Philaplace is our place–especially Southwark and NoLibs
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has started up a sort of Philadelphia historical wiki site called philaplace.com , featuring text, audio and video stories about Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. The first neighborhoods on the site are Old Southwark and Northern Liberties–two of Philadelphia’s oldest immigrant and working-class neighborhoods
Go here to see the original:
Philaplace is our place–especially Southwark and NoLibs
Chris Ofili Foreword by Peter Doig, conversation with Thelma Golden, contributions by David Adjaye, Carol Becker, Okwui Enwezor, Cameron Shaw and Kara Walker hardcover, 272 pages, 200 color images and b&w drawings, 2009 $85 Rizzoli New York This gorgeous coffee table book about the works of Afro-British artist Chris Ofili is a love affair from start to finish. Great photos of the works — in situ in gallery spaces and in amazing closeups of the rambunctious details — make for hours of satisfactory page-turning
Link:
Book-stravaganza 2 – Monographs and show catalogs
Shepard Fairey goes up against a Keith Haring knock-off in the Boteri Cafe, Venice, Italy. Shepard Fairey , who rose to fame and made his mark with his wildly successful and now controversial Obama campaign poster, has left his mark here in Venice as well. During the June international art orgy known as the Venice Biennale, Fairey was brought to a tiny bar in the San Polo quarter near the Rialto Bridge by two Biennale hostesses, according to Guiliano, the bartender at Boteri Cafe. “He was a little drunk, but very nice,” says the barman. The Boteri, also known as Al Genovesi (San Polo 1701 Venezia) on the Calle Del Botteri, is a tiny little art hangout covered with Keith Haring inspired drawings. Fairey must have thought the café was ripe for some more American graffiti and so he returned the next day with a fat portfolio of his Obey propaganda and asked the owner if he could paper the back room with his designs. “No problem,” said the owner, eager to have some live art to go with the Haring installation and create a wall-sized souvenir from a clandestine Venice Biennale Stylized little girl and big fascist eyes offer Fairey fans a touch of Futurismo with their apero
Read more:
Shepard Fairey Does Venice, Silvio
Illustration: Byzantine Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones placed the chapter on Byzantine ornament between that of the Roman and Arabian in his 1856 book entitled The Grammar of Ornament . This chapter sequence was always important to Jones as it set out his theories of who influenced who and who followed who, both culturally and historically. He saw the decorative style of Byzantium as following on from the Roman phase and being an important element of the following Islamic decorative style
Read this article:
Owen Jones and Byzantium
Archibald Knox both used and understood the relevance of Celtic design work to the British decorative arts world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Knox was born on the Isle of Man and was of Scottish descent. He had a keen interest in his ancestry and his heritage and was happy to play up that heritage when it came to aspects of his career.
See the original post here:
Archibald Knox and the Celtic Knot
So far MAN readers have donated $1,317 $1,384 $1,409 to MAN’s 2009 DonorsChoose.org challenge, which helps support teachers who want to make sure their students learn about and engage with art. That puts us ahead of the Hirshhorn’s Bulbous Membrane dreams, $1,317 to $0. The rout is on! Keep it up! We’re only $68 from fully funding a project that would help Illinois students study Mexican murals and make one of their own
View post:
MAN readers $1,317, Bulbous Membrane fans $0
