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A Math Prof's Digital Method For Flagging Suspect Art

9 Feb 2010 | 5:36 am

"Until now, [Dartmouth College mathematics department Chairman Daniel] Rockmore has only tested his program on Bruegel drawings, but he says there is no reason it could not be used for other artists. While it can identify suspicious works, it cannot definitively prove that they are fake."...
How DC-Area Arts Groups Weathered The Storm

9 Feb 2010 | 5:18 am

"Many of the city's museums and theaters went dark over the weekend" as the mammoth snowstorm struck, but the Newseum remained open, and "despite the snowdrifts and lack of public transportation, the show did go on at a few area venues." So did some rehearsals....
Dante's Inferno, The Video Game

9 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am

"There is no reason this game could not be set in any of the hundreds or thousands of generic hells that have hosted video games over the years. What Electronic Arts has done, quite transparently, is appropriate Dante's brand to use as a light marketing skin on top of the God of War clone the company so clearly wanted to make."...
Maestro Is Pittsburgh's Ambassador To Foreign Businesses

9 Feb 2010 | 5:09 am

"When Pittsburgh tries to lure a foreign company, it often turns to maestro Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to close the deal. ... For foreign executives, the orchestra adds a touch of sophistication to a city many still associate with smokestacks."...
Ohad Naharin's Counsel To Critics

8 Feb 2010 | 8:47 pm

"Don't let a point of reference prevent you from having a moment of a fresh new experience," he advises. And: "Connect to physical pleasures of life."...

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Diary of a Gallery Girl

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

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

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

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

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

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- Jack Shainman Gallery, New York - February 10th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

4 Feb 2010 | 2:02 pm

EL ANATSUI February 11 – March 13, 2010 Opening reception: Wednesday, February 10, 6 - 8 pm Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of large-scale sculptures by internationally acclaimed artist El Anatsui. Several monumental wall sculptures made from thousands of discarded bottle tops, will be on view. Anatsui transforms simple materials into large shimmering forms by assembling elements into vibrant patterns with a unique visual impact. An astute observer, he composes his sculptures with meticulous orchestration, masterfully managing material and…
karin lumsdaine, Gwyneth Stepehns, delia vilhelm - raw galleries - February 10th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

2 Feb 2010 | 8:40 pm
Group Show - Verge Gallery & Studio Project - February 11th 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

14 Jan 2010 | 4:22 pm

Haute Romantics curated by Art Fag CityFebruary 11 through March 20Featuring work by Ryan McGinley, Cian McConn and Kristen Jensen, Sara VanDerBeek, Naomi Fisher, K8 Hardy, Katherine Bernhardt, Maximilian Schubert, Peter Gabrielli, Peter Sutherland, Asher Penn, Sebastian Mlynarski, and Delusional Downtown Divas.Within New York City's teeming art scene, a growing subsection of artists are creating work that maps the ideals of late 18th century Romanticism. Untamed landscape, aesthetic beauty, escapism, youth; these themes not only permeate the work brought together for Haute Romantics, but…
Rossella Mocerino - Galleria d'Arte III Millennio Rio Tera' de Le Colonne - February 11th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

4 Jan 2010 | 12:37 pm

If you find yourself in Venice during Carnevale 2010, you are invited to see Rossella Mocerino's interpretation of the Cosmos. Masks welcome!
Louise Bourgeois, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Kiki Smith - Aspen Art Museum - February 11th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

18 Dec 2009 | 2:33 am

Disembodied Films March 25, April 1, and April 8, 6:00 p.m. A series of feature-length and short films mirroring the exhibition’s theme of the disembodied body. Composed of visions of isolated, separated body parts, Disembodied presents a fragmented, hallucinatory whole that collides notions of corporeality, aging, and experience within and without the body. The exhibition will feature works by Louise Bourgeois, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Robert Gober, David Hammons, Kiki Smith, and others in an intergenerational group of historically significant artists known for incisive investigations into…

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Crowbot Jenny

Regine

7 Feb 2010 | 10:55 pm

Crowbot Jenny is a manga character. She is a socially-awkward girl who prefers to spend time surrounded by technology and animals rather than with humans. She built the Crowbot. Perched on her shoulder, the crow-shaped robot can vocalize a variety of crow calls to control and converse with her bird army continue
The Gesundheit Radio

Regine

6 Feb 2010 | 11:45 pm

Developed in 1972 to protect early microprocessors from dust, the Gesundheit Radio featured a sneeze mechanism that expelled dust from inside the casing every six month. A bellows system extracted dust from inside the unit, blowing waste from two outlets located on the front continue
East Side Stories. German Photography 1950s-1980s

Regine

5 Feb 2010 | 12:55 pm

30 black and white pictures from photographers who portrayed life at the time of the GDR, mostly in a way that steered away from the official GDR iconography continue
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

Regine

4 Feb 2010 | 10:31 am

Michael Rakowitz explores the influence of science fiction genre imagery on the design of Iraqi monuments, military uniforms and weaponry under Saddam Hussein, while illuminating aspects of the US-Iraq conflict over the past few decades continue
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize

Regine

1 Feb 2010 | 6:03 pm

An award and exhibition that celebrate contemporary portrait photography, whether it's editorial, reportage or fine art. Not very rock 'n' roll but consistently good continue

Smithsonian: New Exhibitions
American Art Museum: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan

February 12, 2010 - May 9, 2010
American Art Museum: Graphic Masters III: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

January 15, 2010 - August 8, 2010 (new opening date)
American History Museum: A Letter from George Washington, November 30, 1785 (new title)

February 12, 2010 - May 7, 2010 (new closing date)
American History Museum: Archives Center Cases: Selections from The Lockwood Greene Engineering Records, 1871-2004

January 19, 2010 - March 31, 2010
American Indian Museum Heye Center: Ramp It Up: Skateboard Culture in Native America

December 11, 2009 - June 27, 2010 (new closing date)

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The Best of Ask Joan of Art: The Lincoln Memorial

Kathleen

4 Feb 2010 | 12:32 pm

This post is part of an ongoing series here on Eye Level: The Best of Ask Joan of Art. Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art is the longest running arts-based electronic reference service in the country. Behind Joan's shield and visor you will find Kathleen Adrian or one of her co-workers from the museum’s Research and Scholar's Center; these experts answer the public's questions about art. Earlier this year Kathleen began posting questions on Twitter and made the answers to these questions available on our Web site. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French,…
All Eyes on Haiti: Lo�s Mailou Jones

Howard

2 Feb 2010 | 12:12 pm

Loïs Mailou Jones's Eglise Saint Joseph For almost a week now I have been trying to write about the devastating earthquake in Haiti from the point of view of art and culture, but it didn't seem right—or, at least, not the right time. With so many lives lost or destroyed, and with people still missing, what could I possibly say about paintings and sculpture that would be up to the task? But of course, paintings and sculptures come from painters and sculptors. What about the people who made the works of art? Where are their stories? The New York Times recently published an article on…
Remembering Nam June Paik

Jeff

29 Jan 2010 | 6:24 am

To celebrate the life of Nam June Paik, John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator for Media Arts, Nam June Paik Media Arts Center, has written a remembrance of the artist on the fourth anniversary of his death. Untitled, from the portfolio "The New York Collection for Stockholm" by Nam June Paik. View larger. The Nam June Paik Archive, recently acquired by American Art, is a treasure trove containing all kinds of materials that deepen our understanding of this artist who, over forty years ago, imagined a future where video and new media would become global art movements. Today, on the fourth…
In Conversation: Nicholas Bell on Karen LaMonte

Howard

25 Jan 2010 | 11:22 am

Karen LaMonte's Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery recently acquired Karen LaMonte’s Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery. LaMonte, a glass artist, went to Prague in 1998 on a Fulbright scholarship to learn how to cast large-scale works in one of the most famous glass studios in the world. The glass dress series, of which the new acquisition is a part, took about ten years to complete. On February 26th, LaMonte will be presenting an illustrated lecture at American Art’s McEvoy Auditorium. She will also be here on the evening…
The Best of Ask Joan of Art: William H. Johnson

Kathleen

19 Jan 2010 | 12:08 pm

This post is part of an ongoing series here on Eye Level: The Best of Ask Joan of Art. Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art is the longest running arts-based electronic reference service in the country. Behind Joan's shield and visor you will find Kathleen Adrian or one of her co-workers from the museum’s Research and Scholar's Center; these experts answer the public's questions about art. Earlier this year Kathleen began posting questions on Twitter and made the answers to these questions available on our Web site. William H. Johnson's Li'L Sis Question: I’m interested in artwork by William H.

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8 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm

Seven on Seven - Rhizome Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new –be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine– over the course of a single day. The seven teams will unveil their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th.
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8 Feb 2010 | 8:59 am

Make: Online : LED eyelashes | eyebeam.org Time to step up the reblog bar Eyebeam. This shit is awful.
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8 Feb 2010 | 8:10 am

The Digest. 02.08.10. Super Ranty Edition. « C-MONSTER.net Great digest today. Thoughts on Saltz rants especially good.
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8 Feb 2010 | 8:09 am

swissmiss | Art History Poster What is this? A sole proprietorship? Not a huge fan.
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8 Feb 2010 | 7:53 am

Artifacts | Pillow Talk - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com To accompany her career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, opening March 14, Abramovic collaborated with the non-profit outreach organization, More Art, to produce the “Energy Blanket.” Available next month from either More Art or MoMA, it comes with fourteen magnets and a drawing of Abramovic’s body indicating where they ought to go before climbing under it. $460 is a small price to pay for inner peace – or, come to think of it, for a wearable piece of art. Via: C-Monster

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Who's Afraid of Eli Broad?

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1 Feb 2010 | 8:21 am

Historic button produced by employees of the Corcoran Museum in D.C. when the "elusive" Walter Hopps, once an art dealer, was director; now reproduced to celebrate the publication of Hans Ulrich Obrist's History of Curating. Moving From the Dark Side New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch will be the new director of L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art. Certain NYC art…
How the West Was Won: Finish Fetish

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18 Jan 2010 | 7:22 am

Craig Kauffman: Three Untitled Wall Reliefs, 1968. Vacuum formed Plexiglas Larry Bell: Untitled, 1969. Mineral coated glass De Wain Valentine: Triple Disk Red Metal Flake - Black Edge, 1966. Fiberglass reinforced polyester Primarily Atmospheric Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. …
Fakes: Have Replicas Replaced Art?

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3 Jan 2010 | 7:08 am

Antoine Pevsner,Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, 1926. Cellulose nitrate on copper with iron, 65.4 x 94.0 cm (25 3/4 x 37 in.) Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of Collection Société Anonyme. The works originally clear plastic components now show extreme signs of degradation, including warping, cracking, and discoloration, which exacerbated corrosion processes in the metal pieces. Photo: Yale University Art Gallery. ©2009 Artists Rights Society…
Cenophobia: Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Dan Flavin

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21 Dec 2009 | 1:28 pm

Roni Horn: Paired Gold Mats for Ross and Felix, 1994-95. Beauty Needs Its Own Space In her recent review of "Roni Horn a.k.a. Roni Horn" (at the Whitney), Times art critic Roberta Smith damns with faint praise. Smith, who once worked for Donald Judd, seems peeved that Judd was a Horn supporter and even purchased some of her art. More often than not I tend to agree with Smith, but in this case she is off base, if you will…
Man Ray: Name Dropping

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6 Dec 2009 | 4:15 pm

Man Ray, La Fortune, 1938. Sherrie…

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Sharing your art and ideas through shameless self-promotion

Alyson Stanfield

9 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

Before you do anything else, read this post from Nathan Hangen on the Copyblogger blog: The Art of Shameless Self-Promotion. Now, let’s talk about why I sent you there. I used to teach an online class called Shameless Self-Promotion (the closest thing I have to it now is Cultivate Collectors). I also used to have a workshop with the same title. As it turns out, it’s a good title–so good that the folks organizing my upcoming workshop in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware have chosen to call their workshop Shameless Self-Promotion. Nathan Hangen speaks for himself in his blog post, so allow me…
Art Marketing Action + Podcast: Ask for Clarification

Alyson Stanfield

8 Feb 2010 | 1:08 am

Not sure how to label your CD for an exhibit submission? Call the organizer or gallery and ask. Unclear about the instructions for a grant proposal? Call the organization and ask. Wondering how to best promote a speaker or workshop presenter? Call the speaker and ask! Years ago I visited the offices of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in Washington, D.C. to talk with them about the grant proposals we were submitting on behalf of the art museum. One piece of advice has always stuck with me. The gentleman said something to this effect: “We are here to answer questions. Use us! Seek…
They did what with your postcards?!

Alyson Stanfield

6 Feb 2010 | 6:58 am

Jen Barbati was recently thrown a curve ball from one of her buyers, which left her speechless. Here’s what we know Two years ago, this buyer purchased a giclée of one of Jen’s paintings. It just so happened that Jen had a postcard made up with the same image. She happily gave the buyer a stack of the postcards to hand out to her friends. Fast forward to late last year. Jen again runs into this person, who proudly proclaims that she had liked the image so much that she started framing the postcards to auction off in fundraisers for her nonprofit organization. (Re-read that sentence.
Attack it head on

Alyson Stanfield

2 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

Back in December, I ran a Deep Thought Thursday about how to satisfy an unreasonable client who has hired you for a commissioned piece of art. I presented a particular situation (which you need to read about to understand this post) and many alert readers helped an artist address this problem. Later, I received this email from the artist with the unreasonable (?) client. She wrote. I just wanted to update you and everyone that offered ideas and support with my 2-year-old commission. I met with [the client] several days ago and he asked me how I liked the finished piece. I told him it was…
Art Marketing Action + Podcast: Show off!

Alyson Stanfield

1 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

Are you hiding your accomplishments? If I visit your website or blog, would I know that your work was on the cover of a magazine, featured in an article, or that you received an award? I’m not talking about a list on a résumé. I’m talking about graphics and photos. As a visual person, you can surely relate to the power of an image. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? If it is, you’d better have (or get) some pictures up on your sites. Before I go any further, let me be perfectly clear that any images on your site should NOT compete with your artwork. You should show off your…

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TV Sports: Super Bowl Dethrones ‘M*A*S*H’ as Most-Watched Show in History

By RICHARD SANDOMIR

8 Feb 2010 | 10:48 pm

Sunday’s Super Bowl eclipsed the final episode of “M*A*S*H” to become the most watched television show in history.
Doctor Is Charged in Death of Jackson

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

8 Feb 2010 | 10:46 pm

A case like no other will be treated like any other case, a Los Angeles County judge says.
Music Review: Imaginary Soundtracks for Two Silent Warhol Films

By JON CARAMANICA

8 Feb 2010 | 9:41 pm

The Unsound Festival, an electronic-music smorgasbord that began last week and continues through Sunday, gave two Warhol shorts imaginary soundtracks.
Shakespeare Troupe Plans Residency in New York

By PATRICK HEALY

8 Feb 2010 | 9:41 pm

The Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency inside the Park Avenue Armory.
Dance: 2 Coasts and 2 Troupes: Contrasting Visions of a Well-Trod Ballet

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

8 Feb 2010 | 9:39 pm

The threads that bind movement to music are nowhere more various or more subtle than in “The Sleeping Beauty.”

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Rhizome Presents: Seven on Seven

Rhizome

8 Feb 2010 | 11:40 am

Rhizome is pleased to announce Seven on Seven a new major initiative that reflects our mission to connect art and new technology. Seven on Seven will pair seven artists with seven technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new --be it an application, social media, artwork, product, or whatever they imagine-- over the course of a single day. The seven teams will present their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th. Recalling the groundbreaking 1966 event 9 Evenings, in which dancers, visual artists and musicians were paired with engineers and…
Sampling #1 (2009) - Eva Paulitsch and Uta Weyrich

Ceci Moss

8 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

Image of Sampling #1 from flickr user 7pc Since 2006, the two artists have been collecting films from mobile phones in the public sphere. It is the mixture of amateurish documentation of your own life, of a direct, unhampered view on your own reality, of unmotivated, unguided camera movements as the expression of boredom but also of directed little scenarios that aroused our collector's instincts. Paulitsch and Weyrich are accepting all films into their archive uncensored. This is increasingly developing into a fascinating document of our times, to a sort of evidence-gathering on and siting…
Google Portrait Series (2007-2009) - Aram Bartholl

Ceci Moss

8 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

Each code represents a visual enryption of a search on 'Aram Bartholl' in a specific language on Google. A Google Portrait is a drawing which contains the Google URL search string of the portrayed person in encoded form. Any camera smart phone is capable to decode the matrix-code with the help of barcode reader like software. The result points the mobile phone browser to a search on the portrayed person's name at Google. A large number of people can be found by name on Google today. Everyone who is working on a computer and uses the internet regularly can be found on Google. Even people who…
You Are What You Buy (2007) - Michele Pred

Ceci Moss

8 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

Michele Pred Explains You Are What You Buy I chose to create an embroidered version of a barcode to represent how technology has become interwoven, fused with our lives and our identity- to represent how we have become one and the same with technology. Through new technology cell phones are now capable of scanning and decoding barcodes. However, these barcodes are a little different than the ones you see scanned at the grocery store: they are called 2D barcodes and are composed of black and white squares that encode the URLs to any website of creator's choice. In other words, these Data…
N Building (2009) - Teradadesign and Qosmo

Ceci Moss

8 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am

N Building from Alexander Reeder on Vimeo. N Building is a commercial structure located near Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district. Being a commercial building signs or billboards are typically attached to its facade which we feel undermines the structures' identity. As a solution we thought to use a QR Code as the facade itself. By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the…

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Proof Of Life

6 Feb 2010 | 10:32 pm

Still alive, still painting, just tied up constantly with show planning for the gallery amongst other things. I painted this quickly last night in a rare break from my new found responsibilities: It needs a few minor tweaks, but I'm happy enough with it to call it mostly done. I have a few exciting developments that I'll share in my next post. I just wanted to drop in a quick post to keep you all interested.
Worthwhile or Worthless?

25 Jan 2010 | 9:13 pm

This may be the birth of a series:I'm seriously wondering if something this loose in execution would work as a traditional painting.- Posted using BlogPress from my iPod Touch
Knowing When To Stop

22 Jan 2010 | 10:28 pm

How do you know when to stop a painting? I "painted" this using the Brushes program this morning while I was waiting for our breakfast order to arrive. It's my daughter and, since they were faster than normal bringing our food to us, I wasn't able to finish the painting to my satisfaction. When I came back to it later, I couldn't make myself do anything further to it. There was just something about that expressionless face that I found intriguing:Recently I've considered stopping painting altogether. I didn't push myself to complete my painting for Naughti Gras because of that. If I'm going…
iPod Touch Is Changing My Life

21 Jan 2010 | 9:14 pm

Ok, so maybe it's not THAT drastic, but I'm loving my new toy. I got a pretty cool app called "Brushes" which is really awesome so far. I haven't totally mastered it yet but my first couple sketches show some promise. Here they are, try not to laugh.This is also a test post made entirely from the Touch, so there is a chance you may not see it. P.S. I added a widget up at the top that will allow you to post a link to the blog. (In the off chance that I say something inspiring.)-Posted using BlogPress from my iPod Touch
A Birthday Wish

13 Jan 2010 | 7:00 am

The last couple days have been kind of rough. Work has sucked, the next gallery show is having some scheduling problems, and yesterday my uncle passed away. In short, when it rains it pours.Today is my birthday, so I'm hoping to enjoy the day (despite my request for the day off being declined). I don't want much but, if you feel inclined to, there is something that I'd like. If you read this blog and enjoy it, tell one friend about it today. Encourage one person to check it out and become a follower. I know it may seem like a meaningless thing considering the way we get bombarded daily on the…

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Using The Fifteen Minute Challenge™ When You Feel Overwhelmed by a Challenging Project

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30 Jan 2010 | 1:56 pm

Please note: Since this is a very popular post, I’m moving it up to January 2010 so that new Creative Sage Arts readers can check it out. It was originally published on November 15, 2008. Sometimes we all feel daunted by an overwhelming challenge, whether it’s getting stuck in the middle of writing a novel, or rolling out a new service or product for a business. To tackle big projects in any area, a technique I’ve found to be highly effective is “The Fifteen Minute Challenge™.” I’ve often used it with my Creativity Coaching clients who are tackling a substantial creative…
Rotating Creative Crops

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9 Jan 2010 | 5:35 pm

Please note: Since this is a very popular post, I’m moving it up to January 2010 so that new Creative Sage Arts readers can check it out. It was originally published on November 10, 2008. Several years ago, I read an interview with artist/songwriter/performer Joni Mitchell, where she talked about “rotating creative crops.” In that context, she was speaking about the different eras in her artistic life, where she had focused more on her painting or music and songwriting, and how allotting her creative time that way had helped her process. Since then, I have spoken or written…
Meridian Music: Composers in Performance Presents Sarah Stiles, with Cornelius Cardew Choir and other Musicians

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8 Dec 2009 | 11:10 pm

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents a program of chamber and solo compositions by Bay Area composer Sarah Stiles, performed by Indre Viskontas, soprano, Travis Andrews, guitar, Naomi Hoffmeyer, harp, and Gloria Justen, violin. Also featured will be a performance art piece called Tangerines and Oranges Too!, a sound-opera composed for and performed by the Cornelius Cardew Choir. This is a milestone for the choir, in terms of performing in a piece involving characters, and it will also include musical instruments and other props. Performance Information: Date: Wednesday, December…
International Society for Improvised Music Invites the Cornelius Cardew Choir to Perform

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3 Dec 2009 | 3:32 pm

The vocal group I frequently perform with, the Cornelius Cardew Choir, has been asked to perform at the Fourth Annual Conference presented by the International Society for Improvised Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from December 3-6. If you are coming to ISIM, we hope you will be able to attend the Cornelius Cardew Choir’s performance, From Each According to Her Ability: Improvised Music by Women Composers. The 30-minute program will take place on Saturday, December 5th, at 3:30 p.m., in the Kresge Town Hall. The Cardew Choir will perform three pieces: “Home…
Performance on September 24th Features Works by Two Composers from the Cornelius Cardew Choir

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18 Sep 2009 | 5:00 pm

One of my favorite groups that I perform with is the Cornelius Cardew Choir (further information below), which encourages members of the group to workshop their own experimental compositions. Rehearsals are often a salon-like atmosphere where someone will bring in a new piece, often composed as a premiere for the choir, and the rest of us are given the rare privilege of trying out a work-in-progress, usually with the composer present. 2 girls 1 cup This process creates a golden opportunity for supportive feedback, as the composer and performers listen to each other and share ideas about…

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60's California minimalism, at Zwirner

6 Feb 2010 | 9:39 am

James Turrell Juke Green 1968 light projection, dimensions variable [installation view] Doug Wheeler Untitled 1969 sprayed lacquer on acrylic with neon tubing 91.5" x 91.5" x 7.5" [installation view] Peter Alexander Green Wedge 1969 cast polyester resin 14" x 8.5" x 9.75" [installation view] If you're within earshot of this post - and of the Zwirner gallery on West 24th Street - you still have a chance to see one of the most beautiful shows of the year: "Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970" closes this afternoon at 6. The ten artists included in this museum-quality show are…
Obama has decided press conferences are for chumps

4 Feb 2010 | 12:47 pm

if he's not going to come by anymore, why not bring back FDR's pool, or put up a parking lot? Sure, I know it's not a race, but I did beat (scooped?) the Times again, although by only slightly less than a week this time: Obama hasn't held a press conference since July, as I wrote here. However if you read this story by Peter Baker in the Times today you'll get the impression that it only means that our current President is being hip, that he's found a better way. What he's found, the article tells us, is a media strategy that works for the White House. Baker doesn't bother to address whether…
an IDIOM: a conversation with Salinger's ghosts

2 Feb 2010 | 10:27 am

just how much could it have hurt? I know I'm one of the publishers, and so it may not be quite proper for me to sing the praises of the online arts magazine Barry and I introduced late last summer, but I'm going to risk it anyway. Although so much else of IDIOM is just as good or even better, because of its particular timeliness and its unexpected format I wanted the conversation between some of the publication's writers, "On the passing of J.D. Salinger", which we published yesterday, to get more attention than it might otherwise attract. So consider this a flag. The spirited short piece is…
so how about a frakking presidential news conference?

28 Jan 2010 | 8:57 am

FDR talks to the press; the press talks to FDR I was only slightly confounded to realize I had no interest in watching the speech last night; didn't even think about recording it in case it turned out POTUS actually said something. When it comes to a corporate one-party state, I guess I make a bad subject. And I'm old-fashioned: As unsatisfying as they may almost always have been, I still have some good memories of actual Presidential news conferences. Not recalling the last time I had heard of one, this morning I went on line looking and found that Obama hasn't had a press conference in six…
Hunter College 2009 MFA thesis exhibition - continues

16 Jan 2010 | 11:00 am

Ezra Wube Amora 2009 [large detail of still from video installation] Barry and I visited the fall 2009 Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition galleries twice last weekend, and we both agreed it was probably the best collection of their MFA program artists we'd seen. We had been asked to be a part of a "walk through conversation" with the artists and others on Sunday, along with Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City and artist Clive Murphy and we had gone up to 41st Street to preview the installations the day before. The "show" is definitely worth a visit. We made it a "top pick" on the ArtCat calendar,…

Jeffrey Hayes: Contemporary Still Life Paintings
Stephen Pat Brown

Jeff Hayes

6 Feb 2010 | 8:34 am

I learned a few days ago that Stephen Pat Brown had passed away in October, so I thought I'd post a brief appreciation.I never met him, or even saw any of his works in person. I've always admired his paintings from a distance, though, and for years my blog has kept a link to his website, which unfortunately appears to be down now.His paintings - particularly his still lifes - were glowing marvels of the painter's craft. He had a way of seeing and handling the subjects that gave them a deeply concrete and at the same time other-worldly feeling. It was a very unique, personal, and profoundly…
Work In Progress

Jeff Hayes

5 Feb 2010 | 7:35 am

Since I haven't shown any in-progress work lately, I thought I'd post an image of what's on my easel right now. This is an 8 x 10 inch (20 x 25 cm) still life, in oil of course. At this point, the underpainting is complete, and some of the final color layer has been applied.I've been grappling with kind of an interesting issue as I've painted this. A couple days ago, it struck me that the composition actually reminded me a lot of the classical sculpture Laocoön and His Sons.Though I've never seen it in person, I've been familiar with it since I was a child. Subconscious imitation is not out…
Two Food Studies

Jeff Hayes

4 Feb 2010 | 9:51 am

"Tomato"Oil on panel, 4 x 4 inches (10 x 10 cm)Dimensions with frame: 8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm)Available: Purchase Information"Red Onion No. 2"Oil on panel, 4 x 4 inches (10 x 10 cm)Dimensions with frame: 8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm)Available: Purchase InformationI'm really enjoying this series of small food studies I've been doing lately. They seem like the perfect venue to explore some of the things I'm interested in without involving more complicated compositions. And they're just fun to do.
Lament for an Art Store

Jeff Hayes

3 Feb 2010 | 8:21 pm

Pearl Paint in Cambridge is no more.I read yesterday that 8 of the 16 Pearl stores across the country were closing, but the article did not mention what would happen in Cambridge, the chain's only store in the Boston area. Since I was in the neighborhood late this afternoon, I decided to stop by. Today was it's final day, and the doors closed at 6:30.I arrived at 6:33, and was turned away.As you can probably tell, I view this with sadness. I try not to get overly attached to any commercial enterprise that's not my own, but this particular store and ones like it meant a lot to me, and I…
Pomegranate

Jeff Hayes

3 Feb 2010 | 9:58 am

"Pomegranate"Oil on panel, 4 x 4 inches (10 x 10 cm)Dimensions with frame: 8 x 8 inches (20 x 20 cm)Available: Purchase InformationThis 8-year-old girl is searching for a bone marrow donor of Asian descent. Information is here.

tom moody
kandinsky rmx rmx

tom moody

7 Feb 2010 | 8:36 pm

original kandinsky homage on rising tensions
"Fuchsia Refraction"

tom moody

7 Feb 2010 | 8:35 pm

"Fuchsia Refraction" [3.1 MB .mp3] Was admiring a minimal techno piece by Alessandro Crimi posted on Disquiet. I seem to be constitutionally incapable of doing anything like Crimi's--sexy, ponderous, deep, long. Every time I try, something silly happens like the slightly out of tune self-oscillating filter in this one. Then all the points seem to be made and the piece ends at 1:39.
"Audrey the King"

tom moody

7 Feb 2010 | 8:35 pm

"Audrey the King" [3.7 MB .mp3] Fished this electric piano chord sample out of the bowels of a Reaktor sample map about five years ago--it's intended to be "mangled," as the beatmongers love to say, but I unmangled it. It was added to the minimal beats two posts back, necessitating adding tons of other stuff to solve the resulting compositional Rubik's cube (it's not that complicated a song but the writing was slow, e.g. the bass/piano counterpoint at the end). Earlier "the sample" was used in a tune I've been continuously massaging; see "Audrey Zapp (Light Industrial Remix)." It's a very…
"Caesura Salad"

tom moody

7 Feb 2010 | 8:34 pm

"Caesura Salad" [3.5 MB .mp3] Another on the "modular" rhythm synth. See previous post--same methodology. Some weird commercial electro beat samples were added to one of the "stanzas." The line breaks of the various stanzas are actually not caesuras but the pun had to be used.
"Audrey the King (Beats)"

tom moody

7 Feb 2010 | 8:33 pm

"Audrey the King (Beats)" [3.5 MB .mp3] Back to my "modular" rhythm synth. Decided just to record the Vermona drum machine with almost no effects at the recording stage (just some filtering on the bass). Then light use of a compressor plugin on the recorded file to make those kick/toms more punchy. Got this bare bones piece before filling it up with piano and such for "Audrey the King."

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Tax tips today

8 Feb 2010 | 9:37 am

From 6-8 pm tonight, Tuesday, February 9, Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts will hold the first of two...
San Anto new building

8 Feb 2010 | 9:33 am

Community-based arts org San Anto Cultural Arts (http://www.sananto.org/about.html) of San Antonio's Westside has bought itself a new old building...
Hooks Epstein

5 Feb 2010 | 7:25 am

Disclaimer: I am so confused, do you go by Robert (http://a28.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/88/l_c7bbc0c887549c57570d87a7e965f1fb.jpg) or Rob (http://a28.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/88/l_c7bbc0c887549c57570d87a7e965f1fb.jpg)? CLICK ON THE LINKS...
Art & Boats, Part 1

29 Jan 2010 | 2:19 am

I’ve got nautical kitsch and art all mixed up in my head. As the daughter of a boat builder (http://www.groverbuiltboats.com/)...
Interview with RoseLee Goldberg

25 Jan 2010 | 3:15 am

I had the opportunity to sit down with RoseLee Goldberg (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_42/ai_n6080047/) at the start of the Arthouse Visiting Lecturer Series....

