from Hamed Mafakheri.
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Arts & Animation Videos
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Inu Yasya Episode2 part1 [Japanese version]
1 Jul 2009 | 6:26 amInu YasyaAuthor: inuyasyaKeywords: Inu Yasya Added: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:26:29 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com -
Sora and Kairi's Hug
1 Jul 2009 | 5:54 amThis is from Kingdom Hearts 2. Kairi was reunited with Sora. I love this scene when they hug.Author: Hawkpelt42Keywords: Donald Duck Sora Goofy Kairi Added: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:54:17 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com -
The Street Chase
1 Jul 2009 | 5:45 amA scene from Mew Mew Power eposode 7. I like this part so much! It's when Kiki chases Zoey all over the place!Author: Hawkpelt42Keywords: Scene Kiki Zoey Chase Added: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:45:03 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com -
Donald Pulls a Trick
1 Jul 2009 | 5:36 amThis is a scene from Kingdom Hearts 2. Donald pulls a trick on a fairy treo. This is one of my favorite parts!Author: Hawkpelt42Keywords: Trick Donald Duck Sora Goofy Added: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:36:18 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com -
Avatar. ~Lies
1 Jul 2009 | 4:48 amThis is my first Avatar TLA video =D *applause* I was sick of only making Elfen Lied videos xD I think this worked out pretty good. I got inspired by many videos from other people, so I'm sorry if it really looks alike =O Anyway, the main character in this video is Aang, because he thinks he can't kill the firelord. But Azula also plays a role, because she's so confused. Well, I just used the episodes from Sozin's Comet, cause I didn't wanna download all 61 episodes xD. Well, I hope I'll make more Avatar AMV's in the future, cause I really like doing it =D Hope you all enjoy! Please…
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Kelli Pennington
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Hello Operator!
2 Jul 2009 | 12:26 pmLeaving a comment here is one thing but Ok Great is taking it to the next level with a toll free number (something I actually contemplated not too long ago). Leave them a message at 1.866.556.9432 and head to the site to listen to other responses! There’s some prizes in it for you as well! Similar Posts: Major Lazer Giveaway! - 29.06.09 Show your face around here! - 28.03.09 1,000,000 pageviews in 30 days! - 11.03.09 17 creative websites to bookmark (unless you are dumb)! - 06.03.09 Tony Bevilacqua / Print Giveaway! - 01.04.09 -
Brett Amory
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Hillary Boles
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Jennifer Sanchez
2 Jul 2009 | 12:48 amPaintings by Jennifer Sanchez. New York City.
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Sprayblog
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New Sculptures from Frank Plant
This is a new series of 15 figures that Frank Plant has been working on. It falls in line with his earlier piece "Stay on Message". According to Frank, "The signs normally carry proclamations/declarations of love, fear, social injustice, hate etc... Sometimes just the will to communicate is enough." Frank Plant ... -
Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art
Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art Full Deck presents an anthology of skate-art from the 1960’s to the present. The skate artist’s aesthetic—raw, passionate and personal—is energized by a devotion to the act of skating and a DIY embrace of skate culture. Since the first graphic was drawn onto a ... -
Bazooko Circus
Great Group show at the SPACE GALLERY in SF this FOURTH OF JULY featuring Chloe Fortin, Kevin Barry, Chris Granillo, Lady Reni, Buzz Parker, Rob Reger, LiL Japan, Jon Nagel, Janell Francois, Jason Roberts, Jeramie Tolentino, Troy from LA, Akira Beard, Helen Bayly, Hassan Said, Nic Dematteo, Lucien Shapiro, David ... -
Selected Works from Michal Tarka
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Beautiful Decay Interview with Bryan Dalton
Bryan Dalton is a multi-faceted artist creating a broad range of projects, from a website entitled "Sweet Gifs" devoted entirely to the increasingly popular early 90's proto-web-wizardry of, you guessed it, sweet gifs, to a bi-annual independently published "pyschedelic field trip" 'zine. On top of this all, he runs a ...
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Slightly Lucid
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Salva Lopez - Roig 26
2 Jul 2009 | 9:11 am©Salva Lopez Check out Salva Lopez’s work, especially the series Roig 26. This is a work in progress, no statement that I can find, but I would imagine that this is a series about her grandparents and their home environment. The portraits and the stills of the home work beautifully together. -
Jeff Wall
1 Jul 2009 | 3:27 pm©Jeff Wall Happy Canada Day! To celebrate Canada’s 142nd birthday, here’s one of our very influential photographers, Jeff Wall. - Now back to a day off! -
James Pomerantz - Agua Sagrada
30 Jun 2009 | 12:33 pm©James Pomerantz This is a really wonderful series by James Pomerantz. Agua Sagrada captures bathers in the light of natural subterranean bodies of water called cenote in Mexico. I really love the empty space and the positioning of the swimmers, they look as if they are hovering or flying in a void. You can find a nice little interview with James at Rachel Hulin’s blog about this series and some talk about his work in general. -
Sergey Maximishin
29 Jun 2009 | 11:04 am©Sergey Maximishin Check out Sergery Maximishin because he has a great eye. There is some really nice work on his website and a lot to see. -
George S. Zimbel - Bourbon Street New Orleans 1955
26 Jun 2009 | 5:00 amGeorge S. Zimbel, Bourbon Street New Orleans 1955, Book George Zimbel’s book Bourbon Street New Orleans 1955, is one of the most beautiful and wonderful photography book in my collection. The publishing house Les Editions du Passage are known for their quality and exceptional presentation. And they hit it with this one. The paper, the images, George’s darkroom notes and stories just come together perfectly. These are images that can be found in the book but also the entire series can be found here. Blue Lou Baker & Band, ©George S. Zimbel Chelo Wave Motion ©George S. Zimbel…
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Reckon | The Whole World's a Stage
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"And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter..."
1 Jul 2009 | 2:38 pm“And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through your flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You’ll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others. And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the… -
heroines: placebo: sexnotsex: Robert Heinecken - Typographic...
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heart on your shoulder (via fingerbibs)
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televised green (via fingerbibs)
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heroines: digitalbath: nylontorch: (via thebeautifulyouth) i...
1 Jul 2009 | 2:20 pmheroines: digitalbath: nylontorch: (via thebeautifulyouth) i will always reblog this. not because of the tattoo,but because of the rest of this. http://www.flickr.com/photos/unoundici/3444928357/
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The Stickley Museum At Craftsman Farms
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Closed For Independence Day
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In Stickley’s Steps: A Landscape Tour of Craftsman Farms
Saturday, July 25 at 6:00 p.m. Landscape architect Brian Bosenberg will guide the next tour in the Fresh Eyes Tour Series. Set for Saturday, July 25 at 6:00 p.m., this landscape tour, entitled “In Stickley’s Steps,” will investigate the evolution of the landscape at Craftsman Farms. Led by ... -
Join us for an Old-Fashioned Independence Day Celebration!
Saturday, June 27 – Noon to 4 p.m. Visitors of all ages are invited to bring a picnic lunch, tap their toes to live music, and explore a variety of activities dating back to the early 20th century. The young and the young at heart will enjoy participating in the ... -
Craftsman Farms Whimsy Puzzle
The Museum shop is now featuring a beautifully detailed wooden puzzle inspired by the Yoshiko Yamamoto block print of the Log House. The puzzle is exclusively produced for the Stickley Museum by Liberty Puzzles and features dozens of whimsy pieces. Don’t know what that is? Neither did we! As it ... -
Connect With Us On Facebook
If you have a Facebook account, come connect with the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms on Facebook!
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Art News Blog
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Art Studio of Garric Simonsen
29 Jun 2009 | 11:57 pmHere's another artist's studio. This is the workspace of American artist Garric Simonsen. If you like Cy Twombly or Willem de Kooning you'll enjoy browsing through Garric's work on his website.See Garric's paintings and works on paper at his Website Here.See more Art Studio photos. -
Being in the Flow or the Zone
26 Jun 2009 | 5:42 amHere's an interesting quote from Robert Genn's latest newsletter called "Transartistic meditation," which is something like Transcendental Meditation."Studies of "flow" and "the zone" have been done using all stripes of artists. This is where the artist gets into a relaxed, intuitive state somewhere deep down in the lizard brain and the good stuff rains down like ripe pomegranates. Tired of rotten apples, I was curious about these concepts as well." Robert GennI have never been able to figure why artists would want to waste their time meditating as they drink from the same pond while they… -
FBI Top 10 Art Thefts
24 Jun 2009 | 9:22 pmArt crime is big business with an estimated $6 billion in losses annually! Here's a list of the FBI's Top 10 art crimes at the moment..Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts - The significant Statue of Entemena was recovered in 2006 but there are still many pieces missing.Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft - Thieves stole as much as $300 million worth of art from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston in 1990 with paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Manet being among them.Theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francesco - Back in 1969 thieves stole Caravaggio's Nativity… -
Art Studios and Workspaces
24 Jun 2009 | 8:41 pmI enjoy looking through artist studios so much that I decided to make it a semi-regular thing. So if you have a few photos of your art studio or workspace and would like to share them, please send them to me.Make sure the images are under 1mb in size as they don't have to be MASSIVE and my inbox clogs up. Include a short paragraph about your space if you wish and your website address if you have one. Artist studios from all creative people are welcome and it doesn't have to be a beautiful working space.. it just has to work for you.Here's the studios so far (listed alphabetically so that my… -
Gail Sauter's Painting Studio
18 Jun 2009 | 11:57 pmHere's another artist's studio. This one belongs to Maine artist Gail Sauter.So many artists that I know have dogs hanging around their studios. Painters seem to be dog people more than cat people.And little gems like this come out of her studio..Update: Here's a few more photos of Gail's art studio (which was originally a Victorian Dry Goods Store) and her studio pooch. Gail says "I don’t get a lot of foot traffic here in Kittery, but that allows me to work and hanging out my welcome flag does draw in a sale now and then. I do think that we, as artists, are largely invisible to the public…
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Absolute Arts
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To Walk Where Rembrandt Walked
29 Jun 2009 | 4:43 amAs photographer of details of architecture, I am conditioned to observe my surroundings carefully. I notice buildings, but I hone in on the line of a corner; the angle of a gable; a fashioned decorative vine on a wrought iron gate and the stone carvings on a façade. Fine tuning a bit more, I visually thrive on the textures used for building: grainy granite, polished marble, satiny wood, rough brick, smooth cold iron. These elements create an environment that promotes creativity for me. And above all the light that permeates the scene sets the tone of my photography. Rembrandt 's art and… -
(LOUISVILLE) - It’s really a no brainer.
22 Jun 2009 | 11:16 amCombine air, space, track lighting, concrete, glass, metal, a cool king-size bed to rest your sleepy head and you’re totally there.You’ve got what may or may not be your typical hip hotel. However, as I write these oh so urbane words, I’m not in your run of the mill sleek abode. I’m taking up pricy space in this totally hip place.21C.My trip here actually began a couple of years ago when I first heard about it. “When I finally decide to visit Louisville for another art trip, I going to stay there,” I thought to myself.But of course, time and expenses or lack thereof intervened and… -
Last post from the UAE …
19 Jun 2009 | 11:27 amThis will be my last post from the UAE. In fact by the time you read this I will already be on my way back to gorgeous grey clouds of the average UK summertime. The last two years of living first in Dubai and then in Sharjah, have been a decidedly mixed experience but I have learned a lot and really enjoyed the exposure to the diverse international art I have seen here. What is perhaps most bizarre is that it took me several months to find an actual Emirati artist but now they seem to be everywhere. It has been very interesting to see how phenomenally the cultural sector has grown just in the… -
Is art?
