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 Friday, November 21, 2008
How to get your press release noticed
 We get hundreds of press releases and gallery opening notices every week at The Artist's Magazine, and most of them get recycled or deleted. A lot of them just aren't pertinent, or they're happening too soon in the future for us to do anything with them (see some tips that I mentioned earlier about creating great press releases). And sometimes, the press release doesn't look that great—like if it's just a black-and-white photocopy that doesn't include any images of the art. Or, even worse, if there are tiny black-and-white reproductions of the art that don't tell me anything.  But some mailings grab my attention fast—ones that include good color photos, that are simple and to-the-point or, my personal favorite, ones that have a handmade touch. Some of these mailings end up tacked to my wall long after the event has passed. Like the ones above from the Tilton Gallery in New York. I've never been to the Tilton Gallery, but I am totally collecting their gallery show promos (shown above). Each mailer is a simple, thick white card with a one- or two-color letterpress design. Another came just last week, a promo for the 1000 Journals Project at the San Francisco MOMA you can see at right. On the front is an image from one of the artists, along with a screenprinted logo and stitching along the bottom. It's so precious I couldn't bear to toss it! Below you can see a closeup of the back, which shows with a check which artist the image on the front side is by, and a closeup of the embossed SFMOMA logo. Awesome!   Advice | By Grace Dobush | Random Thoughts | Tips
11/21/2008 4:55:34 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Thursday, November 20, 2008
Trees on canvas
Myoung Ho Lee separates his subject—trees—from the surrounding landscape by suspending a canvas behind them. The resulting photographs are really striking. See the Morning News and Lens Culture to read more. At right, Tree #2 by Myoung Ho Lee (archival ink-jet print on paper, 125x100cm, 2006)
PS: It's probably obvious by now, but I'm back at the helm of the blog! I helped the new guy over at ArtistsNetwork.TV transition into the job, and things are rolling along well there! (In fact, a little birdie told me that they filmed some new videos yesterday...) I've also been working on a new series for The Artist's Magazine that's starting in the March 2009 issue called Mediapedia. They're four-page, in-depth, brand-free guides to art media that you can clip and save for in-studio reference. The first one is on acrylics, so watch for that issue when it comes out in February! By Grace Dobush | Photography
11/20/2008 11:16:25 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Free Seattle art show
 If you're in the Pacific Northwest, check this out! The Women Painters of Washington have partnered with the city of Seattle's Restore our Waters Initiative to create an art show focusing on the importance of healthy urban waterways. Thirty artists are showing their work in Waters Alive! and donating a protion of their commissions to ecology-focused nonprofits. Waters Alive! runs through Jan. 30 at the Columbia Center, 701 Fifth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104. By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff | Shows and Events
11/18/2008 12:51:44 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Monday, November 17, 2008
Studio tour with New Yorker cartoonist
Like one-liners and knick-knacks? In the video above, The New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens gives a tour of his home studio in Florida. You can read more about the magazine's cartoonists on its blog. And I'm reminded of that episode of Seinfeld where the gang tries to determine the meaning of a New Yorker cartoon.
Elaine: Come on, we're two intelligent people here. We can figure
this out. Now we got a dog and a cat in an office. Jerry: It looks like my accountant's office but there's no pets
working there. Elaine: The cat is saying, "I've enjoyed reading your e-mail." George: Maybe it's got something to do with that 42 in the corner. Elaine: It's a page number. George: Well, I can't crack this one. Elaine: Aahh! this has got to be a mistake.
The Washington Post did a story on the magazine's enigmatic cartoons in 2006; you can read it here. By Grace Dobush | Random Thoughts | Videos
11/17/2008 1:09:33 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Wednesday, November 12, 2008
CD giveaway winners!
Remember the survey/CD giveaway we did? These are the 10 randomly selected winners! - Bart Healy, Collingswood NJ
- Don Bronson, Clearfield UT
- Tracy Leuth, Bettendorf IA
- Linda Freund, Simi Valley CA
- Marilyn Doerter, Elida OH
- Kurt Jacobson, Anchorage AK
- Loisanne Kelle, Tucson AZ
- April Lopez, Kennewick WA
- Susan Genge, Crawford CO
- Crysteelaurie Abrams
(If you are Crysteelaurie Abrams, check your e-mail! I have a CD with your name on it...) By Grace Dobush | News
11/12/2008 10:05:16 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Tuesday, November 11, 2008
For animal lovers
By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites
11/11/2008 5:17:53 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Friday, November 07, 2008
Major Warhol show in Columbus
I hope to be able to visit this awesome show, but if I can't make it, the video tour above will just have to suffice. (Not sure if the Velvet Underground soundtrack is included in the admission fee.) Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms "sheds new light on the celebrated pop artist and focuses on the ideas
at the heart of his work: embracing consumer culture, exploring sexual
identity, challenging social conventions, and erasing distinctions
between high and low culture."
