David Bartley is responsible for overseeing the art in storage at the Walker Art Center. In this video he displays five works from the Walker’s collection that must be explicitly labeled as art to save them from being mistaken for trash.
Thanks to my friend Dwight for this. He is a technician at the Vancouver Art [...]
From Boing Boing:
Looking at Paintings is a beginning textbook for young children (I’d say 6-12) who are wondering the same thing. Using beautifully reproduced paintings and crisp prose,Looking at Paintings expounds on the history of visual art, and the use of size, shape, color, light and dark, perspective, frame, motion and materials in creating visual [...]
The Victoria & Albert Museum announced that visitors to its website can now find online over one million records detailing objects in its collections ranging from well known treasures such as Tippoo’s “Tiger” to less familiar paintings and ceramics. People using Search the Collections, at collections.vam.ac.uk, will find images of more than 100,000 objects with more [...]
Starting May 2009, I have pledged to wear one dress for one year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. Here’s how it works: There are 7 identical dresses, one for each day of the week. Every day I will reinvent the dress with layers, accessories and all kinds of accoutrements, the majority of which will [...]
Out-of-Bounds: Images in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts
Date: Daily, September 1 - November 8, 2009,
Location: North Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Admission: Free
Part of the genius of medieval art lies in its unique ability to combine serious and profound images with playful and witty ones. In illuminated manuscripts, a primary artistic medium of the Middle [...]
Dr. Christopher Tyler of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Researcy Institute, San Francisco has posted an essay online that is titled: “An Eye-Placement Principle in 500 Year of Portraits.” It is very short and well illustrated. Here is an exerpt:
To illustrate the degree to which an eye tends to be set on the center vertical in portraits, [...]
Art Babble, the tagline for which is “Play Art Loud”, aggregates art related videos from a variety of sources, most notably museums like the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Arts & Design, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Norman Rockwell Museum, Rubin Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim [...]
This illustration by Jonathan Burton was created for a “Summer Reading” article in the magazine,”Nature.” Mr. Burton has a blog and a highly agreeable nature. One: He shares his process on his blog, simply and clearly, which is generous, and a wonderful sense of humour is displayed in the following entry:
A recent competition ran alongside [...]
I love Dave Eggars. What I love about him is his activist nature, his DO IT philosophy, and most of all, his initiative called 826 Valencia. 826 Valencia is an after school tutorial centre that is just so incredibly smart and successful, you wonder why centres like his are not in every neighbourhood. I LOVE [...]
Michael Nobbs has created a small booklet called”75 Ways To Draw More” that he offers on Flickr for free download. Like the title says, the book contains 75 light-hearted ideas for getting people to draw more. He plans for there to be a Flickr group of the same name in a week or two in [...]