15 Jun 2009 | 11:10 amIs art exactly this or something else?Is it revealed or created?Is it contained or merely channeled?Is art natural like the sweat dripping down my back on a hot day?Is art artificial like a phoney smile from a hypocrit person?Is art deliberately superficial like arching an arrow to a distant target?Is it casual yet intentful as the autumn fall?Is it innocent yet provoking like a nude baby?Is it bright yet temporary like falling inlove?Is it straight-forward emotional yet deceiving as a Heroin addict? Art is an occupation rather than a vocation;It is a means rather than an aim;Is is the… -
Great view, great energy savings Sliding glass windows a plus for environmentally conscious modular home
11 Jun 2009 | 3:35 amIt began with a story in Sunset Magazine on a new style of modular home that is compact, energy efficient and eco-friendly.The story on homes built by Michelle Kaufmann Designs caught the eye of woman I know who lives with her husband in a suburban community in the San Francisco Bay area. For years they have enjoyed spending weekends on the coast of west Sonoma County, an area of sprawling ranches, picturesque towns, and gorgeous beaches on the Pacific coast.The couple had thought about building a small home there as a retreat from their more urban home in the East Bay. My friend saw it both…
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New Art
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New Russian art, AD 1909
19 Jun 2009 | 5:08 pmThese color photographs were all taken in the Russian Empire between 1909 and 1918.Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer born in 1863. After studying chemistry with Mendeleev and later with Adolf Miethe - one of the crucial figures in the invention of color photography - Gorskii started developing his own techniques and processes of color photography, giving it a quality that even impresses even today.In 1909, he convinced the tsar Nicolas II to send him on a trip across the Russian Empire, to document its impressive diversity. It was a 10-year project, during which Gorskii took… -
Something Else / Asger Carlsen
9 Jun 2009 | 6:31 pm"You're (really) something!" in Polish is "Ty to jesteś!"*, meaning literally "You are the one that is!".This seems more logical than the English expression - your existence is more, your [way of] being is the right one. Yet there is, hidden within this phrase, a sense of hierarchy that verges on arrogance - a value judgment on being. I prefer the English version - it sounds more modest, the paradox (you-thing) gives it the feel of a good fetish - you are [my] fetish.We can also see it as edifying: I can see you objectively and that sight is grand.But my favorite expression in this… -
Moving/Making/Growing
5 Jun 2009 | 4:27 pmStart off with something nice.Something delicate, subtle, yet not too sharp, just soft enough to create the sensation of closeness. Don't go crazy, don't look for the ambitious project. Focus on this line. This spot. This shape. Something ridiculously precious for the little space it takes, for the easiness with which one can grasp it with one blink of an eye. Like a photo. Like a brand mark. Like, say, a sign announcing a poodle.Now. Keep it fresh, don't go for the design, don't become too sure of yourself, you've only walked that far, you've only just created a little tiny bit of reality,… -
FC Barcelona and the shift of aesthetic paradigms
5 Jun 2009 | 12:30 pmApparently the manager of FC Barelona, the young Josep Guardiola, prepared this film for his players before the finale against Manchester United. And before the game, instead of making the classic motivational speech, he showed them the film. And said nothing afterwards. If I'm posting this on the New Art blog, it's because this shows a very powerful turn in the way we see film/media. Although the advent of the "TV era" has been prophetized for a long time, and many declared its beginning many decades ago. However, this event, for me, is a very important sign of a shift of paradigms. And it… -
Aliens in Brussels - Althamer's "Common Task"
3 Jun 2009 | 10:16 amOn June 4, 1989, Poland held the first (partly) free elections of the so-called Eastern Block.It was the first time since WW2 that opposition parties could legally participate in the political process, and the result - a smashing success of the opposition - was the end of communism and the beginning of a new, free Poland. These elections are generally considered the single event that began the overcoming of the totalitarian regimes in this entire region of the world.And among the ways in which Poland will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of these events, one is particularly…
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NEWSgrist
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Censorship in Bordeaux
30 Jun 2009 | 3:51 pmvia e-flux: Marlene Dumas, included in the exhibition, with one of her "obscenities." Photograph: Martin Godwin.June 30, 2009 "Presumed Innocents", the trial: 10 years later Bordeaux Judge Reopens Decade-Old Child-Porn Charge Against Curators Marie-Laure Bernadac, Henry-Claude Cousseau, and Stéphanie Moisdon Indicted at the end of 2006, after six years of investigations, long period during which no element was produced that could have fed the prosecution (the specialized unit for minors and the rectorship gave a favourable opinion) and after the attorney general of Bordeaux called for a… -
Closings (UES) 106
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Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 173
29 Jun 2009 | 5:48 amFound Art (Soho): Unmonumental 173, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive). -
Found Art (UES): Unmonumental 172
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Last Chance: Tainted Love
27 Jun 2009 | 7:01 amGreat show, open today through Sunday. Don't forget to check out the installation in the alley by fierce pussy, pictured above and below.via email:Tainted Love, curated by Steven Lam & Virginia Solomon. Featuring: Luis Camnitzer, Jose Luis Cortes, fierce pussy, General Idea, Gran Fury, Matt Lipps, Catherine Lord, Charles Lum, Ivan Monforte, and Wu Ingrid Tsang.La MaMa La Galleria 6 East 1st Street Exhibition continues thru Sunday, June 28, 2009Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 1-6PMTainted Love was reviewed in The New York Times by Holland Cotter."This smart group exhibition,…
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ArtsJournal.com
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NYC's Film & TV Tax-Credit Fund Runs Out Of Money
2 Jul 2009 | 9:21 am"New York City has exhausted its budget for tax incentives for film and TV productions as of Tuesday, city officials announced.... 'New York City's "Made in NY" tax credit for qualified film and television production -- the only one of its kind administered by a city in the U.S. -- has reached its full allocation of $192.5 million and funds are no longer available for new applications,' the NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting said."... -
In Open Library, Imagining Books As Networked Objects
2 Jul 2009 | 8:59 amThe Open Library's goal "is to create a single page on the web for every book that has ever been published; an enormous, searchable catalogue of information about millions of books. ... But with information about books already being processed by hugely popular websites such as Google and Amazon, the question remains - why bother?"... -
Restored Fresco Said To Reveal Michelangelo Self-Portrait
2 Jul 2009 | 8:43 am"The restoration of frescoes by Michelangelo in the Vatican has revealed what is believed to be a self-portrait of the artist. The face is in a wall mural in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel or Cappella Paolina, according to Maurizio De Luca, the Vatican's chief restorer. The chapel, which is used by the Pope and not open to the public, was unveiled this week after a restoration costing €3.2 million (£2.7 million)."... -
What Rub Might Do With Gehry, He Did With Vinoly In Ohio
2 Jul 2009 | 8:29 amWhile Timothy Rub, incoming director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, "brings to his new job a resume strong on all the essential art-world skills, one of the qualities that surely impressed the Philadelphia trustees is his ability to manage a big construction project and a big architectural ego." This is key as the museum embarks on a $500 million expansion designed by Frank Gehry.... -
Gap Founder Gives Up On Plan For Presidio Art Museum
2 Jul 2009 | 8:03 am"Gap founder Donald Fisher and his family have decided to abandon their efforts to build a contemporary art museum at the Main Post of San Francisco's Presidio.... The question now is whether the Fishers will invest additional time and money on a local proposal, trusting the word of critics who have said they would like to see the renowned collection stay in the city as long as a museum was built at a less sensitive location."...
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CR Blog
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Brighton Graphics and Illustration degree show
2 Jul 2009 | 2:13 pmCR was amid the gently steaming crowd at the opening of the University of Brighton Graphic Design and Illustration show last night, just off London's Brick Lane. Here's a few highlights Josh White designed a lovely poster for a film festival as well as that for the show (this is his photo) And this is my (much worse) photo Several of the students prersented album sleeve ideas. This one is for Tales of Mystery and Imagination by The Alan Parsons Project and Edgar Allan Poe, designed by Lucy Pritchett And this Fleet Foxes album is by Sarah Prismall Meghan Limbrick's 3D work was inspired by the… -
Twittering on
2 Jul 2009 | 10:54 amAccording to mediauk.com, CR is now the fourth most popular UK magazine on Twitter, with 11,500+ followers. If you're on Twitter, and haven't yet signed up to follow our tweets, you can do so, here. Our Neil does a fine job linking to some very interesting things and the best bits from the CR blog. -
The Get Involved Poster Show
2 Jul 2009 | 9:46 amRegular readers of the CR blog may recall us posting about London club-night Get Involved's posters in the past. Each month Get Involved approached a different designer or illustrator to create the poster, meaning the night amassed - over its three year tenure at central London venue The Social - a legacy of lovingly designed promotional materials. Actually, I've got a confession to make - Get Involved, is one of my extra-curricular projects. I couldn't resist commissioning artists and image makers whose work I admire to create the posters for my little club night and that's why the artists… -
More Nice Publications
2 Jul 2009 | 4:40 amDespite a painful wrestle with the back end of the then brand spanking new CR website and blog with my Some Nice Publications post back in May - I thought I'd do another round up of nice publications... If you read the original post, you will have seen images of issue one of Nobrow magazine. Now the Nobrow Small Press has completed its very first screenprinted edition, The Bento Bestiary, which features illustration by Ben Newman and words by Scott James Donaldson. The book, hand screenprinted in three colours in a strictly limited edition of 100, recounts "the habits and whims of a ghastly… -
Kanye West's golden stage show
1 Jul 2009 | 9:08 amWe happen to know that Mr Kanye West is a frequenter of the CR blog and has linked to some of our choicest bits via his excellent site. So it's nice to be able to return the favour with these mock-ups of what you can expect to see if you have tickets for Kanye's European tour. We're guessing keywords in the brief for the stage set may have included "gold" and "shiny"... And just in case you thought he couldn't pull this off (it could very well play havoc with his ankles) here's a shot from a recent rehearsal, which he's blogged about, here.
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Artworld Salon
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The expectation game
19 Jun 2009 | 5:00 amHave you ever wondered if the success of today’s visual art mega-events depends less on their content than on the expectations surrounding them? The Venice Biennial and Art Basel’s 40th edition are a case in point. Venice is a classic example of an event that art insiders love to hate. Every two years, a superstar curator is asked to prepare a vast exhibition in a difficult and historically charged venue, with limited resources, a ridiculous timeline, Italian ineptitude, and a spaghetti bowl of national pride, politics, and pavilion positioning thrown into the mix. Then the art crowd… -
What’s wrong with ‘professionalization’?
15 Jun 2009 | 12:14 pmLurking within recent commentaries on ‘the big group shows’ one finds no uncertain antipathy to the idea of ‘professionalization’ in the visual arts. Most of the time, this gets written up as back-handed swat at art schools and the credentials they offer, the MFA and, now increasingly, the PhD. Holland Cotter did it in that same piece on ‘generations’ I mentioned last week. Here’s the offending passage: A scan of the catalog’s biographies confirms that, almost without exception, the artists in the show are products of art schools, as often as… -
Making shows vs. writing history
1 Jun 2009 | 8:21 amOver the weekend, Holland Cotter, the (now) Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for the New York Times decided to take that newly minted status out for a spin.On Sunday, Mr. Cotter attempted what I guess one would call a “think piece” that took as its objects of interest two exhibitions in New York that deal with the idea of a “generation”: The Met’s Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 and The New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus.These shows have been open for a while, so Cotter’s attending to them now announces that he has something more than a mere review in mind.And in essence, his point… -
After the dead tree
6 May 2009 | 11:03 pmThe nice folks over at The Art Newspaper asked András for his thoughts on what would happen to Arts writing with the decline of the Press. His response can be seen here, or after the break. With newspapers in terminal decline, what future for arts journalism? Coverage of the arts is migrating online but unless someone is prepared to pay for it, the outlook is uncertain Before we succumb to nostalgia, let’s be clear: arts journalism has never had it easy. Culture, especially in its rarefied incarnations, has never been a high priority for the mainstream press. Criticism is a strange…
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Modern Art Notes
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Happy Fourth (updated)
2 Jul 2009 | 7:13 amEnjoy the long weekend. See you Monday.Fresh from the morning papers: The Fishers abandon their plans for a Main Post-based contemporary art museum in the Presidio. Preservationists rejoice. -
Still-life Wednesday: Toledo's new Thiebaud
1 Jul 2009 | 11:28 amContinuing, sort of, from here and here...The Toledo Museum of Art has acquired Wayne Thiebaud's 1963 Roast Beef Dinner (Trucker's Supper), at left.Roast Beef Dinner is a quintessentially mid-20th-century American still-life. It's a square meal of the sort one would expect to find at, well, a truck stop. The white bread recalls industrially-processed Wonder Bread. The tomatoes look culinarily pro forma rather than a considered part of the meal, and the plating of the food is as bland and unimaginative as possible. (Those aren't French french fries, those are American-cut fries, too.) Like… -
Still-life Wednesday, part two
1 Jul 2009 | 9:30 amContinuing from this morning...Luis Melendez, the greatest Spanish still-life painter of the 18th-century, elevated simple, rustic objects into palace decorations for royals. A survey of his still-life paintings is on view at the National Gallery of Art until Aug. 23. This painting is the creatively-titled Still Life with Apples, Pears, Cheese, Jug, Boxes and Cask from 1760-1765. It's in a private collection.The NGA show is small and dense: Thirty-one paintings installed in just two-plus cavern-like galleries in the NGA's East Building. The hanging is plenty assembly-line, but in this… -
Still-life Wednesday, part one
1 Jul 2009 | 7:04 amThroughout the day I'll be featuring some food-centric still-lifes on view now at American museums. Today's last post will feature a new museum acquisition.This is Job Berckheyde's The Baker (~1681), on view at the Worcester Art Museum. Berckheyde was a minor painter of city scenes, church interiors (mostly of St. Bavo's) and this unusual (mostly) still-life painting. Bread was a big deal in the Netherlands -- Vermeer's biggest contemporary collector was a breadmaker who may have accepted paintings in lieu of payment. According to WAM, the baker is tooting his own horn to announce that the… -
Five things from the Worcester Art Museum
30 Jun 2009 | 9:05 am1.) The Worcester Art Museum is the best American art museum you probably haven't been to. The European collection is deep and full of good paintings and the American collection (and installations) are top-notch.2.) Worcester's Jacob van Ruisdael might be the best 17thC Dutch seascape in an American museum. (Wanna disagree? Tweet me and I'll share your picks.)3.) Worcester's early American collection can go up against almost anyone's. Have a browse here to see what I mean. (Roberta Smith, who criticized the National Gallery of Art's American installation for being stale would probably love…
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Modern Art Obsession
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Save the Date: June 24th.. for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 10% Charity Event
12 Jun 2009 | 11:31 amSave the Date: June 24th.. for The Rema Hort Mann Foundation 10% Charity Event. It's a new great event during Gay Pride Week NYC.. focused on Gay Artists! Here's the event website : http://www.rhmfoundation.org/10percent/index.html There's A Silent Art Auction Featuring Over 70 Works Donated by LGBTQ ArtistsA fundraiser during gay pride week—open to everyone! And no, the auction is not a bunch of bull dyke and giant penis pictures. Wednesday, June 24th from 6 to 9pm at 28 Wooster Street, the former home of art recession road kill Guild and Greyshkul Gallery. Tickets… -
MAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print !
5 Jun 2009 | 2:37 pmMAO Art Buy of the Month.. The Aperture Party June 18th Benefit Print ! OK..My little MAO-ettes.. this is a great buy. So the Aperture Foundation got artist Thomas Allen to donate this amazing print for their First Annual Summer Party on June 18th. So, anyone who buys a party ticket for $150, gets this cool hot print for free! The print is an 8 x 10 signed C-Print, in an edition of 250. So, Even if you can't make it to the party.. the print is worth well over $150. More info on Photographer Thomas Allen, you'll find it here. This great print and party event tickets can be purchased… -
Heritage Auction House to Open in NYC.. and Senior Jobs are Available!
