Diamondcanopy (Free subscription) | yesterday
So for the last couple of months, hair brand Aussie have been running their Aussie Angels campaign and really having some fun with bloggers . You may have noticed this competition running on some other UK blogs with the prospect of an amazing prize for both the winning blogger and a lucky reader. This is actually the first competition to feature on this blog and it's quite exciting. The challenge is...
An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
As a break from editing the bare breasts and sex out of my Egyptian novel Eye of the Moon for a US publisher, I’m reading Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Jeff Jarvis’s What Would Google Do? simultaneously. The three make very odd companions while I shift from 1500 BC to the 16th century, and then on to the digital world of now. In What Would Google Do? Jeff Jarvis suggests we have to...
b4teanews (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
It was a who's who of celebrities at the gala last night MOCA NEW 30th anniversary was held at MOCA November 14, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. It will hold its first new exhibition MOCA Thirty Years with more than 500 works by artists like Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons and Jean-Michel Basquiat.Lady Gaga performed at the event and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie made
HotOnlineNews.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Christina Ricci , in a delicate, navy blue dress, as she checked out the artwork before dinner. Though she's an art lover, she's not yet seriously started collecting the stuff, she told “I would love to if I had the money." One of her favorite artists, Mark Rothko, has an entire room of his works in L.A. MOCA's show, which she said she was looking forward to checking out. “I'm saving...
A Socialite's Life (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
It was a who's who of celebrity at last night's MOCA NEW 30th anniversary gala held at MOCA on November 14, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. It was celebrating it's new exhibit MOCA's First Thirty Years featuring more than 500 works by the likes of Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko,... ...read full story
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA (REUTERS).- Brought back from the brink of financial ruin by a philanthropist's $30 million gift, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles celebrates its turnaround this weekend with the most ambitious exhibition of its own iconic collection. More than 500 works by the likes of Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Jeff Koons, Frank Stella and Jean-Michel Basquiat...
PORT (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
A design for the new transit, pedestrian and cycling bridge, a first in the US For those who are transit and design oriented the latest public feedback meeting for the exciting new Willamette River Transit and Pedestrian Bridge with the architect Donald MacDonald will be on Tuesday November 10th at 3:00 PM. I like these latest design images, though the gray shaded divider seen here has not been approved...
Veg.itecture (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
It's unique to find a local project with some veg.itectural flair, so an addition to that is the interesting work, the unbuilt, possibly to be named, Mark Rothko Apartments, by one of the more innovative firms in town, works partnership architecture. along with one of the most daring developers, Randy Rapaport. The project features a stretching of the central core to create a 'garden' level that incorporates...
Connecticut Art Scene (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
New Haven Free Public Library Art Gallery 133 Elm St., New Haven How I Got Here: Paintings & Collages by Dr. Felix Bronner Through Dec. 11, 2009 Artist's reception: Sat., Nov. 7, 2:30—4:30 p.m. Press release Felix Bronner is an award-winning Geometric-Abstract painter, inspired by artists such as Adolph Gottlieb , William Baziotes , and Mark Rothko . He studied with William Cowing , Cary...
Style.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Four Seasons Restaurant in midtown Manhattan and the house of Chanel may be located on different sides of the Atlantic, but they have a few things in common. Both require wait lists for the good stuff (a prime table or a particular handbag), and both have had a long association with artists: Coco Chanel was linked to Diaghilev, Picasso, Stravinsky, and Cocteau, while Mark Rothko famously hoped...
flash & yearn (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
(note: this is a draft of an unpublished story that I had written while working for the Valley Advocate. It's incomplete, but I was surprised to find it at all. I had thought I had left the story behind when I was let go from the Advocate. Perhaps if I put it up here, I might be inspired to finish it some day.) The Rothko Chapel is a little building in the museum district in Houston, Texas, that a...
The Wooden Spoon (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
From Prospect Magazine , 'One difference between the avant-garde in classical music and in visual art, however, is that late 20th-century music was apt to defy these organising principles, while visual art did not. Although some viewers may fret that they cannot understand what is in front of them, it takes no more cognitive effort to “see” a painting by Mark Rothko than it does to look...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The subtitle of a book reviewed by Philip Ball — Who’s afraid of the avant-garde? The reviewer explains that "it takes no more cognitive effort to 'see' a painting by Mark Rothko than it does to look at wallpaper," while "sound is structured into music not on paper, nor even in the mind of the composer, but in the mind of the listener." Subscribe in a reader
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
MARK ROTHKO’S solemn and meditative Seagram Murals will inspire an evening of art and music at Tate Liverpool.
American Conservative Daily (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
You can't see it, but a quiet cultural revolution is under way at the White House. The Obamas are decorating their private spaces with more modern and abstract artwork than has ever hung on the White House walls. New pieces by contemporary black and American Indian artists are on display. Bold colors, odd shapes and squiggly lines have arrived. So, too, have some obscure artifacts, such as patent models...
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