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Around the web: cannabis curator, superblue crayon, and pink Guggenheim

Posted in Friday links on June 27, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Victor Hugo, Vianden Seen through a Spider Web, 1871. Image and original data provided by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.; artres.com

Some stories we’ve been reading this month:

UNUSUAL

How surreal: Salvador Dali’s body is to be exhumed to resolve a paternity case.
An interview that asks the tough question: how does a curator match art with cannabis strains? Unfortunately, it’s not very clear on how one can get that kind of job.
The illustrated history of the morse–a hairy, fearsome walrus-like beast that was said to snooze on cliffs while hanging by its teeth.

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Around the web: what do gloves, latte, and LEGO have to do with art?

Posted in Friday links on May 23, 2017| 1 Comment »

In 1967, the art critic Michael Fried wrote an essay about Minimalism called “Art and Objecthood”; this isn’t at all what he meant by it, but it’s the perfect description for the following links:

We’ll start off with 11 everyday objects transformed into works of art.
And then we’ll move on to the world’s unlikeliest porn star.
With that out of the way, here’s how things–figurines, fishers, bugs, and bats–become sacred objects in a museum.
Here’s an example: this guy collects photographs of lost gloves. Which turns out to be more moving than it sounds.
We’re not sure we’d quite call latte drawings art, but they’re definitely impressive.
What happens when an object stops being art? This artist couldn’t decide what to do with the 15,000 coins she used in an art installation, so she set them free for people to do what they wanted with them.
And we’ll wrap-up this section with this: The Guggenheim Museum in New York is one of the world’s most iconic buildings, and now you can build your own–with LEGO bricks.

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Around the web: George Washington, Farrah Fawcett, and your own art doppelgänger

Posted in Friday links on April 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Victor Hugo, Vianden Seen through a Spider Web, 1871. Image and original data provided by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.; artres.com

Some stories we’ve been reading this month:

Coming to America: a statue of George Washington as, presumably, only Martha saw him–in the buff.
A very brief history of the artists who dine out on their reputation.
Art+Feminism’s Edit-a-Thon added 6,500 more women in the arts to Wikipedia.
The Musée de la Civilisation in Quebec City, Canada, is inviting people from around the world to upload their own photos to find their ancient doppelgängers. Try it yourself!
Some of the earliest examples of images made out of words on the page are in this marvelous 9th-century manuscript known as the Aratea. We’re partial to the rabbit.
Why do people try to destroy museum masterpieces?
Une histoire du chapeau en art: a slide show of hats in Impressionist art. (For more, check out our own history of hat-making.)
Why was this never on Charlie’s Angels? Farrah Fawcett was a talented painter and sculptor.
The stats geeks at Five Thirty Eight analyzed half a million pieces in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and glimpsed the history of civilization.

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Around the web: caveman pointillism, museum jumping jacks, and a vacant-lot colossus

Posted in Friday links on March 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Victor Hugo, Vianden Seen through a Spider Web, 1871. Image and original data provided by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.; artres.com

Some stories we’ve been reading this month:

Georges Seurat placed dots on a canvas to depict park-goers lounging along the Seine in 1884. The technique was known as pointillism, and it seemed new at the time. We now come to find out it was really 38,000 years old.
African American activist and sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois directed the creation of more than 60 hand-drawn charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life in America in 1900. They look amazing.

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Around the web: professional cheese sculptor edition

Posted in Friday links on February 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »

Victor Hugo, Vianden Seen through a Spider Web, 1871. Image and original data provided by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.; artres.com

Some stories we’ve been reading this month:

Art

The strange story behind the CIA calendar the CIA gift shop refuses to sell.
What it’s like to be a professional cheese sculptor.
Related: a brief history of food as art.
Were JG Ballard’s billboards actually coded Salvador Dalí paintings?
We totally identify with this woman who accidentally got locked inside a museum in Germany.

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Around the web: from Artemisia Gentileschi to Shakespeare’s dad

Posted in Friday links on December 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Victor Hugo, Vianden Seen through a Spider Web, 1871. Image and original data provided by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.; artres.com

Some stories we’ve been reading this month:

Issues

A new report suggests the arts do not help to solve social problems, contrary to popular opinion. Might we be concentrating on the wrong things?
For a long time, Artemisia Gentileschi’s paintings have been interpreted almost exclusively as symbolic revenge against the man who raped her, but a historian argues we should see her as a champion of strong women instead.

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Around the web: pinkest pink, a huge bed, and, yes, Van Gogh

Posted in Friday links on November 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Victor Hugo, Vianden Seen through a Spider Web, 1871. Image and original data provided by Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, N.Y.; artres.com

This month’s recommended reading, divided into three semi-useful categories:

Inspiring

It’s heart-wrenching, but we loved this essay on looking for the hidden black female figures of western art.
After stepping down as director of the Dallas Museum of Art due to an incurable lung ailment, Bonnie Pittman has become a leader in promoting the influence of fine art on the practice of medicine. (You might also be interested in our blog post about enhancing visual acuity in medical education through the arts.)

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Archive for the ‘Friday links’ Category

Around the web: cannabis curator, superblue crayon, and pink Guggenheim

Around the web: what do gloves, latte, and LEGO have to do with art?

In 1967, the art critic Michael Fried wrote an essay about Minimalism called “Art and Objecthood”; this isn’t at all what he meant by it, but it’s the perfect description for the following links:

Around the web: George Washington, Farrah Fawcett, and your own art doppelgänger

Around the web: caveman pointillism, museum jumping jacks, and a vacant-lot colossus

Around the web: professional cheese sculptor edition

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Around the web: from Artemisia Gentileschi to Shakespeare’s dad

Around the web: pinkest pink, a huge bed, and, yes, Van Gogh

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