Art News Blog |
Dec 23, 2008 06:46AM
Two of my favorite painting subjects (at the moment) are still lifes and cityscapes. I like that the subject doesn't have to be that interesting to make an interesting painting, meaning that the best still life and cityscape painters are really alchemists. Ordinary pots and pans or congested and polluted city views can be turned into paintings of great beauty.Paul Balmer is a South African born, Australian taught, NYC based painter doing some amazing cityscape paintings.High as the Horizon - Paul [...]
Hey, Hot Shot! |
Dec 23, 2008 06:32AM
Untitled (Max) by Dorthe Alstrup 20x200 photographer Dorthe Alstrup was a Fall 2005 Hey, Hot Shot! winner and also a First Prize recipient in Center's 2008 Singular Image Awards in the color category. So what does all of that have to do with you? Well, my dears, Review Santa Fe, Project Competition and the Singular Image Awards are calling on all talented photographers (that's you) to enter their contest now. The deadline is less than a month away, so don't [...]
Art MoCo |
Dec 23, 2008 06:02AM
The emphasis was on the brush stroke in Sydney Yeager's recent show, Moving Parts. Movement and exhilaration shot through a series of bold canvases made up of a plethora of markings. The effect is mosaic-like with a play of...
jen bekman news |
Dec 23, 2008 06:02AM
Natural Selections XI by Jason Burch It’s not too late to give the grand gift of art this holiday season! Simply click here and you’ll be on your merry way to giving a present that is sure to brighten the walls of many lucky loved ones on on your list.
artblog |
Dec 23, 2008 05:32AM
Like children staring down a box of candy and a bowl of oatmeal we went straight for Chelsea Dec 12 instead of to the museums. The day was sunny and brisk and we took our chances wandering in candy land.Trenton Doyle Hancock at James Cohan.We knew before we walked in to James Cohan Gallery that we were ready to love Trenton Doyle Hancock's show. His works excite us with their combination of extreme inner eye, paranoia and turgid visuals. In a [...]
Supertouch |
Dec 23, 2008 02:03AM
BRAD PITT as Lion-o. Need we say more?…
December 22 2008
Art in NYC |
Dec 22, 2008 10:32PM
While updating an iPhone painting with further ideas (see below), noticed as I made changes to update my drawing - the rest of the painting also changed. I saw this idea in my mind that a painting is never actually finished, but it can be complete, at any level, if the work follows the same vector.
art esprit |
Dec 22, 2008 08:47PM
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } new! lost bird found bags, originally uploaded by artstreamstudios. So beautiful and just in time to start the new year without any plastic, paper or what have you! Organic and beautiful. Pomegranate pattern in marmalade color here or natural. Watch for their very cool new melamine plates to appear in the shop too!Hope everyone is starting to wind down for [...]
Art for a Change |
Dec 22, 2008 07:33PM
The waning days of 2008 represent more than just a tumultuous year coming to an end, they bring closure to decades of extreme political reaction and backwardness, at least in the U.S. - or so it appears. Whether or not we are on the threshold of a new progressive era depends upon people in their tens of millions becoming actively engaged in visualizing and building a different type of society,
ionarts |
Dec 22, 2008 06:32PM
This review is an Ionarts exclusive. When Robert Shafer was forced out of his position as director of the Washington Chorus (formerly the Oratorio Society of Washington), he did not just go away quietly. As happens when a colony of honeybees births a new queen, Shafer took a small swarm of singers and formed a new hive, the City Choir of Washington. Having finally made it to one of the group's
The Intrepid Art Collector |
Dec 22, 2008 05:33PM
Haven't finished your holiday shopping? Did a distant friend or family member unexpectedly give you a present (which means you have to reciprocate)? Get them gift certificates from 20x200 -- my favorite branch office of Santa's Workshop. That way, your giftee can select from a variety prints or fine-art photographs and have it delivered to their door. Buy the certificates on-line, and either email them or print out a hard copy (which you can stash in a holiday card, as if [...]
beinArt |
Dec 22, 2008 05:32PM
The Book 'Conjunctio' presents mirrored pairs of Sacred Twins and Divine Lovers from various cultural pantheons coupled on facing pages. They are aligned in such a way that when the pages are turned the figures are United in holy conjunction by the alchemical reader. 9th of January at 'The WICK', Fitzroy, Melbourne.
