You have to start somewhere. Your career might begin in childhood when a parent praises a class assignment and hangs it on the refrigerator. You move on to making work for family and friends and it gets seen in private homes.
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Know when it’s time to move on to new exhibit venues
Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. BBC News | Health | World Edition Cell ‘surfing’ aids virus spread January 21, 2010 at 7:25 PM Some viruses may be able to accelerate by helping each other find uninfected cells to attack, scientists say.
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Cell ‘surfing’ aids virus spread
Tonight, the always-provocative (but equally hard-to-get-to) Art Gallery of York University's winter opens its winter show, Oliver Husain's “Hovering Proxies ,” where, the gallery tells us, “a new installation forms the backdrop for a new film filmed inside the exhibition for the exhibition.” Yes, I read it four times over, just like you did, and trying to untie the verbal knot (and knowing a little about Husain's work), I'm pretty sure it's a wry doubling of venue-as-subject, leaving the viewer dislocated from the space they inhabit and the artifice they see onscreen. But drop that for a moment and consider the setting Husain conjures, of an internal garden in tropical Jakarta, in the hot season; if nothing else, it'll help take the edge off the gathering January chill
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Micah Lexier at BMO’s Project Room, Oliver Husain at AGYU
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
The other night, I went to a much-hyped performance by Vancouver-based artist Gareth Moore at the Power Plant. Moore's part of that priveleged cabal of next-generation Vancouver conceptualists represented almost exclusively, it seems, by Catriona Jeffries , whose stable includes international art stars like Brian Jungen and Geoffrey Farmer , among others
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Travels with a stranger: Gareth Moore at the Power Plant
Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. BBC News | Entertainment | World Edition Fuller plans Spice Girls musical January 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM A stage production based on the Spice Girls and their music is being created by Mamma Mia! producer Julie Craymer for London’s West End, music mogul Simon Fuller says.
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Fuller plans Spice Girls musical
The Census Bureau is launching a new online initiative to reach out to Spanish speakers. A section of it’s Web site, www.2010census.gov/espanol offers a preview of the Census questionnaire that will be mailed out in March. It also features Spanish-language…
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Census Bureau launches Spanish-language Web site
Illustration: Doukhobor woman spinning 1907 The Doukhobor were and in many respects still are, a religious community, originally from Russia, who fled persecution to find a new life in Canada in the very late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Textiles were always seen as being an important and fundamental part of the community’s life.
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Spinning and Weaving in the Doukhobor Community
“Do this one cheap (or free) and we’ll make it up on the next one.” “We never pay a cent until we see the final product.” “Do this for us and you’ll get great exposure! The jobs will just pour in!” On looking at sketches or concepts: “Well, we aren’t sure if we want to use you yet, but leave your material here so I can talk to my partner/investor/wife/clergy.” “Well, the job isn’t CANCELLED, just delayed. Keep the account open and we’ll continue in a month or two.” “Contract
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Top Ten Lies Told To Beginning Artists, Designers, & Illustrators
What if Sherlock Holmes could wield an umbrella or a walking stick with the same dexterity and deadliness that Bruce Lee demonstrated with nunchuks? Introducing the coolest blog ever! No, really I defy you to find a blog more unusual or interesting or creative than this one. Actually, that sounds like a challenge. Alright then, let’s make it official! I’m issuing a challenge
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What if Sherlock Holmes could fight like Bruce Lee?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sponsoring a video contest to raise awareness of the connection between the environment and the “stuff” that we all use, consume, recycle, and throw away
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Video Contest: Our Planet, Our Stuff, Our Choice
For many of us, getting organized is the fun part. We love buying materials for new craft projects. We love school supplies
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Sometimes Getting Organized is a Big Fat Waste of Time
There are deep deep thoughts –the ones that either 1) you try not to think too hard about or 2) wake you up in the middle of the night or 3) make great conversation starters (and stoppers!) at art openings. And then there are practical deep thoughts –the ones you NEED to know the answer to. This is our focus today.
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Deep Thought Thursday: Bookkeeping and Other Sexy Subjects
Like bikes and cars, cell phones come with versatile options and variable features like digital music players, Bluetooth, cameras, video players, personal organizers and much more. With the fast emerging latest high tech phones, there are few limitations attached to its usage. Experiencing limitations like affordability, complexity and may be idealism to have a facility with less show offs or features; the people do opt for cheap mobile phones which have incorporated a standard technology.
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When Money Matters why not go for Cheap Cell Phones
Cell phone, being a vital important companion, is a great asset. It is just a little handset but packed with hi-tech capabilities, it keeps us simultaneously connected that too on time and in fact anywhere; entertained and informed.
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Latest Mobile Phones – Time to Make Best Choice Among So Many Cell Phones – Variety to Choose From
Haiti Earthquake victims reach 200,00 people -the death toll from massive haitiearthquake that destroyed three quarters of Haiti and the capital of Port-au-Prince could reach 200,000 people .this is a big number for haiti earthquake victims . Minister of Home Affairs on the Caribbean island nation, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Friday (16/1/2010), said, “We just gathered around 50,000 dead. We estimate the total death toll between 100,000 to 200,000 people, though we will not never know how much the truth.
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Haiti Earthquake victims reach 200,000 people
It seems that all people can talk about today is the ramifications of the surprising Republican Senate win in Massachusetts on Tuesday. Our colleagues in the Chronicle’s Washington bureau wrote a story this week on at least 10 reasons why…
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Immigrant advocates weigh effect of Mass. senate race
Just before MOCA hired New York art dealer Jeffrey Deitch to be its next director, I published two posts on two works of art on view in Washington: Byron Kim’s Synecdoche at the National Gallery of Art and Yinka Shonibare’s Double Dutch at the National Museum of African Art. Then Deitch got hired and the two posts got buried under a pile of news
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Kim and Shonibare revisited
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.