28 May 2009 | 7:44 amHeritage Auction House from Dallas, Texas to open up offices in NYC.. and now senior JOBS are now available! Well the one good thing a recession does for business is it opens up new opportunities for those looking to seize the day! While the stuffed peacocks at Sothebys, and Christies have been taking massive losses, cutting expenses, laying off staff, Bloomsbury, Bonhams.. and now Heritage Auction Houses are all expanding in New York City!! YEA!! Now if they would just start cutting their auction fees! So if you're looking for a new job in the Art… -
Hauser & Wirth to Open in NYC! Is this a Good Time to Open an Art Gallery?
22 May 2009 | 6:24 amYes... you read that correctly.. A New Contemporary Art Gallery is actually not closing opening up in New York City! Yea! London's Hauser & Wirth Gallery is planning to open on the upper east side of New York City in September! But, with the US economey crashing, is this a Good Time to Open an Art Gallery? Maybe, we shall see, a huge economic recovery might just be several years away around the corner. So here's the exciting email we got this morning... Hauser & Wirth, widely considered Europe’s most influential and acclaimed gallery of… -
A New Art Investment Fund Has Been Started By Castlestone Management
21 May 2009 | 6:51 amA New Art Investment Fund Has Been Started By Castlestone Management with offices in London and New York. The alternative asset class investment adviser has started a brand new Art Investment Fund with 25 million dollars of partner's money.. and it is now open to additional investors! Hmm.. maybe it's a good time to buy Contemporary Art? No? What do you think? FYI.. But, So far they've already purchased $16 million in art, in mostly the free falling contemporary art market, and plan to purchase another $9 million over the next few months. (Photo #1,…
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Art Market Blog
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Art Bankers Take Advantage of Falling Prices- artmarketblog.com
2 Jul 2009 | 7:16 amArt Bankers Take Advantage of Falling Prices- artmarketblog.com The interest in structured art investment programs has continued to remain relatively high considering the recent concerns voiced by some regarding the state of the art market. Since the beginning of the year there have been several new art investment programs launched which suggests that the categorisation of art as an asset class has not been damaged by the recent market jitters. In fact, with plenty of bargains up for grabs there is probably no better time for art investment funds to be buying works. The most significant of… -
Niki de Saint Phalle Braves the Crisis – artmarketblog.com
29 Jun 2009 | 9:07 amNiki de Saint Phalle Braves the Crisis – artmarketblog.com After the sale of three Niki de Saint-Phalle’s giant Nanas in Germany in December 2008 for €750,000, the Paris sale last month of her Le Banc produced another excellent result. The French-American artist – whose works are collected all over the world – is generating good sales performances in spite of the crisis. Born in France and raised in the United States, Niki SAINT-PHALLE de successfully steered her career under the two flags at a key moment in the history of art and of the art market. Indeed, at the start of the… -
Sotheby’s June 09 Indian Art Sale – artmarketblog.com
26 Jun 2009 | 9:47 amSotheby’s June 09 Indian Art Sale – artmarketblog.com Jogen Chowdhury, b.1939 "Day Dreaming" Ink and pastel on paper (lacquered) On the 16th of June Sotheby’s held a sale of Indian art at their Bond, St. London Saleroom which, with the recent downturn in the demand for contemporary Indian art, was an important sale. Works by the modern masters fared well as was to be expected with works by the famous Maqbool Fida Husain proving particularly popular. Even though only 67% of the 86 lots on offer were sold the sale total of 2,067,400 GBP (3,376,684 USD) exceeded the… -
Do-Ho Suh at SculptureCenter – artmarketblog.com
23 Jun 2009 | 9:10 amDo-Ho Suh at SculptureCenter – artmarketblog.com SculptureCenter Home Exhibitions Events Visit Join About Press Store Limited Editions Bookstore Event Tickets Search All content © SculptureCenter. All rights reserved. Limited Editions Do-Ho Suh Doorknob/Bathroom, 2003 Polyester fabric, lithograph on paper in acrylic box 12" x 18" x 7 3/4" Edition of 20 with 3 artist proofs $4,500.00 A new auction record was set for a limited edition work by the popular Korean artist Do Ho Suh at Philips De Pury’s June 2nd Editions sale where one of the artist’s limited… -
June Online Art Auctions – artmarketblog.com
20 Jun 2009 | 2:55 amJune Online Art Auctions – artmarketblog.com George S. Zimbel: 'Marilyn Monroe and Billy Wilder, The Seven Year Itch, New York, 1954'. Being auctioned by artnet auctions Online auctions can be a great source of art for collectors and investors as long as you buy from a reputable auctioneer that offers a guarantee of authenticity and condition. All the auctioneers listed below are extremely reputable and totally trustworthy so you can feel confident in dealing with any of them. There are always great bargains to be had so it’s well worth taking the time to browse through…
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Making a Mark
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Review: David Hockney - A Bigger Picture
2 Jul 2009 | 6:00 amBBC TV - Imagine - David Hockney a Bigger PictureDavid Hockney was recently voted the UK's favourite living artist - by virtue of being the highest placed UK artist in The Times Top 200 Artists of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
MAM Poll July: Which are your preferred media for painting in the studio?
1 Jul 2009 | 3:15 amThe Making A Mark Poll for July is taking a look at which are our preferred media for painting in the studio. This is so we can round off our perspective on the media people like to use. Last month... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
MAM Poll June RESULTS: Preferred plein air painting media
30 Jun 2009 | 2:13 amMaking A Mark Poll (June 2009) - Which is your preferred media for painting plein air?At the beginning of this month I asked Which is your preferred media for painting plein air?. Artists and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
When you want to show the computer who's boss!
29 Jun 2009 | 11:36 amThis morning I had a long review post done and finished. All I had to do was copy and transfer it over to Blogger when something went wrong and the whole thing was lost.Every single link lost. All... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] -
28th June 2009 - Who's made a mark this week? #102
28 Jun 2009 | 3:18 amSomebody said this weekend that there are going to be a lot of people who will remember where they were when they heard Michael Jackson had died.I was out sketching in Hampstead on Friday. All day,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Two Coats of Paint
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Revisiting the archives
1 Jul 2009 | 10:18 amIn celebration of the Smithsonian Archive's effort to put more artists' archives online, and the release of The Tower Paintings: Keeping Our Distance (Two Coats of Paint's first ink-on-paper publishing project) my new guest post at Art21 features images of observation towers and a journal excerpt from my own own stash of ephemera. Check out Art21 here.Click image to enlarge. To see a preview and read a description of The Tower Paintings: Keeping Our Distance, click here. -
"When artists get cash, they spend it both quickly and carefully."
29 Jun 2009 | 5:42 amJackson Pollock entering his studio. From the Smithsonian Archives.Felix Salmon writes in this month's issue of The Atlantic that a good way to jump start the economy would be to pay the artists, who are among the very poorest citizens. "We’re living in a newly frugal world. But the rediscovered values of thrift and moderation should apply to the government as much as they do to households. No more trillion-dollar misadventures abroad: we need to spend money at home, and we need to get the maximum bang for our buck. If the Obama administration is serious about stimulating the economy and… -
Summer break
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Michael Chabon: Children are cartographers
27 Jun 2009 | 11:21 amMap of Middle Earth."Childhood is a branch of cartography. Most great stories of adventure, from The Hobbit to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, come furnished with a map. That's because every story of adventure is in part the story of a landscape, of the interrelationship between human beings (or Hobbits, as the case may be) and topography. Every adventure story is conceivable only with reference to the particular set of geographical features that in each case sets the course, literally, of the tale. But I think there is another, deeper reason for the reliable presence of maps in the pages, or on the… -
Torsten Slama in Houston
27 Jun 2009 | 5:58 amTorsten Slama, "Walt Whitman Memorial Refinery/Walt-Whitman-Gedenk-Raffinerie," 2005, India ink on illustration board, 28 x 40 inches. Collection Beth Rudin de Woody, New YorkRebecca Cochran reports in ArtForum that Berlin-based artist Torsten Slama's first museum show features an unnerving postapocalyptic world. "Part science fiction, part prophecy, his desolate landscape paintings and drawings depict a sinister, mechanized environment where technology and science rule. For his accomplished paintings, Slama utilizes oil, acrylic, and airbrush to create flat surfaces that erase the hand of…
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Studio Notes
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The Olive Grove - Teaser Details
1 Jul 2009 | 11:13 pm...and a few tips on painting natural light effects a la Impressionsts...The big Olive Grove painting is finally finished!! Last week the framers came and took it away from my studio, and I'm just waiting for them to call me. It should be done by the end of the week. I've never worked with these guys before, but they seemed very professional and they work with some of the galleries in town, so I'm not worried. I'm just really excited and anxious to see this baby framed properly and hung!I will post a large file of the entire painting later on, but here are some detail shots as a sort of an… -
Mo' City Paintin's
30 Jun 2009 | 7:16 amRaking Shadows, 20 x 20 inches, oil on linenDamn it's hot!Last weekend we got up to 107F. As my garage / studio has no AC, and it gets direct sunlight, it's like an oven in there. I feel like a pig on a spit. At least the paint dries really fast, eh? I'd bring my easel inside the house except that I have a destructive two-year old. And the smell of paint and solvents would get me kicked out anyway.The painting above is a part of my cityscape investigation. This one, being a facade has no perspective issues. Well, a little bit, but nothing that requires mapping out vanishing points and such. -
Palette Shift
23 Jun 2009 | 8:18 amLes Parisiennes , 16 x 12 inches, oil on linenThis painting is a sequel to my earlier piece, February Morning at the Louvre . In creating paintings for my fall show, I had decided to start by doing several pieces without any regards to having an overall theme, except that they'd all be cityscapes. That was enough of a parameter for me; any more restrictions from the get go would have thrown me into a rut right away. So I did a bunch of paintings, trying to be faithful to my whim at every turn, and as expected, I now have several pieces that all look different. I might even say that they look… -
City Slick
17 Jun 2009 | 9:01 pmCity Slick, WIP 12 x 24 inches, oil on linenContinuing with San Francisco imagery. The wet weather in Tahoe a few weeks back inspired me to try a rainy cityscape. I just pulled out a rainy photo from my library, and composed this picture. Moved a few cars, gave it heavier atmosphere.This, obviously is a blatant one point perspective set up, which makes drawing a hell of a lot easier than a two point. I wanted to focus on other tricky issues like working with diffused light, and abstraction by linking shapes, so that I didn't want to complicate the matter by introducing a second vanishing… -
Bay Bridge
15 Jun 2009 | 8:16 amBay Bridge, 12 x 12 inches, oil on linenHere's another 12 x 12 San Francisco-scape. It's an odd little composition, what with the top and the bottom being the same size and shape and all. It doesn't bother me as much as it should. Maybe I'm in denial. Or may be I've been looking at Inness too much.Originally, the background was a lot bluer, and it looked really good to me, but then I got to thinking, it looked too pretty, so I grayed it down. I don't know why that should be a problem, but it just didn't sit well with me. I guess I just like grime and grit, even when depicting a pretty place…
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Watercolor Artist Network
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Swipe File: Reader Tip for Transporting Paintings
1 Jul 2009 | 5:33 amWatercolor Artist reader Bonnie E. Rodgers of Papillion, NE, shares her latest homespun solution for a common painting problem: "Carrying paintings around can be a challenge because of the possibility of the edges and surface becoming damaged. Pipe wrap can be used to protect any size of painting by cutting it to the length of each edge. This is a great way to package your paintings for shipping also. Simply cut the pipe wrap to the paintings size and slip on. (Note: the black version works best because it comes in sizes of 1/2-inch to 2-inch openings. The beige version shouldn't be… -
Traveling Watercolor Show
26 Jun 2009 | 8:33 amThe Michigan Water Color Society (MWCS) 62nd Annual Exhibition traveling show will be on display at the Rankin Center Fine Arts Gallery at Ferris State University from July 6 – July 31, 2009. The show consists of thirty watermedia paintings from the 62nd MWCS Annual Exhibition including all award winners and selected pieces by juror Matthew Daub. They represent a complete cross-section of styles and techniques and showcase the talent of many Michigan artists. The exhibition is part of a statewide tour that will also include The Art Center in Traverse City and the Studio 23 Art Center in Bay… -
Entering Art Competitions
18 Jun 2009 | 8:11 amWith competition season in full swing, you might be facing a number of tough questions: Which paintings should I enter? How does the jurying process work? In our latest online seminar, Entering Art Competitions: Enhance Your Chance of Success, editors of our sister publications, Anne Hevener (The Pastel Journal) and Maureen Bloomfield (The Artist's Magazine), will tackle these questions and many more. Reserve your spot for the June 23 session now! Just for signing up for the seminar, you'll receive online access to a recording of the live session and a free digital download:… -
Choose the Right Surface for Your Watercolor Technique
17 Jun 2009 | 12:05 pmCanadian artist Sandrine Pelissier creates rich mixed-media portraits bursting with life. In the August issue of Watercolor Artist she shares in-depth details about her process. Here's what she had to say about how she chooses which surface to use for a particular subject: “When choosing a subject, I ask myself what kind of paper and technique would help me best convey the effect I’m looking for,” says Pelissier. “Do I want the subtle, controlled effect afforded by layering on absorbent, Arches 300-lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper, or the brighter colors and texture that… -
Free Sample: Paint Trees With Birgit O'Connor
15 Jun 2009 | 5:36 amThis week we’re proud to have Birgit O’Connor back with the Watercolor Essentials workshop. This 70-minute video has over 40+ lessons that will help you put the magic of transparent watercolor in action, so you can see how the paint is applied and reacts on the paper. Check out a free sample and learn how O'Connor paints trees below.