The exhibit runs through February 15, 2009, at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets cost $8 for adults, or $5 for visitors ages 13-17 or older than 65. Free to Wexner Center and Warhol Club members, college students with ID, visitors younger than 12, and free to all visitors every Thursday evening and first Sunday of each month. By Grace Dobush | Notable Artists | Shows and Events | Videos
11/7/2008 2:48:23 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Urban sketching
By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites
11/5/2008 4:34:28 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Remember to vote!
By Grace Dobush | News | Random Thoughts
11/4/2008 10:34:17 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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 Friday, October 31, 2008
DIY Polaroids
Already mourning the death of Polaroid instant film? You can make your own vintage-looking shots with Poladroid, a free software program. After installation, all you have to do is drag-and-drop your photos and wait for the mini-Polaroid to pop out. (The pictures show up as a muddy brown for a minute or two before the picture comes through—cute feature!) The final products show up in your Pictures folder as JPGs. Right now, the software's only available for Macs, but a Windows version is coming soon. You can see a bunch of other people's Poladroids on Flickr. Here's one I did, with the original picture:  And the Poladroid version:  By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites | Free Stuff | Photography
10/31/2008 4:38:43 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Thursday, October 30, 2008
Picasso, larger than life
 Who's that hanging out on Cooper Union's Foundation Building in New York's East Village? Why, it's a gigantic Picasso portrait of Stalin! The banner is part of a free exhibition by Norwegian artist Lene Berg, "Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache," which explores the personal, political, artistic and media implications of Picasso's simple drawing of Stalin. The portrait was commissioned for a French Communist newspaper, Les Lettres Francaises, to memorialize Stalin's death on the front page of the newspaper. Picasso's drawing was considered unflattering and led to his expulsion from the party. "Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache" runs through December 6. Photos above and below by Bryan Zimmerman.  By Grace Dobush | Notable Artists | Shows and Events
10/30/2008 9:34:16 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Make art from Starbucks trash
 Wired is having a contest: Create things out of all the stuff you get at Starbucks—stirrers, sugar packets, napkins, cups, chairs that aren't bolted down, anything. The example to go by is the Star Wars fighter ship (at right) that a Wired contributor created out of coffee boxes, 50 cups and 216 stirrers. Build your dream, take pictures, upload the instructions to the Create Wiki page, and your work could be featured in an online slideshow. By Grace Dobush | Projects
10/29/2008 1:13:48 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Just 3 days left to win a CD!
We're giving away copies of The Artist's Magazine 2007 Annual CD to 10 lucky people who take our editorial survey! Anyone who takes the survey
by this Friday, October 31, will be automatically entered into the drawing.
(Due to international laws, the drawing is limited to U.S. residents
only.) By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff | News
10/28/2008 9:38:58 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Friday, October 24, 2008
New work from Sharon Sprung
Sharon Sprung, one of our ArtistsNetwork.TV artists, sent us an image of her latest work, a portrait of a federal judge. The painting of the Honorable Judge John Keenan, US Federal Court, First District, will be unveiled at Federal Plaza in New York City next month. Stunning, as always!  By Grace Dobush | News
10/24/2008 3:34:38 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Thursday, October 23, 2008
Online art paper sale
It's no secret that I love the bookbinding supply store Hollander's. The Ann Arbor, Michigan, shop has an astounding array of decorative and artist paper. (And I am utterly addicted to chiyogami, such as Orange, Olive, & Yellow Mountain at right.) Until Sunday, Oct. 26, you can get 10 percent off anything in the store, and an additional 5 percent off all orders over $250. (If you order more than $100 of materials, you get a $10 UPS shipping credit, too.) See all the details on the ordering page. By Grace Dobush | Tips
10/23/2008 2:24:03 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Genius theories
Pablo Picasso came onto the art scene with a bang when he was 20, with the masterpiece Evocation: The Burial of Casagemas. On the other hand, Paul Cézanne's later work is generally considered his greatest. Malcolm Gladwell (one of my favorite writers) asks in the New Yorker: Why do we associate genius with youth? Gladwell posits that it's not necessarily better to be a prodigy than a late bloomer. In fact, the way each approaches his or her craft is entirely different. It comes easier to a prodigy, perhaps, but the payoff for a late bloomer—someone who has to really work at it—can be just as great. In the article, he explores various fields, looking at the work styles of both a wunderkind and someone who paid his dues, sometimes for decades. It's really interesting reading. (And just for fun: in this episode of "This American Life", Gladwell tells a tall tale about his first job and a "perverse and often baffling" competition he and a coworker created.) By Grace Dobush | Notable Artists | Random Thoughts
10/22/2008 9:30:38 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Monday, October 20, 2008
Travel Channel will give you an art attack
This sounds pretty cool: "Art Attack with Lee Sandstead" takes you inside the world's greatest art museums, where the art historian singles out the top five must-see pieces in a fast-paced format. The first season will air on the Travel Channel starting Nov. 30.