Wooster Collective |
Dec 22, 2008 03:33PM
Conscientious |
Dec 22, 2008 03:06PM
Paddy is having a year-end fundraiser over at Art Fag City, so have a peek and think about contributing. As she notes "Considering how traditional media is currently gutting arts coverage, sites such as my own are not only important, but essential to the field of art criticism."
Rhizome.org |
Dec 22, 2008 02:32PM
Rhizome's Community Campaign does not involve a telethon, but if you become a member at the Sprout level, you'll get one of four awesome ringtones that will make you wish we'd never stop calling you. Taigaa offers "Shark and Tiger," a catchy jungle fable from their new album Off, while the punchy, junky band Yacht wants to put their new track "NTSC" on your phone. You can nurse lingering childhood equestrian fantasies while listening to Ben Coonley's interview with an [...]
serial consign |
Dec 22, 2008 02:20PM
I'd love to be using this post to announce an exciting winter vacation but really all I'm doing is warning about a disruption in service. Sometime in the next few days I'll be pulling Serial Consign offline to port the existing content into the new build/theme of Drupal that I've been plugging away on for the last few months. I want to start working on a live site rather than with a cloned database and now seems like the time to [...]
Art Fag City |
Dec 22, 2008 02:03PM
Mark Bradford, Mithra (2008), Caffin Avenue at N. Miro Street, Lower 9th Ward, All photographs AFC Here’s a nice surprise: My photographs tell me the art work at the New Orleans Prospect 1 Biennial is even better than I remembered. I hadn’t remembered being overly excited about Mark Bradford’s Arc for example, but the image above reminded me how much I enjoyed the gritty look of these recycled boards, even if the piece is a rather straight forward response to [...]
serial consign |
Dec 22, 2008 01:34PM
I'd love to be using this post to announce an exciting winter vacation but really all I'm doing is warning about a disruption in service. Sometime in the next few days I'll be pulling Serial Consign offline to port the existing content into the new build/theme of Drupal that I've been plugging away on for the last few months. I want to start working on a live site rather than with a cloned database and now seems like the time to [...]
PORT |
Dec 22, 2008 01:18PM
Matthew and the Sleeper Sadly, of one of the best contemporary art exhibitions of 2008, Corey Arnold's wry and accurately titled FISH-WORK at Charles A.Hartman Fine Art ended during the blizzard last weekend… if you missed it PORT will try to make up the difference... we have seen his work in occasional group shows but this collection of images is particularly strong....and sometimes devastingly fresh. FISH-WORK installation view We should also make note because the Portland based Arnold, with representation at [...]
NEWSgrist |
Dec 22, 2008 01:04PM
Here are a number of very worthy people and art organizations without which we would all be that much sadder and culturally poorer! If you can spread a little extra cheer, please consider supporting the following:
Donate $10, Win Art
Please consider making a year end donation to Momenta before December 31st.
One person who makes an online donation by this date will win a print by Carl Pope.
The print, Brown Girl (diptych, edition of [...]
Rhizome.org |
Dec 22, 2008 12:49PM
Jonathan Soderstrom of Cactus Software is currently developing the third installment of his "Mondo" game series, which includes the investigations of AGENT-65386 in Mondo Agency and the "illogical puzzle game" Mondo Medicals. Details regarding the new Mondo game are vague, but judging from the stark, confining interiors of these two trailers, it seems Soderstrom is at work at translating the banality of what Marc Augé once termed the "non-place" (defined as nondescript transient spaces, such as the airport or the hotel [...]
Rhizome.org |
Dec 22, 2008 12:32PM
TEXTING AND GRAFFITTI: Understanding the Reader in Contemporary Art" by Karla Diaz This article, from the latest issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, looks at how digital culture has influenced the most recent generation of graffiti writers, who grew up fully enmeshed in the abbreviated language of text messaging and online communication. Arguing that this gives rise to a "visual reader" who balances and decodes meaning from a digital, street, and contemporary art context, this new generation contributes a sharper [...]
Wooster Collective |
Dec 22, 2008 11:33AM
we make money not art |
Dec 22, 2008 11:19AM
Ergin Çavusoglu, Fog Walking, 2007 LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijon (SP) cultivates the art of coming up with unexpected exhibitions. The day you believe you can safely define it as 'center for new media art', they come up with 1. a show on experimental design and 2. an exhibition of projects that record or evoke a series of actual or imaginary journeys, either through the local landscape of Asturias, or through a comparably remote and mountainous [...]
Personism |
Dec 22, 2008 10:50AM
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