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Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Daily Art Nag for April 24, 2011
Which of these artworks would you buy? - San Diego Union-Tribune
Make sure you check out the reader comments - Kf
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| © Janine Antoni - Conduit, 2009 (Detail) Copper sculpture with urine verdigris patina, framed digital c-print |
Which of these artworks would you buy? - San Diego Union-Tribune
Make sure you check out the reader comments - Kf
Saturday, April 23, 2011
A+ Art Blog: The Birthing of Art Meets Fashion
Besides the fact that this event takes more than 9 months to gestate, I feel that it is much like carrying a fetus to term. Strange for me to say perhaps, as I have never born a real child, but just look at the process and make up your own mind.
It is always easy to procreate with a partner and whether you call it a marriage or a friendship, I could ask for none better than Felena Hanson who is the Fashion Designer coordinator for Art Meets Fashion. We turn to Krystel Tien, Fashion Show coordinator with the aid of Loren Smith Productions for our baby shower i.e. the fashion show launch. This is the celebration for all the participants and a few special guests. We are anticipating the more extensive shows in the various venues and giving the project its extra push into the world.
It is always easy to procreate with a partner and whether you call it a marriage or a friendship, I could ask for none better than Felena Hanson who is the Fashion Designer coordinator for Art Meets Fashion. We turn to Krystel Tien, Fashion Show coordinator with the aid of Loren Smith Productions for our baby shower i.e. the fashion show launch. This is the celebration for all the participants and a few special guests. We are anticipating the more extensive shows in the various venues and giving the project its extra push into the world.
You need a Midwife standing by to aid you through the process and Rosemary KimBal does proof reading, mans a desk, gives me a ride…what ever I may need most. Amazingly she is also making with the Valentine Viannay the scarves commemorating the project and also fabric for the dance performance and even doing a demonstration of Giant Brush painting at the Art Walk (the event draws 150,000 on one day) where she will help us promote Art Meets Fashion.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Picked RAW: Art in the Streets - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Los Angeles
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Art in the Streets
MOCA's 'Art in the Streets' exhibition brings unwanted neighborhood effect: graffiti vandalism
Tagging outside an L.A. street art exhibit fuels debate
Street artist 'Space Invader' believed detained in L.A. vandalism case
Street artist 'Space Invader' believed detained in L.A. vandalism case
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Picked RAW Peeled: Museum Lecture Series: Dr. Bram Dijkstra
by Marilyn Mitchell
Bram Dijykstra, Ph.D. gave a stimulating lecture at the San Diego Museum of Art this past Friday and the thesis of his talk was the nude in Western culture. He has recently published a gorgeously illustrated book called "Naked" which is about the nude in America's art history. Dr. Dijykstra is a cultural historian and his talk focused on American and European art, which allowed for a broader historical perspective than his book. Dr. Dijykstra stressed that as a cultural historian, he is most interested in how art fits in with its particular time.
One of the beginning images he spoke about was one from a Dutch painter of the 1600's. It depicted a husband and wife in realist detail. Dr. Dijykstra pointed out how the two are set as equals in the composition. The two are portrayed as smiling, healthy and well-to-do financially. They appear as true partners to each other.
By the end of the 1800's, the real and the ideal began to clash philosophically. Artists often considered realist works as vulgar. He quoted a critic of the time as stating that nudes should be depicted as ideals because otherwise they are shocking to modesty. Dr. Dijykstra argued that this philosophy was related to the gender and sexual politics of the time. Women were no longer considered equal partners to men. By the 1700's painters emphasized the sensual. An image of Donatello's "David" from the mid-1400's was shown as an example of how in the past, men could be shown as sensual.
Picked RIPE: El Anatsui - When I Last Wrote to You about Africa
from the Davis Museum at Wellesley College
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is pleased to present the U.S. debut of El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, the artist’s first career retrospective. Surveying nearly five decades of the artist’s internationally renowned career, the exhibition features some sixty works in wood, metal, ceramic, painting, print and drawing.
El Anatsui (b. 1944, Ghana) is best known for his most recent sculptures, shimmeringly beautiful and elaborately wrought large-scale wall hangings made from discarded liquor-bottle tops. Drawing on traditional idioms and contemporary art practices, his work resonates materially and symbolically with the cultural and historical conditions of West Africa.
From its earliest to its most recent examples, Anatsui’s work is characterized by the complex and surprising manipulation of materials, labor-intensive methods, and a signature use of color, line and form.
Read more
Additional articles here and here.
If you find yourself in Wellesley, MA make sure you go see this exhibit. El Anatsui is one the most phenomenal artists of our time. Kf
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| El Anatsui, Plot A Plan III, 2007, Aluminum and copper wire Photo courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery |
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is pleased to present the U.S. debut of El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You about Africa, the artist’s first career retrospective. Surveying nearly five decades of the artist’s internationally renowned career, the exhibition features some sixty works in wood, metal, ceramic, painting, print and drawing.
