Vintage advertisements are a great way to make a point about progress, illustrate certain design aesthetics, or just to have a laugh. Here are some good sites with compilations of old advertisements; you can also find a lot just by Googling. Vintage Ad Browser – thousands of ads, organized by subject and decade Vintage ads…
The Red Dot posted last December that Italian researchers were on the hunt for the remains of Baroque painter Caravaggio. The Globe and Mail is now reporting success: while scholars can never be completely certain, they now believe they found partial remains of the artist, who likely died from sunstroke while weakened by syphilis.
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.
If you’re a fan of prehistoric-looking, nasty-smelling plants (and who isn’t!?), you’ll want to get to the Huntington Gardens in about two weeks. This flower is the latest offspring of the first Corpse Flower that bloomed in 1999. The last to bloom, in June 2009, was a different offspring. Read more about the plant and…
This video on YouTube of Mark Ryden painting “Incarnation” in 4:27 minutes is really fascinating, and useful as an illustration of the process of painting. Read more about Mark Ryden and his work here.