Dennis Hollingsworth
Faustian

Dennis

7 Feb 2010 | 9:02 am

Art Courts Disaster....
Work on Paper

Dennis

1 Feb 2010 | 6:56 pm
But I want you to want me too...

Dennis

1 Feb 2010 | 12:15 pm

Seems appropriate during our art fair here in LA last week. Oh, the great and tragic Marvin Gaye. For the sake of irony and interest, here he is with his dad in better times:...
Revolver: Art LA Contemporary 2010

Dennis

1 Feb 2010 | 10:14 am

(I shot this on my iPhone, and I had a surprise with the formatting. I'll puzzle it out soon enough.)...
Work on Paper

Dennis

1 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am

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Pure Abstract Cinema/Abstract Groove all’Open source

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2 Feb 2010 | 10:30 am

martedì 02 febbraio, ore 22.00, via Paladini 8, Milano Abstract:groove presenta: pure:abstract:cinema a live audio-visual performance Scomporre la grammatica filmica mediante le asimmetrie del motion design e le non-regole della cultura visiva contemporanea. Un movimento iperbolico che parte dall’imperfetta perfezione di Alfred Hitchcock per arrivare alla perfetta imperfezione di Dziga Vertov. Pura astrazione cinematica eseguita attraverso l’improvvisazione insegnata dai [...]
Artistay: Call for Artists – Residency Opportunities in France 2010

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2 Feb 2010 | 10:19 am

Call for artists – residency opportunities in France 2010 For visual artists, writers, creators in other disciplines like design, fashion, architecture … with a project of residency. artistay works with professional art residencies in France. All residence programs we work with aim to provide a nice living environment, premises and equipment adapted for the creation, administrative and basic [...]
Medialab Prado: Proximas actividades / Upcoming Activities · 1/02/10 - 07/02/10

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2 Feb 2010 | 10:06 am

Eventos: el mundo con forma de juego Jueves, 4 febrero / 19:30h Conferencia de Abelardo Gil-Fournier sobre los “newsgames” o la posibilidad de transformar los eventos del mundo en eventos de un videojuego. Actividad en el marco del taller Playlab (segunda parte de 4 al 7 de febrero). Streaming en directo. [+info] :: ESTA SEMANA :: Wikipedia: Un proyecto [...]
PUBLIC DESIGN FESTIVAL CLOSING PARTY

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2 Feb 2010 | 10:01 am

sabato17 aprile 2010 HANGAR BICOCCA Milano Festa di chiusura Settimana del Salone del Mobile Sabato 17 Aprile lo scenografico spazio dell’ Hangar Bicocca ospiterà la festa di chiusura del Public Design Festival. Una grande festa aperta a tutti che tradizionalmente segna la fine della settimana del Salone del Mobile: un’area totalmente trasformata nella sua funzione d’uso per ospitare 10.000 persone [...]
Exhibition: the rotten machine aka the toothless old thing

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27 Jan 2010 | 2:45 pm

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::1999-2004 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::all net.art in a brian mackern’s laptop works of:::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern curator::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares technical coordination:::::::àngela montesinos production::::::::::::::::::: and organization:::::::::::::meiac texts of catalogue:::::::::::rodrigo alonso :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::andrés burbano :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::nilo casares :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::gabriel galli :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::brian mackern :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::àngela montesinos edited…

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Google says U.S. Internet too slow

admin

8 Feb 2010 | 3:09 pm

Google says U.S. Internet too slow Mountain View, California (CNN) — Google long has been an advocate of a single Web, one that’s free of government censorship and barriers to information access. That’s not the reality in today’s world however. Governments from China to France put various roadblocks in the information superhighway to serve their interests, filter speech or protect copyrights. And high-speed Internet connections haven’t reached all corners of the globe — not even all parts of the United States. To learn more about this split between…
‘Philagrafika 2010′: What Is Printmaking Today? Philadelphia Dares to Ask

admin

4 Feb 2010 | 8:29 pm

Miami isn’t the only place with an exhibition dealing with printmaking, although ours is much more modest. Philadelphia is currently having a printmaking festival. They want to make it a triennial festival and engage more of the city. Sounds great. Art Review | ‘Philagrafika 2010′: What Is Printmaking Today? Philadelphia Dares to Ask: “‘Philagrafika 2010,’ a citywide festival devoted to the print in contemporary art, includes exhibitions in almost 90 galleries and works by more than 300 artists.” Gabrielle Lavin, Courtesy the artist Published:…
59th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition

admin

4 Feb 2010 | 6:17 am

As you already know, the Boca Museum mounts this exhibition yearly to draw attention to both emerging and mid-career artists that reside in Florida, to showcase their work from the past two years. This year’s juror is Linda Norden, Director of the CUNY Graduate Center James Gallery in New York City. We are very excited to have her, she has an established record as a progressive thinker and outstanding leader in contemporary art. All of the necessary information to apply can be found at our website at www.bocamuseum.org/allflorida and the site that we use to accept applications is…
Giacometti ‘Walking Man’ Sculpture Sells For Auction Record

admin

4 Feb 2010 | 6:02 am

February 3, 2010 This Giacometti sculpture, “L’Homme qui marche I” or “Walking Man 1″ has walked into the record books, selling at auction for $104.3 million. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP/Getty Images) As The Wall Street Journal put it: Alberto Giacometti’s 1960 sculpture of a spindly man, “Walking Man I,” sold for 65 million pounds ($104.3 million) in a Sotheby’s auction, shattering the record price for a work of art at auction and signaling a potential resurgence in the art market. Continue reading “Giacometti ‘Walking Man’…
Atlantic Center Residency Program

admin

2 Feb 2010 | 6:56 pm

2010 MASTER ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM Residency #137 MAY 17 JUNE 6 (application deadline: February 5, 2010*) Radcliffe Bailey, visual arts Richard McCann, fiction/nonfiction Daniel Bernard Roumain, music/composition/performance Residency #138 JUNE 28 JULY 18 (application deadline: March 20, 2010*) bit.shifter, 8-bit music/composition Wally Cardona, choreography TBA, visual artist Residency #139 OCTOBER 11 31 (application deadline: May 21, 2010*) Graphic Novel / Sequential Art Residency Svetlana Chmakova, graphic novelist Paul Pope,graphic novelist Craig Thompson, graphic novelist…

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Found Art (East Village): Unmonumental 226

joy garnett

30 Jan 2010 | 10:23 am

Found Art (East Village): Unmonumental 226, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).
Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 225

joy garnett

30 Jan 2010 | 10:23 am

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 225, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).
The Brooklyn Museum Commons: Trees (etc) Grow There

joy garnett

22 Jan 2010 | 11:36 am

via that dreaded rag HuffPo (still good for some things):The Brooklyn Museum's Copyright Projectby Jonathan MelberWhen it comes to progressive, public-friendly copyright policies, few art museums can match The Brooklyn Museum. In 2004, it was the first art museum to adopt a Creative Commons license, allowing any non-commercial copying of any image in which the museum holds the copyright. In 2008, it was the third institution to join the Flickr Commons, making available high-resolution images of Public Domain artworks from its collection. Last week, the musuem published the detailed copyright…
Artist Flores McGarrell Dies in Haitian Earthquake

joy garnett

22 Jan 2010 | 11:25 am

Flo McGarrell cooking, Jacmel, Haiti, 2009via M|I|C/A:Flores McGarrell '97 '98 Dies in Haitian Earthquake1/15/10 Flores McGarrell '97 '98, an artist and director of a community arts center in Haiti, was killed in the earthquake that devastated the nation on Tuesday. McGarrell, 35, received a B.F.A. in fibers and an M.A. in digital arts at MICA and was a faculty member at the College in 2001 and 2002. He died when the Peace of Mind Hotel in Jacmel, his hometown in Haiti, crumbled during the earthquake.According to reports, McGarrell had stopped briefly at the hotel in Jacmel on his way home…
"Good Law is the Best Art" Limited Edition Posters: Proceeds Go to UNICEF Haiti

joy garnett

22 Jan 2010 | 11:10 am

via Clancco: "Good Law is the Best Art" Help Haiti Children, Receive a Limited Edition Clancco PosterJanuary 19th, 2010Clancco has printed 50 limited-edition posters, Good Law is the Best Art, based on Andy Warhol’s now-famous quote, “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”These limited-edition posters are for sale, with all profits after shipping costs going to UNICEF. UNICEF Promises that 100% of donated money will go to saving children’s lives in Haiti. Although the earthquake happened on January 12th, there is still much need for donations of…

The Best Part
Colwyn Thomas

8 Feb 2010 | 6:01 pm

Durban illustrator Colwyn Thomas of Stone The Crows has an incredibly beautiful style.
Kako Ueda

8 Feb 2010 | 5:52 pm

Yet another amazing paper-cutting artist...presenting Kako Ueda.
Poster of the Day

8 Feb 2010 | 5:49 pm
Javier Arce

8 Feb 2010 | 5:25 pm

Nice work by Amsterdam designer Javier Arce.
Brendan Lee Satish Tang

7 Feb 2010 | 12:05 pm

I'm loving the sculpture of Brendan Lee Satish Tang, combining forms of traditional Ming Dynasty vessels with those of Japanese anime and manga. You can see the progression of his work as the manga elements begin to interact with the traditional vessels, eventually deconstructing and becoming one with them.

National Gallery of Art
Advance Exhibition Schedule

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National Gallery of Art Offers Romantic Outings During the Month of February and Beyond

Release Date: February 4, 2010
Garden Café Français Now Open

Featuring a menu of French cuisine developed by award-winning chef Michel Richard in honor of "From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection."
Hendrick Avercamp: The Little Ice Age | March 21 through July 5, 2010

Release Date: January 15, 2010
The 68th Season of Concerts at the National Gallery of Art, January–June 2010

Release Date: January 8, 2010

The Intrepid Art Collector
Benefit Print Sales for Haiti Relief

Lisa Hunter

19 Jan 2010 | 12:04 pm

Twenty-four emerging photographers are supporting Haiti relief with a benefit sale of their prints. All prints are 8x10, in an edition of 10, for $50, with ALL proceeds going to Haiti relief. This is a great cause, and some great art.UPDATE: Here's another benefit fundraiser, also with all prints at $50, from the Wall Space Gallery in Seattle.Image: Molly Landreth. (I actually own this print in a larger size and love looking at it every day. For only $50, you can too.)
Auction Fever

Lisa Hunter

15 Jan 2010 | 7:58 am

Dan Cooney's at it again: his winter auction of emerging artists is up now on iGavel. All bidding starts at $200. Dan's iGavel auctions have quickly become one of the go-to places to find interesting new art, particularly photography. So check it out -- and get yourself on the mailing list.Images: Top: Montreal's own Kate Hutchinson. Below: two photos by Lyndsy Welgos. (Two! Framed! With an opening bid of only $200 for the pair!)
New Year's Bulletin Board

Lisa Hunter

28 Dec 2009 | 5:04 pm

Many of you have emailed with information about new shows, new editions, new prizes, and other goodies. It's more than I can get to posting, so please feel free to leave your info in the comments section. Collectors -- take a look. Lots going on.Cheers.
Happy Holidaze

Lisa Hunter

26 Dec 2009 | 11:16 am

I love this brilliantly apt image from Nancy Baker, a k a Rebel Belle.
Starn Twins! One day only (probably)!

Lisa Hunter

16 Dec 2009 | 8:32 pm

Jen Bekman's 20x200 has a special Starn Twins edition coming up tomorrow (Thursday). $50! For a Starn Twins print! Really.The last time these two art stars did an edition for 20x200, it sold out within minutes. So what's a collector to do? Sign up for 20x200's mailing list. Subscribers get an hour lead time -- the email offer goes out to the list at 11 am EST, while the unwashed masses have to wait until noon -- by which time the edition will almost certainly be sold out (and probably flipped on eBay for hundreds of dollars -- you know who you are).UPDATE: Yep, this sold out yesterday, except…

Modern Art Notes
All those power lines...

Modern Art Notes

8 Feb 2010 | 9:37 am

I was substantially disappointed by the traveling, partial reprise of the seminal New Topographics exhibition, but there was one point of commonality across the photographers' work that caught my eye: Power lines. Every single New Topos photographer of the West included power lines in his pictures. The artists did not consider them a bit of pictorial clutter to be excluded, but a part of the West, a key part of the West they wanted to show us. [Image: Henry Wessel, Jr., Hollywood, 1972.]So why were the power lines so apparently important to the New Topos? Think of them as a key link between…
Weekend roundup

Modern Art Notes

8 Feb 2010 | 5:41 am

The New Orleans Museum of Art won its Super Bowl bet with the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This JMW Turner is going to New Orleans!In the NYT, Dorothy Spears profiles Luc Tuymans and in so doing reminds us that the adverb "cooly" and back-story are always present when discussing Tuymans' work.Kenneth Baker thinks that Tuymans is an artist's artists.Two artist profiles in American newspapers in one weekend!: Suzanne Muchnic in the LAT on Rachel Whiteread. Christopher Knight reviews the Hammer's Whiteread drawings show.SFMOMA announced that it has raised $250 million toward a fundraising goal of…
Snowpocalypse II incoming

Modern Art Notes

5 Feb 2010 | 6:35 am

Word is that Washington will be socked with up to 26 inches of wet, heavy snow over the next two days, so I'm going grocery shopping. In celebration of the pending weather, enjoy two of my favorite winter paintings: Gilbert Stuart's The Skater and Pieter Bruegel's Winter Landscape with Bird Trap. Tweet me other snowy faves and I'll share 'em on Twitter/Facebook.Update: The Nelson-Atkins just announced a ton of major collection gifts. I'll be tweeting/Facebooking them today, so 'tis a good time to sign up for Twitter/follow me/etc.
'California minimalism' contextualized (or not)

Modern Art Notes

4 Feb 2010 | 9:17 am

"California minimalism" is a peculiar phrase, one I'd never really heard before January 8, when this show opened at Chelsea's David Zwirner Gallery. It's a phrase not much in the literature about minimalism, either because the Californians are rarely considered within the arc of minimalism's history or because, well, the stuff coming out of southern California in the late fifties, sixties and seventies was sort of minimal and sort of not. (Much of it wa80s more perceptual than minimal.)For years this art has been a mainstay of California museums and galleries, particularly in southern…
A pioneer re-discovered

Modern Art Notes

4 Feb 2010 | 6:04 am

I'll have a couple more notes on the response to the David Zwirner 'California minimalism' show later today, but first: The Zwirner show effectively serves as New York's re-introduction to Doug Wheeler, one of the three pioneers of California Light & Space. (The others: James Turrell and Robert Irwin.) Before the Zwirner show, I think that Wheeler was last on view in New York in the Guggenheim's 2004 Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) exhibition. The Wheeler in that exhibition, which is in the Gugg's collection, received scant notice. The Gugg's Wheeler isn't even included among the…

FECAL FACE
Free Fridayz: POO, The Cat

6 Feb 2010 | 6:52 am

He's all soft, he's all cute, his claws all kill, he likes all chicken dinners from Trader Joes while wearing his turtle neck sweater.
Antistrot & Never a Dull Moment

5 Feb 2010 | 2:42 am

We stopped through White Walls and the Shooting Gallery for a quick preview of these two shows opening Saturday Feb 6th.
David Choe @Fifty24SF Preview

3 Feb 2010 | 6:09 am

We headed up to Fifty24SF to preview his show "Character Assassination" opening Friday, Feb 5th.
Tofer Chin Interview

2 Feb 2010 | 1:35 am

We get to know this LA based artist before his show at Fecal Face opening Feb 11th.
Maya Hayuk @Gallery 16 Preview

1 Feb 2010 | 7:29 am

Her show opens Friday Feb 5th @Gallery 16 in San Francisco. We take a peek and some new and older works.

OUPblog » Art
Ursula von Rydingsvard

Rebecca

3 Feb 2010 | 8:32 am

David Levi Strauss writes frequently for Aperture. He is the Chair of the graduate program in Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His new book, From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual, delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of artwork. In the excerpt below we learn about Ursula von Rydingsvard’s artistic process. Ursula von Rydingsvard’s sculptures have often engaged and activated the relation between a tool or implement – something used to make something…
On High Art

Rebecca

29 Jan 2010 | 8:35 am

John Carey has been at various points in his life a soldier, a barman, a television critic, a beekeeper, a printmaker, and a professor of literature at Oxford. He is the Chief Book Reviewer for The Sunday Times in London. His book, What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the claims made on behalf of art. Carey argues for the value of art as an activity and debunks the idea that art contemplation makes us better people or that judgments about art are anything more than a personal opinion. In the excerpt below Carey looks at “high art”. Cultural…
Editing and Framing in Robert Bresson’s Films

Rebecca

7 Jan 2010 | 8:39 am

Robert Bresson, one of the most highly regarded French filmmakers, created a new kind of cinema through meticulous refinement of the form’s grammatical and expressive possibilities. In his book, Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film, Tony Pipolo provides a nuanced analysis of each of Bresson’s films, elucidating Bresson’s unique style as it evolved. In the excerpt below, from the introduction, we learn about the importance of Bresson’s editing techniques. Tony Pipolo is Professor Emeritus of Film and Literature at the City University of New York. Of all the elements…
The Origins of Tintin

Rebecca

23 Nov 2009 | 9:11 am

Pierre Assouline is a journalist and writer whose columns appear regularly in Le Monde and L’Histoire. His book, Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin, translated by Charles Ruas, offers a candid portrait of a man who revolutionized comics. In the excerpt below we learn about the origins of Tintin. Tintin and Snowy were born on January 10, 1929, in Le Petite Vingtième. On that day the supplement for young readers in Le Vingième Siècle first published a comic strip under the title “The Adventures of Tintin, the ‘Petit Vingtième’ Reporter, in the Land of the…
The Blue Dress Place of the Year 2009

Michelle

11 Nov 2009 | 11:26 am

Michelle Rafferty, Publicity Assistant For more than 30 years of his life Albie Sachs lived as both lawyer and outlaw in an apartheid South Africa—working through the law in the public sphere, and against the law in the underground. As a result, he was detained in solitary confinement, tortured by sleep deprivation, and eventually blown up by a car bomb which cost him his right arm and the sight of an eye. Later he returned to play an important part in drafting South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitution, and was appointed by Nelson Mandela to be a member of the country’s first…

Tate | Press Releases
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective

8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

9 February 2010 | Tate ModernArshile Gorky: A Retrospective
The Great British Art Debate

26 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

27 January 2010 | Tate BritainThe Great British Art Debate
Fiona Banner will create the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010

17 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

18 January 2010 | Tate BritainFiona Banner will create the Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010
Tate acquires eight unique works by William Blake for the nation

10 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

11 January 2010 | TateTate acquires eight unique works by William Blake for the nation
Art Now: Andy Holden, Pyramid Piece and Return of the Pyramid Piece

8 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

9 January 2010 | Tate BritainArt Now: Andy Holden, Pyramid Piece and Return of the Pyramid Piece

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Larry Poons

Martin

7 Feb 2010 | 6:19 pm

20-20 And Blue, 2008Larry Poons, Recent Paintings, at Esther Massry Gallery, College of Saint Rose, Albany.detail of 20-20 And Bluedetail of 20-20 And BlueHulk Smash. can't remember the real title...Larry PoonsSally Gardens, 2008detail of Sally Gardensdetail of Sally GardensD. Jack Solomon and Jeannette Fintz. Jeannette has a show opening Sat 2/20 at Nicole Fiacco, in Hudson NY.Signed my copy of Artforum, Summer, 1968.... he had the cover.
paintings

Martin

29 Jan 2010 | 10:25 pm
REMANDED!

Martin

28 Jan 2010 | 12:00 am

Soft win for Buchel on Appeal -1. VARA's protection of an artist's moral rights extends to unfinished creations that are "works of art" within the meaning of the Copyright Act;2. The right of integrity under VARA protects artists from distortions, mutilations or modifications of their works that are prejudicial to their reputation or honor, and prejudice must be shown for both injunctive relief and damages;3. Büchel has adduced sufficient evidence to raise a genuine issue of material fact as to whether MASS MoCA violated his right of integrity on one of his three asserted bases for…
spirit of sharing

Martin

27 Jan 2010 | 11:19 am

don't take photos! (*wink*).
MISC.

Martin

25 Jan 2010 | 10:55 pm

Letters, Artforum, Oct 1968- Sirs: It seems it has become necessary to state that the photograph of my work on the cover of Artforum, May 1968, appeared without my knowledge or permission and against my personally expressed wishes. Robert Irwin, Los Angeles, Calif.advertisement, Artforum, Dec 1970 - placed by an activist group including Poppy Johnson, Lucy Lippard, Faith Ringgold - the eggs are cause the group would place eggs (and tampons) throughout the Whitney, in addition to picketing, passing out flyers, blowing whistles, and projecting slides of work by women artists onto the exterior…

theartblog
Are movies the new boudoir art?

roberta

7 Feb 2010 | 5:43 am

Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic paintings (some specifically for the boudoir) now sit in major art museums around the world, a reminder that the erotic in art once had great appeal for patrons who liked a little (or a lot of) sensory pleasure in their paintings and sculpture. As Jonathan Jones said recently about old master paintings in Britain’s National Gallery: “A great…
Philagrafika in NY Times

libby

6 Feb 2010 | 10:07 am

Ken Johnson wrote a Philagrafika review in yesterday’s New York Times. Thought you’d enjoy, if you haven’t yet read it, although Johnson does focus only on the five major shows of the Graphic Unconsciousness. But Philagrafika is offering way more than that to keep you happy and busy for days (90 venues all in all). The Times also has a slide show here.
Words, art, computer games! Australia checks in.

libby

6 Feb 2010 | 9:57 am

In the annals of self-promotion of a good kind, this info came in from a reader named Jason Nelson, who’s a digital art professor in Australia. He is the author of a number of internet games–at which I am rather inept, it taking me about seven tries to figure out how to get out of a hole and then a similar number of tries to figure out that I can use a similar maneuver to get on an elevator–that are also art. The one I tried has a Mark Lombardi conspiracy theory quality, with spidery lines and crazy text, all related to following the money. i made this. you play this. we are…
Cancelled–Alba Pistolesi and luck

max mulhern

5 Feb 2010 | 7:03 am

As luck would have it I went to see the work of a young French artist named Alba Pistolesi. Alba is , in her words, obsessed with cancelling the usefulness of objects as well as with table legs and their standard 72cm length. A week earlier she had shown me a large wooden die and a faggot of table legs that were meant to be screwed into the die on each face. The number of legs per face were to correspond to the number on the face of the die. This results in an object that evokes either a virus or a creature from the Burgess shale. " I-de" pronounced ee-day which is a play on…
The Duke of Riley meets the King of Petty’s Island

libby and roberta

4 Feb 2010 | 1:25 pm

We wandered over to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania last week while Duke Riley was installing his show about Ralston Laird and Petty’s Island, his chosen subject for his Philagrafika project. The artist, 38, had the society’s large glass cases full of artifacts and photos from his excursions to Petty’s Island, and he’d made a large family history drawing based on research he did about the Laird clan. Over the mantle was a photo taken in a helicopter flyover of Riley’s piece de resistance for the project, a mural painted on top of a Citgo oil holding tank…

National Gallery of Art, Washington-Video and Audio
Garden Café Français

2 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

February 2010 - Kimberly A. Jones, conservateur, département des peintures françaises, National Gallery of Art, Washington, et Chef Michel Richard de Citronelle et Central, à Washington, DC. Inspiré par l'exposition « De l'impressionnisme à Modernisme : La Collection Chester Dale », le chef cèlébre Michel Richard a créé un menu spéciale des plats classiques de la cuisine française pour le Garden Café de la National Gallery. Dans ce podcast, produit pour célèbrer le Garden Café Français, Richard parle à Jones au sujet des peintures qui ont inspiré ce menu et son amour…
Garden Café Français

2 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

February 2010 - Kimberly A. Jones, associate curator, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, and chef Michel Richard of Citronelle and Central in Washington, DC. Inspired by the exhibition From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, renowned chef Michel Richard created a special menu of classic French dishes for the National Gallery's Garden Café. In this podcast, produced to celebrate the Garden Café Français, Richard talks to Jones about the paintings that inspired this menu and his lifelong love of art.
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection: Part 2, Getting to Know Maud and Chester Dale

12 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am

January 2010 - Maygene Daniels, chief of Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, and Franklin Kelly, deputy director, National Gallery of Art. The 1962 bequest of Wall Street investor Chester Dale made the National Gallery of Art one of the leading repositories in North America of French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The exhibition features some 80 of the finest European and American paintings that Dale and his wife Maud, an artist and critic, avidly assembled from the 1920s through the 1950s. In the second of this two-part podcast series, produced on the occasion of the…
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Exhibition Highlights, Art on Art, Drip, Stripe to Zip, Monochrome, Figure or Ground, Part 2

5 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am

Over the course of nearly half a century, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff acquired works by some of the most influential American artists in the postwar era, building a collection that bridges the divide between abstract and figurative painting. More than 40 artists are represented, with special focus on Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. Harry Cooper, the National Gallery's curator of modern and contemporary art, gives a tour of the exhibition, which includes 126 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture. By discussing the works…
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Exhibition Highlights, Gesture, Picture the Frame, Scrape, Concentricity, Line, Part 1

5 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am

Over the course of nearly half a century, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff acquired works by some of the most influential American artists in the postwar era, building a collection that bridges the divide between abstract and figurative painting. More than 40 artists are represented, with special focus on Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. Harry Cooper, the National Gallery's curator of modern and contemporary art, gives a tour of the exhibition, which includes 126 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture. By discussing the works…

tinku tales
The Year Ahead

31 Jan 2010 | 9:08 am

Belated Happy New Year to you all! Since writing my last blog post, I have been busy with the business of closing down the gallery - lots of moving, shipping unsold art back to the artists, and renting out the space to its new tenants - two local photographers. Many people have asked me in the last 2 months if shutting down the space was difficult. The truth is, the most difficult period was earlier last year when I was struggling to keep it all together. Working full time on top of running the gallery, and helping family/friends with some serious matters resulted in my not doing…
And now for something different...