El Anatsui (b. 1944, Ghana) is best known for his most recent sculptures, shimmeringly beautiful and elaborately wrought large-scale wall hangings made from discarded liquor-bottle tops. Drawing on traditional idioms and contemporary art practices, his work resonates materially and symbolically with the cultural and historical conditions of West Africa.
From its earliest to its most recent examples, Anatsui’s work is characterized by the complex and surprising manipulation of materials, labor-intensive methods, and a signature use of color, line and form.
Read more
Additional articles here and here.
If you find yourself in Wellesley, MA make sure you go see this exhibit. El Anatsui is one the most phenomenal artists of our time. Kf
Monday, April 18, 2011
Daily Art Nag for April 18, 2011
from Jen Graves and the SLOG News & Arts
The description comes from artist Elias Hansen, a longtime friend of Read's who's now curating Read's first-ever gallery show (at Lawrimore Project, opening tonight during art walk). The show will be collages, screen prints, and pieces painted directly on the walls (maybe some will appear on Seattle streets?)—but don't expect the artist at the opening. For the last few days he's been working in secret inside the gallery, where the windows have been papered over.
http://www.operationmadman.com/
Read more.
I got my copy in the mail today. kf
Read—usually seen in block letters—is the signature of a graffiti artist wanted in several states. His hardcover little black book, The Reader, is a cult hit and "a mix tape of the last 100 years of graphic design."
The description comes from artist Elias Hansen, a longtime friend of Read's who's now curating Read's first-ever gallery show (at Lawrimore Project, opening tonight during art walk). The show will be collages, screen prints, and pieces painted directly on the walls (maybe some will appear on Seattle streets?)—but don't expect the artist at the opening. For the last few days he's been working in secret inside the gallery, where the windows have been papered over.
http://www.operationmadman.com/
Read more.
I got my copy in the mail today. kf
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Picked RIPE: Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" vandalized
from LeMonde.fr and AFP
Read more (French only) and apparently, not the first time (in English).
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| photo: Agence France Presse |
Read more (French only) and apparently, not the first time (in English).
Daily Art Nag for April 17, 2011 Redux: The (U.S.) Flag
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| L-R: Dread Scott "What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?", Jasper Johns "Three Flags", N-GOM, Flag Rules and Regulations |
Dread Scott and related articles here and here.
Jasper Johns
N-GOM
Flag Rules and Regulations
Daily Art Nag for April 17, 2011
from Reuters and Nastassia Astrasheuskaya
Russia launches $470 million private art fund
Russia's first major private art fund was launched on Moscow's MICEX stock exchange this week, hoping to attract investors keen for safe if relatively low growth assets.
The 'Sobranie.Photoeffect' fund, created by fund managers Agana, comprises nearly 300,000 original prints by 250 domestic and foreign photographers and is worth a combined $467 million.
The fund, partly made up of Soviet Union collections with the potential for adding contemporary Russian photographers, will target foreign investors in the Russian market offering a safe "investment money shelter," said Ekaterina Aleksandrova, Agana's deputy director general.
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Russia launches $470 million private art fund
Russia's first major private art fund was launched on Moscow's MICEX stock exchange this week, hoping to attract investors keen for safe if relatively low growth assets.
The 'Sobranie.Photoeffect' fund, created by fund managers Agana, comprises nearly 300,000 original prints by 250 domestic and foreign photographers and is worth a combined $467 million.
The fund, partly made up of Soviet Union collections with the potential for adding contemporary Russian photographers, will target foreign investors in the Russian market offering a safe "investment money shelter," said Ekaterina Aleksandrova, Agana's deputy director general.
Read more
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Picked RIPE: Ai Weiwei sit-in
from David Ng and Culture Monster
The sit-in is planned for 1 p.m. local time Sunday. Participants are being asked to bring chairs and gather outside Chinese government buildings "in support of the artist's immediate release." The event is being organized by Creative Time, a nonprofit organization that commissions and presents public art projects. The organization announced the sit-on this week on its Facebook page.
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Worldwide sit-in planned in support of detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
The detention of artist Ai Weiwei by Chinese authorities has prompted a worldwide outcry from human rights groups, politicians and arts organizations. On Sunday, some of Ai's supporters are planning a show of solidarity through a peaceful sit-down in front of Chinese embassies, consulates and other government buildings around the world.
Read more
Friday, April 15, 2011
Picked RIPE: An Index of Creativity
John Eager in his Huffington Post titled Measuring Creativity in California and the Nation reports on steps to legislate creativity. It was only a matter of time!
Senator Curren Price of the California legislature wants an Advisory Committee on Creative and Innovative Education because, he says, the state schools aren't teaching kids to be creative.
Read the whole article here.
Senator Curren Price of the California legislature wants an Advisory Committee on Creative and Innovative Education because, he says, the state schools aren't teaching kids to be creative.
Read the whole article here.
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