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Original artwork by designer Heinz Edelmannfor "Inside the Yellow Submarine"ArticleI just found out that Robert Zemeckis is going to create a 3-D remake of Yellow Submarine in the style of his new Jim Carrey animated film, A Christmas Carol, via Disney. I have a diatribe ready to burst forth from my lips, but the outrage keeps it from doing so. Therefore, I will keep this brief. As a huge

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Click on the photo for story....Daniel Edwards' sculpture of Angelina Jolie, "Landmark for Breastfeeding," goes on display next month at the Mainsite Contemporary Art Museum.

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The Obamas plan to diversify and update the current White House Art Collection and it is about time. This is a welcome change in my opinion. The White House is the home of the person who is supposed to be President of ALL the American people. The current collection doesn't really reflect that given the portraits of ex-Presidents and First Ladies as well as a taste for very safe, conservative

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Farrah Fawcett died last week and was buried Tuesday. Most articles have focused on her obvious sex appeal, but Farrah and the other Angels as well as Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman and Lindsay Wagner in The Bionic Woman were very formative role models as a girl in the seventies without liberated parents. Farrah was the face of the Angels, a group of smart, liberated, and powerful women who solved

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This semester was a banner semester for my Introduction to Painting students. I had 10 students have 13 paintings win honorable mentions or better. Yea!

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ArticlePhoto Source

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In the current economy, George Grosz's (1893 - 1959) drawings become more and more relevant (click on the images for larger versions):The CapitalistGreed "Let those who can swim, swim, and whoever is too weak sinks."Greed 2DiningThe Homeless"Getting By"The Homeless 2 "Careful. Don't Trip"

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My Life in Art: The Day Bourgeois Moved Me to Tears

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Ye Olde LiteBriteLinkYes, Gen-Xers, this is made with the principles from the one and only LiteBrite of yore.

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LinkHe was a god among men.

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I especially like the combination of medieval and caricature style.

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I'm completely in favor of legislation like this. Cruelty to animals in order to create "art" is unacceptable; in fact, cruelty to animals and ART are antithetical to each other. Perhaps some serial killers see their acts as art. That doesn't make it so.This past year an artist named Guillermo Vargas placed and tied up a starving dog in his "exhibit."Here is a video with some pictures.

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I was one of 88 out of 320 total artists whose work was selected for the 2009 Arkansas Artist Engagement Calendar sponsored by the Governor's Mansion Association. Here is the work selected:The Dogmatist, linocut, 2005(Click for larger image.)

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Article.

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Previous PostHere are some links about the history of gender identity and color:Princeton Report on KnowledgeColor MattersHow Stuff WorksAs an artist and someone interested in art history, I've often wondered what role these two paintings played in the development of the pink-for-girls, blue-for-boys phenomenon:Jonathan Buttall: The Blue Boy (c 1770) Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) oil on canvas,

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Recently, I had the pleasure of judging the PhotoLucida Critical Mass photography competition for the fourth year in a row. I was notified yesterday that there are six finalists and they are asking for proposals from each to choose two top award winners. The award is having their work published.Here are the remaining six. See what you think:Beth Dow Bill SullivanJeong Mee Yoon Joni Sternbach

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"myspace"Installation (1) on the University of Arkansas Union CourtyardMarch 14 - April 5, 2008by Kelsey FelthousenYesterday, I was driving to work and thinking about Americans' notions about privacy--how we put it all out there on myspace, Facebook, or even here on Blogger, etc. We're acclimated to talk shows where people spill their guts about extraordinarily personal things on television

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I began work on the studio last March. I first had to resurface the deck that is above the workshop that came with the house. I had to make sure it was waterproofed most of all. Of course, I had never resurfaced a deck before so that was a learning experience. Then, I began the process of remodeling the workshop into an art studio -- again, never doing any of this before. So between working

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I, for one, am looking forward to this one. How can it go wrong with Terence Stamp, Steve Carell, and Alan Arkin?

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con·fab·u·la·tion (def.) 1. the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.2. Psychiatry. the replacement of a gap in a person's memory by a falsification that he or she believes to be true.