8 Dec 2009 | 7:05 pm

“I don’t need a house right now but I do need a gallery”. November 2006. I was vacationing in Newfoundland, nursing a broken heart. My dear friend urged me to buy a home in Toronto after leaving my longtime residence in Boston. I started researching places on the web, stumbling upon a small commercial space in a Toronto neighbourhood that I loved. I landed back in Toronto, drove by the space at around midnight, and 24 hours later, plunked down a cheque to buy it. The 3 years that followed have been nothing short of a wonderful wild rollercoaster ride – thrilling, frightening,…
Best Art Article of 2009

2 Dec 2009 | 9:34 pm

Continuing my Best of 2009 challenge (led by Gwen Bell), the article that had a huge impact on me and that I sent to my network and friends is one written in the L.A. Times covering a speech Michelle Obama gave on why art matters.The full speech is here. Enjoy. It gave me goosebumps.
Best Art-Related Restaurant Moment of 2009

1 Dec 2009 | 5:22 pm

So continuing with my Best of 2009 blog post series (as lead by blogger Gwen Bell), today's post is about my best restaurant moment of 2009. This happened not too long ago. Elena Popova, an artist from Newfoundland has an exhibition at tinku gallery in October. She and her husband, sculptor Luben Boykov, flew to Toronto from Newfoundland to attend her opening. The place was packed that night, and as usual, I hadn't eaten most of the day in the rush to get everything ready. By 9:30 I was starving.I had booked a table at my favourite Toronto restaurant, an Iranian place called Banu. Banu is…
Best of 2009 - Countdown

30 Nov 2009 | 9:19 pm

Gwen Bell, a woman whose blog I enjoy reading, has posted a Best of 2009 challenge. I thought I would give it a shot and try to relate as much of it to art & travel as possible. So bear with me as I blog a little more than usual...December 1st - Best TripMy best trip of 2009 was a weekend I spent in New York City with gallery artists (and friends) Cass Reimer and Nasco Pelev. We arrived to find our accommodation had fallen through, and in an amazing twist of fate, received a call 5 minutes later from gallery artist Mike Piergrossi generously offering us the use of his West Village…

Art of the Day
Blue Pearl Tropical Fish ACEO polymer clay

8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

Blue Pearl Tropical Fish ACEO polymer clayChristina A Kapono I've made this ACEO from Polymer clay in blue and white and added a silver metal fish ...read more
Key West Sunset

8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

Key West SunsetLeea Baltes
Dark Bunny

8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

Dark BunnyTina Marie Ferguson This original design is made from coordinating pairs of socks. The eyes are buttons ...read more
Rabbits and Roses

8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

Rabbits and RosesDawn Lee Thompson
Thistle Rabbit

8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm

Thistle RabbitEmily J White A wary white rabbit pokes his head out from some thistle brush. He looks around, an ...read more

AO Art Observed™
AO Auction Preview – London: The January Post-War and Contemporary Auctions Begin at Sotheby’s

Jane

8 Feb 2010 | 3:48 pm

Self-Portrait with a Black Eye, Lucian Freud. Estimate: Image via Sotheby’s Sotheby’s auction house will kick off this week’s major round of contemporary sales in New York with an 80 lot sale that is expected to realize in excess of £32 million on Wednesday, February 10. Christie’s expect to fetch at least £26,290,000 from 52 lots at their evening sale on Thursday, February 11. In November, Sotheby’s Postwar and Contemporary Sale in New York marked a major turning point in art market history when Andy Warhol’s 200 One Dollar Bills, sold for $43,762,500…
AO On Site: Kinetica Art Fair Debuts in London at the Ambika P3 Space, through February 7th, 2010

Georgia Suter

5 Feb 2010 | 7:49 pm

Light installations by artist Rosaline de Thelin. Currently on exhibit in London is the Kinetica Art Fair, the UK’s only fair dedicated to kinetic art, which mixes science and engineering together in a modern mirage of moving and glowing artworks, some of which react to human movement and sound. The kinetic art exhibition, which includes wonders such as robots and holographic light beings, is designed to question the perceived boundaries between different disciplines through the use of light, robotics, sound and electronics. More than 150 artists are exhibiting at the event, which is…
London: Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale, February 3, 2010 – historic London sale substantiates art market recovery through robust hammer prices exceeding £10 million for works by Giacometti, Cezanne and Klimt

Jane

3 Feb 2010 | 6:52 pm

Auctioneer Henry Wyndam sells L’Homme qui marche I by Alberto Giacometti. Estimate: £8-12 million Price Realized: $104,327,006. Image via Associated Press A bronze sculpture, entitled L’Homme qui marche I, by Alberto Giacometti became the most expensive work ever sold at auction this evening when it realized $104,327,006 at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale in London. In an interesting turn of events, Giacometti’s sculpture represents the recession from beginning to end – it was being auctioned as an asset of the failed bank Dresdner Bank and the…
AO Breaking Auction Results: Sotheby’s sets record for any work of art ever sold at auction with $104 million Alberto Giacometti Sculpture – almost 10 times estimate

Jane

3 Feb 2010 | 1:29 pm

L’Homme qui marche I, Alberto Giacometti. Estimate: £8-12 million Price Realized: $104,327,006 via Sotheby’s Tonight, Alberto Giacometti’s L’homme qui marche I fetched $104,327,006 at Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale in London – making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The bronze sculpture exceeded the previous record of $104.1 million that was set at Sotheby’s in May 2004 by Pablo Picasso’s Garçon à la Pipe. 10 bidders, mostly on telephone, fought a fast and furious battle over a period of eight minutes – the…
AO Auction Results – London: Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Evening Sale, February 2, 2010

Jane

3 Feb 2010 | 12:32 pm

Tête de femme (Jacqueline), Pablo Picasso. Estimate $4,845,000 – $6,460,000 Price Realized:$12,887,348. Image via Christie’s Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale and the auction of Art of the Surreal took place last night in London and fetched $122,167,093, over a pre-sale estimate of $87 – $124million. The sale illustrated a buoyant market in reflection of last year’s equivalent sale that raised $101 million as buyers and sellers held back in the financial crisis. Another observation is the continuing appetite for important works of art – most…

pve
formula un

pve design

8 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

"F1" - Formula One Car designed by JP van Essche (son of pve)Last Summer, my sons attended a summer program, "Great Books" on the grounds of Amherst College and had the opportunity to see what campus life is like. The 2 week program was wonderful for them to meet college graduates, to attend a variety of lectures and to have free time to play music, create or toss a frisbee. The above car was designed and made by my son from cardboard, and a mix of garbage, caps, wire and then painted. Ever since he was a little boy, he has taken great pleasure in building with legos, putting puzzles together…
sunday shelf - calendar of art

pve design

7 Feb 2010 | 4:59 am

pve design illustration for calendarA few years ago, I illustrated a calendar for this fun gal. She was looking for a gift to thank her clients and wanted something for them to remember her by each month. It was such a fun project for me. When I took on the project I asked if she could provide some images by month and she gave me so much information, it was a pleasure to capture each image for the 12 months.If you are looking for a special gift, and have shelved the thought, why not give art.The gift of art is everlasting.
on ice

pve design

6 Feb 2010 | 8:23 am

Take a look at these amazing ice sculptures here.Truly works of art.
small change

pve design

6 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

Saving small change or the ability to be consistent with a small change on a regular basis is key to setting up not only good habits but to produce results. Setting up a system in order to see results by focusing on small changes in our behavior. It is so crucial to teaching wee ones the importance of saving. Do you save change or have a "piggy bank?" A weekly trek to the bank with "small change" can add up over time. How many of you involve a wee one around you in the art of saving for a rainy day? Were you taught that pennies make dollars or are you waiting for pennies from heaven?Image…
pillow talk

pve design

5 Feb 2010 | 3:59 am

I have always considered pillows to be very personal. They can provide an intimate atmosphere to a rather large sofa and make a beautifully made bed all the more inviting.The above pillows are french vintage linen and can be found here."As for me and my house, We will serve the Lord."Joshua 24:15This pillow spoke to me. Both of the above pillows found on etsy. Have a super weekend in your house serving up goodies for the Super Bowl and take a minute to give thanks. Hope to have some pillow time in between a flurry of events going on here.

Natasha's Art Candy
Private Art Auction – “Black Cat Forest”

natashawescoat

8 Feb 2010 | 7:40 pm

BLACK CAT FOREST Original 2 pc painting from my newest series. Original 2pc 18w x 24w Painting, as shown is now up for auction right here in this private art auction. Auction ends Wednesday, February 10th at 12am PST. Send in your offer to natashawescoat@gmail.com, or by phone/text to: 213.537.2494 See more detail photos under the cut. [...]
Cirque du Soleil presents Elvis

natashawescoat

8 Feb 2010 | 12:50 pm

I, along with other bloggers and media, will get to see the premiere of Viva ELVIS, which will be presented exclusively in the custom-built Elvis Theater at ARIA Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas. The premiere will be held Friday, February 19, 2010. I will be videoblogging and documenting the experience first hand [...]
Commission List Wait

natashawescoat

8 Feb 2010 | 12:41 am

To those who took advantage of my commission offer a few weeks ago, there will be a month wait for your piece to be finished. I have to add that though this may be a dissapointment for you, the fact that receiving an original commission on a month’s time is extremely rare. In the art [...]
Dreams beget art

natashawescoat

7 Feb 2010 | 12:36 am

After I stepped into my car last night, coming from a screening of an epic film, I overwhelmed with an epiphany. An answer to something that always struck me blank when asked about. “What is your inspiration for what you do?” Since a young child, I was a day dreamer. I’d spend hours of my day [...]
iPad: the next creative art tool?

natashawescoat

6 Feb 2010 | 9:10 am

PAD FOR CREATIVES I see a lot of possibilities for the iPad as far as creative use. An already popular iPhone app, “Brushes” is an art gallery and painting app and has been redone for the iPad. The application allows you to view pictures in full screen and high-definition. You can create your own work or [...]

JazJaz
WTF Stock Photo

vjdanny

8 Feb 2010 | 8:11 am

Just who the hell would want to buy such pics? I sure hope that the bunny wasn’t harmed during the making of this stupid photo. Via the always entertaining Awkward Stock Photos blog. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: Vintage Film and Polaroid Cameras View the World 80x Slower Time Magazine – Best Photos of 2006 Time Lapse Video of the Shinjuku City Skyline The Women’s Right to Wear Shoes – Flickr Set The Puppet Show by Winkler+Noah
Brain Freeze Ice Tray

vjdanny

6 Feb 2010 | 8:56 am

I want this so bad. The Brain Freeze ice tray will make four frozen “brains,” that are sure to be a hit at your next party. The tray is molded from pure silicone, and is dishwasher safe. Link. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: Wallets Made From Recycled Comic Books Virtual Modded Cars Vine Cell Phone Charger Concept Looks Green Video iPod leaked photos. Type Tray Protects Delicate Parts From Laptop’s Heat Top 10 List of the world’s fastest Cars
The Second Video To Be Ever Posted on YouTube

vjdanny

3 Feb 2010 | 7:43 am

It’s hard to imagine, but this was the second video to be uploaded to YouTube. The video, titled “My Snowboarding Skillz,” was posted on April 23, 2005. And the first? This. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter.
The Beautiful Still-Life Art of Theresa Kasun

vjdanny

2 Feb 2010 | 8:54 am

Theresa Kasun, an MFA graduate of the New York Academy of Art, is the artist behind these gorgeously-lush, still-life images. Her paintings invoke the memories of a long bygone era, but with a contemporary twist. Her style of paintings is, in her own words, “a synthesis of the many years of training I’ve had, which include Impressionism and techniques of the Old Renaissance Masters.” If you liked her works, you can purchase Giclee prints of the paintings, here. The art of Theresa Kasun. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: X-Ray Art Gallery Of Albert Koetsier Weapons Carved…
William Shatner As Edgar Allan Poe

vjdanny

1 Feb 2010 | 9:23 am

There was a time when Will Shatner fancied himself to be a serious dramatic actor. He played his roles with epic intensity, complete with long pauses, and other trademark ‘Shatnerisms’ All of it was unintentional comedy gold. Watch him play Edgar Allan Poe in this television clip, broadcast in 1983 on Halloween day. Follow JazJaz on Facebook | Twitter. See also: Will Shatner Reads Palin’s Resignation Speech as Poetry White Rabbit Vs Star Trek Mashup Videotape – Short, Stop-Motion Horror Film Vespertilium Clothes Peg Star Trek vs Common People Mashup Free Skull Font For…

Arts & Animation Videos
Pokemon Episode 621 (Diamond and Pearl Episode 152) (Subtitled) (HD)

8 Feb 2010 | 11:32 am

Dialga and Palkia! The Final Battle!!Author: hmdwgf2Keywords: nyaa Added: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:32:43 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
Longing

7 Feb 2010 | 2:38 pm

Please visit bottledanime.comAuthor: MarthaWhittingtonKeywords: martha whittington les tripplets of belleville big mama Added: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:38:43 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
Fortitude

7 Feb 2010 | 1:26 pm

Please visit my bottledanime.comAuthor: MarthaWhittingtonKeywords: martha whittington les tripplets of belleville Added: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:26:42 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
Unbalance

7 Feb 2010 | 11:44 am

Please visit bottledanime.comAuthor: MarthaWhittingtonKeywords: martha whittington les tripplets of Belleville unbalance Added: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:44:29 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com
GAARA

7 Feb 2010 | 11:03 am

More Naruto vids at bottledanime.comAuthor: MarthaWhittingtonKeywords: martha whittingtonn gaara gackt Added: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:03:16 GMTVideo codes to display this video on your website!http://www.livevideo.com

BOOOOOOOM!
Michel Gondry

jeffhamada

9 Feb 2010 | 3:55 am

Open Your Heart by Mia Doi Todd. Directed by Michel Gondry. Watch the video below!
Scott Campbell

jeffhamada

9 Feb 2010 | 3:21 am

Laser-cut dollar bills by Scott Campbell.
Ryan De La Hoz

jeffhamada

9 Feb 2010 | 2:53 am

Ryan De La Hoz just put out a great new zine, Residual Energy.
Claire Sherman

jeffhamada

9 Feb 2010 | 2:12 am

Drawings and paintings by Claire Sherman. Brooklyn.
Tokyo Sky Drive

jeffhamada

9 Feb 2010 | 1:57 am

A mesmerizing train ride by youtube user, cat2525jp. Watch the video below!

Sprayblog
Spraygraphic Interview with Artist Jeremy Geddes

Spraygraphic Interview with Jeremy Geddes SG: Where do you currently live and work? Please tell us about yourself? JG: I'm a painter living in Melbourne, Australia. Before I switched to full time painting I worked in game development. SG: What mediums do you work with? JG: All my work is either oil on linen ...
Spraygraphic Featured Member: Derek Schaper

Spraygraphic Featured Member: Derek Schaper Derek Schaper is a talented artist from Valdosta, Georgia. His Creative Project Section has some great paintings, drawings, and photography. Check out Derek Schaper’s profile.
Christopher Wilson’s Dubai Series

Christopher Wilson's Dubai Series Great Photography from Christopher Wilson
Spraygraphic Vinyl Art Show moves to Conspire Phoenix

Spraygraphic's Vinyl Art Show moves to Conspire Phoenix for the month of February. For the past two months, the art show has been hanging at Hoodlums Music in Tempe, but now we have loaded it all up and brought it to our favorite gallery in Phoenix, CONSPIRE.
Spraygraphic Featured Member: Jason Brammer

Spraygraphic Featured Member: Jason Brammer Jason Brammer is a talented artist from Chicago, Illinois. His Creative Project Section has some great paintings and mixed-media. Check out Jason Brammer’s profile.

Slightly Lucid
Robyn McCallum – Patrimony

Aislinn Leggett

8 Feb 2010 | 11:19 am

© Robyn McCallum - Hylas And The Nymphs By John William Waterhouse Robyn McCallum has a wild imagination. When thinking of the master painters from the late 1800s and early 1900s, one would probably not think of pin-up girls or debonair men in suits or for that matter cowboys, soldiers or mounties. But McCallum does. With her series Patrimony, McCallum brings our attention to well-known paintings and distorts our preconceptions or our ideals of these master pieces. She recreates the paintings using not only collage styled work but also uses characters that everybody can relate to in some…
Daniel Cooney Emerging Artists Auction

Aislinn Leggett

3 Feb 2010 | 8:28 am

© Alexander Binder - Traum #5, 2009 Daniel Cooney’s Emerging Artists Auction has been up for the past couple of weeks featuring some really interesting artists. But it’s not up for long, there’s exactly 1 day and 1 hour to go – finishing on February 4th. So get them while they’re there! Works that caught my eye were Alexander Binder, Brea Souders, M. Scott Brauer, Jake Stangel, Dalton Rooney and you can find one of my prints there as well. Get bidding! © Brea Souders, Untitled #7, 2009 © M. Scott Brauer - Duwei, Shanghai China, 2008
February Inspirations

Aislinn Leggett

1 Feb 2010 | 8:54 pm

Alec Soth has archived his last blog and has now moved on with Little Brown Mushroom Blog. This is definitely one to keep up with. Marc Feustel’s blog Eye Curious covers everything photography. Feustel is an independent curator located in Paris and posts about photography books, exhibits and various photographers. Jake Stangel showcases photographers on Too Much Chocolate. Recently Kodak teamed up with the blog to award a film grant to ten talented photographers. Booooooom is nurtured in Vancouver by Jeff Hamada. This blog can satisfy all cravings of art categories: photography, design,…
Auctions for Haiti Relief

Aislinn Leggett

1 Feb 2010 | 5:31 am

© Anouk Kruithof If you still haven’t donated for Haiti relief or would like to give more, here are a few auctions that are offering great photography from talented photographers. A good time to get some nice work on the walls while donating to people who desperately need the help. Montreal’s Kate Hutchinson is participating in the Haiti Relief Benefit Print Sale and you can find Anouk Kruithof and Helen Van Meene’s work at the Photo Q auction. If you are in Montreal this Wednesday, February 3rd, stop by Shoot Studio to place a bid on some slick photography. There is a…
Interview with Jessica Auer

Louis Perreault

26 Jan 2010 | 7:31 pm

© Jessica Auer - Bear Butte, South Dakota I met Jessica Auer at Concordia University a few years ago. She was then a teachers assistant for my introductory black and white photography class. Since, she has been a very active artist, finishing up her MFA and producing several exhibitions, while at the same time teaching photography at college level and being one of the founding members of the artist run gallery Les Territoires. She has now been appointed as a photography instructor at Concordia University and her career seems to be well under way. I had the chance to see her work and to hear…

Reckon | The Whole World's a Stage
(via Mary Virginia Carmack)

7 Feb 2010 | 8:14 pm

(via Mary Virginia Carmack)
Koukotsu…a japanese instant on the Behance Network

7 Feb 2010 | 4:07 am

Koukotsu…a japanese instant on the Behance Network
Koukotsu…a japanese instant on the Behance Network

7 Feb 2010 | 4:03 am

Koukotsu…a japanese instant on the Behance Network
ritabee: (via grayskymorning)

6 Feb 2010 | 2:03 am

ritabee: (via grayskymorning)
BURROUGHS (via mikeletron2)

5 Feb 2010 | 2:03 am

BURROUGHS (via mikeletron2)

The Stickley Museum At Craftsman Farms
Arts And Crafts Collector

Thank you to Bruce Johnson for featuring our annual Craftsman Farms Banquet in today’s post on his new site, arts and crafts collector. If you haven’t already been to this wonderful new website, you are missing an outstanding and entertaining resource covering every aspect of the Arts and Crafts lifestyle.
Annual Craftsman Farms Banquet

You are invited to The Annual Craftsman Farms Banquet at the GPI Arts and Crafts Conference Thursday, February 18, 2010 6:00 p.m. at the Grove Park Inn Asheville, North Carolina The cocktail reception starts at 6:00 p.m. and includes a full open bar and passed hors d'oeuvres including mini-quiche, pot stickers and mini-quesadillas. Follow that up with great ...
Two Days Only! Save on Holiday Items!

All Christmas cards, tree ornaments, and calendars will be 30% off on Saturday December 19 and Sunday December 20. Shopping hours are 11:00 to 4:00. Remember the museum and shop will close for the holidays at 4:00 on Sunday and reopen at 11:00 on Saturday, January 9.
Over 200 Votes!

We're at over 200 votes, with 2 days of voting left. If you've already voted, please help spread the word to your Facebook friends! Use the Post to Wall button to quickly let your friends know about the Craftsman Farms Foundation.Via Chase Community Giving on Facebook | The Craftmans Farms ...
100 Votes So Far!

We just broke 100 votes for the Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms on Chase Giving! Thanks so much! We're well on our way to that $25,000 grant! Stop by and vote for us, invite your friends to vote too, and share the link on your own Facebook wall to help ...

NEWSgrist
Found Art (East Village): Unmonumental 226

joy garnett

30 Jan 2010 | 10:23 am

Found Art (East Village): Unmonumental 226, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).
Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 225

joy garnett

30 Jan 2010 | 10:23 am

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 225, originally uploaded by Joy Garnett (archive).
The Brooklyn Museum Commons: Trees (etc) Grow There

joy garnett

22 Jan 2010 | 11:36 am

via that dreaded rag HuffPo (still good for some things):The Brooklyn Museum's Copyright Projectby Jonathan MelberWhen it comes to progressive, public-friendly copyright policies, few art museums can match The Brooklyn Museum. In 2004, it was the first art museum to adopt a Creative Commons license, allowing any non-commercial copying of any image in which the museum holds the copyright. In 2008, it was the third institution to join the Flickr Commons, making available high-resolution images of Public Domain artworks from its collection. Last week, the musuem published the detailed copyright…
Artist Flores McGarrell Dies in Haitian Earthquake

joy garnett

22 Jan 2010 | 11:25 am

Flo McGarrell cooking, Jacmel, Haiti, 2009via M|I|C/A:Flores McGarrell '97 '98 Dies in Haitian Earthquake1/15/10 Flores McGarrell '97 '98, an artist and director of a community arts center in Haiti, was killed in the earthquake that devastated the nation on Tuesday. McGarrell, 35, received a B.F.A. in fibers and an M.A. in digital arts at MICA and was a faculty member at the College in 2001 and 2002. He died when the Peace of Mind Hotel in Jacmel, his hometown in Haiti, crumbled during the earthquake.According to reports, McGarrell had stopped briefly at the hotel in Jacmel on his way home…
"Good Law is the Best Art" Limited Edition Posters: Proceeds Go to UNICEF Haiti

joy garnett

22 Jan 2010 | 11:10 am

via Clancco: "Good Law is the Best Art" Help Haiti Children, Receive a Limited Edition Clancco PosterJanuary 19th, 2010Clancco has printed 50 limited-edition posters, Good Law is the Best Art, based on Andy Warhol’s now-famous quote, “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”These limited-edition posters are for sale, with all profits after shipping costs going to UNICEF. UNICEF Promises that 100% of donated money will go to saving children’s lives in Haiti. Although the earthquake happened on January 12th, there is still much need for donations of…

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ArtsJournal.com
A Math Prof's Digital Method For Flagging Suspect Art

9 Feb 2010 | 5:36 am

"Until now, [Dartmouth College mathematics department Chairman Daniel] Rockmore has only tested his program on Bruegel drawings, but he says there is no reason it could not be used for other artists. While it can identify suspicious works, it cannot definitively prove that they are fake."...
How DC-Area Arts Groups Weathered The Storm

9 Feb 2010 | 5:18 am

"Many of the city's museums and theaters went dark over the weekend" as the mammoth snowstorm struck, but the Newseum remained open, and "despite the snowdrifts and lack of public transportation, the show did go on at a few area venues." So did some rehearsals....
Dante's Inferno, The Video Game

9 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am

"There is no reason this game could not be set in any of the hundreds or thousands of generic hells that have hosted video games over the years. What Electronic Arts has done, quite transparently, is appropriate Dante's brand to use as a light marketing skin on top of the God of War clone the company so clearly wanted to make."...
Maestro Is Pittsburgh's Ambassador To Foreign Businesses

9 Feb 2010 | 5:09 am

"When Pittsburgh tries to lure a foreign company, it often turns to maestro Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to close the deal. ... For foreign executives, the orchestra adds a touch of sophistication to a city many still associate with smokestacks."...
Ohad Naharin's Counsel To Critics

8 Feb 2010 | 8:47 pm

"Don't let a point of reference prevent you from having a moment of a fresh new experience," he advises. And: "Connect to physical pleasures of life."...

CR Blog
MTV logo changes, stays same

Patrick Burgoyne

9 Feb 2010 | 2:13 am

After 29 years, MTV unveils a logo 'refresh' – like many of its viewers, the network has become a little wider and a little fatter There's nothing terribly revolutionary about MTV's new logo – described aptly by the network as a 'refresh' rather than a redesign. But what it does do differently is join the ever-growing ranks of the 'logo-as-receptacle-for-imagery' crowd. The wider, more rectilinear space within MTV's new mark (which was created in-house) is tailor-made for housing images from its output, as shown here. It's a trend that appears to be gaining more and more traction with…
Hair, there and everywhere

Mark Sinclair

9 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am

Portraits by Levi Van Veluw, 2009, courtesy of Ronmandos gallery Two recent books get to grips with our fascination with hair and how it continues to provide creative inspiration for artists and designers... Hair's a funny old thing. We all have it, as both men and women we covet it, yet it has the power to repulse us, often simply because it's no longer attached to the body (think plugholes, hairballs, hair in food ... you get the idea). Nick Cave, Soundsuit, 2009, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman gallery, NY So why make art from it? Well, it seems that's a question which has…
Punk life

Gavin Lucas

8 Feb 2010 | 4:05 am

Photographer and filmmaker Niall O'Brien has been candidly documenting the lives of a group of young punks from south west London over the last three years. His current show, Good Rats, showcases imagery from the project... "There's something beautiful about capturing the spontaneity of youth," says O'Brien about the work exhibited - which depicts his subjects relaxing, partying, congregating in some scuzzy looking venues and, occasionally, fighting. "It's something everyone can relate to on some level," he continues, "even if they can't immediately identify with this mad group of punks."…
White Lakes

Mark Sinclair

8 Feb 2010 | 12:57 am

Lichter Until a few weeks ago photographer Jan von Holleben was stationed in Haukeli, one of the coldest parts of Norway and the place where his ongoing project with artist, Michelle Jezierski, began last year... In the village of Haukeli, which lies between Oslo and Bergen, von Holleben endured temperatures of -30º to get the images he wanted for what became his and Jezierski's White Lakes project. Schloss "During the shoot I established the idea of working with Michelle," says Holleben of the collaborative project, the first images from which recently appeared on his website. "For a long…
Design set to make the pint glass safer

Gavin Lucas

5 Feb 2010 | 7:10 am

Having a pint glass smashed at high velocity into your face by a drunken idiot is a truly horrible experience. I should know - some inebriated nob-head tried to glass me in a bar last year and if the glass in question hadn’t been of the “toughened" variety and smashed into tiny cubes (as it was designed to do) on impact with my eye-socket I would almost certainly have lost my left eye. Now two new pint glass designs are set to minimise further the chances of serious injury as a result of glassing incidents... Yesterday two new prototype pint glass designs were unveiled at the Design…

Artworld Salon
Is it just Art or is it Progress?

Pablo Helguera

4 Feb 2010 | 7:29 pm

Can you keep a secret? But please don’t tell anyone, because if you do, knowing how the art world is, no one will go see the Tino Sehgal show at the Guggenheim. No, its not that the museum’s walls are completely bare and that the admission price continues to be the same. No, its not that there is an uninhibited couple endlessly kissing amidst the Rotunda. No, its not that the show is not worth visiting —on the contrary. Ok, here it is: the work is not really a performance art piece, and not so much of an artwork either: it is an education program. I imagine that no one will agree with…
The state of the arts is … blah

András Szántó

28 Jan 2010 | 5:33 am

President Obama in his address last night studiously avoided the phrase, “the State of the Union is strong.” If there were a State of the Union for the arts, the speaker—Who would it be?—would likely have made the same choice. For all is not well on the cultural ramparts. Just as “Wall Street Prospers while Main Street suffers,” we’re seeing some profligate spending on art again, here and there, while artists and organizations on the ground are having a really tough time. To measure the pain and the sorrow, Americans for the Arts, the Washington based advocacy group, has come up…
Whither now, Museums?

Ian Charles Stewart

17 Jan 2010 | 7:45 pm

Those living in Europe are sometimes surprised by the shockwaves that private sector economic turmoil creates for Arts Institutions in the US. If you come from a region where large portions of a Museum’s budget comes from the public purse (in some countries it is all government funded) it can be eye-opening to learn that those well-funded US institutions that out-bid the Europeans at Auction are often largely privately supported. So an article in this week’s Art Newspaper by our own András Szántó is well-timed. Private donors remain skittish. Corporate support is hard…
What’s so wrong with Deitch at MoCA?

Edward Winkleman

11 Jan 2010 | 5:42 am

UPDATE: It’s official. Deitch is the new director of MoCA. _______ The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), which barely survived closing last year, is rumored to be close to announcing that they will appoint New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch as their new director. (Other hats still in the ring at this final stage of the selection process include Lisa Phillips of the New Museum in New York and Lars Nittve of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.) Word that Mr. Deitch was in the running for the position leaked out late last week, and that initiated a flood of opinions about the…
Requiem for a magazine

András Szántó

6 Jan 2010 | 7:11 am

I attended a wake for I.D. magazine last night in New York. Not I.D., the fashion magazine. I.D. the design magazine. Now dead. Like so many of its recently-axed midsize peers, I.D. — International Design — leaves a much larger hole in our cultural landscape than its modest circulation numbers suggest. Say what you will about the promise of online media, there is a kind of energy and legacy that develops around a magazine that remains unique to the form. A great magazine is a network and a through-line: something that, done right, can lend a segment of our culture a sense of…

Modern Art Notes
All those power lines...

8 Feb 2010 | 9:37 am

I was substantially disappointed by the traveling, partial reprise of the seminal New Topographics exhibition, but there was one point of commonality across the photographers' work that caught my eye: Power lines. Every single New Topos photographer of the West included power lines in his pictures. The artists did not consider them a bit of pictorial clutter to be excluded, but a part of the West, a key part of the West they wanted to show us. [Image: Henry Wessel, Jr., Hollywood, 1972.]So why were the power lines so apparently important to the New Topos? Think of them as a key link between…
Weekend roundup

8 Feb 2010 | 5:41 am

The New Orleans Museum of Art won its Super Bowl bet with the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This JMW Turner is going to New Orleans!In the NYT, Dorothy Spears profiles Luc Tuymans and in so doing reminds us that the adverb "cooly" and back-story are always present when discussing Tuymans' work.Kenneth Baker thinks that Tuymans is an artist's artists.Two artist profiles in American newspapers in one weekend!: Suzanne Muchnic in the LAT on Rachel Whiteread. Christopher Knight reviews the Hammer's Whiteread drawings show.SFMOMA announced that it has raised $250 million toward a fundraising goal of…
Snowpocalypse II incoming

5 Feb 2010 | 6:35 am

Word is that Washington will be socked with up to 26 inches of wet, heavy snow over the next two days, so I'm going grocery shopping. In celebration of the pending weather, enjoy two of my favorite winter paintings: Gilbert Stuart's The Skater and Pieter Bruegel's Winter Landscape with Bird Trap. Tweet me other snowy faves and I'll share 'em on Twitter/Facebook.Update: The Nelson-Atkins just announced a ton of major collection gifts. I'll be tweeting/Facebooking them today, so 'tis a good time to sign up for Twitter/follow me/etc.
'California minimalism' contextualized (or not)

4 Feb 2010 | 9:17 am

"California minimalism" is a peculiar phrase, one I'd never really heard before January 8, when this show opened at Chelsea's David Zwirner Gallery. It's a phrase not much in the literature about minimalism, either because the Californians are rarely considered within the arc of minimalism's history or because, well, the stuff coming out of southern California in the late fifties, sixties and seventies was sort of minimal and sort of not. (Much of it wa80s more perceptual than minimal.)For years this art has been a mainstay of California museums and galleries, particularly in southern…
A pioneer re-discovered

4 Feb 2010 | 6:04 am

I'll have a couple more notes on the response to the David Zwirner 'California minimalism' show later today, but first: The Zwirner show effectively serves as New York's re-introduction to Doug Wheeler, one of the three pioneers of California Light & Space. (The others: James Turrell and Robert Irwin.) Before the Zwirner show, I think that Wheeler was last on view in New York in the Guggenheim's 2004 Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) exhibition. The Wheeler in that exhibition, which is in the Gugg's collection, received scant notice. The Gugg's Wheeler isn't even included among the…

Art Market Blog
Predicting Art Market Profit Potential Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

2 Feb 2010 | 4:41 pm

Predicting Art Market Profit Potential Pt. 2 – artmarketblog.com Since posting part 1 of my Predicting Art Market Profit Potential posts I have had some people question whether it is possible to predict whether an artist will achieve market success before they actually do. Unfortunately many people either don’t know about ArtFacts.net or don’t understand how it works which is why I am writing this post. One person said that: “A successful artist with lots of exhibitions and fame, will certainly have an extensive auction sale record, whereas an unknown artist will…
Predicting Art Market Profit Potential Pt. 1 – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

25 Jan 2010 | 4:13 pm

Predicting Art Market Profit Potential Pt. 1 – artmarketblog.com Using auction prices to identify trends and determine whether the price being paid for a particular artist’s work is on the rise is all well and good, but by the time the price of an artist’s work begins to rise in a rapid manner, the best opportunity to profit from the price increase is likely to have already passed. Auction price databases such as artprice.com and artnet.com are extremely useful but they are really only useful for artists who already have an extensive auction sale record. What if there were a…
Who Purchased What Art 2nd Half 09 – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

18 Jan 2010 | 4:22 pm

Who Purchased What Art 2nd Half 09 – artmarketblog.com THE PROPERTY OF THE EARL OF JERSEY'S TRUST - SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK ANTWERP 1599 - 1641 LONDON SELF PORTRAIT 2,000,000—3,000,000 GBP Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 8,329,250 GBP I always find it interesting and very useful to find out who is purchasing what at auction and for how much. The information below comes from the auction houses who are only allowed to reveal the identity of those buyers who choose to have their identity revealed which, unfortunately, is usually not many. It is interesting to…
2010 Art Market Predictions – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

7 Jan 2010 | 5:12 pm

2010 Art Market Predictions – artmarketblog.com Adriaen Coorte "Still life of strawberries in an earthenware bowl, on a stone ledge" I have been watching the art market very closely over the last year and have to say that I was actually quite pleased with what I saw. The more scholarly and connoisseurial approach to fine art that emerged in 2009 has temporarily re-focused people’s attention on the historical, cultural and artistic value of art as opposed to the social and financial values that dominated the contemporary driven market of the boom period. I say…
Top iPhone Apps for Art Collectors – artmarketblog.com

theboyracer2@hotmail.com (Nicholas Forrest)

30 Dec 2009 | 5:55 pm

Top iPhone Apps for Art Collectors – artmarketblog.com Several art related companies and institutions have taken advantage of the revolution that is the Apple iPhone, and released apps that make buying, browsing and finding out about works of art possible anywhere, anytime. Below are my top iPhone Apps for art collectors and investors. Artfact.com iPhone App Why waste your valuable time searching hundreds of old auction house catalogs and websites for auction price results, when you can find everything you need all in one easy-to-use service? Artfact is the world’s largest and…

Making a Mark
Making A Mark Awards 2010 - The Contenders

Katherine Tyrrell

9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am

In December last year I invited you to nominate people for the Making A Mark Awards 2009. At the time, a number of you commented that you wished you'd kept a note of impressive blogs or blog... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How to make Blogger pages work for you

Katherine Tyrrell

8 Feb 2010 | 6:55 am

This post explains what you need to do to create Blogger Pages and how to make the new Blogger Pages function relevant to artists.If you have a Blogger Blog you can now create static pages on your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
7th February 2010 - Who's made a mark this week?