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An Artist's Journal
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Moving Story
1 Jul 2009 | 1:54 pmTo my readers who weren’t aware we were moving, I wanted to wait until something “happened” before going on about it in my blog. As everyone is aware, the real estate market has been just so bad for the past year and a half or so. Our home was on the market for a long time, but we finally have a contract on it. I didn’t want to jinx it by talking about it too much too soon. We are moving to my hometown area in Alabama to be near our extended family. And we have to do it fast, as the buyers want to close on the 31st of this month! So we are in Alabama scrambling to find… -
Before and After Challenge, Eva-Maria Nerling
30 Jun 2009 | 4:14 amContinuing with the Before and After Challenge, today’s artist Eva-Maria Nerling provides us with her images and the story behind their inspiration and her process. This painting is part of a cycle in paintings and fiber art on the theme of Joseph and his brothers. I created a cloth piece and finished it with red acrylic paint to make it look stained. At the same time, I started the latest painting (22×40″). In the 1st picture, you see it unfinished. Yet, after filling the last white spaces with coloured squares, I found it very unsatisfying and by far not abstract enough. -
Before and After Challenge, Chris Bellinger
29 Jun 2009 | 5:53 amNotes on the Challenge: Click here for complete details about the Before and After challenge. I will keep the challenge open for at least a couple of weeks, or long enough to get as many participants as possible. I have decided to devote an individual blog post to each artist, so that we can take our time and comment as much as we like. I will post them as they come in. Please bear with me. This could take a while, but I think it’s going to be fun. I hope you’ll go back through each post in the Challenge and share your thoughts. Chris Bellinger In Chris’ own words: These are from… -
Before and After Challenge, Karen McConnell
28 Jun 2009 | 12:47 pmKaren McConnell Before A little practice piece done several years ago with the subject matter being one of my all-time favourite toys, a jack-in-the-box. It was done on very poor quality paper and was an attempt to try out oil pastels. A few small embellishments here and there with a pen. The original was in portrait mode but I later cropped it to a square. After . . . a fairly recent period of manipulation and play in Photoshop starting with that previous image. I can’t begin to remember a step-by-step for this but it’s evolvement was a bit pleasing to my eye. So I ended up… -
Before and After Challenge, Brian Parker
27 Jun 2009 | 1:31 pmBrian Parker is our artist for today. Thank you for sharing your work, Brian. I’ll let him tell you about it in his own words. Here is a link to a gallery of Brian’s works. Hi Martha, I thought I’d join in on the before and after scene. I did a drawing about two years ago when I was really learning. It was just one of those drawings that seemed touching to me. I kept it hung in my office at home for quite some time. After a couple more years of learning and taking hold of my own technique, I decided to draw the picture over again just so I could see if it would improve.
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Kirsty Hall
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Liza Lou
2 Jul 2009 | 1:04 pmBritain is in the midst of a heatwave (well, what we call a heatwave) and it’s too hot to write properly. So instead here’s a quick look at the work of Liza Lou, whose obsessive work with beads naturally appeals to me. Liza Lou first came to prominence with her beaded kitchen – a work that took her five years to make and involved her covering an entire kitchen in beads. Liza Lou: Beaded Kitchen (Sink Detail) Her more recent work has taken a more overtly political turn with beaded wire fences and prison cells that are partly inspired by her move to South Africa, where she now… -
Beans
29 Jun 2009 | 4:37 amSimple household tasks can take a lot longer when you’re an artist. Shelling these beans took about an hour because I was compelled to document the process as I went along. Kirsty Hall: Broad Beans, June 2009 Although they’re edible, I couldn’t leave these little triangles on because they were spoiling the symmetrical aesthetic of the beans. Sigh. Kirsty Hall: Broad Beans, June 2009 I don’t even particularly like the taste of broad beans but I am always utterly seduced by their waxy pale green. Kirsty Hall: Broad Beans, June 2009 I wish you could have heard the crisp… -
Friday Links
12 Jun 2009 | 8:42 amIt’s Friday afternoon – time to slack off at work and browse the net instead! Fortunately I’m here to enable your procrastination. ARTISTS Really loving this post on DudeCraft about the work of Jim Denevan who creates incredible largescale freehand drawings in sand. Stephen J. Shanabrook makes rather strange work, including collages of heroin paraphernalia. For those of us with gothic sensibilities – I’m loving the crazy Victorian aesthetic of Wilhelm Staehle’s site. Beautiful drawings from Rachel Mosler. This project gets points for sheer chutzpah –… -
Meadow
8 Jun 2009 | 5:23 amLast Tuesday, the weather was so glorious that we took the opportunity to visit our beloved Virtuous Well over at Trellech. The joy of working from home is that you can occasionally take a day off in the middle of the week and go for day trips when it’s quiet. And what a delight to sit in blazing sunshine having a picnic surrounded by this! Kirsty Hall: Welsh Meadow, June 09 The colourful rags were still on the tree, although there seemed to be less of them than last year. But perhaps this mass of green and yellow just made them less visible. Kirsty Hall: Welsh Meadow, June 09 I left a… -
Egg
7 Jun 2009 | 3:17 amKirsty Hall: Broken Bird’s Egg, June 09 Kirsty Hall: Broken Bird’s Egg, June 09 Kirsty Hall: Broken Bird’s Egg, June 09 Kirsty Hall: Broken Bird’s Egg, June 09 None
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Skinesart.com
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This poor butterfly was stunned by my car
2 Jul 2009 | 3:40 amThis poor butterfly was stunned by my car when I accidentally hit it. So while it was in that state I drew it. I just HATE it when my car hurts any sort of creature, and I hovered over this one until it was all right and flew away again. -
Waiting for another plane in Melbourne.
2 Jul 2009 | 3:39 amWaiting for another plane in Melbourne. People just waiting, bored, yet with a self-important “in-transit” attitude. -
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I study design in Munich. There are some characters
2 Jul 2009 | 3:38 amI study design in Munich. There are some characters there!! I love to draw the people who are giving lectures, because you have so much time to observe them. This piece was drawn with colored pencils in my A5 Moleskine. -
I love gardens.
2 Jul 2009 | 3:38 amI love gardens.
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Art Print Issues
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Mostly Art Business Retweetables Volume Two
1 Jul 2009 | 11:25 pmI find myself exposed to far more items of interest than I can possibly blog about. Twitter has been a great way to pass the best of what I find along. But, Twitter is much like listening to the radio. If you aren't tuned in at the moment, you don't get turned on to the content coming your way. Using the blog this is a way to encapsulate them for you. These tweets, as they are called in Twitterland, are culled from what I think are the best and most worthy to pass along for your enjoyment, enlightenment and elucidation: This moving music vid compilation is so inspirational. Ben E. King would… -
Easy Way to Put Your Website on Mobile Devices with .Mobi
25 Jun 2009 | 10:29 pmRead Art Print Issues formatted for your mobile phone at: www.artprintissues.mobi If you don't have an iPhone, you surely know someone who does. The statistics for percentage growth of those using mobile devices to connect to the Internet are growing rapidly. Here is part of a recent comScore press release: comScore: Mobile Internet Becoming A Daily Activity For Many Number of people accessing news and information on their mobile device more than doubles in a year Reston, VA. March 16, 2009 –comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported that the… -
Five Opposing Thoughts on an Art Career
24 Jun 2009 | 12:15 amThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.~ F. Scott Fitzgerald With apologies to F. Scott Fitzgerald, I offer this set of five opposing ideas for your perusal and contemplation: It's Never Too Late - don't let your age or any other potential drawback mess with your mind. Get started today. It's Never Too Soon - if you are lucky enough to see your future and desire it; don't let… -
How to Promote Artwork
15 Jun 2009 | 2:26 amI met Contemporary Folk and Urban Pop artist Anne Leuck Feldhaus on Facebook and am glad I did. Shortly after that encounter, I saw a mention from her about her first billboard. Immediately, there were two things about the notice that impressed me. To begin, the implied confidence when one reads, "My First Billboard" is great! It says the artist is already thinking there are more in the future. Confidence is contagious folks, let yours out of the bag. And, if you have to, fake it until you make it. Outsiders can't see you shaking on the inside. You will always be your own best promoter. No… -
Making Fine Art Prints - Perspective from a Photographer
8 Jun 2009 | 4:57 pmWhether you are making digital fine art prints from photographs shot with the intention of recreating them as prints, photographs or scans of original 2D flat art, or creating something wholly digital through the array of tools for such purposes, you still need a way to get the product of your creativity on some substrate, usually paper or canvas. There are different paths depending on where you start in the creative process. For photographers, it's going to be different from painters. This post is to alert you to a series of blog posts on fine art printing from Brian Auer, a San Diego based…
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Prosperous Artists Creative Business
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Selling Class
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Lines and Colors
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Brett Helquist
30 Jun 2009 | 10:29 amBrett Helquist is best known for his illustrations for the popular A Series of Unfortunate Events children’s books by “Lemony Snicket” (Daniel Handler). Helquist was born in Arizona, grew up in Utah, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University, and currently lives and works in New York City. He cites as his inspiration some of the all time great American illustrators like Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth and Dean Cornwell (also here). Helquist’s first job was as an intern for illustrator Robert Neubecker, he then went on to do editorial… -
Joseph Zbukvic
29 Jun 2009 | 12:07 pmJoseph Zbukvic is a Croation born artist living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Zbukvic’s atmospheric, emotionally resonant watercolors have a wonderful characteristic of being simultaneously loose and crisp — loose in that he suggests rather than elaborating, and crisp because of his masterful command of edges. He has a highly refined sense of when to define a sharp edge, and when to let an edge disappear into mists of hazy textured color. His landscapes and cityscapes, often of locations in Europe, are highly evocative of the place, without being rigid in their portrayal of… -
Blue and green, or is it?
26 Jun 2009 | 8:54 pmLike anyone who works with painting, design or color in any form, I occasionally struggle with color; not just with mixing and choosing colors, but with the actual perception of color, the ability to answer the seemingly simple question “What color is that?” All of my studies of color and color theory have led me to the inexorable conclusion that the single most important rule of color is that the human perception of any color is almost entirely dependent on adjacent or surrounding colors. This is the basis of Eugene Delacroix’s wonderful quote: “I can paint you the… -
John Pugh
25 Jun 2009 | 8:36 pmTrompe l’oeil, French for “trick the eye” is an illusionary art technique with a long history in Western art. The intention is to create an optical illusion, in that the viewer is given the impression that there is a three dimensional object or scene before them, not just a realistic image (see some of my posts relevant to trompe l’oeil, in particular my post on Eric Grohe). California born artist John Pugh paints large scale trompe l’oeil images, usually on the sides of buildings, that reveal impossible, and often amusing, dimensions to an otherwise flat wall. -
Juan Gallego
24 Jun 2009 | 8:44 pmSpanish painter Juan Gallego paints images that are technically floral paintings, though they are unlike any I have seen. Gallego take his inspiration in close-ups of flower forms that are convoluted, multi-layered and often have a wrinkled or withered appearance. These are the basis for his large scale compositions (it’s instructive to see a photo of an exhibit to get sense of their size), that border on abstracts. but retain their recognizable forms. He apparently uses photographic reference, and deliberately plays with the illusion of focus in areas of his canvasses, giving them both…
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The Art History Blog
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Frank Lloyd Wright/Google Design Contest
14 Jun 2009 | 12:02 pmWRITTEN BY ALEXANDER Think you have what it takes to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright and get into his prestigious School of Architecture? Now you can prove it. In conjunction with two current exhibitions celebrating the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and his students, Google and the Guggenheim Museum are holding a competition for architectural designers of any level. The Design It: Shelter Competition is an extension of the exhibition Learning By Doing, and gives those of us who did not attend the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture a chance to see what it would be like. Example of a shelter… -
New Layout: Patience Please!
26 May 2009 | 3:27 pmAlthough we’ve had a bit of a hiatus for the past month or so, we’ll be back to posting soon. For now, I’m implementing a new layout — and ask for your patience, as there will likely be some bugs as I work to fix it live. This new layout should present some exciting new possibilities for the site, and I look forward to posting some new thoughts very soon! Until then, thanks for understanding. Let us know what you think of the new layout in a few days when it’s complete! Right image: Preparation photo from Thomas Hirschhorn, Cavemanman, 2002, at the Carnegie… -
Guest Post at Blogs.com
29 Mar 2009 | 5:04 pmI recently wrote a guest post over at Blogs.com, on my top ten favorite art history and museum-related blogs. Check it out here, and let us know what you think of the list. -
A Late Vermeer — Or is it?
