Archibald Knox and the Celtic Knot
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.
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Archibald Knox and the Celtic Knot
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.
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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
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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.
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The Textile Work of Mariska Undi
I can imagine that few experiences could be as simultaneously flattering and unnerving as having your portrait done. For one thing, it's a complete surrender of agency as to how you're represented to the artist, but at the same time, it's ego-stroking to be considered important, interesting or visually compelling enough to have it done in the first place.
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Shot through the heart: Viktor Mitic’s "Dealers" opens tonight
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.
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Artist tussles with the zeitgeist–James Rosenquist’s new autobiography
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
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Toronto Art Critics Talk Art: David Balzer, Otino Corsano, Rosemary Heather, Charlene Lau, Leah Sandals, Nadja Sayej and Murray Whyte
I clearly remember the first time I heard about Lauri Lynnxe Murphy and her work. It was 1997 and at the time I was the Director / Curator of OneWest Art Center (now the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art ). I would typically head to Denver on Saturday morning to spend the day checking out what was happening at the various galleries, museums, and art centres in the city
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Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: Strange Fruit on Kickstarter & Tenticular @ Plastic Chapel
PETER OMPIR TIN TRAY SIGNED In the 1950s the Horn of Plenty Gift Shop in Sturbridge featured the work of Massachusetts’ resident artist Peter Ompir. Now, fifty years later, Ompir’s highly-collectible, distinctive, freehand painted items are still displayed in the antique shop located at that same site. Considered one of America’s premier folk artists, Peter Ompir has been christened many names—the “Dean of American Toleware,” the “Dean of Décor Painting” and the “Father of American Decorative Painting.” In an article written by Phillip C.
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Folk Art by Peter Ompir
Released in 2000, The Sims was the first computer game in its genre to engage players in the everyday activities of virtual people, or “Sims.” It is like a microcosmic version of SimCity (the urban planning/management computer game) but instead of a municipality you create and manage individual persons. The ultimate goal is to steer your Sim towards happiness via a rather traditional real-world route: hobbies, love (The Sims 3 is LGB marriage-inclusive), a family, a fulfilling career with accumulated skills, socialization, money, and good hygiene. Alice and Kev 1 Kev with Alice in their “home”
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Homelessness in a Discrete Living Simulation
As I head out on a road trip, I thought I’d update and repost a favorite newsletter from 2004. This may have been the seeds of The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion ! Escape the PMWP I first started watching “The Apprentice” television show when an ArtBizCoach.com member alerted me to an episode in which the participants’ assignment was to sell art. That episode confirmed that you have to believe in your product (your art) before you can sell it to the public
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Escape the PMWP (Poor Me Whining Phenomenon)
While I started my curatorial career creating mostly thematic group shows, I have always been most interested in solo or one-person exhibitions. I strongly believe that it takes more than one or two examples of an artists work to really understand the work and get a grasp of what the artist is doing or trying to say. A well curated or developed solo show can provide the viewer with a detailed or comprehensive look at a specific body of work, or of a survey of a longer period of artistic production
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Miquel Barcelo @ the Spanish Pavillion – 53rd La Biennale di Venezia
We have been back in Toronto for just over 72 hours now. As I stated in an earlier post this was my first trip to Venice and to the La Biennale di Venezia . I have to admit that I fell in love with Venice, and had moments where I contemplated phoning my parents and asking them to send us Pookie (our adorable little toy poodle) as I wanted to stay in this somewhat unreal environment of art, architecture, perfect weather and no cars! Pookie in Gallery Window Brayham Contemporary Art Toronto, ON Of course the reality is that we don’t speak Italian, Phil has teaching and research commitments at the University of Waterloo, I have the gallery and am in the midst of my PhD
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Navigating Venice and the 53rd La Biennale di Venezia without an expense account
Filed under: Events: On the Scene Despite his career ups (Target, Liz Claiborne) and downs (” The Fashion Show “), there are two things about Isaac Mizrahi that haven’t changed a bit since 1995: his gravity-defying hair and oversized personality. Both were on display last night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a Q&A hosted by Harold Koda, the institution’s top curator
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Isaac Mizrahi Talks Models, Muses, and Fashion Mayhem at the Met
Jump to the full entry & travel map Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Individuals around the world have always desired to live in healthier lifestyles by staying in good health and spirit. However, staying fit in today’s fast paced world is a challenge for many people who have careers and families to take care of because of which they are unable to avoid gaining a few pounds as it is natural. Yet, their passion and desire to stay robust and fit has not weakened.
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Proactol – Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Mona Morales-Schildt Ventana range 1960s Mona Morales-Schildt was initially trained at the Stockholm College of Art, Craft and Design. In 1935 she joined the Gustavsberg company as an assistant to the designer Wilhelm Kage. In 1938 she moved to the Finnish ceramics company Arabia, where she stayed until the start of the Second World War.
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Mona Morales-Schildt and the Ventana Glass Range
{photo by Ken Howard, Santa Fe Opera: Actors rehearsing for an upcoming production of the world premiere Opera Noir “The Letter,” with libretto by earstwhile Washington Post theater critic Terry Teachout.} This is really interesting- Washington Post theater critic Terry Teachout made a bold and brave step across the proscenium line recently, agreeing to try his hand at creating the work that he has made a career out of critiquing. In this case, it’s a new adaptation of W.
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Intriguing: A Critic Describes Becoming an Artmaker
Louisa Frances Pesel 1899 Louisa Frances Pesel was an embroidery designer in her own right who studied under Lewis F Day, however she was better known during her lifetime as a writer, historian and producer of numerous books on the history of embroidery, she was also a great disseminator of embroidery patterns that she collected in her books, from all corners of the world. She published hundreds of embroidery patterns, many having languished in obscurity at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Louisa Frances Pesel and Embroidery Design
Jump to the full entry & travel map Houei Xai, Lao Peoples Dem Rep Few people stick around in Houey Xai, but if they do, it’s to visit The Gibbon Experience, a three day gibbon watch in the Bokeo Nature Reserve, Northern Laos. Of course, there’s also the added attraction of zipwiring through the jungle canopy and sleeping out in treehouses, and, fancying myself as a bit of a Tarzan in this age of equality, it was an opportunity too good to miss.
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Walk 20 minutes, zip zip, maybe – Houei Xai, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
The author of this post, Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin , is a 2008 graduate of Harvard College in History of Art and Architecture and Italian Studies who works at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and continues to fuel his interest in contemporary art by attending exhibits wherever his travels take him. Before I knew it, I was implicated.
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Shepard Fairey’s iconoclasm at ICA Boston