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[Click on the smaller images for bigger views.] This entry is not really an art related post. March 2 was what would have been my cat Solomon's birthday. He would have been 15 years old. I had to have him put to sleep during the early morning hours of this past November 14 at the emergency veterinary clinic. I've been wanting to write his story here since then, but have only become ready to do

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I've loved cats my whole life, but have never been to a cat show. This past weekend was my first trip to one. One of my students was showing Abyssinian Cats in a show in Joplin, Missouri and invited me to come. We went as a family with an ulterior motive in mind, however. My husband dreams of owning a Maine Coon for the sake of having something that gargantuan around the house. He wanted to

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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Venus, 1532,Oil and tempera on red beechwood,37.7 x 24.5 cm. Stadel Museum, Frankfurt amMain, Inv. Nr. 1125. Photo © : Jochen Beyer, Village-Neuf.LINK.LONDON.- Transport for London has refused to display a poster of the “Venus” painting by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder stating it was overtly sexual. This painting is one of the 70 works that will be on view at the

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LinkLONDON—United Nations peacekeepers have vandalized prehistoric art in the Western Sahara, spray-painting graffiti over the artwork at Devil Mountain, known throughout the area as a place of cultural significance, the Times (London) reports. The U.N. officers who sprayed the graffiti also signed and dated their work. "I was appalled. You’d think some of them would know better..." said Julian J

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Sorry I haven't written in awhile. The other day, we were attending some workshops at work, and we had an icebreaker in one of them. We were supposed to reveal two truths and one lie about ourselves. Then other people were supposed to guess which item was the lie. Most people were surprised to hear that I've seen The Monkees in concert TWICE. Here's the story.... I saw them first when I

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Article.

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...Now it's visually confirmed. This guy drew a large portrait using a large size container of McDonald's fries:

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Director: Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)Writer: Steven Spielberg (story)Screenplay: Steven Spielberg, Michael Grais, and Mark VictorSpecial Effects: Industrial Lights and Magic (Lucas)Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Steven SpielbergMusical Score: Jerry Goldsmith [1] (Oscar, Best Musical Score, The Omen) [2]This year is the 25th anniversary of the film. One

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1. M (1931). A psychotic child murderer stalks a city, and despite an exhaustive investigation fueled by public hysteria and outcry, the police have been unable to find him. But the police crackdown does have one side-affect, it makes it nearly impossible for the organized criminal underground to operate. So they decide that the only way to get the police off their backs is to catch the

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1. Tourist Trap: Teenagers come across a shut-in psychopath (played by Chuck Connors) with telekinetic powers. He proceeds to use these powers to slay them one by one as well as animate the various mannequins he uses to keep himself company. This one gets my vote because it is so utterly hilarious and creepy at the same time. Chuck Connors can be one scary dude. And of course, any B-Horror

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ArticleIt's becoming quite apparent that either Bentonville, Arkansas or the entire state of Arkansas is the Rodney Dangerfield of the U.S. What do outsiders think is going to happen to precious American artworks if they come to Arkansas? Do they think Billy Joe Jim Bob in his overalls and bubba teeth is going to go out with the boys and shoot paintings out of the air or hide them in Beaver

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Link

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I, for one, am very excited that the horror classic, Poltergeist (means "noisy ghost" in German), is returning to the big screen for a one-night engagement, with extras. The film is showing at the Tulsa Cinemark on Thursday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. The DVD with extras and digitally remastered material is coming out on October 9 and you can bet I'll be purchasing it. One of these days, I'll

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Yesterday, I went and saw Transformers again at the IMAX Theater in Tulsa. I'm still planning on writing a review of the film, but am waiting to be able to buy the DVD so I can sit down and take some notes so my thoughts are clear on paper. There is much that is positive to say and I don't want to mis-write my ideas.

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ArticleCrystal Bridges, Fisk Solidify AgreementBy Katie Stockstill9/25/2007 11:05:01 AM Fisk University and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announced a $30 million agreement on Tuesday that will give Crystal Bridges Museum a 50 percent undivided interest in Fisk's Alfred Stieglitz Collection. The agreement will allow the two institutions to assume joint ownership of the collection and

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Seamless...Women In Film

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I read about up-and-coming animator Brent Green in my newest copy of Art in America (September, 2007). Intrigued by the blurb, I looked him up on the web and discovered his website as well as some YouTube videos of his work. If you are easily offended or disturbed, don't watch his films, but I find them to be rather poetic verbally as well as visually.CarlinNervous Films

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Listen to this NPR report.

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The other day, I was researching something about Martin Luther for some reason and came upon three portraits by Lucas Cranach the Elder (one of Luther's good friends and an artist). I've never been one for Cranach's nudes, but his portraits, such as these, are very telling and insightful into the characters of the sitters.Portrait of Luther's Father, 1527Margarethe Luther, year unknownMartin

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A homeless man attacked the painting of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds on Wednesday with a hammer.

