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The Demise of ‘Form Follows Function’
May 30, 2009 - If there was a (booby) prize for the most misused design cliché, a firm favorite would be “form follows function,” with “less is more” coming a close second. Not only is “form follows ...” often quoted incorrectly, it is not even accurate: the original wording was “form ever follows function.” ::more |
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American art gets a higher profile in U.S. museums
May 30, 2009 - Long the stepchild of a Eurocentric art world, American art is finding new favor at home as a growing number of institutions showcase work from Colonial times to World War II::more |
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Obama’s Face (That’s Him?) Rules the Web
May 30, 2009 - Mimi Torchia Boothby’s job as a technician puts her outside a wind tunnel every weekday at the Boeing plant south of Seattle, but in her free time two years ago she took up watercolors::more |
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Million Dollar Painter - San Luis Obispo Resident Wins Big in Annual Home Raffle
May 28, 2009 - Game shows, the lottery, drawings; there are plenty of ways to get rich quick with next to no effort. It seems to be the possibility everyone hopes for, the “What if you won … ” that gets people dreaming. And for San Luis Obispo artist Ken Christensen, that dream is now a reality::more |
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Giant Nude Photo Puts Carla Bruni Back in the Spotlight
May 27, 2009 - Carla Bruni may not be the foremost political lady on the world's fashion radar after her wardrobe showdowns with Michelle Obama and Princess Letizia of Spain. But she has something far more powerful than Dior suits in her attention-getting arsenal: provocative nude photos from her modeling days ::more |
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Artists Supporting Artists Photo Show Kicks Off
May 21, 2009 - Santa Barbara is many things to many people, but it is undeniably a hotbed of artistic activity. And nowhere is that more apparent than at Artists Supporting Artists, next Wednesday’s combo photo show and rock concert at Velvet Jones:: more |
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‘Made in U.S.A.’ Shines After Makeover
May 21, 2009 - When the Metropolitan Museum set up its first sculpture department in 1886, it threw in anything and everything that wasn’t framed, stitched or printed: “all the sculptures, pottery, porcelain, glassware, jewelry, engraved gems, bronzes, inscriptions, and other such objects of art, commonly termed Bric-a-Brac.”::more |
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RISD graduate show embraces the new austerity
May 21, 2009 - In these recessionary times, many Americans have found ways to make do with less. They spend more time at home, stretch their budgets by buying no-frills products and materials and express their inner handyman (or handywoman) by doing more of their own home repairs and improvements::more |
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Getty Conservation Institute wins top honor
May 20, 2009 - The Getty Conservation Institute — a branch of the J. Paul Getty Trust devoted to improving conservation practices and preserving the world's cultural heritage — has won the Distinguished Award for the Advancement of the Field of Conservation, the highest honor bestowed by the American Institute of Conservation ::more |
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One painting takes a madcap, 15-year journey from Chiapas, Mexico, to Por Que No in Portland
May 18, 2009 - The way it fits above the prep line at Por Que No's Southeast Hawthorne location, it's almost like Bryan Steelman built his taqueria around the painting "Hay Pollo," by friend and North Portland artist Alexander Rokoff::more |
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Visual arts review: 'W+K=MAKE' at Wieden+Kennedy's Portland offices
May 18, 2009 - Portland advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy has long distinguished itself with a roster of creative talent very different from the Madison Avenue business types portrayed on TV's "Mad Men::more |
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Another Side of Richard Neutra - Downtown Los Angeles, May 8, 2009 - When it comes to Mid-Century Modernism, Richard Neutra is largely seen as the quintessential California architect: Dozens of his sleek homes, schools and other buildings are scattered around Los Angeles. Perhaps more telling of his influence are the hundreds of buildings not designed by him but that nevertheless bear his signature aesthetic ::more |
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My Dream Is for Sale; Buy It for Me - May 8, 2009 - As any gallery owner knows, art does not exactly sell itself. Even in a bullish economy the way a work is displayed and discussed can make all the difference between igniting a collector’s abiding interest and letting the ember go cold :: more |
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Lost & Found: Collage and Assemblage at the Elverhøj Museum - Exhibition Makes the Drive to Solvang Well Worth the Trip - May 7, 2009 - Pass the tourist-heavy traffic of downtown Solvang, follow winding streets into a residential neighborhood, and you’ll find the Elverhøj Museum of History & Art, one of the country’s only museums dedicated to preserving the history of Danish culture in America :: more |