14 Mar 2009 | 2:01 pmWe read Martin Gladwell’s Blink for my museum studies seminar — a bestseller that focuses on moments of intinct and In the first chapter, he talks about the Getty Kouros controversy. Curators at the Getty, looking over the Greek statue for months, became convinced of its authenticity and purchased it at great price; yet others, such as Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan, saw it at first glance and simply knew it could not be real. Whether or not the Kouros is a forgery or not remains unknown, but Gladwell argues that those first glace, gut-instinct moments… -
Dia:Beacon
21 Feb 2009 | 5:57 pmView of Dia:Beacon on the Hudson River, from Wikipedia.com Step through sculptures made of strings, see yourself reflected in what seems to be a volcano of glass, walk through a towering rusted spiral, gaze into huge, endless geometric pits, and imagine who wrote each of a set of 4,000 vintage postcards. Where else can you do all these things but at the amazing Dia:Beacon? I’ve attended college in the Hudson Valley for four years, and only now, in my final semester, have I at last managed to visit Dia:Beacon, the sprawling contemporary art installation museum in Beacon, NY (located…
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The Earthly Paradise
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Desperate Romantics
29 Jun 2009 | 7:17 amAt long last, some additional news has broken about the BBC television adaptation of Franny Moyle's Pre-Raphaelite potboiler, Desperate Romantics. After months with no news, cyberspace finally has a fresh injection of stories about the much-anticipated series. One of the more interesting articles I came across was Rapid Talent's interview with Samuel Barnett, who will be playing John Everett Millais. Barnett describes getting acquainted with his character through field trips to the National Gallery: "I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery. I really… -
Pre-Raphaelite Art at the Delaware Art Museum
25 Jun 2009 | 7:22 amI'm always on the lookout for great Pre-Raphaelite art online, and yesterday I came across the Delaware Art Museum's fabulous Pre-Raphaelite art gallery, which features the collection of Samuel and Mary Bancroft. The Delaware Art Museum has the largest permanent collection of Pre-Raphaelite works in the United States. The museum maintains their collection through the generous support of the aptly-named "Rossetti Circle" of art patrons. I would definitely join if I lived anywhere near Delaware! Anyway, it's a lovely, well put together website with an extensive collection of photos of… -
Forbes Family to Sell Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces
22 Jun 2009 | 8:07 pmIf the Forbes family is reduced to selling off their priceles Pre-Raphaelite treasures, what does that mean for the rest of us? The family is in the process of selling a trove of art treasures from their London home for an estimated £5million. The collection included several pieces by prominent Pre-Raphaelites Sir Edward Burne Jones and Sir John Everett Millais. Two of Millais' paintings, 'For The Squire' and 'Trust Me,' were on sale for £850,000.00 each, while Sir Edward Burne-Jones' spectacular 'Mirror Of Venus'(shown above) was on offer for $500,000. Read more at The Evening… -
Earthly Paradise is on Twitter!
18 Jun 2009 | 1:58 pmI'm now on twitter! My user name is: margaretlozanoYou all may have noticed that my posts have become less frequent since work has become busier. I'm hoping that twitter will give me a chance to communicate on a daily basis with you all! For those of you who are much earlier adapters of twitter, please let me know your user names, and I'll be sure to add you! -
John William Waterhouse Exhibit in Montreal
11 Jun 2009 | 5:22 pmThe Montreal Museum of Fine Art has just announced an exhibit of John William Waterhouse's work, set to open this fall. The exhibit will run from October 1, 2009 through to February 7, 2010. The show was organized by the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, with participation from the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It is expected to be the largest collection of his work ever on display, with paintings gathered from public and private collections across the globe. A number of the works have not been seen since Waterhouse's own lifetime. I've been so…
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Dali House
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Before there was E! Online
29 Jun 2009 | 6:39 amLike Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer’s “Une Ascension en l’An VIII” from the decade previous (seen in this post), Fernand le Quesne’s 1897 painting “Allegorie de la Publicite” shows a surprisingly modern humour, or perhaps I just give too little credit to the artistic wags of the 19th century, who after all had among them the razor wit of Daumier. Le Quesne (1856-1956) has the allegorical Advertising in Place de la Concorde, flogging every imaginable shop and attraction, from the Louvre to the department store Bon Marché, as well as… -
Unmasked: Colonialism and its rewards
21 Jun 2009 | 12:57 amFrancis Picabia’s “Monster”, from 1946. The Chamba in Nigeria and Cameroon kept masks like this one well away from the village when not in use. The spirit depicted — and those who carried and wore the mask — were believed to lurk in the bush, ready to bring violence. Modern art’s fascination early in the last century with so-called primitive art chagrined Salvador Dali to the tweezer-tips of his moustache. He was appalled that Picasso and the cubists and, worse, his fellow surrealists André Breton, Paul Eluard and Louis Aragon, could derive inspiration… -
Vincent: June 17, 1889
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High comedy and hot air
13 Jun 2009 | 11:29 amI was sure this was a recent painting in fin de siecle clothing when I first saw it, but it was done in 1880. What fooled me about Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer’s “Une Ascension en l’An VIII” was the slapstick played out in the crowd, but I guess slapstick is older than I thought, and the Dutchman was merely displaying his gifts as an illustrator — and perhaps having a poke at “high” society too. “Year VIII” was 1799 on the French republican calendar, and the Parisian scene depicted recalls the many social events that centred on balloon… -
Popular plagiarism: David vs the Mighty Roy
9 Jun 2009 | 6:35 amRik Pavlescak, the founder of the Collect Dali Yahoo Group, came up with an interesting analogy toward the end of a lively recent discussion among the members about copyright. He cited a 2006 article by Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam on the debate over Roy Lichtenstein’s use of comic-book panels in his pop art. Beam in turn pointed to the website of David Barsalou, who was then teaching art at the High School of Commerce in Springfield, Massachusetts. On Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein, Barsalou stacks more than 100 paintings by the artist next to their original comic images. He also…
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Artlog
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Connect Weekly - Independence Day by staff
1 Jul 2009 | 12:47 pmHey Artloggers, welcome to the Weekly Connect Newsletter. The 4th of July is upon us and the typical summer torpor is settling over the art world in New York City in spite of the uncommonly poor summer weather. So we are looking across the country and highlighting art shows near 11 of the most spectacular sites to view America’s most explosive fireworks displays (with some help from Travel + Leisure). Despite the summer slowdown in openings, great events and interesting exhibitions are happening all summer. In this holiday week alone, there are NYC openings at D’Amelio Terras,… -
America's Next Top Artist - Seriously! by staff
1 Jul 2009 | 9:20 amFor the past year, art insiders have been talking (not so positively) about reality television coming to art and now Bravo, teaming up with Sarah Jessica Parker, has finally started casting of its untitled artist reality show. (image by Banksy) The casting call: “How do you go from struggling, emerging or even semi-established artist to selling a complete show for $198 million? It’s a big art world out there, but maybe this is one place to start! If you’re an emerging or mid-career artist with a unique, powerful voice that demands a bigger stage – well. . . Here. It. Is.”… -
Give Them What They Never Knew TheyWanted
29 Jun 2009 | 10:24 amPicked for: 2009-07-01Former Vogue editor and fashion icon, Diana Vreeland, once declared, “Give them what they never knew they wanted.” Referring to this expression, the title of the exhibition plays on the current condition of the art market, challenging criteria for collecting work while also acknowledging its commoditization. Celebrating creativity in its many forms, the exhibition embraces eclecticism. -
Hannah Cole - InstantSublime
29 Jun 2009 | 10:17 amPicked for: 2009-07-01Hannah Cole’s work explores the distracted American state of mind. In Instant Sublime, she investigates the disconnect between an individual’s physical presence and emotional state during a single instant in time. In the chaos of urban life, driving is one of the few remaining acts of ritual and solitude. Drawing from personal experience, Cole uses different views from inside a car as a metaphor for the relationship between interior life and the world outside. -
Tables andChairs
29 Jun 2009 | 10:14 amPicked for: 2009-07-01Originally this show was supposed to be about a moving truck going cross-country packed with art from Los Angeles. We’d invite a bunch of artists to contribute something and drive a truck around collecting pieces. When it was full, we’d drive eastward, show up in New York and put something together. This is basically what happened, minus the U-haul. Tables and Chairs brings together nine LA-based artists paired with selected works by Alice Hutchins. This show grew from associations in artworks that share an interest in abstraction, geometry, interaction, and…
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Culture Monster
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Theater review: 'Monkey Madness' at Powerhouse Theatre
2 Jul 2009 | 3:30 pmOnce there was a Monkey Boy (Randy Thompson) who longed to be human. The appeal of his goal escapes me, however, given how much fun the cast of “Monkey Madness” has playing simians of all variety. This rambunctious, goofball production by the Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble, now playing at the Powerhouse in Santa Monica, is part rave, part sketch comedy and a vehement affirmation of kneepads. Writer-director Daisuke Tsuji, a Cirque du Soleil alum, and choreographer Anne Rene Brashier create a hyperkinetic world in which monkeys and gorillas philosophize, have sex and eat their own waste… -
Theater review: 'Shakespeare Unscripted' at Theatre of Arts
2 Jul 2009 | 3:30 pmImprovisational theater is high-risk. Those who practice it are the theatrical equivalent of circus aerialists. Working without a net, they defy the audience’s gravity. For some 20 years, Impro Theatre has been performing death-defying stunts of impromptu parody, sending up authors from Jane Austen to Tennessee Williams. In their latest offering, “Shakespeare Unscripted,” presented in conjunction with Theatre/Theater, the company undertakes the works of William Shakespeare. One can hardly imagine a more gut-wrenching endeavor than winging a Shakespearean play completely off the… -
Review: 'The Voysey Inheritance' at Theatre 40
2 Jul 2009 | 3:15 pmThe setting may be Edwardian England, but when the swindler operating a prestigious investment firm bemoans small-minded moralists' inability to "see beyond the letter of the law," we could just as easily be listening to the grousing of Bernie Madoff or the spate of present-day con artists who preceded him. The enduring topicality of the well-heeled swindle in Harley Granville-Barker's 1905 drama, "The Voysey Inheritance," prompted a prescient adaptation a century later by David Mamet. Paring five sprawling acts down to a sharply focused portrait of a well-to-do… -
Gil Garcetti's Africa photos head to U.N.
2 Jul 2009 | 2:58 pm"Women, Water and Wells: Photographs of West Africa by Gil Garcetti," a 2007 exhibition at UCLA's Fowler Museum, is evolving into a new show at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The revised version, combining Garcetti's images of women stuggling to provide safe water for their families with young students' responses to his pictures, will be on view from July 25 to Sept. 6 in the visitors lobby of the U.N. building. Garcetti, a former Los Angeles district attorney who has become a prominent photographer, made his first trip to West Africa in 2001. -
Theater review: 'The Cherry Orchard' at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
2 Jul 2009 | 1:45 pmAnton Chekhov famously described "The Cherry Orchard" as "not a drama but a comedy, in places almost a farce." That is exactly how it blossoms at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. Chekhov's final masterwork receives a gracefully rewarding production that uses aerated humor and inventive pertinence to illuminate its heartbroken core. Very freely adapted by Heidi Helen Davis, who also directs, beautifully, and Ellen Geer, Chekhov's pre-revolutionary Russian aristocrats wind up outside Charlottesville, Va., circa 1970. Despite fleeting awkward moments, the…
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Culturepush
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HEXA I
1 Jul 2009 | 9:58 amFresh from the release of their 4th album, recorded and mixed in Bergen Norway with longtime collaborator, Jørgen Træen, The Observatory comes to The Arts House to perform their new songs. The math prog rock of their 3rd album ‘A far cry from here’ has morphed into a fluid mystical beast. Most songs have no drums. But there is rhythm. Only the type of rhythm associated with an invisible pulse. An implied rhythm. Five folks sitting around a fire. A metaphorical fire. Chanting for the rain to come. To shower one with Hexa I, the first gathering for all dark folk. 19 Jul, 8pm at… -
RE:PLAY
1 Jul 2009 | 7:58 amThink there’s nothing in common between the melodic strums of your electric guitar and the emotive strings of the Indian sitar? Think again as four popular contemporary bands collaborate with traditional musicians at this year’s Night Festival. Join us and rediscover Singapore’s culture through a showcase of music of the past and present coming together in a one-of-a-kind performance. Amateur Takes Control: Collaboration with Kompang Troupe. Tiramisu: Collaboration with Keroncong Players with Fire Dancers. Lunar Node: Collaboration with Indian Organ and Chinese Musical… -
Good Vibes
30 Jun 2009 | 6:11 amYou might know her from the popular upbeat alternative rock act Allura. Frontwoman Inch Chua steps out on her own to share a different beat. Inspired by singer-songwriters such as Fiona Apple, Roisin Murphy and Shiina Ringo and electronic acts like Bjork, Aphex Twin and The Postal Service, Inch’s solo project is a clear departure from the boisterous rock singer she is known for. The material is a schizophrenic potpourri of introspective acoustic tunes and chirpy electronica. What remain unmistakable are the pint-sized singer’s trademark powerhouse vocals. Inch invites the listeners to… -
Spotted! Jonathan Han
29 Jun 2009 | 9:20 amClick for detail. Jonathan Han just graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he majored in Graphic Design. He sees himself as just a simple Singaporean boy trying to go places where no one has ventured before. In doing so, he sleeps very little. His Mega Graphic (above) is a data visualization reflection of his life thus far. Jonathan explains: “The left and right panels work together to show the information derived from the abstract and exact (left and right corresponding) reality of my life. The intensity of my thoughts, the activities that I spent the most time on,… -
Resuscitation
29 Jun 2009 | 8:00 amThrough this exhibition, Jonathan Seow wants to bring forth the meaning of fashion and its relevance to visual arts and design. He wishes to rediscover and in the process, redefine the state of art and fashion in Singapore today. This will be presented through a series of art installations that take the form of photography, live presentations, sounds and clothing objects. The Shop | A collaborative installation developed and designed by Jonathan Seow and Theseus Chan from WORK, it houses a collaborative 10-piece collection labeled, ASSEMBLED -LINE. New bi-annual fashion/arts…
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the last place on earth you probably want to be
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Microgrants: The Future of Art?
10 Jun 2009 | 10:51 amWooster Collective recently asked their readers, “If I gave you $50 today, with the condition that you had to spend it on ‘art’, what would you do with it?” They received immediate feedback, and though it wasn’t their intention when they asked, they decided to give $50 to the individual behind one of their favourite ideas, Ché Francisco Ortiz. His idea was simple and effective — to “buy a ton of sidewalk chalk and give it out to every kid i saw at the park or boardwalk.” Ortiz bought the chalk, headed to the boardwalk, and a brilliant moment of… -
Things I Can’t Attend because I Work on Saturdays
26 May 2009 | 10:19 amDuring the school year, I’d often complain that required courses were scheduled on either Thursday or Friday evenings between 6:30 pm and 9:30 pm. It just didn’t make sense for a curatorial program to develop a schedule that conflicted so regularly with gallery openings in the city. Unfortunately, the predicament doesn’t end with the term. Working in a gallery ties me up on Saturday afternoons and I always have to miss a ton of great stuff. Here are a couple that I hope you’ll make it to. I’ll be there in spirit. REPLYall, presented by Art Metropole and SAVAC, is… -
Everyone’s a Critic!
