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Everyone is a Critic
artPark | July 14th 2008 by Rob & Laura Jones
Is professional criticism becoming irrelevant? This seems to be the question recently posed by Financial Times art critic Martin Bernheimer. Having read Mr. Bernheimer’s recent article, it seems to me that someone must have pissed in Mr. Bernheimer read more
Insane
The Plucked Rat | June 16th 2008 by Plucked Rat
Todays Specials - “Insane in the Membrane”… This video of Cypress Hill is CRAZY » You’ve got to check it out !!! The Plucked Rat presents : Video by daiegos © Insane in the Membrane - Indeed… Featured friends’ pos read more
Whatchamacallit…
Ranger wow !!! | June 16th 2008 by Plucked Rat
Planning a whatchamacallit - Check this video out… A friend sent me this video - It is so stupid… You’ve got to check it out !!! The Plucked Rat presents : Video by Guadee © Does any of you know - where can I get one of those ??? read more
My New Born Son’s Picture
The Plucked Rat | June 4th 2008 by Plucked Rat
Being a Father for the first time, is going to be my personal Burning Man 2008. I just became a dad to E-tamar (my first born). He is such a funny baby - Makes funny faces… He is a piece of ART ( but good ART not the shitty JUNK you see around read more
One more on Rauschenberg
ChrsBeachamPaints | May 28th 2008 by Chris
Tyler Green's blog Modern Art Notes is a great and sometimes contentious journey through the modern art scene.A recent post discussed the many articles and remembrances of Robert Rauschenberg following his death. Tyler notes the unwillingness of the read more
Best Museums in the US
Burning Man Trip | May 21st 2008 by Trip Shop - Travel Journal
Have a free afternoon? - Treat yourself to a nice museum… I’m a well known Museum Freak - I was once a week in Paris, and went to 2 Museums a day (some, more than once). I know it sounds cliché - But, I really think a good museum is one read more
Eventually We’ll Die: Young Art in Israel in the Nineties - A R…
Israel Travel Tips | May 9th 2008 by isragirl
Isragirl Presents : Women Soldiers, Work by Nir Hod © An exhibition titled “Eventually we’ll Die - Yong Israeli Art in the Nineties” opened recently in Herzliya Museum of contemporary art. The exhibition focuses on the idea of R read more
HOW DO YOU “FEEL” ABOUT THIS IMAGE? AN INTERACTIVE EXERCISE…
Art and Zen Today | May 5th 2008
Zen Master John Loori has created an exercise that allows artists to find out how their work is affecting their viewer’s gut-level responses. I thought it might be fun to try this on-line with the idea that in the future readers could submit their read more
Outlook '08: A changing art landscape
Portland Public Art | April 25th 2008
From the Oregonian, by D.K. Row April 21, 2008. The text below is becoming an annual feature by Row, a clear, brief summation of the Portland art scene. I've republished it here because the Oregonian's web site is unsearchable. Like the roil and th read more
words without pictures
Lost in the Landscape | April 16th 2008 by James
I’ve been looking at WORDSWITHOUTPICTURES, an interesting online journal and discussion space hosted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. True to its name, the site is a big pile of words without a single picture, an action that’s par read more
Doc Aviv - The International Documentary Film Festival at Tel Avi…
Israel Travel Tips | March 30th 2008 by isragirl
The International Documentary Film Festival of Tel Aviv is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and Tel-Avivians as well as visitors, will soon be flocking the local Cinematheque. During the 10 days festival, 12 new Israeli movies will be comp read more
Photo of Art Gallery and Blue Dog from Israel
Israel Travel Tips | March 24th 2008 by isragirl
I got this strange photo from a good friend, to be honest, I’m not sure were it was taken. I think it is a gallery in Jaffa, but it could be in Jerusalem, Ein Hod (an artists village on the way from Haifa to Tel Aviv), or even Acre, or Safed read more
Thinking in reductivism and listening to the ideas it presents.