Katherine Tyrrell

7 Feb 2010 | 5:15 am

Watercolour artist and former Making A Mark awardwinner Carol Carter (Carol Carter) has an interesting project ' on the go'. She's creating a series of portrais of her son - and she started 23 years... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010

Katherine Tyrrell

5 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am

You can register to enter the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize any time up until Friday 19th February 2010.First held in 1957, the John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize is the UK's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CPSA - Explore This! 6 now online

Katherine Tyrrell

4 Feb 2010 | 12:30 am

The online exhibition of the 6th CPSA Explore This! is now online. This is the Colored Pencil Society of America's exhibition which allows the use of coloured pencils with other media. As of last... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Two Coats of Paint
Save the date!

Sharon Butler

8 Feb 2010 | 4:36 pm

In anticipation of the art-academics' gripe-fest, er, I mean discussion, I'm organizing for Jen Dalton and William Powhida's upcoming think tank, #class, at Winkleman, I'd like to put Art School: (Propositions for the 21st Century), edited by Steven Henry Madoff, on the reading list. Here's an excerpt from the press release. "The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing professionalization, the pervasive power of the art market, and fundamental shifts in art-making…
Reassessing Mercedes Matter

Sharon Butler

5 Feb 2010 | 10:15 am

Mercedes Matter, "Tabletop Still Life,"ca.1942, private collection, New York Mercedes Matter, "Tabletop Still Life," ca 1940-4, private collection, Mass. In LA Weekly, Doug Harvey tells the story of Mercedes Matter, who was born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913 to father Arthur B. Carles, a pioneer American abstract painter who studied with Matisse, showed at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery and exhibited work in the legendary Armory Show. and mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, a Parisian correspondent for Vogue and a favorite model of photographer Edward Steichen. "Her…
The slaves to facture vs. tentative doubters at Exit Art

Sharon Butler

4 Feb 2010 | 3:23 pm

Benin Ford, "Black Jesus,"oil on canvas, 18 x 14." Courtesy of the artist. This iPhone image of Mira Dancy's collage/painting actually looks better than the piece itself. Walking past an exhibition of sophomore paintings at work yesterday, I was reminded of Dancy's work. Jesse Chapman, "The Hole," 2009, oil on canvas, 22 x 12." Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery. In the February issue of The Brooklyn Rail I reviewed "New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World" at Exit Art. Here's an excerpt. "In New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World" curator Herb Tam…
The Promotion Project at CAA in Chicago

Sharon Butler

2 Feb 2010 | 9:27 am

This month I'll be in Chicago to present The Promotion Project at the College Art Association's Annual Conference. Please stop by the ARTExchange, free and open to the public, in the Hyatt Regency on Friday, February 12, 6-8pm. Artists from all over the country will be presenting prints, paintings, drawings, photographs, small installations, performance, sound, and spoken word projects, and I'll be live blogging the event via iPhone (if I've got 3G connectivity) on my other blog, @ Bushwick & Main. In case you haven't been following the project, it involves an exhibition of letters…
Germaine Greer observes how women's contribution is winnowed out of art history

Sharon Butler

1 Feb 2010 | 7:22 am

Sylvia Gosse, "Walter Richard Sickert," 1923-5 Hilda Carline, "Welsh Farm," 1938, oil on canvas, 22 x 21" Thérèse Lessore, "The Roundabout at the Circus" At the Guardian, Germaine Greer reports that the Fitzwilliam's "Sargent, Sikert & Spencer" exhibition offers a pretty good lesson in how women's contribution is winnowed out of art history. "The museum has just hung a show of paintings by John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Stanley Spencer from its collection, and I find myself wishing they hadn't. For the first time, the museum seems to me…

Studio Notes
A Few Tips on Photographing Artwork

5 Feb 2010 | 9:50 pm

In his comment a few posts ago, Tom asked how I photograph my work. I thought I'd offer a few tips I've learned over the years, because I really don't feel like painting tonight :-)But before I get into it, I want to make it clear that I'm not a professional photographer, and I don't have professional lighting set up in my studio or anything like that. I'm just trying to get accurate color with what I got, and minimize glare as best I can.My studio lighting isn't perfect, but it's adequate. I have eight 6500K fluorescent tubes, and track lighting with six halogen bulbs. None of the halogen…
Commission's Done~

4 Feb 2010 | 8:32 pm

Waiting And Waiting, 36 x 48 inches, oil on linenThis is a commissioned painting, just completed and approved. It's a fairly large painting (36 x 48) so it took a while to do. It's more than just having to cover a large area. To paint things believably, I have to actually pay attention to how those things are constructed. On a small painting, little details like flyers in the windows may just be abstract dabs of paint, not even looking like rectangles. At this scale, the same dabs have to become not only rectangles, but rectangles in perspective. But if I painted them precisely and…
Today's Class

3 Feb 2010 | 9:18 pm

Ultramarine, Transparent Oxide Red, and WhiteI love my class! Such a great bunch, and they make it easy for me to teach, what with their positive energy and willingness to listen to what I have to say. You'd be surprised how often people pay to go to a class or a workshop, and not want to hear what the instructor is saying! Not my group. They are enthusiastic as well as diligent. Lucky me.I've been having some very satisfactory results with my demos. I'm seeing that it is a lot more effective for me to jump in midway after everyone's been working for an hour or two, and either work on a…
Some Tonal Landscape Studies

1 Feb 2010 | 9:49 pm

I had typed up several paragraphs of my complaints about how I'm struggling (more than usual) with these tonalist studies lately, but then who wants to hear me whine? It's helpful for me to regurgitate my artist's block so that I can make sense out of it – it somehow allows me to see my thought process afresh when it's verbally expressed right there in front of my eyes– but I doubt that it would make sense to anyone else reading my rambling. (It is totally disorganized!) So I just deleted all that crap, and decided instead to talk about what I do know and understand. And it is what I call…
From Sketch to Finish

29 Jan 2010 | 4:34 pm

Interlude, 12 x 24 inches, oil on linenHere's a painting that I finished recently. In a previous post, I showed you the original 10~20 minute drawing done from life, and the small oil study (6 x 9 inches or so)I used to explore some color possibilities.I worked up the final painting using the study. In the study, I used the chair and the wrought iron screen thing to anchor the two opposing corners with dark values and active shapes. While I liked these objects, I felt that they were too obvious as far as compositional devices went. I look at the painting and think, "ah, anchor devices." This…

Watercolor Artist Network
Henry Fukuhara (1914-2010)

Jessica

5 Feb 2010 | 7:39 am

Thanks to Tom Fong, fellow artist and friend of Henry Fukuhara, for informing us of Fukuhara's death on Jan. 31. Click here to read the L.A. Times obituary. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. this Sunday, Feb. 7, at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica. The beloved watercolor painter and teacher was featured in the October 2008 issue of Watercolor Artist; click here to watch a slide show of some of the artist's works. Please feel free to leave a comment and share how Fukuhara inspired you and your own creative pursuits.MORE RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS * Online Seminars for…
Amazing Watercolors by a 7-Year Old

Jessica

3 Feb 2010 | 7:27 am

Last summer The Daily Mail introduced us to the watercolors of then 6-year-old Kieron Williamson. The young British artist is now represented exclusively by Picturecraft Gallery, who's hosting an exhibition of his paintings in August—and a documentary is slated to be produced this year, according to the gallery. Check out his incredible works here and here.Photo courtesy of Picturecraft GalleryMORE RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS * Online Seminars for Fine Artists * Instantly download fine art magazines, books & video workshops * Sign up for your Artist's Network email newsletter &…
Must-See Show: Robert Highsmith Watercolors

Jessica

1 Feb 2010 | 11:18 am

Marigold Arts (in Santa Fe, N.M.) presents a solo exhibition of watercolors by Robert Highsmith Feb. 5-March 18. The landscapes, such as On Route 28 (above), portray New Mexico in fall and winter seasons. (You might recall Highsmith's work from the February 2007 issue of Watercolor Magic.) Stop by and meet the artist at the opening reception, 5-7 p.m. this Friday.pictured: On Route 28 (watercolor on paper, 7x21) by Robert HighsmithMORE RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS * Online Seminars for Fine Artists * Instantly download fine art magazines, books & video workshops * Sign up for your…
Watercolor Advice and Inspiration at Your Fingertips

Kelly

25 Jan 2010 | 9:06 am

Space-saving? Sure. Portable? Absolutely. But for my money the best advantage of having a year's worth of magazine issues on CD is the handy search function. If our research holds true, you likely keep every dog-eared issue of Watercolor Artist tucked away somewhere near your workspace—all within easy reach for when you need a little technical advice or motivation. That's great if you know just what you're looking for and exactly where to find it, or if you just want to browse your favorite issues for inspiration. But what if you're struggling with your drybrush…
Helping Haiti Through Art

Jessica

20 Jan 2010 | 7:42 am

Our friends at Studio 1482 are just one artist collective doing their part to raise funds for Haitian relief. When you donate $50 or more to the organization CARE (www.care.org), Studio 1482 will give you a hand-signed 13x19 limited edition print from one of the Studio 1482 illustrators. Click here for details. Of course, there are plenty of other ways to contribute. PBS listed some arts-related benefits, and the American Red Cross is another option. What relief efforts are going on in your community?Pictured: Help is a verb–we have one world and our neighbor is crying, by Michele…

An Artist's Journal
Snow Surprise and Some Welcome Quiet

Martha Marshall

8 Feb 2010 | 8:48 pm

This is our front yard this morning, only two hours after we had gotten up to see just a dusting of sleet on the ground. Soon the sleet turned into big huge snowflakes, which you can see in this picture. Snow is becoming big news across a lot of the country, and even here it’s closing schools and roads in an area not accustomed to big snowstorms. The temperature will warm up enough for this snow to melt quickly. It may even be gone by the end of the day tomorrow. After all, people need to go about their business. I have packages to send out and groceries to buy. But I will take…
Road Trip with My Sister

Martha Marshall

4 Feb 2010 | 10:18 pm

“My Bride Doll” – Digital Collage I get to spend tomorrow afternoon with my sister. This is a rare treat for both of us. As always, she will tell me stories about our family’s adventures over the years. As my “big sister” she is the keeper of the story. And she has written much of it down. She is a genealogist and has written a novel about our great-great grandmother, as well as voice recordings she has made of family elders’ memories. Even though we moved this past summer and I am now just a few miles from her, we don’t see each other much.
Five Beautiful Things

Martha Marshall

3 Feb 2010 | 9:57 pm

One of my readers emailed me yesterday to tell me that she has a little ritual that she does before going to sleep. She remembers five beautiful things that she saw that day. I was inspired by that, and hope to incorporate that into my night time routine. I think it’s a wonderful thing to do to put oneself in a good frame of mind for the next day. It’s easy for me to remember five beautiful things around me. Today, we went for a short ride across Wilson Dam which spans the Tennessee River, and parked in an observation area just below the dam where thousands of birds gather to…
Collage and Books About Collage

Martha Marshall

2 Feb 2010 | 8:44 pm

Here are two more collages from my Intuitive Collage Process demonstration. Some have been sent to New Zealand for the annual International Collage Exhibition and Exchange. I still have several of them, which are waiting to be listed in my Etsy shop. “Predicting the Weather” – Collage, 5 x 7″ “Winter” – Collage, 5 x 7″ Four New Books Here’s a confession: I am addicted to art books. Can’t get enough of them, ever. What I love is that I can read them through several times and the next time I open one, I see something new or am…
Earlier Work and a Sense of Wonder

Martha Marshall

31 Jan 2010 | 11:25 am

This diptych was painted in 2006, and looking at it again now, I can see how it ties in with my recent panels. This pair was sold soon after completion, so I don’t see it any more. It’s good to look back to see where we’ve been. “Strata” – Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 30″ The only thing that would be different now is more texture. But other than that, they ring true. A Sense of Wonder The warm sun is out melting the icicles and the remaining snow and ice, which wasn’t very much. But the past 24 hours were well below freezing. I love seeing the drips…

Kirsty Hall
Newsie Things & A Freebie

Kirsty

5 Feb 2010 | 4:33 am

Awesome sauce – I got a paid speaking gig. Apparently the University Of The Arts in London think I’m some kind of blogging expert. I tried to tell the nice lady on the phone that I wasn’t really but she said lots of lovely things about my articles page and how they were looking for an artist who blogs and I guess I qualify on the later. Did I mention that the speaking gig is next week and I have to learn Powerpoint between now and next Thursday? And right after I said I was going to be taking things easy too – ha, the Universe does like its little jokes. But I’m…
Taking Stock

Kirsty

28 Jan 2010 | 6:20 am

Kirsty Hall: Broken Bauble, January 2010 Last October I took Alyson Stanfield’s excellent Blast Off course. This course was a life-changing experience for me – amongst other things, I realised that I need to find more sustainable ways to manage my health & my art before I can develop my career further. Basically, I’ve been trying to build my house on sand. I’ve been constantly draining myself by doing more than my health allows. Because I’m pig awkward that way. Last November’s arts trail was a good case in point. I’ve only just been back to take…
Snow Days

Kirsty

8 Jan 2010 | 12:39 pm

Kirsty Hall: Winter Fog, Jan 2010 As you may have heard, Britain is in the grip of some cold weather and things have ground to a halt because alas, alack, white stuff has fallen from the sky – hey, who knew that could happen in the winter? Kirsty Hall: Snowy Branch, Jan 2010 The snow has come as quite a relief to me. I’m still recovering from The Virus Of Doom. I’m having a couple of weeks where I deliberately don’t make art but I’ve still not been resting enough, so a couple of enforced snow days are just what I needed. Of course, my idea of what constitutes…
3 Score & 10

Kirsty

17 Dec 2009 | 9:58 am

Hooray, I’ve finally finished the second report from last month’s Front Room art trail. It would have been done sooner but I’ve been down with The Never-Ending Virus Of Doom. Kirsty Hall: 3 Score & 10, 2005, as shown at Front Room, Nov 2009 As well as doing the Red Thread performance piece, I decided to listen to the voices of reason (aka Dave Devereux and Cat Vincent) and NOT make another sculptural piece at such short notice. Instead, I installed 3 Score & 10, an existing sculpture which was completed in 2005 but which had only been shown twice before. It was a…
Red Thread Performance

Kirsty

4 Dec 2009 | 2:09 pm

Here’s the first of two reports on the work I showed at the Front Room art trail in November. ……………………… The statement I wrote for this piece: Red Thread 2009 Red thread, white dress, gag, chair, table, plasters, scissors, pincushion, needles. Red Thread is a brand new piece being performed for the first time at Front Room. This piece is so new that even I’m not entirely sure what it’s about but part of the inspiration came from Snow White: “Oh, how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin white as snow, lips red as blood,…

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one end of the rainbow

nemicon

9 Feb 2010 | 4:27 am

one end of the rainbow
A Japanese white-eye and a pine

kei

9 Feb 2010 | 4:27 am

A Japanese white-eye and a pine.
Ballpoint pen / Moleskine

analogouslife

9 Feb 2010 | 4:27 am

Ballpoint pen / Moleskine RCGDI
Gloriously on the field of battle. Kind of

RAscher

9 Feb 2010 | 4:27 am

Gloriously on the field of battle. Kind of.
Glyph, ceramic vessel, whistle, figurine, and pipe

snickerdoodlestudio

9 Feb 2010 | 4:26 am

Glyph, ceramic vessel, whistle, figurine, and pipe.

Art Print Issues
Using SlideShare to Promote Your Fine Art

Barney Davey

5 Feb 2010 | 8:23 pm

These days, actually any days in the art business, you need as much promotion and exposure as you can muster. Fortunately, you have many unique opportunities to promote your fine art to galleries and collectors. In a recent post, I told you about printing your own four-color magazine from MagCloud. Long time readers may recall I posted about the power of SlideShare by linking to a most impressive presentation titled Shift Happens. Today, I want to reacquaint you with SlideShare by introducing you to a wonderful presentation of fantasy art by Rebeka Rodosek.She is a talented visual artist from…
West Coast Art & Frame Show & SmARTist Telesummit week.

Barney Davey

31 Jan 2010 | 12:13 am

Last week was a bit hectic. It started Monday with a presentation to the 2010 SmARTist Telesummit attendees on my topic of creating a second income through the art print market. While I have conducted many seminars via the telephone and Internet, this one was different. After a brief introduction from show producer, Ariane Goodwin, I was off to see how deep into a 41-page slide presentation I could get in 45 minutes. What made this unique was I talked with no feedback as the attendees' phones were muted. Like most speakers, I prefer getting vocal or visual clues, so this was a challenging way…
Publish Your Own Fine Art Magazine with MagCloud

Barney Davey

20 Jan 2010 | 10:57 pm

I am certain part of my fascination with the MagCloud self-publishing concept is due to having spent three decades in the magazine publishing business. However, I am more enamored because it offers visual artists a new unique and potentially powerful means to promote themselves and their art.Supports your social media efforts It is true we are all aflutter with the prospects social media presents us. However, it is still hard to beat the tangible aspects of having a printed publication with beautiful images in one's hands. In these tough economic times, you can imagine many art publishers…
SmARTist Telesummit Art Career Conference Starts Thursday, Jan 21

Barney Davey

18 Jan 2010 | 8:36 pm

REGISTER NOW!Discover new ways to build your art businessIf you are like many artists, you have found the last year one of wonder and worry. You wonder at how much things have changed, and how technology is opening exciting, but daunting new ways to connect to collectors. At the same time, you have worried about how to build your career given the challenges and opportunities before you.GOOD NEWS! YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, WE HAVE ANSWERSStarting on Wednesday, January 21, you have a chance to learn how to make a real difference in your art career. My friend and yours, Ariane Goodwin, has put…
How to Passionately & Relentlessly Pursue Your Art Career

Barney Davey

13 Jan 2010 | 11:57 pm

If you have been paying attention to the Social Media space, you have likely seen, read or heard something from or about Gary Vaynerchuk. In three short years, he has risen from obscurity to become a huge star. His success is due to his passion and relentless pursuit of his goals and his desire to share his knowledge with and inspire others. His book, Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, is a current bestseller. It is a slim volume that packs punch. Fittingly, the article below, which is republished courtesy of the Early to Rise newsletter, extols the advice about how to…

Lines and Colors
Edward Redfield

Charley Parker

8 Feb 2010 | 8:14 pm

With snow still on the ground throughout most of the Mid-Atlantic United States, and more on the way, I thought it appropriate to look at an American artist renowned for his scenes of snow and winter. Edward Willis Redfield was one of the major figures among the artists who gathered in an artists colony in and around New Hope, Pennsylvania in the late 19th Century. Generally called the Pennsylvania Impressionists, this group included a number of artists who had absorbed some influence from the French Impressionists, but, like most painters called “American Impressionists”, took…
Stephen Harby

Charley Parker

8 Feb 2010 | 8:31 am

Stephen Harby is a working architect and lifelong student of architectural history with a passion for travel and sketching architecture. Harby took a sabbatical from the architectural office in which he had been working for many years and devoted it to travel and sketching, and in the process moved to watercolor as his preferred medium for observing and drawing architecture. His site has a section of recent work as well as collections of archived work, both arranged by places, such as France, Persia, Rome, Northern Africa, Spain, Tuscany and Venice. He moves between color and monochromatic…
Rome After Raphael

Charley Parker

7 Feb 2010 | 4:33 pm

Old master drawings are a challenge for conservators. Fragile and damaged over time simply by exposure to light, drawings cannot be placed on permanent display, or even frequent display. Every period of exposure to light must be considered, in effect, a time subtracted from the life of the drawing. Also, drawings, even those by great masters, receive less notice and attention than paintings, and for both reasons are less frequently the subject of mounted exhibitions. So when collections or parts of collections of master drawings are exhibited, it’s worthy of notice. The Morgan Library…
Jonatan Cantero

Charley Parker

6 Feb 2010 | 6:42 am

I don’t know much about Jonatan Cantero; his blog doesn’t have much in the way of biographical information. He is a young illustrator living in Barcelona, Spain, and is apparently working toward a career in comics, though not yet published in the field. His blog and deviantART page have some examples of his work, many of them featuring his small bean-like characters involved in things like harvesting strawberry pulp by mining operation or gathering pollen in buckets while incurring the displeasure of bees. I was really taken with this piece, particularly when viewed large (large…
Eric Fortune

Charley Parker

5 Feb 2010 | 7:03 am

Illustrator and gallery artist Eric Fortune creates images that are at once fantastical and emotionally immediate. His subjects, often elongated and in motion, seem isolated but straining to connect, adrift in worlds just beyond their understanding. His paintings, are done in acrylic on watercolor paper, and always have a strong element of texture, complimenting his often muted palette and tonally complex compositions. Shadows and half light play a frequent role, with areas of illumination moving your eye to the core elements. Fortune studied at Columbus College of Art and Design. His clients…

The Earthly Paradise
The Rejection of Cain's Sacrifice

4 Feb 2010 | 11:50 am

I've been very busy with my little girl over the past few weeks. She's an absolute delight! Even though she's only three months old, I've been having a lot of fun reading with her. Before she was born, my husband and I bought a copy of Tomie dePaola's Book of Bible Stories. It has fantastic pictures that really capture her interest (and the stories are short, so she doesn't have trouble staying focused). At any rate, the other day I read her the story of Cain and Abel. Yikes! It's easy to forget how gory some of these stories were! I was sort of glad that she was too little to have any idea…
Haitian Art

22 Jan 2010 | 11:55 am

In the wake of the tragic news of the Haitian Earthquake, it's hard to find any hopeful stories about Haiti. It's the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, but as an article by Nicholas Kristof pointed out yesterday, the problem with Haiti is not its people, but corruption, a crippling debt load and a disastrous ecological situation (among other things). The promise of what Haiti could become is found in its art, which is colourful and lively. Haiti has a rich art history, but is best known its vibrant voudou flags. Unfortunately, because of the difficult situation in Haiti, the art is…
Degas, Francisco Goya and Karsh at the Art Gallery of Alberta

8 Jan 2010 | 11:08 am

The Art Gallery of Alberta has a number of fabulous exhibits set to coincide with the opening of the new gallery space. The first, Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion, includes 40 of the artist's bronze works, together with a number of his paintings, drawings and prints. Spanish artist Francisco Goya's works, Los Caprichos (1799) and The Disasters of War (1810-1820), will also be on tour at the gallery. Los Caprichos examines themes associated with the Spanish Inquisition, while The Disasters of War looks at the Peninsular War. These series are considered among the most influential graphic works…
Grand Opening of the Art Gallery of Alberta

4 Jan 2010 | 2:29 pm

Happy New Year, everyone! As a resident of Edmonton, Alberta, I've been anxiously awaiting the opening of the new Art Gallery of Alberta for some time now. For the past several years, construction has been underway on the new gallery, which will house the AGA's collection of more than 7,000 artworks. The new building is located in Sir Winston Churchill Square in the heart of Edmonton’s Arts District, and has twice the gallery and educational space of the former gallery. The new gallery (pictured above) opens to the public on January 31, 2010. A limited quantity of free tickets to the Grand…
Happy Holidays!

24 Dec 2009 | 9:51 am

Here's a truly "Pre-Raphaelite" painting for you all! This Nativity scene was painted by Conrad von Soest in 1403. Von Soest, who was born in 1370 in Dortmund, was considered one of the greatest artists in Westphalia. He introduced the "International Courtly Style" of art to Northern Germany, and influenced Northern European art throughout the 15th century. This image captured my eye because of its domesticity! For one thing, it was the first time I'd seen a nativity scene that featured Joseph cooking for his new family! Mary and Jesus look so tender as well (get a closer look at the…

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Planets and galaxies, with a score by Debussy

David Ng

9 Feb 2010 | 5:00 am

To the plaintive chords of Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune," a series of celestial bodies appear to waft by as if in a lethargic dance, suspended both in time and gravity. The hypnotic video, "Things that Float" (seen above), is the creation of Stephen Nowlin, director for Art Center College of Design's Williamson Gallery in Pasadena. It represents the first installment in a curated series organized by NASA Images, a division of the Internet Archive, which seeks to make public-domain pictures more accessible. Nowlin, whose work has often straddled the line…
Theater review: 'Wrecks' at Geffen Playhouse's Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater

Charles McNulty

8 Feb 2010 | 5:15 pm

Ed Harris has excelled for so long as a Hollywood everyman with a gripping steely-eyed intensity that he doesn’t always get enough praise for the finesse of his acting. His performance in Neil LaBute’s solo monologue play, “Wrecks,” which opened Sunday at the Geffen Playhouse’s Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater, provides an opportunity to correct this oversight and extol the delicate command of his character work. Harris stands before us at a Midwestern funeral parlor (conjured with stuffy precision by set designer Sibyl Wickersheimer) in the person of Edward Carr, whose wife Mary…
Opera review: Cavalli's 'Giasone' revived by UCLA Opera

Mark Swed

8 Feb 2010 | 3:15 pm

The first thing all reference books proclaim about Francesco Cavalli’s “Giasone,” a hit of the 1649 Carnival season in Venice, is that it became to be the most popular opera of the 17th century. Admired for its wit, its lush melodic invention and its delicious immorality, this entertainment may not have the profundity of such 17th century masterpieces as Monteverdi’s “Coronation of Poppea” or Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” but Cavalli’s is still a terrific opera, and three and half centuries seems an awfully long time for it to reach the West Coast, as it finally has. The…
A Looney Tunes perennial gets a Hollywood Bowl update with new toons

David Ng

8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm

"Bugs Bunny on Broadway," a summertime family concert classic, is getting an overhaul after nearly 20 years. The popular concert series has been entertaining adults and children since 1990, pairing familiar Looney Tunes characters and classical music chestnuts in irreverent ways. The anthology includes cartoon classics such as "The Rabbit of Seville," "A Corny Concerto" and "What's Opera, Doc?" (The show ran for an extended period at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, hence the title.) In July, the Hollywood Bowl will premiere a new version of the…
Daniel Beaty returning to Geffen Playhouse in new solo show

David Ng

8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 pm

Actor-writer Daniel Beaty won a number of awards for his stage show "Emergency," which ran at the Geffen Playhouse in 2008. Now Beaty is set to return to the Geffen in his new solo play, "Through the Night." The production will begin its run at the Geffen on March 16 and continue through April 4. The show is the latest addition to the theater's current season. "Through the Night" features Beaty playing the roles of six African American men at different stages of their lives as well as the people who love them, according to the theater. Charles…

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MOSH PARTY 4

Michele Adriaens

9 Feb 2010 | 4:05 am

Rock/metal gig with performances by vermillion, thambi k seaow, for this cycle, fall of mirra, astroninja (LAST GIG!) and ruins and remains. 12 Feb, 6pm at blackhole 212, Syed Alwi Road.
Spotted! Snupped

Michele Adriaens

8 Feb 2010 | 8:01 am

Show your laptop some love. Treat it to something funky, and hopefully in return it will stop freezing on you. Snupped sleeves might be the answer. Bang on trend, they combine hot colors with a selection of fancy patterns, catering to style-conscious laptop cognoscenti like you and me. Snupped is the brainchild of two childhood friends, Darcy and Bryan. “It started a couple of years back, when we bought our first laptops,” Bryan explains. “We had snazzy looking gear, but the laptop bags provided were dull and boring looking. So, we decided to make our own, and sewed our…
Urban Sketchers (USk) Singapore

Michele Adriaens

6 Feb 2010 | 8:01 am

(Top) Scrapyard by Tia. (Bottom) Sketch by Don Low. Urban Sketchers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing, promoting its practice and connecting people around the world who draw on location where they live and travel. The site showcases colorful stories behind the scenes, by volunteer correspondents in more than thirty countries around the world. Some are architects and illustrators, others are graphic designers, web developers, painters or educators, all sharing the same passion for drawing on location. They…
GED’s Great T-Shirt Hunt Competition

Michele Adriaens

5 Feb 2010 | 8:01 am

Developed by Catapult Advertising and supported by MICA, Good EyeDeer (GED) is an equal opportunities platform, which gives anyone with a potentially good idea an opportunity to actualize and see it come to life, debunking the myth that Singapore is creatively lack lustre. “We want GED to be a platform for designers to launch themselves and enjoy some commercial benefits, but that’s not all GED is about,” explains Project Director, Serene Tan. “We’re keen on unearthing local talent, helping them come up with a viable business model, sharing with them our network and experience in…
NEVER A LONER

Michele Adriaens

4 Feb 2010 | 9:12 pm

Never a Loner is an exhibition of original life size artwork with ink and brush on rice paper by moof. 4 Feb-4 Mar at Woods in the Books, 58 Club Street.