26 May 2009 | 9:22 amI haven’t written in ages! April and May turned out to be a lot busier — and a lot less saturated in art — than I expected. Although there’s a lot more to report on, I wanted to share a project that I worked on for an aesthetics class last semester. It’s called Everyone’s a Critic and, in a sentence, it is a series of Mad Libs-style workbooks that contextualize visual works and then guide users to formulate an opinion about them. The drive behind the project was to highlight the subjectivity of beauty and criticism. Of course, since it was for a class, I… -
Race and Privilege: Canada According to Coupland
13 Apr 2009 | 12:33 pmAs a long-time fan of Douglas Coupland, I bought both Souvenir of Canada books as soon as they were available. I read them both cover to cover but remained fairly neutral about either of them. There were parts that reminded me of the Canada I know, and other parts that felt as foreign to me as a country I’ve never visited. Since I have been sharpening my criticism skills at OCAD, however, Coupland has emerged as a problematic figure in the conversation about nationalism, and the construction of a unified Canadian identity. Below is a (long-ish) essay I wrote for a class about Canadian… -
Folding the Singularity into Art: Aimee Mullins and Rob Spence
12 Apr 2009 | 1:37 pmHere is an essay that I wrote for a Conceptual Practices class. It could use a lot of refining but I think there are a few interesting ideas here about the body’s relationship to art. I’d be curious to hear what you think of these human/technological hybridities as mechanisms for art-making. Ray Kurzweil’s theory of the Singularity refers to the point in time when machines surpass human consciousness and improve their own design beyond the point of human conception.1 It may seem like a paranoid theory developed in the wake of rapid technological advancements; a way to explain,…
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ArtPlantae Today
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News Delivery Changes at ArtPlantae Today
29 Jun 2009 | 6:45 amEffective immediately, weekly news delivery at ArtPlantae Today will be managed through our RSS feed. To continue receiving weekly news updates, please confirm your interest by entering your email address. When you sign-up to receive our feed via email, you receive a summary of news items that were posted at ArtPlantaeToday.com during the previous 24 [...] -
Hollengold Farm Offers Organic Creations in Botanical Art
29 Jun 2009 | 6:35 amWith much excitement and enthusiasm, artist Wendy Hollender announced, “We bought the farm!” Hollengold Farm is a family effort. This family-operated farm is located in Accord, NY and provides Ulster County with organic vegetables, herbs, flowers, and fruit. It also provides botanical artists with inspiring new learning opportunities, thanks to Wendy. Wendy, the founder of WH [...] -
Botanical Illustration Courses at Kew
29 Jun 2009 | 6:30 amNow posted at Classes Near You > International: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org Distance and Detail: Drawing and Painting Plants – September 14 – 18. Draw trees, shrubs, or flowers in this class covering the basic techniques of botanical illustration. Drawing Workshop – September 8. Outdoor sketching class at Wakehurst Place. Posted in Botanical illustration, Education, Learning Opportunities Tagged: classes [...] -
New Volume of Prince Charles’ Florilegium Published
25 Jun 2009 | 8:45 amDid you miss it on Twitter? Watch this video about the Prince Charles’ Highgrove Florilegium. And did you see… Prince Charles’ 2nd volume of commissioned paintings at Highgrove is published. http://cfo5y.tk Volume I published in 2008 http://ejfcr.tk Posted in Botanical art, Botanical art books, Special Announcements, Special Events Tagged: florilegium -
2009 Conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists
22 Jun 2009 | 7:54 amThe conference website for the 15th Annual Meeting & Conference of the American Society of Botanical Artists is now live! Hosting the conference this year are the dedicated members of the Southwest Society of Botanical Artists. Conference activities will be held at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ. Conference participants will have the opportunity [...]
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1stAngel
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Jackson’s former wife ‘undecided’
2 Jul 2009 | 3:45 pmThe late Michael Jackson's ex-wife is undecided over whether to fight for custody of their two children, her lawyer says. -
Jackson rehearsal footage released
2 Jul 2009 | 12:46 pmFootage of Michael Jackson in rehearsal for the This Is It tour has been released by the concert promoters AEG Live. -
The Smearing Of The Paint 7-02-09 by David Lane
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Jackson death ’surreal’ – Jones
2 Jul 2009 | 11:23 amQuincy Jones says he is still coming to terms with Michael Jackson's death, as well as talking about his long career in music. -
Obama pays tribute to Jackson
2 Jul 2009 | 10:28 amUS President Barack Obama has said Michael Jackson will "go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers".
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Young Urban
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Creative Public School Posters
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Cyclists Diverts Traffic with Lasers
1 Jul 2009 | 6:27 pmThis is a great idea for cyclist who want to ward off traffic and oncoming cars… it’s the LightLane (thanks khalid) -
The Ultimate Party Balloon
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Examples of Great Architecture
27 Jun 2009 | 9:49 amHere are 25 amazing examples of architecture from around the world. Above is just one of my favorites from the list. -
Veiny Panty Hose
26 Jun 2009 | 10:42 amSo you want to look a little different at the workplace the get some Veiny Panty Hose! (S)
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Art Slam
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Rollin’ with my CincyChicks to BlogHer ‘09 in Chevy Style
30 Jun 2009 | 4:03 pmSeriously. I am about to explode from excitement. I am headed to BlogHer next month as part of the BlogHer Chevy Carpool with fellow carpoolers Shannan (Mommybits) Jennifer (Playgroups Are No Place for Children), Amy (AmyInOHio) and Andrea (Udandi and the Craft of Money) in one of those cars above! We already have planned an opera sing off, punch buggy and I am sure some other insane car games as we roll to Chicago extra early in the morning. The conference does not start until Friday, July 24, but Thursday will be full of parties and meet & greets. Amy has already said we can sleep when… -
What Are You Waiting For?
22 Jun 2009 | 12:19 pmI always hear a word when I really need it. Lately, I have been in a self-induced holding pattern. Waiting for things to happen and waiting for people to happen. Feeling like I need to justify some decisions I am ready to make even though there could be some fall out from them. I have been preparing explanations for things that have not even happened. Then I read a post today on Christine Kane’s blog about explainers and saw things from a different perspective. While I do not think of myself as an explainer, I have, at times, been more concerned with other people’s opinions… -
Soul Stirring Opportunity and Second Chances
17 Jun 2009 | 7:23 pmI picked up my guitar a few weeks ago and it completely captivates me. I have always loved the soul stirring sound of acoustic guitars. A couple of people have asked why I wanted to learn to play now. I replied, “Why not right now?” Before, I had put off pursing things I wanted to experience. I found “reasons” to not do it and each time a part of who I was becoming…retreated. You can not deny who you really are. Actually, you can, but eventually something inside is going to erupt and demand that you acknowledge and pay it some attention. I have been paying… -
Renee Pearson Launches First Class at Training Site
11 Jun 2009 | 4:51 pmI am so excited to share the news that Renee Pearson is offering her first class at reneepearson.com. Those of you who are digital scrapbookers know Renee well as a frequent contributor to Digital Scrapbooking Magazine and the wonderful books she has written,Digital Designs for Scrapbooking and Digital Designs for Scrapbooking 2. Here’s a little more information about the class and the great deal Renee is offering for her first class: Digital expert Renee Pearson debuts the new digital scrapbooking class, “Just the Basics, Ma’am” at her training site, reneepearson.com, beginning… -
Staying Centered and Patient
9 Jun 2009 | 8:21 amI have this overwhelming sense of restlessness surrounding me lately. And, it is in those times when I am anxious, wanting things to hurry up and happen or restless that I could use a reminder that everything is going to be alright and will happen in due time. I just have to keep the faith. I have found by doing the following, I am able to stay centered and maintain the patience I need while everything around me comes into order: Be grateful for your life. Look at your life with gratitude and appreciate where you are right now. An attitude of gratitude is contagious. People are attracted to…
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Letter to Jane
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Natural by Timothy Paul Moore
1 Jul 2009 | 7:30 amThe readers and fans of this site have been a big help to me yesterday and so I wanted to return the favor in the only way I knew how, going out and taking some photos for you. I’m releasing another project today titled Natural. It can be downloaded and shared, (all I ask is that you credit me if you share it, thank you). I have admitted my love for Georg Gerster and I think you can tell that his work was definitely an inspiration. Here is the link to download the pdf (9.3 mb) You can view the rest of my portfolio here Here are a couple images from the project: Post from: Letter to Jane… -
What Five Photos Do You Like?
30 Jun 2009 | 7:02 amI need everyone who is willing to go to my portfolio, http://timothypaulmoore.com and tell me what your top five photos from the site. I have been asked by a selection committee to display my best work and I already have an idea in my own head but honestly I look at these images so much I usually tend to like the odd out takes rather than the finished photos. So if you’d like to help me out here’s all you have to do: Either comment here or email me and tell me which ones you like by naming the group they are from and what number they come in the order so for example: The image… -
Portfolio Update Sneak Peek
29 Jun 2009 | 7:08 amI am thinking of posting more photos on my portfolio site, timothypaulmoore.com I’m not finished yet, but I really like some of these photos. Post from: Letter to Jane Portfolio Update Sneak Peek -
The Fashion Video, the Usual Embarrassment of a Brand
26 Jun 2009 | 11:25 amThey always start to pour out in Spring/Summer, and I’ve always wondered why. Fashion videos, surprise collaborations with musicians, and other attention grabbers that have nothing to do with the clothes always seem to follow the release of the Spring/Summer Men’s collections. Is it because they know we don’t care as much? That men in general don’t need to buy a new suit every season? Is it all a ploy to get us to buy more? Or is there an effort to boast their pure artistic side, to gain respect from artists and show that fashion labels aren’t just a business? I… -
Alexander McQueen Spring 2010
24 Jun 2009 | 7:06 amI’m torn by this collection, it appeals to one side of me and pisses off the other. This collection was preceded by a short film by David Sims which conceptualized the creative process and focused on the tortured side of the artist. I found the whole thing just completely predictable and pretentious but at the same time I connected with the overall feeling of the video. It was the same thought process I had when viewing this collection. On the one hand, it shows McQueen’s usual brilliance on going against current trends and still making wonderful, conceptual clothes. While most…
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oil painting art blog by lucas art
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oil painting technique
28 Jun 2009 | 5:50 amAfter entering the new century, including the visual arts including oil painting faces new environment – on the one hand, high-tech technology and the popularity of digital imaging, into our “image flooding” of the times, life-like images at your fingertips; On the other hand, Drawing on the traditional concept of national reunification, constraints and reducing the teaching of Chinese oil painting in painting and painting value and status. However, practice in the arts, oil painting is still considered a teaching and mastering the process of painting techniques and the… -
china oil painting portrait history
25 Jun 2009 | 10:38 pmThe 17 century, with the Catholic missionaries have been east, Chinese people from the religious figure in the oil painting came into contact with the West; the End of Qing Dynasty, the wide dissemination of Western painting in China, the Chinese artist to draw a number of outstanding creative methods China to enrich the creative portraits, the portrait began to integrate the arts of East and West Road. Oil painting Portrait as a species has a long history of oil painting, in the East and West, the development of different, mainly due to their different social systems during the period of… -
Chinese oil painting of innovation
24 Jun 2009 | 12:52 amChinese oil paintings in the new century, the first face today is the prominent problems brought about by globalization and cultural convergence trend. As a result of the powerful countries in the material and spiritual and cultural products of Western culture caused extensive expansion across the globe, making the country vulnerable after a long history of practice in the formation of culture and cultural patterns and digestion by the exclusion, character and spirit of the pursuit of cultural erosion and assimilation , culture and vitality of living space is gradually lost. At present… -
Best of china oil painting way
22 Jun 2009 | 10:08 pmChina oil painting art from scratch to today’s prosperity, it can not be denied to the West This is mainly the results of the study. The 20th century, the initial and 21 century, is decisively different from the era of two hundred years ago from the revitalization of national prosperity and cultural point of view, we are grateful to our ancestors as the knowledge that they found in the country closed and powerful China is not only the decline and cultural stagnation, thus boldly go out of the country to the West to study the introduction of Western civilization, the Chinese have… -
Post-80s artist group in china
21 Jun 2009 | 9:13 pmPost 80’s art is the most valuable by Western avant-garde less direct impact on the arts. They are also the artistic temperament, as throughout the 80’s generation after generation characteristics, self-suffering and the visual characteristics of dignified. After the 80 oil paintings, sculptures and abstract art canvas art painting is almost re-created a new generation of self-characteristics: cool, cute, and transcendental illusion, self-centered, game sense and so on, have a pure visual power. I was born in the 80’s, just the end of the Cultural Revolution, reform…
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About.com: Art History
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Casting Calls Announced for The Untitled Art Project
1 Jul 2009 | 7:33 amTell all of your artist friends: the Bravo Network has, at long last, determined a casting call schedule for its upcoming reality television series The Untitled Art Project. According to the press release, they are looking for "emerging or mid-career" artists of the "contemporary" stripe. (Note to readers: Erm, not to split hairs, but any visual artist who is currently [1] breathing and [2] working is, by definition, "contemporary." But I digress.) The schedule is as follows: LOS ANGELES Saturday, July 11 & Sunday, July 12, 10 AM – 2 PM LAXART www.laxart.org MIAMI Tuesday, July 14, 10… -
Ease on Down the Road
25 Jun 2009 | 3:53 pmLove him or loathe what he allegedly became, there's no denying that Michael Jackson touched millions of lives with his music, artistry and iconic cultural status as the "King of Pop." Look here. He even inspired Jeff Koons who is, himself, no slouch in the pop culture sphere. As for me, I will remember him simply as an integral part of my youth and thank him always for the music; we all have our personal soundtracks in Life. Selective memory, perhaps, but nonetheless valid. By the way, Bubbles is alive, well and spending his days acting as chimpanzees are meant to at an animal preserve in… -
Wordless Wednesday - Today's Heat Index
24 Jun 2009 | 8:33 am© 2008 Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (And here we all thought the melting timepieces were a Surrealistic flight of fancy. Ha! Not when the Heat Index is >100°F, Señor Dalí.) See more Wordless Wednesdays on About -
Art Myth: Picasso Was a Lefty
20 Jun 2009 | 1:25 pmEvery three to six months someone emails instructing me to add Pablo Picasso to my list of Left-Handed Artists. And every three to six months I have to reply with, "Sorry, no can do" because Pablo Picasso was absolutely, positively not left-handed. However, the Internet being what it is, the tale of the Spanish Master's rumored southpawiness persists. Today, after another email, it occurred to me (at long last!) that, maybe, the Internet could *also* provide proof to dispel this particular myth. While it's dangerous for me to venture into YouTube (think: short attention span and… -
Mona Lisa Nude, Huh?