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Cy Twombly was NOT pleased that a woman loved his painting so much that she kissed it. In fact, he was "devastated." The fact that art vandalism is a crime is undisputed by this author. However, to call her vandalism "Rape" is a bit much. We live in an age where raping a woman is not even called RAPE anymore. The term has been neutered to be called "sexual assault" -- whatever that means.

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I saw this on ABC World News tonight. A designer named Aaron Koblin has created a visual spectacle of the flight patterns in the United States. Here is his page exhibiting the work using Quicktime. His work is both fascinating and beautiful; and frankly, a stroke of genius.Aaron Koblin's website.Photos are from Koblin's website.

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News ArticleCy Twombly, Leda and The Swan; 1962 Oil, pencil and crayonon canvas 6' 3" x 6' 6 3/4" (190.5 x 200 cm)View Cy Twombly's brief biography at ArtNet's Research Library.

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Matt Hoyle exhibits his photographic portraits at the Point of View Art Gallery in an exhibition called Icebergs.

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Recently, the Queen of England was presented as blowing a gasket when photographer Annie Leibovitz asked her to dress down for her photo shoot. Of course, the BBC has apologized for misrepresenting the non-event. Here's one reporter's take on the incident prior to the BBC apology:A traditional portrait of the Queen by Annie Leibovitz.The BBC ApologyA collection of her portraits at Temple

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The new Transformers movie smashed all box office records this past week grossing $29.1 million on the 4th of July (article on Yahoo). Of course, I wasn't a boy in the 1980s (rather, a girl), but I saw the film on an early preview showing and I thought it was spectacular. I'll probably review it here after I see it a couple more times.Transformers movie's official website.

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A recently published book on the subject has been written about in Art News.Book on Amazon.com.I've long been a fan of Theophile Alexandre Steinlen's cats. However, the work of Louis Wain has long intrigued me because his work shows his descent into schizophrenia.Before: A naturalistic cat before the onset of schizophrenia.After: Untitled - c.1933, watercolor & bodycolor, 9 x 7.5

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Le Coq by Joan Miró (1940)

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A couple of months ago, a feral cat had kittens on our property. After separating them at weaning time and socializing them for a couple of weeks, I ran into the reality of the animal welfare system in Northwest Arkansas. The shelters are overflowing because people still have a rural mentality in a rapidly developing suburban/urban area. Animals are abandoned, not spayed or neutered, and

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Queen Hatshepsut's mummified body may have been found.

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Paul Emsley, 59, won the prestigious award and a commission in the annual competition that was hitherto fore closed to elder artists. It is unclear to me as to why the competition had been closed to artists over 40--seems to eliminate a lot of artists in their prime.The Winning Portrait: Michael Simpson, oil on canvas, 1370 x 1120 mmMy personal favorite:Zuzana in Paris Studio, by Hynek Martinec,

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James HowardCharles Saatchi recently purchased an entire exhibition from an art student. "James Howard, a student at the Royal Academy Schools, was shocked to discover yesterday that Britain’s most influential collector of contemporary art wanted 46 of his – an entire graduation show. Howard, 26, one of 19 students who have just completed the RA Schools’ postgraduate course, was fast asleep when

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An article in Newsweek.

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Why I Don't Paint People

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Photography by Phillip Thomas at Novo-Studio.

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The fact that Dali was on this show with blindfolded guests, a countdown flipbook, and a gameshow host is surreal.

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* I was recently reminded of an artist who gained notoriety in the 1960s and 1970s: Nancy Grossman. While she has worked in sculpture and mixed media, it is her drawings that intrigue me, particularly her "Gunhead" images. Even though her work was created 30+ years ago, these drawings are relevant to the present day. These drawings make us confront the violence endemic to ourselves as

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Above: Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipse IV (1998) and Intersection II (1992) being installed in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art in preparation for "Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years" (June 3-September 10, 2007).Music courtesy of I am Robot and Proud from the album Grace Days on Catmobile Records. For more information on I am Robot and Proud, please

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Artist Daniel Edwards has created yet another controversial celebrity portrait. The most recent one was of Britney Spears giving birth to her son on a bear skin rug. The artist is represented by Capla Kesting Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Here are a series of articles on the latest piece, a "Plastered Paris" sculpture called The Paris Hilton Autopsy.Capla Kesting Gallery PhotoBehold, The

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Li Hui's piece Sofa? Car? appears in May's Art in America. It's his modified Fiat 126P with sofa that appeared in a Shanghai exhibition at Contrasts Gallery called "Crossover: Beyond Art and Design." Clever and fun! Perfect for the car lovin' couch potato!Li Hui's biography at Artnet