ArtPlantae Today
New Items for the Field & Studio at ArtPlantae Books

ArtPlantae Today

8 Feb 2010 | 10:50 am

Practical & Inexpensive Recently readers shared a practical tool with me and asked if I would consider carrying this tool in the store. I am happy to announce that the paint brush holder/pencil holder/pen holder (and soap dish) that has received so much attention is now available at ArtPlantae Books. Go to Studio Supplies > Brush [...]
Annual Orchid Show Celebrates Cuba

ArtPlantae Today

8 Feb 2010 | 10:45 am

The New York Botanical Garden announces The Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower. The Palm Beach landscape architecture firm, Sanchez & Maddux, will recreate the feeling of Old Havana and the Cuban countryside inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Architectural vignettes representing Cuban landmarks and snapshots of Cuba’s rich history will be presented throughout the conservatory [...]
Farncombe Estates Adds Workshops by Valerie Oxley

ArtPlantae Today

8 Feb 2010 | 10:40 am

New information at Classes Near You > International > England: Farncombe Estate Weekend Courses & Events in the Cotswolds www.farncombeestate.co.uk A 300-acre privately-owned parkland in the Cotswolds. Host to weekend classes in a wide variety of subjects. There is even a bed-and-breakfast option! Follow their blog or become a Fan of their Facebook page to learn more about this [...]
Supermarket Botany and More at Idaho Botanical Garden

ArtPlantae Today

8 Feb 2010 | 10:35 am

The state of Idaho has been added to Classes Near You! Idaho Botanical Garden www.idahobotanicalgarden.org Founded in 1984, The Idaho Botanical Garden is dedicated to enhancing public knowledge about gardening, horticulture, and conservation. Garden visitors are treated to several different gardens and interesting historical features. Botany and illustration classes taught at the garden include: Grocery Store Botany – Wednesday, [...]
“The Art of Plant Evolution” is Captivating Read

ArtPlantae Today

4 Feb 2010 | 10:55 am

The long wait is over! The new book by W. John Kress and Shirley Sherwood is like a novel you can’t put down. Expect to become lost in informative plant profiles, impressive artist profiles, and fascinating facts about plant evolution. The authors begin their tour of the plant kingdom by providing background information about Charles Darwin, the [...]

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Nikon posts firmware update for D3S pro DSLR

Nikon has released a firmware update for the D3S professional DSLR that fixes a series of bugs. Firmware v1.01 rectifies errors pertaining to movie recording, exposure preview, live view and the 'CHA' error message displayed while using some CF cards. It also revises the simplified Chinese menu. The firmware is available for immediate download from Nikon's website.
Nikon posts firmware update for D3S pro DSLR

Nikon has released a firmware update for the D3S professional DSLR that fixes a series of bugs. Firmware v1.01 rectifies errors pertaining to movie recording, exposure preview, live view and the 'CHA' error message displayed while using some CF cards. It also revises the simplified Chinese menu. The firmware is available for immediate download from Nikon's website.
ZoomMediaPlus announces SD card reader for iPhone

Mobile applications company ZoomMediaPlus has announced the ZoomIt SD card reader for Apple's iPhone or iPod. Files including photos, videos, music and documents can be transferred in both directions using the included ZoomIt application. Priced at $59.95, the card reader will start shipping from April 2010. It is unclear whether Apple's camera connection kit announced alongside the iPad will be able to perform a similar role.
ZoomMediaPlus announces SD card reader for iPhone

Mobile applications company ZoomMediaPlus has announced the ZoomIt SD card reader for Apple's iPhone or iPod. Files including photos, videos, music and documents can be transferred in both directions using the included ZoomIt application. Priced at $59.95, the card reader will start shipping from April 2010. It is unclear whether Apple's camera connection kit announced alongside the iPad will be able to perform a similar role.
Nikon releases 24mm f/1.4 G ED fast wideangle lens

Nikon has released the AF-S Nikkor 24mm F/1.4G ED wide aperture prime lens for full-frame DSLRs. It features an anti-reflective Nano Crystal coating and both ED and aspherical lens elements to help minimize distortion and chromatic aberration. The lens comes in a weather-resistant body and includes a Silent Wave Motor for quieter autofocus operation.

Art Threat
Photos reflect on movements in Manila

Stefan Christoff

9 Feb 2010 | 4:21 am

On the bustling streets in Manila the world moves fast, traffic winds quickly over roads, street vendors push popular food, rivers of people move in mass, currents amongst the infamous traffic jams, all is moving in Manila while the beautiful Pacific ocean shimmers under the sun. Behind the urban beauty and chaos that shapes each day in Manila lies a major political crisis that shapes contemporary politics in the Philippines. Since President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo came to power in 2001, hundreds of progressive political activists have been murdered—most often executed by paramilitary death…
Ipredator launched in battle over intellectual commons

Michael Lithgow

8 Feb 2010 | 4:37 am

In January, the makers of the P2P project formerly known as Pirate Bay launched ipredator, a pay-service that allows complete anonymity while sharing files through P2P networks. As most of our readers will be all too familiar with, P2P networks have emerged as significant and alternative distribution channels for all kinds of cultural and artistic materials – films and documentaries, music, texts, etc. – a strategy that has pitted intellectual property merchants against advocates for a more expansive cultural commons. And while anonymity may be the new arms race in this battle of online…
Klezmer musician Geoff Berner slams Olympic-sized program cuts

Rob Maguire

7 Feb 2010 | 1:05 pm

When klezmer troubadour Geoff Berner sings that “the dead, dead children were worth it”, he does so with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Berner’s “Official Theme Song for the 2010 Vancouver Whistler Olympic Games” mockingly lauds the BC government for dismantling the Children’s Comission—a provincial body that investigated children’s deaths—in order to pay for the Olympics. And this is just one of many programs that have been scaled back or eliminated as the government makes cuts to compensate for a Olympic-sized deficit. I caught up with Geoff in…
Friday Film Pick: The Trotsky

Ezra Winton

5 Feb 2010 | 11:48 am

Leon sets his revolution forth by asking, “Does school suck? Should it?” In this vein, do political comedies suck? The answer is, yes, more often than not, but fortunately, not this one. The Trotsky is part history, part autobiographical (the filmmaker’s life that is), and part funny fiction. From Montreal filmmaker Jacob Tierney comes a tale of wit and longing. Young Leon, played in earnest by the talented Jay Baruchel (of recent apprentice fame), has from a young age, been convinced that he is indeed Trotsky reincarnated. On his adolescent bedroom wall he’s built an…
Friday Film Pick: RiP! A Remix Manifesto

Rob Maguire

29 Jan 2010 | 6:33 am

Today we’re kicking off a new weekly feature, our Friday Film Pick. Each week we’ll suggest a movie for your weekend viewing pleasure. And we’ll try to recommend films that you’ll be able to find with relative ease, whether at your local video store, cinema, or on the web. This week’s pick falls into that final category. The NFB recently made the entirety of RiP: A Remix Manifesto available for online viewing. For free. In HD. The film became a platform for discussion on copyright reform as it played to audiences worldwide, and sparked a pretty good debate on…

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What I Am Missing

admin

7 Feb 2010 | 6:48 pm

I am missing a lot of things lately. Sunshine being one of them. This winter has been exhausting and draining on my spirit. Sunshine, when we have it, is a welcome blessing. I am missing the outdoors. I work in a suburban area and it does not lend itself to much green space or scope for the imagination. I am considering taking my camera with me everyday and sitting in coffee shops and cafes to people watch and listen to conversations. What better way to improve my writing than to listen to the way people talk to each other. I am missing my picture stories. I wonder if blogging everyday for…
What You’re Doing Matters

admin

29 Jan 2010 | 9:51 am

I saw this video on Karen’s blog, Chookooloonks and I instantly melted. It does not help that I have been extremely sensitive for a while. Just about anything that screams connectedness, love, or cherish makes me melt. This was put together by Katherine Center for the upcoming Mom 2.0 Summit. I will not be attending, but I heard it is definitely worth checking out. Enjoy.
Quality Time for Reflection

admin

21 Jan 2010 | 4:52 am

January is going by so fast for me this year. Some people tell me this is a slow month for them, I can not say that is the case for me at all. After the first of the year, the days almost blur into each other. I am finding it more important than ever to journal on a daily basis so I can recall the fullness of my days. I find I fill my days with less crap and enjoy spending it with my family. I take the time to listen to my children’s conversations and watch them as they do their homework with my husband. How often do we take the time to simply listen to what people are saying?
Renew, Revive, Refresh

admin

12 Jan 2010 | 8:56 am

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal and transformation in our lives. ~ Anonymous Love this quote so much right now. I have not been creating a whole lot of art lately. But, before I hit a dry spell, I started creating a series of pieces where hearts dominated the artwork. I am going to share those over the course of the next few days along with a quote or two that resonates with my spirit. Enjoy.
Lessons in Love from the Little People

admin

7 Jan 2010 | 7:32 am

My dear friend Karen host Love Thursdays over at Chookooloonks, hence the heart shaped piece of chicken in my post. My children look for hearts in everything now, and I never miss a chance to see and experience love through their eyes. When I selected the word Endure as my theme for the year, I had no idea I would be put to the test of living the meaning of endure so soon into the new year. Honestly, it has been difficult to focus or be creative lately. Things that used to inspire me no longer inspire. My children have been inspiring me lately (please reference the heart-shaped chicken breast…

Letter to Jane
So Bloody So Tight

Tim

8 Feb 2010 | 11:44 am

Sunny Day in Glasgow comes out with one of the closest things to a hippie’s dream that you can see in hd. Post from: Letter to JaneSo Bloody So Tight
When I’m With You

Tim

5 Feb 2010 | 11:57 pm

I’m really excited I get to catch up with Best Coast later this week so I’ve been listening to their music nonstop today. It also gives me another chance to watch this infectious video again. Post from: Letter to JaneWhen I’m With You
He’s Gone

Tim

4 Feb 2010 | 9:02 pm

I’m very excited to see Vivian Girls and Best Coast next week at Holocene that it’s spilling over into my work. Here’s the Vivian Girls cover of the Chantel’s He’s Gone (thanks GvsB) Listen: Vivian Girls – He’s Gone Post from: Letter to JaneHe’s Gone
Jonathan Waiter

Tim

4 Feb 2010 | 12:58 am

Really quite stunning photography from Jonathan Waiter. His images takes the standard mold and breaks it with an injection of attitude and personal expression. Waiter lets his models express emotions that other photographers would be afraid of, for fear the model would look too vulnerable. Instead Waiter brings us images that are independent, youthful, intriguing, and of course gorgeous. You can view more at his site: www.jonathanwaiter.com Post from: Letter to JaneJonathan Waiter
Phoenix Covers Dylan

Tim

3 Feb 2010 | 9:05 pm

Apparently I am one of the last people to find out about this one, but Pitchfork has a beautiful Phoenix cover of one of my favorite Dylan tracks. Listen: Phoenix – Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Post from: Letter to JanePhoenix Covers Dylan

About.com: Art History
Kudos to LACMA's New "Reading Room"

2 Feb 2010 | 10:47 am

Fellow art historians, can we ever get enough full and free access to sources? No. No, we cannot. In fact, I suspect that if we had our druthers, every text, dissertation, thesis, review, critical essay, exhibition and/or auction catalogue would live online in full (including footnotes) 24/7/365, forever and ever, amen. Towards this is end, please join me in sending a collective namaste to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on its recently-launched Art Reading Room. The Reading Room's initial offerings are comprised of ten exhibition catalogues, mostly from the 1960s, and each is a gem. As…
Do You Think Exhuming Leonardo's Corpse Is a Good Idea?

26 Jan 2010 | 7:31 am

Have you heard that a group of scientists and historians from the Italian National Committee for Cultural Heritage are seeking permission to dig up Leonardo's corpse? Yes, as reported in The Telegraph yesterday, it's true. You, like me, may now be asking yourself, "But, why? Do Leonardo's remains hold the key to a cure for cancer?" Would that this was the case but, sadly, no. The merry band of diggers are hoping to find the Master's skull in order to recreate his face to see if it matches the face in La Gioconda, commonly known as Mona Lisa. Are you listening, Mr. Brown? Do you see the…
Mike Mitchell Is With COCO

22 Jan 2010 | 7:33 am

Many denizens of the scholarly art history crowd (if they even watch television) probably tune into Charlie Rose for late night entertainment. The rest of us have doubtless heard that NBC has stuck a fork into The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien after only seven months; it's done as of the Friday, January 22, 2010 taping. For the past three weeks, the so-called Leno-O'Brien feud has (1) had a lot of comedic tongues wagging and (2) generated an enormous outpouring of popular support for O'Brien, his staff, his writers and the Tonight Show crew. And here is where I'd like to introduce you to…
Wordless Wednesday - Name that Animal

19 Jan 2010 | 5:00 pm

George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811-1879) Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845 Oil on canvas 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm) Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1933 (33.61) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Okay, so. Not exactly wordless this week. My partner in crime and I were laughing over the fact that the animal tethered to the prow of the boat in this painting had been identified as a fox for years ... and years ... and years. Now it is officially identified as a bear cub. I have always maintained that it is a cat, due to its cat-like posture and the shape and placement of its ears.
So What Does 'AbEx' Mean?

15 Jan 2010 | 11:39 am

Words fail to describe just how much fun it is to have Beth Gersh-Nesic covering Modern Art these days. For one thing, Professor Gersh-Nesic is not sporting a giant academic stick stuffed some place about which Polite Society coughs behind its numerous hands and neglects to specify. She is the Art History professor we all wish we had had (although I cannot complain in one memorable instance). For another thing, she is an easy person with which to converse. A third thing is that she keeps me on track without, so to speak, squeezing my shoes (read: making me feel ignorant--no one likes that). I…

The Old Gold
Soft and Loud

Jon Lutz

3 Feb 2010 | 7:16 am

Jaya Howey, Stacy Fisher, Stacy FisherJaya Howey, Happy HardcoreStacy Fisher, Black and White Objects, 2009, plaster, wood, chain, paint, 26" x 33" x 15"J.D. Walsh, Jaya HoweyJ.D. Walsh, recordplayer 2, 2010, HD video projectionJaya Howey, It's Not Like You're Dating The Guy From Amon Düül II Or Something, oil on jutte, 2009J.D. Walsh, Stacy Fisher, Stacy FisherStacy Fisher, Speckled Sculpture on Wood, 2009, plaster, wood, metal, chain, paint, 13" x 48" x 13"Soft and Loud was the ninth Daily Operation show and featured recent work by Stacy Fisher, Jaya Howey, and J.D. Walsh. It was held…
Stephen Davis

Jon Lutz

25 Jan 2010 | 5:57 am

1971, 24" x 96" x 36"1972, 84" x 144"1975, 22-1/2" x 28"1979, 96" x 102" x 60"19801981, 88" x 42" x 13"1985, 72" x 48"1990, 38" x 50"1998, 24" x 20"2005, 59" x 58"2007, 102" x 78"2007, 84" x 110"I've been meaning to have Stephen Davis on here for a while now. He was in Daily Operation's Make it last. Check out his website here for much more great stuff.
Upcoming: Soft and Loud

Jon Lutz

21 Jan 2010 | 9:43 am

"Soft and Loud" features recent work by Stacy Fisher, Jaya Howey, and J.D. Walsh.BYOBDaily Operation is a project by Jon Lutz. It has and will include shows in studios, apartments, parks, empty real estate, and other venues.
Some Things

Jon Lutz

14 Jan 2010 | 4:16 am

Ian Pedigo, Erratic, chair, birch branches, slate, glass, window tinting, metal, spray paint, 2009, 49" x 31" x 35" Opening tonight and soon...1/14: Vince Contarino Sweet Divide @ 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel Ryan Schneider Send Me Through @ Priska Juschka Fine Art1/15: Ian Pedigo Accumulations of Matter @ Klaus von Nichtssagend Laddie John Dill @ Nyehaus1/21: Quick While Still @ Heist Gallery w/ Katherine Bernhardt, Kadar Brock, Mark Gibson, Matt Jones, John Newsom, Wendy White Rites of Passage @ Cooper Union w/ Sue Havens, Kenny Komer and Boris Rasin, and many others
J.J. Garfinkel

Jon Lutz

5 Jan 2010 | 8:50 am

Chapel Furrow, 2007, oil, acrylic, enamel on panel, 54" x 48"Terra Spectra, 2008, oil, acrylic, abalone on panel, 48" x 62"Conjured A Sample, 2008, oil on panel, 40" x 34"Untitled, 2009, watercolor, gouache, flashe and pencil on paper, 10" x 8"Channel #3, 2009, oil on canvas, 45" x 45"Landmine Spring, 2004, enamel, foam, plastic on panel, 24" x 24"Aura of Nights, 2009, oil on canvas, 52" x 78"Aura of Lights is part of J.J. Garfinkel's renewed interest in oil painting on a larger scale...it and Channel #3 are especially nice in person. I'm liking the way he moved from works like Landmine…

Celestial Dreams
Haitian Relief Art Auction starts tonight!

Leah

29 Jan 2010 | 5:31 pm

@140hours Haitian Relief Art Auction starts tonight at 9pm EST and will run till Jan.31st at 9pm EST. View all available artworks: http://140hours.com/haitian%20relief/index.htm Filed under: News
Sale! 15% off t-shirts & posters

Leah

28 Jan 2010 | 10:49 am

Now through Feb. 3rd- Get 15% off t-shirts & posters at: http://www.zazzle.com/leahmcneir* At checkout use promo-code: ZAZZLEFORYOU Filed under: News
Art Auction to benefit Haiti earthquake survivors on 1.29.10

Leah

27 Jan 2010 | 3:48 pm

The 140hours Haitian Relief Art Auction will begin on January 29th @9:00 pm EST and run through January 31st @9:00 pm EST. 100% of proceeds will be donated to rescue & relief agencies on the ground in Haiti. Be sure to check out all the beautiful artwork that artists from across the globe have donated! Donate [...]
Help Haiti! A call to artists & compassionate spirits

Leah

18 Jan 2010 | 11:13 am

‘Life’s Most Persistent And Urgent Question Is: What Are You Doing For Others?’ ~ Martin Luther King Jr. (Photo by Daniel Morel ) My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti. The devastation left in the wake of this disaster is truly heartbreaking. Today i call upon you to join me in the relief effort. We all [...]
The path to peace ~

Leah

15 Jan 2010 | 8:55 am

* ** Peace, happiness, serenity- often to find these you need not look beyond yourself. The path lies within. Embrace contented thoughts. **** Posted in Quotes, Musings, & Poetry, Random Art

The Artery Magazine
Midnite Snacks: Call for Art

laura

1 Feb 2010 | 5:51 pm

Get yer old ass art to brian@brianhubble.com.
Harley’s New Spin on Old School

laura

18 Dec 2009 | 10:06 am

Looks like Harley is taking an old school, artistic spin on things.
Jesse Penico

laura

11 Oct 2009 | 9:55 am

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

laura

11 Oct 2009 | 7:43 am

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

laura

3 Oct 2009 | 6:22 pm

Atlanta based business owner and artist Ashleigh Fedo writes in.

My MiNuTia
Beauty among the chaos

Teresa McFayden

8 Feb 2010 | 9:46 am

The other day we were hanging this piece in my studio. It's the "finale" project for my E-Zine. Oh how much I love it! Anyhoo... The lighting was good (for once), and I'd share some pretty photos I snapped. That room is a mess right now, but there were some vignettes that made me smile... Hope you are enjoying your day.
Bidding a good day to you

Teresa McFayden

5 Feb 2010 | 9:16 am

Have you seen the beautiful hand crafted items on Rebecca Sower's Haiti by Hand Blog. ? You should. And the Auction items! Oh my goodness. Rebecca keeps adding more things to the Etsy shop, too. Lovely things! I bid on a crocheted piece by Jenny Doh ....so excited! If I win, I'll tell my hubby his Valentine's shopping for me is taken care of. Hee Hee. On a serious note though, such good things will come from the fruits and labors of the contributing artists and to the recipients...the Haiti families that are so in need of help. They needed help before all of the hurricanes…
That Valentine's Day Sampler

Teresa McFayden

2 Feb 2010 | 8:18 am

A personal art victory...I finally finished this Valentine's Day sampler! I showed a few photos of it in process here. Of course it took forever, but I only work on it a few minutes a day, and usually in the school parking lot waiting for my son or on car rides to their events. So, when you consider that, it did take a while. See the flattened penny like heart in the left photo? It says "Remembrance of my First Communion". Love that vintage charm.Here are a few close ups:I will admit to you that it's addicting if you've never made one. Because I carry it with me (in…
Hand Dyed How To

Teresa McFayden

27 Jan 2010 | 4:12 pm

Ribbons and things adorning this Valentine project. Another peek at one of my E-Zine projects. Having such a good time with this E-Zine! Feels great to be creating pretties these days. Sure helps me chase the Winter blues away!
Those Ladies in Red

Teresa McFayden

26 Jan 2010 | 6:15 am

Saw them again this weekend. This time she knocked a couple seconds off her time from last week! Here was her last minute presto chango relay 4x4 team. And the swish... She loves this race! One girl on her relay team had an injury (prior to the race), so the girls found a replacement for her at the last minute. It either that or they'd have to withdraw their school from the race. So glad it worked out because it gave her practice and more confidence for next time! She was all smiles afterward, though you couldn't tell in this photo. We won't be able to go again for a…

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Size Does Matter

Rob Jones

27 Jan 2010 | 7:24 am

I received this announcement recently and it made me scratch my head. The FLAG Art Foundation is pleased to present "Size DOES Matter", curated by basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal. This exciting exhibition, on view from February 18, 2010 - May 27, 2010, includes works from international artists exploring the myriad ways that scale affects the perception of contemporary art. Weighing 320 pounds and standing 7'1" atop his size 22 shoes, Shaq is one of the most dominant players ever to play in the NBA. Throughout his career, O'Neal has capitalized on his size and strength to overpower…
100 Great Blogs for Art Students and Enthusiasts

Rob Jones

22 Jan 2010 | 10:36 am

The good folks at OnlineCollege.com have produced a list of "100 Great Blogs for Art Students and Enthusiasts". artPark is flattered to be on the list – at #21. As they say on the site: "These blogs will give you insights to the art world that can help you refine your craft, inspire you to create new work, or just give you a little something pretty to look at." Giving the list a good look proves they put together an excellent grouping of art blogs. The list also introduced me to some I was not aware of. Thanks OnlineCollege!
The 1:50 Gallery

Rob Jones

20 Jan 2010 | 1:21 pm

Irish artist (living in London), David Anthony Hall, photographs large format panoramic landscapes. His work often measures up to nine feet in width and is hung in large-scale public spaces. In an attempt to showcase his work in a more traditional and human scale, David has launched his own gallery. The 1:50 Gallery (as in One to Fifty) is the result. It has the unique and enviable advantage of being visited and enjoyed by anyone anywhere through their own computer screen. Go here for a look. Possibly the world smallest gallery at less than two cubic feet in size, David's "solo show" examines…
A new look for MigrationGallery.com

Rob Jones

18 Jan 2010 | 1:06 pm

Over the years, Laura and I have received countless compliments regarding Migration's website design. These compliments have come from clients, gallery owners, other business owners, friends and total strangers. We always say "thank you." But, in all honesty, we can't take much credit for the website. Before opening the gallery, Laura and I were fortunate enough to hire Michaux Hood and Jen Fleisher at Charmed Designworks. Jen helped us with the creation of the gallery's various logos and color schemes, and Michaux has handled the design and implementation of the website. Once again, we have…
Opportunity for Artists

Rob Jones

18 Jan 2010 | 11:27 am

On February 5, 2010, a group of painters, sculptors, architects, writers, film makers, photographers, and musicians will hold an exhibition in a currently vacant building at 1017 West Main Street in Charlottesville, Virginia. Soon afterward, the building will be demolished. This multi-media show/exhibition is brought to you by The Center for the Study of the End of Things. A Migration fav, Ashley Williams, is one of the group’s organizers. Ashley has already brought together an excellent collection of visual artists to add to the event.The exhibit's curatorial goal is to assemble a coherent…

Daily Art Fixx
Franz Marc: 1880-1916

Wendy Campbell

8 Feb 2010 | 7:59 am

Born on February 8, 1880 in Munich, Germany, Franz Marc was a principal painter of the German Expressionist movement. The son of a professional landscape painter, Marc chose to become an artist after a year of military service interrupted his plans to study philology. Marc studied at the Kunstakademie in Munich under Gabriel von Hackl and Wilhelm von Diez from 1900-1902. In 1903 and in 1907 he visited Paris where he was introduced to Japanese woodcuts and the work of Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, the Cubists, and the Expressionists. During this period, Marc also made a steady income by giving…
Sam Jinks: Hyperrealism

Wendy Campbell

7 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

Sam Jinks currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia where he creates his hyper-realistic Sculptures out of Silicon. Jinks has a background in film and television effects but has been working on his own art full time for the last five years. Jinks has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia. His work can also be found at the McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park in Victoria. For more information visit SamJinks.com. Related posts:Ron Mueck: Hyperrealism Patricia Piccinini: Hyperrealism John Park: Painting
Peter Taylor: Illustration

Wendy Campbell

6 Feb 2010 | 9:35 am

© Peter Taylor Peter Taylor is a painter and illustrator from Vancouver, Canada, known for his plump tattooed forms. With a background in graffiti, Taylor has continued to work in large scale. His technique with acrylic airbrush is very similar to that of spraypaint, and the large scale allows him to retain many of his approaches to paint handling and layout, but to increase the level of detail to a large degree. Applied to the relatively simplistic and repeating character shapes, Taylor’s paintings evoke a sense of balance and complexity, contemplation and playfulness. (from Ayden…
Brandon Maldonado: Painting

Wendy Campbell

5 Feb 2010 | 8:00 am

Confront © Brandon Maldonado Born in 1980, Brandon Maldonado lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico – an environment that is rich in Hispanic arts and culture. His first artistic inspirations include the fantastical world of Star Wars and the monsters of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. In adolescence, he was influenced by graffiti which can still be seen in his current works. Maldonado has a BA in liberal arts from the College of Santa Fe where his studies focused on world religion and philosophy. He also has an associate’s degree in fine art, however, he considers…
Angelina Wrona: Painting

Wendy Campbell

4 Feb 2010 | 6:59 pm

Hive © Angelina Wrona “Angelina Wrona has been experimenting with various styles and media in her art for years. Earlier realist and folk art was rewarding yet not completely satisfying as darker, interesting and more peculiar ideas were beginning to form. Never interested in abstract art, her first exposure to Juxtapoz Magazine was like opening a door to the art world of her dreams. The inspiration from this pop surrealist, exciting and vibrant art world so casually referred to as Lowbrow served as a catalyst for her developing style. She began to realize and combine her delicate,…

Reflections of a Glass Artist
The 2010 Handbook

8 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am

I have been furiously working on new projects. Earlier experiments did not turn out as I had hoped. However, I do have a new series I'm calling Sky-Scapes and I'm anxious to complete the first in the series to share. Until then, I wanted to share this with all of you as I just received it from a dear friend. I hope you enjoy.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2010 HandbookHealth: 1. Drink plenty of water. 2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar. 3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and…
Artists' People's Choice Award

15 Jan 2010 | 4:18 pm

People's Choice Glass Artist for 2010This Award arrived in today's mail. I think I'm still in a bit of shock. At the opening reception for Glass Magic, this past Saturday, ballots were handed out. I never dreamed in a million years that out of all the wonderful glass artists represented at this exhibition, I would be chosen as the People's Choice! Wow, what a way to start 2010.I'm honored and humbled by this. And I am grateful to those who voted for me...my work. Thank you.Until next time, aspire to be more as an artist and a person.
Experimenting

14 Jan 2010 | 6:30 am

I don't have any pictures to post yet. I just want to document my thoughts on my next venture. When I started blogging, almost 2 years ago, I viewed this as a way to journal my thoughts, processes, and artistic growth. It has become so much more than that and I am delighted beyond my wildest dreams that it has. Thank you, all of my artistic/blogging friends, for giving me that gift.Last night I started work on a new design. I have several that have been 'floating' around in my head and knew I needed to get to work on them.As I was talking with Dan this morning, we were laughing about my…
Glass Magic ~ The Opening Reception

11 Jan 2010 | 6:51 pm

There were so many beautiful pieces in this exhibition that I think I should just let the pictures speak for themselves. It was a fun evening and we had a good turn out. I enjoyed a variety of lively conversations with friends, family, and fellow glass artists.I think this pictures, which I took (except the very last one), will demonstrate what a great venue Tri-Lakes Center for the Arts is. I hope you enjoy.A girl and her glass! Yours truly with my work, along with others.....Until next time, aspire to be more as an artist and a person.
First Exhibit of 2010

6 Jan 2010 | 4:57 pm

Arrow In the Forest ~ Winter ~ Growing LovePhotography credits ~~ Daniel KrucoffGlass Magic ExhibitionTri-Lakes Center for the Arts304 Highway 105Palmer Lake, COOpening Reception: Saturday, January 9, 2010, 5:00 - 7:30 PMMy first Reflections of a Glass Artist post in 2010, the new year, the new decade! Hi everyone and Happy New Year. I look forward to this year and decade being filled with new events, discoveries, and of course, new learning experiences.I'm happy to announce that the three pieces pictured above are part of the Glass Magic Exhibition that opened Tuesday, January 5, 2010 and…

iconophilia
orient yourself towards

Nigel

4 Feb 2010 | 11:10 am
lights! action! woof!

Nigel

4 Feb 2010 | 11:00 am

Remember the evidenciary significance of the reflection in the eye in Twin Peaks? Well I’m not sharing the backstory here, and neither is The Sailor, whose sees all… (but please remember to turn off your flash if you wish to try this experiment at home).
drowned bug saved…

Nigel

28 Jan 2010 | 11:20 am

…in this case from the dreaded process of “restoration”: this 1925 Bugatti Brescia Type 22, which sold recently at Bonhams, had sat on the bottom of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland for 73 years. As the story goes: The car was built in 1925 and registered originally to an owner in Nancy, France, then later sold to and registered by a Parisian owner. Eventually, Bonhams speculates, it wound up in the hands of a Swiss architect of Polish descent who reportedly never paid the import duties on the car. The local authorities in Ascona, where the car was stored in 1936, demanded…
Conservation Ergonomics 101

Nigel

28 Jan 2010 | 11:17 am

(a) How not to lift a painting. (b) How not to transfer your DNA to a work of art. (c) How not to let the punters see how you treat their treasures… See ArtDaily for the full catastrophe story.
environmental art – not

Nigel

28 Jan 2010 | 11:10 am

When you paint an office building, you have to clean lots of rollers everyday. So you use the Dulux Envirowash System, don’t you? Gives a good impression, doesn’t it? Corporate responsibility at its best… And then at the end of each day you empty about 100 litres of grey paint into Lake Burley Griffin, and then you hose down the evidence. Positioning it over the stormwater drain opening should have given the game away…

Jeannine Cook's Blog
Louis Agassiz Fuertes

6 Feb 2010 | 4:47 pm

Many years ago, when we first moved to coastal Georgia, I had the delight of seeing an exhibition at Savannah's Telfair Museum of Art about Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Not being born in this country, I am always catching up on matters American, and this wonderful naturalist-artist was one such discovery.I was reminded of his paintings and quick, skillful pencil drawings when I read of an exhibition which has just opened at the New York State Museum . Born in 1874, Louis Agassiz Fuertes was soon recognised as a very skillful artist, and his short life (he was killed in a car accident in 1927) was…
Thinking about Henri le Douanier Rousseau

3 Feb 2010 | 6:09 pm

I was in a waiting room yesterday, idly leafing though a magazine which detailed the 2006 Henri Rousseau exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. As I looked at the small reproductions of some of his paintings, memories came flooding back of the first time I had met his work.I was a young girl, working and studying in Paris, and assuaging my homesickness for Africa by spending many hours in the Louvre, the Jeu de Paume, the Musée de Cluny, etc. One day, at the Jeu de Paume, I rounded a corner and came face to face with one of Rousseau's famed Jungle paintings - I am not sure now which one.
Artists' Webs of Support

30 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm

Most artists are fairly solitary people, per force... It is therefore all the more magical - and important - when there is a web of people around who support, encourage and empower artists.I have been reminded once again of this aspect of life. Living in a very rural part of coastal Georgia, artist friends usually live far away. Networks of fellow artists are much more present, in today's world, through the Internet and other such communications, than previously. That helps a lot. But artists' nearest and dearest family members are probably the most important sources of encouragement, honesty…
Definitions

28 Jan 2010 | 4:30 pm

Here I am, defining myself for many a long year as an artist, and yet, yesterday, I was brought up short. I was reading a short article by Ruth Walker entitled Art, Artisans and artisanal grilled cheese in the January 24, 2010, edition of The Christian Science Monitor. In this article, Ms. Walker addresses the origins and meaning of the word "art". I realised that I felt totally ignorant about the whole subject. Abjectly ignorant!I rushed off to my beloved Oxford English Dictionary to learn more. I knew that "art" came from the Latin "ars", a word that passed into French and then into early…
Repetition in Art

25 Jan 2010 | 4:20 pm

When I was thinking about how I tend to return again and again to the same flowers to draw or paint them, I was interested to find a review by Andrew Lambirth in The Spectator of 2nd January 2010 of William Feaver's monograph of the artist, Frank Auerbach. The review was entitled "Master of Accretion", and in the review, Lambirth wrote: "Painting the same subjects does not produce staleness and repetition, nor the contempt traditionally ascribed to familiarity. In fact, Auerbach states that 'to paint the same head over and over leads to unfamiliarity; eventually you get near the raw truth…

The Official Blog of Park West Gallery
The Park West Gallery Valentine’s Day Sale – Fine Art and Designer Jewelry

Park West Gallery

8 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am

Park West Gallery Valentine’s Day Sale! Jewelry treasures and fine art make perfect Valentine’s Day gifts! Nothing says “I Love You” like designer jewelry and fine artwork! From now through February 14th, this special collection will be offered at extraordinary sale prices. The Park West Valentine’s Day Collection features fine jewelry from high-end designers including Lumiere, Diara, Roberto Coin, [...]
A Gavel Falls…is the Pendulum of Art History Swinging Back?

