Ideology, politics and bone-headed provincialism come together comfortably when they make war on the world’s great museums.
The issue is cultural property. Countries believing that colonialists stole their spiritual heritage are uniting in a send-back-our-stuff campaign. They envision populations and art objects moving in opposite directions: While citizens try to emigrate to Europe and North America [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Who Owns the Rosetta Stone?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Poras Chaudhary, Photographs of Holi
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
I have been to India three times. I fell in love with the Indian people and their diverse country immediately.It is a sensate bath, traveling in India. And every time I was there, I was there during Holi. I will never get enough of wonderful India. Click here to visit my blog about India. Click [...]
Fabulous Artistic Animation in Progress
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Eric Steegstra has posted a movie on YouTube about the making of a film to be called “Rif.” I know nothing more than it may be a music video for a band called “Radio Orange.” This is one of those “how it was done” short films that celebrate artistic genius. Bicycle wheels, wooden rods, trays [...]
Art Replaces Billboard Advertising
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Jordan Seiler’s incrediblely ambitious “New York Street Advertising Takeover” became a reality yesterday, when over 120 illegal billboards throughout the city were white washed by dozens of volunteers. NYSAT was organized as a reaction to the hundreds of billboards that are not registered with the city, and therefore are illegal. While illegal, these violations are not being [...]
How Can One Resist an Artist Whose Medium is Jello
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Liz Hickok is a San Francisco-based artist working in photography, video, sculpture, installation, and currently, Jell-O. Hickok received her Masters in Fine Arts from Mills College in Oakland, California. She earned a BFA and BA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Hickok lived and worked in [...]
Evelien Lohbeck, Artist
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
“Noteboek” is an animation by Evelien Lohbeck that recently won a prize at the 2008 Netherlands Film Festival, is wonderous piece of visually artistic self-promotion. Ms Lohbeck studied animation at the Academy of Arts, St. Joost in the Netherlands (Breda), and also studied interactive design and 3D design. Her web site, like her film, is designed as [...]
Maira Kalman, Artist
Monday, April 27, 2009
By licking here, you will go to an “opinion” piece in the New York times that reads and presents more like a blog than anything else, and it is just the most compelling and wonderful diary I have seen in a long, long time. Thank you Beth Kaplan, for sending me the link. This opinion [...]
Boys Need Different Stimuli in Art Classes
Friday, April 24, 2009
Boys are put off art and design at secondary level because lessons are too focused on drawing and painting rather than computer design and digital photography, say school inspectors. Boys do better when they are given more practical opportunities, according to a three-year study of art and design in 180 schools published today by Ofsted. They are more motivated [...]
Striped Icebergs
Thursday, April 23, 2009
These images have been all over websites I have seen, but in case you haven’t seen them or in case you do not know about striped icebergs, click here.
Communicating Across Barriers Few Could Imagine
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Judith Scott, who had Down syndrome and spent much of her life institutionalized, began creating yarn sculptures like this untitled one from the late 1980s.
JUDITH SCOTT couldn’t hear or speak, yet she found a language with which to describe her inner world. Hawkins Bolden couldn’t see, yet his statues stare at you with haunted eyes. [...]