The fun of the wager
I don’t mean to pick on one writer or on one blog, but here’s a good example of why I’m enjoying the Super Bowl-wager back-and-forth between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art: Yesterday the big sports blog site SB Nation ran a post on it here: “I’m as surprised Indianapolis has an art museum as you are,” SBN editor Holly Anderson snarked.
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The fun of the wager
UPDATE, Wednesday, 130pm EST: The bet is made and done. See below/bottom.
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UPDATE: *The bet is done.* Art museum director Super Bowl trash talk: It’s on.
Illustration: Dorothy Liebes sample of a room divider 1952 Early in her career, while studying art and anthropology at college, Dorothy Liebes bought her first small portable handloom and was able to teach herself the art of weaving. This early start into the world of craft textiles was eventually to lead Liebes into a full time textile career. After a few years into a career of teaching, Liebes took the decision to both study textile design and then to become a textile designer
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Dorothy Liebes Artist Weaver
This morning, via Twitter , I’m playing matchmaker in trying to arrange a Super Bowl bet between the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art . IMA director and Twitter-devotee Maxwell Anderson stepped up and wagered a three-month loan of this recently acquired painting
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Two art museums and a Super Bowl loan wager
Yesterday I saw Silvester painting portraits and he gave some tips and tricks, Today I just had to give it a go. My greatest model ever was happy to pose for me. “Annette.” 20 minutes portrait
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"Annette." 20 min. Portrait.
I wanted to tell you about a great idea initiated by Malcolm Rains and followed though on by his dealer, Nicholas Metivier , but I'm happy to report that it's too late. That's a rare circumstance, but the thing is, yesterday I received a note from the Metivier Gallery that they were holdign a fundraising raffle of work by gallery artists for Haitian earthquake relief
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Artists for Haitian relief at the Metivier gallery
Illustration: Untitled 1 by Marion Coleman 2007 These four abstract textile art pieces by Marion Coleman, are all linked through a series of commonalities, colour, texture, and pattern. However, probably the most obvious and noticeable link is that of her use of patterned textiles. In these particular pieces, she uses a mixture of locally American sourced textiles and perhaps more importantly, a generous supply of African sourced textiles
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The Abstract Finesse of Textile Artist Marion Coleman
After all that nice white stuff, it’s quite hard to get something, … but I did find some left overs! “Wilgenbos.” Velp, Holland. (Willow Forest.) Oil on panel
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"wilgenbos." Velp, Holland.
I am smitten with this piece…even though it is one of my own pieces…and I don’t usually get smitten with my own art. For some reason, this particular piece ‘speaks’ to me on so many levels and I am just plain ‘smitten’
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I have entered ‘The Aviator’ into the EBSQ Show..Grey
Maybe the most photographed or painted building in Arnhem, or at least it should be! It’s quite an picturesque scene, in the middle of a large city, that’s why I also show a photo of it, it shows very well how it’s build inn, … it give soo much more charm I think. “Watermolen Sonsbeek.” Arnhem, Holland.
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"Watermolen Sonsbeek." Arnhem, Holland.
In our previous posts, we have shared about what Madhubani paintings are and where do they emerge from and what are the common themes in such paintings. Also, off late I have been reading a lot about Madhubani paintings and thought I too should try my hand at it too. To do a Madhubani painting
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How to do a Madhubani painting
Illustration: Random Ascent Denise Linet 2009 The work of textile artist Denise Linet resembles that of a complex assemblage of different mediums, experiences, and observations. Linet’s work incorporates a whole host of printing processes from straightforward dying and painting to the much more complex and accomplished process of the transference of photographic imagery. These processes give the artist a wide range of surface textures and mark making capabilities in which to build up her compositions
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The Perceptive Visions of Textile Artist Denise Linet
Barbara Haviland Cheryl Ratcliff Mark Webster Karla Nolan Cheryl Pass Andrew Orr Justin Clayton Becky Joy David Edwards To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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One of a Kind Art for Sale! – Jan 14, 2010
I biked across this bridge countless times and still find this view awesome, especially now, when the landscape turned completely white, … “Vanaf de A12.” Arnhem, Holland
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"Vanaf de A12." Arnhem, Holland.
Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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New Daily Paintings – Jan 13, 2010 – from Painting a Day Artists!
Artists Leroy Johnson and Sarah McEneaney have been selected for the most recent Philadelphia Percent for Art competition — this just announced by the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. The two artists — both longtime Philly folk with many accolades and awards — will create new paintings for the new Youth Study Center at 48th and Haverford (not yet built–previously the YSC was on the Parkway where the new Barnes will be). The art will be about Philadelphia and include Philadelphia scenes in it.
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Leroy Johnson and Sarah McEneaney — new Percent for Art program artists
In a Friday post about Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991-present), I noted the work’s intellectual roots in America’s 1980s and 1990s debates about multiculturalism. The United States wasn’t the only country to have a national conversation about multiculturalism in those years and it wasn’t just Kim who used tried-and-true art strategies to engage with that discourse: Great Britain had its own debate about multiculturalism and what it meant for the British
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Art and the multi-cultural 1990s: From Kim to Shonibare
Mark Webster Barbara Haviland Karla Nolan AJ LaGasse Anna Tikhomirova Andrew Orr Janice Warriner David Edwards Becky Joy Justin Clayton Cheryl Pass Cheryl Ratcliff To purchase any painting, simply visit the artist’s blog for details!
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Art for Sale Online | Daily Art Painters – Jan 10, 2010
And I was thinking last Monday that it was cold! It can get much worst, much much worst although you hardly can see it on the paintings and photo’s Anyway you can’t get these scenes in the summer and it’s well worth the experience and effort, “Schaatsen Duiven.” Duiven, Holland. (Ice skating Duiven.) Oil on panel.
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Ice skating Holland.
Synecdoche , the Byron Kim installation acquired by the National Gallery of Art late last year, is not a great work of art. It is closer to the end of every art historical precedent it engages than it is to the beginning: abstract painting, the use of the grid, monochrome painting, abstraction-as-portraiture, minimalism, even its use of art world insiders as models to help the work ‘get over,’ WWE-style
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Synecdoche and the National Gallery of Art