Neal Gabler has a very interesting essay in the LA Times today about communal culture in art – from collage and Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes to music and film sampling, and the fine line between collaboration/sharing and appropriation. He fears the loss and intangibility of authorship, while recognizing the seemingly limitless freedom allowed through new…
We reported earlier of Bravo TV’s call for participants for a new, art-themed reality show. It now seems the show has come to fruition. Work of Art: The Next Great Artist will premiere Wednesday, June 9 with 14 aspiring artists competing for the grand prize of a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and $100,000.
WorldImages database, hosted by San José State University, provides access to almost 80,000 images that are global in coverage and include all areas of visual imagery. The database is accessible anywhere and can be searched by specific fields or browsed by subject “portfolios”. Images are continually added and organized and all images may be freely…
Panoramas.dk, created by Danish photographer Hans Nyberg, is a site dedicated to offering a variety of interactive QTVR panoramas of cities, sites, or events. You can browse by the year a panorama was created or (farther down the page) by the location it depicts. To download the latest QuickTime player (free), click here. Additional travel…
Louise Bourgeois has died in New York at the fabulous age of 98. Global recognition came late to her – despite an enormous output she wasn’t widely known until the 1982 retrospective at NY MOMA. Through her diverse and prolific body of work she was known for working through emotional and physical pain, including the…
We’ve said it before and I guess we’ll say it again: times are lean in the museum world, but that’s not preventing another museum from expanding. This time it’s the Kimbell Art Museum, who chose Renzo Piano to design a separate building for the museum’s site. The new building, slated for completion in 2013, will…