12 Jun 2009 | 4:51 pmSo, did you hear the one about how Leonardo possibly painted other versions of La Gioconda, and how possibly one or more of the versions was nude from the waist up? If you didn't hear this, we are a party of at least two. Now, though, this apparently old rumor has come to the forefront due to the painting, above, going on display at an exhibition in Vinci, Italy. The show is called Joconde: From the Mona Lisa to the Nude Gioconda. It opens tomorrow (June 13) and runs until September 30, 2009 at the Museo Ideale. It's divided into two parts: (1) works by Leonardo, his workshop and contemporary…
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The Old Gold
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Ian Pedigo
25 Jun 2009 | 9:25 amSkies, 2008, wood, magazine clippings, 13" x 15"Expansion into Undeveloped Area, 2006, Installation view, CRG Gallery Surroundings are Left Open, 2008, linen, wool, cotton, twine, tape, 42 1/2" x 63 x 8 1/2"The Blank Volume, 2005Normal, 2008, wood, table fragment, lighting gel, tape, magazine clippings, paint, carpet, 44" x 50" x 21"See Ian Pedigo's website here and more info at 65 Grand and Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery. Ian will be in my upcoming show called Sick Shape, which will be on July 8 in Tribeca. More on that show soon. -
Shows...
17 Jun 2009 | 7:43 pmJaime Gecker, Shhh, 2009, polaroid collage and plexi, 5 x 5 inches6/17-8/1Brooklyn Queens @Journal Gallery w/ Tauba Auerbach, Gina Beavers, Katherine Bernhardt, Sam Moyer, Jeanette Mundt, Harriot Salmon. curated by Eddie Martinez6/18-7/26the sum and all parts @427 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn w/Paul Branca, Gordon Faylor, Ryan Foerster, Jaime Gecker, Kenny Komer, Boris Rasin, David Rothenberg, Ryan Rowlett, Kirby Salvador, Lanya Snyder, LeRoy Stevens, Heidi Turpin. curated by Jenny Borland and Beau Rutland6/18: ONE NIGHT ONLYApartment Show Dancing! @ Tommy's Tavern w/ videos by Patrick Brennan… -
Justin Adian
10 Jun 2009 | 6:36 pmPleasure Point, 2008, oil enamel on canvas, 23” x 26”On the Brink, 2009studio shot-various works Forever and Ever, 2008, oil enamel on canvas, 51" x 45"Self-inflating, 2009More Justin Adian here. -
collage break
3 Jun 2009 | 6:58 pmHere are some collages done by an group of artists in and around 2004...same group of people as in board at work, with the addition of Jesse Hamerman. All works around 4 x 5 inches. -
Aaron Steffes
26 May 2009 | 11:50 amThe Chairman, 2004 by Aaron Steffes. Check out his new website here.
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Celestial Dreams
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Art Quote:
1 Jul 2009 | 8:41 pm“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. “ Thomas Merton Posted in Poetry and Quotes -
Free July4th/Patriotic wallpaper & twitter backgrounds. Independence Day 2009
30 Jun 2009 | 7:34 amFree 4th of July – Patriotic wallpaper / twitter backgrounds Images are 1600×1200 resolution. For personal / noncommercial use ONLY. Images copyright Leah McNeir 2008. For other free backgrounds click HERE Posted in Random Art -
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27 Jun 2009 | 8:59 pmMusic is such a big part of my life; it has and will continue to play a big role in my creative inspiration. I love music, & I love sharing music! Sooo, I signed up to Blip.FM and am finally getting around to figuring the site out and setting up my profile & channel: http://blip.fm/LeahMcNeir Today I’ll [...] -
Signed up to Blogtoplist, please vote if you enjoy this blog =D
23 Jun 2009 | 2:18 pmSigned up last night at http://www.blogtoplist.com/arts/ – a blog directory. If you enjoy this blog or my artwork, please support me by voting for it at: http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=95300 (Its like giving the blog a thumbs up & It just takes seconds! – 1 click easy voting, & you don’t have to sign up for anything etc! ) Voting [...] -
Quote: “Ideals are like stars….” continued –
22 Jun 2009 | 2:13 pm” Ideals are like stars: you may not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. “ - Carl Schurz Posted in Poetry and Quotes
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The Artery Magazine
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Evan Jenson
2 Jul 2009 | 3:37 pmThe first time you saw Return To Oz you knew it wasn't exactly a children's movie, even though it was labeled so. Evan Jenson, a DC illustrator has found his sweet spot in that same niche. -
Three-Headed Weekend
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Masters of Soundlab
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Amy Shortle
23 Jun 2009 | 7:29 amWe received a nice little poem from Artery reader Amy Shortle over the weekend and wanted to share. Thanks Amy! -
Laura Meyers
22 Jun 2009 | 6:38 pmFresh off the plane from Amsterdam, illustrator Laura Meyers takes a moment to answer a few of our pressing questions about her depiction of sobriety, vanity and fantasy. From doll lover to wheatpaster, she maintains her curiosity...
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My MiNuTia
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Favorites of late
1 Jul 2009 | 4:37 pmSummer is nicer to my toes and feets because of this. Seriously. Smells great, too. It's like a little bit of heaven. Who doesn't love with Mrs. Meyers any and everything? It's lemony fresh smell. So glad it's at my local Super Target now, too. The hand lotion sits next the kitchen sink. Now this ....well...it's my secret. I've used b CONFIDENT hairspray for years. The Pink one. The blue can is too heavy for my taste. The pink one though...it's "just right". Great for blondes because it's so light. You can apply it lightly,… -
Mr. McFreckleson
30 Jun 2009 | 5:23 pmBut we just call him Freckles, for short. Meet the newest member of the McFam. He is a Robo Hamster. So tiny. Oh my goodness. He's just a fluffball, 2 1/2 inches long? Something like that. No tail...whew. Maybe we will get a full body photo so you can see how tiny he really is. He's a cutie...as far as hamsters go! -
Busy hands
29 Jun 2009 | 7:49 amThe Party of Five Collage at The Art Mill was sooo nice on Saturday. Minds were focused and hands were busy... Everyone was all shy but wanted a group canvas shot. Then the smiles came out and we got this: Omaha girls are so creative and so sweet! It was a fabulous workshop! Thanks to all those girls who joined me. You guys were so great!! One thing that hit me when I was editing these photos was how great the light was in The Art Mill Studio. So much natural light! I wonder if that was planned when she sought out her studio location? I hope to teach another… -
A New E-Zine!
24 Jun 2009 | 2:26 pmTime to energize those upcoming dog days of Summer and it's time for a fresh new E-Zine! So let's say you made a journal (or bought one you love) and you are yearning to fill it with beautiful art inspired pages. But you hesitate. You are afraid or nervous...and to be honest, you don't know what to do next. Or maybe you've created art journals in the past and just haven't "wowed" yourself with your pages. Instead of making interesting pages in that journal, you just let it sit on the shelf. Sigh. If this is you, then I encourage you to subscribe to The Journal of… -
love old stuff
23 Jun 2009 | 3:00 amJust a reminder that I'll be teaching a mixed media collage: Party of 5, this weekend at The Art Mill. This Saturday, June, 27, from 10-12:30. You can get the workshop details on The Art Mill's website: here. I'm gathering supplies for Saturday. I've been loading up on some vintage treasures...from far far away for this workshop. I can't wait! Lastly, I just wanted to show you this vintage holy water bottle I got recently. I used a 50 mm lens for some reason, and so now the top of the bottle isn't as clear, but I think you can still see it's a crown…
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Each Dazzling Moment
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Soaring....
17 Jun 2009 | 7:27 pmJust finished a couple of new pieces.... These bird and goddess images are still resonating strongly with me. I'm having fun experimenting with different backgrounds and layers. Soaring (Mixed Media on paper. 8 x 8")Goddess (Mixed Media on paper 8 x 8")All my work is available on Etsy: http://LissaRoseDesigns.etsy.com. -
Across the finish line....
7 Jun 2009 | 10:51 pm...of the 30-day Art Challenge. I finished 30 pieces in a little over 30 days.... ;) Here are a few of my pieces from the last week:Mother Turtle (Mixed Media / Collage on paper. 8 x 8".)In the Rose Garden (Mixed Media on paper. 8 x 8".)Emergence (Mixed Media on paper. 4 x 6" ATC - Artist Trading Card) Her butterfly spirit took wing (Mixed Media on paper. 8 x 8".)Moon Goddess (Mixed Media on paper. 8 x 8")Shatter My Heart Open (Mixed Media on paper. 8 x 8".) Quote is from Meditations from Africa by Michael Copley & Guy Gibbon,… -
Art From the Heart - The 30-Day Challenge Gets Ahead of Me!
26 May 2009 | 7:35 amWell, I'm officially way behind on my one-piece-of-art a day challenge. I'm determined to catch up, though, and have been making art as fast as I can. That said, I don't want to post anything I'm not happy with. (Well, please understand, I mean "happy with" relative to my skill and experience level! :) Also, these works are not meant to be masterpieces, so I have to let go of my perfectionist tendencies a little bit... "Loosen up" as Gary Reef would say!! This challenge is certainly pushing me to learn and try all kinds of various… -
"...float in the beauty of your own heart."
7 May 2009 | 4:10 pm"...float in the beauty of your own heart." is from a beautiful chant by Krishna Das. If you don't have his CD "Breath of the Heart", you should really check it out. It's medicine for the soul. -
Carlito Dalceggio's Live Art (Day 6) in Toronto
7 May 2009 | 3:59 pmCarlito Dalceggio's Live Art (Day 6) in TorontoOriginally uploaded by Adam SchwabeNow, for something completely different.... ;) I'm blown away by this! I was completely unaware of the art of Carlito Dalceggio until a few days ago. This work -- and the video showing it being created, live -- is absolutely breathtaking. I was inspired to create a little homage. The colors just radiate energy... I feel like I'm loading up on Redbull or something!My (humble) homage.... :)Now, for some real fun... The videos!CARLITO DALCEGGIO AT LUMINATO- EDITED VERSION OF THE 10 DAYSThe…
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Love, Creative Soul
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Works in Progress
2 Jul 2009 | 8:53 amThese past few days (actually nights, or really early mornings haha) I have been working on some paintings. My plan is to get some stuff made so that I can actually think about selling it. It's summer time so I am really busy with the kids and the new garden. It's the first time we are actually planting a real garden, so I hope we are somewhat successful with it. The start of our garden. Next we need a fence, and the seeds need to sprout life. I can't wait to get some really awesome photo shots of the garden... -
Picasso
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Love, Creative Soul on Twitter
24 Jun 2009 | 11:36 amI need some more creative peeps to chit chat with via Twitter, so come and follow me @creativesoul83. Just don't be a follower in real life. -
Is this It? - A Very Short Story
23 Jun 2009 | 11:21 pmIs this it? Is this all life has to offer? After 89 years, death? Just death, alone? They say everyone dies alone, but really is this...I mean really, alone? After a life lived amongst people who you constantly try to get away from. To be alone in your own world. And now that it finally happens, now that you're finally alone, it's the last thing you want. Instead of being alone, silent in your corner of the ring, you want nothing more than the crowd cheering your name. An audience singing your praises and pouring love down your throat. So... -
This is AWESOME!!!
8 Jun 2009 | 10:30 pmI don't know what's better the guys singing or the guy taking the order? He actually gets the whole freakin' order right!! Pure genius on both sides. Enjoy!
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Faith Towers Photography
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What's New?
