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Sunday, January 30th
Slice of America
 To quote Chance the Gardener "I like to watch." It's one of the things artists do. And I often take a sketchbook with me when I go out. I live in Columbus the capitol of Ohio smack in the middle of normalcy. The city dates back to the late 1700's. They've even found log cabins under several layers of clapboard, aluminum and vinyl siding from what was once known as Franklinton down in 'the Bottoms' on the west side of the Scioto river. 'Bottoms' is apropos as it defines the lowest topography and economically poorest parts of Columbus. A great flood washed the
whole place out in the early part of the 1900's.
Walter King on 01.30.05 @ 08:02 PM EST [more..]
Wednesday, January 26th
Once upon a time...
 ...and they lived happily ever after.
Isn't that the start and the finish line of any decent fairy tale?
I'm from Denmark.
Do you know any well known fairy tale writers from Denmark?
Think of "The Ugly Duckling".
Yes, Hans Christian Andersen of course.
He was born in the City of Odense on the 2nd of April 1805.
1805!?
Yes, on the 2nd of April 2005, the most well known Dane in the world, author Hans Christian Andersen, would have been 200 years old.
The anniversary is being celebrated with a huge cultural year devoted to Andersen, both in Denmark and worldwide.
Asbjorn Lonvig on 01.26.05 @ 05:48 AM EST [more..]
Monday, January 24th
How I became an art collector
 (Mari Lyons - Featured by First Street Gallery)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in an art gallery?
I don't anymore, because I do!
My home is now a "living art gallery." It's filled with paintings by living, working artists from all over the world. Great artists whose work I feel quite honored to have in my possession. I own about 90 paintings, most of which I've acquired directly from artists online.
Isn't the internet great? More on how I got the paintings in a moment, but first I want to tell you a bit about the road I took toward becoming an "art collector."
Michael Corbin on 01.24.05 @ 09:44 AM EST [more..]
Friday, January 21st
The Final Push
 There is an amusement park in the enclave where hardly anybody goes. It has all the rides you could ask for and is set amidst fairy-tale gardens cut out from the jungle landscape that still surrounds it, but the rides are silent for lack of children and grown-ups to make them come alive. It could very well pass for a surrealist installation – fantastic three-dimensional structures flood-lit and lonely, rotting away in the harsh weather conditions of Borneo. An anthem to joy muffled by the call to prayer and the deafening sound of tropical thunderstorms. Tremendous site of inspiration.
Jose Freitas Cruz on 01.21.05 @ 11:11 AM EST [more..]
Wednesday, January 19th
Titles
 Often painters and sculptures don’t give a real title to their work.
‘Abstract 1’ and ‘Standing figure’ not really are titles. What a pity! They can add so much to their artistic expressions by giving it titles! They can multiply the meaningfulness of their work, both for themselves and for others !
Giving a title to a work is another fascinating action of creation! Of creation and of Self-revealing.
Monique Veyt on 01.19.05 @ 06:56 AM EST [more..]
Monday, January 17th
Digital Art Discovered in 1985
 As a digital and conceptual artist, I have taken the position that my "originals" are online, in global Internet cyberspace, and composed of pixels. In other words, the images are that of a Purist; I created the art with software and display it in a digital environment. From that stance, I then consider paintings rendered in oil on canvas, as intermediaries, toward my final "output" to make a living through selling Giclee canvas print editions. Although I proclaim the canvases merely a working stage in my "process," they are in the eyes of traditionalists, "original paintings." This continues to be a pesky dilemma for me. At the moment I am preoccupied with searching for a "brick n' mortar" gallery to exhibit my prints. I have been researching Eugene city and Cottage Grove town of Oregon, USA as I see this as a wonderful environment to relocate from Honolulu, unsupportive of digital fine art.
Pygoya on 01.17.05 @ 07:56 AM EST [more..]
Thursday, January 13th
Cerebral Thrombosis
It is also called transient ischemic attack.
You still do not know what I mean?
TIA then?
OK.
Let me explain.
Cerebral Thrombosis is more commonly known as a stroke.
A stroke that damages some part of the brain.
Some people die instantly from strokes.
Some people have a permanent injury by Cerebral Thrombosis.
Some people have a temporary injury by Cerebral Thrombosis and you might
then call it a transient ischemic attack, abbreviated TIA.
I found this definition of Cerebral Thrombosis:
A blood clot, a semisolid mass of coagulated red and white blood cells
in a cerebral artery or vein.
Asbjorn Lonvig on 01.13.05 @ 10:20 PM EST [more..]
Tuesday, January 11th
The Art Collecting Bug
I have a disease. It's not really a physical or mental ailment. I call it, "The Collecting Bug." More specifically, "THE ART COLLECTING BUG."
I think it's the same sickness that collectors of comic books or snowglobes or antique cars have, but only a different strain. I think that I may know how and where I got it, but I don't know how to get rid of it.
Michael Corbin on 01.11.05 @ 07:29 PM EST [more..]
Friday, January 7th
Lost in a Labyrinth
 Yesterday I wanted to finish one of the large paintings that I am preparing for the exhibition for the CSAC in Parma (Center Studies and Archive for Comunication, Parma University). I hadn't worked on this painting, which I considered to be almost complete, for a long time. However, I had decided to touch up some of the colours and define some details on the figures more clearly, since I had left them too vague.
Alberto Sughi on 01.07.05 @ 09:30 AM EST [more..]
Wednesday, January 5th
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati
 Despite its rather lukewarm review in the New York Times, the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh is definitely worth the trip. If you’re heading east to Pittsburgh, you won’t regret stopping in Cincinnati to view the Contemporary Arts Center’s current exhibitions.
Pittsburgh:
Although one can also visit the Mattress Factory, the Andy Warhol Museum and the Wood Street Galleries, I ended up spending an entire afternoon at the Carnegie Museum of Art! A map on the wall of the Carnegie directs you to the other museums. Being a huge fan of John Bock’s, I made a bee-line to the 2pm viewing of Meechfieber (2004), whose translation is uncertain, though fieber means feverish. As with most Bock films, rapidly cut vignettes insinuate a magical story, this one concerning milk farmers, pharmacy dispensing tools and an artist’s wild pursuits on an overstuffed-afghan bicycle. Within the galleries, Bock reassembled several of the film’s hand-crafted props to make a two-story installation that marveled even viewers who missed the film. The photo of JFK embedded in this installation is ominous, since JFK appears in two other artists’ works.
Sue Spaid on 01.05.05 @ 09:37 AM EST [more..]
Monday, January 3rd
A step outside the bubble
 I seem to be sliding into more slippery territory as I go along. I had prepared a text on the drawbacks totalitarian regimes have historically had on the development of the cultural dimension of those places where they occur. Having lived into my late teens in the shadows of a dictatorship I felt my insights were probably not that far off track. But were they called for, that was the question. Would they be of benefit to anyone or was it just another case of my ego wiggling through to proclaim to the world how interesting a life it had gone through? Surely I would not be making matters easier for myself and others by attracting unwanted attention to such subversive ideas. So I’ll keep it short and say simply that the enclave is governed by an Absolute Malay Islamic Monarchy whose origins can be traced back to the 15th century – a long unbroken line of tradition, intermarrying and other idiosyncrasies. A benign monarchy but absolute nonetheless with two extra layers of constraint just to be on the safe side. That should help put things into perspective.
Jose Freitas Cruz on 01.03.05 @ 09:04 AM EST [more..]
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