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Cartoon criticism
Cartoons (I’m referring to those humorous illustrations in magazines and newspapers) often provide the perfect blend of form and content sought by many an artist. Cartoons often say what I hav...
Art to die for
Pippa Bacca in Istanbul a few days before she was killed. Image by Sirio Magnabosco. Source: The New York Times. Two performance artists, Pippa Bacca and Silvia Moro, conceived the idea for the ...
Electric Fountain runs dry
Electric Fountain by Tim Noble & Sue Webster. Images courtesy of MadSilence. It’s big, it’s blue, and now it’s gone. Electric Fountain was dismantled and removed yesterday, and i...
Seeking enlightenment, one podcast at a time
Due to the high cost of gasoline I’ve been commuting to work by train and looking for something to fill those idle commuting hours. Reading is always a good choice and listening to music on my...
Artist Spotlight: Capturing the Pre-Raphaelites on Digital Film
“Found Treasures” by Athansor. This is my nod to another amazing upcoming photographer to be found on DeviantArt. Aurora Vanderbosch’s DA gallery simply makes your jaw drop. She&...
Why does art disappear so easily from Europe?
…was one of the questions brought up by MS’s post “Robbers Hit the Art World.” Surprisingly, the writer’s over at Slate have taken a stab at an answer: they pin the hig...
The Art That We Deserve
I’m a fan of Kenneth Baker, art critic, author, and writer, contributor to ArtNews magazine, and resident art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. In a recent essay published on SFGate.com (Art G...
The future of the art blog
In “Contemporary Art, Uncovered,” Peter Plagens wrote about the decline in visual arts coverage in the popular press (Art in America February 2007). As a follow up to that article, Plagens asked ...
Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls
The New York City Waterfalls Project by Olafur Eliasson (artist’s rendering) Well, New York City had its shower curtains, could the showers be far behind? Artist Olafur Eliasson has been comm...
Liking It Raw
I like it raw. My art, that is. I’ve been eagerly awaiting New York City’s Outsider Art Fair only to be pleasantly surprised to find an outsider art exhibition here on Long Island. Nothing I...
Tape Art Redux: the Aesthetics of Tape
Space of Suspense #2by Mark Khaisman, 2005, packaging tape on clear plastic, 36” x 48” In an earlier MadSilence post (The art of tape, 10/31/07), we learned of American street artist Mark Jenkins...
Can You Blog Fashionably?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has officially joined the 21st century. In its new exhibit, “blog.mode : addressing fashion,” you can view a classic Dior gown and then blog about it. Blog.mode bl...
Conversation on public art
Roxy Paine, Conjoined, 2007 The broad range and psychic impact of public art was brought home to me on a recent visit to New York City’s Madison Square Park. Conjoined is a 40 foot-tall sc...