Park West Gallery

5 Feb 2010 | 1:19 pm

By Morris Shapiro, Park West Gallery Director The art and financial worlds are all abuzz about the vigorous buying surge witnessed on the evening of February 3, 2010 at Sotheby’s London, when a bronze sculpture by Swiss modern master Alberto Giacometti fetched the highest price in art auction history. Phillip Hook, the London based Sotheby’s specialist in [...]
Pop Artist Britto and Kids Paint for Peace in Israel

Park West Gallery

5 Feb 2010 | 8:39 am

Some of us can’t remember a time when we didn’t love to draw and paint, while others remember the first time we were dragged to the local art museum on a school field trip or by our parents. But hopefully, we all grow up and learn to at least appreciate the arts, and, in some cases, we’re fortunate enough to [...]
Happy 116th Birthday Norman Rockwell!

Park West Gallery

3 Feb 2010 | 6:15 am

“I’m not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!” —Norman Rockwell (Feb. 3, 1894 – Nov. 8, 1978) Today’s Google doodle celebrates Norman Rockwell’s birthday Happy Birthday Norman Rockwell!! To honor the most popular and well-known American artist of all time, today’s Google doodle incorporates an illustration by Norman Rockwell entitled [...]
Celebrating Shadows, Even On Groundhog Day

Park West Gallery

2 Feb 2010 | 9:50 am

Today, February 2, 2010, is Groundhog Day! And in case you haven’t heard, Punxsutawney Phil emerged at sunrise in Gobbler’s Knob, but unfortunately the little guy saw his shadow. That means we’re stuck with six more weeks of winter — can you hear all of us at Park West Gallery (in frigid Michigan) groaning? Just when the Park West Gallery bloggers were [...]

Art of Mike Cressy
February's Abstract out put...

8 Feb 2010 | 11:21 am

I put some time aside to work on several abstracts this last week. These are the results!They've all got a pastel look to them, which I think is from my memories of the mid 80s in Los Angeles.More next post!
Possible Cover for Graphic Novel...

5 Feb 2010 | 12:33 pm

This is a drawing for the start of another nightmare sequence in my graphic novel and I'm thinking of using it for the cover. If you have any thoughts about that please let me know.I think it could work well for the cover.See you next post.-M
Coloring Book Cover!

4 Feb 2010 | 8:05 pm

I just finished off this cover for a coloring book that I did for a publisher near Chicago. Unfortunately it's for a religious publisher. (hey, I need the money) The inside line art is too old time like religion for my taste. I've done these kinds of illustrations before and these kind publishers never get contemporary. I try to nudge them and sometimes put little subversive bits in there that the NEVER notice. Hahahahahaha....See you next post!-M
Drive in movie...

27 Jan 2010 | 11:24 am

A recent piece of art that I've done in Adobe Illustrator! I love this program but I'm limited in what I can do with it. Everything that I work on in this program turns out like this. Which is fine but I'd like to see how much further I can take it one day.Hope you dig the image!-MC
NEW Acrylic painting!

27 Jan 2010 | 11:16 am

This one came rather quickly but the original is only 8 x 10 so it was easy to paint. I'm doing a series of these kind of creatures for the next few paintings and I will post the results here.Hope you enjoy!See you next post!MC

Community Arts Network
New on CAN: Cultural Tourism vs. Cultural Exchange

8 Feb 2010 | 10:48 am

Today CAN brings you "Cultural Tourism vs. Cultural Exchange," an essay by Bau Graves reflecting on two years of international cultural exchange by Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. In 2007-2009, the school sent 36 performing artists to nine countries, where Old Town School faculty offered workshops in American vernacular music and dance styles, performed in foreign schools and concert facilities, met and collaborated with foreign musicians, and forged a series of relationships with organizations that now form the basis of a nascent international network. The experience caused Graves…
Health Policy Journal Credits Arts Techniques

8 Feb 2010 | 7:22 am

CAN writer John Sullivan has an article in a professional health policy journal about community artists, neighborhood residents and researchers working on public health collaborations. The essay, in New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental & Occupational Health Policy, is titled "Popular Arts and Education in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): On the Subtle Craft of Developing and Enhancing Channels for Clear Conversations among CBPR Partners." Sullivan is a public-health educator and theater director; he co-wrote it with health-policy expert C. Eduardo Siqueira. CBPR, say the…
Lerman Dance Exchange's Rabbi in Residence

5 Feb 2010 | 12:05 pm

Rabbi David Bauer has joined Liz Lerman Dance Exchange as the first-ever Rabbinic Fellow in Residence. Rabbi Bauer will take classes with the dance company and plans to learn about creating rituals and telling stories in dance and movement within communities. His work with the Dance Exchange will examine ways to fuse movement and theater with Torah study and Jewish worship. Rabbi Bauer, who comes to the Dance Exchange from the Jewish Community of Amherst, Mass., has also been a director of theater and opera and an activist in the field of queer spirituality. Based on the Dance Exchange’s…
MOMA's Agnes Gund on Jobs for Artists

5 Feb 2010 | 9:23 am

Times are hard, says MOMA's Agnes Gund in the Huffington Post (2/4/10), but two recent studies reveal that a bad situation is even worse for performing and visual artists. Gund quotes NEA and LINC studies showing that artists' incomes were down 50-60 percent last year. She makes the case for jobs for artists and reviews the history of the 1930s WPA , when 40,000 artists were hired across the U.S. Gund recalls President Obama's 2008 campaign, which supported "the creation of an 'Artists Corps' of young artists trained to work in low-income schools and their communities," now being studied by…
An L.A. Angel Speaks Up for the Arts

5 Feb 2010 | 6:57 am

A coda to our item yesterday about the L.A. City Council's decision not to end guaranteed funding for the Department of Cultural Affairs: An angel appeared at the hearing. Among the many arts supporters flooding the council chambers was artist Lilia Ramirez, who came clad in a white gown and huge, white angel wings as "a homage to the city of L.A." and told council members that "art saved me. I was in the streets, I wasn't doing so good. ... Here I am today, giving love and light to everyone." The community is still concerned about possible cuts to individual programs. And, according to Mike…

THE HOBBYSHOP HERO
Video: "Home Sweet Home" by Mishoo The Drumkit

17 Jan 2010 | 7:15 pm

&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://mishoothedrumkit.bandcamp.com/track/home-sweet-home-produced-by-dj-madsen"&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Home Sweet Home (Produced by Dj Madsen) by Mishoo The Drumkit&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;WORDS FROM THE HEROI have always wanted to be able to create Visual's whether it be a photo, video, or just anything to accompany the music I create. My dear friend Michael (Mishoo) pulled off such A heart felt video.... and it made me feel so…
Full Crate & Mar “Conversations With Her” EP [digital & vinyl out now!]

15 Jan 2010 | 1:14 pm

WORDS FROM THE HEROLazy Afternoon - I Completely Lifted this post from one of my favorite spots on the Interwebs...Moovmnt.com So after you read the post, Click on this Picture below and check out who brought it to you! hahaha..... Fashionably late, but right on time we present to you the “Conversations With Her” EP. Now a lot of you got hip to Full Crate & Mar through us and it’s only logic that we support these guys like we have been doing from the get go. This soulful, soothing piece of music was something we’ve been looking forward to for a long time and finally it’s here.
63 VINYL ARTIST YOU SHOULD KNOW!!! - Via COLLECT3D

5 Jan 2010 | 12:52 pm

WORDS FROM THE HEROPeace, WORLD! ....I Love Plastic, One of my Favorite Books of all time! haha tho it is primarily A picture book it is the dopest coffee table topper A Goonie can Own!!! As you can see Below I have A Black & While DIY DUNNY/MUNNY & I have No Idea what to do for the Customization....... Any Suggestions? If so Leave em in the comments.......Enjoy this wonderful post presented by Collect3d.com! - HsH Starting a new hobby can be difficult, and Collect3d gets that. We’ve all been there, that difficult first part where you’re still learning the names, and trying not to…
Suite For Ma Dukes Orchestra “Take Notice” Timeless DVD Set

5 Jan 2010 | 11:22 am

WORDSFROMTHEHEROFor those of Us whom missed what many have dubbed one of the most important musical performances in history, All hope is not lost as we can now get our hands on (if lucky) this box Dvd set.... Lemme take you on a journey thru the TIMELESS!!!!!Right Click To Download(.MP3): Take Notice (Bob Power mix)____________________________FULL SCREENThe Timeless DVD Box Set Timeless describes moments outside of time— moments that exist so deep inside history that they break through that finite grid. Timeless: The Composer/Arranger Series is an homage to the composer-arrangers that have…
East Coast Avengers (Esoteric, Tradermarc, DC The Midi Alien) - Kill Bill O'Reilly [Banned From Myspace]

3 Jan 2010 | 1:11 am

WORDS FROM THE HEROLemme be honest here. I'm not really a fan of this song "Vibe" wise. I love the content tho, as I am disgusted by the ish alot of these media cats get away with. As far as the production and vibe of the song its not my cup of tea but I felt that the message is important and I always support my Fam! I posted the Video, the lyrics and this dope jawn with my brother Celph Titled!Peep game! HsH____________________________________ DOWNLOAD: East Coast Avengers – Kill Bill (O’Reilly) | MediaFireBuy Album: http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/stor...East Coast Avengers @…

The Artful Manager
Everyone's a critic, or collector, or joiner, or...

Andrew Taylor

8 Feb 2010 | 4:30 am

I'm in Maine at the moment, preparing for a week-long visit to Colby College to think about and talk about audiences and the arts. At conferences and other arts conversations, there's certainly a lot of talk about how audiences are changing. The assumed contract between artist, audience, and community seems under renegotiation -- pushed in part by the power shift of digital and network technologies. And since our cultural organizations and business models are built upon the older contract, cultural managers are concerned.But one of my premises while here in Maine is that technology for the…
My Maine events

Andrew Taylor

4 Feb 2010 | 10:12 pm

I'll be in Waterville, Maine, most of next week, in residency (kinda) at Colby College, discussing issues of art, audience, and business with students, faculty, and cultural leaders. Should be an interesting visit, graciously hosted by the fabulous Lynne Conner, who's research on the history of audience behavior has opened wonderful conversations from coast to coast.Details to come as the week unfolds.If you happen to be in or around Waterville, catch our collaborative public talk on Monday, February 8, at 4:00 pm, on the Colby campus.
The cumulative value of stories

Andrew Taylor

4 Feb 2010 | 1:30 pm

Social anthropologist and ''chief culture officer'' Grant McCracken has some great thoughts bubbling in his recent blog posts. He's wondering out loud about finding ways to capture and share the narratives and histories of the objects we wear, use, and pass along. His most recent post wonders if attaching such stories would make recycling and reusing things more compelling and even more valued. Says he:What if objects straight from the factory seemed somehow orphaned, smaller and less interesting for the fact of their pristine condition. If we care about recycling, we want objects to be…
A useful question about nonprofit status

Andrew Taylor

2 Feb 2010 | 10:52 am

I'm pleased to notice a new blogger among the ArtsJournal crew, James Undercofler, who recently joined the faculty at Drexel University's Arts Administration program after an illustrious career in symphonies, conservatories, and cultural nonprofits. His State of the Art blog will focus on the particular challenges of the nonprofit structure in supporting and advancing artistic intent. And his opening question sets the tone for that essential conversation:Is the traditional not-for-profit, 501(c)3 (NFP) so cumbersome in its structure as to actually impede the very promise of its original…
Rumination on ''expressive life''

Andrew Taylor

24 Jan 2010 | 10:49 pm

I'll be blogging elsewhere on ArtsJournal this week, as part of the ''Expressive Life'' week-long blog discussion convened by Bill Ivey and featuring a ragtag bunch of big thinkers. Since his work as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bill had been increasingly frustrated with the public and policy discourse about arts and culture. He eventually decided that the phrase and frame itself, ''arts and culture,'' was partially to blame. The two anchors of that phrase were both impossible to define and easy to dismiss by those who defined their future.So his concept of ''expressive…

ArtKritique
On Edge of Elsewhere @ Campbelltown Arts Centre

20 Jan 2010 | 11:00 pm

To enter 'The Edge of Elsewhere' you need to walk through Khaled Sabsabi's hypnotic video installation '99', it sets the bar very high for what will be (unless we're incredibly lucky) one of the best shows in Sydney this year. Three weeks in that's a big claim but the immediacy, depth and moral fibre of some of the work here at the Campbelltown Arts Centre make it an extraordinarily powerful
On Six Characters in Search of an Author @ The Seymour Centre

19 Jan 2010 | 4:08 am

Is it always true in the theatre that the amount of praise heaped on a production is in inverse proportion to its quality? Liugi Pirandello's 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' is a a play about the intellectual conceit of drama, the alchemical nature of creativity and the truth of fictional creations. It is also a touchstone for modernist theatre, a play about the nature of the play.
Sculpture 2010 @ Brenda May Gallery

15 Jan 2010 | 3:41 pm

New exhibitions are as common as snowflakes in Sydney during January. The gallerinas must know where their business comes from, and assume it's all gone to the beach for the month. It's a shame as a surfeit of leisure time could be nicely and slowly filled in gallery precincts. 'Sculpture 2010' at Brenda May Gallery is a pleasing, yet modest, start to the year. In this smallish space in
On Fiona Foley @ MCA

4 Jan 2010 | 7:24 pm

My relationship with avowedly political art is always a strained one. Even when I find myself in agreement with a particular stance or issue I find the didactic approach problematic, in particular I dislike the implicit demand that my political or social position ought to override my critical faculties. Fiona Foley's retrospective 'Forbidden' at the MCA makes me feel like that again and again,
On Olafur Eliasson @ MCA

1 Jan 2010 | 7:56 pm

There can be no better way to begin a new year than to have someone show you the world afresh. Sydney's MCA is the latest home of Olafur Eliasson's well travelled review show 'Take Your Time' and so is graced with rare magic and light. The retrospective includes thirty works across fifteen years (although heavily weighted to the 2000s) and might be the best show the MCA has had for years. It's

The Present Group Journal
Value of Art: Anonymous

eleanor

5 Feb 2010 | 9:28 am

“Why go on? I believe in art and artist as perhaps society’s last free agents. Artists and children augur change, and no one listens to children.” from “Personal Economy #11” by Anonymous included in “Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics“
Exhibits: SF | Last chance to see Christine Kesler’s “in a world where you are possible” | closing reception TONIGHT

eleanor

14 Jan 2010 | 8:39 am

NOMA GALLERY is proud to present its first solo show by TPG #3 artist Christine Kesler. “in a world where you are possible” features an installation where the artist intersects and collides paintings, drawings and sculptures as well as a new video piece. TONIGHT there is a closing reception (though the show has been extended a week so you can still see it!) and it should be a good time. An evening of Sounds and Words: Drawing on the influence of poetry in Christine’s work the gallery put together an evening of readings and music. Kevin Killian will read from his new book…
Exhibits: WE | Davin Youngs

eleanor

12 Jan 2010 | 9:05 am

TPG #5 artist Davin Youngs shows a new collection of photos in Chicago in February. Davin’s photos are wonderfully romantic, tactile, and beautiful. Should be a good show. Photographs signify participation. They are visual representations of the ways in which space and relationships are navigated and/or participated in. WE is artist Davin Young’s expression of desire for thorough, deep and unique participation in the world and with those around him. This participation can span from isolation to intimacy. Created without special lenses or digital editing, these images were…
A whole new decade

eleanor

11 Jan 2010 | 8:45 pm

I feel like the 2000’s were one big identity crisis. No one even knew what to call these years. Sure, we all settled into two thousand and .. but I think we’re going feel much better now that we’ve got 90 years of twenty-whatevers. It was all a bit of a roller coaster ride. Bubble upon bubble were destined to pop, the towers fell, we felt waves of fear and unity and division, our country engaged in two wars, and even our (over)confidence in the planet was shaken. Yet now somehow it seems like things are slowing down. I don’t doubt we’ll climb our way out…
Subscriber comments: The Value of Art

eleanor

6 Jan 2010 | 5:03 am

I was listening to the Phases of the Moon interview and heard about your project about the value of art. Although I don’t know anything about the nature of the project I didn’t want that to stop me from offering a few lines: One of my favorite novels tells of a man who stopped believing in the world and disappeared. Art is that vanishing. A new space testifying to the unseen, and an invitation.

The Aesthetic Elevator
“Art was not made for evangelism”

pcNielsen

9 Feb 2010 | 5:13 am

This is an H.R. Rookmaaker quote that I read on Rebecca Horton’s Passionately Alive blog quite a few months ago. It’s chalk full of pithy goodness on a few different topics. So there are many strange problems in our culture. We have to think and work to solve these problems. They are not just Christian problems but problems of culture in general; many people are working on them, and no one has yet been able to find a solution. Now, the solution is never just a little book or a little definition or a little plan, and it will certainly take one or two generations to accomplish. The…
Should artists learn a trade?

pcNielsen

6 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm

Been pretty quiet the past few weeks here on the blog eh? Bloggy buddy and painter Jim Janknegt has suggested in the past that art students should be taught a trade while earning their degree. I like this idea. It makes use of artists’ natural ability to work with their hands while acknowledging how difficult it is to make a living as a painter or sculptor, especially right out of college. Even if the overly idealistic students don’t want to acknowledge the fact. Furthermore, trades generally pay more than other jobs aspiring artists often end up in. And we all like a little more…
On place, moving, living incarnationally

pcNielsen

31 Jan 2010 | 7:07 am

It’s been just over six months since we moved back to Nebraska from the little town of Siloam Springs, Arkansas and You just don’t know how connected you are to a place until you leave it. When we moved to Siloam Springs I didn’t expect to become attached to such a small community, in Arkansas, nestled into them thar hills. What I learned is that it’s easier, in some ways, to become a part of a smaller community. And that it’s the people that make the community what it is in large part. This is no revelation to me or anyone else who’s considered the topic,…
The iPad: Another step away from tactility

pcNielsen

27 Jan 2010 | 4:38 pm

Don’t get me wrong, I want one. The wife and I just got new phones — AT&T’s service up here in Nebraska was sketchy, so we switched to Verizon — that use touch screens. I like the touch screen technology. And I like Apple products as a general rule. But the iPad looks to me like one more step towards a world of untactility. Posted in Modern culture
Barbara Nicolosi on beauty

pcNielsen

21 Jan 2010 | 5:54 am

This is another excerpt, courtesy of David Taylor’s blog, from the up and coming For the Beauty of the Church. She applies a few terms from a Thomas Aquinas quote regarding beauty that I’m still processing. THE ARTIST & THE TERRAIN OF BEAUTY THE NATURE OF BEAUTY Thomas Aquinas gave a definition of the beautiful that is still helpful and relevant seven centuries later. The beautiful, he said, is “wholeness, harmony, and radiance,” and these define the terrain of the artist. WHOLENESS Wholeness means nothing is missing. All parts are present, suggesting completeness. No one…

The Old Gold
Soft and Loud

Jon Lutz

3 Feb 2010 | 7:16 am

Jaya Howey, Stacy Fisher, Stacy FisherJaya Howey, Happy HardcoreStacy Fisher, Black and White Objects, 2009, plaster, wood, chain, paint, 26" x 33" x 15"J.D. Walsh, Jaya HoweyJ.D. Walsh, recordplayer 2, 2010, HD video projectionJaya Howey, It's Not Like You're Dating The Guy From Amon Düül II Or Something, oil on jutte, 2009J.D. Walsh, Stacy Fisher, Stacy FisherStacy Fisher, Speckled Sculpture on Wood, 2009, plaster, wood, metal, chain, paint, 13" x 48" x 13"Soft and Loud was the ninth Daily Operation show and featured recent work by Stacy Fisher, Jaya Howey, and J.D. Walsh. It was held…
Stephen Davis

Jon Lutz

25 Jan 2010 | 5:57 am

1971, 24" x 96" x 36"1972, 84" x 144"1975, 22-1/2" x 28"1979, 96" x 102" x 60"19801981, 88" x 42" x 13"1985, 72" x 48"1990, 38" x 50"1998, 24" x 20"2005, 59" x 58"2007, 102" x 78"2007, 84" x 110"I've been meaning to have Stephen Davis on here for a while now. He was in Daily Operation's Make it last. Check out his website here for much more great stuff.
Upcoming: Soft and Loud

Jon Lutz

21 Jan 2010 | 9:43 am

"Soft and Loud" features recent work by Stacy Fisher, Jaya Howey, and J.D. Walsh.BYOBDaily Operation is a project by Jon Lutz. It has and will include shows in studios, apartments, parks, empty real estate, and other venues.
Some Things

Jon Lutz

14 Jan 2010 | 4:16 am

Ian Pedigo, Erratic, chair, birch branches, slate, glass, window tinting, metal, spray paint, 2009, 49" x 31" x 35" Opening tonight and soon...1/14: Vince Contarino Sweet Divide @ 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel Ryan Schneider Send Me Through @ Priska Juschka Fine Art1/15: Ian Pedigo Accumulations of Matter @ Klaus von Nichtssagend Laddie John Dill @ Nyehaus1/21: Quick While Still @ Heist Gallery w/ Katherine Bernhardt, Kadar Brock, Mark Gibson, Matt Jones, John Newsom, Wendy White Rites of Passage @ Cooper Union w/ Sue Havens, Kenny Komer and Boris Rasin, and many others
J.J. Garfinkel

Jon Lutz

5 Jan 2010 | 8:50 am

Chapel Furrow, 2007, oil, acrylic, enamel on panel, 54" x 48"Terra Spectra, 2008, oil, acrylic, abalone on panel, 48" x 62"Conjured A Sample, 2008, oil on panel, 40" x 34"Untitled, 2009, watercolor, gouache, flashe and pencil on paper, 10" x 8"Channel #3, 2009, oil on canvas, 45" x 45"Landmine Spring, 2004, enamel, foam, plastic on panel, 24" x 24"Aura of Nights, 2009, oil on canvas, 52" x 78"Aura of Lights is part of J.J. Garfinkel's renewed interest in oil painting on a larger scale...it and Channel #3 are especially nice in person. I'm liking the way he moved from works like Landmine…

Living the Dream
…9 Days Later

Shadra

8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm

Today is the day I am featured on The Brown Bookshelf. Check out 28 Days Later for a lengthy interview avec moi and a sneak peak at my new book. Thanks Don for a great interview, and special thanks for that magic wand trick…hilarious.
Night Play

Shadra

5 Feb 2010 | 7:25 am

It was pouring down raining here last night. I decided to sleep with my curtains open and let the rain lull me to sleep. When I got in bed the neighbor’s motion sensor light came on and my window lit up with sparkling diamonds. It looked like a magical door to another world. See for yourself….
Amazon Strong-arms Macmillan

Shadra

1 Feb 2010 | 11:35 am

I am always shocked and sometimes appalled at how much power booksellers have over the industry. Between Amazon and their refusal to sell a publisher’s book based on price points and Barnes and Noble’s power to reject a book based on it’s cover design, it makes me wonder if booksellers, specifically giant commercial entities like B&N and Amazon have too much power in shaping the industry. Let this be a reminder to go out into the world and buy books at independent bookstores and directly from publishers. Amazon’s decision to boycott Macmillan titles is taking away…
28 Days Later!

Shadra

31 Jan 2010 | 9:37 am

I am honored this year to be a part of The Brown Bookshelf’s 28 Days Later Campaign! The Brown Bookshelf is designed to push awareness of the myriad of African American voices writing for young readers. Their flagship initiative of is 28 Days Later, a month-long showcase of the best in Picture Books, Middle Grade and Young Adult novels written and illustrated by African Americans. You can read more about the founders of The Brown Bookshelf here. You can also download a copy of the 28DaysLater Poster for your walls this month, so you can get to know a new (or old) face in…
Jan Brett’s Easter Egg

Shadra

28 Jan 2010 | 8:23 am

Sometimes I need a little inspiration while figuring things out in a painting. Looking at other great artists’ work really helps me get the juices flowing. Take a look at Jan Bret discuss her latest book, “The Easter Egg”. What delicious art! Brava~

An Artist's Journal: Daily Paintings by Felicia Marshall
"Rex in Red"

Felicia Marshall

7 Feb 2010 | 8:29 pm

"8x10"acrylic on hardboardI had fun painting this one. The color red captures the playful personality that comes across in Rex's face. The entire time I painted this portrait I kept thinking how perfectly he'd fit into a Norman Rockwell painting. Not for sale.
"Beautiful in Blue"

Felicia Marshall

5 Jan 2010 | 8:05 pm

8"x10"acrylic on masoniteI enjoyed painting this portrait. The little girl seems so calm and wise, of course I loved the way the sunlight played on and around her face and hair.NFS
"European Cathedral"

Felicia Marshall

1 Nov 2009 | 6:25 pm

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

Felicia Marshall

31 Oct 2009 | 9:36 am

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

Felicia Marshall

18 Oct 2009 | 7:35 pm

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

Art On Display. The Online Art Gallery. Painting, drawing, photography, lomography and much more!
Trisno Quartis

syed syahrul

3 Feb 2010 | 2:49 pm
Norazlan Ahmad

syed syahrul

31 Jan 2010 | 9:49 pm

Relief painting
Kelly Robison

syed syahrul

14 Jan 2010 | 11:09 pm

I am an award winning and published professional photographer.
Ibie Romero

syed syahrul

13 Jan 2010 | 5:16 pm
Alexey Malina

syed syahrul

13 Jan 2010 | 5:11 pm

My name is Alexey Malina, I’m designer and digital artist living in Moscow, Russia.

Reborn Dolls Blog
Reborn baby Magali

8 Feb 2010 | 2:18 pm

This is reborn baby Magali. Magali was reborn 28 january 2010. I used acryl paint, rooted hair. My website: www.elethubaba.hu , www.eva-reborn-babys.com
How do I style my reborn dolls hair??

8 Feb 2010 | 2:15 pm

There are so many beautiful reborn dolls out there and I believe that the hair is a big factor in creating such a realistic piece of art... My question
How to clean and care for reborn dolls?

8 Feb 2010 | 2:13 pm

First of all, I would like to thank you, in advance, for your kind consideration and response. I have 3 reborn dolls and I am trying to glean information
are there any dvds on how to paint reborn baby hair

8 Feb 2010 | 2:02 pm

I wish to learn how to paint reborn baby hair. Are there any dvd's teaching this technique
Ann-Maria,Tamie Yaries adorable Samiah,February baby...

