P. Viktor (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liverpool is without doubt one of my favourite cities in the world. I am perhaps biased in this as I have a long-running relationship with the city. My father was born and raised there as well as my grandmother and...
Creative Media Diploma Yasemin Cakli (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
For our art project we had to create a campaign that relates to a child’s right form the UNICEF website (www.unicef.org.uk/). In order to promote our campaign we had to design poster using inspiration from the Tate gallery exhibition 'Rodchenko and Popova'. Here are a few that our group designed: Now using these posters we are going to create an animation that relates to our campaign and that...
Postcard Mania (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Humans have it seems always taken malicious delight in the misfortune of others. The Germans have a word for this - Schadenfreude. Many of the disasters to befall humankind in the early part of the twentieth century, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent damage from fires through the 1912 sinking of the RMS [...]
Sparkleknits (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
D and I are just back from a rather wonderful week in Cornwall. We were pretty lucky with the weather and although it was cold, it was clear and just about the perfect weather for wandering along deserted beaches and staring wistfully out at the sea. As you can see from the photo, my Flicca cardigan got its very first outing in public, accompanying me to St Ives where we took in the sea air and visited...
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Helen D (Blackbird) added the blog post ' The Unreal God And Aspects Of His Non-Existent Universe exhibited at A-ha's O2 gig in London '
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
ROME (Reuters) - Portraits by Italian master Caravaggio and Irish-born 20th-century painter Francis Bacon stand side-by-side in new exhibition connecting their tormented views of humanity despite contrasting approaches to realism.
Gordon Frickers' Blog (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A one hour illustrated lecture was given last night at Plymouth University by Professor Sam Smiles on the painter J.M.W. Turner. As J.M.W. Turner has been a hero of mine since my early days as a student in the 1960’s at Maidstone College of Art and Turner is also known for his marine painting, I had [...]
Bog Knits (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
I would normally name my projects after their recipients, like I did for Anastasia , Aleisha and Rhiannah . However I am not entirely read to go down in (this blog's) history, so this scarf is named after a line in Suzanne Vega's song "In Liverpool" . The chorus goes: Except for the boy in the belfry He's crazy, he's throwing himself Down from the top of the tower Like a hunchback in heaven...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
HAMBURG.- Since the artist’s inaugural exhibition of the K 21 in Düsseldorf in 2001, Deichtorhallen are the first to present a comprehensive solo exhibition of Katharina Fritsch (born in Essen, Germany in 1956). The work show, set up in cooperation with Kunsthaus Zürich, will be exclusively presented in Germany at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. As one of the leading female artists in Germany...
St Ives Cornwall (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
St Ives Cornwall - Storm Passes Over St Ives Cornwall - Blue Skies Return Autumn has really got under way in St Ives today - some sunshine, blustery heavy showers and cold winds. I've ventured out a few times to get some air and enjoy the views. I really do like Autumn ! I took some pictures of the contrasting skies as a heavy storm came over then passed on eastwards. But mostly I've been working in...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
*NOVEMBER 2ND, 1932: * ---Quote--- A deputation representing the Limerick unemployed waited upon Mr O'Donovan, private secretary to the Free State...
Vanitas Magazine (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
. While everything external dies away in the far off echo of the soul still there’s a mill wheel turning it is like a good kind of tiredness in the moment before sleep by some distant stream a note of peace in a life which will never be peaceful as the daylight fades the dream disintegrates but the shadow holds no power over what’s about to happen Flatford Mill : John Constable, 1817 (Tate...
Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
This week on Bravo's "Top Chef," yet another admirer made reference to Michael Voltaggio being similar to Picasso. True, he's innovative, but it's Kevin Gillespie's Rockwellian classic American culinary art (and a down-home personality to match) that may win judges...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
AN IRA terror cell behind a string of 1970s bombings compiled lists of targets including Buckingham Palace and other top London attractions, secret files released yesterday showed.
Duncan's TV Ad Land (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Sky TV in New Zealand is promoting the Arts Channel with the slogan, “Art for an Insultingly Low Price”, featured in a print advertising campaign. Featuring the story of Mark Rothco, the print ad sits in the tragicomedy genre well known to New Zealanders. Mark Rothco, born Marcus Rothkowitz in Latvia, was a post-war abstract artist [...] © 2009 The Inspiration Room
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