Germaine Greer

Greatly inspired by Germaine Greer’s infamous publication The Female Eunuch, ... of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ... , The Institute of Modern Art,Brisbane and Studio 12 at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. [more...]

Date: 2008-02-28 05:00:00

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Crazy eyes

Crazy eyes Posted in Uncategorized | February 6th, 2008 No Comments » ... public and corporate collections including the Chicago Art Institute, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ... s Who in American Art” didn’t use one of these pictures for Sioux Falls artist Carl Grupp’s listing. He’ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-06 16:58:05

chicago

So...here it is, finally. My recap of Chicago, or at least the sites I saw and places I ate. I left out the play-by-play of my shopping ... why the restaurant is such a big deal. Amazing! The Art Institute of Chicago. I went here twice ... art period) and it was incredible to see some of my favorite paintings in person; some of Monet's [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 20:27:35

Munch, continued

In keeping with the theme of the Femme Fatal, "Vampire" (1895) ... . To conclude the works of Munch, I was once dragging my self through the Art Institute of Chicago [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 05:31:47

RFID and unique physical form

lisasmith_rfid.jpg A grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lisa Smith, has designed these rapid prototyped unique RFID dongles. She calls her process the "cuteness [more...]

Date: 2008-02-22 05:00:47

RFID and unique physical form

lisasmith_rfid.jpg A grad student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lisa Smith, has designed these rapid prototyped unique RFID dongles. She calls her process the "cuteness [more...]

Date: 2008-02-22 05:00:47

Artscape 2008; Visual Arts Exhibitions

Below is a list of Artscape exhibitions that artists can apply for. Applications are at www.artscape.org (click on join us/applications) ... with pens and markers Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art ... will present installations, performances, sculpture and other forms of art and performance to create [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 19:03:18

A Rock and a Hard Place

Your a Dead Man 2001, Ed Ruscha A friend contacted me to spend a day in Chicago at a symposium the Art Institute is having for the opening of their exhibit, Ed Ruscha and Photography! on March [more...]

Date: 2008-02-24 23:18:35

Updates I feel like I owe you some updates, so this post will be about nothing and everything. Brooklyn She is doing fine ... out 4 out of the five days. I went to the new Institute of Contemporary Art with JRowe on Monday. I had time [more...]

Date: 2008-02-23 01:39:27

RFID and unique physical form

Lisa Smith is a Masters of Design student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago / Designed objects. I first encountered her work through pictures of her project ‘Cuteness generator’ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-21 15:05:47

A Blank Cheque to Plunder Nok Terra Cotta?

In his interview of January 27, 2008 with Richard Lacayo, “A Talk With: James Cuno”, Cuno, Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, makes many controversial statements. In the following, Kwame [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 13:19:45

Chicago here we come!

Next month, we’ll be heading to Chicago to visit the Art Institute of Chicago ... be visiting IADT Chicago to check out their curriculum since we are planning to take up art courses ... . This is a place for art lovers and here you’ll find some of the greatest art collections [more...]

Date: 2008-02-21 09:27:05

Awards, Academy and Guild Hall

Maybe I'm suffering from award deprivation as opposed to the usual fatigue, ... a reminder of what an excellent arts institution can provide a community. At a pre-awards cocktail ... for Guild Hall. Regina Weinreich Graphic [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 02:28:58

FRINGE

I'm performing at the Fringe! with Nils Claesson, Johan Mattsson, and the nano technology students from Konstfack ... of fringe is to provide a meeting point for participants of the local new media art scene in Stockholm ... has brought together people, many of them from the Interactive Institute Play Studio and the Art [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 19:14:13

The Bronze Fonz

The Milwaukee Convention and Visitors Bureau will erect a life-size statue of Arthur Fonzerelli (aka The Fonz from Happy Days) mere blocks from the majestic, Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Museum of Art. Now I’m not a serious art student, but I have spent the last four years working with several public art institutions [more...]

Date: 2008-01-29 14:43:11

Portland Art Museum: Shall we dance?

At my dad's suggestion, we took the children to the Portland Art Museum today to take in The Dancer exhibit ... to expose them to art. My father -- who is retired -- spent 10 years as a volunteer docent at the Art Institute of Chicago prior to moving to Portland over a year ago. I wasn't sure that we'd [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 01:49:27

A First Life Update!

A First Life Update! February 18, 2008 Seriously, I need to update this blog more often ... you in on the details: About a year or so ago, I was a student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art ... for myself– I am now (pending a background check) a janitor for the Milwaukee Public Museum! Granted, it’ [more...]

Date: 2008-02-19 00:14:20

Wicked!!!