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Twenty-one artists triumph over diversity at Alphonse Berber - May 6, 2009 - Lean times or not, new galleries are still opening. Berkeley's new Alphonse Berber Gallery features, in its second show, a 21-artist extravaganza of more than one hundred artworks in drawing, painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, video, installation, jewelry, and fashion :: more |
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Brett Weston’s Photographs at SBMA - Out of the Shadow Runs May 2 - August 16 - May 5, 2009 - Not every father would pull his 13-year-old son out of school so he could take him to Mexico as his photographic assistant. Not every father would introduce his son to revolutionary cultural figures like Tina Modotti, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo ::more |
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Carlo Mollino’s Seductive Allure - May 3, 2009 - TURIN — When Carlo Mollino found a pretty 18th century apartment on a leafy bank of the River Po in Turin to turn into a garçonnière, or playboy’s lair, he set aside one room for a particular purpose — it was to be the place where he would die :: more |
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Kiss guitarist finds expression through paint — on canvas
May 3, 2009 - When it comes to glam rock stars, Paul Stanley always could wield that makeup brush with the best of them. So maybe it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the Kiss guitarist, first introduced to the world with his face covered in white makeup, his lips painted bright red, a dark star over his right eye, would someday set aside that guitar long enough to pour his soul into oil on canvas ::more |
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Laura Lynch Releases Art Book - Santa Barbara Artist Addresses Nautical, Environmental Themes
May 1, 2009 - Artist Laura Lynch begins her new coffee table art book, Pacific Series: Environmental Assemblages, with an unabashed political statement, explaining that the pretty red lifesavers that appear in several of her nautically appealing pieces became for her “a reminder of how the entire human species might very well need to be saved one day from drowning in a sea of ignorance and greed.”::more |
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LACMA curator to head Carnegie Museum of Art
May 1, 2009 - Lynn Zelevansky, who has become one of the world's leading curators of contemporary art during her 14-year tenure at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been appointed director of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. She will assume her new position July 15, succeeding Richard Armstrong, who departed last year and now heads the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York :: more |
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L. Nowlin Gallery - A photographer takes her shot – at running a gallery
May 1, 2009 - In the life of an artist, sometimes opportunities come only after months or even years of searching and scrounging for any possible leads. Then again, sometimes they fall into one's lap. :: more |
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Their streetwear is street smart
April 30, 2009 - The T-shirt that put designer Marcel Angol on the map declared "The radio killed hip hop." It featured ornate Greek goddesses flanking the pearly gates of heaven, and it regularly sold out on Karmaloop.com, the Boston-based online streetwear boutique ::more |
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Native arts foundation launches with Portland base
April 29, 2009 - The Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, which will be based in Portland, had its historic launch last week, making it the first nonprofit in the nation devoted exclusively to funding Native American arts and culture causes :: more |
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More Artworks Sell in Private in Slowdown
April 26, 2009 - During good times, an auction is the obvious choice for any collector wanting to sell a work of art. But as the recession takes its toll, many collectors have changed strategies and retreated to the more hidden, and potentially less lucrative, world of private sales :: more |
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V&A’s new Buddhist sculpture galleries
April 25, 2009 - The fullness of volume, the integration of forms, the internalisation of thought, the remoteness of the form from our own iconography both in terms of racial type and emotion (or lack of it). What does this head (right ), struck from the body by vandals or fortune-hunters, tell us about itself or ourselves? ::more |
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Why I Love Detroit, And This Sculpture
 April 24, 2009 - In the center of my favorite city, looking across the Detroit River to Canada, stands a monument to Joe Louis :: more |
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Santa Barbara Teen Center Art Show Is ‘Off the Wall’- April 23, 2009 - Community budgets are tighter than ever, but Santa Barbara Youth Council member Elly Iverson is working to help maintain the teen center downtown, and infuse a little creativity into the public eye in the process. She’s part of the driving force behind a showcase of original graffiti artwork, which will debut at Thursday’s opening night event and will be on display until May ::more |
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Public can vote in new art competition
April 23, 2009 - The scion of one of Michigan's wealthiest families is launching an Internet-age competition for artists with $450,000 in prize money — including $250,000 for the winner — and an everyone-can-play vibe tailored to the age of online social networking ::more |