Thanks Culture Monster for the heads up. And congratulations all you Fellows ! Philadelphia-based ceramic artist, Kukuli Velarde is a USA Knight Fellow in Crafts and Traditional Arts USA Fellows for 2009 Architecture and Design Neil Denari, USA California Community Foundation Fellow, Los Angeles, California Laura Kurgan, USA Rockefeller Fellow, New York, New York Rick Lowe, USA Booth Fellow, Houston, Texas Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy, USA Target Fellows, Pasadena, California Crafts and Traditional Arts Perry Eaton, USA Rasmuson Fellow, Anchorage, Alaska Delores Lewis Garcia and Emma Lewis Mitchell, USA Gift of Art Fellows, San Fidel, New Mexico Beth Lo , USA Hoi Fellow, Missoula, Montana Dona Look, USA Windgate Fellow, Algoma, Wisconsin Mary Shaffer, USA Simon Fellow, Taos, New Mexico Kukuli Velarde, USA Knight Fellow, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dance Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, USA Knight Fellow, Long Beach, California Lin Hixson and Matthew Goulish, USA Ziporyn Fellows, Chicago, Illinois Hokulani Holt-Padilla, USA Ford Fellow, Wailuku, Hawaii Tere O’Connor, USA Rockefeller Fellow, New York, New York Reggie Wilson, USA Prudential Fellow, Brooklyn, New York Literature Ai, USA Ford Fellow, Stillwater, Oklahoma Nilo Cruz, USA Fontanals Fellow, New York, New York Gilbert Hernandez, USA Rasmuson Fellow, Las Vegas, Nevada Antonya Nelson, USA Simon Fellow, Las Cruces, New Mexico Sapphire, USA Prudential Fellow, Brooklyn, New York Justin Torres, USA Rolón Fellow, Iowa City, Iowa Brian Turner, USA Hillcrest Fellow, Fresno, California Kevin Young, USA James Baldwin Fellow, Belmont, Massachusetts Media Cruz Angeles, USA Simon Fellow, New York, New York Charles Burnett, USA Broad Fellow, Los Angeles, California Scott Carrier, USA Rasmuson Fellow, Salt Lake City, Utah Heather Courtney, USA Ford Fellow, Austin, Texas Elizabeth Meister and Dan Collison, USA Donnelley Fellows, Three Oaks, Michigan Renée Tajima-Peña, USA Broad Fellow, Los Angeles, California Music Rahim AlHaj, USA Ford Fellow, Albuquerque, New Mexico Cyro Baptista, USA Walker Fellow, Tenafly, New Jersey Ella Jenkins, USA Collins Fellow, Chicago, Illinois Danongan Kalanduyan, USA Broad Fellow, San Francisco, California Hannibal Lokumbe, USA Cummings Fellow, Bastrop, Texas Lionel Loueke, USA Prudential Fellow, North Bergen, New Jersey Daniel Plonsey, USA Broad Fellow, El Cerrito, California Theater Arts Dan Hurlin, USA Prudential Fellow, New York, New York Ruth Maleczech, USA Gracie Fellow, New York, New York John O’Neal, USA Prudential Fellow, New Orleans, Louisiana Anna Deavere Smith, USA Berresford Fellow, New York, New York Visual Arts Diana Al-Hadid, USA Rockefeller Fellow, Brooklyn, New York Terry Allen, USA Oliver Fellow, Santa Fe, New Mexico Vija Celmins, USA Broad Fellow, New York, New York Anthony Hernandez, USA Hillcrest Fellow, Los Angeles, California Joan Jonas, USA Friends Fellow, New York, New York Kim Jones, USA Rockefeller Fellow, New York, New York Martin Mazorra and Michael Houston, USA Ford Fellows, Brooklyn, New York Dave McKenzie, USA Rockefeller Fellow, Brooklyn, New York Judy Pfaff, USA Rasmuson Fellow, Kingston, New York Dario Robleto, USA Rasmuson Fellow, Houston, Texas
View post:
US Artists 2009 Fellows include Philly’s Kukuli Velarde
Illustration: M Hrdlicka lace design 1904 A number of traditional mediums saw a re-emergence of their creative side during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This creative period was in close proximity to the two style eras that followed each other and in many cases overlapped, namely the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements.
The rest is here:
Art Nouveau Lace Patterns
Illustration: Margaret Macdonald border pattern Margaret Macdonald, the other but largely invisible half of the influential Mackintosh design duo, was known variously as both a help and hindrance to her husband, the major talent of the duo, or that of a vicious untalented manipulator. All of course are nonsense and we will probably never know fully what contribution either made to the design style that has become known as Mackintosh
Read the rest here:
The Margaret Macdonald Rose
Illustration: Mariska Undi Hunting for the Wonderdeer Mariska Undi is perhaps better known as a Hungarian artist and one of the key members of the Godollo Arts & Crafts community. However, she was also a campaigner and champion of the applied arts medium and was personally involved in a number of projects that had textiles at their heart. Throughout her career she had a particular and constant interest in the folk art traditions of her native Hungary.