6 Feb 2010 | 1:04 pm

I did this little girl just in Christmas.She is from the reborn doll kit Samiah ,preemie size,40 cm and weight is 1.720 kg.She is here with me ,and is

A Planet Named Janet
Loper Tradition class day three

31 Jan 2010 | 12:48 pm

Progress from day three. Just uploaded this photo quickly before heading out to see our new granddaughter. Didnt adjust the color any, so I think it is a little bit on the yellow side.Struggled with the background, especially in the area behind the green apple. Need to adjust the contrast between the "white vase" and its background.
Unforgettable Art 2010

30 Jan 2010 | 5:39 pm

It is time once again for Unforgettable Art. It is being held on Saturday April 10 in Rockford, IL.Plans this year are to paint something "geisha".
It's a Girl

26 Jan 2010 | 8:49 pm

Helen Jean 8.9 lbs 19 inches. Born Jan 31. Head full of dark brown hair.
Midnight in the Garden of Armadilloes

26 Jan 2010 | 12:18 pm

Revisting some more past images. I think I sold this one at an art fair in Hinsdale Illinois.
Loper Tradition class day two

21 Jan 2010 | 1:19 pm

I decided last week that I might add in the darker raw umber lines and chose to do it this week. I wiped out the white chalk lines shortly after this photo. Al took it and put it inside a cabinet to restrict the light and to help show how I was doing okay with colors, but needed to work on my lights and darks. Thought I would try checking the lights by changing the image to grayscale and selecting what color I knew to be the lightest, which was the spot on the yellow apple.As you can see, that spot on the yellow apple is not the only light spot. Here is the progress at the end of the day and…

Agora Art
Art news round-up

Karin

8 Feb 2010 | 3:23 am

News items from the week: “Arts funding is not a grant. It’s an investment” Why funding the arts makes political and strategic sense for all http://bit.ly/9SuzXB The dangers of taking art too seriously http://bit.ly/9Qif57 Any thoughts on this? Please share, I think it’s an interesting question. A new discovery opens up a whole new window into El Greco’s work – a Greek insight http://bit.ly/dpU2ZK Exhibitions about the unknown – museums who are saying ‘we’re not sure’ http://bit.ly/9ukTfR The impact of Asian buyers in the art market (and…
The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition 2010

Karin

5 Feb 2010 | 12:37 am

NOW OPEN Agora Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of the 25th annual Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. Entries can be sent in from February 4, 2010 until March 14, 2010 when the submission process closes. The competition is open to all international visual artists of 18 and above. Emerging, established and mid-level artists are all invited to enter their work. A variety of media is accepted, with the exceptions of video art, film, performance art, jewelry and crafts. This year, entry is only through the online entry system and requires contact information, details about…
Art news round-up

Karin

1 Feb 2010 | 3:57 am

News stories from around the art world: Another casualty in Haiti – the once robust and rich art culture http://bit.ly/8HVZuK London’s Institute of Contemporary Art in danger of closure – the first major British recession victim http://bit.ly/7K5LQE Concern over the ripped Picasso http://bit.ly/7Zzn16 and how to fix it http://bit.ly/5G21eP Being a freezing artist can be a life choice http://bit.ly/5Tfdtb Encouraging artists to come into the center of towns http://bit.ly/62PC97 Popular stories from the week: Strange and beautiful images – straight from Mars…
Exhibition: Elemental Realms; Sensorial Realities; The Substance of Abstraction

Karin

30 Jan 2010 | 11:19 pm

A new collection of exhibitions comes to Agora Gallery starting February 2, 2010 and running until February 23, 2010, with the opening reception being held on February 4, 2010 at 6-8pm. The tripartite exhibition covers diverse themes and styles, showcasing a range of talented, thought-provoking artists. Elemental Realms presents works from artists who are exploring the world they live in with its myriad possibilities and variety, as well as their own relationship with it. The scope of the material is reflected in the challenging and innovative ways the artists seek to portray and interact…
Art news round-up

Karin

25 Jan 2010 | 1:11 am

News stories from around the art world: UK parties warn that the arts are set for tough times ahead http://bit.ly/8vBOAx while the UK Arts Council proposes a “politician-proof” plan to keep publicly funded arts from becoming “stale and boring” http://bit.ly/6AnEXu Art in Iran, and why it matters http://bit.ly/8zPg5z A ‘women artists’ exhibition’ isn’t enough; what is important is to exhibit women artists’ work properly http://bit.ly/4N2wHa Photographers band together to produce fundraising magazine showing the hopeful side of Haiti…

Newcity Art
Art Break: New Sculpture in Chicago

Jason Foumberg

8 Feb 2010 | 8:58 pm

There’s a trend practiced by some of Chicago’s established and regarded sculptors that, while not new, resurges every few years like a scheduled comet passing overhead, illuminating the heaps of unsorted recyclables that calls itself “contemporary sculpture,” for a brief flashing reminder that we can trust our eyes, not just our minds. In short, formalist [...]
Review: Mark Curran/DePaul University Museum

Jason Foumberg

8 Feb 2010 | 8:57 pm

RECOMMENDED As part of his broader study of “industrialized space” in the era of globalization, photographer and installation artist Mark Curran honed in on the Hewlett-Packard Manufacturing and Research complex in Leixlip, Ireland that has since been closed down as the multinational technology giant went in search of cheaper labor. If we did not know the [...]
Review: Hollis Sigler/Chicago Cultural Center

Jason Foumberg

8 Feb 2010 | 8:57 pm

RECOMMENDED “Expect the Unexpected,” a survey of paintings and works on paper by the late Hollis Sigler (1948-2001), organized by the Rockford Art Museum, is now on view at the Chicago Cultural Center. Adroitly curated Patty Rhea, the volume of works by Sigler helps reveal their lasting value. A Chicagoan by way of graduate school, Sigler was [...]
Review: We Are the World/Roots & Culture

Jason Foumberg

8 Feb 2010 | 8:57 pm

RECOMMENDED Do you remember “USA for Africa”? What about “We Are the World”—those well-intended expressions of the otherwise non-existent Reagan-era social conscience? (Okay, we shouldn’t forget “Hands Across America”). In 1985, composer Quincy Jones, along with stars Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, enlisted the help of dozens of (then popular) recording industry superstars, forming a megalo-group [...]
Review: Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside Out/Museum of Contemporary Art

Jason Foumberg

8 Feb 2010 | 8:57 pm

RECOMMENDED Fresh on the heels of Liam Gillick’s recently closed exhibition, which showed how unfulfilling a post-studio practice can be, the Museum of Contemporary Art opened “Production Site,” their contribution to the yearlong, citywide Studio Chicago project, which seeks to re-energize the city’s artists to get back in the studio to make stuff. While so many [...]

ECStewart Designs
Studio News: Mankolam Paisley Necklines

lisa@ecstewart.com (EC (Lisa) Stewart)

26 Jan 2010 | 8:06 am

Lively and Lucky, you can now adorn your 2010 style with ECStewart’s Paisley necklines. Have you ever been mesmerized by looking through a magnifying glass? The details of wonder come alive for only a moment and the ethereal magic lasts just seconds. Imagine taking that magic moment with you… These magic moments are captured as elegant archival [...]
ECStewart’s New Web Site

lisa@ecstewart.com (EC (Lisa) Stewart)

26 Jan 2010 | 7:23 am

A little Lively, Lucky, & Rebellious – we now have an updated Web site and online boutique! CalligraphyPets and ECStewart Collections are now permanently combined right here on ecstewart.com. After trying new things last year, we realized that the only place you should be is right here at ECStewart.com. We believe it’s easier to promote, create, and [...]
Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund

lisa@ecstewart.com (EC (Lisa) Stewart)

22 Jan 2010 | 7:07 pm

As devastating as last year economic woes were to my business, I still believe I’m very lucky to have been born and raised within the United States. Until Saturday, January 30th, I am donating 10% of my online sales proceeds to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund. Please join us in helping others who are not so lucky [...]
Studio News: Pure Breeds Featured in Signals Catalog

lisa@ecstewart.com (EC (Lisa) Stewart)

22 Jan 2010 | 7:25 am

We’re excited to announce that Signals Catalog (both print & online) have picked up the first 8 of our pure breed dogs!! Press Release Excerpt January 2, 2010 – Raleigh, NC – EC Stewart Designs today announced that the Signals Catalog Company has picked-up eight (8) images of its new Pure Breed Dogs collection of calligraphic illustrations. [...]
Pure Breed Dogs Featured 2010 Signals Catalog

lisa@ecstewart.com (EC (Lisa) Stewart)

20 Jan 2010 | 10:13 pm

Who Let EC Stewart’s Dogs Out? Signals Catalog, That’s Who! Eight New Pure Breed Dog Images to be Carried in 2010 January 2, 2010 – Raleigh, NC – EC Stewart Designs today announced that the Signals Catalog Company has picked-up eight (8) images of its new Pure Breed Dogs collection of calligraphic illustrations. The images: Boxer, Chow, [...]

Art Licensing Blog
Good vibes needed please! (& the power of asking and trying)

artisttarareed

7 Feb 2010 | 10:53 am

If you recall, I did a video proclaiming 2010 to be my year of “flow” – that’s the verb I have chosen to guide me this year. I want to stop resisting and worrying and just go with the flow. The creative flow, the flow of opportunity, the flow of health and happiness… all of it. And WOW! So far so good! We have some exciting things coming up – many of which I discovered or got a final “yes” to this year. AskAboutSEOforArtists.com – the Ask Call for February (on Wed. the 17th) came to me via email – “I have this new product and…
Difinitive Proof! Ms. PacMan should be in Art Licensing

artisttarareed

6 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

I’m here to tell you that PacMan is an accountant or engineer - now munching his way through cubicles in a vast and stark corporate office somewhere. I’m sure of it. Ms. PacMan? She’s creative! She’s hip! She likes to be in the mix, adjusting, adapting, never quite sure what life will throw at her next or how she will be rewarded for her efforts. That is why she’d be quite happy in art licensing. I’m sure of that as well. But how do I know all of this? Well, I read between the lines a little but I’d say that Chris Brogan and Julien Smith told me…
Branding the Artist: Added Protection to Copyright for Art?

artisttarareed

4 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

This is another guest blog post by attorney Cheryl Hodgson, one of the Art Licensing Info experts and Ask Call participants. While a copyright is valid without registration, the very statement is misleading. Copyright registration is essential to preserve key remedies for infringement. Unless registered prior to infringement, attorney’s fees and statutory damages are not available. It is often difficult, if not impossible, to prove actual damages or profits attributable to theft of a copyrighted work. Moreover, without the threat of having to pay attorney’s fees to the copyright…
Brand Yourself for Success in Art Licensing – teleseminar with Paul Brent

artisttarareed

3 Feb 2010 | 9:09 am

I’m excited to announce that Paul Brent has put together an information-packed hour to get you thinking, strategizing and building your brand for success in art licensing. Paul Brent understands branding. An artist, interior designer and print publisher, he began licensing his art in 1988. Bookmarks, bed linens and insulated barware were among his first licensed products. Since then he has gone on to work with many, many manufacturers and grown his licensing business to be the 94th largest in the world, according to License! Global Magazine’s Top 100 Licensor List for 2008 and…
A first timer’s experience at the CHA Winter Show | guest post by Jen Goode

artisttarareed

2 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

I just returned home from an eventful, exhausting and extraordinary experience attending my first CHA Show. The event was hosted at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, and WOW what a show it was! The show floor consisted of approximately 185,000 sq ft of display area with 592 exhibitors. There were demos happening in every direction – booths filled with people networking, working on make-and-take projects and general craft chit chat. The whole place was over flowing with craft supplies of all shapes and sizes from fabric and stamps to cutters and glitter. For a long time…

Quadri Famosi
Arte, Tony Bungaro

Eleonora Vignaroli

6 Feb 2010 | 4:54 am

Arte, tony bungaro Quadri Famosi oggi vi propone Arte perchè “Il senso del guardarci cambia il senso delle cose”.( da il motore immobile ). Vi consigliamo questo album davvero particolare, dove il nostro cantautore italiano, Tony Bungaro, accosta la sua voce morbida e pastosa ad altre grandi voci , proponendosi in molte collaborazioni con personaggi di spessore internazionale e in interpretazioni uniche dall’Italia e dal mondo. Arte, per la sua particolarità esecutiva, una progettazione minuziosa, elaborata e diversa, è davvero un lavoro unico, che si distingue per…
Arte, il nuovo album di Bungaro

Eleonora Vignaroli

22 Jan 2010 | 8:48 am

Tony Bungaro, Arte Oggi Quadri Famosi, dedica questo articolo a uno dei migliori cantautori Italiani : Tony Bungaro. In uno dei post propostovi già qualche tempo fa, abbiamo citato l’autore italiano evidenziando la sua arte particolare, il suo modo unico di lavorare amalgamandosi nella musica, il suo essere il veicolo attraverso il quale la sua Arte gira, “in cui il suo universo gira” Quadri Famosi oggi vi propone Arte perchè “Il senso del guardarci cambia il senso delle cose”.( da il motore immobile ). Bungaro è uno dei cantautori e autori più apprezzati…
Haiti

Eleonora Vignaroli

18 Jan 2010 | 5:22 am

Come purtroppo se ne parla già da qualche giorno, il paradiso incontaminato e selvaggio di Haiti popolato da donne e uomini bellissimi, quel luogo meraviglioso riporatoci anche da Paul Gauguin, è stato raso al suolo. Distrutto. Una scossa pari a sette gradi di intensità sulla scala Richter… Tra tanta devastazione e tanto orrore, da Haiti(fonte) filtrano però segnali di speranza, grazie ai salvataggi miracolosi…Salvi due sepolti vivi. Sotterrati 70 mila cadaveri. Intanto scende a sette il numero degli italiani dispersi. Si sospetta che altri 3 siano morti…molti degli…
La nuova street art

Eleonora Vignaroli

10 Jan 2010 | 9:21 am

I nuovi writers disegnano forme e scritte nell’aria usando neon e laser. Ovviamente noi visualizziamo l’opera solo grazie all’ausilio di un obiettivo. Troviamo gli artisti solitamente vestiti in nero per non interferire cromaticamente con l’opera. Sopra un’opera ottenuta dalla collaborazione di Julien Breton e Brusk, dedicata ai fratelli Lumiere, inventori del cinema. Sotto un esempio di Julien Breton in un interno. Si tratta di un’arte impermanente e forse per questo, ricca di fascino. Fonte
Triennale Bovisa, Milano

Eleonora Vignaroli

31 Dec 2009 | 2:28 am

Triennale Bovisa Per questa sera Quadri Famosi vi suggerisce questo evento: Capodanno Triennale Bovisa Dal 31/12/2009 al 01/01/2010 Mostre aperte fino all’una di notte e dj set dei ragazzi di Radio Deejay Triennale Bovisa – Galleria d’Arte Via Lambruschini, 31 (Zona Bovisa) 20156 Milano (MI) per info Tel. 02 36577828 La Triennale Bovisa è la nuova sede espositiva della Triennale di Milano. Con l’inizio dei lavori per il Museo del Design e la climatizzazione degli spazi espositivi che interesseranno il Primo Piano del Palazzo dell’Arte la Triennale avrà 3500…

Nothinglikeit - Because most things are funnier when you flatten them!
Some time off

Nothinglikeit

6 Feb 2010 | 4:37 pm

I spent some time this past week with a friend doing what I really love - painting. For 3 hours Thursday afternoon we just painted and shared stories and forgot about everything else...I managed to finish a piece that has been sitting around for a month or two. With all of my volunteer efforts rescuing cats you would think that would be the last subject I would ever paint - not so...I think I my next subject might be a dog. I've been think a lot about the local shelter lately (it is NOT a no-kill facility) and I want to do something with a message. Stay tuned...
My Other Passion

Nothinglikeit

2 Feb 2010 | 4:58 pm

Crazy coasters and silly paintings have taken a back seat lately. I've been working on a project we began in the Fall of last year and things are going so well I'm determined to make it all a complete success!I live in a beautiful private community in NW Florida. 2500 acres of golf courses, beaches, beautiful scenery and abundant wildlife. Mixed in with the wildlife are an estimated 200 feral cats. Not part of the natural environment, these cats all came from abandoned and lost pets or pet owners who did not believe in spay and neuter.These cats faced an uncertain future. In small numbers the…
Tuckers New Toy

Nothinglikeit

10 Jan 2010 | 6:49 pm

Our cat is very shy. It takes him WEEKS to warm to a stranger.This evening our friend Anne came over and brought her miniature toy poodle "Captain Morgan". Yes, that's the infamous Captain Morgan of Rum bottle fame.Morgan immediately went looking for entertainment and found our kitten "Tucker". Tucker backed up in a defensive stance, hissed, slapped, and looked generally annoyed.After Morgan gave up trying to make friends he turned his attention back to us and followed us out of the room. Guess who came out after him?We spent the next two hours watching the dog chase the cat, the cat chase…
Looking out for the underdog

Nothinglikeit

9 Jan 2010 | 6:14 pm

Actually under-cat. But that sounds funny...Today around 2:00 I got a call from someone in our community. "We have a cat in trouble and our friend said we should call you." What else do you say to a statement like that except, "I'll be right there."We arrived on the patio with a trap and some towels to find a beautiful brown tabby, about 5 months old, nervously looking around for an escape route and dragging his right back leg behind him. After listening for some time to the sound of a cat screaming, these homeowners came out to investigate and found the poor cat suspended upside down by his…
What are YOU reading these days?

Nothinglikeit

4 Jan 2010 | 7:12 am

Reading? I can hear you mutter to yourself - "Who's got TIME for reading"!?!I know, it's a decadent past time that few of us have the luxury to enjoy these days. That being said, here's my list:Emails - Too many of them. Most come from people who've never met me and probably don't want to. I'm getting much better at sending many to the trash without opening them but to do that I still must read the subject line, right? It's all too much.Nutritional information on food packaging - Yep. Gotta check the fat and carb content before I put it in the shopping basket. Since I'm looking I might as…

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bebelestrange: The name Haboob is the rooted from the Arabic...

8 Feb 2010 | 10:51 pm

bebelestrange: The name Haboob is the rooted from the Arabic word “phenomena”. This form of monsoon occurs from May until September. It’s a dust storm moving at a maximum speed of 80kph (50mph), the average speed is 50kph (30mph). The storm can reach up to heights of 3000 feet. They last about three hours, in which they change the desert landscape. The Haboob wind is caused by thunderclouds in a final phase. Downdrafts in a thunderstorm causes gust fronts, descending air hitting the grond and picking up large amounts of dust. The force moves the dust from above.
Jeremy Kost

8 Feb 2010 | 10:35 pm

Jeremy Kost
Jeremy Kost

8 Feb 2010 | 10:19 pm

Jeremy Kost
Ladyhawke - Magic (The Swiss Remix)

8 Feb 2010 | 9:57 pm

Ladyhawke - Magic (The Swiss Remix)
Simon Birch

8 Feb 2010 | 9:56 pm

Simon Birch

Happy Famous Artists
ab fab: jason hackenwerth

8 Feb 2010 | 8:13 am

look @ more awesome balloon sculptures on jason hackenwerth's site, follow his blog, or become his fan on facebook ... or ideally you can do all 3, just like we did ;-)
showtime: roa

7 Feb 2010 | 2:16 pm

after distinguished journeys in the streets of new york, london, berlin and warsaw in 2009, roa now takes possession of paris. his solo show @ galerie itinerrance runs until feb 28. def worth a visit!!(hat tip: stencil history x)
carsten höller's revolving hotel room

7 Feb 2010 | 2:05 pm

once in a lifetime opportunity :-). spend a night in carsten höller's revolving hotel room!@ the moment the art installation is located in museum boijmans van beuningen, rotterdam.
gregor gaida

7 Feb 2010 | 1:53 pm

polish artist gregor gaida makes sculptures that draw your attention. click here for his website and here for adler gallery, representing him.
showtime: carsten höller

7 Feb 2010 | 1:42 pm

divided divided, a new show of the fabulous carsten höller, @ museum boijmans van beuningen, rotterdam. tip: spend a night in the revolving hotel room (see above) :-)

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Tomokazu Matsuyama, Runnin Further Deeper, mixedmedia triptych, 100 x 180 in (254 x 457 cm)., 2009Matsuyama's paintings might best be seen asmultinational primers on art history and globalvisual exchange. – Eric Shiner - Matsu: IN CASE YOU’RE LOST February 4 – March 6, 2010 Gallery Reception: Thursday, February 4,6:00 to 8:00 pm Frey Norris Gallery, 456 Geary Street,San Francisco, CA 94102 SAN FRANCISCO, CA. – Grounded in the artist's own upbringing, raised in both America and Japan, of both and of neither culture, In Case You're Lost unravels the story of Matsu’s…
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Daniel Cool - Gay Art
Greenkomm

8 Feb 2010 | 9:44 pm

GREENKOMMAcryl painting on canvasGlitter in silver40 x 80 cm2009
Guido & Michael

16 Jan 2010 | 10:22 am

GUIDO & MICHAELAcryl painting on canvas, Chains, Glitter in red, orange, yellow, green, blue,violet, brown, turquoise, caramel, black,rose and silver2 x 30 x 50 cm2010 Dieses Bild ist auch im Shop erhaeltlichwww.danielcoolshop.de
Boppard

16 Jan 2010 | 9:15 am

BOPPARDAcryl painting on canvasGlitter in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown,turquoise, caramel, black, rose and silver80 x 80 cm2010 www.boppard.de
Danksagung des LSU

13 Jan 2010 | 11:14 pm

www.lsu-online.de
Change of BLACK

11 Jan 2010 | 4:29 am

Das Geschenk von Fr. Dr. Angela Merkel wurde digital überarbeitet.CHANGE OF BLACKDigital2010

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Celebrating 2010

neginsairafi

22 Jan 2010 | 2:29 pm

Perhaps this post is a little late. It’s been a while since I’ve written, not something I intended for this blog but life can sometimes get overwhelming and occasionally one must go with the tide. So my promise to my lovely readers and followers is more posts in 2010, at least one per week, ideally more but I’m trying to set realistic goals here! There are a few things in the pressure cooker for 2010. I recently launched the website for Mommies with Cameras, which to my amazement was featured on Sweetmama.ca as a newsletter sent to all members. Very exciting indeed! My second business…
Photography Assignment #1 – Results

neginsairafi

17 Nov 2009 | 2:03 pm

It was the first assignment and I’m proud to say three people participated! Hopefully for the next assignment more photo enthusiasts will take some time and be a part of this digital photography group (or club, whichever gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling inside). The following photographs capture the essence of Autumn. Thank you for being a part of this, can’t wait to do more Hima Batavia Andre Vashist Title: “Home Is Where The Bay Is” Statement: “Newfoundland is home to countless sightings of nature’s unexpected beauty. When we are lucky enough to see them…
Black Sheep

neginsairafi

17 Nov 2009 | 1:50 pm

We live in a society where our voices can be heard by the masses. Where our ideas can be manifested and thrive on ambition, determination and hard work. In this world inequality can be conquered, handicaps can be overcome and careers can shift from art to science over night. This is our gift and our curse. We have been given the rare opportunity to choose multiple paths yet end up at the same destination. That destination is success; how you choose to define the word is of no concern to me, but whatever your definition, there are many doors waiting to be opened by you. Yet many of these doors…
The End of Autumn

neginsairafi

2 Nov 2009 | 6:48 pm

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

neginsairafi

2 Nov 2009 | 5:13 pm

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

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La Marche Invisible: A Review

Sylvain Verstricht

5 Feb 2010 | 12:01 pm

The selection of January as the month that marks the beginning of a new year is no doubt arbitrary, and yet it still affects the way we perceive things. For me, it means I’ve put out my list of the dance shows that stuck with me over the past twelve months and it’s like the slate has been swiped clean. So when I begin to see shows again in January, I find myself impatiently waiting for the first great one. We’ve now crossed over into February and it’s finally here: Annie Gagnon’s La Marche Invisible. La Biche Lumineuse, sculpture by Pascal Lareau, choreography…
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SimplyMasses

3 Feb 2010 | 10:59 am

To the INDYISH block, We, a freelance music writer and a multi-media geek, having many irons in the fire, bring to you VIDEO INTERVIEWS with bands and solo acts, namely outfits like Phoenix, The Most Serene Republic and Band of Skulls. We’ll be posting them or [at the very least] links to our full HD videos. For album reviews + concert reviews + interviews /// simplymasses For music videos + band photo shoots /// icanseemybreath Here’s an oldie, but a goodie… DIAMONDS are FOREVER. A bifurcated band of pop synth bliss and tweaks of calypso, Nick Diamonds is ISLANDS. And in…
Reminder: Hothouse 6 – Deadline for Submissions is Feb. 19th

pr

2 Feb 2010 | 3:23 pm

Hothouse is about making animation faster and more flexible, embracing animation’s many possibilities while maintaining creative and technical excellence. We’re [NFB] looking for six new talents who are willing and able to jump head-first into this intensive, immersive experience. Deadline: February 19, 2010Program Dates: April 05 – June 25, 2010Theme: “Inside Out” About the 12-week paid apprenticeship: The National Film Board of Canada seeks submissions from emerging filmmakers (young and not-so-young), and artists intrigued by animation art, for the 6th edition of…
12 Finalists Announced for Indie Game Challenge

pr

1 Feb 2010 | 3:50 pm

Twelve Finalists Named For Indie Game Challenge;Winners of more than $350,000 in Prizes to be AnnouncedFeb. 19 at D.I.C.E. Summit The Indie Game Challenge gives aspiring game developers the chance to showcase their skills, pitch their games to top publishers and win some serious cash. They’re also competing for your vote in the Gamer’s Choice Award. Check out their videos above and vote for your favorite. Then enter for a chance to win a trip to the G4TV studios in Los Angeles, $1000 in spending money, the opportunity to meet Adam Sessler and a tour of the studios. DALLAS, Texas – (Feb…
Plaija – indie music video

Risa Dickens

30 Jan 2010 | 6:17 am

Check out the music video for the latest song Kyaan Done from the good peeps of Plajia. Directed by Adam Owens, released 25 January 2010 with Patrick Pleau on vocals and back vocals, guitars, organ; Simon Boivin on bass; Paco Laviolette on drums; and Jocelyn Poitras on electric guitar. Recorded by Nicolas Petrowsky @ Mixart Studios (Montreal, Canada). Oh yeah, and I also embedded a video of theirs from last year, because it’s quite lovely and well worth spending a little more time with on a terrible cold day (or any day, but I gotta tell you, it’s terrible cold here today!)

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Steve Loria Live @ Light Gallery > MOVEMENT >

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Thanks Everyone for 2+ Years! Were moving to a BIGGER location!

Its been an amazing 2+ Years on 17th st, on the Newport Beach / Costa Mesa boarder. The times are -a - changin tho, and we've outgrown our current space.. Which means we are MOVING into a large venue!! We are working on bringing back all the things you love about ...
Sat 7/18 “ART & SOLE 2″ Custom Shoe Art Exhibition Closing

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

The Return of "the Art of Digging" record swap & Music themed artshow contact us at thelightgallery@gmail.com for vendor & art submission info

Can You Dig It Too
Saya Woolfalk

tgaewsky

8 Feb 2010 | 11:20 am

No Place (pre)Constructed: The Ideal City and the Love Machine, 2007-2008No Place (pre)Constructed: Objects from No Place, 2007go here
Diana Cooper

tgaewsky

5 Feb 2010 | 1:23 pm

Out of the Corner of My Eye, 2008-2009wood, MDF, nida-core, acrylic paint, glass11 ft. x 112 ft. x 4 in. (room 2000 sq. ft.)Permanent installation at the Jerome Parker Campus, Staten Islandgo here
Tom Friedman

tgaewsky

5 Feb 2010 | 12:56 pm

Up in the Air, 2009mixed mediadimensions variableGreen Demon, 2008231 x 109 x 91 cmExpanding insulation foam and mixed mediaMonster Collage, 2008Anatomy images, photo on paper345.4 x 304.8 cmTom Freidman - Up in the AirFeb. 5 - June 6Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Valérie Favre

tgaewsky

4 Feb 2010 | 3:21 pm

Clown, 2009oil on paper151.5 x 176cmColumbia Variation (Idiots Series), 2007Oil on paper174 x 151,5 cmSecret Service for the Queen, 2008Oil on canvas170 x 380 cmgo here and here
Jeremiah Teipen

tgaewsky

4 Feb 2010 | 1:16 pm

Sushi Deluxe, 2009Electrocute Euthanasia III, 2006Plastic, fabric, motors, mirrors, lasers, electronics, video cameras, video monitors and video from dvdgo here

Steven Whyte's Sculpture Studio Blog
It Really Is in the Details

24 Jan 2010 | 4:17 pm

This week is our last scheduled week of sculpting time on the John David Crow project. Next month, the studio team will begin molding the piece. This means that the next seven days represent our last opportunity to see the complete sculpture in one piece until the finish casting is created.Preparations and work on the project have been such a big part of our work over the past few months that it’s a bit overwhelming to realize how far along we’ve come. And, of course, there’s the immediate pressure of making sure we get everything exactly right. The general fear that many experience…
Letting the Outside World In – Sharing, Showing Off and Cleaning Up

9 Jan 2010 | 1:37 pm

People are often amazed at how available Steven is to the public.There’s a commonly held assumption that the artistic process requires isolation and the kind of extreme concentration that can only come from working in a secluded studio or artist’s garret.In contrast, Steven has always thrived with public interaction, as he reminds me, the public, 'people' are his subject.However, higher profile projects have brought new attention to the studio and it’s been a little bit of shock to see our little world from the outside perspective.The John David Crow project has brought some nice media…
The Balance of Old and New and the Risks of Tradition

2 Jan 2010 | 5:05 pm

We’re deep in the midst of the John David Crowe Monument project. The finished piece will measure almost 12 feet in height and the shear size of the project brings with it a host of challenges. First we’ve had to relocate large elements of the studio to an off-site annex studio with larger ceilings to permit Steven to work on the complete figure. The soaring figure is like a two story building and Steven spends much of his time either up on a ladder or on the new scaffolding we bought for the project. It’s caused a funny dynamic in the studio that reminds me of the power of having the…
Joining the Team

17 Dec 2009 | 10:26 pm

One of the best parts of our work at the studio is the way each project exposes you to new places and new subjects. For many of the monuments we’ve worked on, we’ve had a general familiarity with the subject, but the demands of the project insist on an extensive and thorough knowledge base. For a Martin Luther King piece we learnt about King’s personal library and preferred texts. For a multi-figure tribute to Bob Hope and his work with USO, it meant watching countless performance videos. Now as we move forward with the monument to John David Crow for Texas A&M, we are learning…
In the flesh.....