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As promised recently, I've decided to share a poem that I wrote with my seventh grade mind. The class at the time had to create a poetry journal that included freeverse/unmetered poems, freeverse/metered poems, sonnets, limericks, Haiku, and cinquain poems by various poets as well as our own original work under the same categories. I included work by the following poets in my journal: Carl

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The Connoisseur, by Norman Rockwell,oil on canvas mounted on board(originally published on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, January 13, 1962)The top thing teachers want to accomplish during the course of a semester is to have the material they teach retained and preserved over time in the minds of their students. This semester, I put the following question on my Art Appreciation

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Here is the article.Go here to download.The artwork is a nine panel piece that you can print off of A4 size sheets and assemble yourself. Here is what you will get....PlanedThere is more on Gilbert & George here. Also, click here to read an article on G & G by renowned feminist Germaine Greer.

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The semester draws to a close. I met with my Introduction to Drawing class for the last time. Here is a picture of the Art Posse.(l to r): Sheree Barnes, Katie Glenn, Jennifer Spain, Lindsey Rominger, Alex Garcia, Linda Luanglathay, Justin Mabie (back), Raul Bonilla (front), Margie Pritchett, Innie Stam, Olga Ledyan, Jesus Torres, and Michael Ferrell (not pictured: Denis Rubaloff and Claudia

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I read the following editorial in Time magazine tonight at the gym. It's a very compelling piece of writing and I can't say I disagree--what do you think?It's All About Himby David von Drehle My reporter's odyssey has taken me from the chill dawn outside the Florida prison in which serial killer Ted Bundy met his end, to the charred façade of a Bronx nightclub where Julio Gonzalez incinerated 87

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May's art quote (above) is by artist Paula Rego.The Policeman's Daughter, oil on canvas, 213 x 152 cm, 1987The Policeman's Daughter has always been one of my favorite Rego works. It is striking in content, composition, and emotional impact. It has always made me think of Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy." (1) (2)Here's what the Saatchi Gallery website had to say about this image:"In the late 1980

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In seventh grade, we made a poetry journal. We had to collect a percentage of poems from other poets and write some of our own as well. This poem by Ogden Nash is one I remember fondly. Maybe at some point, I'll try to find that poetry journal and publish some of my original poems in my seventh grade mind here on my blog.

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I saw this on CNN this past weekend. While it is not technically about the subject of art, it is a wonderful story I had to share. Amanda Baggs is a woman with autism who communicates through a computer keyboard and a voice generator. She even makes her own videos and has a website. She calls her website a "non-site" and has some pretty entertaining and compelling FAQs on it.She seems to be

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Speech Bubbles, by Philippe Parreno, mylar and helium, 1997The MoMA has a great online exhibition. It's called "Comic Abstraction" and it is on view from March 4 - June 11, 2007 if you want to check it out. There are interviews you can read as well as audio commentary. Here is an excerpt that describes the exhibition from the MoMA website...."In recent years a number of artists have transmuted

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Faux News has done it again. They've displayed their deep, not-so-hidden resentment for anyone with a brain that doesn't cater to the lowest common denominator like they do. The following report is an obituary, if you can believe it, for a human being who deserves the minimum respect a human being is due--that is, to not speak ill of them after their passing. But as always, courtesy and social

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Article.Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand, 1874After the battle over Eakins' The Gross Clinic, Alice Walton has purchased a different Eakins painting for the Crystal Bridges American Art Museum. The subject, "Dr. Rand, who once taught Eakins anatomy, donated his portrait to the university when he retired in 1877. Proceeds from the sale, which experts familiar with the deal put at about $20

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I remember my first encounter with Kurt Vonnegut. I was in tenth grade English class when we read his short story, Harrison Bergeron. I was immediately mesmerized. He was the type of person you'd shoosh others to hear if he appeared on television. He was a sage and a humorist. I believe the world loses something extremely precious when a comedian or humorist dies--especially as the world

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I love Käthe Kollwitz's printmaking. What more can I say when it speaks so poignantly and powerfully for itself?

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Sol LeWitt died yesterday at the age of 78.

