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The Underrated Haute Couture of Jacobean Needlework
Attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger (c1561-1635) - Anne of Denmark. Rex Harris / Flickr There is bling, and then there is ye olde embroidery. Seventeenth century needlework was to the rich what, say, Alexander McQueen was for contemporary fashion. An injection of fairytale whimsy into ev
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In Bushwick, an Art Show Collides With a Yard Sale
When the artists Daniele Frazier and Trenton Duerksen opened D+T, a storefront gallery and studio space in Bushwick, they had another storefront in mind: " The Store," Claes Oldenburg's 1961 studio-cum-exhibition-space on the Lower East Side.
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NUMBER TWO
Number Two For D+T's second project, friends, artists, and fellow hoarders were asked to contribute objects from their personal collections that they were willing to put up for sale. This "junk" was incorporated into an art installation by Daniele Frazier and Trenton Duerksen and then disassembled as it is sold, one piece at a time, over the course of the month.
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Operation Frame
Greg Mason Burns is raising funds for Operation Frame on Kickstarter! This project will help me frame my paintings for my upcoming exhibit in February 2014.
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Special Collections, The Bauhaus | Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums hold one of the first and largest collections relating to the Bauhaus, the 20th century's most influential school of art and design. Active during the years of Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-33), the Bauhaus aimed to unite artists, architects, and craftsmen in the utopian project of designing a new world.
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The Kitchen Show
How to host an art exhibition in your kitchen. Photo: Gun Westholm During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums. I knew that what I wanted to do in life was to work with artists, but I...
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Micaella Pedros uses shrunk plastic bottles to join furniture
Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Micaella Pedros has repurposed discarded plastic bottles into joints that can be used to hold wooden furniture together (+ movie). The MA Design Products student scavenged containers from across London to use in her project, titled Joining Bottles.
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VAWAA | Artists
VAWAA helps you discover and book studio sessions with artists around the world.
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Stuff it: Millennials nix their parents' treasures (Washington Post)
Lately, I overhear many conversations about craft not selling as much as it used to and people wondering why that is. Another current discussion fitting in here is the prospect of many collectors nearing retirement age, needing to "do something" with their collections, especially if the kids are not interested.
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Reconstruction 16.1 (2016): Archives on Fire: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields
Reconstruction 16.1 (2016): Archives on Fire: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields
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Studio Tour with Betye Saar
Just three months shy of her 90th birthday, Los Angeles artist Betye Saar gives a tour of her studio and explains what keeps her inspired.
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The Weirdness and Joy of Black Mountain College
Can art be taught? That question isn't as old or as hoary as one might imagine. For many centuries, artists were taught, either through a studio apprenticeship or, later, in a formal academy. It only became possible to think of art as something different in the 19th century, when the old system fell apart and it seemed conceivable that anyone could be an artist.
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Sol LeWitt's Advice to Eva Hesse: Don't Worry About Cool, Make Your Own Uncool
Because I'm surrounded by artists in both my professional and personal life, people often ask me what insights I've gained into the creative process. The unromantic truth is that being an artist in any field is hard work. Because artists need a lot of time alone in order to create, they wrestle with loneliness and insecurity.
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Hannah Höch: art's original punk
The First International Dada Fair took place in Berlin in the summer of 1920, and included works by George Grosz, John Heartfield, Max Ernst and Francis Picabia. Photographs from the opening show the gallery teeming with paintings, posters and scurrilous assemblages; hanging from the ceiling is Prussian Archangel, by Heartfield and Rudolf Schlichter: a pig-faced dummy in military uniform.
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How Caravaggio, Turrell, and 3 Other Artists Revolutionized the Use of Light in Art
As described by contemporary American artist James Turrell, "Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation." For centuries, revolutionary artists like Turrell have harnessed light to manipulate it as both subject and medium. In its many changing forms, light inspires-and provides flexibility to those who wish to use it metaphorically.
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Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert
In the summer of 1967, Martin left New York and went off-grid before reappearing in New Mexico. The art she made there - with its buoyant bands of colour - offer no clues to the turbulent life of an artist who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
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Tramp Art and Bauhaus-Inspired Box by Bob Magahay on Monograph Bookwerks
This Mondrian-inspired and tramp art styled box is signed and numbered by the artist, Bob Magahay. Magahay, a Hollywood set and costume designer made elaborate boxes such as this one for his friends and patrons. This box is made entirely from pieces of cardboard the work is not glued to a manufactured cardboard box .
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Astonishing pictures of 21st century pagan ritual garb from all over Europe
Germany You might not know it, but we're in the middle of pagan ritual season! Every year from December until Easter, people from every country in Europe partake in pagan rituals in order to honor the planet's annual cycle of death and rebirth.
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Instant artist statement: Arty Bollocks Generator
Generate your own artist statement for free, and if you don't like it, generate another one. Feel free to use the statements with funding applications, exhibitions, curriculum vitae, websites, ... My work explores the relationship between the tyranny of ageing and emotional memories.
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