12 Dec 2009 | 3:10 pm

We use live models for all of our work in the studio. Even when the subject is a posthumous one, we will still bring in a model of a similar height and build. Steven maintains that it’s as much an effort toward efficiency as an attempt to ensure accuracy. He says it’s just easier to see something right in front of you and he'd rather work from a three deminsional reference.For the most part our larger monument work features great achievers from the past. While our research frequently puts us in touch with decedents or colleagues of the subjects, it’s very rare that we meet directly with…

Lyrois
Chair #12

Alexander Becker

8 Feb 2010 | 6:30 pm

The fifth Lyrois chair, #12 -- Chair #12 is based on the original Lyrois shape #12, a simple, inviting shape, with a total height of 72cm (28in). The seat is 45cm (18in) wide at a height of 43cm (17in). The material thickness is 4cm (1.5in). Overall dimensions are 72 × 72 × 53cm / 28 × 28 × 21in. Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass. Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com. You might want to read the backstory and see a list of models.
Chair #06b

Alexander Becker

3 Feb 2010 | 5:00 pm

The fourth Lyrois chair, in fact, a stool, #06b -- Chair #06b is based on the original Lyrois shape #06, a bar stool, the companion piece to the director's chair, with a total height of 131cm (51.5in). The seat is 50cm (19.5in) wide at a height of 83cm (32.5in). The material thickness is 4cm (1.5in). Overall dimensions are 131 × 68 × 58cm / 51.5 × 27 × 23in. Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass. Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com. You…
Chair #06a

Alexander Becker

1 Feb 2010 | 4:30 pm

The third Lyrois chair and a bench variation, #06a -- Chair #06a is based on the original Lyrois shape #06, a director's chair and a variant as a bench, with a total height of 78cm (31in). The seat is 45cm (17.5in) wide for the chair and 90cm (35in) for the bench at a height of 40cm (16in) for both. The material thickness is 4cm (1.5in). Overall dimensions are 78 × 55 × 53cm (bench: 98cm) / 31 × 21.5 × 21in (bench: 38.5in). Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass. Please inquire about…
Thoughts and Rants on Seth Godin's Linchpin: "You do Art when you make Change"

Alexander Becker

31 Jan 2010 | 6:57 am

Parts and pieces from a recent discussion on Twitter on a question by Clint Watson whether Seth Godin is demeaning or enhancing the word artist in his recent book Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Quotes from Seth Godin -- Acting like an artist. Being personal, making change, communicating a vision. You do art when you make change that matters, and do it via a connection with an individual. Artists take it farther than that, much farther. That's our assignment. Other relevant quotes -- Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it. --John…
Chair #02

Alexander Becker

27 Jan 2010 | 7:00 pm

The second Lyrois chair, #02 -- Chair #02 is based on the original Lyrois shape #02, a lounge chair, companion piece to chair #10 with a total height of 100cm (39in). The seat is 60cm (23.5in) wide at a height of 36cm (14in). The material thickness is 4cm (1.5in). Overall dimensions are 100 × 104 × 68cm / 39 × 40.5 × 26.5in. Models are made in hard wood and a very limited collector's edition will be made from translucent and colored acrylic glass. Please inquire about prices, colors, and availability via lyrois [at] googlemail.com. You might want to read the backstory…

Art Here and Now
Ten Contemporary Indian Artists

Trout Monfalco

3 Feb 2010 | 7:57 am

At this Ted Talk, Ravin Agrawai presents an overview of 10 upcoming contemporary Indian artists. Below is the talk, and more in depth information about each artist. More about the artists Bharti Kher at Hauser & Wirth Alwar Balasubramaniam Chitra Ganesh Excerpt from Rabbithole Jitish Kallat Perspectives on contemporary art, interview with The Economist N.S. Harsha Dhruvi Acharya Raqib Shah A group show including the work of Raqib Shah where ornamentation is given voice. Raqs Media Collective Subodh Gupta Show from the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York Ranjani Shettar Indian culture found in…
City Hostel, Seattle – Every Room by a Different Artist

Art Goat

2 Feb 2010 | 12:21 am

City Hostel, in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, features 54 rooms, each designed and decorated by 47 Seattle artists. The hostel also features a 20 seat movie theatre, with frequent art events, screenings and openings. In 2008, City Hostel was voted the top hostel in the United States by Hostelworld.com. Artists were asked to volunteer their efforts instead of being paid outright, which caused some controversy in the Seattle art community. As some artists pointed out, when artists work on spec or for free, it devalues all artist’s work, making it likely future jobs to any artist…
Conan O’Brien’s Portrait Made From Cheetos

Trout Monfalco

1 Feb 2010 | 12:33 am

Here is a timelapse video of cheesy art posted by Eclectic Asylum Art. The portrait is made from 4 varieties of Cheetos (much like this more traditional agriculture art is made from 4 varieties of rice), using 2,000 individual Cheeto. Related posts:An elephant paints a self portrait Paintings from Living Rice – Inakadate, Japan
Charles Clary’s Deep Paper Sculptures

Trout Monfalco

26 Jan 2010 | 9:46 pm

Artist Charles Clary creates organic sculptures from deep layers of cut colored paper. From Wired: Artist Charles Clary says he wants his constructions to appear ever-expanding — overwhelming exhibition spaces like replicating viruses or reverberating sound waves. Inspired by microorganisms, anthills, and auditory phenomena, he layers colored paper to build up the variegated textures and sinewy shapes of his room-sized installations. Read more Charles Clary’s Massive Paper Cuts, image gallery from Wired Charles Clary’s blog Percusive Art Interview with Charles Clary from Design Milk
Kurt Vonnegut’s Letters Home After Release from Nazi Prison

Trout Monfalco

24 Jan 2010 | 9:07 am

Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse Five as his own science fiction take on his experiences as a prisoner of war in World War II. Letters of Note prints his letters home after being released from his German camp, Schlachthof Fünf – Slaughterhouse Five. In December of 1944, whilst behind enemy lines during the Rhineland Campaign, Private Kurt Vonnegut was captured by Wehrmacht troops and subsequently became a prisoner of war. A month later, Vonnegut and his fellow POWs reached a Dresden work camp where they were imprisoned in an underground slaughterhouse known by German soldiers as…

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I Have Cancer and It Looks Like an Abstract Painting

Steve

16 Jan 2010 | 5:36 pm

Hope you had a good New Year. I spent New Years on some heavy narcotics. There was a day I would have thought that pretty cool!They decided to take out all of the lymph nodes under my right arm-18 in fact. 13 of the lymph nodes were negative for melanoma and 5 which were positive. I had melanoma when I was 27 on my skin so they were shocked that it came back 23 years later.When it goes into your body, then melanoma becomes one of the toughest cancers. As a result, I will be getting radiation treatment on the arm to make sure they sterilize the area even more underneath my arm. I also should…
Who Else Wants the Studio of Their Dreams?

Steve

6 Dec 2009 | 10:06 am

Well I have gotten a step closer to “my” perfect studio. Here are the long overdue pictures of the renovation. The studio is now fully functional and with my tremendous hoarding instincts, almost everything in the creativity den can be seen at a quick glance.The desk is great for reading and research, as well as painting, design, stencil, stamping, and notes. There are always improvements that can be made, we are never truly satisfied, and such is life. But I also realize that this is a special place, and one in which I enjoy pursuing my artistic inclinations.Enjoy the pictures, and tell…
Acrylic Abstract Painting: Up Close & Personal with Nol

Steve

18 Nov 2009 | 1:33 pm

Nol is the painting on the front page of my website www.stevestoneart.com. I had taken some close up pictures of the surface of Nol to show the texture that can be developed with acrylic paint, gel and medium. I used a number of different gels and mediums and also markings to create the initial terrain of this painting. Different colors in varying amounts of pigment were then applied over the surface. A few quick final minimal lines and marks were applied to the painting.The painting was time consuming, messy and quite a bit of fun. Like life, my paintings are about failing forward. The…
Hanging with Dennis Hopper and Talking Art

Steve

26 Oct 2009 | 1:52 pm

Have you ever thought of a certain person who would be fun to hang out with to talk, observe, and appreciate art? I will often read something or watch something that gives me the spark-this person would be very cool to spend some time with and talk to about a variety of subjects.I recently had a “hanging with moment” when I watched a YouTube video of Dennis Hopper and his thoughts and passion toward art. What did he say that was so interesting?First was his passion. He stated that “this painting excites me everyday. I look at this everyday and everyday I’m rejuvenated”. I feel that…
Hey, Gallery Owner, Would You Accept Money for Art from a Degree-less Man?

Steve

22 Oct 2009 | 6:53 pm

News alert: ABC Gallery in Manhattan just notified Bill Gates of “Windows” fame they will not let him purchase a Picasso painting because his money is no good at ABC Gallery. Why? He is degree-less.I really enjoy looking through the internet for galleries around the country. In an age were submissions can be handled by e-mail without actual conversation I am amazed, no astounded, that some galleries still require a degree in the arts.This is not being anti-school, but requiring a BA or MFA to show in a gallery is well, silly. In the arts, such a requirement has become laughable for a…

ArtsBeat
Critics' Picks Video: 'My Son the Fanatic'

By MEKADO MURPHY

8 Feb 2010 | 3:00 pm

A. O. Scott looks back at this 1997 film about a young British man's journey from assimilation to radical Islam.
'Hair' Recedes at Box Office

By PATRICK HEALY

8 Feb 2010 | 1:17 pm

The week's take was the smallest since the show opened.
Guggenheim Settles With Malevich Heirs

By DAVE ITZKOFF

8 Feb 2010 | 11:58 am

The foundation that runs the Guggenheim Museum said that it had reached an agreement with the heirs of the artist Kazimir Malevich over the ownership of a work that the museum plans to include in an exhibition this month.
Margulies Bumps Himself as 'Time Stands Still' Extends

By PATRICK HEALY

8 Feb 2010 | 9:42 am

"Time Stands Still" is now set to conclude on March 27, pushing preview performances of Donald Margulies's "Collected Stories" to April 9.
Royal Shakespeare Company Announces New York Residency

By PATRICK HEALY

8 Feb 2010 | 8:56 am

The Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan in the summer of 2011 for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency in a newly constructed theater inside the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

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Pop!

Diana

8 Feb 2010 | 6:04 pm

I am very excited. Something fun is coming soon... something... collaborative! Are you intrigued? I hope so. While I keep you in high suspense, I hope you'll enjoy the third Bubbles image in my mini-series from a recent walk in the woods.Bubbles III
Working for the Weekend

Diana

5 Feb 2010 | 6:48 pm

Hi there, thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a great weekend! :-)
Hump Day Happiness

Diana

3 Feb 2010 | 11:27 am

Happy Wednesday!! Time to shout from the rooftops and celebrate all the things we're grateful for this week. Won't you join me in the comments section?MagimaticToday, I'm grateful for:1) The sun coming out as the snow flurries were ending, making the very air sparkle.2) LOST being back!3) Jane Austen's fantastic wit and great storytelling4) MIKA5) The lovely springtime colors in my the dogwood photograph taken by my Grandfather and used as a background in the photo above.How about you?
Bubblicious!

Diana

3 Feb 2010 | 10:32 am

Another bubble photo from the other day. These are so much fun to work on!Bubbles IIParticularly fun when listening to "Grace Kelly" by MIKA. "I could be brown, I could be blue, I could be violet skies!"
White, Blue, Green... Spring Colors

Diana

2 Feb 2010 | 11:07 am

I had been unsuccessfully shopping for paperwhites for a few weeks when my boss casually asked if I'd like a few spare bulbs. My reply, a resounding "YES!" They're blooming now and while the odor is reminiscent of burning tires, they sure are pretty to look at.Paperwhites

Everyone's Blog Posts - Aakriti Talk Art
Art News & Views

Aakriti Art Gallery

It is a pleasure to announce that Art news & views has come out in a new format. It is an informative magazine that will attempt to bring into focus important artistic and cultural events, not only of the city but also in the national and international circuit, in retrospect and in forecast. There will also be a scope for ‘fashion’, ‘furniture’, ‘jewellery’, ‘antique’ and ‘public events’, extending to all auction reports of the month. The main focus however will remain to be art.It goes without mentioning that the art community has been severely been in need of a…
VANISHING GALLERIES

Prince Freakasso

With the art business booming until one year ago,all and sundry had hopped onto the art bandwagon seeking bonanzas,from a sucker crowd.Galleries mushroomed overnight, with rag tag failed artists,out of work curators,non subject savvy art critics and fake collectors at the helm of affairs.Those poor gullible buyers who hoped to cash in are today left cooling their burnt fingers.Most of these fly by night operators lacked vision and acumen to pursue in the business.Buying artists during a boom is sheer ignorance.The boom factor is normally the result of media and gallery hype,which of course in…
Sotheby’s presents Talking Art- An evening with Phil Whittaker

Aakriti Art Gallery

For registration contact Mr. Ritendra Roy Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd. Emami Towers, 687 Anandapur, E.M. Bypass Kolkata 700107, W. B., India Phone : +91 33 40113182/ 3183 Fax : +91 33 40113189 Web: http://www.emamichisel.com/ E-mail: contact@emamichisel.com
AAKRITI ,THE GALLERY OF KOLKATA

NITIN BHIMANI

IN MY PURSUIT OF ARTWORLD IN KOLKATA SINCE LAST ABOUT 7 YRS, I FEEL MATURED ENOUGH TO STATE THAT AKRITI IS SURELY THE MOST ACTIVE GALLERY IN KOLKATA, IN TERMS OF PROMOTION OF ARTISTS, APPROPRIATE EXPOSURE N PLATFORM REQUIRED FOR ART LOVERS, AND ABOVE ALL ITS CONSTANT PURSUASIVE ACTIVITIES OF EXHIBITIONS, TALKS, SEMINARS, SYMPOSIUM, CO ORDINATE AUCTIONS ETC, SURELY CATERS TO THE MOST NEEDED INGREDIENT FOR THE APPETITE OF ART LOVERS IN KOLKATA .
OUTSPOKEN ‘ARTISTS’

Jonathan Shih

I wrote this article in my journal dated 20 March 1999, with the intention of submittion to the Philippine Daily Inquirer for possible publication. But apparently, again, it didn’t got off the writing table. And so, I’m writing it here in my blog. As always, better late than never. As I was going over the March 15 issue of your paper. An article caught my eye. The article is concerning the book of a certain Dr. Eleuterio ’Teyet’ Pascual. In which he wrote about the recent discovery of Juan Luna’s lost drawings. In his book, Dr. Pascual declared the discovery of at least one thousand…

Tara Reed Designs - Art Blog
Why I’ll keep my day job…

Artist Tara Reed

7 Feb 2010 | 3:09 pm

Last night I headed to Vancouver, WA with my boyfriend to go dancing. We were invited by a friend he used to work with and promised fun people and a great time – she was right. The evening started with an hour long Zydeco dance lesson. I thought I was back in my college ballroom dance class (what a great choice for PE credits!) as we learned new steps and kept rotating to new partners. After the hour-long class, the lights were dimmed and the real dancing began – wow! Many of the dancers are regulars at the Vancouver Ballroom and even had their own dance shoes. How fun to…
42 Things I’ve Learned in my 42 Years…

Artist Tara Reed

31 Jan 2010 | 7:00 am

Jinkies, how did I get to be 42? I still, quite vividly, remember planning surprise parties for friends when we were all turning 13. Or making construction paper cars to put on a locker to make sure everyone knew a friend was turning 16… (and to make her embarrassed… wonder if Sue will read this post?) Let’s not forget turning 21… and the headache the day after. Well now it seems I have somehow reached 42! Last year it was my son turning 16 not my friend. (I got 16 cars from the Dollar Tree and hung them over the table instead of the construction paper stand-by.)…
Are you a POSITIVE WOMAN?

Artist Tara Reed

27 Jan 2010 | 7:52 am

I’m really excited about tonight and wanted to share a new resource with you! Last year I took a class, Teleseminar Secrets, and met some amazing people in the process. One of those people was Kelly Rudolph – always ready with a sunny smile and happy thought. She has turned her positive attitude into a website to help and inspire women to stay upbeat, positive and happy, in spite of all the negativity floating around. Watch videos. Listen to audios. Connect with other positive women. The site is a membership site and the big launch is tonight! I’m so amazed at…
New Kitchen Textiles Hitting the Stores Soon!

Artist Tara Reed

25 Jan 2010 | 8:53 am

I spent the first weekend in January walking the Gift Show in Atlanta – boy was I tired when I got home! 3 tall buildings, tons of things to see, people to talk to, trends to look for, a product signing and more… FUN! A few of the new products I was able to see for the first time were designs licensed to kitchen textile manufacturer Kay Dee Designs. I have a set of two flour sack towels featuring my “Fashion Forward” art and humor as well as a line of 8 western motif products now available. It is always exciting to see the art finally on the products – this…
My Art Licensing Story by Tara Reed

Artist Tara Reed

6 Jan 2010 | 2:06 pm

Over on my other blog, ArtLicensingBlog.com, I started a little contest. My goal is to get artists to share their stories about art licensing – how they got into it, why they like it, etc. So I thought I’d share my story with you, just in case you ever wondered! This career is the result of a single phone call from a trade show floor… Here’s to whatever path life, and phone calls, take you down! – Tara

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Good vibes needed please! (& the power of asking and trying)

artisttarareed

7 Feb 2010 | 10:53 am

If you recall, I did a video proclaiming 2010 to be my year of “flow” – that’s the verb I have chosen to guide me this year. I want to stop resisting and worrying and just go with the flow. The creative flow, the flow of opportunity, the flow of health and happiness… all of it. And WOW! So far so good! We have some exciting things coming up – many of which I discovered or got a final “yes” to this year. AskAboutSEOforArtists.com – the Ask Call for February (on Wed. the 17th) came to me via email – “I have this new product and…
Difinitive Proof! Ms. PacMan should be in Art Licensing

artisttarareed

6 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

I’m here to tell you that PacMan is an accountant or engineer - now munching his way through cubicles in a vast and stark corporate office somewhere. I’m sure of it. Ms. PacMan? She’s creative! She’s hip! She likes to be in the mix, adjusting, adapting, never quite sure what life will throw at her next or how she will be rewarded for her efforts. That is why she’d be quite happy in art licensing. I’m sure of that as well. But how do I know all of this? Well, I read between the lines a little but I’d say that Chris Brogan and Julien Smith told me…
Branding the Artist: Added Protection to Copyright for Art?

artisttarareed

4 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

This is another guest blog post by attorney Cheryl Hodgson, one of the Art Licensing Info experts and Ask Call participants. While a copyright is valid without registration, the very statement is misleading. Copyright registration is essential to preserve key remedies for infringement. Unless registered prior to infringement, attorney’s fees and statutory damages are not available. It is often difficult, if not impossible, to prove actual damages or profits attributable to theft of a copyrighted work. Moreover, without the threat of having to pay attorney’s fees to the copyright…
Brand Yourself for Success in Art Licensing – teleseminar with Paul Brent

artisttarareed

3 Feb 2010 | 9:09 am

I’m excited to announce that Paul Brent has put together an information-packed hour to get you thinking, strategizing and building your brand for success in art licensing. Paul Brent understands branding. An artist, interior designer and print publisher, he began licensing his art in 1988. Bookmarks, bed linens and insulated barware were among his first licensed products. Since then he has gone on to work with many, many manufacturers and grown his licensing business to be the 94th largest in the world, according to License! Global Magazine’s Top 100 Licensor List for 2008 and…
A first timer’s experience at the CHA Winter Show | guest post by Jen Goode

artisttarareed

2 Feb 2010 | 9:00 am

I just returned home from an eventful, exhausting and extraordinary experience attending my first CHA Show. The event was hosted at the Anaheim Convention Center in California, and WOW what a show it was! The show floor consisted of approximately 185,000 sq ft of display area with 592 exhibitors. There were demos happening in every direction – booths filled with people networking, working on make-and-take projects and general craft chit chat. The whole place was over flowing with craft supplies of all shapes and sizes from fabric and stamps to cutters and glitter. For a long time…

Valenti's Art Blog | New Paintings, News, Exhibits and more.
Packing and Shipping – How USPS.com can help your Daily Painting

admin

5 Feb 2010 | 8:29 pm

One of the biggest challenge a modern artist faces is shipping. It can become quite expensive and a huge risk depending on which carrier you use. In today’s modern art era, artists are more involved with the process of selling and delivering their works directly to collectors along with having the task of shipping their paintings to the galleries that represent them. The Daily Painting movement started by Duane Keiser a few years ago, has pushed artists to be more aggressive in terms of selling their works to the masses increasing exponentially the shipment of small pieces of art…

Valenti's Art Blog | New Paintings, News, Exhibits and more.
Packing and Shipping – How USPS.com can help your Daily Painting

admin

5 Feb 2010 | 8:29 pm

One of the biggest challenge a modern artist faces is shipping. It can become quite expensive and a huge risk depending on which carrier you use. In today’s modern art era, artists are more involved with the process of selling and delivering their works directly to collectors along with having the task of shipping their paintings to the galleries that represent them. The Daily Painting movement started by Duane Keiser a few years ago, has pushed artists to be more aggressive in terms of selling their works to the masses increasing exponentially the shipment of small pieces of art…

Art Palaver Artist Marketing Blog
Wordpress Wednesday | Stopping Spam Comments On Your Art Blog

Daryle Dickens

3 Feb 2010 | 4:30 am

If you publish a Wordpress self hosted blog eventually the comment spammers will find you. Comment from spammers is pretty easy to spot. The comments are brief, generic, and often off topic. Most will contain links to sites selling things that you don’t want to be a part of. The longer your blog is out there the more spammers will find you and the more fake comments will come in that you have to deal with. This can be quite time consuming. Thankfully Wordpress ships with spam protection built in with the plugin “Akismet.” But I know many artists who use Wordpress never get around to…
Cost Effective Email Marketing For Artists

Daryle Dickens

2 Feb 2010 | 4:30 am

The email newsletter is probably one of the oldest forms of internet marketing out there. They have been around since the invention of email. Many artists send out “email blasts” through their email client like Gmail or Hotmail. Cutting and pasting a list of emails into the “To:” box and hitting send. This is the easiest method and it is free. It is also illegal. Yes I said illegal. You see when you send out an email like that 9 out of 10 times it does not conform to the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. The biggest reason for non compliance is there is no easy way to opt out of the emailings. To…
Win A Copy Of Crush It By Gary Vaynerchuk | AP240S Video 005

Daryle Dickens

1 Feb 2010 | 4:31 am

Looking for some new ideas on how to use social media to promote your art? Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk is a good place to start. And in this short video I tell you how you can win your very own copy. Don’t see a video? Click here. Win A Copy Of Crush It By Gary Vaynerchuk | AP240S Video 005 is a post from: Art Palaver the Artist Marketing Blog. Related posts:Video Is A Good Marketing Tool For Artists | AP240S 003 Art Palaver Video Episodes Teaser Video How To Keep An Artist Blog Updated | AP240S
How To Keep An Artist Blog Updated | AP240S

Daryle Dickens

29 Jan 2010 | 4:30 am

Since I am doing more videos like this one I am working on a way to separate the RSS feeds so you can only subscribe to the type of content that suits you. Just FYI, though I have not heard any complaints about the videos. (yet) If you don’t see a video play simply click this link. How To Keep An Artist Blog Updated | AP240S is a post from: Art Palaver the Artist Marketing Blog. Related posts:Video Is A Good Marketing Tool For Artists | AP240S 003 Win A Copy Of Crush It By Gary Vaynerchuk | AP240S Video 005 Art Palaver Video Episodes Teaser Video
Video Is A Good Marketing Tool For Artists | AP240S 003

Daryle Dickens

28 Jan 2010 | 4:30 am

Hello Hello. Here we are again with another Art Palaver 240 Show episode. Hopefully I am not going to lose too many readers with this little experiment I am working on. I know some folks are not ones to click play on internet videos. Feel free to offer any feedback, even if it is negative. Also wanted to share with you the new podcast is about ready to be unveiled. Each week I will have a 30 minute episode that features a different artist. I know, exciting. Well enough words on to the moving pictures… If you don’t see a video in this post just click here. Video Is A Good Marketing Tool…

Oscar Baron Artists
Using Twitter Effectively – Insight by Guy Kawasaki

admin

3 Feb 2010 | 3:24 pm

Great info. by Guy Kawasaki on what it means to do twitter right. Also, why not to hate him for his promotion of Alltop, and why he’s kinda like PBS. Typical Guy Kawasaki format on using twitter effectively, concise and valuable. Play it and pass it on. Thank you to Jennifer Jones and Marketing Voices. Feel free to comment below. Any links that you think may help other micro-business owners, list away in our comments section. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Share this on del.icio.us Share this on Facebook Buzz up! Share this on Linkedin Stumble upon something…
The Blue Swirl – Recycled Glass Jewelry Piece

admin

1 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am

"The Blue Swirl" - Recycled Glass Jewelry Piece I am just now getting caught back up and posting some pieces that have been in my shop for a little while, but I hadn’t written anything up on them yet. So, finally, here we go. This is one of my favorite jewelry pieces so far. I sort of favorite the blues in this medium. I love the way the design has an aquatic and Victorian theme frozen in a piece of recycled glass. This unusually themed Nautical meets Victorian arrangement features a stunning blue recycled glass. Another one-of-a-kind creation in our new jewelry line, this…
PC Browsing on Your Mobile with Skyfire

admin

28 Jan 2010 | 9:34 am

Welcome to Skyfire! PC browsing on your mobile for free! What is Skyfire, you ask? Well, Skyfire happens to be a free mobile web browser that gives you a PC browsing experience. Skyfire is currently available for Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 (3rd Edition or 5th edition) phones. I currently use Skyfire on my Nokia E71x and it works very well. Although not exactly like PC browsing, it is a tremendous improvement over my previous browsing experience with my phone. If Skyfire is available for your phone, do yourself a favor and try it. It’s a free download and it makes life easier.
Back in the Groove…

admin

25 Jan 2010 | 6:15 pm

Don't let the "Man" hold ya down! Just wanted to drop a quick update and let everyone know we are back online and the new website is up and running. (Obvioulsy!) We made the switch from Typepad and Yahoo to Bluehost and Wordpress. Well worth the effort it took, not to mention the money we’ll save monthly. Awesome! I couldn’t be more pleased. We are still working out the bugs and tweaking the new site, so let us know if you have any comments or suggestions. Also, rss and email subscriptions to the old site may have to be renewed to receive updates from the new site.
Turtle Suncatcher

admin

28 Dec 2009 | 7:13 pm

Turtle Suncatcher on Recycled Glass Like Turtles? Then you’ll love our newest suncatcher design. Made from clear recycled glass, this piece has been etched, leveled, carved, and painted to bring this Native American style Turtle to life. Let everyone know that you support handmade products with this remarkable addition hanging in your window or on your wall. A perfect gift for both Suncatcher and Art Collectors. Turtle Suncatcher: weighs approx. 3-4 lbs., measures approx. 9 1/2″ dia. x 3/8″ thick – Large Clear Recycled Glass, also includes hemp cord and gold split…

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This Week: Two new exhibitions open at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

Chris Wright

2 Feb 2010 | 12:50 pm

Lisa Solomon, Wallet Size Me, 2004, Embroidery (wrong side showing) on satin and vintage embroidery hoop, 8 x 8 inches, Courtesy of the Artist and Walter Maciel Gallery, LA. Fans of contemporary art, take note. Two new exhibitions open this week at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). An opening reception takes place Friday, Feb 5 6-8pm. By A Thread is “an exhibition of artwork by emerging and mid-career Bay Area artists who create unexpectedly nostalgic, and poetic works using thread as their primary medium.” By A Thread will be exhibited in the Main Gallery from…
SF Symphony January 27, 2010 – Mozart and Stravinsky

Eugene Lee

28 Jan 2010 | 7:45 pm

Michael Tilson Thomas For Mozart’s birthday the SF Symphony featured Michael Tilson Thomas, the symphony’s music director, playing and conducting Mozart’s Piano Concerto Number 23 in A Major, K 488, as well as two not frequently played works by Stravinsky – his Octet (for winds and brasses) and his Pulcinella Suite. Stravinsky Octet The concert started with the Stravinsky Octet, which although being a chamber music piece is so tricky that it is usually performed with a conductor. Last night, they played without a net, performing with no conductor. I was immediately…
Inside Cirque du Soleil – OVO: Raising the Big Top in San Jose

Chris Wright

28 Jan 2010 | 5:38 pm

Loni Kao Stark on location downtown San Jose Today, Cirque du Soleil rolled into town, and SSC was there to bring you the behind the scenes action of the team raising the $1.5M big top for their latest show, OVO. It’s a massive undertaking, requiring hundreds of workers and days of effort to be ready for opening night. OVO just finished a run in San Francisco, its US premiere. Now the show comes to San Jose (opens Feb. 4), before heading across the rest of the country over the next two years. OVO is Portuguese for “egg,” and, indeed a mysterious egg plays a central role in…
ZER01 Ends 2009 on a Funding Roll

Chris Wright

18 Jan 2010 | 1:34 am

Just as the year was coming to a close, ZER01 received word that $500k in new grants was coming its way. The funding breaks down as follows: $250k from the David & Lucile Packard Foundation, $200k from the James Irvine Foundation and $50k from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The Packard grant builds on the foundation’s commitment to invest in innovative people and organizations that trade in big ideas designed to make a unique and lasting contribution while the Irvine and NEA grants underwrite programming for the 2010 01SJ Biennial with the Irvine grant specifically…
Real and HyperReal at San Jose Museum of Art January 30-August 1

Chris Wright

17 Jan 2010 | 3:06 am

The San Jose Museum of Art will present the exhibition Real and HyperReal from January 30 through August 1, 2010. Drawn exclusively from SJMA’s permanent collection, the exhibition will contrast traditional academic realism with new approaches that redefine reality. The approximately 40 works on view will range from illusionistic paintings by artists such as Sandow Birk, Llyn Foulkes, Tino Rodriguez, and Richard Shaw to monumental new-media installations by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin and by Catherine Wagner. Real and HyperReal showcases many favorites from the SJMA collection that have not…