Tag Archives: art

Links As News, Links As Art

February 26, 2008 – 13:42

txt: Reinventing Journalism On The Web: Links As News, Links As Reporting - publishing2.com
Robert Niles at Online Journalism Review has a practical guide to linking on the web, where he observes:
“Ultimately, the addition of useful hyperlinking within an online news story reflects the strong reporting of its author. If a reporter does not know of [...]

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What is art? Hahahahaha

January 30, 2008 – 23:09

via: Art To Go
via2: Anna Conti’s Working Artist’s Journal
txt: comments on video “Creature Comforts USA - Art”
estherfull (21 hours ago)
OMG loved this, my whole art class watched this during class and we couldnt stop laughing!!!! Especially the dog who does print because our last project was on making woodcuts and printing.
juliejuliex2 [...]

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The Art: A False Idol After All?

January 2, 2008 – 22:01

txt: The Free Market: A False Idol After All?
For more than a quarter-century, the dominant idea guiding economic policy in the United States and much of the globe has been that the market is unfailingly wise. So wise that the proper role for government is to steer clear and not mess with the gusher of [...]

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Desperate Artivores

December 20, 2007 – 19:28

txt: The death of the cultural elite - blogs.guardian.co.uk

The Oxford report, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, delineates four groups: univores, who like popular culture; omnivores, who like everything from Posh Spice to Puccini; paucivores, who absorb little culture; and inactives, who absorb none (is that possible?). There aren’t enough ageing judges to [...]

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They’ve bought even the caos

December 12, 2007 – 0:09

txt: The Colour of Money - www.frieze.com
But what about the artists who effectively harness the commercial forces of our cultural moment, which Saltz and his editors at New York find so distasteful? Their post-Warholian impact on the current artistic landscape cannot be dismissed with simplistic ethical arguments: money is bad, so art tainted by it [...]

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Mission possible/impossible/don’t know

November 22, 2007 – 17:26

txt from: Extraordinary daily[article in italian]
“If the mission of art has been to propose new ways of conceiving and feeling to everybody - and not to just a narrow circle of people - not just on special occasions but in everyday life, then it becomes necessary to think about the fact that maybe the art [...]

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Illustrate me the art of wisdom, please

November 2, 2007 – 16:43

via: www.personism.com
And if you love illustration: Linzie Hunter’s Flickr sets
Linzie Hunter:
Don’t Put Off Your Happy Life

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ArtFutura 2008

October 25, 2007 – 18:21

ArtFutura 2007 - The Next Web - 25-28 October
Barcelona Alicante Cádiz Granada Madrid Murcia Palma de Mallorca San Sebastián Valladolid Vigo Vitoria Zaragoza
The eighteenth edition of the festival of Digital Culture and Creativity that has become a point of reference in Spain will take place in [...]

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Rome POP invaderz

October 18, 2007 – 15:11

Two Italian chicks in cahoots with more of 50 new-POP artists from allover the world get into her head to improve our existences. The first Italian exposition is here to demonstrate that the new-pop movement is destined to everybody and art is it’s not dead at all.
POP INVADERZ
Curators / a cura di: The MondoPOPs (Serena [...]

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What Is Art and Why Does It Matter?

October 9, 2007 – 16:27

What Is Art and Why Does It Matter? “is an online magazine that creates a forum for interpretive experimentation and gives a face to the people who make museums a vibrant presence in the world. This magazine is here because we all “know” that art is important, but do we always know why? Looking at [...]

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