text.chrisrusak.com | March 19th 2008 by Chris Rusak
One of the first things I hear in a gallery of people viewing Minimal or Reductive art is “what is it?” I credit the diminishing value we have placed on art education over the years and the fact that often the most simplistic moments of l read more
Comics market and Comics Museum in Israel
Israel Travel Tips | March 18th 2008 by isragirl
The Comics market of Tel Aviv is back: Following a short brake of a few months the Comics market is back in the city. You are all invited to this fun gathering of Comics nerds at Dizingoff Center – a big shopping mall at the heart of Tel Aviv (Fri read more
Arts blogs and resources
ChrsBeachamPaints | February 18th 2008 by Chris
Here a few art blogs that are fairly interesting. The bloggers were all interviewed for a recent issue of Art in America.Art blog mostly about Philly but still of general interestTyler Green's blog about modern and contemporary artA Portland, OR bas read more
Farafina Online
Leo Africanus | February 17th 2008 by Leo Africanus
Some of the contents of Farafina magazine’s latest issue — theme: ‘Home: Lost & Found’ — is now online. (Leo’s alter ego even got in on the action.) See here read more
A Coffee table book
Leo Africanus | February 13th 2008 by Leo Africanus
I finally looked through Black Britain: A Photographic History by Paul Gilroy published last year. The book contains some beautiful and striking images drawn from Getty Images’ archive and there are some clear standouts: I was particularly stru read more
The photography of Peter McKenzie
Leo Africanus | February 10th 2008 by Leo Africanus
Interview with the South African photographer Peter McKenzie by Sean O’Toole and images from an exhibition at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa here. (For more background on McKenzie, see also Africultures). read more
spencer tunick - naked people as crayons.
the SUPAHblog. | February 1st 2008 by cantastical
i’m pretty sure it takes a quite a while to build a photographic career that gives you the credibilty to be able to build a mound of 7,000 naked strangers for your work. so for that, a big high five goes out to spencer tunick for creating such read more
Steve Martin on why he stuck with comedy
ChrsBeachamPaints | January 30th 2008 by Chris
From an article Steve wrote for the New Yorker fairly recently.A discussion of my odyssey in painting, collage, mixed media and all things art. read more
Something new
ChrsBeachamPaints | January 9th 2008 by Chris
Supposedly I started this blog 2 years ago to track my journey into art. So far that has largely meant just posting my pictures. Is that all there is to my journey? I hope not. So something new. I'm going to post on what I think about art, where read more
art is not about subject matter
abir o moshk | December 31st 2007
... but about HOW we address it in our expression.ultimately subject matters ought to be mere stepping stones to 'something else' rather than a finality in itself. some great art has no recognizable subject matter.the same goes with other media: do w read more
the copy-paste generation
abir o moshk | December 29th 2007
the death of culturesclick on an indian godhead-image and drag it on your dashboard, paste it with photoshop on a californian landscape you've found by accident, shake it into an italian cocktail, serve it into a chinese dish, blow it up and print it read more
the death of french culture?
abir o moshk | December 21st 2007
changement de cap!suite à un article dans le Time Magazine qui titrait: "The Death of French Culture", les invités sur le plateau de "ce soir ou jamais" (le 19 Décembre sur france 3) étaient là pour débattre de la situation de 'l'art contempo read more
CAC Perspectives: Can Modern Art and Religion Get Along?
ArtStyle, A Voice For Artists In Chicago | November 30th 2007 by Amy Rudberg
The December issue of Chicago Artists’ News contains another installment of “Perspectives,” a column in which invited artists, critics, gallerists, and other art-world figures weigh in on an issue or phenomenon that has caught the read more
art-illusions
abir o moshk | November 21st 2007
no matter the circumstances one thing cannot be achieved by a painter, that is liing to a discerning viewer.standing before one of his paintings (not the reproduction but the real object) you can tell where the artist comes from.look at it intently f read more
something to chew on
abir o moshk | September 26th 2007
Quotes for today: Robert Hughes+ Drawing brings us into a different, a deeper and more fully experienced relation to the object.+ Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies.. the desire for an active, in read more
Arts in the Media: Power of Art
ArtStyle, A Voice For Artists In Chicago | July 27th 2007 by Amy Rudberg
We’ve been watching the PBS art series Simon Schama’s The Power of Art, which airs on Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. Schama says, “This is not a series about things that hang on walls; it is not about decor or prettiness. It is a series about t read more
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