29 Jun 2009 | 2:41 pmWhat's new here at Faith Towers Photography, you ask? Well, my new Coffee Table Book has been flying off the shelves, and I've been out taking pictures like a mad woman. Lately I've been focusing on (no pun intended) rain - puddles, raindrops, you name it. There hasn't been any shortage of rain, so it seems to be an appropriate subject. I'll post new photos in the near future. In the meantime, here are a few easy ways to start keeping track of my latest updates, and be the first to see any new work:1. Become a VIP member by signing up for my mailing list. Just click here. (The page will say… -
Use Your Right Brain This Summer
12 Jun 2009 | 2:36 pmHere are a few UPCOMING ART EVENTS IN BOSTON:1. Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries- May 30-November 2- Museum of Fine Arts located at 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston- Adults $17 admission; Seniors and Students 18 and older $152. ICA Experiment: Super Secret Summer Surprise - Friday, June 12- 8 pm-12 am- Institute of Contemporary Art located at 100 Northern Avenue in Boston- $25 general admission; $20 members and students with valid ID3. Jamaica Plain Small Works Show and Sale- Tuesday, June 23- 6-9pm- Doyle's Cafe located at 3484 Washington Street in Jamaica Plain- Suggested… -
Shepard Fairey in Action! (Almost)
10 Jun 2009 | 12:09 pmMy timing is almost always wrong. I'm early to parties and late to work. But one recent sunny Saturday morning my timing was absolutely, unarguably, impeccably perfect. I was driving downtown with my other half when I spotted a group of people crowded around the site of a dilapidated Shepard Fairey piece in Allston, Massachusetts (see map here). Upon closer observation, we concluded that the piece was being completely re-done. I, of course, assumed that Fairey himself was working his magic in the streets of Allston. As we walked closer, though, it became clear that he wasn't there - his… -
Chelsea Art Walk
1 Jun 2009 | 6:56 pmThis past weekend, I had the privilege of taking part in the Chelsea Art Walk. My work occupied one of the pristine loft units at 950 Broadway, in the Industrie Lofts building. The Art Walk was a wonderful success; it attracted hordes of art lovers, and the art was inspired and engaging. I immediately fell in love with two artists at the Industrie Lofts building - John Diehl and Sandra Cohen.John Diehl is most well-known for his "Blurscape" series, a group of oil paintings reminiscent of the view from a speeding car. The colors are lush and brilliant, and the concept is fresh. A sample of one… -
Exciting Announcements
28 May 2009 | 3:31 pmI have two upcoming events in the Boston area that I would like to share with you. The first event is the Chelsea Art Walk which takes place this weekend, May 30th and 31st. I'll have 11 pieces on view as part of a group show at the Industrie Lofts in Chelsea. Please CLICK HERE for more info.The second is an event called Common Boston. My photographs will be displayed in the Fort Point Channel area of Boston as part of this event. The excitement will ensue June 18th through the 21st. Please CLICK HERE for more info.One other exciting tidbit: I have printed a COFFEE TABLE BOOK which is now…
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artPark
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Wordless Wednesday
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Diving Into the Jury Pool
29 Jun 2009 | 9:08 amLast summer, I had the pleasure of being a member of the ArtInPlace panel of jurors. As a reminder: ArtInPlace is an annual selection of sculptures presented in public spaces (mainly along roadways) throughout the city of Charlottesville. Read my 2008 review here. The deadline for submitting applications is upon us – so interested artists should hurry. Last year's panel was a large (eight members) and diverse group which made the selection process very dynamic. In the end, I thought the pieces selected satisfied the tastes and needs of the panel members and, most importantly, the public… -
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Art? Not Art?
23 Jun 2009 | 12:19 pmI'm often asked where I get the abundance of content to write about. Sometimes I wonder myself – especially now as we enter art's summer doldrums. But having done this for a number of years, I know there is always a story just around the corner. It happened today. While walking down the historic downtown pedestrian mall here in Charlottesville, I spotted a famed artist with his easel up and brush in motion. People were gathering. Snapshots were being taken. Not often does this happen even in this self-proclaimed culturally endowed enclave of a town. I went to check it out. Low and behold,… -
McDonald's® is making art more accessible
6 Jun 2009 | 10:33 amI'm all for making art accessible to the most people, but I have to categorize this as "a sign the apocalypse is upon us".... Today, I got myself a little over hungry. Desperate for a quick caloric fix, I jumped into a McDonald's®. As I sat down and unwrapped my burger, I noticed the paper placemat on my perma-greasy tray didn't have the usual word find, maze, tic-tac-toe or any other games on it. Instead, it was a big ad for the new McCafé® coffees. What I read puzzled me more than any game. I tore off the text part of the ad. Here’s what it said: I don't know. My first instinct is to…
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Daily Art Fixx
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5 Women Artists You Should Know
2 Jul 2009 | 8:40 amIn my quest to learn more about the history of women and the visual arts, I have decided to begin a monthly series called “5 Women Artists You Should Know”. This series will contain short overviews about each artist, however, it is my intention to write more in-depth posts about each artist individually in the coming months. So without further ado, here are the first five artists. 1. Frida Kahlo - July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954. Born in Coyoacán, Mexico, Kahlo survived many difficult events in her life. She began to paint while recovering in bed from a bus accident in 1925… -
Canada Day: The Group of Seven
30 Jun 2009 | 9:27 pmHappy Canada Day all you fellow Canucks and fans of Canada out there! I thought what better day to post about some of the most well known artists in Canadian history - The Group of Seven. Most famous for its paintings of the Canadian landscape, The Group of Seven began in Toronto in the 1910s and initially included: Lawren Harris, Arthur Lismer, A.Y. Jackson, J.E.H. MacDonald, Frank Johnston, F.H. Varley, and Frank Carmichael. The paintings of friend Tom Thomson, who died before the Group of Seven was formed, were often included in their exhibitions as well. Emily Carr was also closely… -
Reverse Graffiti: Paul Curtis
30 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amFor the many who think that street art is vandalism, plain and simple - consider reverse graffiti. Reverse graffiti (aka clean tagging, dust tagging, grime writing), is a method of creating art in public spaces by removing the dirt from its surface. Early forms of reverse graffiti include writing and pictures drawn on the dirty windows of cars and shops. In the last several years, a more advanced method has emerged where art is created by cleaning dirty surfaces with stencils, detergent, and a high powered pressure washer. Reverse graffiti does not make use of paint or ink so it is… -
Esther Barend: Spontaneous Art
29 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amSea of Love © Esther Barend I love StumbleUpon. With the endless amount of information on the net, how else could I have come across the wonderful abstract paintings of Esther Barend. Barend was born to an artistic family in Eindhoven, in the south country of The Netherlands. After finishing her studies, she worked and lived in Paris and Amsterdam and established herself as a jewelery designer. Several years later she studied at the Academy of Arts in Arendonk, Belgium, where she developed her unique style of painting. Barends paintings are mostly autobiographical in nature. She is… -
Hopewalls: iNeedChemicalX (Felicia)
28 Jun 2009 | 6:00 amIt’s raining again and I was looking for a little something to boost my spirits when I came across this photo by Deviant artist iNeedChemicalX (aka Felicia). Check out more fantastic work by this young Romanian artist on Deviant Art. Hopewalls © iNeedChemicalX (Felicia)
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Reflections of a Glass Artist
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Inspirations
30 Jun 2009 | 7:45 pmI feel somewhat scattered these days and I am finding inspirations for future works in a variety of places and things.The flowers in my various gardens are starting to provide some wonderful displays and yes, inspirations! In my class with Lexi, she told me that I would start to see jewelry designs in almost everything I looked at. Well, my flowers are providing that for me, so I wanted to share a couple that have grabbed my attention. I see earring & pendant shapes in many of these. All keeping with how nature inspires my work.And then, the flowers are lending themselves to designs for… -
Joyful Rainbows ~ Earrings
26 Jun 2009 | 3:38 pmJoyful Rainbows ~ EarringsThe Brilliance CollectionReserved for Milo Stephens.I'm experimenting with some ideas and I would enjoy hearing your thoughts. I have seen some other artists offer their work for sale via their blog posts. I thought I would try this and incorporate it into my website too. While my Etsy store has been fun to create and change, I am leaning toward making items available for purchase, directly from me, through this blog or my website. What do you think?This is my first offering. A pair of earrings, made from the Crinklized Dichroic glass that I love. More in that joyful… -
Joyous Rainbows
25 Jun 2009 | 8:32 pmI have a series of new wire wraps from my Brilliance Collection. This one is entitled Joyous Rainbows. All of these new wraps have the crinklized dichroic glass cabochons.I'm anxiously awaiting the set up an addition to my studio so I can begin metalwork. In the meantime, I continue with my wire wraps. There's a certain delicate beauty in forming the wire to compliment my glass cabs. More to come. -
Project #5 - Bezel Setting
19 Jun 2009 | 2:47 pmProject #5 from Lexi Erickson's Art Jewelry WorkshopBeing able to create pieces like this, well, yes, that was my goal from this workshop. And in order to do that, I needed to learn all the techniques leading up to the creation of this piece.Originally, I had planned to use one of my glass cabochons for the bezel setting. Here is a preliminary sketch I completed in preparation for that work.However, as luck would have it, a gentlemen who sells stones arrived at Coyote Creek early that afternoon and Pat Pocius only sees him twice a year. When he arrives, he has tons of beautiful stones. She… -
Project #4 - Overlay
18 Jun 2009 | 6:25 pmProject #4 from Lexi Erickson's Art Jewelry WorkshopAfter Saturday's class we had homework. Come up with designs for our next two projects that we would do on Sunday. We also had some reading assignments. It was a nice way to relax and let some of what I had learned sink in.That evening I came up with several designs, but none of them really 'spoke' to me. When I got up on Sunday, I had time for a nice breakfast at The Hand Hotel and I decided to walk around the hotel and explore a little bit. It is a very quaint Bed & Breakfast and had lots of nooks and crannies. Some quiet little…
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iconophilia
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Hogs @ Craft
2 Jul 2009 | 3:18 amIconophilia asks: Is this craft, design, or a kind of outsider art? Whatever you may decide, just watch Craft ACT expand its audience with the current exhibition. Custom Made is curated by Jas Hugonnet and, as they say, “ventures into the territory of large scale crafted objects”. Which translates as: there are five shiny modified Harley Davidson craftworks currently on show at Craft ACT. Even their names are downright sexy: there are three Softails, a V-Rod and a Deuce. And that’s the Harleys, not the staff… Last night we heard the curator Jas Hugonnet in… -
reading the land
25 Jun 2009 | 3:25 pmPlus listening to the land… Iconophilia reminds Canberra readers you have just this Saturday to catch Jan Hogan’s exhibition Becoming at the ANU School of Art Gallery – open from 12.00 to 5.00. This is an exhibition of prints and drawings which are the culmination of the artist’s various modes of engagement with and imprints from the land of Gundaroo Common made during her candidature as a PhD student at the School. The work above is Becoming, 2009 (woodblock matrix on floor, Japanese woodblock with Sumi ink and builder’s pigment on Kozo paper affixed to wall… -
incoming! (fox terrier)
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House of Ngukurr
18 Jun 2009 | 4:52 pmIn the interests of extending our understanding of the range and diversity of the Ngukurr phenomenon, here’s three more images from Ngukurr that missed the cut for Cath Bowdler’s show. The image above is an acrylic on bark, (640 x 340) attributed by Cath as an early Djambu Barra Barra, perhaps painted together with Amy Jirwulurr Johnson, probably around 1987-9. (When you get your catalogue, compare some of the figures with those in Hollow Log 1993 on page 62). The image below is acrylic and ochres on canvas (100 x 115) by the great Wagilag ceremonial leader Roy Ashley, painted in… -
If trees could speak…
18 Jun 2009 | 4:47 pmIf only trees could tell their stories. In many ways this may seem a strange topic for this blog, a bit off-topic for this iconophiliac, but when natural forms acquire the status of icons, there are connections worth writing about… The backstory. Every second day or so I walk up Mount Ainslie, behind the Australian War Memorial. I walk and run, to push the old physiotype a bit… It’s a great experience, and the path takes you through beautiful passages of bush, the wildlife watches you as you pump past, and you pass through complex natural and cultural zones that are…
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Jeannine Cook's Blog
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New Horizons beyond Shimmering Silverpoint II
1 Jul 2009 | 5:40 pmYesterday, I started exploring the ways that artists are moving beyond silverpoint itself to expand its scope. I ended by talking about the combination of silverpoint with touches of watercolour, a mixture which requires a balancing act not only technically but also in the careful use of colour because it can easily overwhelm the silverpoint.Coloured pencils can also be a path to touches of colour. If the drawing surface ground is acrylic, however, it is best to avoid pencils with a high wax content because each layer can soon obliterate the layer beneath. By the end of drawing these marbles… -
New Horizons beyond Shimmering Silverpoint I
30 Jun 2009 | 5:10 pmSilverpoint is a drawing medium which uses silver for mark-making, as I have frequently explained in this blog. It has been known since the 1200s for its subtle, lustrous tonalities and indelible fine lines. Silverpoint has been undergoing a second renaissance since its rescue from oblivion in the early 19th century. Its latest versions, some of which I have been talking about in the current Evansville Museum of Arts Luster of Silver exhibition, show that it still has a lot of vigour and zest. It was largely forgotten after the discovery of graphite supplanted silver during the late high… -
Shimmering Silverpoint
29 Jun 2009 | 6:38 pmThe effect was really amazing. Shimmering silver all around the room, quiet, insistent, powerful. The exhibition, The Luster of Silver, opened this past weekend at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in Evansville,Blue Ridge Mountain Meditation - silverpointJeannine CookIndiana, and eight of the artists were present, from all over the country. It was a memorable event, made especially so by the wonderful, thoughtful hospitality of the Director of the Museum, John Streetman.The first amazing thing was that the size of the drawings in silver was a shock to us, despite having seen… -
More than meets the eye...
25 Jun 2009 | 6:56 pmAn exhibition of contemporary silverpoint drawings, The Luster of Silver, opens this weekend at the Evansville Museum of Arts, Science and History, in Evansville, Indiana. It will be of particular interest to me not only because my work is included, but because I helped curate it from digital images, along with fellow artist, Koo Schadler, and the Museum staff.Assessing art from digital images has become much easier in recent times. However, because silverpoint drawings, with marks made in silver that are often faint and delicate, are very difficult to reproduce satisfactorily, even digital… -
Tackling the New Art World
24 Jun 2009 | 4:29 pmThe past year or more has been hard for everyone, but especially in the art world. Yet I am constantly impressed at how resilient and inventive artists are and how inventive they are in dealing with today's conditions. I was reminded again of this just now as I opened up this blog and read one of the entries alluded to by Paul Schmelzer in his blog, Eyeteeth (http://www.eyeteeth.blogspot.com/). It was about artists in Detroit who are setting up home in houses they have been able to purchase for $100 from the City, which is dealing with a glut of foreclosed homes. Artists are grouping together…