See more here:
The Textile Work of Mariska Undi
Post by Corey Armpriester Delicate dark chocolate squares and tiny ceramic cups half-filled with espresso slowly consumed in a small studio kitchen; flying high on my caffeine buzz (and feeling over confident) I start a modest conversation about art, science, robots and genetically modified foods with the artist that helped map the Human Genome Project, 1980 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Wally Gilbert . Wally Gilbert, Four Faces, digital print Corey Armpriester -When you were 14, you created a telescope that could photograph sun spots
Read this article:
Wally Gilbert – Crossing Lines
Nicolai Cikovsky, born in 1894 Russia, was known for his landscape and figure paintings. He began his studies at the Vilna Art School for four years followed by an additional four years at the Penza Royal Art School. After attending the Moscow High Tech Art Institute for two years he immigrated to America in 1923.
See the rest here:
Nicolai Cikovsky, born in 1894 Russia, was known for his landscape and figure paintings.
Way back in 1950 Richard Taylor wrote an article advising would-be cartoonists to show a little respect for the profession: “The woods are full of pseudo-cartoonists,” wrote Taylor, “grinding out things that are not much better than the average high-school student’s masterpieces, doomed forever to a sub-world of third-rate pictorial humor, and without the ghost of a hope of ever climbing higher.” All this week on my blog I’ve been showcasing the work of some of the masters of mid-20th century cartoon art. Hank Ketcham , John Huehnergarth , Russell Patterson , Roy Doty and Richard Taylor himself
Read more:
Cartooning Is Easy! …not.
The American Association of Museums’ code of ethics says that member museums must ensure that “programs are founded on scholarship and marked by intellectual integrity.” Yesterday, in a Q&A here on MAN, New Orleans Museum of Art director E. John Bullard admitted that NOMA’s installation of a Disney marketing display-cum-exhibition in NOMA’s galleries was not founded on scholarship and that intellectual integrity was not a consideration. Bullard said that NOMA’s new exhibition, ‘Dreams Come True,’ originated with the Walt Disney Co.
Read the original:
Disney markets at NOMA: A major museum error
Post by Judith Stein If you have ever wondered about creativity and the zeitgeist, you will enjoy James Rosenquist ’s new autobiography, Painting Below Zero, Notes on a Life in Art . It is a richly colored account of one artist’s trajectory from the fifties to the present day, an engaging narrative that tracks his transformation from American country boy to international art star.
See the original post:
Artist tussles with the zeitgeist–James Rosenquist’s new autobiography
at the Cisneros Foundation brunch This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB ( Art Basel Miami Beach ) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel , Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as well as meeting up with Artblog’s Roberta and Libby for a day. The following are random snapshots rather than any attempt at a synthesis
Read more from the original source:
Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami
It was almost exactly eight years ago that I decided to move back to Canada as I had just accepted the position as the Director of the Canadian Craft & Design Museum in Vancouver. The museum was hidden in a courtyard at the corner of Georgia and Hornby across the street from the Vancouver Art Gallery . I was aware of some of the problems the institution had experienced over the years, and was not unaware that there were probably deeper issues than they were willing to divulge, as they were unable to cover the costs for me to fly to Vancouver for my interview
View original post here:
What is it about Craft? The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery Faces an Uncertain Future
Oodles of research reveals just how important arts education is when it comes to developing young minds. According to Americans for the Arts, young people who participate in the arts are many times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, to be elected to class office within their schools, and are more likely to participate in a math and science fair. My mother was an art educator, so I’m particularly disappointed in how a lack of prioritization, the so-called No Child Left Behind law and other factors have driven the arts out of public schools
See original here:
MAN’s 2009 DonorsChoose.org challenge starts now!
I have been thinking about King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at the Art Gallery of Ontario quite a bit lately. Actually I have not been just thinking about it, I have been troubled by it. As a former museum director / curator I have to admit that I have a huge issue with Blockbuster exhibitions
The rest is here:
Toronto Art Critics Talk Art: David Balzer, Otino Corsano, Rosemary Heather, Charlene Lau, Leah Sandals, Nadja Sayej and Murray Whyte
This month’s round of TGRWT is hosted by John Sconzo over at Docsconz , and the foods to pair this time are pumpkin and cooked chicken .* As always you can find instructions on how to participate in the announcement post . If you are new to TGRWT (which stands for They Go Really Well Together), check out the round-ups of the previous 19 rounds ! * In case you wondered why the link to the announcement posts includes lemon grass: There was some confusion regarding how to read the charts at the foodpairing website. The initial suggestion was to use pumpkin and lemon grass, but his has now been changed to pumpkin and cooked chicken
Read the original here:
TGRWT #20: Pumpkin and cooked chicken