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This art classic is a series of classics. Sometimes an entire body of work by an artist is poignant. This is especially true of the photographs of the child labor force by Lewis Hine during the early twentieth century in America.*Biography of Lewis Hine.It is a difficult thing to create art about subject matter that is tragic. The artist has to walk a thin line between expressing the subject

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I became a fan of Miranda July after watching her first feature-length film, Me, You, and Everyone We Know. I've been keeping up with her since then. She is a filmmaker, artist, performance artist and "musician." She's the closest thing we have to a modern-day Dada artist that we have. Here is an audio sample. It is called The Arky Girl:I'm sure her music would be lost on many but her films

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Technorati Profile

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I was reminded of a poem today--or I reminded myself. It was back in high school that I first encountered it and it immediately attracted me to the work of e.e. cummings.maggie and millie and mollie and may by e.e. cummingsmaggie and milly and molly and maywent down to the beach(to play one day)and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,andmilly

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It seems like the season for controversial art of a religious nature. Easter must be in the air. First, there was the chocolate sculpture of Jesus called My Sweet Lord, and now this sculpture of Barack Obama AS Jesus.

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Catholic Group Says Chocolate Jesus Sculpture is No Easter Treat Source of this article.NEW YORK, March 30, 2007— The Easter season unveiling of a milk chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ, dubbed My Sweet Lord by its creator, left a sour taste

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I've been listening to a musician named Sufjan Stevens now for about 7 months and am quite impressed. I'm a sucker for good lyrics no matter what the music and he's got them. I would recommend getting "Come On, Feel the Illinoise" to get your feet wet. He's categorized under "Americana". I'm not sure what that means, except that on the aforementioned CD are songs about Illinois and he has

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Yesterday, I showed Metropolis to my History of Photography and Graphic Design students. I find it instructive in terms of seeing how film geniuses like Lang were being influenced by modern art movements; in this case, Art Deco, Futurism, Surrealism, and German Expressionism. The design of the sets and special effects as well as the cinematography are stellar as well. It's interesting to see

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I went to St. Louis the St. Patrick's Day weekend to visit my new nephew, Andrew Clark Fattic. My cousin Amy and Aunt Darlene came up from Poplar Bluff, Missouri to do the same. Here are some pictures from the weekend: Cool Slideshows

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I've been a reviewer of a photography contest for the last three years. It's called Critical Mass. It's organized by an organization called Photolucida. I just finished reviewing the contestants today and thought I'd share some of the photographers I found to be particularly talented and intriguing in vision:Jessica BruahDavid G. BurdenyTom ChambersPolly ChandlerJames GritzRuth KaplanDoug

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Cut Pieceby Yoko OnoPerformed at Carnegie Hall1965Perhaps Yoko Ono's most famous performance, Cut Piece is consciously or unconsciously laden with meaning. The performance reveals much about women as victims, martyrs, and heroines and reveals much about humanity in terms of authority, violence, and degradation and our willingness to participate in such positions and behaviors.The performance was

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From Smithsonian Magazine Online.

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I've been thinking about this poem lately:THE TYGER(from Songs Of Experience) By William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire of thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare sieze the fire? And what shoulder, & what art.Could twist the sinews of thy

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From Ned Kahn's Artist's Statement:"The confluence of science and art has fascinated me throughout my career. For the last fifteen years, I have developed a body of work inspired by atmospheric physics, geology, astronomy and fluid motion. I strive to create artworks that enable viewers to observe and interact

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Click on this link to go to Eva Sutton's online interactive art/science piece.You may have to download Adobe/Macromedia Shockwave.

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LOS ANGELES, March 5, 2007— The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday it has found a Norman Rockwell painting, Russian Schoolroom, which was stolen in 1973, in the home of film director Steven Spielberg. But the entertainment industry mogul is not a suspect.The painting was stolen from a Norman Rockwell exhibition in Clayton, Missouri, and did not surface until 1988, when it was sold

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March's art quote (above) is by James Turrell, sculptor of light. Here is his page on Art:21 (PBS). Be sure to check out the multimedia offerings.

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Click here for article.

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From Artinfo.com:"PARIS, Feb. 28, 2007— Two paintings by Pablo Picasso worth a total of $65 million were stolen from the Paris home of the artist's granddaughter, police said Wednesday.The works, a painting of Picasso's daughter called Maya with Doll and a portrait of his second wife Jacqueline, were stolen in the night of Monday to Tuesday from Diana Widmaier Picasso's flat in Paris' up-market

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The trailer for The Lost Tomb of Jesus"Since the 1970s, hundreds of tombs and thousands of ossuaries (limestone bone boxes) have been discovered in the Jerusalem area. These ossuaries served as coffins in first-century Jerusalem. One of these tombs was found to contain ten ossuaries. Six of the ossuaries in this tomb have inscriptions on them. As it turns out, every inscription in this

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