You can watch a preview below that describes Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, an installation piece in the Brooklyn Museum.
By Grace Dobush | News | Notable Artists | Videos
10/20/2008 9:55:53 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Friday, October 17, 2008
Quick Link: Artist a Day
Get art delivered to you daily at Artist A Day. Every morning, the website highlights an artist's work and includes biographical information and links. You can get it delivered any way you like: Sign up for the RSS feed, iGoogle gadget or Facebook application. You can even nominate yourself. By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites
10/17/2008 4:38:14 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Thursday, October 16, 2008
Artists over 60 update
 We thought we had a lot of entries last year...
The boxes at right are just a portion of the approximately 1,500 entries we got in our call to artists over 60. (That number's just an educated guess on my part. We definitely got more than 700 e-mailed entries, and I lost track of how many envelopes we received.) It's been even harder than last year to select our finalists and winners, but we're powering through and hope to be making those congratulatory phone calls this week! You'll be able to see the winners and their art in the March 2009 issue of The Artist's Magazine! By Grace Dobush | News
10/16/2008 9:25:37 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Survey and CD giveaway!
What do you like about The Artist's Magazine? What do you think could be better? We want to know! Let it all out in our editorial survey.
We're giving away 10 free copies of The Artist's Magazine 2007 Annual CD—a compilation of every 2007 issue of the magazine! Anyone who takes the survey by Friday, October 31, will be automatically entered into the drawing. (Due to international laws, the drawing is limited to U.S. residents only.) We'd love to hear your feedback. Click here to take the survey! By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff
10/14/2008 9:26:18 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Monday, October 13, 2008
Are creative people more likely to get depressed?
Like members of the ArtistsNetwork Forum were talking about a few months back, CNN.com reports about the link between creativity and depression: There have been more than 20 studies that suggest an increased rate
of bipolar and depressive illnesses in highly creative people, says Kay
Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University
and author of the "An Unquiet Mind," a memoir of living with bipolar
disorder. Experts say mental illness does not necessarily cause
creativity, nor does creativity necessarily contribute to mental
illness, but a certain ruminating personality type may contribute to
both mental health issues and art. Click here to read the whole article. What do you think? By Grace Dobush | News | Random Thoughts
10/13/2008 1:53:03 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Thursday, October 09, 2008
The Magic Flute in pictures

If your only exposure to comics was has so far been dime-store pulp publications, it's worth taking another look at the genre. The superhero genre has expanded and evolved into the world of graphic novels—much more refined, with great attention paid to art and production values. A graphic novel that recently came across my desk was Mateki: The Magic Flute, based on the Mozart opera. (Mateki is the Japanese word for a kind of flute that's very responsive to the style of the artist playing it.) The story of a prince fighting evil forces to save a princess is full of beautiful art, as you can see in the pictures here. The details: Mateki: The Magic Flute by Yoshitaka Amano: 128 pages, $29.99. Images copyright Mateki: The Magic Flute by Yoshitaka Amano, Radical Publishing, 2008.  By Grace Dobush | News
10/9/2008 9:51:33 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Thursday, October 02, 2008
Deadline for Splendid over 60 artists has passed!
