Hippyshopper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stylish and sexy vegan footwear has become something of an epidemic since Natalie Portman helped kick-start the trend last winter . This is the second new range I've heard about in a week, and it's really exciting to see designers getting into this market. These rather Jackson Pollock-esque paint spattered beauties are part of a new range from Olsen Haus , a 'pure vegan' company that is ethical to...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | yesterday
KALAMAZOO.- The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) is sharing 89 of its finest works of European and American art from a 300-year period - works that survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that ensued. The exhibition, Spared from the Storm: Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art, will open at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (www.kiarts.org) on Saturday,
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
According to a document the University of Iowa Museum of Art prepared for the University of Iowa board of regents, in 2007 Sotheby's offered the University of Iowa Museum of Art a $150 million guarantee if the museum would sell Jackson Pollock's 1943 Mural . Sotheby's also wanted to sell a major Max Beckmann painting in the UIMA collection. UIMA refused all offers. The board of regents required UIMA...
philosophical conversations (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
There is an exhibition of Emily Kame Kngwarreye's work (from 1988 until her death in late 1996) at the National Museum in Canberra. it was shown at The National Art Center, Tokyo in May/July 2008 Kngwarreye lacked any training or exposure to Western art yet her paintings transcend the categorization...
The Wealth Report (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Last week, Damien Hirst sold more than $200 million of pickled animals and splatter paintings in London. A unnamed buyer recently paid $28.5 million for a vintage Ferrari 250 GTO in a private sale. The easy explanation for these big-ticket blow-outs is that the super-rich simply aren't effected by what [...]
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
NEW YORK.- This exhibition traces the evolution of photography in the 20th and 21st centuries, from early Pictorialist works that mimic the moodiness of late 19th-century painting, through the Modern formal experimentations of the Constructivist and Bauhaus schools, to the documentary ethos of mid-century America and the large-scale, staged tableaux of our own time. As indicated by its
smays.com (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Davezilla.com shares "Things I Learned from Movies, Part III." (I missed parts I and II). My favorites from this list of ten: The first hot woman to appear onscreen in a spy movies is the double agent. Heroes simply bleed less than criminals, who tend to bleed in arterial spray patterns, resembling a Jackson Pollock painting. Virginity protects you from serial killers.
Unsolicited Marketing Advice (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Jackson Pollock's art is interesting, especially the more colorful pieces, but I've generally had a much harder time appreciating other abstract art. I found some rationale for my tastes (or lack thereof) in " Acquired Taste ," in article by Gene Edward Veith in World Magazine (subscriber login required for full article, Feb 9/16, 2008 issue), where he explains "A work is beautiful to the extent that...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Why Obama is famous and Diebenkorn is not.
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
When I think of the jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922–79), the word "canvas" comes to mind, for a couple of reasons. Non-visual artists who create works broad in scope are often said to work "on a large canvas,"...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Top of the morning to ya Good old Terry WoganSo it's been an interesting couple of days probably not for people reading but definitely for me. I left you on Koh Phangan where I was about to embark upon the ordeal known as the half moon party.The day was mainly filled with me reading a little bit of Bill Bryson and drinking fruit shakes while making friends with quite a large amount of stray do
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
This list of streaming arts videos has been out for a few days now, but it's worth bookmarking, if only to remind yourself that there's more to YouTube than political attack videos and sneezing pandas. There's actually culture there, from...
The Cranky Professor (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Bacon's work was included in important U.S. collections during his lifetime. He never quite conquered New York where the dominant styles were first the abstraction of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, then the cool of Pop and Minimalism. His work,...
Urban Retro Blog (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Now you can take some cool toys with you everywhere you go! Designed by an amazing array of international artists, the OXOP Qee Series 3 is the ultimate portable playset. And we’re pleased to tell you that the range is now available at urbanretro.co.uk. To bring your toys on the move, just add the included [...]