If you are reader of this blog you know that I am obsessed with Broadway plays and I am especially obsessed with the musical, Wicked ... the Art Institute of Chicago, a river tour, Sears Tower, and a tour of Wrigley Field ... it with Dave ever since I got back! Well, we are going to see Wicked in Chicago!!!! I can barely contain [more...]

Date: 2008-02-23 21:07:05

The Southwest Chief and Chicago

As Amtrak says: “Ride the Southwest Chief through the heart of the West,” so I did ... by Adler & Sullivan Art Institute of Chicago Lake Michigan Michigan Avenue Bridge and Esplanade Marina ... there and started raining after I left), Chicago, where I got to really stretch my legs. congress.jpg [more...]

Date: 2008-02-27 06:40:29

Classical Painting Boring? Nah…

by Lisa On Sunday, at the California Art Institute, The Portrait Society of America sponsored a presentation of portrait artist Adrian Gottlieb ... his hair out. He is a classically trained artist having studied at the Florence Academy of Art. Whoa ... , they are really beautiful. It’s a shame that the paintings do not show better from reproductions [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 15:00:25

A cheap date with my daughter

_1561 On Saturday, I left my 6 month old with my husband and took three-year-old Z to Chicago's Millennium Park to see the Museum of Modern Ice ... , but we headed just south to the Art Institute of Chicago, which is free through the end of February ... and her favorite piece of public art, "the Big Bean" (better known as Cloud Gate) than the painted ice [more...]

Date: 2008-02-21 18:06:32

Chicago Trip '08

Yesterday Mike and I went to Chicago as our Valentine's Day gift to one another. We did the same thing last year and had lots of fun ... of Milwaukee. The train stops in downtown Chicago. It's pretty convenient. Last year we walked to the Art Institute, but this year it was colder and the things we wanted to visit were farther away. Mike [more...]

Date: 2008-02-17 17:26:31

Democratic Doings in DC, Virginia and Maryland: Liberals, Lost and Looney, Lumbering

The story of Gene R. Nichol, until yesterday the president of William & Mary, is a classic case study in how lost and confused the left wing of American politics ... one of America's oldest and most prestigious institutions, and then he promoted an "art" show by pornographers [more...]

Date: 2008-02-13 03:53:23

Wii Workshop Aix en Provence

Wii Workshop Aix en Provence, originally uploaded by jeanbaptisteparis ... Institute of Chicago ) and to observe the very creative art+sciences structure they created there. Outcomes ... . I spent four days in Aix-en-Provence, helping art students to develop projects using [more...]

Date: 2008-01-20 14:27:45

Napkin drawings - searching the subconsious

When all else fails, any piece of paper will do. One of my friends was asking about composition and how I came up with some of my more abstract ... of Art and Design that became one of the Open Learning Institute courses on Drawing. I was to be a tutor [more...]

Date: 2008-02-16 09:08:32

The Breathtaking Arrogance of Reporters

It’s 2:20 and I haven’t had time to post any of several half-finished posts, or read the news ... an honored profession and an institution that made America great is now an ongoing performance art piece [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 20:36:24

Comunications arts Advertising 48

Communication Arts Multiple Media Campaigns Television Commercials Consumer Newspaper Posters Web Banners Consumer Magazines Radio Commercials Trade / Institutional Sales Promotion Self-Promotion [more...]

Date: 2008-02-25 08:25:15

If it Ain't Baroque, Don't Fix it

Sorry... I just couldn't resist. Here is an announcement for an event coming up from the Magis Institute, of which I am a Board member ... industry. Eric Hansen, the speaker for this event, knows more about sacred art than any body [more...]

Date: 2008-02-26 16:49:44

Top Chef Chicago: Contestants, Debut Announced

Brace, people. The full lineup for this season of Top Chef Chicago was announced this morning, and most notable: ... Culinary Institute FAVORITE SIMPLE SPRING RECIPE: Baby beets with bouchon goat cheese and marcona ... is "popular" already, and it hasn't even opened---it's one of the new SBE properties, Art Deco-ish design, set [more...]

Date: 2008-01-23 20:19:12

Arts Agenda

Smithsonian News Roundup: >> This week the Smithsonian continued its redevelopment and got a little overdue support from government officials. Even though Congress has murmured about drastically reducing the Institution's budget in the wake of misspending reports, President Bush proposed a $33 [more...]

Date: 2008-02-08 16:11:26

Eleven New Prints!

There’s a lot to get through today as BlueFlip Art has eleven new prints from two different artists, so let’s get started! ... s available in a numbered edition of 50, measures 11.4″ x 15″ and can be yours for $45. Eric has chosen that 10% of all sales of his prints be donated to the Cancer Research Institute. Looking [more...]

Date: 2008-01-14 22:59:12

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