Peter Doig’s Country-Rock (Wing-Mirror) painting sells for $15.5M Oil landscape depicts odd Toronto landmark as seen from the passenger seat of a car. Our beloved rainbow painting, was originally painted by Berg Johnson, who was 16 when he first decided to decorate the concrete tunnel that passes underneath a railway line next to the Don Valley Parkway. Originally from Norway, Johnson was inspired by the memory of a friend named Sigrid, who died in a [...]
In this informative video, it is cleverly illustrated what the difference is between Art and Craft. Apparently it all started in 1550. But don't let me spoil it for you! Watch the video. However, it is a debate that has gone on for hundreds of years.
These are beautiful works made with buttons and other items in the colours that are found, not recoloured. Very beautiful. See bluebowerbird.co.uk/ for all of the images.
It is exciting when an ancient art form and a new technology meet up in exciting ways. Experimental animation meets pottery from Crafts Council on Vimeo. Click on title to see video.
By Jed Lipinski Herb Vogel never earned more than $23,000 a year. Born and raised in Harlem, Vogel worked for the post office in Manhattan. He spent nearly 50 years living in a 450-square-foot one-bedroom apartment with his wife, Dorothy, a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library. They lived frugally. They didn’t travel. They ate TV dinners. Aside from a menagerie of pets, Herb and Dorothy had just one indulgence: art. But their passion [...]
By BRIAN KISIDA, JAY P. GREENE and DANIEL H. BOWEN Published: November 23, 2013 According to a recent article in the NY Times, a large-scale study of school tours of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, showed up some suprising data about the children who were able to attend the museum and get some art education. Read more here....
There was a lot of talk last week of the sculptures by artist Timothy Schmalz when his sculpture "Jesus the Homeless" was blessed by the Pope on November 20th. Prior to that, he couldn't get any church to display the sculptures. But of course, since the artist and his work got recognition by the Pope, someone has decided that the sculpture (a resin version) may be worth something. It's sad that an artist's work only [...]
This site was created because of a piece of art I made. I created a tile (or rather two) of the QR code for this site. The general idea was that people are so fixated on their devices that even at an art show they would be driven to scan a QR code to see what was behind it. So the irony would be that they would be at an art show, looking [...]