Just to let you know: this year's deadline for submitting a name for our Splendid over 60 article has passed. I don't have a final number yet, but we have definitely surpassed last year's total of 600 submissions. It's been incredible going through all the art our readers sent us—we even had to bring back our screener judge from the Annual Art Competition for another round to help us out! Because of the great response, we can only contact those artists whom we want to feature in the magazine. The winners will hear from us by the end of October. Make sure to watch for the March 2009 issue to see all the great art from artists over 60! By Grace Dobush | News
10/2/2008 9:29:47 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Friday, August 29, 2008
 Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Take our online survey
To better serve visitors of ArtistsNetwork.com, our online team has created a survey to get your feedback. We'd like to know what you think so we can make ArtistsNetwork.com an even better resource for artists! Click here to take the survey. By Grace Dobush | News
8/19/2008 12:22:31 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Comic legends rally for Holocaust artist
From The New York Times: Three of the elder statesmen of comic books — Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and Stan Lee ... are lending their talents to tell the tale of Dina Gottliebova Babbitt,
who survived two years at the Auschwitz concentration camp by painting
watercolor portraits for the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele. Some of
the artwork also survived, but it is in the possession of the
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland. Now 85 and living in
California, Mrs. Babbitt wants the artwork back, but the museum has
steadfastly refused to return it.
Read the whole article here. By Grace Dobush | News
8/13/2008 9:58:08 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Friday, August 01, 2008
 Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Calling Artists Over 60!
Last year around this time, we put out a call to artists over 60 (not knowing at all what we were getting ourselves into). We received more than 600 nominations, and the resulting article, " Splendid Over 60" in the March 2008 issue, featured the work of 21 stellar artists.
We're bringing it back for an encore! If you (or someone you know) are a fabulous artist 60 or older, we want to know!
Feel free to nominate yourself—we won't think you're conceited! (But please don't have all your friends, relatives and neighbors e-mail us. This isn't a popularity contest—we only need your name once for you to be in the running.)
And because our intention is to showcase artists unfamiliar to us, we ask those artists who were among the 2008 crop of "Splendid over 60" and/or have had their work featured in The Artist's Magazine within the last three years to give others a chance.
How to enter: Send five to 10 images (on a CD, as slides, or visible on a website) and the artist's name, birth date and contact information (e-mail, phone and/or mailing address). We regret that we can only return materials if they are accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Do not, under any circumstances, send the only existing copies of your slides or prints!
The deadline for nominations is October 1, 2008.
E-mail your submission to over60@fwpubs.com, or mail it to: Artists over 60 The Artist's Magazine 4700 E. Galbraith Road Cincinnati OH 45236
We ask, too, that you please refrain from calling or e-mailing us to check if we received your submission; we cannot respond to every submission. We will get in touch with the selected artists by the end of October.
Make sure to read the March 2009 issue of The Artist's Magazine to see who makes the cut! By Grace Dobush | News
7/29/2008 3:22:19 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Monday, July 21, 2008
'Artist over 60' Robert Guthrie passes away
 I was sad to learn this morning that Robert Guthrie, one of the 21 artists over 60 featured in our March issue, passed away July 3 at the age of 72. He was an incredibly talented
colored pencil artist who overcame cataracts to continue making art. He
had this to say in our March issue:
"In art there doesn't seem to be any hard and fast rule that can't be
broken. Every time I think I've learned one, someone comes along and
breaks it, and it works!"
Above, Homage to Hopper by Robert Guthrie (colored pencil, 19x31). By Grace Dobush | News | Notable Artists
7/21/2008 9:58:36 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Friday, July 11, 2008
Another Sharon Sprung video!
Hey there! Snuck back again to post another free preview of Sharon Sprung's workshops on ArtistsNetwork.TV. This one is live for subscribers already, and will be available for individual purchase soon!
By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff | Videos
7/11/2008 9:38:49 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Friday, July 04, 2008
Painting realistic skin tones
Hey, folks! Just snuck back on the blog to post this preview video of ArtistsNetwork.TV's new workshops, which are going live very soon! In this one, contemporary realist Sharon Sprung discusses and demonstrates how you can paint realistic skin tones:
By Grace Dobush | Free Stuff | Videos
7/4/2008 4:19:14 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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 Tuesday, June 24, 2008
So long for now...
 Hey everyone! I just got word I'm going to be filling in as the production assistant for The Artist's Magazine's video workshop site, ArtistsNetwork.TV. I'm way excited to get my hands on this project, but, unfortunately, it means that I'll have to say goodbye to this blog for a while. But don't go away! The folks on the fine art team here will keep this blog alive in my absence. (And if they don't, I've got a pica stick to prod them with.) Au revoir! By Grace Dobush | Cool Web sites | News | Videos
6/24/2008 9:30:21 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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