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Chinese Modern And Asian Contemporary Art Show Strength
April 21, 2009 - The house held the year's first major international auctions of 20th-century Chinese art and contemporary Asian art, and many works elicited spirited bidding in the room and on the phones. On a surprisingly successful day, a number of record prices were established. :: more |
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Spin Artist — Tommy Hollenstein - April 20, 2009 - “I’ve always been attracted to vehicles that go fast,” says Tommy Hollenstein. In the late 1970s, as a Dogtown disciple, the teenage Tommy practiced and honed the art of skateboarding in the “Toilet Bowl,” a revered drainage ditch near the corner of Platt and Victory in Canoga Park, right down the street from his parents’ house :: more |
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A Year with Children 2009: Selected Works from Learning Through Art
April 20, 2009 - A Year with Children 2009: Selected Works from Learning Through Art, an exhibition organized by the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the Guggenheim Museum, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from May 13 through August 9, 2009. The exhibition showcases artworks by second- through sixth-grade students from 16 public schools throughout New York City. These schools have participated in Learning Through Art (LTA), a 39-year-old pioneering arts education program of the Guggenheim Museum, during the 2008–09 school year. Approximately 200 colorful and imaginative works will be on display, including prints, paintings, sculptures, mobiles, and more.
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Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín Opens
Opening on Sunday, April 19, 2009, MOLAA is proud to celebrate the art of the renowned Ecuadorian artist Oswaldo Guayasamín (Ecuador, 1919-1999) :: more |
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Valentino: A Stylish Career Laid Bare
Big personalities rule the fashion world, but Valentino Garavani took it to a whole different level. Valentino is a star who shines in the firmament of haute couture — he dressed Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Vogue's Anna Wintour and Gwyneth Paltrow :: more |
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Raphael and Urbino’ at Palazzo Ducale
April 18, 2009 - Leonardo promises heaven,” said Picasso. “but Raphael, he gives it to us.” It is just one of a myriad tributes to the painter whose unique fusion of figurative skill with sublime vision made him the champion of Renaissance artists :: more |
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Lunch with the FT: David Hockney
April 17, 2009 - David Hockney does not do restaurants. “Even before they banned smoking,” he says, puffing pointedly on a Camel cigarette, “I had stopped going. Once you’re deaf, you’re not too keen on a crowded room – it all sounds like one big bang.” :: more |
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Funeral ‘Factory’ Morphs Into Creative Center for Paris Artists
The funeral compound where Paris once saw off its dead is now a hub of creativity for the living. » more |
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Hurley Challenges Art Institute Students To Design The Ultimate Survival Outfit
Design competition will award the top finalist a $5,000 tuition scholarship. » more |
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 ’God of Painting’ Cezanne Draws Double Vision in Philadelphia
Three swarthy men in slouch hats hunch over a table in a back-room game of cards.
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Tate art made available on iTunes
The Tate galleries have made hundreds of video and audio downloads available for free on iTunes. » more |
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Swiss Architect Wins The Pritzker Prize
April 12, 209 - The 2009 Pritzker Prize for architecture — one of the highest honors in the field — has been awarded to 65-year-old Swiss architect Peter Zumthor » more |
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 Obama campaign art makes for inspiring exhibit
April 3, 2009 - Barack Obama's campaign for the presidency captured the imagination of the art community to an unprecedented degree. Now a new show at the Chicago Tourism Center gathers together more than 100 works, some commissioned by the campaign, others independent efforts, that depict the visual expression of this outpouring of enthusiasm » more |
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Student art shows illustrate strength in numbers
April 1, 2009 - Sometimes, more is definitely better. One of the most popular art exhibitions in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union art galleries is the combined work of dozens of artists » more |
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Yinka Shonibare at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Hip - British-Born Artists’s Show Ushers in a New Era at SBMA
March 31, 2009 - The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) has entered a new era with the recent hire of Director Larry Feinberg and Curator of Contemporary Art Julie Joyce » more |
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Recession-Proof Wedding at Vera Wang
A bride-to-be might worry for months about making her wedding day perfect, and that includes finding the ultimate dress. » more |
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